If you think Brexit is funny, if you’re amused by Jeremy Corbyn’s stupidly facile attempt to slither his slimy way through the back door into Number 10, if you find Caroline Lucas’ ridiculous suggestion that she should be in charge of anything more important than a tv remote to be quite hilarious, then you should watch Its a Mad Mad World. Because its on tv TODAY! In fact by the time you read this you’ll have missed it. But rather than ‘tough shit!!’ you can get it on BBC iplayer. So it will have no adverts either. They used to show this movie every Christmas but then stopped. In about 1974. For some unaccountable reason. Because it is probably the finest American comedy movie ever made. And possibly my favourite of all movies. Except for… (long list follows).

Stanley Kramer directed a two-and-a-half hour comedy epic which was a who’s who of the top comedians of its day. Spencer Tracy was the straight man, and even he was pretty funny. Then came… everyone. From Sid Caesar to Phil Silvers, Ethel Merman to Jerry Lewis, Jimmy Durante to Dick Shawn (‘Hitler’ in Mel Brook’s original Producer’s movie). Buster Keaton was in it FFS. Milton Berle, Terry Thomas and the incomparable Buddy Hackett. Ok, its slapstick. To a degree. Its ridiculous, to a ridiculous degree. But Sid Caesar and Phil Silvers alone put the movie in the category of comedy royalty. I’m going to force Mel to watch it. Just after Match of the Day. She’s in for a treat.

So who said ‘you can’t get Steve Smith out’? The (former, disgraced, shameful, cheating…) ex-Aussie cricket captain has proved to be something of ‘the immovable force’ when at the crease. But the wonderful Joffra Archer found a way round that little obstacle by aiming a ball at the no-goodnick’s head. That got the bastard out. Obviously with lots of sympathy from me and all good English cricket fans. But a good concussion is as good as a middle stump in ‘the Gentleman’s Game’.

Then we have the rugby this afternoon, followed by, and overlapping, with Spurs visit to Manchester City. To ‘see how good they really are’. In case anyone has any doubts. It’s the only match of the year in which just ‘losing’ is a great result. Rather than getting thrashed, hammered, stuffed or buggered. But in fact I’m going to be very optimistic and say that we can beat them. On the grounds that… well, because… see, its all about… BECAUSE WE CAN, THAT’S WHY!!!! And we fucking will! Bloody overspending northern Abu Dhabis.

Come on You Spurs

Happy Saturday (oh, let it be so)

A xxxx