Do you think Malcolm Tucker could give a sufficient bollocking via Zoom?

[Fauchelevant]

I think he’d struggle with the idea that somebody else could mute him.

I think he’d be able to get around that tbh. A whiteboard perhaps...

Nope, a Tuckering has to be delivered in person, so that the recipient can feel the full hairdryer effect! 😅 God I love that programme so, so much. Ben Swain is Boris..

Or rather Boris is Ben Swain

Malcolm would record a bollocking on Zoom to be played out, and then just when you'd put him on mute, he would sneak into your office and stand behind you screaming into your ear.

I miss Malcolm.

We desperately need Malcolm Tucker right now!

God, I would love to see Tucker laying into the current shower.

Oh God, Baubles, that's so true!! Haha, remember Swain's interview with Paxo? Think of that when Boris is speaking tonight...(sorry to sound flippant about the shit show!)

Malcolm would record a bollocking on Zoom to be played out, and then just when you'd put him on mute, he would sneak into your office and stand behind you screaming into your ear.

That is terrifying!

I think Malcolm Tucker is the best character I've seen on television. Iannucci couldn't have made up the Brexit and Covid shambles, though.

Every single time I saw Dominic Cummings on the news I saw unbearable blue sky pilot and narrative imagineer, Stewart Pearson. Does Cummings play the flute? He looks like he might.

@BaublesAndBawbags When Dominic Cummings was running away from Downing Street, that could have easily have come from an episode of TTOI. And the bit about Barnard Castle, of course, too.

[quote HollowTalk]@BaublesAndBawbags When Dominic Cummings was running away from Downing Street, that could have easily have come from an episode of TTOI. And the bit about Barnard Castle, of course, too.[/quote]
Yes and the way he looked so sorry for himself exiting number 10 with his sad little cardboard box. I could just imagine Malcolm watching it live on BBC News in his office feeling very smug.

The hold that DC had over Boris was incredible - he must have known where the bodies were hidden. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall during their arguments over Barnard Castle.

I'd also love someone in the White House to video Donald as he's forced to leave. Imagine how quickly that would go viral.

I’d love to be Malcom Tucker and let rip at the current government. I’d like to think I’d do him justice.

I'm thinking that there would definitely be descriptive hand/fist gestures - carefully and precisely controlled, not your run-of-the-mill finger ones.

100%, you can tell when someone has muted you, surely?

I think so ruabon. You’d definitely feel braver knowing it could be months before you have to see him in person again!

You can imagine Malcolm (or worse, Jamie) turning up at the houses of DoSAC ministers to check that their Zoom backgrounds were appropriately on-message - the right political biographies, one semi-relaxed family group shot from a holiday somewhere not too hot, a Joe Wicks exercise mat, NO university real tennis team photo/wolfhound/riding crop, etc, etc.

Ha ha he had the best line ‘human mooncup’ was awesome and his description of Star Wars ‘the space hairdresser and the cowboy...he has a tinfoil pal and a peddlebin!’ I thought I was going to wet myself at that!’ I was unable to breathe!

For those who haven’t had the pleasure!

Oh yes Baubles! And no opera CDs on display, after all it’s just fucking vowels.

This thread has really made me laugh on an otherwise utterly miserable day with the post-holiday blues, a super grumpy toddler and now another bloody announcement from Uncle Boris. Especially love the idea of Malcolm arranging the Zoom backgrounds, that would DEFINITELY have happened! I miss TTOI so badly.

“Get your feet off the furniture you Oxbridge twat, your no on a punt now!”