Man Made Mound

Behind the scenes of Thames News

2009-06-11T13:47:00.001+01:00

NTSC colour bars - colour bar generator

2009-06-10T13:42:00.000+01:00

Channel sign off

2009-06-09T13:42:00.001+01:00

The Bloody Apprentice

2009-05-27T15:37:00.003+01:00

Thanks to douchechill
Made by CassetteBoy
http://cassetteboy.wordpress.com/

Credit Crunches - Damian Walters Showreel

2009-05-27T09:57:00.002+01:00

Is this a meme yet?

Hope so. Got me wanting to do forward rolls in the front garden.

The secret of success.

2009-05-21T00:57:00.001+01:00

A Monty Burns motivational recording for his insurance sales force.

A life in 3 minutes 34 secondos....

2009-05-20T16:33:00.004+01:00

I have absolutely no idea what any of this is about.

All I know is, I just couldn't hit the stop button.

If you stop this video before the end, leave a COMMENT below. You are a better, stronger person than I.

How To Fold A T-Shirt

2009-05-11T13:03:00.001+01:00

Fast Folding: How To Fold A T-Shirt In 2 Seconds - Explained

Ram the boob.

2009-05-05T15:51:00.003+01:00

It's a bit like Hole In The Wall. Same all in body suits... but still requires different skills.

Is it just a very surreptitious piece of product placement for HP Hewlett Packard?

(do they make Electric Shock Wet suits?)

Come to think of it - why didn't the bikini lady get "ELECTRIC SHOCK" at the same time.

Amazing music

2009-05-01T14:07:00.001+01:00

Swine Flu Shot - Tamiflu and zanamivir (Relenza)

2009-05-01T11:29:00.005+01:00

We demand Basketballs on the NHS.

Swine Flu? Man, I'm to HIGH to let it catch me.

(update - dammit - every time I link to something here, it ends up getting removed... time to keepvid it myself and not tag anything?)

The Shuffle

2009-04-25T12:00:00.000+01:00

Yes. When you think of Music Mike, how can you not think of "The Shuffle"

Ponch's Disco

2009-04-22T21:43:00.001+01:00

Dschingis Khan.

2009-04-22T15:22:00.000+01:00

You all know the hits "Dschinghis Khan" and "Moskau"...

RED vs Film

2009-03-31T17:31:00.002+01:00

Not sure if this is a viral for Kodak or not, but either way it's bloody funny.

Spot the Difference

2009-03-16T22:19:00.005Z

Is it only me or has anyone else seen Michael McIntyre moonlighting in BBC2's credit crunch hippy chic show Grow Your Own Drugs or was it James Wong judging the dancing on Comic Relief ? I'll let you decide

Never wake a sleepwalking dog

2009-03-13T17:43:00.000Z

Vanessa Hudgens selling vibrators

2009-02-28T16:06:00.002Z

This... is... a vibrator for teenage girls... isn't it?

Kit Curran: update

2009-02-17T14:07:00.003Z

I know I'm the only one who cares, but here's some audio from Kit Curran, including the theme tune, which was released on 7" - "Ultra Fantastico". Love it.

"Eating doesn't get any harder than this..."

2009-02-09T20:09:00.003Z

There something increasingly smug about this ex greengrocer, sorry I mean "ingredients expert"

www.b3ta.com

Bad Day In Graphics

2009-02-05T17:08:00.003Z

One of the comments on youtube:

WTF... do we hamsters all look the same to you people?

Dairy Milk Rip Off

2009-01-25T19:30:00.004Z

You may remember at the end of last year I posted the following video doing the rounds on Youtube of a Japaneese fella with electrodes strapped to his face, that in turn "twitched" his face in time with the music. Something that has become something of "a youtube phenomenon"

Well looks like the folks at Cadbury's "un" creative agency Fallon, have once again borrowed a good idea from youtube for their own gains. No electrodes attached - (there are probably Health and Safety laws preventing them from doing that to children) but with a bit of CGI and a classic 80's soundtrack they have created the same effect in their new advert for Dairy Milk

Here's the original

and here is their version....which is better? answers on a postcard

great advertising

2009-01-23T13:34:00.003Z

English Bands In Unusual Circumstances...

