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Andy Zaltzman’s BBC show, “Yes It’s The Ashes”
By Will last year, at the start of July, 2 Comments »
Andy Zaltzman – comic, Bugler, cricket blogger – starts his own BBC radio show tomorrow, at 11am on BBC Radio Five Live. It’s called either “Yes It’s The Ashes” or “Andy Zaltzman’s Alternative Ashes”, I’m not sure which.
He’s slightly lining his underwear about it, but I’m sure it’ll be sharp, different and entertaining – so lend your ears tomorrow morning, or download the podcast shortly afterwards.
Update: Here’s the MP3:
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/altashes/altashes_20090704-1313a.mp3
2 Comments »South Africa shamed once again
By Will 2 years ago, mid-October, No Comments; be the first!
Taken from The Bugle – details below
The inaugural ICC Coin Toss Championship has been won by Australia, after the Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik wrongly called heads in the final at Eden Gardens, Calcutta. The Australians had beaten strongly-fancied South Africa in the semi-final on Monday, after the Proteas’ skipper, Graeme Smith, called “Legs” in the semifinal, condemning his team to another embarrassing exit from a major tournament.
Stand-in Australian captain Adam Gilchrist dedicated the victory to Ricky Ponting, who missed the final after rupturing a thumb knuckle tendon in practice. ICC Chief Executive Malcolm Speed said the tournament had captured the imagination of the advertising executives. “From a revenue point of view, we have cut out the problematic cricketing phases of cricket. This is a commercially viable format, which has its place in a balanced calendar.”
The Bugle is my favourite satirical podcast, mainly because it’s the only one I subscribe to, but also because it’s brilliantly written by Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver, both of whom I’m trying to interview. If you have any wise ideas for some satirical cricket coverage, leave a comment…or email me your best efforts
No Comments »Barack Obama: the couscous candidate
By Will 2 years ago, mid-January, 5 Comments »
As may or may not be apparent, I’m a big fan of political satire, and indeed comedy as a whole. Most writers think they possess acerbic wit and the ability to satirise our lives and politicians, but few cut the mustard. One of the very best, in this country and most others, is Armando Iannucci who has written, produced, directed and featured in some of Britain’s best comedies in the past 20 years. Anything he writes is must-read, and here is his take on Barack Obama:
But, rhythmically, it’s quite alluring. It can make anything, even, for example, a simple chair, seem magnificent. Why vote for someone who says: ‘See that chair. You can sit on it’ when you can have someone like Obama say: ‘This chair can take your weight. This chair can hold your buttocks, 15 inches in the air. This chair, this wooden chair, can support the ass of the white man or the crack of the black man, take the downward pressure of a Jewish girl’s behind or the butt of a Buddhist adolescent, it can provide comfort for Muslim buns or Mormon backsides, the withered rump of an unemployed man in Nevada struggling to get his kids through high school and needful of a place to sit and think, the plump can of a single mum in Florida desperately struggling to make ends meet but who can no longer face standing, this chair, made from wood felled from the tallest redwood in Chicago, this chair, if only we believed in it, could sustain America’s huddled arse.’
Superb. Read it here.
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