Not usually a Saturday listener cos I can't abide Ross and the comedy
hour usually has about as much to do with comedy as X-Factor has to do
with music.

I had to pop out in the car today and was delighted to find JR is
away, hopefully suffering from something terminal or throat related,
and the very excellent Mr Lamarr in his place and, as always,
determined to play only music 'he' likes and thinks people should
hear. Always the mark of a good DJ to my mind.

Anyway, I digress. When I got in the car to come back home I found
myself catching the tail end of some predicable clipfest hosted by
Alexei Sayle which mercifully I only got the last minutes of.

Then they announced The Jason  not sure how its spelt show. I groaned.
R2 comedy is nalways but always dire but to my surprise I found my
self laughing, not once, but several times. Yes, the sketches were
pretty abysmal but when it was him riffing with a live aidience he was
very good indeed.

I even continued listening to him when I got home.

Mike Plowman wrote:
> Not usually a Saturday listener cos I can't abide Ross and the comedy
> hour usually has about as much to do with comedy as X-Factor has to do
> with music.
> 
> I had to pop out in the car today and was delighted to find JR is
> away, hopefully suffering from something terminal or throat related,
> and the very excellent Mr Lamarr in his place and, as always,
> determined to play only music 'he' likes and thinks people should
> hear. Always the mark of a good DJ to my mind.
> 
> Anyway, I digress. When I got in the car to come back home I found
> myself catching the tail end of some predicable clipfest hosted by
> Alexei Sayle which mercifully I only got the last minutes of.
> 
> Then they announced The Jason  not sure how its spelt show. I groaned.
> R2 comedy is nalways but always dire but to my surprise I found my
> self laughing, not once, but several times. Yes, the sketches were
> pretty abysmal but when it was him riffing with a live aidience he was
> very good indeed.
> 
> I even continued listening to him when I got home.

And I can't stand Lamarr, but think Jonathan Ross is the best thing on R2.

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:22:48 +0100, "dennis@fake" <dennis@fake> wrote:

>Mike Plowman wrote:
>> Not usually a Saturday listener cos I can't abide Ross and the comedy
>> hour usually has about as much to do with comedy as X-Factor has to do
>> with music.
>> 
>> I had to pop out in the car today and was delighted to find JR is
>> away, hopefully suffering from something terminal or throat related,
>> and the very excellent Mr Lamarr in his place and, as always,
>> determined to play only music 'he' likes and thinks people should
>> hear. Always the mark of a good DJ to my mind.
>> 
>> Anyway, I digress. When I got in the car to come back home I found
>> myself catching the tail end of some predicable clipfest hosted by
>> Alexei Sayle which mercifully I only got the last minutes of.
>> 
>> Then they announced The Jason  not sure how its spelt show. I groaned.
>> R2 comedy is nalways but always dire but to my surprise I found my
>> self laughing, not once, but several times. Yes, the sketches were
>> pretty abysmal but when it was him riffing with a live aidience he was
>> very good indeed.
>> 
>> I even continued listening to him when I got home.
>
>And I can't stand Lamarr, but think Jonathan Ross is the best thing on R2.

Not a music fan then.

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:21:34 +0100, Mike Plowman wrote:

>On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:22:48 +0100, "dennis@fake" <dennis@fake> wrote:
>
>>Mike Plowman wrote:
>>> Not usually a Saturday listener cos I can't abide Ross and the comedy
>>> hour usually has about as much to do with comedy as X-Factor has to do
>>> with music.
>>> 
>>> I had to pop out in the car today and was delighted to find JR is
>>> away, hopefully suffering from something terminal or throat related,
>>> and the very excellent Mr Lamarr in his place and, as always,
>>> determined to play only music 'he' likes and thinks people should
>>> hear. Always the mark of a good DJ to my mind.
>>> 
>>> Anyway, I digress. When I got in the car to come back home I found
>>> myself catching the tail end of some predicable clipfest hosted by
>>> Alexei Sayle which mercifully I only got the last minutes of.
>>> 
>>> Then they announced The Jason  not sure how its spelt show. I groaned.
>>> R2 comedy is nalways but always dire but to my surprise I found my
>>> self laughing, not once, but several times. Yes, the sketches were
>>> pretty abysmal but when it was him riffing with a live aidience he was
>>> very good indeed.
>>> 
>>> I even continued listening to him when I got home.
>>
>>And I can't stand Lamarr, but think Jonathan Ross is the best thing on R2.
>
>Not a music fan then.

Mark Lamarr plays some good stuff, at least it's not the same old
crap.  Unfortunately, he is an obnoxious, self-obsessed tosser, which
makes him impossible to listen to for any length of
time.

Ross is all right once, but once you've heard one of his programmes,
you've heard them all.

-- 

Peter

I'm an alien
email: home at peteward dot gotadsl dot co dot uk
Treat me nice and I'll let you tunnel through my VPN.
- Dover Beach

Thus spake Mike Plowman (mike.plowman@mydomain.net) unto the assembled multitudes:

> I had to pop out in the car today and was delighted to find JR is
> away, hopefully suffering from something terminal or throat related,
> and the very excellent Mr Lamarr in his place [...]

Lamarr is covering for Woss for (I think) five weeks, but he's already done
three now so that makes another two weeks with Lamarr.  I've never much
liked Lamarr with his Foghorn Leghorn voice but he does put on a good show;
especially the late-nite ones he does on his own.

-- 
                                 Andy Clews
                            University of Sussex
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"Peter Ward"  wrote in message 
news:3akea4h22ll8barue6dre7l5saei8v0dv0@4ax.com...

> Mark Lamarr plays some good stuff, at least it's not the same old
> crap.  Unfortunately, he is an obnoxious, self-obsessed tosser, which
> makes him impossible to listen to for any length of
> time.

Well there you go . . . . personally, I'd put him in the "obnoxious, 
self-obsessed tosser" grade along with Ross and Evans, but hey, we all have 
different opinions in life don't we!

:-)


-- 
J B

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:18:05 +0100, Peter Ward  wrote:

>Mark Lamarr plays some good stuff, at least it's not the same old
>crap.  Unfortunately, he is an obnoxious, self-obsessed tosser, which
>makes him impossible to listen to for any length of
>time.

I can forgive that simply because he loves music. Ross doesn't give a
toss about music. It's all chosen by his guffawing lickspittle
producer and he has no interest in it whatsoever. The great toing
about Lamarr sitting in for Ross is
a) You never know what he will play next
b) It's not Jonathan Ross.

>Ross is all right once, but once you've heard one of his programmes,
>you've heard them all.

Innuendo nyak nyak nyal double entendre nyak nyak nyak my dogs nyak
nyak nyak reference to my wife nyak nyak nyak refeence to my kids nyak
nyak nyak double entendre nyak nyak nyak no i won't play any Barenaked
Ladies cos my wife shagged  Ed Robertson when she was on tour with
them nyak nyak sniffle innuendo nyak nyak no Sean Hughes will never be
a guest on this show cos he shagged my missus when she was making a TV
show with him nyak nyak blub.