Posted on November 18, 2008 | 2 comments |
The Guardian is offering you the chance to download an episode of On The Hour, the radio precursor to The Day Today starring Chris Morris and Steven Coogan as Alan Partridge. But you can play it in this embedded player if you'd prefer. It's very funny.
The full edition is finally to be released on CD, as part of a collection of five 30-minute episodes, a Christmas special and the original pilot episode by Warp Records on November 24.
Posted on October 20, 2008 | Post a comment |
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Following rumours in the press and online Warp Films can confirm that Chris Morris' comedy about British jihadis is being made by Warp Films as an independently funded cinema feature. The script has been written by Chris in collaboration with Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain and is now ready to shoot. Production will begin as soon as we are fully funded. To that end we are running a number of investment schemes including donations which give you the chance to be in the film.mail enquiries to: fundingmentalism@warpfilms.com
Posted on September 23, 2008 | Post a comment |
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Posted on July 2, 2008 | Post a comment |
Time to launch another new blog god-related feature. This one will show off some of the lesser known work of satirist Chris Morris, who's best known for The Day Today, Brass Eye and Jam.
Naturally enough, I'm calling it Morris Minors.
Anyway, the first entry is a bit of stunt work by the man himself, in which he turned up in the audience of daytime debate show The Time The Place and pretended to be an expert on sex and Roman history. He starts of sensible, he ends up silly, just to see at what point he'll be rumbled.
Posted on June 16, 2008 | Post a comment |
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Posted on May 14, 2008 | 2 comments |
Here's an interesting bit of footage ('embedding disabled by request'. Sorry). Porn baron David Sullivan tried to define pornography to blog Hall of Fame member Chris Morris for Brass Eye. This clip never made the final cut as other Sullivan interview sections were chosen instead. But it still survives.
PS My sister sent me this. She cc:ed Stewart Lee on it. Absolutely typical!
Posted on March 31, 2008 | 2 comments |
I'm quite a fan of David Quantick. He's written for just about every comedy programme going. He's collaborated with Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris. He is, to put it bluntly, a talented man.
How, then, to react to the idea of a David Quantick comedy play, particularly one written for the seventh Doctor?
Is it going to be of the science fiction/Doctor Who milieu or is it going to be some random piece of comedy that takes the piss?Is it going to be of the terminally rubbish (but beloved by Big Finish) comedic season 24, or is it going to be of the darker season 25/26 style? Is Quantick going to know the characters and the back story, particularly of new companion Hex, played by Philip "Brookside/The Games/Naked calendars" Olivier? Is it, in short, going to be rubbish, or is it going to be worth listening to?
On balance, I'd say, if it weren't for the slight hindrances of Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred, it would actually be all right.
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Posted on August 29, 2007 | 3 comments |
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Posted on August 26, 2007 | 5 comments |
In the UK: Fridays, C4, 9.30pm. Repeated on C4+1 an hour later. Obviously.
In the US: Being remade by NBC as we speak.
Characters re-cast: 0
Major characters gotten rid of: 1 (next episode)
Major new characters: 1 (next episode)
Format change percentage: 0%
When you think about it, a big chunk of classic – and not so classic – British sitcoms are set in an office of sorts. For example, On the Buses, Are You Being Served, even Dad's Army are all work-based sitcoms. However, The Office, for obvious reasons and not just its name, has occluded these in most people's minds and prevented any subsequent office-based sitcoms from emerging (the reverse is true in the US). Indeed, The Office has started a whole number of trends, including a veering towards cringe-comedy rather than joke-based comedy.
However, it's fitting that The IT Crowd has been trying its best to buck that trend, since it has The Office's producer Ash Atalla at the helm. The IT Crowd is sort of the flipside of The Office. It's traditionally filmed, with traditional characters, traditional jokes and traditional plots.
It's also funny. At least, I think so.
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Posted on March 19, 2007 | 8 comments |
Let the third series publicity machine grind into action.
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