puns that you had missed

Ok, thanks. American TV isn't the universal reference point the way they sometimes think it is and stuff like this never made it overseas (well maybe the formats did but not the regulars). I only know Nipsie from a reference in Milk and Cheese comics...

UK equivalent would perhaps be Charlie Drake

(oh, Nipsie *was* on Hollywood Squares, so I didn't misremember that, but the thing in that crow parody was Match Game)

(TV programme is Blankety Blank, the American version)

https://www.chortle.co.uk/books/2020/05/19/46138/alternative_comedy,_by_oliver_double

real name or punny stage name?

Hip hop producer Nosaj Thing - now that I hear it, guessing this is an intentional pun and not spelling your name backwards for no reason?

He's no Posdnous.

dammit! Posdnuos.

it was recently pointed out to me that 'house', as in the tv show featuring an irascible hugh laurie, is a pun on 'holmes', as in sherlock holmes

That is bad if true

Anyway, a house is famously not a home. Should have called him Dr Dwelling

isn't a house m.d. also a thing, though? Like, a doctor attached to a specific hospital, or am I making that up?

Is there a doctor in the ... ?

Electric Light Orchestra

idgi

Light orchestra as in 'soft' and also as in 'electric light'?

a "light orchestra" is a generally amateur orchestra that plays pops and well-known tunes rather than full blown heavy symphonic stuff

i'd never noticed before either tho

i mean there's a reason most of the puns in this thread have gone unnoticed

holy shit i got something right.

remember where u were this day etc

it truly is the most impressive pun of the century

a new world record

a "light orchestra" is a generally amateur orchestra that plays pops and well-known tunes rather than full blown heavy symphonic stuff

Obviously a British phenomenon.

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/the-real-meaning-of-the-name-electric-light-orchestra.67239/

During the late sixties a light orchestra was very popular, similar to
those of the BBC string quartets. Inspired by Denny Laines Electric
String Band, Roy Wood had the idea to incorporate the electric part
using more traditional rock instruments with the light orchestra
instruments, hence The Electric Light Orchestra.

Classic Roy

compare "light opera"

Is there a doctor in the ... ?

― pplains, Thursday, October 29, 2020 8:00 PM bookmarkflaglink

Electric Light Orchestra

― Alba, Monday, November 2, 2020 8:14 AM bookmarkflaglink

this made me giggle

^eeeeevil poster

I don't know how, but I only just got this
https://img.discogs.com/NyZ3xhFFUQW22-Tnv9_ieOm3tE4=/fit-in/600x596/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-499100-1580382213-2044.jpeg.jpg

oooooooooh

;hlksafdlkhasf

i literally just spent thirty seconds repeating the title in my head until i ...................... you know ..............

haha today i learned...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyiGHFGCf2U

haha today i learned...

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0)

ditto

I loved that song for ages, just like th e blindman god gave back his sight ..... Praise the Lord ...
That and May You Be Alone really resonated with me.

But i think the Drifting Cowboys were areal archetype when it came to the formation of the band

Soon over Babaluma is another country related word play thing.
Been running through my head during the election, Moon over alabama. Or at least been thinking babaluma when i hear alabama

oh wow

voodoo chili

occurred to me on watching the last Last Week Tonight last week that there is almost inevitably going to be a spate of shows at the end of the year called 2020 Hindsight.

Or 2020 Vision

"mick signals"

Since 1988 I've thought that Prince's track "Anna Stesia" was a Prince-ified version of the name Anastasia, so I always heard him sing it "Anna Staysia". Today I read a piece suggesting it was a play on "anaesthesia" - sure enough I now hear "Anna Steesia" and the whole track suddenly makes more sense. I don't know what's weirder, the change in perception or the fact that I've been listening to Lovesexy for 32 years.

Oh wow me too

waht and also lol and I sincerely mean that in the least mocking way possible; I've never even imagined the possibility of Anastasia

I think it's as simple as the fact that I had a friend called Anastasia at the time and she claimed the song as her own, and I never thought about it since!

I only got this when I said the title out loud for the first time, like 25 years after it came out.

https://i.imgur.com/yC6HO55.jpg

Not so sure I buy "Anna Stesia" as "Anesthesia," but I've also never decided whether "Annie Christian" is supposed to be a half-assed play on "anti-Christian." Because if it is, it's awful.

"Anna Stesia" is absolutely 100% "anesthesia" and "Annie Christian" is absolutely 100% "anti-Christian" (the chorus goes "Annie Christian / Antichrist / Until I'm crucified / I'll live my life in taxicabs" so it's not like it's subtle)

how could Anna Stesia be anything other than "anesthesia"

"anus thieves here"?

I mean, it is Prince, who knows what that was a temple for