JESTERS, FOOLS, CLOWNS, THE HISTORY OF COMEDY AND LINKS TO THE FUNNIEST TV SHOWS, BOOKS, MOVIES ETC.
(PLUS SOME GENERAL CINEMA AND MEDIA LINKS TO IMPORTANT SITES)

MEDIA LINKS

Alternative News Links

Unusual Language Links including Semiotics Links

Globalbeat

Online Books and Online Library Links

Music Links

MagPortal.com helps you find individual magazine articles on the web. Use the search engine or click on a category to browse through article listings.

Online Magazines and Journals

Cinema Archives

Google's Media Links

Newsreel Archives

British Universities Film & Video Council

British Universities Film & Video Council Newsreel Project

American Movie Classics

Some Media Search Engines

www.movieweb.com/

Internet Movie Database

Media UK Directory

Cinema Archives Search on Webtop

The CENTER FOR ENTERTAINMENT MISCELLANY

Episode lists for British and American television programs.

The Web Review

www.artcyclopedia.com/

The Daily Digest of Arts & Cultural Journalism

The Internet Theatre Index

Media Links

Internet Fraud Complaint Center

Anti-Virus, Hoax, Myth, Fraud, Chain Letter and Anti-Spam Sites

Radio Caroline

Commedia Online

Mediachannel

Commonwealth Broadcasting Association

Commonwealth Broadcasting Association - Links

Thursday, February 25, 1999 Published at 14:05 GMT - Entertainment - Hollywood hijacks history

Tuesday, 2 May, 2000, 18:01 GMT 19:01 UK Hollywood fights the facts

Friday, 2 June, 2000, 01:16 GMT 02:16 UK Storm over U-boat film

Friday, 2 June, 2000, 13:09 GMT 14:09 UK Capturing the real U-571

Cinema Media Search Engine

www.cinema-sites.com/

classicfilm.about.com/

Inkspot, resource and community for writers

Britmovie Archives

The Broadcasting Standards Commission

The Independent Television Commission

The Radio Times (a long time ago the BBC in Britain began to broadcast radio - then the programs were published in The Radio Times. This is the very same publication which has been around since before the Second World War - only now it includes TV channels (not just the BBC ones) and is published not only in a hard copy but also on the web with online media links.

The BBC online

BBC Monitoring at Caversham near Reading listen in to TV and radio around the world

The Internet Blacklist

WTO Independant Media Centre in Seattle

uk.indymedia - links

Subvertising - www.subvertise.org

Mediachannel

www.collective.co.uk/misfitcity/

Furious Green Thoughts

Link up with the NUJ - become a freelance journalist

The Campaign for Press & Broadcasting Freedom

banned-books.com/

Information Warfare and Information Security on the Web

Duncan Campbell Investigative journalist & TV producer

Association of Investigative Journalists

perceptions.couk.com/

DE-CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY - No one is above the law. No one is below the law.

Searchlight : A Well-Oiled Disinformation Machine By Paul Cox

National Union of Journalists

MEDIA UNIONS' HOME PAGE

Press Freedom etc. The Society of Editors

Propaganda

Spectacle Media Links

Spectacle Alternative Videos

Commonwealth Journalists Association

The Consortium On-line - a product of The Consortium for Independent Journalism, Inc.

The Media Links database

Media Literacy Online Project

JIM ROMENESKO'S MEDIA NEWS

Project Censored - Links Page

The Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism

The Center for Investigative Reporting

http://mediafilter.org/

Theory of Postmodern Warfare

Institute for Alternative Journalism

Society of Environmental Journalists

The Direct Action Media Network (DAMN!)

Chiapas Media Project

The Consortium for Independent Journalism On-line

The Writer's Alliance, Inc.

WWW Virtual Library, Journalism

Computer-Mediated Communication Information Sources: sources of information about Internet-based computer-mediated communication.

www.browserwatch.com/

Spire Project

International Guide of Entertainment/Media Hyper-Links


COMEDIA LINKS

Humour Magazines, Comics and Satirical Journals

Douglas Adams

Mark Thomas

Terry Pratchett

British Comedy Library

Stressed Eric

Have I Got News For You

Chicken Run - The Movie

Mark Thomas on Channel Four Website

ITMA (It's That Man Again)

Tony Hancock

Britmovie Filography of Ealing Studios

Vegetarian and Vegan Cartoons

Vegan Jokes

Funs Website (loads'a'fun!)

