Radio 4: Count Arthur Strong - rubbish ain't it?

[policywonk]

I mean, if I had a cock, this programme would make me want to slam it in the door.

[policywonk]

Hellooo 100x and at the adaptation news.

There was one on about two hours ago about a nuclear submarine. It was really really shit. God there are loads aren't there?

[ahundredtimes]

Hello PW.

A play about a submarine? Thing is I only listen about half way through and then it's impossible to understand what's going on. I once listened to one about a woman who got lost in a hotel in Madrid. Most odd.

[policywonk]

Oh we're on to sex. I'd do Dara in a minute but neither Mitchell nor Webb. And I don't need a strap-on but thanks anyway.

[Cappuccino]

Adam Hills

I'd have no problem there

there is a connection, honestly, he is on Mock the Week sometimes

[greenandpleasant]

lol at David Mitchell being Gok'd. he is sexy in a nerdy way. Robert Webb's voice is lovely though, guess that's why he's on every other ad doing voice over at the moment.

I reckon the problem is that R4 likes to big up their "comedy" output. Things like Claire in the Community are ok in a gentle, Simon Brett Up the Garden Path type way, but if you tune in thinking they are going to be laugh out loud funny well the expectation falls sadly flat. But the lowest expectation in the world will never make Count Arthur funny, even at gunpoint.

[policywonk]

No not a play, a comedy. Except that, using snaf's definition, it really wasn't. Punchlines involved calling people 'arses'.

I like it when R4 goes all esoteric and broadcasts wordless soundscapes set in concrete underpasses. Haven't caught one for a while, but they always make me want to stand up, salute and say 'THIS is what the license fee is all about!'

[Cappuccino]

no, no strap on for me either

I am concerned about their quality for a fiver

I wouldn't want it snapping

I would like to point out for the record that I have no idea how much they are supposed to cost

[OrmIrian]

Must be something wrong with me then 'cos I laugh at it.

There are some dreadful 'sit coms' on R4 though.

[Cappuccino]

lol at "haven't caught one for a while"

[Swedes]

[OrmIrian]

But I am injured atm so maybe my brain is affected too.

[ahundredtimes]

Do you think men do want to shut their cocks in the door when they listen to bad radio programmes? It's an odd impulse.

[Cappuccino]

oh Swedes I see

phew

[Cappuccino]

oh god yes. my dh is so desperate to do it that I instructed our architect to design our open plan so we have no doors

it was either that or no children

[policywonk]

Oh doh, I've just understood Swedes's strap-on joke. I do apologise.

Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation - that's funny.

[Botbot]

Used to go to see lots of R4 shows being recorded. They were rubbish 95% of the time. Only good ones were Little Britain and that one with Sean Locke in a tower block.

[ahundredtimes]

lolol Capp.

[Botbot]

Oh, and specifically the Marcus Brigstocke bit on the Now Show.

[policywonk]

Would like to point out that I x-posted with Swedes's explanation and that I had finally worked it out all by myself.

I stole the cock/door thing from a Guardian podcast. I thought it was an arresting image. Also I once slammed a car door on my tit so I have some idea of the physical sensation involved.

[Cappuccino]

did you do it because of bad comedy?

[Snaf]

She'd just been given a box-set of My Family, capp...

[Swedes]

Policywonk - That sounds stupendulously painful.

[Cappuccino]

it's a tricky manouevre though when all's said and done

it would be a lot easier if Swede's stall sold nipple clamps

[policywonk]

Actually (this will mean something to Capp) I did it on my graduation day outside the Charles pub in Heslington. Drink had been taken.

[ahundredtimes]

Well, I'll have one on discount Swedes, because you've not exactly been doing roaring trade. Then I'll listen to the radio tonight and see what impulses take hold.