2009-01-14T14:53:00.003Z

We've got some palm trees and an Edit Desk. Let's make a show!

It's like something familiar, but it looks slightly different. The microphones are a bit too bit, or there's a random thing at the beginning.
I will turn this into a blog in its own right.

I Wanna Live Next Door To This Guy

2009-01-08T21:34:00.003Z

He'd be all like that man off Police Academy it'd be ace.

Ringham (belated) RIP

2009-01-08T00:33:00.002Z

We should certainly remember him, but Ringham's not the only one who's late. Why publish the obit this week? And where's the sub-editor at?

Jonathan Ross on twitter

2009-01-07T16:14:00.002Z

Or is he???

http://twitter.com/wossy

the good old boys in ballina.......

2009-01-04T18:26:00.002Z

Ballina

The town has some notable architecture, including the 15th-century Moyne Abbey, and St Muredach's Cathedral, which is the Cathedral Church of the Diocese of Killala. Work on the Cathedral began in 1827. The stone was quarried locally and the roof and ceiling were completed before the Great Famine (1845). The spire was completed in 1855 and by 1875 the organ had been commissioned.

A New Year's Message to Britain. From Hughie Green.

2008-12-31T10:38:00.000Z

Jameson Tonight

2008-12-29T23:54:00.004Z

BathTubShitter Brutal Kitty Cat Dance

2008-12-25T10:14:00.004Z

What says 'Holiday Season' more than a couple having a romantic dance to a track performed by the Japanese group Bathtub Shitter?

Nothing. Or as the lady says at 1.00ish... "Yahtzee!"

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

Merry Christmas 'Mounders

2008-12-24T14:52:00.000Z

Enjoy some Muggy Bonehead...

Merry Christmas

2008-12-21T20:50:00.001Z

Not Wallace & Gromit

2008-12-18T17:54:00.003Z

So what were your favourite BBC Christmas idents?

Surely 1980 has to be a classic...

This is the age.....of the train!

2008-12-17T22:51:00.000Z

Memories

2008-12-17T11:59:00.002Z

How I wish I could find more than a 30" trailer for this

Channel 4 sitcom about a radio presenter.. Kit Curran. King of the Airwaves he was.

Memories

2008-12-17T11:59:00.000Z

Protect and Survive Ringtone

2008-12-11T10:43:00.001Z

From Nick Packham online:
http://nickpackhamonline.wordpress.com/the-cold-war/protect-and-survive-ringtone/

When Radio Reporters ATTACK! or Hughie Green

2008-12-10T10:23:00.003Z

Think Sachsgate and huge controversy in radio is new?

Feast your ears on this.

"Radio Trent has withdrawn an invitation to Television Star Hughie Green to appear on the station this afternoon... after an incident at the Cavendish Woodhouse Furniture Store in Nottingham..."

Ouch! Bags at dawn in Stereo!

Hughie Green - host of the 'recently cancelled' Opportunity Knocks 'stepping to' a reporter John Darby. By controversially claiming he's from Radio Nottingham. And calling him "Four-eyes". It seems. When Canadians Attack. See if you can detect the Hugh-ster on the perv. ughghghghghgh.

This is what they should bring back.

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More Matthew Butler on TISWAS. Brick In The Wall.

2008-12-09T10:32:00.005Z

As tiswasonline states...

"Matthew Butler's second appearance on Tiswas didn't feature a rabbit costume or Bright Eyes. This time he tackled Pink Floyd's Brick In The Wall, while dressed in some kind of punk/hippy outfit. I question the wisdom of whichever ATV staffer thought he should wave around a real hammer..."

Sing along now.

"We don't need no education...
We don't need no thought control."

CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONE - FREIHEIT - KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE

2008-12-08T10:52:00.010Z

Well. Not exactly. Keeping the Dream Alive. "It reached the top 15". This IS the sound of Christmas. Though I don't think it was ever intended as such. Never knew they are actually known as Münchener Freiheit. And not to be confused with the Munich U-Bahn station of the same name. Ah, wikipedia.

But don't watch that. Watch this! The mound goes all austro... germanic...

...Followed by... the news.

