| Welcome to In The Balcony. We hope you enjoy your visit. You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free. Plus, you'll be eligible for the monthly $1 million prize. (Not really.) Join our community! If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features: |
| What has struck you on the wireless lately; my little pumpernickels? :-D | |
|---|---|
| Topic Started: Oct 23 2008, 01:50 AM (782 Views) | |
| andarius | Oct 23 2008, 01:50 AM Post #1 |
Charter Member
  ![]](http://209.85.122.85/static/1/pip_r.png)
|
Roger Moore was on the BBC's Steve Wright show the other day... Underneath that makeup you might be ugly! <laughs> I don't have that word in my vocabulary! 
|
 |
 
|
| Mantan | Oct 23 2008, 05:41 AM Post #2 |
Balcony Gang, Foist Class
|
Downloaded and watched a video of Sarah Silverman's appearance appearance on Howard Stern's Sirius Satellite radio program. This was recorded before Sarah's disastrous London appearance last week where she was harrassed by the audience and trashed the next morning by the British press. Her material & her dumb and loutish persona don't translate very well and I was surprised she'd decided to perform in the UK. On the Stern show she was surpringly serious about her off-again on-again relationship with comedian/talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and discussed her revulsion over the behavior of several drunk celebrities at Stern's recent wedding. I love Sarah but the appearance wasn't worth the time I invested in watching it/listening to it. |
|
|
|
| andarius | Oct 25 2008, 01:48 AM Post #3 |
|
Charter Member
|
Hey, nice one, Mantan!  Thanks for posting - interesting. In The Observer paper in England (I bought it fer a DVD of Omlette with Mel Gibson ), it said Sarah is involved in a YouTube war with Jackie Mason over the elderly Jewish vote in Florida! Which English show did Sarah appear on? |
|
|
|
| Mantan | Oct 25 2008, 07:01 PM Post #4 |
|
Balcony Gang, Foist Class
|
I don't know if she appeared on any of the British comedy or chat shows. She definitely beat a fast path back to the U.S.A. following that unsuccessful appearance. Reviews said the audience at the venue began slow clapping her and hissing or the civilized equivalent of the good ol' American razz. I haven't been able to find out her reaction to her public humiliation yet. Can't wait to see her explanation of what occurred. |
|
|
|
| andarius | Oct 27 2008, 03:07 AM Post #5 |
|
Charter Member
|
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yAjHtOKTsDc This one seemed to go down quite well! Adults Only!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It mist have bin when Sarah was 'gigging at the Hammersmith Apollo' that they hissed!
Edited by andarius, Oct 27 2008, 03:14 AM.
|
|
|
|
| andarius | Oct 31 2008, 02:45 AM Post #6 |
|
Charter Member
|
On BBC Radio 1 last night, Paul McCartney said Axel Rose visited him backstage and said, Hey man, we'd like to record one of you songs! Paul thought he meant The Long and Winding Road! Paul's son was at school one day and his pals said, Have you heard the new Guns 'n' Roses record Live and Let Die? He said, My Dad wrote that! And they said, Get outta here! They would believe him!
|
|
|
|
| andarius | Nov 18 2008, 03:05 AM Post #7 |
|
Charter Member
|
 On BBC Radio 2, Steve Wright was talking to Roger Moore... You were Ivanhoe! Yes, I got to ride a horse and say some terrible lines like... 'Put up your sword - I am Sir Ivanhoe of Rotherwood!'
Edited by andarius, Nov 18 2008, 03:08 AM.
|
|
|
|
| Mantan | Nov 20 2008, 09:32 AM Post #8 |
|
Balcony Gang, Foist Class
|
Sweet Jesus that was WONDERFUL! I've heard the song before -uncensored - but that is one of Sarah Silverman's funniest talk show appearances -aided immensely by the participation of Ricky Gervais. Who was the other guy who started to hump Ricky after he plucked out his man-boob? Very funny stuff. Can't believe she flopped so badly at the Hammersmith Apollo. |
|
|
|
| andarius | Nov 21 2008, 03:14 AM Post #9 |
|
Charter Member
|
 The other guy was TV cook Gordon Ramsay (left), here with someone called Chris Moyles!
Edited by andarius, Nov 21 2008, 03:15 AM.
|
|
|
|
| Mantan | Nov 25 2008, 07:28 PM Post #10 |
|
Balcony Gang, Foist Class
|
Well... there's this here I found elsewhere that caught my eye:
|
|
|
|
| andarius | Mar 6 2009, 02:25 AM Post #11 |
|
Charter Member
|
Phwoar!  On a BBC radio show about Lucille Ball and I Love Lucy Mariella Frostrup said... Lucille Ball would have 'tempestuous rows' with Desi Arnaz and then makeup 'tempestuously'! She was afraid of birds and Native Americans in costume - no reason was given. The cast of I Love Lucy did not get on... Lucy said landlady Ethel Mertz ( Vivian Vance) looked too young and had similar hair to her and should look dumpy - peeved Vivian Vance said... 'I can do dumpy!'. William Frawley played Fred Mertz, wife of landlady Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance) and 25 years older - Vance said... 'Why is he playing my husband? - he should be playing my father!'. Frawley was not amused! |
|
|
|
| Sgt Saturn | Mar 9 2009, 12:11 PM Post #12 |
Charter Member
|
Interesting, supposedly Lucy's first choice to play Ethel was Bea Benaderet, who looked even younger than did Vivian Vance. (Bea had already committed to the Burns & Allen Show; so, Vivian got the part.) |
| The Ol' Sarge | |
|
|
|
| andarius | Mar 10 2009, 06:25 AM Post #13 |
|
Charter Member
|
Didn't know that but wasn't Bea involved with The Flintstones? Mariella Frostrup said Desi Arnaz was a shrewd business man and the Desilu logo appeared all over the place; sometimes when a TV company had just used Desilu facilities, it appeared that particular show was a Desilu production. Richard Denning was Lucy's first 'husband' on radio - he was popular in England as The Flying Doctor and later, of course, was the Governor of Hawaii!
|
|
|
|
| andarius | Mar 14 2009, 02:36 AM Post #14 |
|
Charter Member
|
On BBC radio there was a programme about the first single record. In 1948 Columbia brought out the first vinylite 33rpm LP record in America which peeved RCA Victor who brought out a rival 45rpm format in 1949 with Texarkana Baby by Eddy Arnold on green vinyl - they decided to have green for country, red for classical, orange for black music etc. and thought SEVEN singles would equal ONE LP on an auto-changer, but the idea never caught on! But the single was here to stay and was adopted in England in 1953 by EMI on their 4 labels - IIRC, Columbia with a green label, Parlophone with a red label, HMV with a blue label and one I can't remember. |
|
|
|
| Black Tiger | Mar 14 2009, 09:42 AM Post #15 |
Charter Member
|
Interesting post, Andy. One question - where do 78 rpm records fit into the mix? I remember my parents having a couple (one called "Stranger You're In Danger" played endlessly). The discs had one song on it and were more brittle than LPs. |
|
|
|
| Go to Next Page | |
| « Previous Topic · Gather 'round the Philco · Next Topic » |
11:36 PM Nov 26
