Funnier than Mike King
At the NZ Society of Authors Legal Advisory Committee lunch last week at the Mai Thai, between the satay and the Gai Pad Med Mamuang, our guest, a distinguished QC from Christchurch, observed of one who shall remain nameless that he was “funnier than Mike King”. A silence fell as Kevin, Graeme and I admired this example of damning with faint praise.
Is it the best possible damning with faint praise, though? Is it really a world-beater? Mark and I have come up with:
overheard about a homemade cupcake: “It tastes just like a bought one.”
of The Vintner’s Luck: “The best novel about a gay angel.”
more coherent than Mike Moore
shyer than Charlotte Dawson
not as irritating as Jason Gunn
Then we got stuck. So it’s time for another NZBC competition – who can supply the best example to knock our Christchurch QC off his precarious perch? No prize, just the usual smug feeling of being cleverer than the rest of us.
Is it the best possible damning with faint praise, though? Is it really a world-beater? Mark and I have come up with:
overheard about a homemade cupcake: “It tastes just like a bought one.”
of The Vintner’s Luck: “The best novel about a gay angel.”
more coherent than Mike Moore
shyer than Charlotte Dawson
not as irritating as Jason Gunn
Then we got stuck. So it’s time for another NZBC competition – who can supply the best example to knock our Christchurch QC off his precarious perch? No prize, just the usual smug feeling of being cleverer than the rest of us.
posted by Stephen Stratford at 8:16 PM
22 Comments:
More talented than Ben Lummis!
bahaaha. nice one llew.
you're wittier than the average Sir Humphrey's contributor, sir.
Hey, this is so much better than the last NZBC competition.
More charismatic than Don Brash? More endearing than Theresa Gattung?
Reminds me of my favourite oxymoron, 'military intelligence'.
One I actually heard in real life, and I don't think the perpetrator was trying to be funny.
It was on an Arts programme on National Radio. Some local concert in Kerikeri, the broadcaster solemnly assured listeners that 'The audience was very supportive'.
A better boss than Taito Phillip Field....
Last week an acquaintance cancelled our lunch date with the apology: "for what it's worth, I'd much rather hang out with you than read gas pipeline regulation".
lovelier than Hamilton
Less exposed than Matthew Ridge!
Brighter than Nicky Watson.
More cred than Aja Rock
Taller than Paul Holmes
Sorry to stop you in mid-stream, but can you beat: better than nothing?
Mark is the winner so far.
Any advance on 'better than nothing?'
"you can't beat wellington on a good day"
As Whoopi Goldberg said in Sister Act on the news that the Pope was coming to listen to them sing:
"[It's] better than sex (stunned silence from the other nuns)... so I've been told..."
More progressive than Banksie.
If we're on the topic of comedy though: "Funnier than Murray Deaker?"
Tastier than a bucket of KFC.
OH! There's this really fantastic quote in the Lis*coff*er interview with Guyon Espiner - he said this about Winston Peters:
"I've got a huge amount of respect for him as a political operator and survivor. The place would be a lot more boring without him."
from a wine review in the Independent (UK): 'good with salads'.
More reliable than John Howard.
I've got three young children and I've always struggled with:
Sleeping like a baby
You are fucking with the wrong person you fucking jumped up little fuckhead.
db, I struggle with 'sleeping like a baby' too, having had two of them, but isn't the expression more of a contradiction in terms? Like "TVNZ current affairs" or - and this is where we came in - "comedian Mike King".
> You are fucking with the wrong
> person you fucking jumped up
> little fuckhead.
Hey, Mike, I don't suppose you'd like to call Oki for me?
was that really mike king!
wow. didn't know he could type.
You're so talented, you could get an Arts Grant.
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