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Playlist

1: Kaiser Chiefs – Oh My God, 2: Scissor Sisters – Comfortably Numb, 3: Oasis – Lila, 4: Studio B – I See Girls, 5: The Darkness – I Believe In A Thing Called Love, 6: Michael Gray – The Weekend, 7: Athlete – Half Light, 8: Amerie – One Thing, 9: Jem – They, 10: The Caesars – Jerk It Out, 11: All Saints – Pure Shores, 12: Justin Timberlake & Snoop Doggy Dogg – Signs, 13: Kasabian – Club Foot, 14: Mario – Let Me Love You, 15: Natalie Imbruglia – Big Mistake (tedious Link), 16: Coldplay – Speed Of Sound, 17: Gorillaz – Feelgood Inc., 18: Faith Evans – If I Had To Do It All Again, 19: The Killers – Smile Like You Mean It, 20: Mylo – Drop The Pressure, 21: Stonebridge – Put ‘em High


Scott Mills and Chappers on "Most Haunted"

Satsuma-faced tracksuit monkey Scott Mills seems to be permeating every corner of the media at the moment, if the media has corners. Well, breakfast, and hometime (I refuse to call it drivetime due to cheese) on the wireless, and now Yvette Fielding’s Most Haunted. What a bunch of balls, Scott Mills is rubbish. There, I said it. Smite me if you wish.

Dave said that the programme was essentially an hour of night vision, and he and Chris proceeded to mimic Fielding’s ridiculous “TELL ME YOU JUST LAUGHED IN MY EAR YOU HAVE TO TELL ME YOU JUST LAUGHED IN MY EAR OH MY GOD SOMEONE JUST LAUGHED IN MY EAR” shouting monologue from the show.

Chris doesn’t run with the general concept of haunted houses and all that jazz – he’s doing a Scully (or a Mulder, whichever one thought the aliens thing was a bit tenuous). He thinks that the “light anomalies” were moths, and remains unconvinced by the old “spirits moving the table” routine – maintaining that they should be asked to make Bloody Mary’s and provide salt and vinegar crisps as evidence of their presence.


The Breakfast Show Kids do TOTP

Exciting enough to warrant a jingle (though they make specialised jingles at the drop of a hat these days it seems, it wasn’t like that in my day, repeat to fade), the team doing TOTP also warranted Andi Peters saying some stuff in his silly little voice. He’s not as good as he used to be in the broom cupboard. And he doesn’t do a very good impression of a producer man thing being worried about the crazy renegade squad of presenters (like the A-Team) that he’s recruited for his show. Fool, Peters. Fool.

There was a competition to get VIP tickets for the show, with Leanne from Sunderland vs. Alison from Doncaster. They were both almost entirely incapable of answering questions about either the Breakfast Show or TOTP, which leaves one rather perplexed as to how and why they ended up entering the competition in the first place. Chris found their lack of Breakfast Show knowledge to be a “kick in the balls to his ego”. But anyway, Alison won.

Does Fern Britton present TOTP? No. Fern Britton is the queen of daytime. Don’t be confused.


Phil Mitchell is incomprehensible

Much amusing use of clips from the episode of Eastenders where Phil comes back and puts Ian Beale in a toilet or something. Chris does a good rendition of a huffing and puffing red faced bullying man. Why does Phil Mitchell exhale so very audibly? It’s like he needs a tracheotomy or something. Someone give that man a modified windpipe.


Guess Who

Dave sat behind famous-for-what-exactly Rowland Rivron on the bus. Chris was so overwhelmed by this level of celebrity that he declined offers of more Guess Who’s today.


Car Park Catchphrase

Lee, a tyre fitter from Essex vs. Lucy, a student from Cardiff. Not so stupid as usual, these contestants. “Polly put the kettle on”, “Bull in a china shop” and “A finger in every pie” both figured out in good time. Most amusing aspect of this feature being Chris’s impression of Gary Rhodes – “I may look it and I may sound it, but I’m not you know”. Heeheehee.


On other matters…

Chris and Dave faced same-shirt hell after both turning up in a natty little number that they evidently both bought from “Mary down the pub”.

Chris remarked that the practice of papal and general-Catholic-important-person renaming might be a tax dodge, and that Pope Benedict XVI may be a bit of a pimp daddy due to his bling-age. This probably means Chris is going to hell, or at least getting a good clip round the ear from his Catholic-tastic mum.

Chris and Dave liked the Amerie song, though Dave said it sounded like “J-Lo with a really good band behind her”. Their assertion is handy as it gives me the opportunity to say that I think the song will be the “Crazy In Love” of this summer. I want to be a DJ too. Who even plays All Saints anymore? It’s just not 1997, or whatever.

Chris requests that punters don’t accost him whilst he’s “rocking out” at One Big Weekend.

Chris protested too much about the quality of the “brilliant” new Coldplay song, saying “it really does grow on you, after a couple of listens”. Personally, I feel that it’s just the same old Coldplay dirgery, with Chris Martin sounding like he’s in a coma. And the keyboard refrain bit sounds exactly, and I mean exactly, like the theme tune to Family Affairs.

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