{"id":1256,"date":"2020-07-28T23:52:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T23:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2024-04-17T13:22:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T13:22:15","slug":"now-we-have-a-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/now-we-have-a-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Now We Have A Laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of ways that comedy and music can be combined &#8211; not always deliberately \ud83d\ude03 things going wrong often turn very funny &#8211; but I am aware that taste in comedy is a very individual thing &#8211; so forgive me if some of the selections that I share over the next few days you don&#8217;t find at all amusing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I think I am on reasonably safe ground with this first one though. I saw Victor Borge live on a number of occasions and, even though his routines did not vary too much and &#8211; yes &#8211; you knew what was coming his comedic genius and timing meant that it was still funny &#8211; perhaps funnier because you did know and anticipate exactly what was coming.<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of clips that I could choose &#8211; maybe more another time &#8211; but his interaction with Marilyn Mulvey was superb.<\/p>\n<p>Hope it makes you smile<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kT4O-B6rUOI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victor Borge with Marilyn Mulvey<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kT4O-B6rUOI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Comments<\/em>\u00a0:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Milligan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I saw Victor Borge perform in Toronto in 1976. Took him 20 minutes to tell a 2 minute joke. Very funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of ways that comedy and music can be combined &#8211; not always deliberately \ud83d\ude03 things going wrong often turn very funny &#8211; but I am aware that taste in comedy is a very individual thing &#8211; so forgive me if some of the selections that I share over the next few days &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/now-we-have-a-laugh\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Now We Have A Laugh&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[133],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-comedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}