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Hello and welcome to Living with Maidly . This is the TV nostalgia based podcast . Hello and welcome to Living With Madeley . This is the TV nostalgia-based podcast , episode three of series eight . I am Liam and Andrew is the other host who's on the line . Good evening .
Hello sir , how's , things ?
Very good this is . Let's lay our cards on the table . Let's show how it is . This is a re-record of the intro . Because the TFI episode has went on that long , it's become a two-parter . We don't . We try and aim for an hour . We sometimes go a bit over , sorry . We try and cap at an hour , but this has gone well over that .
So it's split into two parts , which actually works fairly well because we've both got holidays . So it wasn't intentional . We haven't decided to drag this out in two , but it's just worked out that way .
Yeah , it's like we planned it , but no , no , we didn't . No , we're not that clever . I mean , in hindsight we should have said like , oh , we'll just stretch this one out , but no , we're not that clever . So this is part one of the TFI Friday episode of Living with Madeleine .
Living with Madeleine .
Before we start , shall we play the iconic theme tune to TFI Friday ? And some people will be waiting for Ocean Coliseum here . No , no now .
Well , what do you mean ? Who would be waiting for Ocean Colour Scene ?
Well , I reckon if you say I don't know , I reckon off the top of your head . If someone said like , can you name the theme tune for TFI , they'd go Like Ocean Col Cold Scene song . But that's not actually the theme tune .
Yeah , you've confused me a bit . What is the theme ?
Yeah , that's not Ocean Cold Scene . Yeah , that's not Ocean Cold Scene .
No , but what's the one you've just done so ?
Rainbow Song was used as an introduction to every single guest on TFI Friday . So Riverboat Song by Ocean Colour City so , as they were , yeah , yeah because what they had to do is they had to walk through the bar . This is why it's like proper 90s , like lad culture .
They had to walk through a bar to get interviewed by Evans and that ran background all the time Bam bam , ba-dum , bam , bam , bam , bam , bam , bam , bam bam . But that was because Ocean Colour Scene were the first band to ever play TFI . That was the first song they ever played on it . Did they play that live then for the first time ?
Yeah well , I don't know if , like , obviously , it might have been out by that point , but that was the first ever live act that appeared on TFI . Friday . Ginger Productions produced this and it's not in service anymore , ginger Productions . But do you remember the Don't forget your toothbrush as well , where there is glasses and like a little ginger sort ?
of , or like a sort of table cloth or something .
Yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , but it's not going anymore . Obviously it was by Chris Evans . Did you know Chris Evans used to be the assistant to Timmy Mallet ? Did you know that ?
No , it kind of seems right , though , doesn't it Pieces fit ? I can see it . He had that wacky zany style to him , hadn't he ?
Yeah , yeah , yeah . This obviously came off the back of the Big Breakfast , which we might cover in a later episode . Evans was massive on the Big Breakfast , obviously , I think when we were probably growing up a bit more . It was Johnny Vaughan , weren't it ?
Yeah , like when we used to watch him , but it used to be Evans and as an everyday , like a weekday morning show .
And I take it then . So they finished Big Breakfast and then he went on to do this and did no , he went , he did Don't Forget your Toothbrush .
And then he did this Right , and he was doing Radio 1 at the same time . I mean , he just blew up basically overnight . No one knew who Chris Evans was until Big Breakfast , and then he was by far the biggest . Well , I don't know if he was obviously you can't really class him alongside Wogan and people like that but he became a household name .
Everyone knows who Chris Evans is , even now yeah , in this era he was absolutely sort of peak lad , wasn't he ? Like ?
he just kind of captured that moment , that feeling of woo , lads , lads , lads , even Danny Baker and Chris Evans in particular , were known for it , just kind of captured that moment , that feeling of woo , lads , lads , lads Well , I am Even Danny Baker and Chris Evans , in particular , were known for , and Gazza obviously were known for going out on the town ,
weren't they ? They were always in the papers and there's actually a bit which Eggie I've seen today alerted me to , which I completely forgot about .
There was a scene in one of the episodes where they put Gazza in a cupboard before France 98 because they thought we don't want you to get injured , we don't want you to start drinking , we're going to put you in this cupboard and you're not allowed to come out until France 98 .
Gazza never got picked for France 98 due to his off-field shenanigans , basically because he weren't fit enough , because he forgot they'd left him in the cupboard , didn't they ? Yeah , imagine that I've been lacking for him and I can't do his accent . I've been lacking for him , but you know , I don't know where he's in . I don't know where he's at .
He's just in the cupboard . I'm not now , but we talked about , obviously , danny Baker . He wrote pretty much all the show . All the features were written by Danny Baker . The entire sort of idea was Danny Baker's idea , which I didn't know at all .
I found that apparently this was going to be a show for RTV and Jonathan Ross was going to present it , but that didn't happen and they got Chris Evans in . And Danny Baker is the genius behind the whole idea of TFI Friday .
Yeah , that doesn't . I mean I knew because you told me in the week I didn't know he was behind it all , but I can well believe it .
He is a kind of he's an encyclopedia of knowledge and wit and yeah , he's actually probably a bigger icon than he gets credit for Danny Bakes he's always a hero of mine , purely because of the own goals and gaffs videos and right hammerings videos .
How many times did you reckon I made you watch them at my house ? Like after a night out we'd go back to my house and I'd say , hey , have you seen own goals and gaffs 3 though , Liam , or whatever it was , and you're like oh fuck , no yeah .
I who scored a lot of own goals as well . Was it Sinclair ? Oh ?
it might have been Frank Sinclair they were a Fulham goalkeeper , I can't remember his name and Baker , as you say . And here he is again , the great funny man . I thought I'd throw the ball into his own air .
