Mark Steel has apparently in the past not been that happy that some people confuse him with Mark Thomas. (it was reported on this documentary I saw - he also didn't like that Bob Mills 'sold out' by doing stand-up on Wogan)
I've always been a fan of Mark Steel's, since I saw him do stand-up back in the early 90s and inteviewed him for the NME (he had a moustache then). His book, Reasons To Be Cheerful, in which he makes great comedic capital out of the socialist struggle in the 80s, is recommended too. He's certainly not the sort of comedian to sell out. He means it, maan. And he stood for a seat on the London Assembly for the Socialist Alliance. I voted for him! He didn't get in.
Actually, he looks more like Neil Morrissey in that photo.
My worst 'you look like/are you?' moments were Michelle from EastEnders, Ma Larkin, and the fat one in the Pink Ladies from a west end production of Grease.
I've had to describe, in painful detail, on more than one occasion who Punt & Dennis/Fry & Laurie are four different people, not all morphed into the same one-sized panel show regular. I'm getting a headache just thinking about it.
So whose fine strapping knees were stranding through a square just north of Oxford st the other day, I'm getting confused ? My favourite mis-identification is my friend who approached Alan Davis in a north London pub and asked if he was "Jackob's Creek". As for me, try Phil Jupitus or the bloke in coffee shop in "Ellen" or most of the Bare Naked Ladies!
For the record, then, the above picture is of Mark Steel. You know I look like, I posted enough humorous pictures of myself when I got my new laptop! My knees will have been out north of Oxford Street the other day, BLTP, although I've reverted back to long trousers, with great regret, this week. It's brightening up for the weekend though!
Nothing to do with this thread but just heard that Gideon Coe is moving to late nights on 6 Music and wondered if you had any inside knowledge?
Reading between the lines of the press release it looks like a demotion which I find hard to believe as he's the one remaining compelling reason to listen to 6 Music.
I'm a staunch supporter of the BBC and public service broadcasting but they do test my loyalty sometimes.
As nearly all the radio worth listening to - Gideon, Mark Radcliffe - is now on at night I'm think of becoming nocturnal.
when I first started reading your book I told people that it was written by someone who apeared on Mock the Week, after seeing a repeat of said show soon after and saw it was not you but Mark steel I felt a bit stupid (as you would), As for me people say I look like former Arsenal striker Alan Smith, though I'd rather plumb for Charlie Sheen, not many agree though!
I read it online for Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn, Nancy Banks Smith, Jim Shelley, some Cable girl (although sometimes she can be a let down), the rumour mill for the football, general sports comments from richard williams etc.
Sorry, would a simple yes have sufficed?
On the subject of radio - I think it's great when Mark Lamarr stands in for Jonathan Ross on Saturday (as he is doing for this month), and he has worked the last few times with Jo Brand, before that it was Dale Winton, and before that it was Mark Steel.
I wonder Andrew, would you ever put yourself forward to be Mark's partner in crime/sidekick?
The press release regarding the swap between Gideon Coe and George Lamb is a heartening thing.
I particularly liked this: "There is a big potential to attract audience to digital radio at that time of night, and I believe that giving Gideon this new opportunity to put music into context will provide a compelling listen for the audience." That manages to make low listening figures sound like the best thing in the world, whilst accurately making what Gideon Coe does sound like stamp collecting on the radio.
In summary then, 6Music is ace and to my mind could only be improved if we were to hear more of that Andrew Collins bloke on it. (I think I managed to pull that off.)
Apparently I look like Cyndi Lauper. This disturbs me, I also have a double somewhere in Bristol (or else I lead a double life I am totally unaware of, but the people are friendly, so I guess that's okay).
I still read the Guardian, despite very publicly denouncing it earlier this year (I couldn't get on with the look of the Independent, and the lack of interesting columnists). It no longer rules my life like it used to. I can no longer be bothered to write letters to it complaining about their hyprocrisy. I just read the news and cast it aside. There is no love between us any more.
