Don't think about that, think about this

C'mon

Look, I had all these thoughts jangling around in my brain about…well, you know what they were about. And I could tell you what I reckon and you could go hmm he’s right or god he sucks and it wouldn’t make any difference. I decided for right now I would rather just spread a little bit of joy around. So, instead of thinking about bad stuff, here are some things you can think about:

• The time Brian Blessed and Peter O’Toole had a naked foot race through the streets of Bristol in the middle of the night

• The look on the face of the parrot at the shopping mall that Homer Simpson likes to argue with

• The scene on the bus in Almost Famous when everyone starts singing along to Tiny Dancer

• The pure and shining love between David Mitchell and Victoria Coren Mitchell

• The joke Lonnie Donegan tells in one of the breaks in My Old Man’s A Dustman: “I found a police dog in one of my bins the other day” “How did you know it was a police dog?” “It had a policeman with it.”

• The scene in Blazing Saddles when Bart saves himself from lynching by pretending to take himself hostage at gunpoint

• The Duomo in Florence

• A litter of cheetah cubs

• Groucho Marx in the stagecoach in Go West: “If you weren’t smaller than me I’d thrash you to within an inch of your life!” “But I’m bigger than you!” “Well, that’s another reason”

• Paul McCartney singing Golden Slumbers

• The ostrich that used to chase giraffes at Werribee Zoo

• Shane Warne bowling Kevin Pietersen behind his legs

• Donald O’Connor performing Make ‘Em Laugh

• Donald O’Connor, just generally

• The guitar solo in the song Easy

• Christian the lion recognising his old friends when they came back to see him and jumping up and giving them lion hugs

• Apple crumble

• The age of the pyramids of Giza

• David Campese’s goose step

• Richard II’s “For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground” speech

• The time in Blackadder when Percy does a version of Richard II’s “For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground”

• Peter Cook as EL Wisty

• Carol Cleveland

• The way that Stevie Wonder sings all his songs, like the music is giving him so much joy that it hurts

• The fact that all over the world people have dedicated their lives to making other people laugh, making other people dance, making other people better people, and literally saving other people’s lives, and those people are actually the same species as you are - it is a species that can do astonishing things, and does them, every minute of every day.

• A baby rhino meeting a baby elephant.