Honestly , Danny Baker's own goals on Gasper , unlike , at that point , any other football video we talked about Jimmy Greaves' last week , where Jimmy Greaves obviously not doesn't know what he's watching going . It's a fanny out game . Baker actually watched on goals , all the footage and like quips and clips at the end of it brilliant on goals .
I mean . What I say , though , is because he's quite a safe pair of hands these days , danny Baker , but this is quite risky 20 and a half 6 years ago , he got sacked from BBC for making a what people perceived as a racist tweet .
Oh right , I didn't know that , yeah yeah , I can't remember exactly what it was , but it was when , as we'll come to and probably get into some of the detail of it soon , but a lot of this . You just couldn't do this today , could you ?
No , no , no way . We talked , obviously earlier about the man in the suitcase theme tune . The guy who did that was Rob Greiner , I think his name was called .
I did write this down , sorry and he was part of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop which I actually saw live , and they did the Doctor who theme tune , the Prisoner theme tune , steptoe and Son theme tune and Tales of the Unexpected , which is something else that we've mentioned , like the weird , like the horrible , freaky music of the Tales of the Unexpected .
Yeah , yeah , I'll play a clip here of Tales of the Unexpected again , actually , because I think it's easily one of , like , the most bizarre theme tunes of all time .
I didn't expect to be playing that in this episode , but yeah , always good to hear , always welcome .
But I thought for me I mean , obviously this was , this was what 97 , like 96 , should have said , like when it started . So we were still in school , probably thinking we were cool , just getting into like decent music and sort of like I don't know .
Thinking of lads , lads like can't wait to get get chans out , looking at , you know , trying to get underage drinking all this sort of stuff , because like were just that sort of era and this catered to us massively , didn't it ?
Well , no , I don't think it did . I think it catered for . It certainly was aimed at people as a pre-night out show , wasn't it so like ?
before you . Sorry , one of the geniuses of it was that they did play . It's six o'clock at Ustastar , but they used to play again the same night at 11pm . So people like used to come into pubs and stuff like that used to come in from pubs , should I say , and stuff like that did watch it .
Yeah , yeah no , that's right . But yeah , I remember how old would we have been then ?
so 97 , so we'd have been 14 when it came out 97 , 14 , 15 , yeah .
Yeah , I think it was probably even slightly older than us . But yeah , you probably wanted to like it , didn't you ? Because you was kind of quite grown up to watch TFI Friday , I suppose . So I don't know , I'm still not sure on my feelings about it . We'll kind of come to that at the end .
But yeah , I don't know if I liked it or not , and I probably liked it more now than I did at the time , I think yeah , yeah , fair enough .
I mean , obviously , like we've gone through this 1997 episode , which is not like a . It's the best sort of like roundup I reckon we could have done , because there's that much that used to go off every week there and you're going to lead the sort of best of episode that we've watched . But there was so much more like going on .
For me , tfi were always about like the bands .
For me , like they always had the coolest music by and large they were better than Top of the Pops at that point , better than I mean the White Room were on , which were really good as well , but I mean the Word used to have really good bands on and stuff , but this used to have like two or three bands on every week and it were always we're not just
talking indie bands as well . They used to have like bowie on and you know people like bjork and you know outside of that indie zone that were obviously dominating the charts at the time .
Yeah , I , I kind of in . I in memory I thought it was just all indie stuff . So , yeah , some of the exactly like you said , bjork , I didn't kind of expect that .
So yeah , maybe wasn't quite what I remembered but if you want to like go through what we actually , well , we watched the obviously the 1997 um , best of what what I want , but I'm gonna go through it step by step , because it's literally clip after clip after clip after clip . But we're gonna like try and use that as a base to to talk about the show .
So I don't know , I thought you were kind of going to try and use that as a base to talk about the show . So I don't know , I thought you were kind of going to do some background on the show . So I was going to . I don't know if you already know this , but I was going to ask you Is this Riverside Studios , as in Richard and Judy Riverside Studios ?
I don't know .
I've absolutely no idea .
The opening shot is like a sort of riverside on a Docklands . Is this Liverpool ? Is this the same as where Richard ?
and Jude did . No , I don't think it was . I don't think it was . If anyone actually knows that , You'd think it's more London , wouldn't you Evans ? Yeah , I don't think it was . No , nothing's come up on my Google search just now , my research just now .
Nothing's come up on my Google search just now , my research just now .
We cannot confirm or deny ? Yeah , we can neither confirm nor deny .
So the first thing is obviously we get the theme music we pan in .
By the way , do you like the theme tune ? First , it's called man in a Suitcase .
the theme tune I think it's a great theme tune . I wouldn't listen to it on a CD , I don't think , but I think it sets the tone very well , what about the Riverboat song ? Are you a fan of that ?
Eh take it or leave it .
You're not a fan of Ocean Core , sam yeah , go on , I like their big hit . What's their big hit ?
The day we caught the train . Don't sing it like that the day we caught the train .
Yeah , like that yeah it's a good song .
Salve TG Oak .
Yeah , that's it .
Well , that actually features later on in this .
But yeah , I do like that song and , as you said , we start with Lenny Kravitz live and with Lenny Kravitz live and the camera kind of pans around and , as far as I'm aware , this is a real kind of club bar that he's just kind of sat at the back of doing some interviews , because it certainly looks very authentic .
I always assumed it was that this is happening A live band people can get drinks and watch it . Some of the sort of either lucky ones or the ones who get there first have managed to kind of get up and around where he's doing the interviews , but it kind of could be the lead mill , really , couldn't it ?
Like it's the same people around all all having a drink by the way , like there's no , I suppose it's a risk they took because it's seemingly it's just a bar where people can drink what they want .
