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There are a couple of Chris Morris threads and a couple for Brasseye but there's no straight-up thread for this particular series. Which, when I finally saw it nine years after I first heard about it, proved to live up to billing and then some. And now it's on DVD and I have it and I'm quite happy. Celebrate or excoriate here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

And just as importantly, much thanks to Andrew Farrell for having the tapes so I could watch it all last October!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, do you have a multi-region DVD player, or is this available for Region 1/NTSC? I've got copies on VCD (flaky at best) but would gladly trade up.

The "Sinead O'Connor" promo for ROK TV never fails to reduce me to hysterics.

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

This was a day they would never forget, not even if someone erased their minds with little mind rubbers...

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"Priest in oily chin insertion"

― de, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"Peter you've lost the NEWS!"

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, do you have a multi-region DVD player, or is this available for Region 1/NTSC?

Multiregion -- my copy's an import. I did hear somebody say -- I forget who, maybe Vahid over the weekend? -- that allegedly BBC America was finally running them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm, not seeing it listed on the bbcamerica.com site -- still, fingers crossed, hopefully it's just a matter of time.

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"..avoided a woman up a stick in the next field..."

― de, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

you'd probably earn more money auctioning dogs!

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"Well do I look cool? Do I? DO I? DO I?"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

There's loads of easter eggs on that DVD - containing all kinds of audio-only material, like a special reunion sketch and a Steve Coogan interview. A full list of eggs and how to activate them can be found here.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah thank you -- I knew there was some huge list out there somewhere.

"This is the NEWS!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

BBC America suxxx now. somewhere in there they quit showing Royle Family and The Office and now it's Changing Rooms ripoff shows till kingdom come, fuck

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember reading an interview with Morris when he said he was disappointed that this programme has had no effect whatsoever on curbing the sillier aspects of the real news. If anything the silly graphics on the real news have got sillier since The Day Today.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 07:13 (twenty-one years ago)

He's got football pie all over his face.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 07:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Fact me till I fart!

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure I'll ever get the Collaterlie Sisters bit to work, not having a numeric keypad on my DVD remote (and the keypad option being disabled in PowerDVD for DVD playback).

Still, great to have it all in the kind of quality I'm happy to show to uninitiated houseguests (my tapes were dying).

"Helwyn." "Colin." "Chris." "Helwyn." "Chris." "Helwyn."

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I *hate* Sebastian Coe!

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The bit that sticks in my mind is the bit where the vicar arrives at a woman's house and on arrival, they snog with tongues briefly to say hello... ?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

You can't kill everyone because then there wouldn't be anyone left to respect.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"Lord Major's Pirhouette In Fire Chief Wife Decapitation" - grisly
but gripping..

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I now think it's better than "Brass Eye", all things considered.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Brass Eye was more focussed, a masterclass in satire. I think it's better, but I prefer The Day Today, if y'get me.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, I think so

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)

1994 - No-one died

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hello sir!"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"Why don't I use real people instead of dead ones? I dunno, y'see I.. It's power - I want power!"

and the three voices of "Justice". This is the best bit on the whole DVD.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

John Fashanu. John Fashanu. JOHN Fashanu. JOHN FASHANU. John Fashanu.

That's John Fusharnoo, tonight at nine.

― Fergal (Ferg), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The killer line of all killer lines:

"Proof, if proof be need be...

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I've said it before and I'll say it again: America needs Chris Morris more than the UK does. Even if we do have Jon Stewart.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I occasionally still use the proof line. And I end most conversations with "And that's all the news".

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"...god i wish it weren't"

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

THE FINANCE ARSE

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I think the proof line has penetrated a certain demographic's everyday chatter to an alarming (but always gently amusing) way. With Pam it's "in summary...breezes." She has a love/hate thing with the vagueness of UK weather forecasts and this just seems to encapsulate it all.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i often annoyingly end phone conversations with "...and on that bombshell"

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The weatherman graphics are impressive in the way that you find yourself thinking "that's actually not a bad way of displaying it". Also it can't have been cheap.

I still think of 'Brent - Physical Cartoonist" everytime I see something by Mark Fiore, Flash Satirist.