MORE HERE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MÃ¼nchener_Freiheit

BUY THE MP3 (cough... in German) HERE!

Tomorrow. Poland! No. FALCO! oh, done 'im.

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Charlie Bit My Finger... apologies

2008-12-07T10:18:00.003Z

Huge apologies for the inclusion of this.

I know Internet Phenomenae have no place on 'the mound'.

And that I'm behind the curve on this. Just wanted to put Harry, and Charlie, stuff here.

And there's more.

Here's THAMES VALLEY TONIGHT with Wesley Smith and Mary Green

AND THE INEVITABLE REMAKES

"My sister and i being bored and remaking the video. Thanks for all the positive comments Hope you enjoy it! Oh & for those that were wondering we're mexican."

"Charlie bit me" 15 years later

"Charlie bit me an' tha' really hurt"
50 years later

"Charlie bit me" the hiphop remix from therotherhamboy

And Austria:
Ein 56-Sekunden-Clip mit den Titel "Charlie Bit My Finger" ist derzeit der Hit im Internet: Schon 65 Millionen Menschen haben dabei zugesehen, wie der zweijährige Charlie Davies-Carr seinem fünfjährigen Bruder Harry in den Finger beißt – und unglaublich keck lacht. Obwohl es sich genau genommen „nur“ um das witzige Heimvideo eines stolzen Vaters handelt, ist der Clip inzwischen das zwölftpopulärste Internet-Video aller Zeiten. Auf der ganzen Welt haben sich sogar Fanclubs formiert, die eigene „Charlie Bit My Finger“-Videos drehen. Bei uns kannst du dir das Video - oben ins Bild klicken! - sowie eine Auswahl der besten "Remakes" (siehe unten) ansehen!
http://www.krone.at/krone/S2/object_id__124729/hxcms/

And Brazil:
Um vídeo de duas crianças colocado pelo pai delas no site YouTube para que pudesse ser visto pelo padrinho que mora em outro país teve mais de 65 milhões de acessos.
http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Tecnologia/0,,MUL911862-6174,00-VIDEO+DE+BEBE+MORDENDO+IRMAO+VIRA+FENOMENO+NO+YOUTUBE.html

And Daily Telegraph:
Parents Howard and Shelley Howard Davies-Carr, from Buckinghamshire, said that they had been overwhelmed by the popularity of the video, which they posted in March 2007.
"To say the response has been insane is not even close. My sons are now almost legendary. People want their autographs – it's just crazy," said Mr Davies-Carr, an IT consultant.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3564392/Finger-biting-brothers-become-YouTube-hit.html

And the OFFICIAL MERCHANDISE PAGE (according to their dad's youtube channel, HDCYT)
http://www.zazzle.com/charlie+bit+gifts

NO! IT'S... BA. BAH BAH! CHOO CHOO! BADDA BADDDADDA! From the top.

2008-12-06T08:47:00.004Z

This is a good day at work.

Behind the scenes of Brian Wilson recording the Beach Boys album "Pet Sounds".

Wouldn't It Be Nice. If the Harps and Accordians can get it right.

Sing along now!

Wouldn't it be nice if we were older - then we wouldn't have to wait so long.
And wouldn't it be nice to live together - in the kind of world where we belong.
You know it's gonna make it that much better - when we can say goodnight and stay together.
Oh wouldn't it be nice.
Ooooohhhhhhh - baaa baaa baaaooooooooohhhhhh.
Oh happy times together we've been spending.
I wish that every kiss was never ending.
Oh wouldn't it be nice.

Maybe if, we hope and pray and think and wish it might come true.
Run run runooooh.
Baby then, there wouldn't be a single day we couldn't do.
We could be married. And then we'd be happy.
Oh wouldn't it be nice.

You know it seems the more we talk about it.
It only seems to make it worse to live without it.
But lets talk about it.
Oh wouldn't it be nice.

"According to Carl Wilson, it took a week to record the group's vocals to Brian's satisfaction"

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The Krypton Factor's coming back

2008-12-03T13:29:00.004Z

To celebrate, here's the greatest game they ever played..

Love the apology to viewers in the Channel Islands..

Wasssup... 8 years on...