I don't know if it was totally live up until Sean Ryder swore , which we'll get on to , but it was totally live , like by six o'clock as well . People pissed up people . You're in the background . You don't get that on the one show , do you , mind you ? You might now with Gina's , to be fair . Yeah .
And then we get a kind of quick sort of cut scene of various different things coming up and that have happened in this particular year , and one of them that made me laugh is that Ron Atkinson and Richard E Grant both crabbing by the throat- Evans .
It's like it's ridiculous . I did find really , really funny that one of the first guests , the first guest , the show Lenny Kravitz , like this is the best of 1997 , the show Lenny Kravitz doing um's Fly Away , isn't it ? I wanna fly away . No , I don't think it is that is it not that one , I don't know as soon as I hear like think about Lenny Kravitz .
That is the song I don't know .
I think it's too early for that it might .
But anyway , whatever it is , it's one of the one of the Lenny Kravitz songs , but the first guest the best of 1997 is Ron Atkinson .
Comes strolling out and he I mean Richard E Grant is a bit of a mock pretends to grab him by the throat Atkinson kind of almost sort of picks him up by his head almost . I don't know what he said or what intro he got , but we never see any more of that . So that's enough of that . We've got Anna Freel in the studio .
Freel , isn't it ? Yeah , I think she was still on Brookside at the time . First ever lesbian kiss obviously a massive TV moment .
Yeah , she would have probably been one of my favourites around this era as well .
Oh really .
I think so . Yeah , and there's a lot of these kind of cut gags where they cut to and they say oh , by the way , is this your dad ? And he stood outside a garage and then they'd drop a fridge on him .
Obviously it's edited to look like he's got squashed by a fridge , but there's loads of these little cutaways , of little sort of gags that happen over the space of 30 seconds . I don't know about you but I thought there was certain influence in in and they probably hate this .
But um stuart lee and richard herring , like little cutaway sketches , and also Harry Hill , where , like the funniest thing that happened on TV this week , like three second clip and it's gone .
But at the same time you've got to remember like , say , this is prime time . I know it's Channel 4 , which is not obviously one of the main three channels or whatever it was at the time , but I do think this is really unique for the time it was quite like .
I do think this is really unique for the time it was quite like think about what you just said , then I'm not sure if channel 4 was one of the three channels we had at the time .
Channel 4 was the first channel one of the main three channels sorry yeah , rephrase that , I've had a few like Baker Evans and Galveston , and I'm at my best today . But yeah , what I mean is like obviously it wasn't BBC , you won't get away with this on bbc one , I don't think .
But no , no way you don't need to get away to be doing the news news at six at this time , wouldn't they all ?
yeah , and this had like just loads of piss . People in a bar with really really really cool guests like not sort of cool , yeah , but like big names as well . This is as soon as I like found out that this was like sort of devised by Danny Baker . It made complete sense .
I think what they wanted to like get from it is this is just you watching him and his mates in a pub .
Yeah well , I'm not sure that you would kind of shout out in the way that they do if you didn't know him , because I think you're at risk of him saying like get out , stop shouting , can you ?
imagine if it was really serious , like no , honestly get out . They're like the officers here Like I won't hang on a person . No , honestly get out , yeah right .
It's just like they're all like , ah , shut up .
Oh .
I don't know if they were told to do that or if it is people who weren't in the but the Big Breakfast were a little bit like this in the sense that . Yeah , this is a bit more rowdy though , isn't it ?
But at the same time , you remember the Big Breakfast where Evans , or even Johnny Vaughan and late years would say something , and all the people who were there , like the producers yeah , but that was the crew , weren't it ? They were all in on it .
This seemingly , is members of the public having a beer . I mean , that could have gone very wrong , couldn't it ? But yeah , another bit of music . And again , because this is a best-of show and this is why , in hindsight , maybe we should have just picked an episode , but it cuts , so we now get a bit of garbage doing Stupid Girl .
It's only a 30-second clip or more .
I've written this down because I thought clip or most . I've written this down because I thought is this one of your songs ? Liam , this seems like one of your songs . No , do you know what I really ?
disliked it at the time .
I'm really surprised by that .
Yeah , I don't know if it got overplayed , I don't know for what reason , but I never liked this at the time . But actually when it came on I thought this is actually really good . I've not heard this in years .
I think she sings this unbelievably well live .
She sounds exactly like the recordist Well this is one of the questions I had for you , and I'm assuming it is , but to me , everyone who sings on this looks like they're singing live . Is that , do you agree ?
Yeah , yeah , yeah , completely . I mean , obviously there might be some oddities in there , but everyone's singing live and I'm not a fan of this song , but I thought , shirley Manson , she sings this like unbelievably well , Exactly .
Fantastic live performance , absolutely . And then we come to the first controversial part of the show . Should I say and freak or unique ? I mean that's what it is . Yeah , and for anyone who doesn't remember it or hasn't seen it , this is where they used to get people on and decide if they were a freak or unique .
And it doesn't quite make sense to me because they didn't actually do the voting on any of them , so I can't remember how many there were . I don't know if they vote for the most freakiest Freakish . Yeah , I don't know , but on this one they basically got a woman who puts her lips together and can kind of make the side bits stick out , stick up .
It's a bit weird . And then they do . I think this is Danny Baker's kind of . I don't know , I didn't think this was funny , but I can imagine to certain people I'm thinking that's a great gag that so one of them is we are two men who dress the same but we do different jobs . Yeah , I'm a boxing referee and I'm a waiter and everyone goes .
Yeah , that's not freak or unique , is it like ?
that's no no , no , it's like I don't know . I I'm sure there's loads of jobs I can't think of any head but there must be loads of jobs like that , where you're , like , dressed exactly the same .
Yeah , yeah .
I can't think of any , so maybe there's a .
A woman with a really long tongue .
