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"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)

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.

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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