The Bomb Dogs section is maybe my favourite, particularly the interview with the IRA spokesman (BASTARDS?) on helium.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"Their leader is a grease monkey from Acton"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"So what's the German for 30 percent?"

"Trenter percenter."

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"And we've just heard that the defence secretary Micheal Portillo carries a saw off shotgun to constituency meetings, corners children in parks and chews their cheeks and has frequent sexual intercourse with stray animals claiming "As long as it has a backbone, I'll do it!".

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Day Today - bagpiping news into fact"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"Thanks, Colin. He's not gay, by the way - we wouldn't employ a homosexual. "

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

nono, "We'd like to apologise for our report on Friday that defense secretary..."

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

even better!

We'd like to apologise for our report on Friday that defense secretary Micheal Portillo carries a saw off shotgun to constituency meetings, corners children in parks and chews their cheeks and has frequent sexual intercourse with stray animals claiming "As long as it has a backbone, I'll do it!".

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

The apology comes at the end, Andrew/Jed, after the barrage of slander is still percolating in yr brane.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Bah, you're right of course. "On Friday, we reported that..."

"Heseltine greet the children that he will later release into the wild and hunt"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the way the intro music is just that little bit too long.

and

"You can wear them in the high street, body contours, very discreet"

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Fur-Q - the original Eamon!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

But Fur-Q's black is he not?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

fUR-q DID ANTICIPATE THE pHIL cOLLIINS TRIBUTE lp N-EST-CE PAS?

'UZI LOVER'

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you saying a brother can't be Eamon?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Only with the application of make-up sticks

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"J in red and blue."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

in red on blue - and that's the letter of the law is it?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://uk.imdb.com/top_250_films

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

bah, ignore that.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"This is a high class Bureau de Change, not some Punch and Judy Show on Margate Pier"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"He must have a rocket engine in that foot!"

The car discussion!

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"They look like cattle... in a mad way... but cattle on bikes"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Stop getting TDT wrong! "He must have a foot like a traction engine."

Kids today, sassenfrassen...

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"Strathcarnage versus Taste of Dunfermline CANNOT BE STOPPED"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Bitch wanna try it, I said keep her quiet, shove it up her muthafucking ass and fry it

The black neighbours sketch is hilarious

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"Crazed wolves in store a bad mistake admit Mothercare"

― de, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

What would you do if I introduced a pig into this office?

(Pre-dated Gervais by years)

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Slamming the wasps from the pure apple of truth.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I might switch my 'vote' to Attitudes Night. Last televised hanging - "The initial euphoria has passed .. not an experience I'll be trying again." - "He's saying he wants you to give him a thick ear!" - kiddy pool - "Ta-ra yeh shitter!"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

must....buy...dvd...already...

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

teenage boy roasts himself in homage to chris kelly...

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm surprised at how easily 'll quote scriptur and verse, when an equivalent run on Monty Python/Father Ted/The Simpsons would have me curling my toes from about five posts in. I think it's because this is a thread explicitly about quotes, and also for some reason it hasn't become a cultural reference point on the scale of the other three.

Also I'm assuming this thread will be politely deleted after we're done.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

what about jam!??!!?

and i think collaterlie sisters is so hot!

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

what am i, fuckin noddy?!

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Soemthing that I suspect may have been mentioned before: It's not a very "Alan Partridge" Alan Partridge, is it? He's not pathetic as much as just a fool. Was the "Knowing Me Knowing You" AP also like this?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

exactly. i think jam is more twisted and subversive then the day today or brass eye.

but i love being able to watch steve coogan AND chris morris at the same time.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost to enrique

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

It may be more twisted and subversive but it isn't anywhere near as funny

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

jam is whack next to blue jam; if it's more experimental, it's less funny/cutting. obv it's grate, but not *as* great.

All three AP series have showcased different Alans, and the radio shows were also different -- nothing wrong with that.

― ENRQ (Enrique), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

To Jockey, "Shouldn't you be at school then?"

"No, I'm 34."

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The Day Today: News Felch.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, it's in a different business, it's looking to be Art rather than have people creased over in front of the telly.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

chris morris is working on something new isn't he?

