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

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:54 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

(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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link

where in shitting crikey is my nose?

― ENRQ (Enrique), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Car drives past supermarket in town.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

"It's WAR!"

*set immediately transforms*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link

"... like some crazy Trojan"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link

"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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 14:40 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 14:40 (nineteen years ago) link

mud the far cuss.

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

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link

The reunion audio track is strange too.

"I'd love to be your twins."

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 01:39 (nineteen years ago) link

"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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

"what...is a gay?

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

"Ich nichten lichten..."

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

'could you sum it up in a word?'

'no'

'a sound?'

'wurrgh!'

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

"right, free swim!"

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

'tronter perconter'

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

all together now:

"I HATE SEBASTIAN COE!"

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

NEWSFELTCH!

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

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

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

seventeen-disc blue jam box probably a pipe dream

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

two weeks pass...

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

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

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 (thirteen years ago) link

Wise man.

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

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 (ten years ago) link

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 (ten years ago) link

thanks!

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

"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 (ten years ago) link

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 (ten years ago) link

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

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

five years pass...

RIO'S ON THE MONKEY DUST

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

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