I would ask you this actually If you were on Freecore Uni and they said , liam , I ain't got anyone , would you do ? Mine would be . I have a really long tongue , so that would have to be my speciality . I don't even know I can touch my nose with my tongue . I can't .
I'll tell you what .
Hang on , hang on , I'm going to mix the microphone . See if you can hear this . Yeah , yeah , yeah , that's my nose .
I can do a . It's another tongue-related thing , isn't it ? I don't know if they let us both on the same show , but I can do that clover thing You've seen where you kind of half-roll it and half-fold it oh yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah .
The big thing for in this free Q&A and I wrote this down before I actually watched the best of , but it is on this is the woman who could cry milk . I remember that from my youth , thinking how the fuck has she done this ?
How has she done that . I was trying to figure it out . So presumably she's got to . She's got to preload milk , so she must have milk in her mouth and then kind of force it up into her sinuses . I suppose you can't just cry milk , can you ? She must . She can't produce milk from her eyes , is what I'm saying , so she must be .
If people have not watched it . She literally starts crying , not sobbing crying , but a milk rolls down each cheek . There's a brilliant bit , actually , where Evans comes in at the end going oh , that's enough . The end going oh , that's enough , that's enough , that's enough .
As if like it's somehow like dangerous what she's doing well , that is the I mean as a guy with a hairy back . To me the cry milk was the . You know , if you have to pick the freak or unique , or again I don't know how it works . If there's a winner , the cry milk would be for me , because I can't quite get my head around that .
Yeah , that is unique . I think that's better than Freak and that goes into unique . Do you know , every single time this feature was shown , there used to be an old lady like an unusual . There were six people waiting . So they'd say right , who do you want to see ? Do you want to see the woman who's crying milk , this , this or this ?
Yeah , they'd shout like like number four , number four yeah and every week there was an unusually tall old lady in every single section of this and she wasn't actually that tall . She was standing in a box . She never got picked right , so yeah broke the yeah , yeah , unfortunate , but yeah , but I don't mind this . I think this is like quite quick sort of .
Yeah , I just think you couldn't do that now . It'd have to be called Unusual Skills or something you couldn't have Freak or Unique , could you ? I just don't think that'd pass now . No , no , no , but yeah .
But I don't mind this , I don't mind this . I did find a lot of it sort of they only showed like three or four on this one , but I remember in the past and you're like fucking . But the milk one is the one where you think , no , honestly , how did how , how did you do , yeah , yeah yeah , fair play , so that was the best one .
There we get tom jones in the studio and did you watch ? You've seen ? I'm sure you've seen the clip they cut to him ? Uh , they do like a . What happened next ? And it's tom jones and he's singing in a kind of a studio .
This is in his heyday as well . I'd say , like what ? Early 40s , max , probably 30s , though .
Yeah , he's sort of dressed very smart and he's singing a song to a crowd of not elderly , but they're not like young teens sort of screaming and jumping about . They're all . People sat very formal .
This is a clip . By the way , this is not on TFI Friday .
They go to a clip and this is yeah , they go to a clip and they say what happened next and people say , oh , he gets knickers thrown at him , he falls over all this sort of stuff and everyone says no . What happens next is Tom Jones becomes the sexiest man ever and the dance he does is absolutely amazing isn't it ?
I've never seen this and we can't play it because it won't make any sense . Just watch the best TFI 1997 . If you can't go on to watch it all , it's the first lot off of it . Just fast forward about 10 minutes . This dance I've never seen this dance before . It's incredible , isn't it ? It's unbelievable .
I don't even know like . I mean , it's nearly comical , but he pulls it off . It's amazing .
I mean bloody hell . He somehow looks cool , looking like a complete idiot .
Yeah , yeah , he does yeah .
It strikes me when I'm dropping stuff , like moving around all over the place , he's jolting , he's jerking , he's throwing himself around , he's making all sorts of shapes .
It's nearly terrible , but it makes it look incredible . I suppose that's why he was such a hit with the ladies at the time , because he's got the moves , hasn't he ?
We've mentioned him before , haven't we ? On our most ridiculous songs , tom Jones International . Everybody wants to come home to Tom Jones . One , two Tom's coming for you , but yeah , this really is like in his better years . I do like Tom Jones . I've seen him live before as well , at Glastonbury . I do think he's a he seems a good man , doesn't he ?
Yeah , I'm hoping he's not going to get put on a register let's put it that way , because I do like him .
Yeah , hopefully there's enough time that the truth would have come out , if there was any truth to come out . So , yeah , hopefully . I mean we still don't condone or condemn . We assume that we can condone him , for now , next band that comes on don't know who they are , I think they were singing a song called she Said .
Yeah , long Pigs , sheffield's own Long Pigs .
From Sheffield .
Richard Hawley used to be in the band . Oh really , yeah , these were like a lost Britpop band because when they came on I was saying I was thinking , who the fuck are they ? I was thinking , oh yeah , it's Longpigs .
I don't know that much about them . Richard Oley's style is like this sort of style at all .
No , he's still like sort of what at the time would have been considered Britpop . I really like this song and I don't know enough about the Lumpigs , but I know there's a lot of people who say these are one of the lost greats of British music .
Wow , okay , I didn't realise that His song was alright . And then another band straight after for another short clip , and again don't know who they are .
Dodgy . Ah yeah , I remember , ah yeah , and with Dodger . Good enough for you , that's not for somebody playing , but yeah , and we had him in our 3am grooves tape .
We took an holiday with us that time actually .
Oh , we did didn't we ? Yeah , but that was a famous one though , wasn't it ? I don't know what the famous one is . Good enough for you , it must be that .
Oh , yeah , yeah , because the other one is In a room , I feel it in my bones .
I feel exposed . Yeah , because we had 3M grooves From the Mirror Used to give away CDs every month . With a Like , a compilation of like , whatever the Fucking season was At that point Saying like these songs Some of the season , and we took away what we'll call 3M grooves . Do you remember our mate stratford ?
yeah , we've gone back to the room chilling out a few drinks on the balcony , I think . Oh no , it might even be late now . We might be in bed .
He might come back it will have been really late because he came in . We had it on so loud , maybe not good enough , just just like for you know , for arguments , say it's good enough for you , it's good enough for me . And he came in after us . As soon as he walked in , someone knocked on the door and he opened it .
He just got in and there were a German guy going turn the music down , turn the keep the noise down , because I've just fucking walked in .
Brilliant , yeah and then , if you remember , he said he came in and went you two fuckers just have fucking Germans shouting at me . He opened the CD player up and said what the fuck's this shit ? It's not 4am and I don't want to fucking groove .
You were genuinely 4am . He was about 4am . I think he'd lost his way back , so he'd just got back . We were like just chilling out , having a couple of drinks . They're about 4am , in fairness , so apologies to the Germans if they're listening .
We're next door . Yeah , as they know , we all make mistakes , don't we so ?
apologies .
Next we get Stephen Fry and he looks so wrong in this environment . He's dressed like a kind of senior level manager . He's got a full suit on , but it's not like a sort of like a trendy suit or like it's just like a business suit he's got on . It looks so out of place . It looks like I don't know like a bank manager's come in for a brief sketch .
But I mean .
I actually thought , because there's bits in it where he makes people quite uncomfortable , like go on , do that , do that , go on , do that thing , do that go on , do that thing , yeah he actually , he comes across really well . Stephen Fry when I saw him , because he seemed quite a nice bloke , I thought , oh , is this going to be kind of ridiculing him almost ?
But yeah , he comes across quite well and quite funny . So I was pleased about that . And this is the thing with the interviews , I think as well .
There's one earlier where and he says something like , because he's just done Trainspotting he said do you worry that young people are going to watch Trainspotting and then want to become an actor ? And he's like oh yeah , because Evans' whole thing is like taking a bit like Jonathan Ross does .
Now , to be fair , where he's like it's that sort of cheeky woo yeah but Evans does take it .
Yeah , I mean yeah , he does deliver that bit really well actually , because he sort of really drags the question out to really throw him off . He says , you know , if you ever thought , if you've got concerns , it might make young people consider getting into acting Because he's ready to defend himself .
Mcgregor , yeah , he's got a back . He sits in the back area where he trades boys , so he's like think about that . I'm like , yeah , fair play life .
We get Dawn French next Again .
I like Dawn French . I think she's quite funny . Bit this I don't know why she's got lipstick on to the point where she's got massively oversized lipstick drawn down her face .
I think it's when she comes on . She gives him loads of kisses and puts these kiss marks all around his face . But again I was pleased because you never quite know where he's going to go and how uncomfortable he's going to make someone and I think she fends him off very easily .
Yeah , because he says something along the lines of you and Lenny , you must have big arguments , like big , big arguments , and she goes yeah , we have even bigger make-up , sex or whatever it is . You know what I mean .
Yeah well , he says big guy , big woman , you must have big arguments , she's in yeah , and big , yeah , big makeup .
So whatever it is , anyway , but it's just like more than you could ever imagine , Chris , Like it puts him in his place straight away .
Yeah , I mean she really does , yeah , and she's only , oh , I mean , I don't know how old she would be at this time , but she looks young in this and yeah , she's kind of certainly puts him in his place . Yeah , so I like that . Then we cut to . Well , I think he's possibly the most sort of TFI band .
I know there's a few others , like you said We've mentioned . Oh , go on Tal de Deer .
Oh , she calls it . Oh , she calls it .
Yeah , yeah , but this to me was very TFI .
So this is Skunk and Ansi doing Weak as I Am , and I'm actually going to play this because I think it's a great song . We saw these at Glastonbury . We could go round and round , so why don't we ?
We saw these at Glastonbury . I'm not a massive fan of these but Tom , who I went with , like really likes them . Good band , Good band . But I'm the same as you . I always saw the headline Glastonbury . It's going good , aren't they Like ? Oh , really , In about 1993 .
I didn't know it was that big , I mean like in 1995 . I only know of this song from Same same . I might know it if I heard it , but this is the only song I associate with Skunkinancy and again , live singing on this is absolutely fantastic , really really good .
I say this about Skunkinancy because when we go to Glastonbury we look back at old headliners and stuff like that and like they'll say , bloody hell , shakespeare's sister . Like were they big enough to headline ? Well , they were , because they stay this .
I still can't understand how Skunk and Anty got to headline Glastonbury , not in terms of , like , the quality of the band , but I don't . This is the only song that I think is like resonated with the general public anyway .
Isn't it just this song ? Was that good ? Did they just play this song on repeat ?
no , I think they're a good band , like I say loads of like . They've got a really really big fan base . It's all going . I won't like Slag of the Band by far . It's not really my sort of thing , but I don't know . She was quite cool looking as well , weren't she ? What were the ?
leads yeah , Skin yeah . So I don't know whether that helped them , but yeah , she was really cool .
And then that solo band played straight away by a complete and utter other . I will not play a clip , but at the time indie band and they're still going again , shed 7 . Oh really , is that what that was ? It's getting better . All the time I've written down the most sort of .
AI indie band . It looks like they're artificially generated . They just look like a generic indie band . I didn't know . That's who it was .
They're one of the bands who , if I remember I mean I'm not cool , but I thought we were they were like sort of seen in the 90s as a bit of a pfft Shed 7 . I like Shed 7 . Their number one album about three years ago actually , because they've sort of lasted the test of time and I look back at them now again .
A really fucking good band , to be fair , shed 7 .
I only know of them on XFM , where Merchant says I've got some really bad news for you , rick . I think it's what's happening . What's going on ? It looks bad .
Shed 7 have split up , but that's all I know of them really well , they're doing better work than fucking Gervais , probably yeah we get Sting now some of these to me , like Mr Mark , so this is something like . It's one of these quick again Harry Hill . I'm saying Harry Hill style .
This was before him , but it's like something like if Sting referred to everything as a 90s pop song or something .
Yeah .
The sketch or the gag really Sting's in it , but he's not playing Sting and it . Yeah , I just don't .
I think at the time Sting was taking himself very , very , very seriously . So this is a bit like what extras did . They'll get someone who everyone like the public see as like . Oh , he takes himself really seriously and he's taking the piss out of himself .
Well , there's a few bits as well . So I assume once they get a big guest in , I don't know if they use their clips on the same week or if they're getting to film a couple of extra bits to use on other weeks . I'm not sure , because he's interviewed in there at some stage , but there's no way you'd just get him just to film this sketch .
But then we cut to another incredibly TFI sort of band bass band for me which is the Mannix doing a design for Life . I think this is fucking brilliant .
Can we play a clip of this ? I think it's a brilliant performance . Yeah it is . Yeah , I'll play a clip of this .
This is Designed for Life Manic Street Preachers . We don't have to fight now . We all wanna get drunk and we've got a lot to spend . I will not love to stand as we are told that this is the end . I desire for love . I desire for love .
I desire for love . I really think this is a fucking . I mean , I've seen the Manics a few times . I'm a fan of the Manic Street Preachers , but this is like probably at the peak , in the sense of Maybe not the peak creativity . People say , oh , the Bible was before this , but in terms of his vocals , like I just think they're fucking unbelievable .
So this was when I remember kind of everybody getting into Manix and not really quite getting them , but loving this song I didn't like a lot of their other stuff . Do you remember like there's so many bands around this time like I love the verb , like Seahorses would they have been ?
around then . Yeah , some of the Britpop era like a waste of stuff going around , blur Pulp , obviously , all these sort of people . I remember someone at school saying , trying to act cool , I'll knock his name away . He might be listening . Fuck it , sean Probably won't be listening . And he was like quite uncool , if I dare say .
And he was saying like oh yeah , I love Britpop . What's your favourite song ? Because that one .
we don't want get drunk . That's not even the lyrics . We don't want to get drunk , that's wrong yeah . I remember doing a similar thing to that , actually in a physics class where people were talking about a new album coming out and I kind of half overheard him . It weren't the Seahorses .
But I said something like are you looking forward to the new Seahorses album ? And he said , yeah , what's your favourite track on the last one ?
and I said I don't know you should have just had a guess and then if you said like a bit , like I don't know , just say I like that one , yeah , yeah , yeah I reckon , because I'll do this like if someone said , like I like that one , the man with the teacup where he goes bam bam , bam , bam bam and I'll either say oh yeah , I know what you're on about
. Do it with Bly , or I'll say I've not heard that one and you can the B-Sides mate .
I don't love their last album . I like that obscure bootleg thing that they do the man with the teacup ?
Bam bam , bam , bam , bam bam .
Then we go to another kind of very scripted guy Well , clearly scripted guy Much , if it weren't actually as I've said it . So this is where they come back after the break and there's no atmosphere he goes to the . Irish barman and says what would you do in this situation ? And he says , sure , if I were you I'd use some of this .
And he's got like a can of atmosphere in a can and he sprays it . He's saying like I think this is scripted .
Imagine if this was scripted imagine if it weren't what I don't know I , oh , my God , he has that he's literally got atmosphere in a can and then all the balloons come down and everything . It's got that sketch Miles Funnier , because I thought this was a shite sketch . This .
Yeah , it really was , wasn't it ? Then we go to another music thing . I know this is again like I say , this is purely the nature because of what we picked Lots of short clips . We get Bryan Adams this time . Was this before or after his ? They were after everything I do , but pre-Mel .
C Right yeah .
The Mel C one's my favourite . This is decent . He's a good singer . I can't remember the song , but it's decent . And then another one of these random moments where a big-name celeb comes in for seemingly a very brief moment , so the thing's called Hollywood star we simply don't have time for .
And Samuel L Jackson doesa I don't know 20 second little spiel to camera about that . They haven't got time for him . Quite funny though in the background , because Evans is like going go on , get on with it , like tapping his watch and stuff which I quite like . I quite like this bit .
I mean it's a fairly like sort of route . One gag in a way , like obviously Samuel L Jackson's the biggest person to love on the show that week , but they just give him like one line going I haven't got time to interview me and he's like come on , get off .
I wonder what they had to pay him for that . Or do you reckon he did an interview and that's done for a different show , or what ? I couldn't quite figure that bit out , yeah , yeah yeah maybe Mick Hucknall then does some karaoke . Can we play ?
this , by the way , because I think this is fucking unbelievable . I'm not a Mick Hucknall fan , so they give , like Mick Hucknall , a microphone and say no they give him a crappy like .
I mean not crappy , it's probably decent , but but what I mean is in terms of sound quality it's just like a what do you call them ? Like a ghetto blaster , Small ghetto blaster . They play a CD of music and they give him a mic to it , so he's just doing karaoke and I presume he's not aware of this .
No , because at first he looked a bit like not sure whether they're trying to set him up for some kind of gag or something . So no , I certainly don't think he was in on it .
No , I agree . And look , I'm not a fan of Simply Red music like , but if you gave me a mic and I did this , what I'm going to play , I'd be so . I'd probably have my life straight after it , because it doesn't get any better . Yeah .
So fly away with me . Gotta find me an agent who will set me free . My heart is without a home . I don't wanna be alone . My heart is without a home . I don't want to be alone . Got to find me an agent .
