It's taken me a few days to catch up with this, but here, from Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (www.UCBcomedy.com) is exclusive footage of the BP coffee spill.

It looked good in theory, it was dreadful in practice. Actually, even in theory it was doomed to failure.

It's probably corny to describe Dennis Hopper as an "icon among iconoclasts", but the mark he left on motion picture history was notable and much admired. And not just because he lived to the age of 74 despite decades of drugs and alcohol.

Hopper died yesterday after a long battle with cancer. He was meant to visit Australia last year to open an exhibition of his photography in Melbourne. He had to pull out at the last minute, and made no further public appearances.

"John Howard for President". It makes about as much sense as "Joh For PM" and now looks just as doomed. The supposedly-innocuous bid to parachute Howard into the vice-presidency of the International Cricket Council from July this year, and by virtue of succession, its presidency from July 2012, appears dead in the water.

The Times Online's cricket blogger, Patrick Kidd, posted on Monday a list of his Top 50 cricket websites. I didn't make the list - no surprises and no complaints there when I can go up to two months without writing a new blog entry about cricket.

This is an addendum to the "position statement" I wrote about Facebook and other social media on May 7.

It's 36 years since the passing of that great American comedian Bud Abbott. He left us a great legacy of funny lines in decades of vaudeville, film and television. Many of those lines were scripted by some very funny writers.

His namesake, honourable member for Warringah and current Leader of the Opposition Tony Abbott also says many funny things, but they are mostly unintentional and, as he confessed to Kerry O'Brien on last night's 7.30 Report, unscripted.

After the Indian Premier League, the ICC World Twenty20 has been like a breath of fresh air. Sort of like escaping from Dante's Inferno (think Eyjafjallajökull with cheerleaders and DLF Maximums) and entering the Garden of Eden (with its Guyana wing being a rainforest).

What a week it has been if you like mixing your sport with watching corporate train wrecks.

I had to chase up a video of this Conservative Party political broadcast as I saw it being mentioned on Twitter this morning - generally accompanied by the words "a new low".

In short, the Tories have wasted three minutes of the UK TV viewer's time with this deceptive piece of scaremongering about what a "hung parliament" will be like after the May 6 general election. (Despite the fact that, at this point in time, a hung parliament is not only the most likely option, but probably for the time being the most desirable).