Chris Morris????What's the deal?

is a good place to start.

actually this one's a bit better.

what makes this rise above the usual is a)how far the take the joke,and b)the rest of the show,a few week sketches,but relentlessly funny and some of the best use of the english language ever on television
in my opinion only twin peaks and the simpsons come close in terms of justifying the existance of television

Have you seen Jam Robin? That's also out on DVD, it's a comedy sketch show. Pretty twisted and a bit hit and miss but still fucking hilarious in places.

see also The Day Today, which does for news programs what Brass does for documentries.

One of the best things about Chris Morris shows is the use of the graphics, which is spot on and adds to the realistic feel

Morris is most famous in the UK for a Brass Eye special that mockjed the then media obsession with peadophillia, causing outrage in the more knee jerk newspapers and politicians. search the bbc web site for more info

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/faceless/com2/frame.html

the real player streaming doesn't seem to work at the moment but you can download the files - they are rather large but well worth it!

However, probably the single funniest thing I heard Morris-related is a thing from an old radio show where he sent his studio stooge to get a taxi playing a teenager being guided through his first taxi ride by his father (Morris) through an earpiece.

HUH?

the bush re-edits can be found at

www.thesmokehammer.com

anyway,i had (but lost)an mp3 file of a morris sketch about an agorophobic,it was done on the radio in the form of a mock letter from a listener,it didn't seem to be on any of the websites,does anyone here happen to have it?
it was really good

"How can they use these lovely pets for criminal and murderous acts?" asked Rasha Khairir, 25, an employee of a Baghdad stock brokerage. "A poor dog can't refuse what they are doing with him because he can't think and decide."

Morris, ahead of the curve again: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-dogs10aug10,0,2727461.story?coll=la-home-headlines

But! WHALES!

http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3HDZ6J5T9HR0R1ZH1HKNHJPCVA

It's from his early radio days, and obscenely funny- a fake REM song about eating whales with horrified intro from Morris. There's also a fake Pixies track that's just as effective, but I don't have it lying around. Should be on Soulseek though.

Motherbanger!
http://s52.yousendit.com/d.php?id=ZYDQUND9PQSS3DVKDXLQYNI88

ONE TWO THREE FOUR WELL MY MOTHER IS A WHORE LET ME TELL YOU MORE

BLOUSE

if anyone has that in digi-audio format somehow, it would be lovely, obviously.

When I saw your photo, in the press, I thought
Is she blonde?, under her dress, I thought
I hope they make her, take off her dress
For the next one, but they didn't even know it would be so much better if it had been alright sitting there having a fag

I used to have your picture, in the toilet
I wanted you to see my naked body and oil it
But my mother had to catch me and spoil it

And I don't think even you, could have given me more
Murder

Every time I see your picture, Myra
I have to phone my latest girlfriend and fire 'er
And find a prostitute that looks like you and hire 'er
Oh, me oh Myra

You better watch out Brady, I'm gonna 'ave ya lady
Just 'cause I wan-'er, just 'cause I can get her and you can't
So pogo on that you twat

can someone send me the pixies thing? i cant access it for some reason. hotmail is good, thanks.

I liked Nathan Barley a bunch.

He was really a consummate radio comedian/DJ - where you find him relatively solo, unlike say, The Day Today, Nathan Barley (which I liked in parts; particularly the "BAD, to have a BAD uncle..." episode, though that just failed to quite ignite into full brilliance) or the Brass Eye Special, which had sizeable contributions from others. "Blue Jam", particularly, was brilliant work, and it seems remarkable just 6-8 years on that it was broadcast on BBC Radio 1. A mix of ambient-pop (Moloko, Stereolab, Aphex Twin, Alessi Bros. is a fair sample) and toying with the mind. Clearly "Twin Peaks" (use of darkly atmospheric music) and Viv Stanshall (the loosely ongoing saga of the monologues) are heavily drawn upon. But Morris has a whole different dynamic with the intertextuality of Michael St. John Alexander's 'dance charts' and the like, and citing of various Radio 1 DJs. Most of all, I think that the hour of Blue Jam was an unpredictable, uncanny listening experience; you never quite knew what you would hear next, or quite believe you had heard it when it came. It really didn't work so well on TV, despite some fine performances from the ensemble, particularly David Cann.

It was the sketch about the dog that got turned into the less successful short fiilm (My Wrongs...). Madness (literally, as distinct tones of schizophrenia in that one.)

His sound is amazing. He must record at high volume or something, 'cos you hear every lick of the lips, evry swallow, every sigh. All those creepy scenes with doctors in Blue Jam with the awkwardness literally amplified.

The use of language is great as well. 'There's a man over there smoking a crack' etc.

Then "Little Girl Balls" from the Blue Jam CD comes up.

He gives me a horrified look and buries himself in his in-flight magazine for the next three hours.

AWKWARD.

Enjoy.

it's on the dvds but i'm not sure which series or which episode it is from memory. i'll have a look over the weekend, see if i can find it (dvd player doesn't do ffwd too well so i'm not keen on having to scan through them all)

!!!

I never realised that was the final line! I love CM even more now...

The second 10” release from Bigga Dread/Carlton ‘Killawatt’ Valley is a barrel of ragga laughs. Rumoured to be Chris Morris of Warp/Blue Jam fame doing the chatter and his brother writing the music it certainly has some funny moments as well as rough-ass ragga beats. With lyrics like ‘Special Request to the man’a Jack the Ripper, Special Request to my man Gary Glitter’, you know you’re in for a funny one.... ‘Wicked man a’lick it, stick it up me ... READ MORE ABOUT: CARLTON 'KILLAWATT' VALLEY, Bigga Dread, Chariot READ MORE ABOUT: CARLTON 'KILLAWATT' VALLEY, Bigga Dread, Chariot

-- koogs (il...), August 13th, 2005.

it's on the episode entitled "Decline," i'm pretty sure

Release date: September 26, 2005. Not yet available: you may still order this title. We will dispatch it to you when it is released by the studio.

[Cut to Rolling Stone reporter Derrin Zikks, looking pretentious with a silly beard and moustache and a pompous accent]

ZIKKS: The whole contrervesy is preperstrous, his chorus is obviously ironic.

[Back to the video]

FUR Q: "Uzi like a metal dick in my hand/magazine like a big testicle gland/bitch wanna try it/I said 'keep her quiet'/shove it up her motherfuckin' ass and fry it."

I never knew Carlton 'Killawatt' Valley was Morris-related too, haha. Makes sense..

His Breezeblock mixes are great, too, though the intro to the second (IIRC) one is a bit...off. FRRRRAAAANNNNK GOOOORRRRSHIINNN LIIIIKES TO INTERFEEEEERE WIIIITH CHIIIILDREEEENNNN.

http://www.javelinamx.com/Batmobile/gorshin1.jpg

Seriously, what the hell?

it was. it was also on the dvd as a standalone music track without the commentary over it.

alex, is that your real email address?

When you monged so soft and blacked in cupboard, but other hands knocky, try to get in. "All right?" "Hello?" While you lie still, biting hoover bag's sweet dust in ee gob.

And better than the outside, really. Possibly. No.

Then blink emerge at last, and all people gone, when now you needy, so needy, like a mimmy mim.

And when ee be retched out so long ee dry to fossilised munch, bending like a mad, angry with the ground. Absurd man. Shoot him!

Then ee welcome. Oo ab welcome, in Blue Jam...

what an atrocious transcription, the joke is that the KILLINGS are ironic!

I might need to invest in the Day Today DVDs and relisten, my VHS copies are monged senseless.