2008-12-03T10:02:00.000Z

Could be 16 years now for all I know -- so late at coming to this, you've probably seen it already.

It opens with the original ad... then... some more...

Train porn

2008-12-02T17:52:00.003Z

I got one of these trains to work this morning. I get one most mornings. It's weird to think they were built more than thirty years ago by men in NHS specs.

(by the way, sorry if you're not interested in trains and stuff)

Is it me or does 'peg man' sound toasted?

2008-11-28T16:29:00.001Z

Credit crunch, rah rah rah

2008-11-28T16:15:00.002Z

There are numerous problems with this:
1. It's the credit crunch (actually, onset of recession), people are in pain, how much sympathy do you feel for a public school?
2. The completely flat intonation-free voiceover
3. You have two teenage girls, one a cutie, one a fugly. Which one do you interview?

Woolworths Goes Under

2008-11-27T10:39:00.000Z

It all started to go wrong with Bill Oddie.

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This is what they want

2008-11-26T15:05:00.006Z

Matthew Butler. The kid who dressed as a rabbit at the height of Watership Down fever and sang live "Is it a kind of dream" "Bright Eyes". Putting in all the search (Tiswas, Chris Tarrant, Sally James, Birmingham, ATV) terms in the hope that this joyful milestone in British Television is shared with as wide an audience as possible. One shot. The full three minutes.

Are you watching, T4??? ARE YOU?
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Falco - The Sound of Musik

2008-11-24T10:23:00.000Z

Mr. No Legs

2008-11-22T12:56:00.002Z

The genre is called dis-action.
And love the way this vid is tagged on youtube as wheelchairfu.

MORE HERE:
http://www.internalbleeding.net/2008/04/mr-no-legs

“The Cops want to get him. The Mob wants to hit him. But no one wants to meet
him face to face.” - that’s the tag line for Ricou Browning’s 1981 film”Mr. No
Legs”, starring Richard Jaeckel (Delta Force 2), John Agar, and Lloyd Bochner.

Mr. No Legs is a legless enforcer that rides around in a bad ass
wheelchair, equiped with side mounted shotguns that flip out of the armrests at
the push of a button. Those shotguns have auto-aim too, so even though they
point dead ahead, they can shoot dudes 3 feet off the ground with no problem. If
the guns don’t stop you, his whirlwind stump-fu will really trip you up, fool."

Roger Moore - Where does love go.

2008-11-20T12:43:00.000Z

From manmademound6andahalf

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Charlie the Unicorn 1&2

2008-11-18T15:59:00.005Z

and another installment....

Iceland Vs. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

2008-11-18T10:16:00.000Z

It's kicking off, and it's finally here.

Reg Varney R.I.P.

2008-11-17T12:43:00.001Z

Shred0006

2008-11-16T14:57:00.002Z

Only just joined this phenomenon now - from SHRED0006

Ozzy Osborne and Jake E. Lee - shredded.

Yes. He gets lots of clips of guitar solos and "great moments in Ax history"... then has a go at redubbing them himself.

Just when you think it's going to stop... it just keeps on going.

They're all here...

http://www.stsanders.com/

More childhood

2008-11-15T09:57:00.000Z

Nowadays we get GMTV.

And check this. Is it me or have they not typed Morrissey, Morissey, Moriseyyy rright?

God bless TV-am, TVam

The Londonboys with Mad Lizzie

2008-11-14T09:52:00.000Z

This was the only television we had while growing up.

I present - The Londonboys with Mad Lizzie.

Tales Of The Unexpected

2008-11-13T10:20:00.002Z

And the Benny Hill version...

You might have seen this somewhere else

2008-11-12T23:01:00.002Z

but it's funny - so here goes again.

Part of Turkish Rambo...

2008-11-12T10:28:00.001Z

Legs & Co... In a funky town....

2008-11-11T15:55:00.001Z

YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A 'Good' Video

2008-11-11T14:08:00.000Z

YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A 'Good' Video

Indian Superman...

2008-11-10T15:32:00.000Z

And Spiderman... woman, thing.

Telly Savalas Looks At Birmingham

2008-11-08T14:33:00.017Z

Kojak is apparenlty a B1 man trapped in an NY body.

