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What's one moment in perticular on a breakfast radio show that has made you laugh

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MyPithyCat · 20/07/2025 14:56

Not really seen anyone do a thread like this so share your funny moments. This can be anything, Wether it's a guest interview that was funny say the guest said something that made the presenters laugh or a funny song the presenters did or anytihng else. Let me know what it was, and when it was

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SprayWhiteDung · 20/07/2025 19:16

Another one that wasn't the breakfast time alot, but Nick Abbott was very funny on Virgin Radio - especially when Mrs Hull phoned in to speak to him and kept telling him off for being rude!

Also Russ & Jono (RIP). Russ appears on the Jeremy Vine show on Channel 5 from time to time now - he's very good, but he's left the comedy behind now (mind, he was always the straight man anyway).

ohheck28 · 20/07/2025 18:35

Used to really like Hirsty, Danny and Jojo on capital. Then Simon Hirst disappeared and is now Stephanie Hirst.

Aworldofmyown · 20/07/2025 18:19

Greg James makes me laugh every morning.

DungareesTrombonesDinos · 20/07/2025 18:16

Every second of Marc and Lard. Frogging! Come bye bitch. The Shirehorses and Travis doing Hit Me Baby One More Time. Eye eye its Gabriel. Pure class!

Carriemac · 20/07/2025 18:08

StellaLaBella · 20/07/2025 16:57

Irish contingent weighing in, also loved Tel’s Janet and John segments but there’s been some crackers on our own national broadcaster over the years.

Larry ‘They Didn’t Suit You Today’ Gogan’s Just A Minute quizzes were a constant goldmine;
“Where is the Taj Mahal?”
“Opposite the dental hospital”

“Name something that flies that doesn’t have an engine”
”A bicycle with wings!”

Much more infamously was the time on the Gerry Ryan show where he asked listeners if they’d prefer to be buried or creamated;
Some bowser calls in, “Oh, buried Gerry”
”Oh, and where would you like to be buried?”
“UP TO ME BOLLIX IN BIBI BASKIN”

Aunty could never 🤣

I could never look at BiBi Basking with a straight face after that

PeggyMitchellsCameo · 20/07/2025 17:56

BeardofHagrid · 20/07/2025 17:44

Rob Brydon pretending to be Ken Bruce for three hours and nobody even noticed 😂

That was a classic.

PeggyMitchellsCameo · 20/07/2025 17:54

Years ago (and I mean about 45) Radio 1 used to do a Sunday morning prank show. I think it was Noel Edmonds.
They rang one lady up who lived directly near some traffic lights and persuaded her that for one weekend they were doing some sort of rewiring and they would need operating manually for 48 hours and as she was closest could she do it?
We were a lot more gullible then. The husband was in on it, but the whole thing around ‘Clive could you do Saturday morning while I’m at the hairdresser and I’ll do the afternoon while you are at the cricket?’ went on for an hour.
It must have been funny as I was only about 9 and we were roaring. Then Clive and Angela (or whatever they were called) got a bit tetchy about doing the night shifts.
One fella also got a call from a supposed ‘Spanish girl’ he’d met on holiday. She just gave sounded just like her and he was saying nice of her to call being very polite. Then she said she was twenty minutes down the road at Manchester airport he had she was welcome any time. The sheer panic in his voice….
I suppose I remember it as there was no proper TV on then, on a Sunday morning so we always had the radio on.
Good times.

Itsagreatdaytosavelives · 20/07/2025 17:44

chris moyles for me. comedy dave. back in the day bbc lol

BeardofHagrid · 20/07/2025 17:44

Rob Brydon pretending to be Ken Bruce for three hours and nobody even noticed 😂

Sd1960 · 20/07/2025 17:43

When Alan Brazil on Talk Sport was fooled into saying his next caller was Tess Tickle from Norwich

Klp122 · 20/07/2025 17:40

I can't remember him making me laugh but Steve Jackson on Kiss 100 FM back in the early/mid 90s was the best breakfast DJ.

Klp122 · 20/07/2025 17:38

When Chris Evans randomly played the Benny Hill Show theme tune, this was back around 2013-2014 but it did make me laugh on my horrible commute into the city centre.

ImWearingPantaloons · 20/07/2025 17:34

Any of the Chris Moyles parody songs. All utterly brilliant.

WildCherryBlossom · 20/07/2025 17:27

Oh yes @EveryKneeShallBowI remember that moment so clearly! Brilliant radio 😂😂😂

EveryKneeShallBow · 20/07/2025 17:25

James Naughtie calling Jeremy hunt a cunt when he was Culture Secretary. Radio 4 circa 2010.

MeringueOutang · 20/07/2025 17:19

MeringueOutang · 20/07/2025 17:17

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I've just introduced my three year old to this and now she's doing wiggly fish actions with her hands while singing "fishy wishy" at the top of her voice.

MrsSethGecko · 20/07/2025 17:18

In 2001, I think, Radio 2 had a thing about nutmegs in your pocket.

MeringueOutang · 20/07/2025 17:17

BeamMeUpCountMeIn · 20/07/2025 17:02

Chris Moyles & team, Totally Addicted to Plaice. A fish themed comedy song. This would have been well over a decade ago. Their Zoo format show worked so well.

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Bonsaibaby · 20/07/2025 17:11

Romesh never fails to make me laugh, he and Sally traffic have some hilarious conversations.
used to love Terry Wogan and trying to finish a tune on the pips at 8am

BeamMeUpCountMeIn · 20/07/2025 17:02

Chris Moyles & team, Totally Addicted to Plaice. A fish themed comedy song. This would have been well over a decade ago. Their Zoo format show worked so well.

Followthebouncingthumb · 20/07/2025 16:59

So many in the Simon May Confessions slot. So glad he's carried that slot on with it on Greatest Hits Radio.

StellaLaBella · 20/07/2025 16:57

Irish contingent weighing in, also loved Tel’s Janet and John segments but there’s been some crackers on our own national broadcaster over the years.

Larry ‘They Didn’t Suit You Today’ Gogan’s Just A Minute quizzes were a constant goldmine;
“Where is the Taj Mahal?”
“Opposite the dental hospital”

“Name something that flies that doesn’t have an engine”
”A bicycle with wings!”

Much more infamously was the time on the Gerry Ryan show where he asked listeners if they’d prefer to be buried or creamated;
Some bowser calls in, “Oh, buried Gerry”
”Oh, and where would you like to be buried?”
“UP TO ME BOLLIX IN BIBI BASKIN”

Aunty could never 🤣

Dolamroth · 20/07/2025 16:56

I used to like the confessions segment on R1 when it was Simon Mayo many moons ago.

SaintGermain · 20/07/2025 16:54

Not a breakfast show but Steve Penk in circa 2004 had a late evening show and people could phone in. A teenage boy called in and halfway through the call his mum walked into his bedroom and had a go at him for not being asleep in bed!

I don’t think it was staged, I hope not as it was genuinely very funny.

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