John finnemore

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Is this a reference, however oblique, to the whole inner identity thing?

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0006115

Maybe ask him? He’s on twitter

Is this the swan one?

I played it back to DP to check if I was just hearing what I wanted to hear...

There have been a couple of sketches I’ve had the same feeling about.

I opened with trepidation - i bloody love JM

he's too smart not to see through the bollocks, and I do pick up on the odd identity reference in his stuff. but I guess he's like a lot of male comedians who must know damn well that TWAW is bollocks, just don't see it as their business, or as important enough for all the shit they'll get if they speak about it

JM? JF of course!

How strange to see his name! I went to school with him (well he went to the boys grammar and I was at the girls but we all used to hang out). Had no idea he was doing this now.

Have you never heard of cabin pressure??

IKR? when DS got an MP3 player for his 7th birthday I preloaded it with all 4 series of cabin pressure. very important part of his education

his dry humour is coming along nicely, and I think I can partly thank Mr Finnemore for that

Have you never seen his name in print before deathgrip? I guess if you’re not a Radio 4 listener then you wouldn’t necessarily have come across his work, but I can heartily recommend Cabin Pressure (sitcom), John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme (sketch show) and John Finnemore’s Double Acts (series of half hour plays). As you can perhaps tell by the titles, he has a strong personal following among the R4 audience.

Have you never heard of cabin pressure??

Possibly the most consistently hilarious radio show I’ve ever listened to.

The live Souvenir Programme is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. The sketches themselves are individually "brilliant" (as Arthur Shappey would say) but the way incidents from individual sketches get woven into a shaggy dog finale tour de force is doubly brilliant.

And none of it involves sexism, racism or any of the other isms, celebrities or mocking of celebrities "adult entertainment" or even swearing.

As an aside , can I mention bow much I loathe that euphemism- as if JF's and Victoria Wood's articulate and intelligent comedy isn't for grownups.

The After the Exam Sketch is a work of genius.

He was very lovely to my huge fan dd when we saw him live. I do think he's got a great eye for absurdities and human nature so surely he can see the madness.

Had no idea he was doing this now.

@Deathgrip, you need to find a recording of him on the Poole recording of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, where he sings Pick Up Song to "I've Been Everywhere" - full of Dorset place-names.

There's a written version down the page here - tropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/ImSorryIHaventAClue

No, I don’t really listen to the radio much so it’s completely bypassed me - how brilliant that he’s doing so well! Lots of the people I did my drama degree with are doing very well for themslves but it’s more of a surprise when it’s someone from school.

He’s a few years older than me but was in the same year as my brother in law and my boyfriend through school and uni - he always was very funny!

I heard that and thought the same.
I love him.

Tower Park (not after dark)

Brilliant! He’s not wrong - I used to work there during uni holiday and genuinely feared for my life a few times 😂

John Finnemore is one of my favourite comedians - love Cabin Pressure, love Souvenir Programme. Always manages to be both clever and funny. I would assume he's too clever not to be gender-critical.

Brilliant! He’s not wrong - I used to work there during uni holiday and genuinely feared for my life a few times

Tower Park was a very exciting place, because it had a multi-screen cinema. And a giant Tesco. We didn't have such things in Dorchester in the '80s*.

Back to feminism - in the last series of his Souvenir Programme, he did a sketch where a woman in a meeting with lots of men kept being talked over. It was a bit too close to reality to be funny - I found myself getting very wound up on behalf of the woman.

*Technically, this is not completely true. The Plaza had (has?) two screens, but cinema 1 only seated about 80, so didn't really count, because any films we wanted to see, like Top Gun, we're all in the bigger cinema 2. When they built the new Tesco in Dorchester, which opened c1991, all the staff got sent to Tower Park for training.

I have listened to Cabin Pressure again and again - love it. Was genuinely fearful when I saw this thread in case JF had drunk the kool aid. Thankfully he's far too sharp for that.