Tony Slattery is a self-confessed 'Grumpy Old Man. In the link below he vents his gripes about :
Music
Cinema adverts
Bottled water
Multi-tasking companies
Post
Getting old
Crossing the road
The underground railway
Weather girls
Bluetooth at 10 metres
Directory inquiries
DVDs
Snobby art critics
Hair
Spilling
I find he strikes a chord with me and makes me laugh a lot. My favoutite is 'Weather girls'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXzesAsuhgk
He is a 51 year old actor, singer and comedian who :
* came from a London a working class background
* was the fifth and last child of Irish immigrants, Michael and Margaret Slattery
* represented England in under-15 judo achieving a 'Black Belt' before he was 16.
* was educated at a boys grammar school and won a scholarship to study Modern and Medieval Languages at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, specializing in French literature and Spanish poetry.
* discovered a love of the theatre at Cambridge whare Stephen Fry invited him to become a member of the 'Cambridge Footlights'. His his fellow students included Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, Jan Ravens, Sandi Toksvig, Morwenna Banks and Richard Vranch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Slattery
