... Inasmuch as it's the apex of unadulterated fun and laughter in the dark times.
Hm. Okay. I've been trying to write one post per day for a year now and every single word is going funny on me at this point. Look at that sentence above. "Inasmuch"? Get a room, syllables. Also exactly what does "adulterating" actually consist of? And why does the word "adultery" feature in it so prominently? Come to think of it, why does the word "adult" feature so prominently in the word "adultery"? I'm going to look this up. Right, that has happened. Apparently "adultery" comes from a word meaning "to spoil" and has nothing to do with the word "adult" which is actually the past tense of the root of "adolescent". So we're adolts once we're done adolescing.
I digress. But that's fine because so does this video. And it is so wonderful seeing John Oliver (who hasn't done too badly in America either) catch up with Andy Saltzman since their last broadcast together five years ago, clearly relishing the chance to bollock on about inconsequential nonsense like the sex life of frogs or the naming of snow ploughs with no danger of any it getting a sewage plant named after him. "Nothing's changed," he says, and that's what this feels like, and it's a lovely feeling for the end of the year. I've missed this sound.
Parenthetically, and tangentially, and I really don't know what words mean any more, over on f*c*book I saw more love being shared for Stephen Oliver's brilliant soundtrack to the BBC's Lord of the Rings as recommended in this post, and someone said that he was John Oliver's uncle...
What do you think?
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