Late on a Thursday nights, ITV are showing the program Dare to Believe. The program is, in my view, one of the best and most original ideas in years. Its pure absurdity is similar to that of Monty Pyton featuring sketches such as Learn Chess where a suited man with a megaphone walks across a field shouting ‘learn chess!’ while being intermittently struck on the head with a sign wielded by a loin-cloth clad caveman, and the ‘really-big-jumbo’ smoking Dutch cyclist. The strange and regularly non-sensical sketches are reminiscent of the parables (Koans) of the teachers and monks of 13th century Japan. I find that while watching Dare to Believe I am not just finding the sketches funny, but that I am also questioning and thinking about WHY it is amusing, or the deeper meaning, and hence I get more enjoyment than a just a cheap laugh.

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