Radio Times does Chris Morris career retrospective Posted Sun Oct 8 23:45:15 BST 2000 by 'Phil'

CHRIS MORRIS: ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW By Alison Graham

So who is Chris Morris? We don't know either! But Alison Graham knocked this up in her lunchbrake after briefly glancing at someone else's research notes.

To find the origins of the God-Like Genius we call Christopher Morris, look no further than OPEN ALL HOURS. This clever and bold reworking of the classic Ronnie Barker sitcom was first broadcast on radio round about 1982 or thereabouts and featured a whole host of comedy newcomers such as Patrick Malahide, David Schwimmer and loads of others. Listen out for early cameos from the man later to be known as Alan Patridge, Steve Corgan. Poor old Steve is virtually at the back of the cast in this series, when he quite clearly deserved to be in it a quite lot more. Good old Steve would later get into the comedy limelight in the brilliantly excellent sitcom, "I'm Called Allan Patridge". We at RT reckon that OPEN ALL HOURS, excellently good though it was, needed more Steve Corgan and less of those other people. But enough of my opinions, (but not quite enough!) let's hear from the Beeb's own top comedy bloke, Danny Wallace.

"Well I reckon Open All Hours was a true landmark in British Comedy. Or so my mate Dave told me once in the pub. I was too drunk to remember!" chortles funster Danny. "Mind you, none of my mates starred in or wrote it, so you can guarantee it won't be any good."

So, what's next in the career of top TV bloke and all round very funny man, Chris Maurice? He got into telly, that's what, with the excellent BBC1 show, THE DATE TODAY. This brilliantly original sitcom was about a calendar factory, probably. Watch out for an appearance by a Fast Show cast member, most likely Caroline Aherne whom you may remember from The Royle Family(and if you haven't caught it yet, why not???) Steve Corgan spotters may wish to know you can spot Steve Corgan again here! He plays a funny news reader or something. Nothing you should be too concerned about. After all, if you're reading this you probably don't care about truth!(Just my little Alison Graham joke there. I can be funny as well!!)

Of course, it was then that Morris steered his boat towards the waters of controversy with a program called BRASS NECK. This dangerously controversial series was the first Morrise did away from the Good old BBC, what a mistake! The less said about it the better. So it's over to the BBC's own Professor of Comedy, Doctor Danny Wallace MD. What's the diagnosis, doctor?
"Doctor Who? Ha ha ha!" says Danny, wittily. "But seriously, I was genuinely shocked about Brassneck. I think it's just going too far. That bit where Clive Anderson force feeds some cakes to Noel Edmonds was offensive and wrong. Appalling," he adds.



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Posted By TJ on Mon Oct 9 00:02:27 BST 2000:

"Brassneck"


Ha-haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Nice one!

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Posted By 'Squidy' on Tue Oct 10 17:26:02 BST 2000:

Alison would have that Chris Morris was presenter of Today's The Day, daily afternoon quiz show and, later, Sean Maguire song.

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Posted By 'jason hazeley' on Sun Oct 22 10:54:42 BST 2000:

truth is stranger than fiction. late 1994, radiotimes announced that a new series of 'the day today' would be on our screens soon blah blah blah. two weeks later they printed an apology: it should have read 'a new series of "today's the day."'

j xxx

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Posted By 'Phil' on Mon Oct 23 13:53:24 BST 2000:

>truth is stranger than fiction. late 1994, radiotimes announced that a new series of 'the day today' would be on our screens soon blah blah blah. two weeks later they printed an apology: it should have read 'a new series of "today's the day."'
>

Yes, I remember that. I was really looking forward to it as well. Gits.

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Posted By TJ on Wed Nov 1 10:03:20 GMT 2000:

>>truth is stranger than fiction. late 1994, radiotimes announced that a new series of 'the day today' would be on our screens soon blah blah blah. two weeks later they printed an apology: it should have read 'a new series of "today's the day."'
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>

Continuing this theme, Radio Bristol's website currently states that Morris went on to find fame in TV's Today's The Day.
>Yes, I remember that. I was really looking forward to it as well. Gits.
>

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Posted By 'Jon' on Wed Nov 1 13:49:41 GMT 2000:

Morris was against TDT getting a 2nd series anyway.

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Posted By 'Squidy' on Wed Nov 1 16:45:14 GMT 2000:

Guess we shouldn't hold our breath for Jam series two...

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Posted By Justin on Wed Nov 1 17:23:28 GMT 2000:

>Guess we shouldn't hold our breath for Jam series two...

There were three Blue Jam series though....who knows?.....

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Posted By TJ on Wed Nov 1 17:31:37 GMT 2000:

And a second, admittedly radically different (latest suggestion - monologues only) series of "jam" has been strongly rumoured for quite some time now...

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