CheapShow - Ep 122: The Ballad of Roy Jay
Episode Date: April 12, 2019"Gather round children, for we have something to say About a strange 80s comedian by the name of Roy Jay. He released an odd album, with music galore So why is its content an almighty bore?" RIGHT, en...ough rhyming! What else is in the podcast this week? Well, in an interesting turn of events, Paul and Eli are swapping segments. Eli grabs some random candy for "Silverman's Spoff Shop" and Paul snags some weird vinyl for "Gannon's Gramophone" which takes us on a journey of 80s Double Acts, Saturday Morning TV, disgraced Stand Up comics, rancid sweeties, Madam Lady Plop's Sex Work and a mug that pours out snot.... and yes, another sodding Sauce Report. Happy? You better be! And if you like us, why not support us: www.patreon.com/cheapshow Share & Enjoy. Photos for this episode can be seen at https://www.thecheapshow.co.uk/ep-122-the-ballad-of-roy-jay If you want to get involved, email us at thecheapshow@gmail.com And if you have to, follow us on Twitter @thecheapshowpod or @paulgannonshow & @elisnoid If you like what you hear, please spread the word! Like, Review, Share, Comment... LOVE US!
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Ooh, baby, baby, you're a wild one.
It's not you're a wild one.
It is?
No, it's not.
It is?
It's a wide world.
That's a good point, but that's not what I'm singing.
Whose song is that?
Whose song?
Ooh, baby, as what?
I think they did a version.
All right.
So there you go.
And they sang, ooh, baby, baby, you're a wild one.
No one sang that. I bet you. I bet you money. And they sang, Oh, baby, baby, you're a wild one. No one sang that.
I bet you, I bet you money.
I sang it.
You're such a dick.
I had a thing to do for this intro.
Oh, go on.
Sorry, go on.
I was just going to interrupt you and say, like,
Go on.
About the sauce.
Oh, I see what you're going to do.
That's very cute.
It's very cute. There is actually a sauce report this week. Ladies and gentlemen, before we start the show, the sauce. Oh, I see what you're going to do. That's very cute. It's very cute.
There is actually a sauce report this week.
Ladies and gentlemen, before we start the show, the sauce report.
Do-do-do-do-do-do.
I went to Taco Bell and I got some sauce.
Reach over.
This one?
The one that says fire.
Fire.
Now, that's their hottest sauce.
I hate you.
I hate you.
Do you know what? And also, these are like hottest sauce. I hate you. I hate you.
Do you know what?
And also, these are like little bespoke sauce sachets you get at Taco Bell.
Because in there, you can see, read that out.
There's a little message in there.
Oh, hang on.
Get on my level.
But it says different stuff on the other ones.
You can see.
What does that one say?
Ridiculously good tasting.
And that's ketchup. That's ketchup.
So, it's like... Oh, this one's orange
and it says,
you know you want me.
Yeah, but that's the hot.
You dirty bit.
You dirty girl.
It's all not very...
It's not very good hot sauce.
Right, is that the sauce?
Is that it?
No.
Sauce report?
Listen, don't try and truncate...
I've got to do an intro
to this podcast.
Don't truncate my sauce report, man.
Well, then maybe save it
for after the intro.
You'll betray the people of Cheap Show.
We're not the people.
We're not the people.
I haven't finished talking about the fucking hot sauce.
Can't we save it for after the show,
when the show's, when we get into it?
When we get into it.
The source report comes at the top.
It doesn't come,
that's not a new routine we're doing
where we open every show with a source report.
It seems to be, though, doesn't it, Paul?
What?
You're going to do what?
I'm going to...
No.
I'm going to stick oofed
up my meters.
Down it?
I'd rather dip my dick
in oof.
Are you going to what?
How's it going to go up it?
Are you going to be sort of
suspended?
I'll be erect
and I'll press down on it
like I'm squashing a lemon.
That would be putting oof
down your penis.
You mean this?
But it's going up my shaft.
Come on.
Is this it?
Sauce report over.
All I wanted to say is those little messages that you get on the Taco Bell hot sauce sachets.
Yeah.
What tell you to kill?
