I thought the 'Baynham' mentioned in the credits was Grant Baynham from off of 'That's Life'.

> I thought the 'Baynham' mentioned in the credits was Grant Baynham from off of 'That's Life'.

And I thought you used to supply the 'That's Life' end-credits comic strip under the pseudonym 'Rod Jordan'.

I like TV Go Home too. It has its off weeks, but it can be astoundingly imaginative. A recent entry about the viewer using their own reflection to 'play' the ghost in a televised drama being a case in point.

Should go n luk thn

I enjoy a well-constructed sentence and TvGoHome usually contains a few gems. One of my favourites was the 'Neighbours' listing "Toadie attempts to row a boat made of Disprin across an ocean of piss". I don't agree with the Corpse pronouncement that his sentences end on a "rubbish imperfect cadence" that destroys any humour therein.

I don't like TV Go Home - it's actually quite lazy and soaks up joy like a sponge. But the ghost one was good - and that was one of Baynham's. Chris Morris' contribution was apparently one of the crap ones.

>Chris Morris' contribution was apparently one of the crap ones.

On what evidence is this statement made?

>>Chris Morris' contribution was apparently one of the crap ones.
>
>On what evidence is this statement made?

Note the use of the word 'apparently'. One of my mates was at Zeppotron while Brooker was putting that one together, and found out which ones Morris did and which ones Baynham did. He told me - I forgot the former, but remembered the latter.

That's the 'evidence'.

> Note the use of the word 'apparently'. One of my mates was at Zeppotron while Brooker was putting that one together, and found out which ones Morris did and which ones Baynham did. He told me - I forgot the former, but remembered the latter.

> That's the 'evidence'.

Your evidence is wrong.

>> That's the 'evidence'.
>
>Your evidence is wrong.

Fair enough - I stand corrected. Must have confused myself.

Frankly, I'm still stunned and confused at the Corpses' slating of TVGH. Okay, if you don't like it, say so, but the *vitriol* directed at thing like this that don't matter.

Hold the front page: "Free Comedy Web Site In Sometimes Not Funny Shocker!"

As far as I can gather, the problem people have with TVGH is that "people in the media" have "latched onto it". And for this, Brooker's legs must be broken? Ah, fuck off.

Cheerio

>Frankly, I'm still stunned and confused at >the Corpses' slating of TVGH. Okay, if you >don't like it, say so, but the *vitriol* >directed at thing like this that don't >matter.

Hmm... I think the vitriol was aimed more at Charlie Brooker than the page itself - accusing him of careerism and so on. I don't think that it was *quite* the right target, but still...

>As far as I can gather, the problem people >have with TVGH is that "people in the >media" have "latched onto it". And for >this, Brooker's legs must be broken? Ah, >fuck off.

People in the media have latched onto it in a rubbish way - hyping it up and acting like it's the best thing in the world and so on.

My problem is that for every great programme idea (e.g. 'Get Hen' or that ghost one) there are about five or six 'bleak' programmes, all too often containing a joke about pop-shots written by someone who clearly finds spunk foul.

TG done:

>Hmm... I think the vitriol was aimed more at Charlie Brooker than the page itself - accusing him of careerism and so on. I don't think that it was *quite* the right target, but still...

No doubt The Corpses would've had a pop at Henry Normal for "careerism" when he started writing for Coogan and Aherne, instead of sticking to comedy poems on the club circuit like what he used to do. Exactly what is the problem with people earning a living?

>People in the media have latched onto it in a rubbish way - hyping it up and acting like it's the best thing in the world and so on.

Then the target is those people in the media who have done this, not the writer. This is something The Corpses often get the wrong way round.

>My problem is that for every great programme idea (e.g. 'Get Hen' or that ghost one) there are about five or six 'bleak' programmes, all too often containing a joke about pop-shots written by someone who clearly finds spunk foul.

And, as I say, you aren't paying for it, so you're getting your money's worth, right?

Cheerio

Steve

I think TVGH started well, but basically it's got stuck in formulas. The Nathan Barley stuff, the Kilroy team stuff, the Condorman Fucks Up stuff, very funny the first few times, now the same old stuff.

However I enjoyed this weeks Sound Of Music/Paul Ross thing. Very funny indeed. And the Very Dubya Xmas, even if it had to end with the Kilroy team thing.

The Kilory team thing may be a running joke, but all running jokes run out of steam in the end. Paul Merton should recognise that in HIGNFY sooner and more often.

Bean:

>The Kilory team thing may be a running joke, but all running jokes run out of steam in the end. Paul Merton should recognise that in HIGNFY sooner and more often.

Well, perhaps he could buy himself a jet-pac.

Hmmm...

Cheerio

Steve

TV Go Gome can be funny, but so often now they are just going for the "we can't think of anything new, so lets just say cunt a few times and write some jealous-as-hell crap about why we don't like media people when really thats what we'd like to be.

Brooker's relentless media baiting is self hatred in an ironic hat. I like it because of that.
If TVGH is boring you, try Unnovations, which Brooker seems far more enthusiastic about these days. The recent Unnovations have been a little weak, but the opening salvo was his strongest stuff yet.

To be honest, one of the first Unnovations was the best thing he's even done, that being the Baker Infuriating Hat.

Its bloody funny and the picture is superb.

I liked the tiny whores.

All Bread Is Shit

I piss on yeast.

It;s not just Brooker who has his hand in unnovations you know. Well. O.K, its mostly him.