Andy Bernard’s College Days

Andy, Scranton’s smuggest Ivy League grad, is a truly delightful creation. This has got to be one of the best monologues of American comedy (sorry you have to watch it via someone filming their telly).

Review: The Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising, Notting Hill

Portobello Market. The new year lately started. A brooch emblazoned with the Knights Templar sits guiltily in your pocket; a £40 Victorian print tries to justify its sudden presence in your bag. “O for someone to lock these antiques away, away from my grasping hands,” you cry.

But lo! Someone has. (Sort of.) Notting Hill’s Museum Of Brands, Packaging and Advertising may offer a slightly different kind of vintage, but it’s a far safer way to indulge your nostalgia than Portobello’s expensive bric-a-brac.

Thoughts for the day

Man On Wire is about 30 minutes too long and Philippe Petit is an unpleasant narcissist. (Good wire walker though.)

Gavin and Stacey has me frenziedly looking around for a noose and a hook. Alison Steadman and Rob Brydon: GET THE HELL OUTTA THERE!