John Bird Dreaming Award
(Australian haiku award)

Reminder: submissions for the 2nd running of the John Bird Dreaming Award for Haiku close on the 1st March 2023.

Shares / boots / retoots are appreciated to ensure maximum visibility to Australian poets and haiku writers.

For full details, including how to submit, refer to the original notification here: https://australianhaikusociety.org/2022/10/31/john-bird-dreaming-award-for-haiku-2022/

#Haiku #AustralianHaiku #FreeHaiku #JohnBird #HaikuOz #DreamingAward @freehaiku

Further to the passing of #JohnBird this week. The best episode of #AbsolutePower... https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6u3mk3

The passing of #JohnBird this week has me revisiting his show #AbsolutePower, in which he played one of the principals of the most amoral PR agency to ever exist. (Stephen Fry played the other.) Incredible comedy. Here's a clip where they discover their über-rich new clients are literal Nazis, which is only enhanced by knowing some of Fry's family history....

https://youtu.be/nZfsIzNkBZs

'George Parr' genially admitted to his shortcomings precisely because the journalist was himself a product of the same background and education, and so 'George Parr' was chatting to the journalist as if to a friend at his club and not to an adversary.

Having Bird and Fortune switch off playing 'George Parr' and the journalist also pointed out the coziness with which many journalists treat individuals in authority. The interviews truly displayed what privilege is all about.

#JohnBird #satire

A belated remembrance of satirist John Bird, who passed away Christmas Eve at age 86.

The mock journalist interviews carried on by Bird and John Fortune — in which they alternated from interview to interview, with one playing the journalist and the other 'George Parr', who could be a banker, military man, civil servant or MP — were brilliant send-ups of privilege. 'George Parr' was incompetent, but he clearly got his position because of how he looked and how he spoke....

#JohnBird #satire

#Brexit #comedian #JohnBird

RT @niggi@twitter.com

Der britische Komiker John Bird ist gestorben. Genial waren die Interviews, die er mit John Fortune gespielt hat. Hier gibt er 1996 einen „euroskeptischen“ Abgeordneten – und nimmt die schlimmsten Brexit-Debatten vorweg. Brutal, brillant, brüllend komisch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6a_weyzkY4

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/niggi/status/1608228078907441152

RT @susanpenhaligon@twitter.com

Think you can see #JohnBird on the left, me on right. BBC Shakespeare’s season, Taming of the Shrew directed by Johnathan Miller 1980

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/susanpenhaligon/status/1608124980922834944

RIP John Bird, a.k.a. George Parr. Bird was incredibly funny, intellectual and anti-establishment. Who could ask for anything more? #johnbird
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64108691

#JohnBird died.

He was a master of understated #satire.

I think there's a joke to be made about how the #Tory government killed satire in 2022, but I'm too bummed out to formulate it.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/28/john-bird-actor-and-comedian-dies-aged-86

Ohhh, #RIP John Bird, 86, totally brilliant satirist. John Bird & John Fortune together perfectly portrayed, in the 90s and noughties, the absurdity and self-important, pompous fatuousness of so many white male businessmen, management consultants and of course government ministers
#Comedy
#JohnBird
#Bird&Fortune
#BremnerBird&Fortune

“Lord knows, satire has missed them this last decade and now that loss is permanent,”

Too true. Such a loss.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/28/john-bird-actor-and-comedian-dies-aged-86

#Satire #JohnBird #UKPolitics

Do this and you won’t regret it. Comedy genius. 👇#JohnBird

RT @rorybremner@twitter.com

If you do one thing today, watch one of his interview sketches with John Fortune and ask yourself if it’s ever been more beautifully done. RIP George Parr. 💔2/4

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/rorybremner/status/1608074815016935425

https://youtu.be/dd7ziJsnnvo god, it's just heartbreaking. #BremnerBirdAndFortune #JohnBird

RIP John Bird. Haven't watched any of these sketches for years, and they're so tinged with sadness now. The horror of prescient comedy eh!

https://youtu.be/f6a_weyzkY4
#BremnerBirdAndFortune #JohnBird

18 years old and as relevant now.

Good satirists are invaluable to our society.
#BirdAndFortune #JohnBird #Satire #NHS
https://youtu.be/dd7ziJsnnvo

R.I.P John Bird

#johnbird

[2004] Bremner, Bird and Fortune - Bird and Fortune sketch on the NHS. Starring John Fortune and John Bird (R.I.P.).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd7ziJsnnvo

#OldBritishTelly #JohnBird

John Bird was, like many of that generation, a quiet genius. RIP - will be sadly missed. #johnbird #satire

#JohnBird
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/comedian-john-bird-of-trio-bremner-bird-and-fortune-dies/

RIP😥
#JohnBird
https://news.sky.com/story/satirist-john-bird-dies-on-christmas-eve-8211-rory-bremner-calls-him-8216one-of-the-greatest8217-12775627