Monte Python meets Peak Oil

[greenman3610]

Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant.
your eyes will bug, your jaw will drop, you'll clutch your guts-
You will be begging your friends to watch this.
Trust me. Trust me. Trust me.
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http://www.brasscheck.com/videos/oil/oil1.html

Robert Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years - but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at school, he places oil centre stage as the cause of all commotion.

This innovative history programme is based around Robert Newman's stand-up act and supported by resourceful archive sequences and stills with satirical impersonations of historical figures from Mayan priests to Archduke Ferdinand.

Quirky details such as a bicycle powered street lamp on the stage brings home the pertinent question of just how we are going to survive when the world's oil supplies are finally exhausted.

[rman]

1. Another one of those must-see docus

[dipsydoodle]

6. Did you understand the Pope joke ?

Not sure where you are. Glasgow Rangers is to Protestants as Glasgow Celtic is to Catholics.

I thoroughly enjoyed that - gets the whole lot in doesn't it.

[rman]

8. I think not...

It's so densely packed with info and anecdotes, i'll have to watch it again.

[dipsydoodle]

11. Near the end

where the Pope has been composted. The guy mentions finding a Glasgow Rangers shirt in with the Pope's belongings. :) As I said - Rangers is the Protestant team.

There are so many jokes in there you'll to watch it at least two times. Sure gets the message over.

[charlie]

2. 15 minutes in right now

and I'm loving this guy! What a show! Brilliant, indeed. Thanks for the link.

[dipsydoodle]

3. There's some excellent stuff in that video

yes - everyone should watch and re-distribute the link.

Thanks for that.

Edit - just after 18 minutes in he's mimicing Goebbels - using a Tiny Blur speech :rofl:

[snappyturtle]

4. Yep..what I've seen so far (still buffering)...it's quite

good and to the point! K&R (I'll put you on my "To Trust" list!)

[brokensymmetry]

5. Superb! n/t

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[Strelnikov_]

7. Excellent. Thanks. n/t

[Rainbowreflect]

9. I will have to check this out when I get home!

[Pharaoh]

10. Is there any way

to not have to watch it on such a puny little screen?

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

12. If you go direct to Google video

here:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7374585792978336967

and click the button next to the volume (a rectangle with arrows pointing up, down, left & right) it'll open it up in fullscreen. This won't improve the resolution but might be something towards what you're after.

[deaniac21]

13. Is there a Ministry of Silly Oil Bourses?

[rosesaylavee]

14. This was fascinating!

Thank you for posting it. I will distribute as far as I can. Fortunately, Gore has galvanized and continues to galvanize a number of people globally to get off our collective arses and do something. Hope we can do it for our kids sakes.

[nuxvomica]

15. "the last hours of ancient sunlight"

Brilliant. I'm surprised I never heard of this guy. Thank you so much for posting this.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

17. He was big in the UK about 15 years ago

as part of a radio then TV show called The Mary Whitehouse Experience. He & his then comedy partner David Baddiel got massive (selling out Wembley Arena) at a time when music magazines were touting comedy as the new rock 'n roll and Newman as its Morrissey.


Newman & Baddiel circa 1993

For a variety of reasons the two split and Newman pretty much disappeared from the public eye. His webpage biography doesn't even mention the above. He wrote two pretty awful novels then started doing bits & bobs of standup. He also spent a lot of time getting politically active on a grassroots level.

His first main comeback tour was in 2001 with a show called From Caliban to the Taliban. In 2003 his third novel (& one he's proud of) - The Fountain At The Center Of The World - was published and last year he toured with the critically acclaimed show Apocalypso Now. His History of Oil TV special is basically the first half of that tour with a few bits tweaked around. The whole thing is available on CD (or through Audible IIRC) and whilst I personally thing the material used in 'History of Oil' is the best, I'd strongly recommend the CD. He's currently touring with The History of the World Backwards - the complete script of which is at his site www.robnewman.com (though that seems to be down for me at the moment).

You can buy From Caliban to the Taliban (DVD or CD), Apocalypso Now and The Fountain At the Center of the World at his online shop (I don't know if US retailers carry them).

www.robnewman.com/shop.html

[screembloodymurder]

16. That's no routine comedy routine.

It's genius.

[NickB79]

18. Even video games are getting in on Peak Oil

Watch this trailer for Fuel of War: http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/frontlinesfuelofwar/video_player.html?id=J3c0kmTx5b8IvTM

Scarily accurate, IMO, if we don't invest in some form of alt. energy NOW.

[rman]

20. It's everywhere; "energy supplies running out" is mentioned in passing

regularly. It seems to be pretty well entrenched in the public consciousness, yet most governments are virtually silent about it.

[mrfrapp]

19. kick n/t

[Jeroen]

21. wow!

[trof]

22. kick

Funny and frightening.
Highly recommend.

[JetJaguar]

23. This is worth seeing.

nt

[SalmonChantedEvening]

24. That. was. bloody. brilliant.

Bookmarked and soon to be emailed everywhere

Thank you greenman3610 :pals: