Wait and see?
No, me neither.
Hmm...I wonder if the spread bookmakers will run a book on how many times 11OCS gets mentioned on R2R when it returns.....
Oh... let's give 'em the benefit of the doubt this time.
Hang on, that's what I did last time.
Kevin Day for "Unfunniest Thing In Existence" award?
I have to admit, I did watch 11 O'CS a couple of times knowing it would be bad in order to gawp at Daisy.
Who's the new 'lady'?
I'm sure she must hate it when people concentrate on her comedy rather than her good looks.
Sarah Parkinson's been in loads of Radio 4 things, was in a double act at Edinburgh last year with Robert Katz called Unfucked (or something similar) and is currently girlfriend to someone called Paul Merton.
Merton wrote and directed Unfucked. Isn't that such a coincidence? We shouldn't criticise Herring for sleeping with his actresses as it seems it is just theatrical etiquette guarenteeing a successful run. I wonder how she procurred the Talkback gig.
Ordinarily I wouldn't judge a performer by their looks, but there's not really much hope of it being a good show, is there?
Also, who was the one gushing over "Russell Peters", kinder?
And I do mean gushing.
LOL. I don't quite know what to say. I didn't realise 'gushing' was internet detectable.
And anyway, I wasn't criticising your lust for Daisy, just celebrating that the new girl seems to have slept her way to the top.
Plus, I don't have to worry for Russell Peters has as much talent as he has cock length.
Errata --
Here is the real line-up for the new series:
Series Producer:
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Phil Clarke
Producers:
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Helen Williamson & A.N.Other-Bloke
Presenters:
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Iain Lee
Sarah Alexander (Smack The Pony, Coupling &c.)
Writers:
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Dave Cohen & Paul Mackenzie
David Mitchell & Robert Webb
Will Smith & Roger Drew
Martin Hyder & (?) Russell
James Bachman & Mark Evans
Sean Pye
Les Keen
Nev Fountain & Tom Jameson
Aidan Hawkes
John Irwin
Kevin Day
Adam Bostock-Smith
-- Some or all of these writers may well be appearing in their own VT segments throughout the nine week series.
Additional VTs (writing & performance):
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George Geffrie & Bert Tyler-Moore
Peter Piper
Ricky Grover
Additional material (one-liners &c.):
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Rob Colley
Ged Parsons
Debbie Barham
Simon Blackwell
Unfortunately the fact that it's actually Sarah *Alexander* seems to make your previous conversation pointless.
Sorry.
No offence meant...
Series 5 begins Tuesday 3rd October 2000.
When the series 3 was on (the last one with Ali G, anyway), I did a web-search for "11 O'Clock Show". I discovered a Daisy Donovan fansite that contained nothing but still images of her from the show - this guy had actually taken some sequence of her speaking, got about 30 stills of it arranged in a lattice, so that if you passed your eyes over it quickly, it would create the illusion of her uttering something satirical.
I reeled back in disgust, and have never searched for anything to do with 11OCS again. However, if by any chance the creator of that site gets to read this, may I suggest he abandons new technology and just collects the pictures into a little "flick-book", the sort we used to make at primary school, where by just flickering the pages quickly an animated image can be easily generated?
Anyway. If it's Sarah Alexander this time, I'll be watching. With the sound off.
Also apparently Paul Garner will be returning to do a few more VTs for the show.
>Anyway. If it's Sarah Alexander this time, I'll be watching. With the sound off.
Well, I'll be watching with my pants off.
Yeah, sorry, that was uncalled for.
Still, no Ricky Gervaise.
Be thankful for small mercies.
I still think that a quick injection of Iannuci (okay, I can't spell) would probably right most of the wrongs. Though he's probably too expensive and would refuse to be alloyed with something that was so dismal first outing.
Like putting new seat covers on a sad little puddle of poorly dog piss.
Is that some make of italian car?
>Is that some make of italian car?
Yes. And it's got alloy Ianuccis.
Rob Colley is the bloke who claimed the first out-take in the Saville/HIGNFY hoax was real but the rest was fabricated. In fact the first out-take was fabricated too.
If Sarah Alexander follows Donovan in acquiring a masturbating a teenage puppy dog audience then I fear mpegs and gifs of Armstrong & Miller's 'Nude Practice' sketches will be floating around the net for years.
We've heard that Kevin Day recently got Paul Powell to send him copies of all his old Loose Talk Radio 1 shows so he could purge it for reusable 1992 'topical' material. Can't wait. Perhaps Dave Cohen can get Iain Lee to do his 'boring folk singer' parody. Or re-write Spitting Image's 'Bland' song with more appropriate lyrics.
Bet Ricky Grover's doing his 'Buller' character from Comedy Nation, just to push a possible series (I believe it reached pilot stage).
And if it all turns out to be horrendous again, will Nev 'I love a good bum on a woman it makes my day' Fountain come back to this forum and explain what went wrong? Bet he won't.
By rights the new series should start with an apology. Why not suggest the wording, everyone. I'm sure the new team are looking in, periodically...
Iain Lee was doing the Breakfast Show last week on XFM in London (he already does a Sunday evening show, probably because they couldn't get Morris). The few minutes I heard him featured some hilarious "men trapped in submarine" satire. Offensive, but absolutely not in the way he imagined.
He makes Moyles sound like Kenny Everett.
Hey, even if it is bad, i'm still working class, I've had some horrible experiences throughout my life (listening to people who go on about being working class for one) but at this moment my feet are down, my wee is pure, and my Gramophone has Geoff Love's 'Star Wars and other space themes' on it. Be happy yeah? Splundig Vur Thrigg, Squaxx dek Thargo.
Well I'm still middle-class, and I think that's better.
Only kidding.
Kevin Day left 11ocs because he thought it was shit. The only way they could coax him back on would be to seriously rethink the content and style of the show, if he is indeed back on the team, which I doubt.
Nice to see you back, Nunuf. Are you on the team? Were you on it originally?
Thanks for the welcome back. I've been in hospital having a liver transplant. Tragically, though, they kept the liver, but threw away my perfectly healthy body, so I still feel awful. Meantime, I wish to draw a veil over my 11ocs involvement.
Well... you brought the subject up to start with. Get well soon anyhow.