John Cleese rhymes again on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann"

[babylonsister]

http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2008/10/john-cleese-rhy.html

John Cleese rhymes again on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann"

John Cleese paid a visit to MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" on Friday. He had an appropriately wicked bit of verse to share, an ode to Bill O'Reilly. This one isn't quite as side-splittingly funny as his poem a few weeks ago about Sean Hannity, but it's a good distillation of O'Reilly's insanity.

(Keith presses Cleese on the definition of "berk," but doesn't really get an answer, as you can see in the clip posted at link.)

Bill O'Reilly's No Spin Zone,
is rated highly by his own beloved mother,
but ... no other.
Except that Bill, for all his faults,
still has one skill, a skill of sorts.
He can amuse a true dumb ox,
the dullest crayon in the box,
the kind of ox that watches Fox.
And Bill will pander to this group,
with propaganda, right-wing poop,
knee-jerk views and censored news.
Thus Bill O'Reilly earns his crust,
behaving vilely as he must.
He will not shirk from Rupert's work.
He really is a perfect berk.

[parasim]

1. I thought it was funnier than the first one...

especially because he snuck in a little cockney rhyming slang. I love John Cleese.

[StClone]

2. Berk is perfect

I had to look it up and it means idiot (and worse) in British slang.

[jkshaw]

3. I've read so many British mysteries that

I know the word "berk" well. I agree with the poster up further that this was even better than the first one he did on Hannity.

[silverojo]

4. Cleese answered the question as best he could on network TV

It was Cockney rhyming slang. "Berk" is short for "Berk--- Hunt" (sorry, I forgot the name he said). The word rhyming with "HUNT" was something he couldn't say on TV...though McCain DID say it to his wife, in front of onlookers.

Four letters, begins with C, rhymes with "hunt"...!

[GoneOffShore]

5. Berk is Cockney rhyming slang

As in -
Jam jar = car
Apples and pears = stairs
Trouble and strife = wife
Bristol City = titty
Barnet fair = hair
Berkley Hunt = ----

[pokerfan]

6. so 'Bristol' is slang for titty?

:spray:

[GoneOffShore]

7. It's usually in the plural - as in

"Cor, she's got some lovely Bristols."