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Fun With Bill Bailey

Posted by rantingandrambling on Sat, June 7, 2008

It’s been a little while since my last post, so I come with some Bill Bailey goodness. I first became aware of Bill Bailey when I was in college and stumbled across the first episode of Black Books on Comedy Central. This episode is genius, as his character, Manny, swallows The Little Book of Calm and then proceeds to walk around, Jesus-like, and offer calming advice to any person, or car alarm, in need of calming down. The series is out on dvd – and in Region 1 format – and is worth checking out.

It should also be noted that Bill Bailey is one of the team captains on Never Mind the Buzzcocks and is absolutely hysterical. I recommend checking out the one with Noel Fielding and Donny Tourette. It’s genius.

First up, a pub joke in the style of Geoffrey Chaucer:

And then a lovely little Kraftwerk spoof:

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