A few weeks ago we had the honour of hitting Madame Tussaud’s wax museum. It was kitschy, tacky and a TON of laughs. A quick review of this woman’s life makes me wonder: nutter, genius or desperate to make a buck?

Tussaud created her first wax figure, of Voltaire, in 1777. Other famous people she modelled at that time include Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Benjamin Franklin. During the French Revolution she modelled many prominent victims. In her memoirs she claims that she would search through corpses to find the decapitated heads of executed citizens, from which she would make death masks. When Curtius died in 1794, he left his collection of waxworks to Marie. In 1802, she went to London. As a result of the Franco-English war, she was unable to return to France, so she travelled throughout Great Britain and Ireland exhibiting her collection. For a time, it was displayed at the Lyceum Theatre. She established her first permanent exhibition on Baker Street in London in 1835 (on the "Baker Street Bazaar").

Whatever the case, it was a lot of fun. A few highlights below.

 

To celebrate the launch of Little Britain USA on HBO, I posed with the guys. Truly one of the best comedy programs on the television today, although not for the faint of heart.

As you can see, the guys were happy to see me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lance, watch your back. Impossible is nothing to me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wonder if Fidel would find the ‘Wet Willey’ funny?

 

Let’s be honest,  some jokes just never get old, right Dick?

Can you guess what I am saying?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another great day in Britain.