{"id":713609,"date":"2010-04-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:10:00","slug":"not-exactly-rocket-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/713609","title":{"rendered":"Not exactly rocket surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" class=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mindhacks.com\/blog\/files\/2010\/04\/mitchellwebb.jpg?resize=151%2C112\" width=\"151\" height=\"112\" \/>There&#8217;s a great comedy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I\">sketch<\/a> from British due <i>Mitchell and Webb<\/i> about an egotistical brain surgeon on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sarcastic, cutting and you can see the punchline coming a mile off, but still good for laugh as it satirises the effect of the ego on typical British small talk.<\/p>\n<p>The only similar joke I&#8217;ve ever tried was to say to a neurosurgeon in the pub &#8220;that&#8217;s lucky, I&#8217;ve got this thing in my temporal lobe that&#8217;s been playing up, I wonder if you wouldn&#8217;t mind having a quick look&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Lead balloon.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I\">Link<\/a> to <i>Mitchell and Webb<\/i> brain surgeon sketch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a great comedy sketch from British due Mitchell and Webb about an egotistical brain surgeon on YouTube. It&#8217;s sarcastic, cutting and you can see the punchline coming a mile off, but still good for laugh as it satirises the effect of the ego on typical British small talk. The only similar joke I&#8217;ve ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ZDP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814268,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713609\/revisions\/814268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}