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HUMOUR / HUMOR (US)   Stories / Jokes / Comics Cartoons, Postcards and Photos Songs Poems Films Videos / Animations Predictions Quotations Signs Vocabulary Encyclopedia (Updated on 13/01/2011)

Poems :

Ayres on the Air "Pam Ayres presents her own poetry and sketch show." (BBC) Pam Ayres - "a British writer of humorous poetry." (Wikipedia) EDWARD LEAR : Edward Lear : 59 poems / 51 recorded (repeatafterus.com) A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear : - with illustrations, for example : "There was an old person of Prague, who was suddenly seized with the plague..." (horntip.com)   Knock Knock Jokes (niehs.nih.gov) "Knock, knock Who's there? Jess Jess who? Jess me and my shadow"

 

 

Films :

Monty Python (Wikipedia) - 1 History (pre-Python) 1.1 Humble Beginnings 1.2 Time for something completely different 2 Life After Python 2.1 Python (Monty) Pictures 2.2 Going Solo 2.3 The End? 3 Python Bibliography 3.1 Books 3.2 Records 3.3 Films 3.4 Specials 3.5 Live Shows 3.6 Computer Games 4 Further Reading 4.1 Print 4.2 On-Line - Articles about Monty Python : TV Series - Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Life of Brian - The Meaning of Life   Sketch, issu de l'épisode 25 de la deuxième saison du 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' (arobase.org) : script + extraits audio

 

 

VIDEOS / ANIMATIONS :

The One Ronnie: Blackberry Sketch "Ronnie Corbett and  Harry Enfield star in this fruity sketch from The One Ronnie show." + COMMENTS (jeffreyhill.typepad.com) Blackberry Sketch (BBC) + the script + a worksheet - Niveau 3ème Sent by Francis Henné (Ac. Nancy-Metz) MARK FIORE WINS THE PULITZER Here is a collection of the 15 Pulitzer Prize-winning animated cartoons by Mark Fiore. (cagle.com) Visit his web site. (markfiore.com)   La classe sensible. ZEP. Par Anne ROUMANOFF Restons zen! (YouTube) The Monty Python Channel on YouTube (YouTube)   Monty Python's Little Red Riding Hood (YouTube) Monty Python video wall (monty.python.videowall.sytes.org)   A Men's Room Monologue "A funny animated movie about the various problems involved in using a public men's bathroom." (YouTube)   The Ladies Room Monologues - LIEN MODIFIE A funny animated movie about what goes on in a public women's bathroom. (vimeo.com)   Mr. Bean Video Worksheets (english-4kids.com) : (NO VIDEO) Mr. Bean's Appointment with the dentist Merry Christmas Mr. Bean Mr. Bean Makes a Sandwich Mr. Bean in Room 426   Mr Bean at the restaurant - Video Sequence - printable (NO VIDEO) (Gérard Smith - Académie d'Aix-Marseille)   Do You Speak English? (You Tube) - the transcript (Yvan Baptiste - franglish.fr)   Tom Rush - Remember Song (You Tube)   ANIMATED POLITICAL CARTOONS by Mark Fiore (cagle.com)   The Lycette Bros. Illustrated Alphabet of Unfortunate Chance - 404 Kb "Out for a morning stroll, the ever polite Monsieur Maurice contentedly and happily enters into scene after scene of an unfortunate nature without whimper or protest... We had the desire to make a piece that would take its inspiration from 18th century children's nursery rhymes - combining black humour with quaint illustrative linework." (abc.net.au)   The Unfortunate Alphabet - an animation - 32.9 Mo (milkandcookies.com) "Synopsis: Children often learn the Alphabet by using key words to remember the letters. This version of the alphabet gives you some unfortunate  ways to remember the letters."   Can you speak English ? - a video (merryprof) Sinking or Thinking ? - Watch the video. (uk.download.yahoo.com)

 

 

Predictions :

Amazing predictions for the future. (nationalgeographic)

 

 

Quotations :

The 32 Wittiest Comebacks Of All Time (buzzfeed.com) Number 30   Bushisms - a list (plattbridger.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk)   Brain Candy : insults, riddles, jokes, humor, wordplay, and mind games (corsinet.com)

 

 

Signs :

Top 10 Lists from Brian's Brain (brainofbrian.com) (voir par exemple : Top 24 Funniest Signs Seen in the USA )   Dumb Warnings (classés par catégorie) - (dumbwarnings.com) ex : Jefferson City, Missouri High School Football Field : "Public Property, Keep out!"   Funny signs (tefl.net) "that you may enjoy sharing with your students-with appropriate explanations! You can use them in various ways, for example asking just what is wrong or getting students to correct them." ex : "Cocktail lounge, Norway: LADIES ARE REQUESTED NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN IN THE BAR." Closed for Lunch (hoadworks.com) - "Submit ideas for signs that one may find at lunchtime on the door of a local business. Here are 20 witty submissions, missing significant (punning) words. Take a time-out to complete the signs." - with answers ex : "at the Music shop: "Closed for lunch, BACH at 1:00. OFENBACH at 12:45."

 

 

Vocabulary :

New Meanings for Old Words - Language Jokes Ex. : "Chicken, n., the only animal we eat before it is born and after it is dead." (alphadictionary.com) Crazy English by Richard Lederer " Many of these are mere wordplay, but several are linguistic anomalies." (ojohaven.com) Nonsense : Playing with words Limericks - Puns and Portmanteau words (yodawork.com)   Hazardous occupations - "retirees" "OLD ACCOUNTANTS never die, they just lose their balance." (corsinet.com) Puns and Other Word Play (BBC) Homographic Puns / Homophonic Puns / Double-Sound Puns / Ambigrams / Palindromes / Tom Swifty Puns / Spoonerisms / Oxymorons / Anagrams / Pangrams / Chiasmus / Tongue Twisters / Portmanteau Words / Redefinition Wordplay / Extended Puns / The Art of Humourous Puns / The Punishment of it All MORE THAN 100 COMICS-RELATED WORDS IN 8 LANGUAGES English, French, Flemish/Dutch, German, Danish, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (lefevre.pascal.googlepages.com) It's about the oil (stopviolence.com)   Different Types of Verbal & Written Humor (library.thinkquest.org) A GLOSSARY OF HUMOUR AND WIT (erp.oissel.onac.org) A Dictionary of Comicbook Words - Ka-Boom! (collection.nlc-bnc.ca)   DESSINS HUMORISTIQUES / CARTOONS - vocabulaire (anglais / français) (Ac. Aix-Marseille) The Best of British - The American's guide to speaking British (effingpot.com)   Humour (macabre) - prononciation (2 leçons)   The Gashlycrumb Tinies (phobos-deimos.com) travail sur le preterit, le participe passé, le passif... en rapport avec la mort... Echoes of The Gashlycrumb Tinies (You Tube) The Dialectizer - (rinkworks.com) "Convert English text to any of several comic dialects." : Redneck, Jive, Cockney, Elmer Fudd, Swedish Chef, Moron, Pig Latin, or Hacker.

 

 

Encyclopedia :

Comic strip - Encyclopedia (factmonster.com) Introduction - History - American Comic Strips - International Comic Strips - Ideological Slants - Comic Books - Modern Trends - Bibliography The Lambiek Comiclopedia, an illustrated compendium of over 6,000 international comic artists with biographies and artwork examples. (lambiek.net)