[Bas]

So is this real or parody? Wasn't there a shot of two of Chris Evans in that clip?

Oh its real all right. I watched when it was first shown years ago.



If your interested, then here is the classic Smashy & Nicey show which was based on actual events at Radio 1 (all be it extremely loosely, though Nicey outside his exes house plating Bobby Goldboro's 'Honey' is very near the mark) including Bannister's bloodletting & DLT's on air rant . Hope it translates well across the pond.

[Longview01]

Just checked out a few videos by Danisnotonfire and AmazingPhil....

Really Radio 1....* really??

You are gonna let this shit have regular shows on your radio station?

That's it...i'm done...I can never listen to that station again

[HA94]

Just checked out a few videos by Danisnotonfire and AmazingPhil....

Really Radio 1....* really??

You are gonna let this shit have regular shows on your radio station?

That's it...i'm done...I can never listen to that station again

I remember Dan and Phil hosted a show on Christmas Day last year on Radio 1. It wasn't the best.

[Longview01]

Just checked out a few videos by Danisnotonfire and AmazingPhil....

Really Radio 1....* really??

You are gonna let this shit have regular shows on your radio station?

That's it...i'm done...I can never listen to that station again

I remember Dan and Phil hosted a show on Christmas Day last year on Radio 1. It wasn't the best.

I dread to think

There's no point moaning anyway really, at the grand old age of 31 Radio 1 doesn't care about me

[Russell_LParker]

I dread to think

There's no point moaning anyway really, at the grand old age of 31 Radio 1 doesn't care about me

At the grand old age of 17 Radio 1 doesn't seem to care about me because I have a penis.

[Longview01]

I dread to think

There's no point moaning anyway really, at the grand old age of 31 Radio 1 doesn't care about me

At the grand old age of 17 Radio 1 doesn't seem to care about me because I have a penis.

lol, best reply ever

[Jefferypg]

I switched on R1 one late night driving home and they had The Midnight Beast (the ones from that stupid Tik Tok parody) presenting! Really?! Is this how bad it's got? Also I can't help but scroll through the comments on Facebook everytime the Radio 1 account posts something about the new breakfast show. It's fair to say most people aren't happy.

[Badger Mark]

I watched the first couple of those. Pretty good stuff! Am I right to assume these two guys are based on a couple of real guys?

[Wykey]

I watched the first couple of those. Pretty good stuff! Am I right to assume these two guys are based on a couple of real guys?

They're an amalgamation of the DJs in the Blood on the Carpet documentary that Neilt0 posted - I'd watch the four episodes of that first, then watch Smashey and Nicey (to get the best undertsanding).

The do feature direct parodies of Simon Bates / Dave Lee Travis and Tony Blackburn though (Tony Blackburn's breakup with his wife and constant playing of sad songs while mentioning how much he missed her on-air is also real).

[neilt0]

An article about Tony Blackburn from the 03 Oct 2010 Daily Torygraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvan ... heesy.html

I've highlighted some parts in bold:

Blackburn presented the show for six years before moving on to a mid-morning slot. In 1977 he took over the weekday afternoon show during which he can claim credit for single-handedly championing the sound of black soul music. But, to his chagrin, that isn’t his most memorable piece of broadcasting. No, that was something far more personal. And embarrassing.
Head in hands, Blackburn winces. ''I hate being asked about that,’’ he says, without rancour. In 1977, his three-year marriage to actress Tessa Wyatt ended in divorce. For weeks, Blackburn made morose, meandering pleas on air, begging Tessa not to leave him. He played the Chicago song If You Leave Me Now endlessly, laying bare his private life in excruciating fashion.
''I’ve been happily married to my second wife for 18 years. Why does everyone bring up my first, brief marriage?’’ he asks, a little more testily now. ''It’s so long ago I can hardly remember being married to her. Why would I want to talk about it?’’
He relents, however. ''That was my one, big broadcasting mistake. I did go on and on about it a bit,’’ he says. ''I regret it now, obviously.’’
The couple had one son, Simon, now 37, and have remained friends. ''Simon married recently and my wife met Tessa for the first time,’’ he says. ''They got on like a house on fire. And I get on well with her husband. I think they asked us to go on holiday with them. I thought that was going a bit far. I suppose I just lost it a bit. Much like Chris Moyles.’’
Which brings us neatly onto the brouhaha recently over Moyles’s on-air rant against the BBC because he hadn’t been paid. ''Um, er, well, it isn’t something I, personally, would do,’’ Blackburn concedes. “I thought it was a stunt. And as a stunt it was brilliant, very funny. But, since it wasn’t, perhaps it wasn’t very wise…’’
It has long been folklore that Blackburn simmered with resentment when Radio 1 forced him out of his breakfast slot. He says that isn’t so. ''I was never bitter about it,’’ he insists. ''Dave Lee Travis moaned to me about 20 years ago that he and I should still be on Radio 1. Look, I told him, you’re wrong. We shouldn’t be. Young people don’t want DJs old enough to be their grandfathers.’’
Selective amnesia seems to be at play here. He was more forthcoming in his autobiography, published three years ago. In it, he wrote: ''The fun began to seep from my career in 1973, when the controller of Radio 1 decided to move me to a mid-morning slot. I was still the highest-profile DJ in the country… I spent another decade at Radio 1, but it was never the same after I was forced off my breakfast slot. The loss of it left a deep scar, and I was eaten up with anger and resentment.’’

[fatboydave73]

hey fat boy dave

nice to meet you

Alexander Healey...

Sir; I doff my cap at you for such a witty repost. A truly legendary tweet......