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I rate this guy as the most important and subversive comedian since Bill Hicks.
He hasn't been on your screens for a while, but you can now buy his "Blue Jam" series on cassette and CD from the BBC Library.
If you're unfamiliar with Morris, here's a brief resume:
Started with GLR, fired twice.
1st time for filling the news room with helium, pretty funny and got sacked, reinstated after protest from news-team.
Fired again for something much, much funnier.
He edited a Queen's Xmas speech so it became a lot more interesting, but also highly treasonous.
The bits I can put in here are:
"Good afternoon to you, I am speaking to you from the cross." and "Where my sister & I would often recieve the armies of England where we would service them all before a nice walk around church".
Then went and set up his own company where he would write articles for newspapers under different names and took to appearing on talk-shows in disguise as an expert on far ranging topics.
Imagine an incogito Peter Cook.
Co-Wrote/Produced and starred in "The Day Today", an hysterically funny swipe at programmes like Newsnight, with almost deadly accurate mockeries of these programmes.
(Introduced the world to Alan Partridge as well as Sports Anchor).
Each show would start with headlines, such as
"I'm so sorry yells exploding plumber"
"Headmaster charged for using big faced child as satellite dish" and my personal fav, "Teenager roasts himself in sacrifice to Chris Kelly"
Then went to Radio 1 where he presented a show called "Blue Jam" at 1am Wednesday mornings with no publicity at all.
Dangerous radio, extremely dark and nasty set to ambient music.
Much swearing and a personal vendetta against Jo Whiley. (I'm not even going to repeat some of the things said).
And then came Brass Eye.
Another fictional current affair programme that generated the largest amount of complaints for any series shown on Channel 4.
Eachw week would be a different topic, with reports and genuine star guests that were so eager to appear "right on" that they didnt stop to think.
My personal fav was the drugs episode, where he got Noel Edmonds to appear in an appeal to ban "cake", an evil drug that activates a part of the brain called "Shatners Basoon".
There actually ended up being questions asked in the House of Commons over the concerns of "cake", they took it that seriously.
Or the Animal Welfare episode with Carla Lane in almost tears upon watching (fake) footage of Iraquis launching bloated cows at the enemy with massive catapults, and an interview with a man that fought otters for money.
This show was cancelled after it was mentioned in an internal memo that the previous week's episode on sex contained a subliminal flash message, scrawled on cardboard that said "Michael Grade (C4 controller) is a c...."
He then wrote a column for The Gaurdian where he pretended to be a man diagnosed with terminal cancer of the toe and had 4 months to live. A sort of "My Diary", and readers were outraged when it became apparent that it was a hoax.
A C4 series called "Jam" recently finished, a version of his radio show. Ambient music over bizarre and disturbing comedy sketches.
One involved a man holding up an off-license with a gun in his stomach he had swallowed earlier (it went wrong and he blew through his spine and took out an OAP behind him).
Morris is still around, although he rarely gives interviews, preferring to pop up anywhere and highlight the banality of modern society's obsession with the media and celebrity.
A new series of Jam starts soon, but they wont advertise when because of the enevitable complaints.
Keep an ear out for it, truly amusing and dangerous radio, something we get so little of these days.
He hasn't been on your screens for a while, but you can now buy his "Blue Jam" series on cassette and CD from the BBC Library.
If you're unfamiliar with Morris, here's a brief resume:
Started with GLR, fired twice.
1st time for filling the news room with helium, pretty funny and got sacked, reinstated after protest from news-team.
Fired again for something much, much funnier.
He edited a Queen's Xmas speech so it became a lot more interesting, but also highly treasonous.
The bits I can put in here are:
"Good afternoon to you, I am speaking to you from the cross." and "Where my sister & I would often recieve the armies of England where we would service them all before a nice walk around church".
Then went and set up his own company where he would write articles for newspapers under different names and took to appearing on talk-shows in disguise as an expert on far ranging topics.
Imagine an incogito Peter Cook.
Co-Wrote/Produced and starred in "The Day Today", an hysterically funny swipe at programmes like Newsnight, with almost deadly accurate mockeries of these programmes.
(Introduced the world to Alan Partridge as well as Sports Anchor).
