Friday night tv

Stayed in last night, first Friday in a while. I noticed that the tv schedules have improved - for a while Friday nights on the box meant slim pickings.

There's a new series of QI, a comedy quiz show hosted by Stephen Fry. If you're not familiar with the programme, points tend to be awarded for the most interesting answer rather than the correct one, while points are deduced if a panelist offers an answer which is widely accepted as true, but is in fact false. Should I be worried that the only question I got right was about pornography? (A: Why are fluffers no longer used in porn films? Q: Viagra)

I also caught Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul, a new sketch show from Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse. I love the latter but the former hasn't really produced anything good in a while, and the Fast Show is a tough act to follow, but I really enjoyed it. Worth a try I reckon.

Striving to be a better bear

I just watched Stephen Fry on Shrink Rap and googled him afterwards - and found this quote:

"One of the nice things about looking at a bear is that you know it spends 100 per cent of every minute of every day being a bear. It doesn't strive to become a better bear. It doesn't go to sleep thinking, "I wasn't really a very good bear today". They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment."

And I didn't post that just because I love bears.