Dead pan genius!:
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Reminds me of earlier Bird & Fortune videos:
• Banking with Bird & Fortune
• Silly Money, Part 1 & 2
• How the markets really work, Subprime Crisis
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March 10th, 2010 at 10:16 am
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March 10th, 2010 at 10:53 am
Hmmm… the host looks a bit like David Gregory. At least the host’s questions were more probing than Gregory’s.
March 10th, 2010 at 11:01 am
Sounds like my last trade – The front fell off…
March 10th, 2010 at 11:22 am
Love it!
March 10th, 2010 at 11:24 am
[...] had to post up following video we stumbled across via Barry Ritholtz (TheBigPicture) HERE. Made us laugh and we thought about The Black Knight. [...]
March 10th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Doh! just sent it to my list thinking it was real.
Best laugh I’ve had for a while anyway
March 10th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
Thanks for posting that, funniest thing I’ve come across in a bit. Apparently their names are Clarke & Dawe, youtube has lots of other clips of them doing these faux interviews. Some of the ones on Iraq and the Economy are just as good as this one!
Iraq: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-fssfdTXdU
Subprime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0b6pkGNeI0
March 10th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
This one is great…
Clark & Dawe: How does the financial system work?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_3T-Af57Pg&feature=related
March 10th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Deadpan KIWI genius, in fact.
March 10th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
[...] Some eclectic items worth spending precious time with this afternoon: • 10 Years After: A Look Back at the Dotcom Boom and Bust (Wired) • When Bubble Burst: Companies Won, Investors Lost (WSJ) • Martin Wolf: The eurozone crisis is now a nightmare for Germany (FT) • Unemployment Rates, by State: Most Regions Added Jobs in January (Real Time Economics) • SEC Economist Leaving Amid Short-Sale Rules Conflict (BusinessWeek) • Why Won’t Robert Rubin Go Away? (Dean Baker) • INSIDE MAN: SIMON JOHNSON on HENRY PAULSON’S MISLEADING, SELF-JUSTIFYING MEMOIR (The Atlantic) • The future of intense winter storms (Weather Underground) • Bloody brilliant: Bird & Fortune on Maritime Disasters and Environmental Concerns (Video) [...]
March 10th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Incredibly FUNNY….why don’t we have this kind of “Dead Pan Humor” in the USA…these days. Subtle…but has one “Rolling on Floor Laughing Ass Off” without the crap in our USA Humor these days.
Anyway…I love Jon Stewart, and the other stuff….but this one just had me with tears rolling down eyes laughing!
BTW: Check out their You Tube titled: “The Misinformed Australian”….I don’t have the link…just Google the Title, “You Tube” and it should come up. It’s another “RFLMAO.”
Thanks Barry….You made our Day, here! We needed this break!
March 10th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
More culture from down under! One of John Clarke’s famous characters was Fred Dag. An archetypal Kiwi farmer.
Comedy from my youth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X2b2x7Fw4o
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYvMeT2GC14
March 10th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
with respect to things “falling off” as well as an outstanding commentary on Things America (even more so today i’d posit than when it was done in 1981), check out this hilarious MUST VIEW ~4 min video from SCTV spoofing “Gene Shalit’s America” visiting the Le Grand Cochon Restaurant in Malibu at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u-1bWV8X9o
March 11th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Another one about the “South Sea Bubble” (Tulips, etc) that’s an incredibly funny watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjN8q5rwLoo
March 11th, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Dogfish Says:
March 10th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
This one is great…
Clark & Dawe: How does the financial system work?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_3T-Af57Pg&feature=related
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Yes it was…an Incredible Watch. Many Thanks for the Link.
March 11th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Thanks to all the “BR POSTERS” who gave the extra videos to watch. We’ve been having a great time with the humor…and this is just a fantastic collection of dry Aussie (Brit/Celtic) humor…that it reminds of us our parents long gone who would go after cynical/comedy routines about Politics/Financials all the time at family gatherings.
It’s good to have some “HUMOR” in these very uncertain times…and there’s so little of “subtle humor” in American Tee VEE these days that some diversity for “all stripes” is good to see. :-)’s As much as I love Colbert and Stewart….there needs to be more diversity for the rest of us who love subtlety.