In my life . I think when we do the Maidly Roadshow in Chapel , st Leonard's , you should do that on the mic .
let's see if you can do it as good as that just because I'm ginger , I'm not as good as Mick Utner , but honestly , this is I'm amazed . He's like brilliant singer in his heyday .
Mick Utner , whatever you say about him , I think it just shows you at that level , like people might think , oh , it's all auto-tune and all the equipment , but there are some singers who are just just give them a mic watch them go . So , yeah , really good , though Again , like you , I'm not a huge Mick Cooknell fan , but I thought like , wow , this is great .
Yeah , you get the first glimpse here of the pub genius sketch .
Do you remember sorry sketch , so sorry will . Mcdonald is the guy who does the pub tricks . It's like pub tricks . This pub genius . Again , this is purely clearly from the brain of danny baker . So he does like pub tricks . You know like an obvious one would be . Like , you know , flipping a bath , a what you call it , a coaster up beer mart , that's it .
And like landing on top your pint . So he tries to do stuff like this .
Yeah , there's certainly these things that like are , and what I liked , actually as well , is like they say what I'm going to do , I'm going to remove this matchbox from this underneath this pint glass without touching the pint glass .
But I love how , like all the audience go , that can't be done , couple , he doesn't do , he gets them wrong , which kind of is almost what they want . Actually , I think the reaction is is the same whether he does it or he doesn't , really , so gets a big laugh .
I don't know if you saw in this one as well , but he actually , because he the first one that he tries is something to do with flipping something up into a wine glass or something that goes wrong . Then he tries to knock the matchbox out . He knocks it over , spills the pint everywhere and then he picks the glass up . It looks like he's going to throw it .
He sort of just half throws it towards Evans . Imagine throwing it in his face because it went wrong , it's so funny .
But when he actually completes one , when he does one , I think Will's face here is pure Like he looks at Evans as if , like you know , when you scored a goal , like going , I've done it , I can't . Like in a World Cup fight , I've done it , I can't believe I've done it .
He looks so proud of himself when he does it . The one that he does is where it's like some kind of little ball You've got to get it over something without touching it and he turns a glass over and turns it round . It's the older centrifugal force trick I would call it .
Yeah , fair enough .
I like Will MacDonald , I have to admit . I think people just point at him and go Will , what happened to him ? He did a book . He got into science . I looked into this , he got into . He's written an actual like what do you call it ? What they do Scientists papers ? He's written an actual like what do you call it ? What they do scientists papers ?
What do you call it thesis ? I don't know . Hang on , give me two . I should have written this down . Wilma Donald , yeah , he , he started studying zoology and he , yeah , he got published in a scientific journal about the behavioral sociobiology .
I would never have said that's where it went . I assumed it was . Well , obviously he worked good enough for his pub trick .
So this is the next logical set for him , isn't it we ?
then get , uh , another moment of mega celebrity in a in a silly sketch . So it's Chris and Cher in bed . What do you think to this ? Do you think it works ? What do you think to this ? Do you think ?
it works . No , I think it's one of the most funny things of the entire thing , personally . So Chris Evans is in bed with Cher and Cher's saying will you love me whatever I do ? And he says yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , will you please ? Whatever I do , will you love me ? Yeah ?
She turns over whatever and he says , yep , of course it reminds me of something I imagine .
I think it might even be below SMTV , to be fair , you know , like a kids' show sort of thing .
It's funny and I might get some stick for this , because I'm not really into it . But I know you kind of quite like your viz . Is it not a viz-type joke that In a way ?
Yeah , I think . I mean , I don't think Johnny Forty Pants is that clever as a character , it's just a guy who farts . But yeah , I do think this is clever yeah .
I just thought clearly somebody to get her in to do that and play , that is absolutely huge that they got her to do that sketch , but it just felt a bit wasted .
I think there was more to the gun . There he leaves . What then he leaves ? She should have farted that actually , Do you believe ?
Yeah , it's like auto-tuned kind of fart noise yeah .
Auto-tuned farts yeah .
And we get the Friday fun thing . Which did this come from ? Tfi ? Don't forget YouTube sorry , I'm not sure , but they do a bit where they play like some kind of like lounge music and everybody starts waving their hands side to side .
I thought it came from . I thought it came , I don't know .
Yeah .
I don't know if I .
I don't know , not sure , but then it to Tony Hart , and again I was glad because I love Tony . Know , not sure , but then it cut to Tony Hart , and again I was glad because I love Tony Hart .
You can't just say it came to Tony Hart , Tony Hart no it cuts to Tony Hart , who was the Tony Hart . People like younger viewers might not know who Tony Hart is . He did an art show called Heart Attack .
that had more fun in it and was really big when we were little , but even before then we were probably at the end of his reign .
Would you get away now with a kid's show called Heart Attack ? Do you know what I meant by this Heart Attack ? No , it was Heart Attack . Yeah , but Heart Attack is the you know .
No , that was .
Heartbeat . No , it's called Tony Heart . What are you on about Heartbeat ? What are you on about Heart ?
Tony Hart , what are you on about Hartby ? What are you on about Hartby ? Do-do-do-do-do-do-do , do-do-do-do-do-do , it's Hartby wasn't it .
What are you talking about ? No , a heart attack ? No , it wasn't . You were called Hart Attack . I'm telling you , it was called Hart .
Attack .
Nick Berry's heartbeat Heart attack . I've got the symptoms of an heart attack .
We're both looking it up now .
A heart attack . Heartbeat .
I knew it would be called heart attack .
I'm watching this show for a heart attack .
Oh , you're right , sorry , yeah , I apologise , yeah , sorry .
Yeah , I'll take it .
You're a fucking idiot . Heart attack .
