King Pitcos Posted February 17, 2014 Posted February 17, 2014 (edited) Speaking of Lee and Morris, has anyone ever said why Lee and Herring weren't a part of the writing team for The Day Today? MR JR Rogers asked why we were in the "On The Hour" writing team and not in the team for "The Day Today" on telly. I think we must have answered this somewhere else on here but here goes... For the last time, it's because we wanted a co-ownership deal on the TV show rather than just a straight weekly comission, as we felt like we'd created or co-created lots of characters that were successful in the radio show, i.e Patrick Marber's Brian O'hanrahanrahan which we made up, and had influenced the style/tone of the show more than we'd originally envisaged. They didn't agree and did a Stalinist re-write of hsitory which erased us from the annals. More here: http://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=1372.0 Edited February 17, 2014 by King Pitcos Quote
Merzbow Posted February 17, 2014 Posted February 17, 2014 Cheers for that, there's a tonne of interviews i'm going to read through, I really should have known to check that forum first. Quote
Forrest Posted February 18, 2014 Posted February 18, 2014 I think the whole thing wasn't helped by the fact that they thought Marber was a dick. I think that if Marber hadn't been involved, things would have worked out better. I remember Herring telling an amusing story on RHLSTP of when he/Lee were on a plane with Armando Iannucci which experienced turbulence and Iannucci cleared the air on the whole thing, because he thought he was going to die on this hour-long domestic flight from Glasgow to London and didn't want to leave it uncleared. Quote
Paid Members DCW Posted February 18, 2014 Paid Members Posted February 18, 2014 Season 3 of Comedy Vehicle starts at 10.15pm on BBC 2 from Saturday March 1st according to Stew's facebook. Quote
Paid Members Up Chuck Posted February 18, 2014 Paid Members Posted February 18, 2014 As if he has Facebook. Quote
Paid Members DCW Posted February 19, 2014 Paid Members Posted February 19, 2014 His manager or whatever then. Chris Morris is replacing Iannucci in the interview segments too apparently,should be brilliant. Quote
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted February 19, 2014 Paid Members Posted February 19, 2014 I don't think Don Rodeo has Facebook either. Quote
Paid Members Up Chuck Posted February 19, 2014 Paid Members Posted February 19, 2014 Well, wherever it came from, it's right, got an email about it today. Morris in the interview segments sounds like a win to me. Quote
Merzbow Posted February 19, 2014 Posted February 19, 2014 The BBC really is killing it right now with great comedy, not something I thought I'd say. Quote
King Pitcos Posted March 3, 2014 Posted March 3, 2014 Anyone watch it? I thought it was fantastic. Quote
Mr.Showtime Posted March 3, 2014 Posted March 3, 2014 It was great. I was sitting with three people who had no idea who he was. I just said "his stand-up isn't like the usual suspects on the telly, just watch" and left the man to do the rest. I didn't think they'd get it, but you can feel a switch flick inside their head when he leads back to something mentioned at the start. They weren't quite sold on the lengthy "phone call" at points, they were more amazed he was getting away with it on television at all! Quote
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted March 3, 2014 Moderators Posted March 3, 2014 Yeah, I really enjoyed it. Always fun to see how it plays on TV after having seen it live, as well.. Does anyone know where you can watch a stream of this if you are non-UK (i.e. no iPlayer)? Asking for a friend. Quote
King Pitcos Posted March 3, 2014 Posted March 3, 2014 I think the only way to get it would be to use Hola Unblocker or something to trick the iPlayer site into thinking you're in the UK. Doesn't look like torrenters have even bothered with it yet. Quote
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted March 3, 2014 Moderators Posted March 3, 2014 Cheers, I'll tell him to give it a go. If it dsoesn't work and I'm feeling charitable I'll do it for him.. Any ideas of a decent free screen grab software? Quote
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