"I spent... HOURS... in the beautiful one hundred an-fifty-year-old botanical gardens...
and there are tenacresoffit."

I can assure you... This is my kinda town...

TELLY SAVALAS SAYS...
I was told to get there before it all blew away... Bourneville...The Church of St. Martin.

We're in the Heart of the West Midlands... 2 million use it's Modern Rail Terminal.

"Motorways mean problems. I visited the West Midlands Police Motorway Control Unit..."

"The sound of disco music was in the air, so I wandered over to see what gives..."

And many, many more...

Shoo Shoo?

2008-11-07T23:44:00.002Z

Because at least one other 'mounder was obsessed with this in the days before Youtube.

Part Deux, with the killer breath, is almost as good.

Don't look at the boobies!

2008-11-06T23:37:00.005Z

Yeah, it was the BBC what overreacted, wasn't it, Georgina. Ah, Georgina...no, focus and stay angry...don't look at the sexy girls slapping their bums with 666 written on them...think of what poor national treasure Manuel Sachs would do if he had to see this and, oh, enjoy it...that's not at all wrong...but then there's those fishnets and the tight red top. Ah, to hell with it.

Look at the boobies!

Hey, isn't this supposed to be 'burlesque'?

Georgina Baillie, Georgina Bailley Bailey Baily Bailie Bally Bailiey Banking Bailout

"Hopefully they'll let me keep the Swastikas"

2008-11-06T23:30:00.006Z

It's amazing what you'll find when your search term is 'Satanic Sluts'.

Love his stumbling explanation of how he 'accidentally' found 'nazi porn'.

But he makes up for it with his inspired graphics of Golden Girls and Kramer to censor the boobies.

Hey Bobby, what's the French for 'Aaaaaaaaagh!'

2008-11-06T14:46:00.002Z

Who says footballers are, how you say, knuckle-dragging, uni-brain celled troglodytes?

CNN ELECTION NIGHT HOLOGRAM KIDS

2008-11-06T14:14:00.004Z

Raised by a wild pack of Wolf Blitzers...

A village of CNN ELECTION NIGHT HOLOGRAM KIDS living in the U.K.

In the 1970's.

CNN ELECTION NIGHT HOLOGRAM

2008-11-06T11:19:00.004Z

This looks awesome - I want to have a go

check out his arrival on set - beam me up!

Doctor Boswell Reviews

2008-11-04T18:02:00.003Z

Yes, if the American election fever is getting to much then take some time out and enjoy another of Doctor Boswell fascinating reviews. He's back with his cockatoo and this time he's talking Cyber Sunday - whatever the hell that is. Suggestions on a postcard on what we would like Dr Boswell to review next- I'm sure he'll oblige, he looks very giving!

Dancing with the dogs...

2008-11-04T15:09:00.001Z

Failin' Pailin - Blame Canada

2008-11-04T13:57:00.002Z

Is Steve Penk working for Canadian radio now? Let's hope so.
Still, 'Sarkozy' should never have told Palin he'd f***ed her grand-daughter.

Election results

2008-11-04T11:03:00.006Z

Forget NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, CNN, BBC, ITV and Sky. I wanna watch these guys tonight.

That's if the ginger guy ain't already in jail, cos he looks angry - and this was in 2006.

OH - and UK TV anoraks - hang around for the very last three seconds..

The polls have closed.. and the truth can be told

2008-11-04T00:00:00.002Z

All about Barack Santos. I mean Matt Obama.

2008-11-03T17:34:00.008Z

Comparing The West Wing character Matt Santos and West Wing hopeful Barack Obama isn't new. Neither is this video.

But it's well worth a reminder of the genius of The West Wing...

US Elections - the Jerry Springer way..

2008-11-03T16:52:00.003Z

As election fever reaches.. er.. fever pitch.. time to look back through the election archives.

How about this from Jerry Springer in 1980 - yes - him off of shouty TV.

The real genius is that he actually tries to suggest that paying for stripper-sex is a helpful learning experience for him being governor. Bit like saying "I can see Russia from my front porch" qualifies you for foreign policy discussions. Genius.

Hooo, Hoo Hoo, Hoo Hoo Hoo, Hoooo Hooo Hooo Hoo HOO HOOOO

2008-11-03T16:48:00.003Z

Oh, alright, one more...

