A Christopher Morris Poll

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Best / funniest / most enjoyable / most interesting... whatever.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
The Day Today (1994, BBC 2)	11
Brass Eye (1997, Channel 4)	5
Blue Jam (1997-1999, BBC Radio 1)	5
Brass Eye Special (2001, Channel 4)	2
Chris Morris (1988-1993, BBC GLR)	2
The Chris Morris Music Show (1994, BBC Radio 1)	2
Nathan Barley (2005, Channel 4)	2
Why Bother? (1994, BBC Radio 3)	2
On The Hour (1991-1992, BBC Radio 4)	1
Second Class Male/Time To Go (1999, newspaper column for The Observer)	1
Bushwhacked (2002)	0
Absolute Atrocity Special (2002, newspaper pullout for The Observer)	0
The Smokehammer (2002, website)	0
My Wrongs 8245 - 8249 and 117 (2002, short film)	0
Jam/Jaaaaam (2000, Channel 4)	0
Big Train (1999, BBC 2) Various sketches.	0
No Known Cure (August 1987- March 1990, BBC Radio Bristol)	0
The Chris Morris Christmas Show (25 December 1990, BBC Radio 1)	0
Up Yer News (1990, BSB)	0
Loose Ends (1989, BBC Radio 4)	0
The IT Crowd (2006, Channel 4)	0

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Very tempted to go for Nathan Barley, but it was Brass Eye in the end, had to be.

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:02 (seventeen years ago) link

The Day Today, by a fair distance in retrospect.

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:03 (seventeen years ago) link

The Day Today should win it, but I voted for the Richard Geefe columns because I was actually fooled at the time.

― Groke, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:05 (seventeen years ago) link

where's "so over him"?

― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:11 (seventeen years ago) link

jus click the IT Crowd.

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeh yeh Day Today/Brass Eye whatever, but Blue Jam gets to my soul in a way not much else does.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:13 (seventeen years ago) link

xp
zang!

― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Really it ought to be Blue Jam, but I'm going for his GLR show because of fond memories of Sir Hugh Massingberd Massingberd, Wayne Carr &c.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:15 (seventeen years ago) link

On The Hour is currently being repeated on radio 7 btw. and is great.

Concern yesterday as the European average fell below the European average.

― koogs, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:17 (seventeen years ago) link

voted for Why Bother. meeting of minds etc.

― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:18 (seventeen years ago) link

ok where the hell did my post go ?

― Ste, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link

JOHN FASHANU JOHN FASHANU JOHN FASHANU JOHN FASHANU...

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link

OTM

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:23 (seventeen years ago) link

'on the hour'/'the day today' wasn't just morris. neither was 'the it crowd' but you see what i mean.

i haven't voted yet.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLuaqNoxjro

"That's John Fa-shar-noo, tonight, BBC2"

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link

'nathan barley' is totes awes.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, my post disappeared as well.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:25 (seventeen years ago) link

FIX!

― Ste, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:26 (seventeen years ago) link

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:32 (seventeen years ago) link

JOHN FASHANU JOHN FASHANU JOHN FASHANU JOHN FASHANU...

-- blueski, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 10:22 AM (9 minutes ago)
OTM

-- acrobat, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 10:23 AM (9 minutes ago)

OTM

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:33 (seventeen years ago) link

On the Hour running it close with "time is running out for all of Derbyshire's cats", "Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman" et al though.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:36 (seventeen years ago) link

JOHN FASHANU JOHN FASHANU JOHN FASHANU JOHN FASHANU...

-- blueski, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 10:22 AM (9 minutes ago)
OTM

-- acrobat, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 10:23 AM (9 minutes ago)

OTM

-- Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:33 (23 seconds ago)

MOT

― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:37 (seventeen years ago) link

too early?

― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:37 (seventeen years ago) link

"Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman" et al though.

Paul Edward Edward Edward Edward Edward Edward Wagemenn?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Needs an erroneous lower case e.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, GLR show for me (even if I thought he was a Voctor Lewis Smith rip-off at the time) as it was truly remarkable period for London radio. Whjen will such golden ages reappear?

― Pete, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I vote the Select flexi.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link

cookdandbombd have them archived i think. i know i got one of the GLR shows off their. i found it a little unrewarding as there were a bunch of jokes about sonia thaat i didn't get.

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Polish ice hats! Good point!

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Also classic: that demented rant about how shit Virgin Radio is

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Does anyone have any of the old radio shows (esp. "On the Hour" and "Day Today")? UKNova seems to be no help. I remember hearing one to cap off a two-hour special on the state of radio comedy in Britain; it had won the phone-in contest for favourite BBC radio comedy.

