Your fault for reading radio times, try Guardian Guide instead
Roland White? Have you ever seen Absolutely? No? You haven't? Well, fuck off then.
(Next week: Alison Graham on why that clip show about comedians with Angus Deayton is not a patch on Deayton's best work on Before They Were Famous.)
I'm sorry, but what is this is this strand about? Please bring me up to speed about:
1. what "SNJ" is,
2. what is special about it,
3. what stupid things RT says about it,
4. any other aspects of the case you'd like to explore.
Thankyou.
No. Buy the Radio Times. It's only 79p and you get full radio listings too.
The most annoying thing I've read in ages. The man achieved the impossible with comedy criticism - missing the point of every single sketch he referred to.
'Saturday Night Jack' deserves better recognition, given that the last thread, at the weekend, disappeared as soon as it began. It's a neat little combination of 'Iannucci in Excess', L&H and Morris which is just delighted to be on air. Jack Docherty getting a frog in his throat had me choking with laughter.
Saturdays, 9PM on Radio 2, except this week when there's a live recital of some dead composer.
Listen to it! This is your duty!
>I'm sorry, but what is this is this strand about? Please bring me up to speed about:
>3. what stupid things RT says about it,
1 & 2 have now been covered. Roland White's review shows that he has little idea of Jack Docherty's career to date - his mention of C5's "Jack Docherty Show" is shorthand for 'this was obviously crap because it was on Channel 5'. He found out JD wrote Radio Active - well, er, no he wrote *for* Radio Active (most of RA was written by Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins). And at no point did he mention Absolutely, which is the best TV sketch show of the last 15 years.
The point is: RW may not have liked SNJ but for a national magazine columnist who is supposed to be knowledgeable about broadcasting, he, like A. Graham, is sadly lacking. He might as well review that Tim Brooke-Taylor clip show about golf (Radio 4, next week) by saying that TBT is best-known for You Must Be The Husband. With no mention of The Goodies.
Tim Brooke-Taylor was in The Goodies ?!?
No, the Goodies were his co-stars in You Must Be The Husband.