Best use of the words 'tee hee' and 'big-time 'rudey' show' I've ever seen.
Oh, and love the Badinage. Those two should try comedy... seriously!

AH, so thats where we'd get all our comedy questions answered. Tee Hee.

Nothing to do with this. Here's the stuff I sent in to TVGOHOME. They rejected it all. I think it's amusing - far better than the shite they wrote. I could be wrong. If their's is funny please tell me where I'm going wrong. Thnak you:


Ally McBeal:

Ally shares yet another lesbian moment for the sake of the ratings. Her gay for pay life styles becomes too much and she decides to seek the advice of a sex therapist. Her therapist advisers her to think hard about her career. Ally is told that if she remains in the series, she'll never working in the theatre. A distraught Ally asks what she has to do to be taken seriously as an actress. She is told to lose more weight.



Explaining Hitler:


American journalist Ron Rosenbaum investigates the origin of Hitler's evilness. He examines the story of Hitler's coprophilia. Why did Hitler surround himself with little shits like Himmler and Geobbels? And is it pure coincidence (considering the coprophilia) that Hitler's lover was Eva 'Braun' (Pronounced Brown?) But perhaps the most startling new theory Rosenbaum presents is his argument that Hitler may have been homosexual. All the evidence, Rosenbaum insists, can be found in Hitler's I'm Camp.


Foot Lose and Fanny Free.

Three young gay men share a flat in London. After a night of heavy drinking they wake to find themselves sharing a bed. They can't remember if they've had sex or not. Then one of the lads, Dave, farts and there's the distinct smell of sperm. All they have to do is figure out who's fucked who.


Tears Of A Klan:


Gabie Roslin travels around Southern American interviewing members of the Ku Klux Klan. Gabie investigates the lighter side of being a White Knight and is shown some funny video moments of lynching which went wrong.



Is this shite? I only wrote if off the top of my head, so I didn't really work on it. Don't worry about abusing it if it's shite - just do it.

I liked it! esp. Ally Mcbeal!

Should have read: if theirs is funnier..

Re: Danny Wallace.

Jesus wept.

Surely the real issue is the professionalism shown by Jim Davidson in censoring his own material because he noticed a 14-yr old in the audience, provoking heckling. Lesser men would have explained the situation, and the 'child' would have been asked to leave, or his parent's assurances sought, but JD instead just bravely cut all the stuff people had turned up to see. I think we should all write to him congratulating him, and maybe enclosing old Ben Elton live tapes for him to play in lieu of his act if this happens again in future. What a trouper, eh?

Furthermore...

So does JD cut all the racist stuff if he sees a non-white person in the audience?

If any of his fans read this site, could they tell us...

Re: above.

Yes, I've just realised the obvious answer to that question...

I've just noticed a few mistakes like "she'll never working in the theatre", should have read "work".

Danny Wallace and Dave Gorman live together, by the way. But there's nothing funny about them.

Read it. Words fail me too. Except those ones, obviously.

Cheerio

Steve

The show Micheal Palin and Terry Jones were in before Monty Python was 'The Complete and Utter History of Britain' and not 'At Last The 1948 Show.' Course Danny wouldn't know that, he was too busy partying, eh kids.

Shit, forgot to put my name on my posting...
What sort of aidiences are they looking for anyway - it reads like one of those joke articles where at the end it say "Danny Wallace is 32 years old"(or however old he is)
And he gets paid to write that?


"Don't mail me, Dave Gorman. I'm 29, I don't want to get an ulcer. I've got a mortgage and that's plenty enough to worry about, thanks."

"It's been a funny old week for Danny Wallace" - acutally, better change that to "its been a week for Danny Wallace"

Corpses: you've been rumbled.

Danny Wallace's column was written by you all along. Only that could explain what I've just read (which in turn explains the almighty clang residents across South London might have just heard when my jaw hit the ground).

That is not for real. Is it?

...Because if that *is* a parody, it's genius.

I've made a point of not reading the replies to this thread (yet) but reading the Funny Talk article first without being (too) tainted.

Um.

I had to check the url to make sure I wasn't being tricked by The Corpses.

I'm not a fan of Funny Talk (I used to read it and quickly tired of it) but I do enjoy Dave Gorman's humour, whatever kind of person he may or may not be in real life. Is there any chance this is written as a parody or hoax to annoy/amuse Corpses readers?

Seems unlikely but....

What's the only other answer?

>Danny Wallace is beyond parody

The title of this thread says it all.

>Is there any chance this is written as a parody or hoax to annoy/amuse Corpses
readers?

I think you might be onto something there, Sheep.

Let's be frank: on the evidence of the average Funny Talk, Danny Wallace writes, so to speak, like a tit. But then again, he has a specific task to do, and he has to write like *something*. If he wrote like the Corpses, he'd lose his job; if he wrote like I do, he'd lose 80 or 90 per cent of his readership. I suspect the FT style is something he's evolved to deal with the situation he's in, and would hazard a shrewd guess that it doesn't reflect his "real life" behaviour. You know, like Timmy Mallet.

It could well be, then, that this latest contribution is (at least partly) the result of his reading the 'Funnee Talk' stuff and setting out to prove that he can do a better Danny Wallace parody than anybody else. In which respect, you'd have to admit, he's been pretty damn successful.

Of course, we could always ask him...

>You know, like Timmy Mallet.

You've just shattered my child-like untainted image of Timmy. Now I can't help thinking of him as a real life Krusty, chuckling hilariously and saying "completely and utterly brilliant" on screen and switching to being a cigar chewing bastard and firing his assistant the moment he goes off the air.

>>You know, like Timmy Mallet.
>
>You've just shattered my child-like untainted image of Timmy. Now I can't help thinking of him as a real life Krusty, chuckling hilariously and saying "completely and utterly brilliant" on screen and switching to being a cigar chewing bastard and firing his assistant the moment he goes off the air.

Peter Ohanraohanrahan, did you ever hear Timmy Mallet when he did a spell on BBC 3 Counties Radio? All I'll say is that he is suited for children's television, and that's it.

>>Is there any chance this is written as a parody or hoax to annoy/amuse Corpses
>readers?
>I think you might be onto something there, Sheep.

That thought has occurred to me on other occasions as well - I often wondered if some of his previous stuff was serious or not...

The problem is though, whether it's a parody or not, he's not doing his job properly - a job which he is paid to do. He often uses the column to promote his own projects, as well as his friend's shows (something that has recently reached ridiculous heights with Dave Gorman's new show). This week's answers to the 'Challenge Danny' questions are prime examples of how wrong/ludicrous the whole thing can be.

Whoever he's aiming that column at, he's short changing them...

So he's a rebel, wanking the system for all it's worth? Good on ya Danny! We're all cheering for you.

... to get shot.

Re Timmy Mallet: there was an interview on the telly recently where he explained that the point of the "Utterllllly Brillllliaaaaaannttt!" catchphrase was that it could be expanded (with appropriate extra adverbs shoved in as needed) to fill any awkward gaps when there was a delay in queueing the next piece up or whatever. It's a very sober, calculating world, children's TV.

Why does that surprise you? Do you think it looks like they're all pissed?

Yes.