Many heartfelt welcomes
Phil Woods and Steve Smith are two comedians that provide weekly content to Laughtub. They look at the funny side of language and why people say the things they do. To get free laughter like this, click here.
Hello and many heartfelt welcomes to you the fine guests of Laughtub. Please pull up a seat and relax for a few moments whilst we entertain you.
This week we are treating you to a couple of short sketches we have done. We hope you like them. We’ve filmed some sketches before but that was when the internet was just a twinkle in Tim Berners Lee’s eye. We hope you enjoy our little foray into this medium once more. We’ll be back with more!
Here they are:
http://beataboutthebush-thebook.blogspot.com
For now, we want to talk about why people say things like “Guess who I saw today?” and then don’t let you guess. Why do they do it? There are around 7 billion people on this planet, it would take a fair while if you really took them up on the challenge to guess who they saw today.
It’s a phrase that makes no sense at all. Sometimes they say “You’ll never guess who I’ve just seen” your reply should be “Well, if I’m never going to guess we might as well stop the conversation now.”
Then there is one of our favourites. Phil received a letter this week from the AA (a car breakdown organisation in the UK) asking if he wanted to join them, it told him of all the benefits and loads of other information, then at the bottom it said “PS. you can join us online.”
This letter has been typed and printed and sent to people around the UK. Why use P.s.? We have come to the conclusion that the person who typed it must be really lazy, they used a computer word processor and couldn’t be bothered to go back and change the letter, but decided instead to add a note at the bottom with the PS as an excuse for laziness.
PS stands for post script (Latin, post scriptum) and means an afterthought. I am not going to give my money to any organisations that have afterthoughts, especially a breakdown company.
Can you imagine if I call them out when I have broken down in my car, a man arrives in a yellow jacket and says “OK, I see the problem and it’s easy to fix” then I wait as he stands there doing nothing.
I say “Well are you going to fix it then?”
He replies, “No, sorry I can’t. You see the thing is, I forgot to bring my van and tools, I got here and then realised I should have bought them along.”
That’s an afterthought. So PS should stand for Personal Stupidity in our view.
Enjoy the videos.
Phil & Steve
Friday, September 25, 2009
Can you read?
‘Beat About The Bush: The Funny Side of Language’ by Phil Woods and Steve Smith is available now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other good bookshops.
Read Phil and Steve’s Blog here.