You're going, kill the heretic.
Paul, come on.
Paul.
I'm a bit like Love Hearts. You know, different message. They're a bit like on. Paul. I'm a bit like Love Hearts.
You know, different message.
They're a bit like that.
Great.
Anyway, ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to Eli Silverman's Cheap Show,
starring Eli Silverman,
the breakout star of Cheap Show,
a podcast about the economy and austerity
and finding bargains in powerlands and charity shops across this great nation.
No, I think you need to...
Starring Eli Silverman.
I think you should do...
And I am co-host Paul Gannon.
Yes.
Paul.
You're getting big.
Welcome to fucking Cheap Show.
Welcome to fucking Eli Silverman's Cheap Show podcast.
Fucking hell.
I hate you and your fucking Moodle posse.
People love Moodle, right?
It's a fact of cheap show.
You're going to have to fucking reset.
Moodle time.
Tales from the Dark. How's the pick up? A fight of shite!
This is for Gun and Tate, hello!
Eli Silver!
Welcome to the show! This is called Gallantay. Hello.
Eli Silverman.
Welcome to Cheap Show.
I'm not going on a nuzzle.
Why don't you introduce your show, Mr. Silverman?
Jumble sales.
What have you got coming up on the podcast today, Mr. Silverman? Well, we have got a bit of a reverse cheap show today, Paul,
because we're going to be doing each other's traditional segments, aren't we?
That's right.
We're going to do a segment swap.
We're swapping segments.
Indeed.
Which means you'll be doing a platter segment with some stuff you've picked up.
Yeah.
And also in the show, a little visit to the froth shop.
But it ain't Gannon's froth shop.
It's Silverman's spoff shop.
Yay.
It's Silverman's spoff shop.
And also we're going to have.
Like Noel Edmonds' swap shop, but Silverman's spoff shop.
Yes.
I like that.
Yeah.
Dried ejaculate for the sprinkling man.
Right, good.
Also.
Yeah.
It's time to return.
Another reverse segment, because we're doing Mikasa Pukasa.
Well, P-Kasa Pukasa.
P-Kasa Pukasa.
Is where, rather than find something that we think is awesome in a charity shop
and give it as a gift to the other, as a pipe of peace kind of move,
this is the opposite, where we find something that's horribly awful.
We try and get the worst thing.
We're competing to find the most abhorrent object.
Shall we just crack on with that then?
Do you want to start with that?
Let's start with that.
Let's get it right into gear.
Like that.
And then we can go back to some other bits I've got over here.
Are you trying to do a poultice bit there?
No.
You were.
You did a little fist pump as if you were applying a metaphorical poultice.
Don't be stepping on my territory, yeah?
Well, you're stepping...
We're all stepping on territories today, innit?
Now, I've got a doozy.
I've got a doozy as well.
Right, mine I reckon is going to be worse.
Okay, so I will say this.
Mine is fucking tasteless, ugly, and a bit grimy.
Okay, mine is practical, but grossly misjudged
and unpleasant to look at.
Really?
Yeah.
Okay, let's start with mine then.
Yours sounds like it might be worse.
I don't know.
I'm going to hand this to you, Paul.
It's been wrapped
by the nice lady in the charity shop.
So already just by looking at it
and the girth and the wrapping,
it's a beaker or, you know,
drinking receptacle.
That is.
It is.
It's really the design that really...
Oh, dear.
It's a pint glass. Right.
And it's got 18
legal written on it.
Look at the face. And like, what looks like
a kind of, a naughty
schoolboy. Off his head on fucking
naughty dust. Yeah, it's like he's going
I'm 18 and legal. Legal to
drink, isn't it? It must be referring to that, legal to drink. I thought it was not legal to knob. I thought it was like he's going, I'm 18 and legal. Legal to drink, isn't it?
It must be referring to that,
legal to drink.
Well, it's not legal to knob.
I thought it was knobbing
they were getting out.
Is that his cum face?
He's knobbing.
He's busting a nut.
Yeah, that's his nut face.
Look at him.
That's his Terry Nockins face.
How ugly and awful is that?
It's like a smiley face,
but without the yellow
pigmentation.