The effect the new Lloyds TSB ad on its customers.

The original:-

The reality:-

The reality:-

The reality:-

The reality:-

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They drink it in the congo.

2008-11-03T15:31:00.000Z

This is the news.

But every time I hear the word, in my head I hear this...

THE SOUND OF A THOUSAND VISITORS...

2008-11-03T14:40:00.003Z

Man Made Mounders.

Congratulations... We have hit 1000 visitors.

To celebrate this, here is a video someone has made of themselves doing the annoying singer from the Lloyds TSB advert with the weird trains from the top of a staircase in a Cold War Museum.

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ANYBODY OUT THERE?!?!

2008-11-02T15:10:00.000Z

Hello

Just a check... is anyone out there reading this?

Feel free to leave a comment by clicking 'Comments' below.

Don't be shy. Say hi!

David Cameron: "Sack Jonathan Ross"

2008-11-01T10:18:00.001Z

What could David Cameron, POSSIBLY have against the convicted media-terrorist Jonathan Ross?

Hitlers TV Dinner

2008-10-31T17:47:00.005Z

Just spotted this at the bottom of an yet another Ross Brand article on the Sky News website.

(there's a screen grab below if it's changed) I wonder how an article about "Hitlers TV Dinner" ended up on the same page as "Sachsgate" Possibly a "web bot" automatically sorting stories into relevance. Brand...check.....Ross.....check.....Sachs....check....Daily Mail.....check.......Hitler......check......

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Jonathan-Ross-Drops-Out-Of-Comedy-Awards-Over-BBC-Prank-Call-Furore/Article/200810415137104?lpos=UK_News_Top_Stories_Header_1&lid=ARTICLE_15137104_Jonathan_Ross_Drops_Out_Of_Comedy_Awards_Over_BBC_Prank_Call_Furore#comment

Friday music corner

2008-10-31T14:45:00.005Z

This weeks entrants are a bottle based trio and a Japanese man with a thing for electro...sorry that should be electrodes.

New Radio Two Scandal

2008-10-31T12:19:00.003Z

Breaking news from the BBC - "Sally Traffic" looks sure to be forced to resign from Radio Two after this outrageous comment before the watershed:

Newsnight - The new home of edgy comedy on the Beeb

2008-10-31T10:41:00.004Z

Well if any good has come out of the 'Sachsgate' then this has got to it. Last night Emily Maitlis on Newsnight doing Frankie Boyles gag about the Queen's pussy to the DG. Something of a Halloween special I think you'll agree. Enjoy!

Russell Brand Apology

2008-10-31T10:39:00.001Z

Just noticed the picture in the background.

Breaking "News"

2008-10-31T10:28:00.004Z

From the BBC News Channel. And BBC Radio 2.

The Daily Mail Headline Generator

2008-10-31T08:36:00.009Z

(picture: doing the rounds by email - created by ’Beau Bo D’Or‘ - my Halloween costume tonight)

This week, most people have come to the Man Made Mound by searching on google the following terms.

Georgina Bailley, Georgina Bailly, Georgina Bailey topless, Andrew Sacks, Andrew Sachs, Sack Andrew Sachs, Sachsgate, Johnathan Ross, Manuel, Manwell, Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand, Satanic Sluts, Voluptua, and even Russel Brand.

Just for you, here is Chris Applegate's Daily Mail Headline Generator (the Daily-Mail-O-Matic):

http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/

DID JONATHAN ROSS CAUSE THE CREDIT CRISIS?

"I've fallen out me wheelchair"

2008-10-31T01:46:00.002Z

This Ross and Brand thing is exasperating. Who'd work at the BBC now? What's really annoying is the reaction of the people you respect. Take Lucy Mangan in The Guardian. I'm a fan of her TV reviews and Cable Girl column, but then she writes this.

She didn't think it was funny, fair enough. But she takes a matronly tone (odd, as from her photo she definitely looks young enough to be a GDRBWLTF) and then compares what they did with other 'funnier' prank phone calls, listing examples of Peter Cook, Victor Lewis-Smith and Rory Bremner phoning up unsuspecting victims, including celebrities, pretending to be someone else.

