Best radio humour?

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2009/01/15 18:09:33 (permalink)

Best radio humour?

I was listening to Count Arthur Strong on Radio 4 yesterday, as well as laughing so much that I nearly ran my car off the road, I got to thinking what quality radio we have here in the UK and hope you get as much pleasure out of the radio wherever you are. I think radio humour should appeal more to folks like us who are more "aurally" inclined. So here I am with my late night mug of hot milk and whiskey, thinking about my travels around the world and listening to radio in small snippets where I can like in hotel rooms, taxi cabs or hire cars, and I dont recall hearing any humour / comedic based talk radio on my travels, is this just a UK thing or have I been tuned to the wrong part of the dial around the world..... Any comments or tell me about your best stuff.

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Garry Kiosk
post edited by The Kiosk Project - 2009/01/15 18:13:58


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    thegeek
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    RE: Best radio humour? 2009/01/15 19:12:19 (permalink)
    hmmm Im wondering if the following REAL incident that hapenned at a greek radio station can be thought of as "radio humour"......

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn-q4dakss0


    ......nahhhhhhhhh didnt think so!



    For your info: the guy just keeps on reading the news regardless of what happens.......
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    RE: Best radio humour? 2009/01/15 19:57:11 (permalink)
    A true professional !!!


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    RE: Best radio humour? 2009/01/16 22:48:39 (permalink)

    ORIGINAL: The Kiosk Project

    I was listening to Count Arthur Strong on Radio 4 yesterday, as well as laughing so much that I nearly ran my car off the road, I got to thinking what quality radio we have here in the UK and hope you get as much pleasure out of the radio wherever you are. I think radio humour should appeal more to folks like us who are more "aurally" inclined. So here I am with my late night mug of hot milk and whiskey, thinking about my travels around the world and listening to radio in small snippets where I can like in hotel rooms, taxi cabs or hire cars, and I dont recall hearing any humour / comedic based talk radio on my travels, is this just a UK thing or have I been tuned to the wrong part of the dial around the world..... Any comments or tell me about your best stuff.

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    You do have an advantage over us yanks -- our golden age of radio was over 50 years ago.

    The satellite provider, Sirius runs two or three comedy channels on their monster system and I find myself switching between them on long drives. The problem is they're all taped standup bits, so you tend to hear the same stuff over and over if you listen regularly (Americans ruin most things this way).

    They also have an old-time radio channel, that runs the old radio dramas. I get a big kick out of these.

    As for broadcast radio, in the 1990's, the Clintons deregulated the airwaves (gave away the public airwaves, basically), and now a handful of companies own 97% of all broadcast stations, so what we get is homogenated pap with no goals other than selling product. There's no more creativity in broadcast radio -- only tested formulae.

    We still have a local station or two here and there, but in general, the US is a radio wasteland, similar to the broadcast wasteland of commercial TV.


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    RE: Best radio humour? 2009/01/18 06:27:24 (permalink)
    Garry do you know of "Barry from Watford" ? he's fake but when I heard it originally I laughed when he rang up the radio.

    http://www.barryfromwatford.com/hear.html

    the slugs call, but it was obvious he was a plant.


    he did some tv stuff. but the radio stuff I liked more

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kIll7-sOoVc&feature=related

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iL-PKL-L1P8

    kwgm, a lot of people from the US listen to London stations via the net, a few of them put it... well it's different in a good way to what we have over here.. yep we have the same boring commercial stations that play 20 songs on a loop, but thankfully thats not all
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    RE: Best radio humour? 2009/01/18 08:54:52 (permalink)
    Cheers Fog, No never heard of Barry from Watford, having a bit of trouble with the MP3 files on my lappy right now so I will have a listen tonight. I love radio, I did some hospital radio in my late teens "Sunshine Radio" at Fazakerly hospital in Liverpool all those years ago. I also briefly played a character I created "Iggy Braithwaite" for a BBC WM radio show in the mid nineties "The Groovy Garden". He was a Lancashire guy who claimed he wrote many songs which were pinched and rewritten to become big hits for other artists mainly in the late 60's 70's, a great excuse to sing stupid rewrites of songs , a particular favourite was Gary Puckett and the Union Gap's "Young Girl" which Iggy claimed he originally wrote and performed as "Young Lass, get out of my loft, my luv for you is all way 't cock (lancastrian for confused btw) etc etc Oh well, it kept me out of the pub.............

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    RE: Best radio humour? 2009/01/18 10:11:40 (permalink)
    well you know of Sven the fisherman from swiss cottage? he used to ring up clive bull on LBC in London back in the day.. it was really peter cooke

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    RE: Best radio humour? 2009/01/18 11:40:59 (permalink)
    Get a copy of "Don't crush that dwarf, hand me the plyers" by Firesign Theater. Put it on your stereo. Sit on your couch and pretend you are driving.

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