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

There was something about a collaboration between him and Charlie Brooker, which would cause my trousers to explode and no mistake.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

It's based on the Nathan Barley character and the little things I hear about it don't make me very excited. I think the blue jam monologues are his absolute pinnacle but I can see that they might be a bit of a dead end.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw a drama about date rape on BBC2 last week that was so absurd i was sure Morris had a hand in it.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Brooker co-wrote Paedogeddon too. To be honest, I'd rather see him as a co-writer with Morris after seeing the absolute shittery that was the TVGoHome TV prog.

Search - The Chris Morris Show on Radio One.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

MORRIS: If you could read out this complaint which you have just written?

MAN: I shall indeed.

MORRIS: Grasp the candle.

MAN: Sorry?

MORRIS: And bang on.

MAN: And bang on. [Starts reading] I would like to complain about the entirely slack monitoring of the shape of broadcasters' mouths. As a recruitment officer, I know it is a simple matter when appointing staff to filter out those with unusual or disgusting mouths at the interview stage. Yet our screens are plagued with the likes Gavin Estlar, whose mouth is not only so ill-governed it looks like it is trying to escape from his face, but is grotesquely lopsided. A balanced view from that? In a chimp's cock. Surely the time has come for the BBC to face up to this demoralising assault and sack anyone... [turns the page] ...whose mouth does not conform to a reasonable standard. Perhaps mine. Point at mouth. Regular, neat and I've had the stretch marks dealt with. Do it or I'll ram you up your own... fudge tunnels? Thank you.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Morris working with Brooker is a bit like Morrissey working with Gene, isn't it?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

chris morris as fred durst is one of the greatest things ever

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The Chris Morris show on R1 needs a CD release. I still don't know whether to belive all the outside broadcasts -- making a guy take a taxi from Cambridge railway station and... I forget, but it was total and utter genius.

Don't teach your grandmother to *blank* eggs.

― ENRQ (Enrique), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

(Radio 1 show) phone call to Heathrow Air-Traffic Control:

"When planes taxi, is it because they want to sniff the terminal?"

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Morris's sidekick for the R1 Music Shows - Baynham. Vini Reilly in other words. Is it too much to wish that they'd work together again?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I think we should post to other threads in a Chris Morris style. Like a badger's nonce.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Brooker co-wrote Paedogeddon too.

That'll be why it wasn't as good as the earlier ones then. Bring Back Baynham!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

This man, is HE cool? What about him? Is HE cool? Look at me, am I COOL? Am I REALLY? Am I really COOL?????

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"It's easy to kill a ferret, you just kick it's face off".

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

where in shitting crikey is my nose?

― ENRQ (Enrique), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Car drives past supermarket in town.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone remember not necessarily the news, used to on the HBO?

great reagan era news schtick. i'd love to see what how it translates today.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

We didn't ask for this war, we've been made to swallow the egg of an angry political goose.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"It's WAR!"

*set immediately transforms*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"... like some crazy Trojan"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"As I was swirling the toothpaste from my mouth this morning, a soldier's head flew by my window, on its lips the single word... victory"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"SOR-TED! SOR-TED! SOR-TED!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"All bodily fluids shown are the ones which actually emerged at the time"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

mud the far cuss.

fucking hell it's good to have it all on DVD!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

My VHS copy had two 'hidden tracks' (presumably on the DVD too) - one of which was Partridge's golf commentary, "what do you get if you combine the grace and agility of a ballerina with the hard-nosed features of a bastard? Ballesteros was his answer."

― wombatX (wombatX), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The new editor of... one of the terrestrial news programmes (can't remember) was interviewed in the press the other day and claimed to have never seen The Day Today, which I thought was pretty pathetic.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

My VHS copy had two 'hidden tracks'

Those would be two of the mininews segments (all of which are indeed on the DVD). More about the mininews stuff here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

On the DVD, the Chris/Alan extra audio track about conspiracies is truly strange.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

The reunion audio track is strange too.

"I'd love to be your twins."

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"Why don't I use real people instead of dead ones? I dunno, y'see I.. It's power - I want power!"

The last bit is actually (from memory) "I want a tower! I want... I want a tower." Because just previous to this this character was talking about controlling a whole town of anamatronic dead people from a tower.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

"Enviromation from me, Rosie May. Scientists in Alaska have found a gap between the horizon and the Earth..."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 August 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

"what...is a gay?