Yeah , but I don't want . I'm going to call it Heart Attack Are you watching Heart Attack .
Have you seen that on the BBC schedule Heart Attack .
I love how you thought that was okay , like in the 90s , but it wouldn't be now .
She always thought that was called Heart Attack . Anyway give a fair amount of you Cannon .
That's a tough one , isn't it ? That's like what do you call it ? What's the film ? Is it Selfie's Choice ?
Yeah , it's a bit like .
Blur , it's not quite the same , is it At ?
the time it was like Blur in a way . It says what do you watch ? Heart Attack , but it's not called that . Or Neil Buchanan's , what was that called ? I forgot what was that called Heart Attack ? That were called Heart Attack . No , art Attack , what Buchanan's one ?
Yeah , art , I'm not just missing the H because I'm Northern , I'm saying it's .
Art the word is A-R-T .
I've got it yeah .
I thought yeah that makes sense .
There was no show called Heart Attack .
I'm getting mixed up . I thought it was called Heart Attack and obviously it's Neil Buchanan's Heart Attack . Yeah , of course .
yeah , sorry , crazy anyway , as I say , to go back to that , I thought that it was good how they didn't mock him , because it's quite funny actually , because he says I've got something I think you crazy nuts will like . I think they played that very well .
I thought it was very softly handled .
Then we move on to the next , probably for me the most controversial bit in the whole thing , which is the ugly book . So they bring out an ugly guy .
Hang on . Can I play the theme tune to this , Because people don't know what this is ? Well , they'll remember it from the theme tune . I reckon so it's funny that because they play that theme tune and Peter Beardsley's face comes up Like is it so harsh , so harsh .
Well , it is harsh , but you know , at the same time , like Peter Beardsley , like some people might say he's ugly , some people might not . Some people might think he's a great-looking chap , but some of the people on this have got deformities and it sounds really uncomfortable with me because some of them are like a bloke who's just got some teeth missing .
This is the worst bit .
I genuinely watch this , thinking I mean maybe I'm being a bit woke . Someone in the pub today was saying I can't remember what she said . Now it was something really normal . Like oh yeah , have you heard ? Like I don't know , you've got to put dog litter in bin . In this particular bin , it's so woke . This is what people in classes woke .
Now what I'm going to say this is just ugly people being brought out on stage , some with deformities . I think it's .
Honestly it's and I get it . It's kind of over time and whatever , and maybe at the time I sat and watched and laughed , I don't know . But yeah , just people was kind of I don't even know I'm treading lightly because I don't even know the correct term but people kind of whose faces have got kind of developmental issues .
Alongside a bloke who's gone bald and he's lost a couple of teeth and it's saying look at these ugly people . And then I think the guy at the end of it . They said to him each time how long have you been ugly ? And they said they say all my life . And I was like it's horrible this .
There's like people who it's horrible this . There's people who I mean , I don't really know what to say about this because it's just horrible . It really is horrible . They obviously can't help the way they've been bothered . There's people who are I don't know .
they say objectively ugly , but I mean , obviously the kind of counter side to it is that they obviously kind of knew what they were going into . They've not took a photo of someone on a long lens and said look at this guy They've chosen to go into the studio .
It's a bit like the Jeremy Kyle show became this in a way , it's their sort of moment of fame and hopefully they got a great day out chance to meet some celebrities , a few beers , and yeah , they were kind of willing to be the butt of the joke for a short piece of time . I mean , it still doesn't sit well with me , but no .
Just before you move on from Ugly Block . By the way , can I use this opportunity ? I think you've heard this . When New Order did the World of Motion rap and John Barnes , you can be slow or fast . Peter Beazley genuinely tried out for this rap before John Barnes . I'm going to play it here . I know what you're going to play .
Yeah , brilliant , it's unbelievable . This is Peter Beazley's genuine , genuinely trying to get on the New Order record .
To hold and give for it at the right time . You can be slow or fast , but you must get to the line . They'll always hit you and hurt you . Defend and attack . There's only one way to beat them Get around the back . Catch me , if you can , cause I'm the England man and what you're looking at Is the master plan .
We ain't no hooligan , this ain't a football song . Three lions on my chest .
I know we can't yeah , I mean it again . Is that , is that tragic in its own ? Right like that you can wrap on the laughing . He kind of got like a vocal deformity . I know like you , almost you can't . You can't really hear what he's saying . He almost doesn't open his mouth enough when he speaks .
Almost you must get to the main thing .
It's unbelievable , yeah . So yeah , I mean , and like I say , you know , we got some stick for kind of doing the whole . Go on , who did we do the documentary on and we kind of we were quite a bit of manning yeah , you know I get it . I'm not .
I'm not kind of saying this at the time wasn't well , kind of I'm saying it wasn't okay , but it wasn't perceived as okay . I don't know , let's move on . I just think this is a bit harsh .
This I think if it were your . I don't know your fucking dad , uncle , brother , sister , whatever , and just because it's ugly . But , like you say , they volunteer and start to go forward .
So , yeah , so yeah , we're saying they're asking for it , or are we saying we ? Where are we saying , are we not saying anything or not ?
you can be slow affair , did you laugh ? So again . This is now an insert .
It wasn't part of the original recording we like to show you behind the curtain . This is how it is . We're ending the first part there . That's gone on quite long enough and we appreciate you listening to all of that . We're back next week , although for us it's the same week and we've already been there . So back to the future .
Probably dead by the time you listen to this .
Yeah , I mean , you never know , but I'd be sad if that in a week one of us had died . But the curse could strike . The curse struck Jermaine Genis didn't it this week ?
yeah , yeah , we talked about Jermaine Genis saying about he's on TV too much . Literally will not be able to get on TV for loving the money , but hopefully that's not us . So that's part one done part one .
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