Each show would start with headlines, such as
"I'm so sorry yells exploding plumber"
"Headmaster charged for using big faced child as satellite dish" and my personal fav, "Teenager roasts himself in sacrifice to Chris Kelly"
Then went to Radio 1 where he presented a show called "Blue Jam" at 1am Wednesday mornings with no publicity at all.
Dangerous radio, extremely dark and nasty set to ambient music.
Much swearing and a personal vendetta against Jo Whiley. (I'm not even going to repeat some of the things said).
And then came Brass Eye.
Another fictional current affair programme that generated the largest amount of complaints for any series shown on Channel 4.
Eachw week would be a different topic, with reports and genuine star guests that were so eager to appear "right on" that they didnt stop to think.
My personal fav was the drugs episode, where he got Noel Edmonds to appear in an appeal to ban "cake", an evil drug that activates a part of the brain called "Shatners Basoon".
There actually ended up being questions asked in the House of Commons over the concerns of "cake", they took it that seriously.
Or the Animal Welfare episode with Carla Lane in almost tears upon watching (fake) footage of Iraquis launching bloated cows at the enemy with massive catapults, and an interview with a man that fought otters for money.
This show was cancelled after it was mentioned in an internal memo that the previous week's episode on sex contained a subliminal flash message, scrawled on cardboard that said "Michael Grade (C4 controller) is a c...."
He then wrote a column for The Gaurdian where he pretended to be a man diagnosed with terminal cancer of the toe and had 4 months to live. A sort of "My Diary", and readers were outraged when it became apparent that it was a hoax.
A C4 series called "Jam" recently finished, a version of his radio show. Ambient music over bizarre and disturbing comedy sketches.
One involved a man holding up an off-license with a gun in his stomach he had swallowed earlier (it went wrong and he blew through his spine and took out an OAP behind him).
Morris is still around, although he rarely gives interviews, preferring to pop up anywhere and highlight the banality of modern society's obsession with the media and celebrity.
A new series of Jam starts soon, but they wont advertise when because of the enevitable complaints.
Keep an ear out for it, truly amusing and dangerous radio, something we get so little of these days.
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I rate this guy as the most important and subversive comedian since Bill Hicks.
He hasn't been on your screens for a while, but you can now buy his "Blue Jam" series on cassette and CD from the BBC Library.
If you're unfamiliar with Morris, here's a brief resume:
Started with GLR, fired twice.
1st time for filling the news room with helium, pretty funny and got sacked, reinstated after protest from news-team.
Fired again for something much, much funnier.
He edited a Queen's Xmas speech so it became a lot more interesting, but also highly treasonous.
The bits I can put in here are:
"Good afternoon to you, I am speaking to you from the cross." and "Where my sister & I would often recieve the armies of England where we would service them all before a nice walk around church".
Then went and set up his own company where he would write articles for newspapers under different names and took to appearing on talk-shows in disguise as an expert on far ranging topics.
Imagine an incogito Peter Cook.
Co-Wrote/Produced and starred in "The Day Today", an hysterically funny swipe at programmes like Newsnight, with almost deadly accurate mockeries of these programmes.
(Introduced the world to Alan Partridge as well as Sports Anchor).
Each show would start with headlines, such as
"I'm so sorry yells exploding plumber"
"Headmaster charged for using big faced child as satellite dish" and my personal fav, "Teenager roasts himself in sacrifice to Chris Kelly"
Then went to Radio 1 where he presented a show called "Blue Jam" at 1am Wednesday mornings with no publicity at all.
Dangerous radio, extremely dark and nasty set to ambient music.
Much swearing and a personal vendetta against Jo Whiley. (I'm not even going to repeat some of the things said).
And then came Brass Eye.
Another fictional current affair programme that generated the largest amount of complaints for any series shown on Channel 4.
Eachw week would be a different topic, with reports and genuine star guests that were so eager to appear "right on" that they didnt stop to think.
My personal fav was the drugs episode, where he got Noel Edmonds to appear in an appeal to ban "cake", an evil drug that activates a part of the brain called "Shatners Basoon".
There actually ended up being questions asked in the House of Commons over the concerns of "cake", they took it that seriously.