Good question, Office Pest. Because, at last, I have broadband at home. It feels like quite a novelty. And it means I won't endure sustained drunken flaming over the weekends now, without the opportunit to step in. Hooray.
The Guardian is hypocritical, in my opinion, because it sells itself on free-thinking, free-speaking liberalism and yet takes a subtly hard line against complementary medicine, whose existence as a choice for people fits in with a liberal view of the world, or I would have thought.
Thanks for the explanation Andrew. I didn't realise complementary medicine was such a big thing for you.My only knowledge of it is those who claim vitamin approaches for disorders like schizophrenia which are generally discredited by the mainstream. Are there any pro-comp medicine websites you could reccomend for those who want to get the other side of the story? Was the independent's editorial line any better?
Cerebusboy, I always find Patrick Holford a good place to start - he's written about nutrition and mental health problems before.
The Independent were no better on health issues, actually. If a pharamaceutical company launches a new "wonder drug", all newspapers report it as gospel, just some in bigger letters than others. I accept this.
Yeah, I'll look into it.The pro-vitamin approach Schizophrenia Association of Great Britian has closed down, which is a shame. It would be cool if I didn't have to take antipsychotics.
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Is that Boris Johnson in the background, staring at his shoes?
Lord Lucan was in the next carriage, talking to Elvis.
No, I don't think it's Boris. It may well be Brian Sewell, too horrified by ordinary people's habits to look around him.
If it wasn't Lord Lucan in the next carriage, talking to Elvis, it was Freddie Mercury. Lucan's career with Queen is called 'hiding in plain sight'.
He should be so Lucky; Lucky, Lucky, Lucky
Mark Steel has apparently in the past not been that happy that some people confuse him with Mark Thomas. (it was reported on this documentary I saw - he also didn't like that Bob Mills 'sold out' by doing stand-up on Wogan)
Machine Levine
The three of them should get together and start a comedy troupe.
Collins, Thomas and Steel!
I've always been a fan of Mark Steel's, since I saw him do stand-up back in the early 90s and inteviewed him for the NME (he had a moustache then). His book, Reasons To Be Cheerful, in which he makes great comedic capital out of the socialist struggle in the 80s, is recommended too. He's certainly not the sort of comedian to sell out. He means it, maan. And he stood for a seat on the London Assembly for the Socialist Alliance. I voted for him! He didn't get in.
Actually, he looks more like Neil Morrissey in that photo.
My worst 'you look like/are you?' moments were Michelle from EastEnders, Ma Larkin, and the fat one in the Pink Ladies from a west end production of Grease.
I have been told on various occasions I look like:
Danny Wallace
Brian McFadden
Shane MacGowan
A tramp
Make of this what you will...
I've had to describe, in painful detail, on more than one occasion who Punt & Dennis/Fry & Laurie are four different people, not all morphed into the same one-sized panel show regular. I'm getting a headache just thinking about it.
Anonemma
you are Bill Wyman and I claim my five pounds!
:D
So whose fine strapping knees were stranding through a square just north of Oxford st the other day, I'm getting confused ? My favourite mis-identification is my friend who approached Alan Davis in a north London pub and asked if he was "Jackob's Creek".
As for me, try Phil Jupitus or the bloke in coffee shop in "Ellen" or most of the Bare Naked Ladies!
For the record, then, the above picture is of Mark Steel. You know I look like, I posted enough humorous pictures of myself when I got my new laptop! My knees will have been out north of Oxford Street the other day, BLTP, although I've reverted back to long trousers, with great regret, this week. It's brightening up for the weekend though!
Nothing to do with this thread but just heard that Gideon Coe is moving to late nights on 6 Music and wondered if you had any inside knowledge?
Reading between the lines of the press release it looks like a demotion which I find hard to believe as he's the one remaining compelling reason to listen to 6 Music.
I'm a staunch supporter of the BBC and public service broadcasting but they do test my loyalty sometimes.
As nearly all the radio worth listening to - Gideon, Mark Radcliffe - is now on at night I'm think of becoming nocturnal.
This is news to me, Steve. I'm out of the 6 Music loop, as you can imagine.
