Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I here the drumming
Four dead is old Ihio.

He was quite good on Radio 1 about 15 years ago. Not very PC admittedly, but compared to Bruno Brookes or Simon Bates, he was a breath of fresh air. Terrible taste in music too (Toto! hurray).

But on Radio 2, he has turned into the Wayne Carr Chinniwag character - for Steve, everyone else has become as barking as Barking Boy (they don't actually shout "fish & chips!" but he always reacts as if they do). When I've heard it, he attempts to do really strained, watered-down characters like Old Woman (oh, you can imagine) which makes Damien the Social Worker seem complex. Oh, and his musical taste is still rubbish (er, Toto! hurray!).

Can't stand this poor man's John Peel, although I never got my letter responded to on Home Truths so i don't like him either any more.

The whole posse idea is annoying. I assume he still has that set up on Radio 2. Zoe Ball, Chris Moyles, Steve Wright, they all do/did that posse thing, and it's just annoying most of the time. But if they were doing a show solo, I hate to think what it'd be like...

All the 'posse' shit is pre-recorded and dropped in by Wright according to carefully-planned schedule, so he is actually solo when presenting the show.

Well, that's how he used to do his R1 afternoon show, anyway.

The posse idea is past its sell-by date. A better way of keeping up the listeners' interest is to bring people on as and when needed, a steady stream of guests so to speak - like Edwina does in Late Night Currie. A good show by the way.

That utterly twattish copyright message at the end totally destroying the last few seconds of the glorious Wichita Lineman is enough to warrant his painful death right away, as far as I'm concerned. Still, at least Mark and Lard managed to make good use of it...

Hate him. Always have done.

What made me start this thread was having to listen to the twatgoon on the way down to Tesco (not my car, y'see). It was only a 5 minute journey, but by the end I was quite prepared to travel down to London and explain the situation to Wright with a mallet.

At least I understand what M&L were having a go at now.







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I have never, ever liked him.

"He he he, wacky!"

Shut up!

Sometime in the eighties one of my friends was at a press conference with Spike Milligan. One journo asked Spike whom he considerd to be funny.
"Steven Wright" he replied. All the English journos tittered assuming he was being facaetious and was talking about Steve Wright (this was when Steven Wright was virtually unknown outside of the US). My friend then embarked on a line of questioning/conversation re: the US comic which only he and Spike understood.
Spike and Dave strung it along for ages referring to the "absurdism" and "surreal nature" of Wright's work. Eventually the other journos joined in commenting in a positive vein, but still thinking they were talking about STEVE Wright. Boy, did they feel dumb when Spike finally let the cat out of the bag.

There's a very good Danny Baker website - http://www.dannybaker.force9.co.uk/ - which details items Wright has lifted in their entirety from Baker's radio shows.

Baker himself used to have endless amusement by playing the posse's pre-recorded reactions on his own Radio 1 show. Wright also still does a terrible love songs show on Radio 2 on Sunday mornings which I always hear when I'm waiting for Parky to come on. Awful.

Wright also stole Paul Garner's bits from the Chris Morris Radio 1 Show for one of his TV shows, and presented them in a kind of "look at the thing that I've made up!" kind of way.

>Wright also stole Paul Garner's bits from the Chris Morris Radio 1 Show for one of his TV shows, and presented them in a kind of "look at the thing that I've made up!" kind of way.

It might have been my age at the time. Maybe if I was 12 now, I'd find Chris Moyles funny (hope to fuck I wouldn't though).

You're right about him nicking Garner-type stuff for Steve Wright's People Show. Although, Johnny Vaughan's rubbish The Fall Guy on BBC2 did the same thing. And the ** *'***** Show, of course.

That's the problem with anyone like Morris - even if they have editorial control over their own work, it doesn't stop talentless cunts ripping it off for years afterwards. God, I can't wait for useless Oxbridge graduates to be piloting their hilarious cancer and AIDS jokes for a new C4 series called Blancmange, or something else equally contemptible.

Fact: Steve Wright's posse now includes Janey Lee Grace. She was the singer on Cola Boy's 7 Ways To Love (produced by St Etienne). Wright is hopeless, though. Maybe he always was. I have no tapes - just memories of thinking during about 1984, "Well, at least he's not Gary Davies. Or Bruno Brookes."

Like the sudden horrific realisation that something somewhere has gone horribly wrong (there's a word for it in The Meaning of Liff but I can't remember what it is) I have remembered that awful Arnie & The Terminators single- with Steve & posse gyrating around on TOTP.

*shudder*

Chris Moyles said nasty things about Jon Holmes. I wasn't listening I was being held at gunpoint at the time.
The Meaning of Liff, who holds copy willing to send?!?!!?!
Have not read cannot get hold of for the love of Boothby help.

>Chris Moyles said nasty things about Jon Holmes. I wasn't listening I was being held at gunpoint at the time.

There are reasons for that though. Like Jon telling Moyles to 'fuck off' at the Sony Radio Awards 2000. Or that Jon and Andy were brought in to write his BBC 2 project (which never actually happened). Or that Jon is on the telly, and Moyles isn't allowed on the telly for fear of scaring people.

"God, I can't wait for useless Oxbridge graduates to be piloting their hilarious cancer and AIDS jokes for a new C4 series called Blancmange, or something else equally contemptible."

Justin, you bastard, I showed you that pilot because I trusted you!

I like him - he delivers my mail!


Oh ...hang on. That's Steve WHITE.

Ignore me....