Will Hay

Rex the Runt

Rex the Runt

Red Nose Day

Comic Relief

Comic Relief - American site

Welcome to Royston Vasey

The Second Finest Showcase for The League Of Gentlemen

The League of Gentlemen

The Goodies

The Goodies

Some British Comedy Films

Clark Sinclair's Golden Days of Australian Radio

British Silent Comedy Films

Ali G

http://www.ali-g.com/

BedRock Crew/Ali G

Ali G Random Quote generator.

http://www.booyaka.co.uk/

Oakland University - Department of English - Theorizing Satire: A Bibliography - Brian A. Connery, Associate Professor of English

Jam

Discordianism Resources

About the Court Jesters - If you are really serious about this subject...

11 o'Clock Show

The Bells and Motley Homepage

Ally Mcbeal

Divine Comedy Research Edition

Will Smith

Will Smith

History of Clowning
Origins of an Ancient Art and Craft


http://jester.net/

MORAL INCONGRUITY AND HUMOR: THE "GOOD BAD" POETRY OF OGDEN NASH - George W. Crandell

Lenny Henry

"Folly - This is the paradoxical path to divine Wisdom that St Paul recommends to Christians. - In her book, 'The Fool', Enid Welsford provides a history of folly, and summarises, that there are 4 kinds of fool."

Quentin Tarantino

JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it was to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances, the absurdity being attested by his motley costume. The king himself being attired with dignity, it took the world some centuries to discover that his own conduct and decrees were sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind. The jester was commonly called a fool, but the poets and romancers have ever delighted to represent him as a singularly wise and witty person. In the circus of to-day the melancholy ghost of the court fool effects the dejection of humbler audiences with the same jests wherewith in life he gloomed the marble hall, panged the patrician sense of humor and tapped the tank of royal tears.

Search the Radio Times search engine to find TV comedy websites.

TV Comedy Database

Montreal Is "Just for Laughs" A look at the world's biggest comedy event and the Greatest Show on Mirth. It all starts July 15th.

The Internet Wiretap 1st Online Edition of THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY by AMBROSE BIERCE

Amateur and Slow Scan TV

http://www.comedyplanet.com/

Sciveg

The Incorporation of the Fool into King Lear "Jesters do oft prove prophets." (V, iii, l. 73)

Lunatick

Medieval Society - Jesters

Stefan's Florilegium: Article on medieval court jesters.

Clown Hall of Fame - A Brief History of Clowning

Bottomnet

Clown Hall of Fame - Types of Clowns

Comedy Central

Clown Hall of Fame

Adam and Joe Show

Lano & Woodley World

Clown History 101

Juggling History

Commedia dell'Arte

Commedia dell'Arte

An Annotated Bibliography of Commedia dell'Arte, Music Hall, Panto, and Other Diversions

Only Fools and Horses

NOTES TOWARD A HISTORY OF JUGGLING
By Marcello Truzzi with Massimiliano Truzzi
(From Bandwagon, Vol. 18 No. 2, March-April 1974)



South Park

The Ring of Fooles

Performance Art

cap and bells - devoted to folly and foolery

www.tvdance.com/

Dancing Pages Webring

The Fool - A Brief Literary History

Tips and suggestions - on Juggling and performing

Juggling Hall of Fame: W.C. Fields

W.C. Fields

Charlie Chaplin links

Laurel and Hardy links

The Marx Brothers

The Ealing Comedies

BRITCOMEDY DIGEST

Red Dwarf

BBC Comedy Zone

BBC Main Site

Goodness Gracious Me

Father Ted

Reeves and Mortimer

French and Saunders

The Fast Show Unofficial Official Home Page

Blackadder Sites

The Goodies

Home Improvement

Monty Python

Yes, Prime Minister

The Addams Family

Sgt. Bilko's Barracks

Due South

Due South

Buffy

Last Of The Summer Wine

TV Comedy Links

ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE

HANCOCK's HALF HOUR

Men Behaving Badly (UK)

