Coronation Street star Jack P Shepherd who plays David Platt on the show, is lesser known for his other starring role, the face of Poundland, Europe’s biggest single price discount retailer. Last year on average, he opened a new Poundland Store every eight weeks and four days. He also sticks around afterwards “to sign autographs and give away Poundland vouchers”. Classy.
“Flight Of The Conchords” are New Zealand comedy duo Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, and sell themselves as “formerly New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo”. Their combination of witty observation, characterisation and acoustic guitar music has gained them a worldwide cult following. If you haven’t heard of them already, check them out.
Here are some of their funnier YouTube clips:
The cult animated TV series “South Park” fights back against departed star Isaac Hayes and his Scientology beliefs by killing off his character Chef in the first episode of the new season.
Chef is brainwashed by the “Super Adventure Club”, (a thinly veiled reference to Scientology), then repeatedly tells the children that he wants to “make sweet love” to them, before falling off a bridge, being burned, stabbed, mauled by a lion, and then a grizzly bear!
At his funeral, one of the children says: “A lot of us don’t agree with the choices the Chef has made in the last few days. Some of us feel hurt and confused that he seemed to turn his back on us. But we can’t let the events of the past few weeks take away the memories of how Chef made us smile.”
Meanwhile, you can create your own South Park characters at the South Park Studio.
Here’s South Park me.
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