This week on Sneaky Dragon: post-surprise party comedown! Ian and Dave take a moment to look back at Dave’s surprise birthday party. Also, things Ian and Dave shouldn’t talk about: science: Ian is right; more about Adam and Eve; Dave insults 16% of the world’s population; remember Aristarchus; exhaustive religiosity with a somewhat incoherent Dave; Ian equates religion to abuse; Dave doesn’t like Gnosticism; Dave gets a name very wrong; an installment of A Dollop of Trollope; Pride and Prejudice: The Play – a review by Dave; finally, our lists of the Top 5 comedians that Ian and Dave were supposed to put together for last week’s show: Maria Bamford, Buster Keaton, Paul F. Tompkins, W.C. Fields, Matt Groening, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Woody Allen and Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright are Ian and Dave’s choices. Listen and they’ll tell you why.

Thanks for listening.

Department of Corections:

Unfortunately, when you’re talking off the top of your head (or out of your own a**) as Dave tends to do, you can make mistakes. Although, Dave was correct to suggest that Aristarchus presented the first known model of a sun-centered universe, he was not Egyptian, but Greek. Also, please note that when Dave kept saying Constantinople, he meant Emperor Constantine.

Because we love it so, here is Every Frame A Painting’s video essay about Buster Keaton, The Art of the Gag:

From the same series, How to Do Visual Comedy featuring the work of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg:

(I might be including this because he agrees with David and Ian’s complaints about modern comedy.)

Someone has posted this on YouTube and it’s a great film so what the heck: