Filing Update – 5 p.m.

Kimberly Lilley has filed for the Lee County Board of Education.

I don’t know Kimberly but I’m hoping to have a little information about her for tomorrow’s Herald.

Neil Innes

I thought today that I’d share the genius of Neil Innes.

Innes is a British musician/comedian who ran with the Monty Python crowd back in the day. A lot of his humor is on the same level as Python (and quite a bit of it features Python alum Eric Idle) and he was involved with the vastly underrated Rutland Weekend Television, the unheralded successor to Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

Anyway, most of these videos focus on Innes’ music stylings (he is/was a master of the parody-tribute) although I’m including one favorite of mine that’s music-free.

“Protest Song”
Innes’ spoof of Bob Dylan/Phil Ochs/etc. “I’ve suffered for my music, and now it’s your turn.” The harmonica parts get me every single time.

“Godfrey Daniel”
Elton John spoof. The most visually hilarious of the Innes videos I could find, but I also laugh pretty hard at the line “I believe in believin’.”

“Gibberish:”
Not a music video and doesn’t actually feature Innes. Henry Woolf is in his place, although Innes and Eric Idle originally wrote and performed this on one of his albums. That version is better but this is still hilarious. A great look at how to speak like a newsman without saying anything.

Filing Update – 11:50 a.m.

Nobody has filed so far today to run for office in Lee County, but I’ve received a press release from Dan Mansell, the Johnston County businessman, announcing that he’ll make a second consecutive run against U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-Lillington) for Congress.

More on this story in tomorrow’s Herald.