March 2008 Archives

The day after Pi Day is the Ides of March. In honour of the day, some classic Wayne and Shuster.

As first-generation television comedians go, these guys are a couple of my favourites. Their TV show was a fairly typical "acted out radio play" format, but what made Wayne and Shuster different was that their comedy was extremely literate.

This episode is an extended version of a sketch that they performed on their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, and it's probably still their most famous.

Some trivia: Frank Shuster was the cousin of Joe Shuster (the co-creater of Superman) and father-in-law of Lorne Michaels.

Actual show is after the jump.

For those who put the month before the day (why?), today is 3/14: Pi day.

So happy Pi day! Have some pi:

let p d = take d(fix(\i y h->let(z,x)=fix(\f xs->case xs of{((n,d,c):y)->let{(z,k)=f
y;(q,r)=(c*10+k)`divMod`d}in((n,d,r):z,n*q);_->([],0)})y in case x of{9->i z(h++[9])
10->i z(map(\x->(x+1)`mod`10)h++[0]);_->h++i z[x]})((1,10,2):[(i,2*i+1,2)
|i<-[1..(10*d)`div`3]])[])in p 100

Feel free to change the "100" at the end to however much precision you need.