August 29, 2006
KEN KORDA NEWS
KEN KORDA: INSIDE THE FUNNY FACTORY!
Earlier this year I was asked by the BBC’s New Talent department to make a couple of short films containing tips for people who wanted to upload content onto their Comedy Soup website. I spent an afternoon cocking about in BBC television centre dressed up as Ken Korda and a few weeks later delivered a couple of 2 and a half minute pieces with some very basic, common sense tips. Although they did eventually use them, I’ve never been able to actually make them play and they seem to have opted for a far more exhaustive list of comedy do’s and don’ts from Rob Manuel from B3TA (who were kind enough to link to my New Pope clip despite accusing me in a bizarrely gossipy way, of being fat and sinister looking which, coming from the net’s über geeks, stung a little!)
Anyway with a few days spare, I cut a couple of alternative versions of my Ken bits for my own amusement, which you can see below. I just realised in the course of uploading them that they both contain the same piece of music I used for the CADS messages video I did. So far no one’s tried to sue me so I suppose the least I can do is give it a plug: it’s called RENDELSHACK by WAGON CHRIST, which I believe is another pseudonym of Luke Vibert. If you’re into that kind of thing, all his stuff is amazing.
Oh shitpipes! Almost forgot, I couldn’t have made the video if it weren’t for the help of Angela Wallis from the BBC who foolishly let me in there and gave me a pass for the day, and my friend Garth Jennings who took time out from pre-production on his new film Son Of Rambow to operate the camera and keep my pecker from wilting.
In other Ken Korda news, the spoof behind the scenes/EPK piece I did for The IT Crowd DVD is, I think, being used so you can check it out when it’s released on October 9th 2006. I think it turned out pretty well despite some last minute negotiations with a couple of cast members who were concerned I might be trying to make them look too stupid. Mind you, if I was interviewed by a smug twat in a bad wig I might be worried myself so that’s fair enough, but I honestly don’t think any of them look stupid. They were all great and anyway I like them all very much so making them look like dicks was the last thing on my mind. I don’t want to upset any nice TalkBack people by posting stuff in advance of the release so when the DVD is out I’ll stick the thing up here for you if you’re interested. In the meantime enjoy these exclusive slices of Ken!