Ren and Stimpy

Why did the chicken cross the road?
The Goon Show

The Simpsons Archive

The Simpsons

Eye logoLinks I Shamlessly Stole from Private Eye's Links Page

spinon.co.uk -- "carefully designed to overcome election-based boredom". Updated twice weekly.
The Hunger Site:
click on a button to make a free donation of food.
Give water: 250,000 clicks on this page gets £100,000 from Thames Water
Cook'd and Bomb'd: Peter Cook/Chris Morris site

petercook.net

funny.co.uk: the comedy portal
Garbled Communications UK
-- comprehensive entertainment site

If it's in the press... it's got to be true

UKShop.org
-- UK shopping mall with hundreds of retailers
Mayorwatch
: keeping an eye on Ken...

The Happening Happy Hippy Party
. Yes, they're back...
Some days in the life of Private Eye
... Photos from  the '70s, courtesy of Eric Hands.
The Establishment
-- the Peter Cook Appreciation Society
Top 50 web sites
: very useful directory of interesting sites.
Article19
: the Global Centre for Free Expression
Landover Baptist Church: The Largest, Most Powerful Assembly Of People To Ever Exist.
BGM Online: the monthly satirical magazine with attitude...
How Stuff Works:
er... that's it.
An alternative explanation
of how stuff works
Urban Legends Reference Pages
Losers on the Internet
-- sad, sad sites.
International Palindromes: well worth checking out, but due to close shortly, so hurry...
The Tonygochi -- A Blair for your desktop. Plus the Clinton Apologiser...
Ha! Humorous Arts review...
Missy Lanyus

The Centre for the Easily Amused
The Neo-Comintern:
strange stuff from warped minds
ComedyBooks -- Hancock, Goons, Python etc.
The Oldie: Ingrams on the web shock horror...
The London Cartoon Gallery
Cartoon Stock: cartoons for first-time publication, reprints, online rights and merchandise
Cartoonscape.com
Tony Husband cartoons
Cartoons by Tony Reeve
Bill Tidy's Page: commission your own Tidy cartoon.
The Many Deaths of Norman Spittal -- Cartoons by Banx
Cartoons by Gaspirtz
Cartoons by Patrick Brown
SETI at home
: use your computer to help analyse radio telescope data
The Daily Anorak
radiohaha -- the online encyclopaedia of contemporary British radio comedy
TV Cream: "a repository of all aspects of now-dead media"
HumorLinks -- hundreds of links to comedy on the Web.
BBC Comedy Zone
Eddie Izzard's Sort of Groovy Homepage
The Dilbert Zone
PythOnline
The Drudge Report
The Media UK Internet Directory
The Big List of Movie Mistakes
The Nitpickers' site
: more movie cock-ups.
Need To Know -- the "weekly high-tech sarcastic update for the UK".
The Onion
ourpress.com
alfayed.com

The Princess Diana WebRing: The Diana industry shows no signs of flagging...
The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office Giftshop
The (Electric) Peel Bell
Ept magazine
Multimap -- a complete interactive atlas of Great Britain.
ReadWell -- worldwide media/telephone/fax directories
Anagram Genius
Electronic Yellow Pages
Greenpeace
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.
National Enquirer
National Geographic
Ask An Expert -- On-line problem solving
Fortean Times Online
The Skeptic
Peter Cook's lost masterpiece, Consequences (with Godley & Creme).
Tradenet! (includes page worldwide listing of magazines on the net)
Robin Ramsay's Lobster
Jo's Completely Factual and Not At All Juvenile Guide for Americans Visiting Britain
The Foul-Mouthed Traveller's Information Desk
FACTNet International
Colonel Rohde's Gazette & Swinehurst Telegram-Companion. Published monthly (weather permitting).
The New Labour Social Club
: including Marxism (Groucho style)
The DUBBINternet: all aspects of the worship of dubbin

(That's enough links. Ed.)



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