October 12, 2007
LADIES & GENTLEMEN & A&J COKE PODCAST VIDEO!
LADIES & GENTLEMEN, TONIGHT AT 10:30pm ON CHANNEL 4!
Go on watch it. I’ve no idea how Channel 4 decide which of these Comedy Showcase programmes will get a series but if you watch it and dig it and then talk to people about it and the digging of it then maybe someone at Channel 4 will overhear and be impressed. I think that’s kind of how TV works isn’t it? Surely it can’t just be the frigging ratings!
The show itself is a kind of cross between Friends and Father Ted set in Victorian times and it’s quite silly and amusing. My Mum loves it and thinks it should be a series. My Dad says he can’t imagine how anything could be less funny, but then again he’s hated pretty much every single thing I’ve ever been in on TV so that’s not a total surprise. I like it and I would love to do more so set your brainium to ‘extremely positive’ and watch the heck out of it for the team!
LAST ADAM & JOE COKE PODCAST NEWS!
After a highly enjoyable 12 month stint doing these, the 13th and final Coke podcast is now available for free download from i-tunes or the Coke website. It’s not the best but we recorded it one morning immediately after doing the breakfast show on 6 Music a while back and I was totally exhausted having been up late with vomiting children the night before, which is why I more or less just mumble in agreement between whatever Joe says then confuse myself about whether or not to continue joking about the end of the world.
We could have continued doing these podcasts for a while but we kind of want to get back to doing another one that’s more just me and Joe talking about whatever we like without the music, albeit great music(!) As I’ve said before we should have some news about when that might happen in the next week or so (honestly!) so hang in there. As far as the Coke podcasts go, I’m going to try to put together a bumper ‘best of’ without music before Christmas so I’ll let you know when that’s done. Listening back to a few of them the other night, there’s actually some fairly funny moments in there, but they could use filleting!
Thanks to Coke for having us though. We didn’t feel abused or exploited once, which was nice! Also our producer Ben Bond was amazing and very skilfully wove shows out of even the most aimless rambling some months. I really hope we get to work with him again.
A while back I said I might post some footage of us recording one of these shows so here you go. It’s an unedited chunk of us burbling in a studio off Covent Garden for podcast 11 in July of this year. Because it’s unedited you’ll notice we repeat the odd sentence a few times, not because we can’t speak, just because we’re retaking it! Also we can’t really speak. Oh, and in case you think it’s in black and white to add gravitas, I accidentally left the camera on the night vision setting so it was all sickly grey green and I thought black and white would be preferable. It’s not a rollercoaster ride of hilarity but I thought a couple of people might find it interesting. The end makes me laugh though. ‘What, you find decapitated women funny?’ said a friend who heard it. What do you say to that?