Doug's Views: A Couple of Funnies

If you enjoy life then you like to laugh at the absurd. I got a couple for you today from the past week.

Item 1

Finish this line:

"Guess what? I've got a fever. And the only prescription is... "

If you shouted "More cowbell!" then you too remember the sketch on Saturday Night Live 5 years ago.

"More cowbell" is the punch line to a "Saturday Night Live" skit that originally aired five years ago this month (April). The guest host was Christopher Walken, and one of the skits spoofed VH1's "Behind the Music" by imagining what happened when the 1970s band Blue Oyster Cult went into the studio to cut "(Don't Fear) The Reaper," its best-known song.

Walken plays producer Bruce Dickinson, a preening rock "legend" who turns hacks into hit-makers. Will Ferrell, who wrote the sketch, plays pseudo-Cult member Gene Frenkle, whose sole talent consists of beating on a cowbell with enough force to stun a bull elephant. Real-life BOC members are portrayed by SNL's Jimmy Fallon, Chris Parnell, Horatio Sanz, and Chris Kattan, none of whom can keep a straight face as Ferrell maniacally pounds away while prancing around with his belly hanging out of his shirt.

It's Walken, though, who steals the show by uttering the phrase that's achieved cult-worship status. "I gotta have more cowbell!" he pleads when annoyed bandmates complain that enough is enough. In a bit of lunacy that would do "This Is Spinal Tap" proud, a crazed Walken exclaims, "Guess what? I've got a fever. And the only prescription is more cowbell."

http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2005/04/30/more_cowbell_yes_please_weve_got_a_fever/

I saw the sketch 5 years ago and several times since then and it cracks me up everytime.

Will Ferrell has been the best SNL cast member since Eddie Murphy in the 1980's. I believe he is the only one to have a 2 volume DVD set in the "Best of SNL" collection.

Christopher Walken as host is always a hoot because he seems so mental in real life that seeing him do comedy is really funny. The other Walken bits I love is where he is a smarmy lech trying to seduce a woman and we see the sketch from the POV of the woman (a cameraman with a dress glove on). The other is when his character can see into the future of anyone he touches and the future has nothing to do with the person.

Item 2

Fun with the Queen

This week Queen Elizabeth and The Duke of Edinburgh are on a state visit of Saskatchewan and Alberta (Canada), as part of the celebration marking the centennial of these provinces' entry into Confederation.

They have the itinerary for May 18th posted on a website about the visit and while browsing it - one of the items cracked me up:

11:35

The Duke of Edinburgh arrives at the site and acknowledges War Memorial Fund Raising Committee and assembled veterans.

The Duke of Edinburgh, accompanied by Mr. Jones, proceeds to the site of the sod-turning.

The Duke of Edinburgh turns the sod.

The Duke of Edinburgh unveils a plaque, commemorating the sod-turning on the occasion of the 2005 visit of Her Majesty and His Royal Highness.

En route, The Duke of Edinburgh views the adjacent World War I Memorial.

The Duke of Edinburgh views the sign depicting the future Saskatchewan War Memorial.

Brigadier-General Walker, Mr. Lyons, Mr. Harasen, and Mr. Jones say goodbye to His Royal Highness.

http://www.pch.gc.ca/visiteroyale2005/detail_mai_may18_e.cfm
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The line about the Duke turning the sod was funny then the line refering to the plaque about the sod turning had me on the floor peeing my pants.....