Royal Family Member Reveals Which Duchess Curses 'Like a Trooper' cheatsheet.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cheatsheet.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
ITV s Tales of the Unexpected brought inky-black humour to small screen
Credit: ITV/Shutterstock
Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected is remembered not only for its “twist in the tale” endings, but also its opening sequence: the eerie fairground waltz theme tune; the quasi-Bond titles, with the silhouette of a naked woman (well, she looked naked) dancing with fate itself – a gun, a roulette wheel, tarot cards, faces of death; and lastly Roald Dahl, sat at a crackling fireside, introducing that week’s strange yarn.
It’s during one of these softly-spoken introductions that Dahl ponders the streak of deathly black humour that underscores his tales. “If a bucket of paint falls on a man’s head, that’s funny,” says Dahl to the camera. “If the bucket fractures his skull at the same time and kills him, that’s not funny – it’s tragic. And yet, if a man falls into a sausage machine and is sold in the shops at so-much a pound, that’s funny. It is also tragic.
Brian Blessed (Yui Mok/PA)
Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal.
Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter.
Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up
Brian Blessed has launched a new campaign which aims to help people recognise the symptoms of heart failure.
The actor, 84, recorded a video for the British Society for Heart Failure urging the public to be vigilant over signs of heart failure.
He is supporting the charity’s Freedom from Failure – The F Word campaign.
Blessed said: “Ultimately, long story short, I have had a pacemaker put in me and I now feel like a man of 20.”
2 h
Share with:
50% actor-50% explorer, qualified Cosmonaut, national treasure, Brian Blessed, has taken time away from his rigorous schedule to launch and support a symptom awareness campaign created by the British Society for Heart Failure (BSH), the professional association of heart failure specialists in the UK. The campaign, supported by professional associations, charities and Royal Colleges, is to be launched during Heart Failure Awareness Week, 10-16 May 2021. Called ‘Freedom from Failure – the F Word’, it is designed to raise awareness of heart failure and to encourage people to check for and seek medical help early if they recognise the most common symptoms of heart failure:
Share
British immersive studio Make Real might be better known for its training and simulation solutions for virtual reality (VR) but it also knows a thing or two about gaming. Back in 2017 the team created four-player party title
Loco Dojo for Oculus Rift, where players had to quickly complete crazy mini-games. Today, Make Real has announced
Loco Dojo Unleashed, an Oculus Quest edition due to arrive later this year.
Just like before,
Loco Dojo Unleashed will feature the same 16 comedic mini-games such as swatting bats with nunchuck hotdogs, milking pigs with baby pigs, and flinging cats around. Plus the charismatic Grand Sensei host, voiced by cult hero Brian Blessed has been left in of course. Make Real hasn’t simply ported the original