Florence Nightingale:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Jerry-bag is a wonderful phrase. Swearing is our one good gift to the world.
I know many, many English women who use the word "cunt" constantly especially when they are with their mates. It's usually paired with the word "fucking".
Half Man Half Biscuit marathon. Just the records unlike these deluded fools who are attempting to cycle to every UK location mentioned in HMHB songs:
https://halfmanhalfbikekit….
Bizarre that a sit-com that could constantly get a third of a countries entire population watching has never be rebooted for a different market (thank God). Falls through the bar…
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
[Albert rests in his coffin, naked with pickled eggs. 'Arold enters…]
Ah, together with Jim Hacker finally getting one over on Sir Humprey at the end of Yes Prime Minister that was the happiest ending to a sit-com.
Shame to hear Sanford and Son got worse as it went on (never shown in the UK - the only classic US sit-com not to be why? ITV at 10:30pm on a Friday during the 1980's - or C4 at 9pm on a Friday), always thought Steptoe got better when it went to colour and only the films were a disappointment (Mark Gattis did a good…
Divided We Stand:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
It's Leonard Rossiter but you're right it's an absolute gem on an episode (The Desperate Hours).
Agree totally. All these bands really were "big" they just were not big in the right media way.
Sacking Joe Moss, the original manager and sadly now RIP, was The Smiths big f-up:
http://www.nerdsattack.it/w…
Bit of a myth though that some of these bands were not "big" at the time, for the UK at least. They just got ignored by day-time radio/TV.
Pat Troughton is great in the first film, gets all the quotable lines - "I've seen its mother!"
Alan Gordon Partridge for me. As he mentions in his new documentary series "Mid Morning Matters" for his acclaimed radio drama, "A Chill Breeze" or "A Glowering Glass Blower This Way Comes";
Here is the best UK Christmas special, from 1987, The Homemade Xmas Video:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
It's still pretty juicy though and in the book version they let
rip on each other a lot more. Love that the Python's don't care about
slagging each other off in public.
"But unlike Morrissey, another artist whose uneven second half was buoyed by an unassailable back catalog"
Just got back from the second night at the roundhouse and it was a "U" on the front and a "T" on the back. They were great and very into it (Paul planted a kiss on Tommy during a guitar solo) so I wouldn't read anything into it.
He's a absolute gem, met him after a Fog gig. No idea who he was at the time bar a bass player and a really enthusiastic, friendly bloke.