Roger Bannister's notable achievement was being the first man to run a mile in under 4 minutes. Hence, he'd be disappointed at hearing "It's only 5 minutes."
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Hello to Jason Isaacs' insides!
Welsh? His accent appears to be off on a tour of the entire British Isles. I've picked out Irish, Brummie, Manc, and Estuary so far…
I think you get used to the crowd being a little weird , with the amount of non-native-English speaking places he's going these days. But there's no other podcast, and very few comedians that are going and speaking to people in these places. It's very refreshing.
Yeah, think you're right.
They were disrupted by Greg's Australian gigs in April, and now he's producing a show in NYC for the next few months.But Dave'll be doing his own podcast(The Dollop), and I guess he'll be on FOFOP every second week…
Dundee's rather overlooked in Scotland in comparison to Edinburgh and Glasgow. But there's the Beano and Dandy, a staple of every British kid's upbringing in the latter 20th century, the legendary Michael Marra, and I take a perverse glee in Dundee being forever associated with William Topaz McGonnagall, the worst…
SHERRRRRIIIIEEEESSSS BEEERRRIIIIEEEEEESSSS.
He's done it several times. I'm a particular fan of the version in the Cockney Medley:
Any Gerry Anderson show. Especially Stingray with the "Standby for action!", and Thunderbirds, with the massive refinery explosion at the end of it.
It's nice and fun, but nothing different to any number of mashups that have been going on the last 10 years? The 2 Many DJs and the Kleptones (especially the 24 Hours album: http://kleptones.com/pages/… bring so much more invention and ambition to the mashup genre.
"cribbed two of their biggest franchises tit-for-tat from the Warhammer universe"
It is, but they're so consistent in format, they don't really need a weekly review? "This week, Dave and Greg riffed total nonsense." "Bill was a semi-literate asshole, and fucked up his advert reads."
Well, the card-game aesthetic/style seems a perfect fit for tablets/mobile devices. Don't know about the others, but Hearthstone has fairly obviously been designed for touchscreen devices (and Blizzard have said they're planning iOS/Android versions).
I wouldn't say it is any more, now Sky have hoovered up most movies and hide them behind parental controls, but ITV were notorious for it in the 90s. I remember:
The future segments are rescued by the pants. Christ, the pants…