Bernard Black's reply

Everyone agreed he was right to kill the publisher. And to do it with a flugelhorn was a stroke of genius.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Black Books
• Cigarettes
• Dylan Moran
• Grumpy
• Hair
• Letter
• Wine
• posterous

[smudgypalms]

Why has Dylan not published a book D: I would read it until it was in tatters..and then probably get drunk and eat the tatters to absorb his genius.

[podzhog]

@smudgypalms Apparently he has written a few... words of it by now =)

[JeppeVJ]

Is this a scene from Black Books?

[podzhog]

@JeppeVJ Nope! It's a DVD extra.

[podzhog]

Because it's not the punchline that matters here but the whole thing and the use of language.

[JJR93]

@podzhog Indeed; Adept use of language is regarded as an Irish virtue. I remember reading Malachy McCourt describing a very negative review of the stage play he co-produced with his brother Frank...and how it was so well written they posted it verbatim for theater-goers to read, so much did they admire the use of language, regardless of the content.  Dylan's stand-up work is very impressive in precisely this way.

[JJR93]

@smudgypalms Dylan Moran is a comedy writer for the BBC, lately working on the IT Crowd...

[eoghdes18]

In case anyone is wondering, and they may well be, the music is from the first movement of Beethoven's first Symphony, which is a play on Bernard's middle name, Ludwig. Because, as any fan of the show knows, he looks like Ludwig Van B.

[ShadowWolfofPack]

I'm fairly sure it's Peter Serofinowicz, as he'd been involved in Black Books before and it just sounds more like him.

[podzhog]

@huckleberryfishpop More like Matt Berry though :)

[huckleberryfishpop]

@jyotishkoray  i think it sounds like peter serafinowicz.

[jyotishkoray]

@hillysats Sounds like him doesn't it?

[jyotishkoray]

Sounds like Matt Berry.