This is bbc news. We will have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour straight after this programme. Were all going on a summer holiday. Why doesnt he stop honking his horn . Theres plenty of room to park were not going on a london bus if thats what you had in mind well, youre not going to get very i far on your holiday in this thing. I were not on our way on holiday. Were going to an engagement i dont wish to impose upon you. My pleasure. In that case, you might as well do the laundry while youre about it, sweep the stairs, and dust the furniture and do the polishing because it makes my pretty back ache. Boys youve got another one what . Goodness, here . I think i might applause. I say, he forgot to pay. I wasnt a trained dancer. I didnt go to any. Lessons or anything. My dad was a barber, but hed come home and start. And i copied him, but ii could always tap dance. Raindrops keep falling on my head and just like the guy whose feet are too big for h
The Hospitality Sector welcomes the decision not to impose further covid restrictions in england before the new year, describing it as a lifeline, but ministers say further restrictions hinges on the number of hospitalisations. The french government call their new covid measures proportionate, as rules for Remote Working and public gatherings come into force next week. More Young Children are being forced work on the streets, as afghanistans humanitarian crisis deepens. Well bring you a Special Report from kabul. Heavy snowstorms batter western states in the us, leaving thousands without power and causing travel chaos. Its all over australia thrash england to win the ashes, after a dismal collapse in melbourne. Now on bbc news, review 2021, we remember. Prince philip, una stubbs, charlie watts, sarah harding, captain sir tom moore, Christopher Plummer and jimmy greaves. Just some of those whose lives are celebrated in this years programme. Were all going on a summer holiday. Why doesnt
Somebody binds you to them. Comedians dont have a great mortality rate. We lose a lot of people comedian. Im feeling more personal because i know the farc. Mm hmm. I dont drink anymore. I had to quit because i really drank man. I get pulled over by the cops. Id be so drunk id be out dancing to their lights thinking ive made it to another club. In a way laughter is a bizarrely intimate thing. Theres such an uncontrolled physical response. Its very similar biologically to orgasm. Stage someone made you laugh even once you have an affection for that person. Comedian is like your friend. Thats what the job of a comedian is to come on stage and in 60 seconds make friends with a room full of people. Actors theyre geniuses never quite telling us who they are. But comedians getting inside our heads. Its very personal. Theres an intimacy to comedy, so that when theyre gone, you miss it. You have your girlfriend or your wife called you from another room, and shes like sweetie, and then, like the
empty vessel with a cheesy smile. a man who thought an endless stream of made up, folksy anecdotes were enough to hide the fact that he believed in nothing. nothing at all except building his own brand to help his family get rich. and they ve become really rich. hunter jim, valerie, the whole lot. but the working people that scranton joe claimed to identify with, well, he may backslap them at all the union hall events, but we know he doesn t give a rip about what his inflation has done to them. the fact is that if you take a look at what the people have, they have the money to spend. so the buyer s remorse that is trickling out from the never-trumpers and even from some old line democrats, it s real. even if their pride won t let them admit that they were wrong. we know the truth. they convinced themselves that old joe could control the radicals. but now the radicals control him. but here, at the angle we ve always known, joe biden puts the bidens first, last and always