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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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BeardofHagrid · 20/07/2025 17:44

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

Itsagreatdaytosavelives · 20/07/2025 17:44

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

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.

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.

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

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!

Aworldofmyown · 20/07/2025 18:19

Greg James makes me laugh every morning.

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.

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).

TheDogsMother · 20/07/2025 19:19

I used to love Chris Tarrant on Capital Radio back in the day. Does anyone remember the daily thing about creating a convoluted story around a song title ? I remember being stuck in traffic and hearing one based on Build me up Buttercup and when it got to the punchline everyone in the surrounding cars where falling about laughing.

CurlsandCurves · 20/07/2025 19:28

And not breakfast but Ask Elvis on Steve Wrights afternoon show cracked me up so many times!

Mamamia35 · 20/07/2025 20:01

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06kg2nm Randy Bum-Gardener. Awww Rachael Bland - so funny but so sad. This makes me laugh every time I listen to it. They must have had such a laugh working together.

Also doesn’t fit the brief of morning. Oops.

BBC Radio 5 Live - 5 Live In Short, ‘Randy who?’ One of Tony Livesey’s favourite moments with Rachael Bland

Tony Livesey’s fond memory of working with Rachael Bland on his late-night programme.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06kg2nm

MeringueOutang · 20/07/2025 20:39

Oh also not-quite-breakfast radio, when Arctic Monkeys were in the Live Lounge and did the cover of Girls Aloud's Love Machine. Absolutely cracked me up.

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 20/07/2025 20:51

Longboy was everything

Bananalanacake · 20/07/2025 21:55

I also remember Simon Mayos confessions. Another good one was fat Harry White telling stories full of double entendres in around 2000, but it was an afternoon show.

RunningJo · 20/07/2025 22:02

anrom1969 · 20/07/2025 16:10

I came here to say Chris Moyles. Not one particular moment, but I remember sitting in traffic on the way to work seeing people going in the other direction in the traffic laughing at the very same time. Good memories

Yep often made to laugh by Chris Moyles on the way to work. Always a bit disappointed when he’s on holiday and Toby Tarrant steps in.

Aworldofmyown · 21/07/2025 16:57

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 20/07/2025 20:51

Longboy was everything

RIP Longboi 🙏

JohnTheRevelator · 21/07/2025 17:31

This morning on Ian Payne's early breakfast show I laughed out loud. He was talking about condiments, and saying that some expert nutritionist had come up with the most healthy ones. He went on to say that he liked Daddies sauce. Apparently the generation Z producer of the show had never heard of it and thought it was something pervy.

MyPithyCat · 12/11/2025 18:36

I used to love Capital Breakfast with Jordan Chris and Sian but for the last few months it's got really bad. Roman Kemp was good radio on Capital before. The times Jordan chris and Sian make me laugh at the minute is rare.

BRING BACK ROMAN

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ThatWriterInTheCorner · 12/11/2025 18:58

John Humphries getting Jeremy Hunt's name gloriously, terribly, swearily wrong, live, on Radio 4. Never forgotten it.

Benmac · 12/11/2025 19:05

Sarah Kennedy on radio 2 early morning. Story about a great Dane out for a walk on a beach. Found a bit of rope, started tugging, kept going and trailer a small fishing boat ashore. 6 am tears of laughter

newtothenet · 12/11/2025 19:07

MeringueOutang · 20/07/2025 16:05

This thread is oddly specific. 🤣
But for me it was Chris Moyles with Dogs Don't Kill People, Rabbits Do.
Also Scott Mills when he did R1 breakfast, with that diary... was it Laura's Diary or something?
Also Flirt Divert. Some of those were hilarious and R1 were providing a valuable service to women.
Breakfast radio is lacklustre now. Even Scott Mills isn't as funny as he used to be, I don't know if R2 just don't let him lower the tone or if he's just grown up a bit these days. 😅 Although that thing the other morning where he went out onto the BBC balcony to play the song from Evita was quite funny.

Yes to all of these things! I bought the book version of Laura's diary!

Barneysmomma · 12/11/2025 19:22

Loved the twisted lyrics, on Simon Mayo i think? Also done by Peter Kay more recently.
Another vote for Wogan's Janet & John stories - my favourite was the little blue pill one but that never appeared on the CDs or in the book. RIP Wogan, sadly missed.