SSP interrogated

On Monday, 30 April, editor Josh and I joined “On The Fringe”, resonance fm’s flagship fringe theatre show.
Poor old resonance.
The studio, which basically shares a space with the neighbouring restaurant’s toilet, suffers badly from a leaky roof/holey floor and nowhere near enough money to fix itself. Recently, the station laid on a fundraising comedy gig in Soho (read our review) but if you missed it, and still wanna donate money, well you can do that too. Here

Anyway, when we get a copy of the show, where Josh and I pimped SSP ourselves for all we’re worth (how much is that?), we’ll put it on a podcast or something.

Thanks to all who listened – the multimedia comedy takeover is nigh.

georgie x

Another candidate for afternoon TV

Help! My Dog’s as Fat as Me, Tues 27th March, 7.30 pm, BBC Three (ok, this is just into evening tv)

A weight loss show in which owners and their dogs aim to lose weight together. Really, what do BBC Three ideas people do? Use those word fridge magnets, and make programmes out of random arrangements? Picture the meeting now:

“Cat” and “Sun” – “No”

“Dog” and “Fat” – “Excellent, we can have an early lunch now”

Holly

The last hurrah of a one-time comedy bandit

Anyone who managed the heroic task of watching through Paul O’Grady to the more saucy bits of Comic Relief last Friday would have noticed a budding satirical comedian in the making. Call me blind for not seeing the gag, but I found Tony Blair’s sketch with Catherine Tate to actually be quite amusing. It is hard to imagine a Jacques Chirac or Bush doing anything of the sort, not to mention any of the other Prime Minister we’ve had in the past; John Major was terrorized by Spitting Image’s pea sketch for Christ’s sake. But if this is part of the final farewell tour that (courtesy of a leaked document from D street) will leave us wanting more, did Comic Relief play into a retiring PM’s publicity hands?

P.S. Highlight of the night has to be Jonathon Ross’s accidental quip to Fern Cotton about her sounding common. No stage school in the country could teach someone to hide a face that drops that fast.

Tim

We don’t need specially made TV comedy

The Radio Times’ description of ITV’s new afternoon show:

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Soapstar Superchef 5:00pm – 6:00pm ITV1 London

VIDEO Plus+: 8703 Subtitles, widescreen

New series in which the nation’s favourite soap actors reveal their hidden culinary skills in a series of head-to-head battles. Each day two teams of soap stars must recreate the signature dish of one of the country’s leading chefs in front of a live studio audience and an unforgiving panel of judges. In today’s show, Coronation Street takes on Emmerdale in the ultimate celebrity cook off.

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If you need counselling after reading about this new ITV low, please dial the SSP helpline on 08000000000000000.

Holly

Those Mitchell and Web Ads

It was inevitable – a comedy duo as popular as M&W were bound to be offered a lucrative advertising deal sooner or later. But do you giggle at their Mac ads or feel compelled to put a picture of their faces on the nearest Mac screen then smash it with a large hammer?

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih41uU17P_o – Lee and Herring’s take on the ads)

Discuss… you can see them all here: http://www.apple.com/uk/getamac/ads/)

(posted by Holly)

The Simpsons and overwhelming dread

Judging by their current anti-Virgin ad campaign, Sky are very proud to be the home to new episodes of The Simpsons. I can’t imagine why. For me every new episode is another startling disappointment. I should know better but I keep going back to the show like a beaten wife blaming herself. I know what I will get, needless celebrity cameos, nonsensical levered-in gags, oh-so-risque references to Fox and Homer being ‘hilariously’ stupid, but there is always that hope that they will stumble into 23 minutes of series 6 standard gold.
And this year we get the movie. God help us. The proposition is as exciting as a new tour from The Rolling Stones, but sadly I will probably be there on the day of release ready to be let down again.

Josh