Posts Tagged ‘news’
Hotel California | BBC News
23 August 2018A Smashed Hits about (the) Eagles’ Hotel California:
“Vaguery is the primary tool of songwriters,” Frey told a journalist during a 2003 pro-am golf tournament in California’s Pebbel Beach, where he was partnered with Huey Lewis. “It works, it means whatever the listener wants it to mean.”
Sources: History of the Eagles; Hit Story: It All Started Because Of Rattlesnakes; Rockin’ ‘Round The Round, SF Gate; Jennifer Parker’s McBusted: The Story of the World’s Biggest Super Band and this lovely data collection from Southern California Public Radio.
Trump, double-negatives and politics | BBC News
23 July 2018A quick piece for the BBC about double negatives:
It’s hard to understate how often we find ourselves using two negatives when we don’t mean to – in fact, this sentence begins with a common example
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Masterclass: Craft of Comedy Entertainment | Bafta
7 October 2017Taking an evening off from editing to hear from this comedy panel at @BAFTA. Should be a really interesting evening! pic.twitter.com/24IEUXv5RE
— Mei Leng Yew (@widowedanthem) October 17, 2017
I’m part of the panel for a Bafta event:
A panel of comedy entertainment producers and writers discuss the recent renaissance in entertainment television, covering programme development, writing, casting, and the role of satire.
- 6:45pm, Tuesday, 17 October 2017
- Princess Anne Theatre, Bafta, 195 Piccadilly, St. James’s, London W1J 9EU
- Tickets
- Updated with image by @widowedanthem
Alternative Election Night | Channel 4
5 June 2017I have been enjoying working on Channel 4’s Alternative Election Night:
Jeremy Paxman, David Mitchell and Richard Osman present an all-night feast of comedy and comment in Channel 4’s very different take on election night
Election Lexicon | BBC News
12 May 2017By me for BBC News: Election Lexicon, the words which “caught the ear” in a week of campaigning.
27 May: [campaigning suspended]
Charlie Brooker’s 2016 Wipe | BBC2
5 December 2016I am a proud member of Team 2016 Wipe, which is broadcast after Christmas.
Update 14 May 2017: Bafta winner, Comedy & Comedy Entertainment Programme