At the risk of further pushing myself into this stereotyped bracket of being of exactly the same mindset as yourself and Jason Hazeley, Justin, I have to say that I'm with you all the way in wanting to see TMBG's erratic genius properly saluted...
It would not surprise me if some people believed that Jason, TJ and myself are actually all one and the same.
They Might Be Giants: whatever his other faults, in February 1999, Bob Mills devoted 90 minutes of his late night Sunday show on GLR to a chat with the two Johns, followed by studio performances of several selections from their back catalogue. GLR has now died, to be replaced by the rubbish London Live, which has all but abandoned live music in a vain search for ratings with daytime shows featuring Alice Beer and Lisa I'Anson (yes, *that*'s where she is now). Delighted to see that London Live's audience share has now dipped from 0.4% to 0.3%. Well done, the BBC - another winner. (From Miss Jay of Putney, obviously.)
I dont care what the corpses think on the subject of Bob Mills, classing Ricky Gervais as 'Bob Mills with designer stubble'.
I think Bob Mills is hilarious, and the extremely cheap way In Bed with Medinner is done proves how he can get such funny material out of some old crap shows. Granted he did Win Lose or Draw which is more the Shane Ritchie type level of showbusiness, so I can't say hes not flawed. But he definitely deserves some credit, whereas Gervais doesnt.
"In Bed With Medinner": £2000 per show, Mills once claimed on GLR.
Yeah, alright, I liked it too. Not sure about "Bob Martin", that's all.
What's that blue thing doing here?
Ah, now you see, it was Bob Martin that I liked. Obvious Sanders rip off but a very well done Sanders rip off (in that it wasn't a watered down version, simply a carbon copy).
Cheerio
Steve
>Ah, now you see, it was Bob Martin that I liked.
I'm somewhere in the middle, actually. Although I'm told the second series will be half-hours, so should be tighter.
Bob Martin was dire, dire, dire. It is to Larry Sanders what 11OCS is to The Day Today.
They Might Be Giants are good. But even better, and homegrowm, too, are Cardiacs.
Eerily enough, They Might Be Giants are the subject of the top story in today's Onion update!
Nice to see a Cardiacs mention courtesy of Mr Griffiths there. Hands up who else likes 'em!
>Nice to see a Cardiacs mention courtesy of Mr Griffiths there. Hands up who else likes 'em!
Seems rather unfair to stick your hand up someone just because they like the Cardiacs.
>Seems rather unfair to stick your hand up someone just because they like Cardiacs.
Depends, really. The one I got wasn't too sweaty, shouldn't cause any lasting rectal damage and saves nursie another manual excavation job. She's so grateful that she's gone out to get both parts of 'Sing To God'.
Heh heh!
Nice job, nursie!
And she's come back whispering verses!
Now I think of it, Cardiacs are a lot funnier than most comedy around today. Have you seen the behind the scenes 'tourfilm' bit of the 'Maresnest' video? The band aren't allowed to talk to one another on the tourbus and 'ablutions are carried out with near-ritual efficency'. Marvellous stuff.
And Tim demanding of Jim 'Look at my shoe!!!!!!'
>Eerily enough, They Might Be Giants are the subject of the top story in today's Onion update!
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>Nice to see a Cardiacs mention courtesy of Mr Griffiths there. Hands up who else likes 'em!
I Like'em!
The 'Cardiacs as comedy' point is well worth making - i have wet and wincey eyes - from laughing at them!
Bob Mills for London Mayor - oops a tad late i guess
>The 'Cardiacs as comedy' point is well worth making - i have wet and wincey eyes - from laughing at them!
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Tequila Slammer - aint he messy though!