Eels Mark Everett's band of backwood, bearded oddballs smuggled profound affection for outsiders and losers into a soulful, funny, crowd-winning show.
Armando Iannucci's funny, crowd-pleasing paean to the BBC in his MacTaggart lecture set the tone – "I feel I owe it my professional life", he told a hall full of people who felt the same way – but his warm-up act, culture secretary John Whittingdale, was not among them.
It was hard to pick only one song, so I just went for the funny crowd-pleaser.
Via Greg Sargent, Nick Confessore has another eye-rolling look at the incredible pettiness of the ma-he's-looking-at-me-funny crowd on Wall Street: One of the guests raised his hand; he knew how to solve the problem.
But Butler, who won Kevin Rudd's old seat of Griffith at the election, was so funny the crowd soon forgot all about Dastyari.
Gatrell doesn't just tell a fabulous story about what made people laugh 250 years ago, he also tackles all those tricky epistemological problems that are so easy to duck when you are dealing with source material as rude and funny and crowd-pleasing as this.
"I think it's much more funny for the crowd than a bad thing for the players," he said.
It'll be funny and the crowd will be vocal and really into it.
After the match, Helms announced that he was fed up with being funny for the crowd, and that he was sick of carrying Rosey as a tag team partner.
But the most remarkable element may be Navalny himself: a man who seems to have been born to work the crowds, funny and charismatic but also smart, purposeful, and fearless, with impressive stamina.