Which is not the same thing at all.

Brand and Ross called up as themselves someone who had originally intended to be on Brand's show that day, and left a funny/inappropriate/offensive message, only to make it worse/funnier by phoning back to apologise.

I mean, what's the point if the jokes you're comparing are completely different? I'd have forgiven that, though, because they are funny examples, and it's worth repeating them. But then she says the funniest, actually she says 'greatest', prank caller was Jon Culshaw. Jon Culshaw!

Every impression he does sounds like. Jon Culshaw! He's not even remotely funny and he constantly looks constipated, with a face you'd punch if you weren't certain he'd just turn around and do a really rubbish impression of you that's basically Jon Culshaw repeating something you just said. How on earth does he get to keep his job?

And to make matters worse, The Guardian's wonderful policy of outlining any updates or corrections to articles means we get to see that Lucy, the TV critic no less, originally referred to Lewis-Smith's brilliant hoax on the This Life office, rather than the That's Life office. Because a shakicam-heavy potty-mouthed genital warts 'n all drama about twentysomething lawyers and a one-for-all-the-family watchdog, campaigns and nudge, nudge, wink, wink comedy magazine show are so easily mixed up. She might just as well have referred to the show with the Irish fella and the big red book.

Speaking of which, I hated This is Your Life. The theme tunes for that and Sale of The Century still send bored 10-years-old shivers down my spine.

That Lewis-Smith call to That's Life is worth a listen. Mangan says reading about it makes her laugh, but why do that when you can use your lugholes here.

I was hoping it would be on Youtube but no such like. Instead, there's this. And it's still current. Enjoy.

Dr Who and the Brighton Beach mystery

2008-10-30T16:55:00.008Z

When stories collide.

On the day David Tennant says he's quitting Dr Who, this washes up on Brighton beach.

Surely this proves there's a link...

(for the non Dr Who watchers, that's actually Colin Baker becoming Sylvester McCoy. Honest)

Turkish Superman

2008-10-30T15:24:00.002Z

Christopher Reeve s, innit...

I'll have a B please Bob

2008-10-30T14:37:00.006Z

"Which B was the first actor to play James Bond?"

A quick clue..

Yes, him with the questions was the first actor to play James Bond in a 1956 adaptation on the radio. So maybe in thirty years Daniel Craig will be presenting an afternoon quiz show with posh teenage contestants.

The Americans are Living in the 1970s too

2008-10-30T11:36:00.002Z

Remember the ad campaign and promos for "Life on Mars" that used the old BBC blue and yellow globe and the classic BBC logo? A quick reminder..

Well the American version of "Life on Mars" has justed started on ABC in the United States - and they've got in on the act too. Check out this nice 1973 style trailer..

Lets hope they don't take it all the way and elect Richard Nixon next week..

Oh alright... another ATTENTIONE - IL EST MYRON!

2008-10-29T21:54:00.000Z

CINDERELLA does go to the ball...

God bless Shaun Micallef

Here...

Here...

ET ICI....!

manmademound2

Enough. Can everyone please stop apologising to Mr Sachs

2008-10-29T21:06:00.007Z

I've managed to track down this blow by blow account of how the drama and subsequent apologies from all parties involved at the BBC unfolded.

STOP PRESS - Dr Boswell's (last post) opinion on the Brand/Ross/Sachs scandal has been taken down

2008-10-29T15:07:00.003Z

luckily here are his views on Masters Of The Universe. Enjoy whilst I'm off to badger his youtube channel until he reposts the previous one.

Is he supposed to be this funny?
What a Budgie smuggler!

The Doctors in again!! Yeh!

2008-10-29T12:58:00.008Z

UPDATE 2 UPDATE OF LAST UPDATE:
Dr Boswell has seen the light and following Russell Brands resignation the Dr is broadcasting to the nation again. Someone have a word with Radio 2 - I think we have found Brands replacement!

UPDATE: Just received this from Dr Boswell on his reason for taking down the clip. Looks like someone put the frighteners on the big guy
"I removed the video as I received a huge amount of backlash against it. I will consider uploading it again"
I sure hope you do Dr. - It's Gold!