Wednesday, December 1, 2010

My Mom Makes Me Smell Her Sweaty Feet

Tim Minchin





Another character added to the troupe of comedians officially skeptics and freethinkers, with Penn and Teller or Leo Bassi (and any other insurance that escape me). This is Tim Minchin, an Australian who began his career in 2002. Pianist, the peculiarity of his style lies in their numbers musically humorous framing (the way of Les Miserables, for that we understand). In their actions is very different issues, of course, but it touches us here can not stop the special interests that one of them is the claim of irrationality. And it addresses this issue with a clarity of ideas and an enviable eloquence. Is well known that the lesson goes. And plenty of it shows in the video that comes next, where it gets summed up in nine minutes a complete argument against those intellectuals who therefore reject positions in the assembly, without forgetting all the necessary arguments and their conclusions. Enjoy it as much as I enjoy it each time I see it:





He confessed follower of Richard Dawkins, an atheist (of course) and, as he himself says, "a tad obsessed "with religion, also deals with political and social issues, always exercising one of the most noble goals of humor: the critics. There are large discography and videography, and has received numerous awards. For dessert, here's another of their numbers (the subtitle is fellow blogger Ezequiel Del Bianco, of Watermelon Project, which we appreciate this work):




And if you want to know more, you site here Tim Minchin's official website.