BBC Tees Radio Interview—BBC iPlayer Link.

For those who missed it live, you can catch my BBC Tees Phil and Amy radio interview here http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00hrddb Fast forward to 2:40:00.

UPDATE: As this interview is no longer available on iPlayer, I have, with kind permission from BBC Tees, now made the interview segment available here. Please do not repost without prior permission.

BBC Tees (Radio) Update.

All being well, I will be on the Phil and Amy breakfast show on BBC Tees this coming Saturday at around 0835.

You can listen live or catch the show after broadcast using the listen again feature by following this link.

UPDATE: As this interview is no longer available on iPlayer, I have, with kind permission from BBC Tees, now made the interview segment available here. Please do not repost without prior permission.

© 2011 Gary William Murning

John Barrowman’s Fruit and Nuts.

Okay, it’s official. The world has gone totally fucking mad. First John Barrowman — star of the West End and Torchwood (he’s also been known to “sing”, but it’s probably best if I don’t mention that) — decides to flash his genitals during a Radio One interview. A pretty juvenile thing to do, admittedly, but not exactly the end of the world.

And then?

Well, and then someone actually complained. Someone sitting at home felt the need to pick up the telephone and express his/her disgust at the fact that Mr Barrowman had flashed his genitals… on the radio! Nothing appeared on the studio WebCam. No one, as far as I know, saw his “fruit and nuts” other than the hosts Nick Grimshaw and Annie Mac (who were, possibly quite provocatively, asking him about his “predilection for exposing himself during interviews”), and for all that the listeners knew the incident might not have actually occurred at all. But… someone… complained.

Bleeding barmy.

Mr Barrowman has since apologised for any offence he may have caused.

And whilst the image isn’t the most appealing to me, I like to think he was stark bollocking naked when he did so.

© 2008 Gary William Murning

Billy Connolly and Sarah Palin.

Yes, I know, I’m probably having rather too much fun at Sarah’s expense, now, but with a bit of luck this kind of humour will be past its sell-by-date within a couple of days — so I’m using it whilst I can.

It’s a Sunday and as those of you who actually pay attention will know, I’m not exactly the type to do church. My head spins round and I vomit pea soup at the mere thought of it. So, instead, I spent the morning productively.

No, I didn’t work on the outlines for The Dummy. That’s for weekdays. Instead, I concentrated on that other dummy, sweet, succulent, sycophantic Sarah. First I found the Sarkozy episode and then, later, this piece from a couple of months back.

Mention of George W. Bush’s similar problem then brought to mind a Billy Connolly piece that I particularly enjoyed.

[WARNING: This video contains foul language like “fucking”, “shit” and “George W. Bush”.]

I can just see Billy playing a 21st Century Henry Higgins to Sarah Palin’s Eliza Dolittle in a really bizarre and possibly quite disturbing version of Pygmalion.

“It’s fucking nuclear, you brick!”

© 2008 Gary William Murning

From My Arse, I Can See Belgium.

Oh dear. Sarah Palin gets reeled in by quite possibly the worst French accent (and the guy was from Montréal?!) since Peter Sellers had trouble with that dratted “minkey” in the Pink Panther movies.

© 2008 Gary William Murning