Or the Animal Welfare episode with Carla Lane in almost tears upon watching (fake) footage of Iraquis launching bloated cows at the enemy with massive catapults, and an interview with a man that fought otters for money.
This show was cancelled after it was mentioned in an internal memo that the previous week's episode on sex contained a subliminal flash message, scrawled on cardboard that said "Michael Grade (C4 controller) is a c...."
He then wrote a column for The Gaurdian where he pretended to be a man diagnosed with terminal cancer of the toe and had 4 months to live. A sort of "My Diary", and readers were outraged when it became apparent that it was a hoax.
A C4 series called "Jam" recently finished, a version of his radio show. Ambient music over bizarre and disturbing comedy sketches.
One involved a man holding up an off-license with a gun in his stomach he had swallowed earlier (it went wrong and he blew through his spine and took out an OAP behind him).
Morris is still around, although he rarely gives interviews, preferring to pop up anywhere and highlight the banality of modern society's obsession with the media and celebrity.
A new series of Jam starts soon, but they wont advertise when because of the enevitable complaints.
Keep an ear out for it, truly amusing and dangerous radio, something we get so little of these days.
He hasn't been on your screens for a while, but you can now buy his "Blue Jam" series on cassette and CD from the BBC Library.
If you're unfamiliar with Morris, here's a brief resume:
Started with GLR, fired twice.
1st time for filling the news room with helium, pretty funny and got sacked, reinstated after protest from news-team.
Fired again for something much, much funnier.
He edited a Queen's Xmas speech so it became a lot more interesting, but also highly treasonous.
The bits I can put in here are:
"Good afternoon to you, I am speaking to you from the cross." and "Where my sister & I would often recieve the armies of England where we would service them all before a nice walk around church".
Then went and set up his own company where he would write articles for newspapers under different names and took to appearing on talk-shows in disguise as an expert on far ranging topics.
Imagine an incogito Peter Cook.
Co-Wrote/Produced and starred in "The Day Today", an hysterically funny swipe at programmes like Newsnight, with almost deadly accurate mockeries of these programmes.
(Introduced the world to Alan Partridge as well as Sports Anchor).
Each show would start with headlines, such as
"I'm so sorry yells exploding plumber"
"Headmaster charged for using big faced child as satellite dish" and my personal fav, "Teenager roasts himself in sacrifice to Chris Kelly"
Then went to Radio 1 where he presented a show called "Blue Jam" at 1am Wednesday mornings with no publicity at all.
Dangerous radio, extremely dark and nasty set to ambient music.
Much swearing and a personal vendetta against Jo Whiley. (I'm not even going to repeat some of the things said).
And then came Brass Eye.
Another fictional current affair programme that generated the largest amount of complaints for any series shown on Channel 4.
Eachw week would be a different topic, with reports and genuine star guests that were so eager to appear "right on" that they didnt stop to think.
My personal fav was the drugs episode, where he got Noel Edmonds to appear in an appeal to ban "cake", an evil drug that activates a part of the brain called "Shatners Basoon".
There actually ended up being questions asked in the House of Commons over the concerns of "cake", they took it that seriously.
Or the Animal Welfare episode with Carla Lane in almost tears upon watching (fake) footage of Iraquis launching bloated cows at the enemy with massive catapults, and an interview with a man that fought otters for money.
This show was cancelled after it was mentioned in an internal memo that the previous week's episode on sex contained a subliminal flash message, scrawled on cardboard that said "Michael Grade (C4 controller) is a c...."
He then wrote a column for The Gaurdian where he pretended to be a man diagnosed with terminal cancer of the toe and had 4 months to live. A sort of "My Diary", and readers were outraged when it became apparent that it was a hoax.
A C4 series called "Jam" recently finished, a version of his radio show. Ambient music over bizarre and disturbing comedy sketches.
One involved a man holding up an off-license with a gun in his stomach he had swallowed earlier (it went wrong and he blew through his spine and took out an OAP behind him).
Morris is still around, although he rarely gives interviews, preferring to pop up anywhere and highlight the banality of modern society's obsession with the media and celebrity.
A new series of Jam starts soon, but they wont advertise when because of the enevitable complaints.
Keep an ear out for it, truly amusing and dangerous radio, something we get so little of these days.
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