When it comes to entertainment, it was, of course, Homer Simpson who put it best when he said: “Barney’s movie had heart, but ‘Football in the Groin’ had a football in the groin”. In his own imitable, jaundiced, 4 fingered way, Homer J. summarised the way in which many of us understand comedy. Even the wittiest, most intelligent, most impeccably timed bon mot often pales in the humour stakes when compared to a man getting knocked unconscious by a pressurised [...]

A few years ago, there was a memorable advertisement for Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey; a close-up shot of a pair of earth-ridden, hard-working hands. Shrewdly, the marketing types had used this bucolic image as a representation of Jack’s rich, full, stomach-melting flavour, yet ultimately, it also encapsulated the aesthetic of those good ol’ boys of Southern USA – where men are tough, men are men, and men can be men together… To put an end to this lackadaisical deconstructionism (Take [...]