Arts & Entertainment

Six musicians that are better if you don't scroll all the way down their Wikipedia page

SOMETIMES it’s better to enjoy music without idly scrolling down to ‘Controversies’ on their Wikipedia page and reading it with widening eyes...

The Macarena, and other songs where freestyle dancing is mercifully forbidden

LIFE is full of hard decisions, including what to do with your body on the dance floor. Thankfully, these songs have mandatory moves you must obey.

The middle class person's guide to watching working class TV ironically

WHETHER you’re an average middle class person or a Guardian TV reviewer, you may want to watch mindless pleb fodder in a knowing, superior way. Here’s how to do it.

Six gruesome and vicious Bushtucker trials sent in by members of the public

THE British public have, unsolicited, been sending in Bushtucker trial ideas for Matt Hancock. Here are six of them.

'Dogs Playing Poker' and other artworks that ought to be in the Louvre

THE Mona Lisa? Boring. The public would queue for hours to see the originals of these masterpieces.

Man who pretended to like obscure music to look cool stuck with it forever

A MAN who stood out for enjoying obscure, challenging music is now unable to back down and just listen to ABBA.

Six songs about driving that try to make it sound fun

DRIVING is boring manual labour nobody but the chronically dull could enjoy. These misguided tracks attempt to make it fun.

Harry Potter, Russell Brand and other stuff you really dodged a bullet by not getting into

MISSED out on pop culture landmarks back in the day? Don’t worry. If these things passed you by, you won in the long run.

Seven film and TV sidekicks who never got a shag

THE heroes of films and TV invariably have a love interest to shag at the end. Not so their trusty sidekicks. Here are some doomed to involuntary celibacy by the script.

Ghostwatch and other classic hoaxes you had to be exceptionally gullible to fall for

REMEMBER Ghostwatch, the BBC’s spoof documentary that terrified literally dozens of credulous fools? It’s not the only hoax only the forbiddingly dense believed...