Occasionally some of us post links to funny clips on YouTube and the like in other threads. But, of course, these links get lost quite quickly as the discussion moves on and as new topics get posted. Therefore, I think it might be a good idea if there is one thread in which we can post links to clips on YouTube which amuse us, and which we'd like to share with others. Musical links and non-musical links welcome!

So, to get the ball rolling, here are two of my favourites. One "musical" and one non-musical:-

i, South Park - Eric Cartman singing O Holy Night

ii, Dentist sketch

Hope you enjoy them!

Please feel free to post some more!

Gosh HG - you are turning into a regular skylark with this type of thread...

I take it you have nothing amusing to contribute then, Maledictis?

No, I prefer not to waste my life surfing YouTube

Ok, here's another....

Spike Milligan's Irish Olympics

Not funny but BRILLIANT

http://uk.youtube.com/lifesforsharing

Posted this on a forum earlier

The Piano Player

The great Rowan Atkinson!

Here's some more that spring immediately to mind:

Rowan Atkinson: Pianist,Conductor,School master

Some Rachmaninov

Blimey, I never expected to get high praise like that from you, Malady

I've never been *so* insulted!

Songs of Praise - with subtitles

Sorry, couln't resist...

Pachelbel's Canon

I had to play that cello line in a two hour rehearsal once. Definitely worthy of a few more smilies saddies.

I love the Songs of Praise ones though. I must get my choir with the not-as-clear-as-it-might-be diction to look at them!

It's a bit late for the festive season, but this from Straight no Chaser made me laugh - both the 2007 and the 2008 versions - will find the link.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2kYEK-pxs_A

This has me in stitches... and it takes hours to get the tune out of my head

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY

This always raises a smile and I just showed it to my son who was in fits and wants to copy it - I can feel a Singin' in the Rain-inspired trip to Casualty coming on.....

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2oWk4ZiuSHE&...feature=related

And a musical clip from Black Books:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JehT1p-J1GA

This rather lovely folk song is worth watching.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=woqfb12h4y4

Right I can't get on YouTube in school, but I can say what to search! Look for the Twilight spoof trailer - it's so funny! You have to have seen the proper trailer though - watch that too

Not sure where the Dentist one has gone, but it seems to have been removed.

Yes, it has.

However, somebody else seems to have uploaded it here. Get it quick, folks, before it's removed again. It's very funny!

Yes, I must admit, it is very funny!

Makes you squirm though - I don't like going to the dentist, even on film!

Ah, shame the dentist has been removed. I watched it last night and laughed muchly.

This one is quite amusing -

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ATXV3DzKv68

Joyce Grenfell, Victor Borge, the Rachmaninoff sketch (can't remember the 2 guys at the moment) Katzenjammer etc. You can find clips from almost anything you think of......

Watch this fellow play the keyboard with his balls!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RDB5o9kBPJw

Igudesman and Joo

They have quite a few new videos up now - I could watch them all day

Loved the dentist one and laughed so much I woke an offspring.
Great idea for a thread.

Well, I like this one!


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6KpYZCI2ZyU

Great thread!

No offense meant to Krystian Zimerman but this clip made me chuckle.

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=w5zh3Pme7PY

Be sure to watch past the first 45 seconds.

It's a very good, rather underrated show, that, filmed mainly I believe in and around Belfast.

That being the case, do you think he'd be a good addition to the next Belfast forum event?

Do you think that his larynx might have been in the wrong place?

The Toastmaster

Michael Bentine - a comic genius. Perhaps his best known solo sketch.

I love this Olympic one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO_BnsrWMnI

Makes my eyes water though"

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM

Love it - SOOO cuteee

I wish my children had that much self-restraint!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIFHVuMb4bE

Poor woman!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwANJEwkWB0...feature=related

This has just made me cry with laughter!

This is fabulous! How does she make that gargling noise on the recorder? (Can you do it, Sarah?) How on earth she kept going, I've no idea.


I loved this one, noodle. So true to life (if you can cope with hyperbole) and I'm sure I saw some of the OLTVA ladies on there!

I think for that bit, she's flutter tonguing. It's sort of like rolling your Rs, a bit like purring really. I can do it not very well on a limited range of notes for a few seconds at the most, but I've never had a piece that required it, so haven't really worked on it at all.

She is flutter tonguing, yes - one of those things which is either ridiculously difficult to do or unbelievably easy to learn, just a matter of luck.

How about some piano music again?
Sorry folks, it does seem to get a bit rough at times, and they are sharing out the difficulty between the three of them, but I will admit I still like it.

For sheer musical artistry though, I do think Igudesmann and Joo are right up there.... and of those, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKZITB_r8t0...feature=related is my favourite. Their piano lesson one is too close to the spade-wielding piano teacher one, I think from Australia (?) which I just cannot find funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtf2Q4yyuJ0

I love the lolcats


I was reading about her on Wikipedia and it seems she even performed at Carnegie Hall :S

Not music related, but it made me laugh (and yes I am a classic doctor who fan )

Part 1

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK4KorpXfaY

I can watch this for hours

Just been sent this link: argument.
Excellent use of jazz.....
*sprints*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go...&playnext=1

I like this one - Achmed the dead terrorist...

and this for a good old temper tantrum!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpSfThUv_pc

This one made me laugh - should be shown to all teenagers!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC_rrr5WrVE...feature=related