I've been the UK explaining-the-madness correspondent for Late Night Live for eight years. This week, for the first time, I went into the studio. It was oddly moving. It's been such a privilege being a small part of this great show.
Our childhood in the 1970s when TOTP came on the telly.
Dad departs the living room & shouts:
"Don't forget to gie us a shout when Legs & Co come on!!!".
Collective sibling grimace ensues & palpable unease overwhelms us.
Every. Bloody. Week.
Gosh, I haven't heard that song in a very long time.
Spot on John.
Not so much "word salad" as a full-on, all-you-can-eat salad buffet.
Halliwell singing "Look At Me".
OH:
It's like a really, really, really shit version of the Propellerheads feat. Miss Shirley Bassey's "History Repeating Itself" innit?
He's not wrong.
#TOTP
We should all live under Shania Law.
#TOTP
I really miss Linda Smith.
Joni Mitchell.
Where do I start listening?
Markwayne.
A name-based dare his parents accepted for meth payments.
Oh @mrjamesob.bsky.social
Heated "debate" with an anti EU colleague
His arguments were a salad bar of sound bites
I went full JOB & asked for 1 unfavourable aspect of the EU
Tumbleweed then:
"Well I can't right now but I bet I could Google something in 20 secs"
I'll never get used to this
I didn't think to check there :)
My favourite typo is "10% discocunt".
wtaf?
Thank you! Andrew pointed me to the show notes. Sorry for being a bit dim.
I am SO looking forward to doing this. Tolstoy tensions, be gone!
ps I absolutely adore Rock & Roll Politics. You're ace Steve x
A) Childbirth is the wild west of hospital care.
B) I see your "episiotomy" & raise you "placenta" as a great name for a band.
C) Pseudo children are the best. Would you care for another one? He's 25 but he's still our child.
54 year old me just asked my 25 year old kid if he wants to go to a gig (band that he's discovered & loves) with me at the Barrowlands.
Wish me luck.
My integrity & validation are hanging on a shaky hook.
That torn perineum in 2001 better count for something goddamit.
The "What To Wear When/If" column boils my piss.
"Operation Epic Fury".
It's like an onanistic adolescent wet dream.
"Operation Epic Fury"???
To quote Heather Chandler: "Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw."
Wow.
Karoline Leavitt attempts to minimise the actual threat made by Trump of a trade embargo against Spain.
She claims Spain has agreed to cooperate with the US.
Spain categorically denies this mere moments later.
Where do I buy front row tickets for Karoline getting thrown under the GOP bus?
Making dinner while listening to @talk90stome.bsky.social with John Thomson being interviewed by the divine @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social & I'm on the floor laughing my arse off hearing Mr Thomson describe Free Jazz as sounding like a "fire in a pet shop" :)
This pod is the v. best balm for your lugs
Badenoch proving once again that all she's good for is scoring cheap political points.
I'm not exactly shaking my pompoms for Starmer but Kemi is so awful we need a new word for awful.
#PMQs
Thank you Andrew! Sorry, forgot to check :)
LOVED this as always.
@steverichards.bsky.social could you direct me to the War & Peace substack please? I've always been intimidated by that tome!
@nndroid.bsky.social Predator Badlands is magnificent!!! Sorry @rostaylor.bsky.social
En route to work this morning.
Something felt odd.
Off-kilter.
Couldn't work it out.
Got to my desk & the penny dropped.
My bra was on back to front.
I'm 54.
Big up Dave.
It’s actually FEWER Misérables
Filing decades old shit at work & I suddenly feel quite emotional.
I've always thought that people who choose to holiday in Dubai are fundamentally broken.
I saw Holland's "Mr Jones", it was brilliant.