― , Saturday, 13 August 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

"Ich nichten lichten..."

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 14 August 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

'could you sum it up in a word?'

'no'

'a sound?'

'wurrgh!'

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Sunday, 14 August 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

"right, free swim!"

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 14 August 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

'tronter perconter'

― Enrique, naked in an unfamiliar future where corporations run the world... (Enri, Sunday, 14 August 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

all together now:

"I HATE SEBASTIAN COE!"

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 14 August 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

NEWSFELTCH!

― zappi (joni), Sunday, 14 August 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

Ned, did you ever hear any of the Blue Jam radio show Morris did?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 14 August 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Heard quite a bit about it, but not heard it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 August 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

blue jam was amazing, worked a lot better on radio than on tv. they tried to replace the dislocation you feel that is sort of inherent to radio, with sort of woozey camerawork and blur on the tv, but it didnt really work. they used to have a big realaudio archive of it at tvcream but it all seems to have gone. migth be ok slsk though.

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 14 August 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

http://chilled.cream.org/forums/bluejam.php has most of the radio shows and a wealth of other goodies besides. You'll need some torrent software but when you download it, it's a whole new world of fun.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 14 August 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Believe I've been there before, I scarfed all the On the Hour episodes from there. And very happy I was to have done that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 August 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

warp to release four-disc on the hour box in two weeks

― cam'ron wite (haitch), Monday, 10 November 2008 04:13 (seventeen years ago)

they've been on radio7 several times in the past couple of years but they always miss a couple of episodes out of each run (and i don't think they've ever repeated the christmas special) so this will be useful.

― koogs, Monday, 10 November 2008 10:51 (seventeen years ago)

seventeen-disc blue jam box probably a pipe dream

― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, 10 November 2008 12:23 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NCa3CTxmL._SS500_.jpg

― koogs, Friday, 28 November 2008 10:13 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

Finally discovered this - the brilliance/episode is truly staggering. Immediately ordered Brass Eye as well.

― StanM, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:38 (fifteen years ago)

Wise man.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:51 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SPWgodul_E

i have never heard/seen this before - anyone know when this was done/where it was broadcast?

― There shouldn't be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets. (stevie), Sunday, 21 July 2013 12:44 (twelve years ago)

It was a DVD easter egg. I guess they recorded it specifically for the DVD release. 26 April 2004 is the release date according to amazon.

― cajunsunday, Sunday, 21 July 2013 13:12 (twelve years ago)

thanks!

― There shouldn't be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets. (stevie), Sunday, 21 July 2013 23:08 (twelve years ago)

"Peter, you've added nothing."

I seem to remember something Chris Morris wrote that was published in the UK quite soon after 9/11 - in The Independent or The Observer, possibly a pull-out section that was quite shocking in a kind of "too soon man" way. I'd love to see that again.

― kraudive, Monday, 22 July 2013 00:00 (twelve years ago)

amazingly all of it is here, as PDFs, in the Observer archive
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/page/0,,671683,00.html

― piscesx, Monday, 22 July 2013 00:18 (twelve years ago)

ooh the Geefe columns are there too! Nice work piscesx!

― Neil S, Monday, 22 July 2013 14:34 (twelve years ago)

five years pass...

RIO'S ON THE MONKEY DUST

― puppy bash (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 22:24 (seven years ago)

two months pass...

You're old, we're old.

The Day Today, 25th anniversary dinner. We’ve lost the news.@RebeccaFront @Aiannucci @Pmarber @PeterBaynham pic.twitter.com/9esJ9uPDzL
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) February 12, 2019

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 17:42 (seven years ago)

Is that peter baynham in the middle?! Christ the Hollywood life’s taken a toll if so, he looks like ET brundlefly’d with present-day devito

― gray say nah to me (wins), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 17:45 (seven years ago)

it's him, camera phones are never flattering tbf

― kinder, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 17:46 (seven years ago)

That’s true, and it’s an endearingly dorky photo in general

― gray say nah to me (wins), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 17:50 (seven years ago)

― imago, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 17:56 (seven years ago)

Something poetic about Chris Morris slowly morphing into Victor Lewis Smith

― whoa is me (stevie), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:48 (seven years ago)

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