-- Tracer Hand, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 1:54 PM (2 minutes ago)

yeah torrents via cooked and bombed. also has blue jam and the excellent 1994 music show. accounts for a lot of my harddrive. ya boy lous jagger also has 'em.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i re-listened to a few of the radio 1 shows and was disappointed.
they reminded me of the mid 90's too much, sounded laddish and larksome. re-listened to all of ON THE HOUR however and it was still one of the funniest things i've ever heard. for straight laughs-per-minute it's unbeatable. it's also so much warmer and innocent than the later stuff, most of which i can't stomach anymore.

― pisces, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link

oh and TRACER i got the complete ON THE HOUR off s0uls££k

― pisces, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link

admittedly torrenting the radio one shows was mostly a nostalgia trip for me, and stuff that slayed me aged 13 maybe doesn't as much now. but it wasn't really laddish -- 'laddism' only got going in '94 and the shows felt genuinely -- red flag ilx word coming up -- SUBVERSIVE.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link

see louis jagger's theory of "progressive comedy"

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link

i wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks for the tips, all!

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link

no, subverting formula, expectations etc is all well and good i am just very dubious about stuff where the laffs are sidelined in favour of nebulous ideas such as "progress". i mean morris himself seems to have relaized this but doesn't know what the hell to about it though.

-- acrobat, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 2:22 PM (30 minutes ago)

louis and me have argued forcefully elsewhere that blue jam does have lols. there are different sorts of lols. but lols it has.

i don't like 'jam' though. there's no hard-and-fast set of criteria for this: sometimes dark works, sometimes not. sometimes straightforward sitcom does the job, sometimes not. but i do have a bias toward trying new formats. i think 'nathan barley' was a decent stab at reconciling the two; not perfect, but it might improve.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i have only heard the blue jam CD and that's left me with little to no interest in seeking out anymore of it. thou you and the jagg did argue that the series has more obviously funny stuff in it. i liked jam the tv show but i wouldn't say i liked it as comedy, i liked the atmosphere but only occasionally did it make me laugh. in my mind it just seems blurry, is this comedy or something else? am i watching this because i hope it will amuse me? if the answer is no then i'm not sure i'd call it comedy.

i don't think "dark" is such a problem, i mean there are episodes of dads army or porridge you could reasonabbly describe as "dark", nathan barley failed imo cos it wasn't dark enough. i think there is a conflict in comedy between making the audience laugh and "deepening" it, whether it's through pathos, satire or whatevs. morris has just in recent years imo had problems with striking a decent balance between his various impulses. cf adam and joe's Goitre parody for the best way of putting the arguement.

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link

at this rate Nathan Barley is going to be talked about 20 years from now as a cast-iron classic foolishly under-rated by the idiots of OUR time.

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah it will be.

'i mean there are episodes of dads army or porridge you could reasonabbly describe as "dark"'

both of those programmes are lame tho.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link

...

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Difficult but I think the Radio One shows for me - finding Johnny Walker dead in the next studio and phoning around taxidermists to see if they would stuff him for the Radio One museum still makes me laugh. Also nostalgia reasons because of the music...

― cheasyweasel, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link

togtq is just the new (or old) lex basically - saying things are shit just to get a rise out of people.

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link

nathan barley = paris hilton, huh

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Paris Hilton's funnier

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm not trying to get a rise!

maybe i will do a poll of repetitive, played-to-death "classic" uk sitcoms.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link

is there previous form of a show as unwatched and slated as NB being held up as a cast iron classic 20 years down the line?

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm not trying to get a rise!

yeah he says that a lot too.

sitcoms repetitive? ubiquitous? never!

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link

"is there previous form of a show as unwatched and slated as NB being held up as a cast iron classic 20 years down the line?

-- acrobat, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 4:07 PM (2 minutes ago)"

hard to know because obv unpopular shows disappeared into the vaults. but there are zillions of examples from the rest of popular culture where this sort of thing has happened.

i don't generally like sitcoms.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link

repetitive ones anyway.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link

also i named them specifically not cos they are "classic" jus cos they are not normally associated with the narrow view of "dark" but have some pretty bleak moments.

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link

"it's the repetition i find amusing"

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link

don't panic don't panic

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

ha. i forgot to vote.

― acrobat, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't think I even noticed this one!

― chap, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost: would it have been for Blue Jam? if not then it's no loss :P

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

suddenly i see.

anyway no i was torn between BES, BS and TDT. BES i loved at the time in an omg life changing, generation defining (hi enriques!) kinda way but then i looked at the c and b, even the as-it-happened ilx response and have had to go back and see if i missed something. BS i have watched more but now TDT just seems... funnier.

― acrobat, Thursday, 10 May 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

BS...do you mean BE?

(or BJ?)

― Just got offed, Thursday, 10 May 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

i mean Brass Eye. woops.

― acrobat, Thursday, 10 May 2007 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

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