RETOUR

 

Poems


  • Ayres on the Air
    "Pam Ayres presents her own poetry and sketch show."
    (BBC)

    Pam Ayres - "a British writer of humorous poetry."
    (Wikipedia)

 

  • Reading : Comic Poems
    (gradedreading.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk)
  • Edward Lear : 59 poems / 51 recorded (repeatafterus.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

 

 

 

  • A Men's Room Monologue
    "A funny animated movie about the various problems involved in using a public men's bathroom."
    (YouTube)

 

 

  • 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

 

 

 

 

 

  • 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."

 

 

 

 

Predictions

 

 

 

Quotations


  • 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)

 

  • 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

 

 

 

  • Humour (macabre) - prononciation (2 leçons)

 

  • The Gashlycrumb Tinies (phobos-deimos.com) - LIEN MODIFIE
    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)