It’s hard to do foreign accents correctly. But how about 21 foreign accents? Seattle-born actress Amy Walker has a go at a load including various English, Scottish and Irish accents, German and Czech.
The ones I’m most familiar with sounded very slightly off, but they’re all pretty impressive all the same. How’s that for a viral audition tape?
Of course, if you like old kids TV (this follows on from my previous entry), Joost would be a good place to hang out anyway. They’ve now got episodes of Rainbow, Count Duckula and – Joost’s PR has mysteriously asked me to let you know – the first three seasons of 90210.
Everyone wonders why Amazon recommends particular books ("You’ve recently read Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. You might also be interested in Steven King’s The Shining and Gordon Ramsay’s The F-Word") or, in the US, why Tivo recommends particular TV shows – watched a documentary on the Korean war recently? Maybe you’d like to watch Lost then… No? Okay, we’re foxed…
But now YouTube’s recommending videos. And I’m wondering why, out of all the vast range of videos on offer on YouTube, the only one that’s recommended for me is the title sequence to 1970s kids show (that I never watched) The Double Deckers. What’s up there? And what does it say about me (be kind)?
David Baddiel, well known comic and one of the few stand-ups in possession of a doctorate in Victorian literature, writes an interesting piece in The Times today. In it, he also notices that the Doctor only seems to meet famous writers these days, not scientists.
But, he also echoes Jane Henry’s recent suggestion that Jane Austen would be a good choice for the next meet-up, imagines what the episode would be like and comes up with a convincing argument about why Austen is better than Shakespeare et al.
Not quite the one Scott suggested, since I prefer landscape to portrait, but close enough – it’s David Tennant in “comedy” Learners. As you can see, he is sitting slightly on the car, making it eligible.
Captions and/or links to more pictures of David Tennant in a not-vertical position in the comments section, please.
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