New Chris Morris show: Nathan Barley

[Orang Utan]

wasn't charlie brooker the guardian columnist who asked someone to shoot bush, resulting in lots of pissed off american secret service??

Well, sort of.
After Bush's re-election, he said:
'The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. -- where are you now that we need you?'
Hardly a call-out but a lot of humourless people wanted him hung, drawn and quartered.

 

[sam/phallocrat]

He slagged me off in OTV an all. I'm well chuffed . . .

 

[Orang Utan]

He slagged me off in OTV an all. I'm well chuffed . . .

 

[Isambard]

Can someone PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tape this for me!

I will offer sexual favours or at the very least wicked Czech absinthe to get this.

 

[sam/phallocrat]

Said I had no personality and that I was the biggest drugs bore in the world, or something like that. Got called 'odious' by the TV bird in the Metro an all. Long time ago tho . . .

 

[Orang Utan]

Why? Have you been on the telly then?

 

[spiralx]

Looking forward to this, loved TVGoHome and Chris Morris is a genius... fingers crossed it'll be good

 

[Giles]

Click on this link where a helpful soul has gathered together ALL the original tvgohome "Cunt" episode descriptions featuring Nathan Barley on one web page:

Cunt compendium

Excellent!

Giles..

 

[Blagsta]

Wahay should be a blast! (And I bet Blagsta's gonna be chuffed when he hears about this.)

Cunt was funny, but I can't help feeling its all a bit dated now.

 

[stdPikachu]

has anyone else seen the fake adverts for what look like mobile phones etc, that have an endorsement from one 'nathan barley'

I saw one of those the other day, and they've just put a load up near where I work (Shoreditch, appropriately)

"The WASP phone features an extra-large 5 button!"

Genius

 

[jasoon]

sounds too fucking good to be true

 

[King Biscuit Time]

The alledged theme tune was up on the Boom Selection website a while ago.

The .mp3 has gone now, but the lyrics are still there to enjoy.

Who's that walking down the street?
He's got risible shoes on his media feet
He's wearing twelve iPods so he doesn't look a spack
But to be really retro he's painted the headphones black
His pin-up is someone ironic, eg Francis Wheen
Apparently that's a satire of the London scene
Oh Nathan, Nathan Barley
Oh, you're our kinda guy
Oh Nathan, Nathan Barley
Oh bum rape monkey spunk Christ trousers piss

(I have no idea if this is the real theme tune)

 

[FridgeMagnet]

http://www.trashbat.co.uk/ for the phone thing and other stuff

I don't know, I can't see a TV series having quite the venom that Cunt had.

 

[stdPikachu]

Me neither - Cunt was full of some of the most violent and mysogynistic imagery ever - but if Morris is at the helm it bears some promise at least. I'm sure he'll find a way to subvert the censors somehow...

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

Anyone else remember the free little comic magazine they used to hand out in Hoxton in the nineties, called Shoreditch Twat, and authored by one Nathan Barley?

I'm sure I have the first three or four... if this series is a hit they might be worth a mint!

I believe it has been amalgamted into the back of 'Sleaze' (formally sleazenation) and one of the creators does 'The devils dandruff' in The Grauniad Guide. There was also a TV program that was quite funny. "you are never more than 10ft away from a DJ".

I am looking foward to this program as I regard Nathan Barley as somewhat of a role model.

 

[Vash]

Unrelated but a search of Amazon brought up this. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...104-9214006-0617519?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

 

[Belushi]

Just seen a couple of clips on Newsnight Review and it looks shit

I think the original TVGoHome told us as much as we ever needed to know about Nathan Barley, dont think you could ever improve on them.

 

[ChrisFilter]

the trailers look a bit lame.. nathan doesn't look enough of a cunt.. he's not achingly posy, doesn't have a rod up his arse y'know?

 

[RaverDrew]

I love Chris Morris's work but this looks like utter shite to me*.. I hope I'm proved wrong

*Then again I also think peep show is the biggest pile of drivel on tv

 

[Belushi]

Then again I also think peep show is the biggest pile of drivel on tv

Wash your mouth out!

 

[where to]

akirajoel. i agree, my wrongs i thought was quite empty.

 

[akirajoel]

akirajoel. i agree, my wrongs i thought was quite empty.

as long as it's not just me...

empty and not very funny. (but then i only watched it once).

 

[pk]

Go on Saam, tell em about your TV debut mate.

 

[LostNotFound]

as long as it's not just me...

empty and not very funny. (but then i only watched it once).

i dont disagree as such, BUT, try watching it very stoned (or on stronger hallucinogenic drugs if youre very brave) .. it brings out the morrisian unfolding nightmare aspect in quite a disturbing manner

 

[Barking_Mad]

http://www.thesmokehammer.com/

 

[Cloo]

I thought Morris seemed the ideal sort of person for this. The adverts on the tube really cracked me up 'The Wasp speechtool'... but then... was I being a smug insular git by knowing that it was a spoof?

 

[Dubversion]

the trailers do look a bit lame - although that doesn't mean it'll be shite - but i'm just worried about the whole enterprise. there's no way it'll be as good as the column, as extreme, and actually the whole thing seems a bit late somehow..

stdpikachu - confused about why you think it was misogynistic?

 

[killer b]

the guys at www.cookdandbombd.co.uk seem a touch unimpressed by nathan barley...

 

[akirajoel]

the guys at www.cookdandbombd.co.uk seem a touch unimpressed by nathan barley...

oh dear.

 

[onemonkey]

the guys at www.cookdandbombd.co.uk seem a touch unimpressed by nathan barley...

to say the least