I couldn't possibly comment, because I haven't cut my ties completely, but being moved from a daytime slot to a nighttime doesn't like a pro-motion.
when I first started reading your book I told people that it was written by someone who apeared on Mock the Week, after seeing a repeat of said show soon after and saw it was not you but Mark steel
I felt a bit stupid (as you would),
As for me people say I look like former Arsenal striker Alan Smith,
though I'd rather plumb for Charlie Sheen, not many agree though!
my above comment,
not anonymous
Gideon gets a big-up from Zoe Williams in the Guardian today, in a feature about how radio, including 6 Music, is ace. Maconie also features.
Does anyone here still read the guardian?
I read it online for Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn, Nancy Banks Smith, Jim Shelley, some Cable girl (although sometimes she can be a let down), the rumour mill for the football, general sports comments from richard williams etc.
Sorry, would a simple yes have sufficed?
On the subject of radio - I think it's great when Mark Lamarr stands in for Jonathan Ross on Saturday (as he is doing for this month), and he has worked the last few times with Jo Brand, before that it was Dale Winton, and before that it was Mark Steel.
I wonder Andrew, would you ever put yourself forward to be Mark's partner in crime/sidekick?
Machine Levine
I like Mark Steel. Here he is doing history in a stand up stylee, in NYC.
Great gig.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdFYCgQ7V8A
The press release regarding the swap between Gideon Coe and George Lamb is a heartening thing.
I particularly liked this: "There is a big potential to attract audience to digital radio at that time of night, and I believe that giving Gideon this new opportunity to put music into context will provide a compelling listen for the audience." That manages to make low listening figures sound like the best thing in the world, whilst accurately making what Gideon Coe does sound like stamp collecting on the radio.
In summary then, 6Music is ace and to my mind could only be improved if we were to hear more of that Andrew Collins bloke on it. (I think I managed to pull that off.)
I still read the Guardian, but only on a Friday.
Apparently I look like Cyndi Lauper.
This disturbs me, I also have a double somewhere in Bristol (or else I lead a double life I am totally unaware of, but the people are friendly, so I guess that's okay).
Wouldn't it be great if there were Andrew Collins action figures. I would play with mine all day long.
I still read the Guardian, despite very publicly denouncing it earlier this year (I couldn't get on with the look of the Independent, and the lack of interesting columnists). It no longer rules my life like it used to. I can no longer be bothered to write letters to it complaining about their hyprocrisy. I just read the news and cast it aside. There is no love between us any more.
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I read the Times. Caitlin Moran and Matthew Parris are good, and it's fairly centrist.
How is the guardian hypocritical Andrew? I know about the dispute over alternative medicine but I thought most mainstream papers woul be the same.
Andrew!
WHAT are you doing on broadband at this time of night?
Good question, Office Pest. Because, at last, I have broadband at home. It feels like quite a novelty. And it means I won't endure sustained drunken flaming over the weekends now, without the opportunit to step in. Hooray.
The Guardian is hypocritical, in my opinion, because it sells itself on free-thinking, free-speaking liberalism and yet takes a subtly hard line against complementary medicine, whose existence as a choice for people fits in with a liberal view of the world, or I would have thought.
Thanks for the explanation Andrew. I didn't realise complementary medicine was such a big thing for you.My only knowledge of it is those who claim vitamin approaches for disorders like schizophrenia which are generally discredited by the mainstream. Are there any pro-comp medicine websites you could reccomend for those who want to get the other side of the story? Was the independent's editorial line any better?
Cerebusboy, I always find Patrick Holford a good place to start - he's written about nutrition and mental health problems before.
The Independent were no better on health issues, actually. If a pharamaceutical company launches a new "wonder drug", all newspapers report it as gospel, just some in bigger letters than others. I accept this.
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Yeah, I'll look into it.The pro-vitamin approach Schizophrenia Association of Great Britian has closed down, which is a shame. It would be cool if I didn't have to take antipsychotics.
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And you won't be there today as the tubes are screwed!
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