It's the eyes I don't get.
The eyes I don't get
how they're drawn.
You see what I mean?
He's put bags on
because to give it
the more intoxicated,
tired,
drunk look.
And look at that.
A nasty
price sticker
has stuck to the bottom
of this mug
and it's kind of mucky.
Mucky.
No one wants this.
No one ever wants this.
What are you getting
like a hobbit?
Nobody wants this.
I wanted you.
Yeah?
Yeah, it's precious 18 legal mugs.
How much?
That is really nasty.
It was bad, isn't it?
I didn't want to touch that.
That's the best I've done on this segment so far, isn't it?
Yeah, it's all right.
That is, no one wants that.
Yeah.
And he's ugly.
Yeah.
And it's kind of morally, what's it saying?
I don't know.
Get pissed, you.
Go away.
Oi, oi.
You know what I mean?
It's that kind of thing.
Hey, son. How old are you today You know what I mean? It's that kind of thing. Hey, son!
How old are you today?
How old are you today?
18 days.
What?
Get your knob in there!
Get this down your throat!
Oh, he's dead.
He's dead.
My son is dead.
Oh, I got him, mate.
That went fucking dark quick.
Well, that's what could happen.
How much was that?
Well, with the other item I bought.
Okay.
It was three pounds.
Oh, okay.
Good to know. So, one pound fifty. All right. Fair enough. bought, it was £3. Oh, okay. Good to know.
So, £1.50.
All right, fair enough.
It's quite high, really.
All right, here's mine.
Mr. Silverman, say what you see.
Is this my Picasso?
Oh, God.
This is...
What is it?
This is...
You know what I mean?
It's not just...
It's quite...
All right, I'll tell them what it is.
I'll just say this before we go any further.
My girlfriend looked at it and went,
please give that to Eli because I don't want it in this house.
It's the type of thing you don't want in the house.
You're like that.
You wouldn't want that.
The 18 legal mug.
You wouldn't be proud of having that on your shelf.
It's fucking questionable, that 18 legal thing.
It's a studenty mug, that, isn't it?
It's awful.
This is a mug as well, Paul.
Kinda.
And it's a green box.
Well, it's not a mug, no.
And it says on the top here,
Bogeyman.
Yeah.
Great fun for the kitchen.
Nah.
Egg separator.
Egg separator.
This is an egg separator.
Yeah, but why is it interesting?
Because it is a sort of receptacle.
It's ceramic.
This is disturbing, man.
Isn't it?
Yeah.
It's a ceramic mug-shaped.
God, that's so weird.
Can I have this?
Yes.
You can definitely have that.
I don't like looking at it.
I'm going to put it up there with my funny worm and my Pac-Man ghost salt and pepper shaker.
It'll fit in there.
It will, won't it?
It's haunting.
You'll wake up after a cocaine binge and see that and have massive, horrible nightmares.
Well, the thing is, when you binge on cocaine,
it's a stimulant, Paul.
Yeah.
So it makes you stay awake.
Oh, no.
Drugs.
Exactly.
Oh, no.
I'm not going to wake up after.
It's like, you know.
What gives you haunting nightmares after you take it?
Ecstasy.
Nightmares.
Oh, yeah.
There's a thing with ecstasy where you get this thing.
You wake up, you get bad, what they call a brain buzz or something.
Yeah.
I've never experienced it myself, but you get this thing.
Like it sort of.
Yeah.
You get this whole jolty, nasty.
Like falling off a building and catching yourself.
Yeah.
But worse, like pain.
Anyway, this is like the face of a, like a, like a, like a dead, like a dead man's corpse mask. It's got a big nose, Like a dead man's corpse mask.
It's got a big nose, like a dead man's corpse mask.
You know when you see those death masks?
It is like that.
It looks like that.
But it's got a handle at the back of the head.
It's got two ears.
Imagine a Toby jug.
And...
Yes.
Crossed with nosy bonk.
And it's got a...
Like an orc kind of look to it as well.
Like a sort of Middle Earth style sort of...
Holes in the nose.
There are big holes in the nostrils.
There are nostrils on this thing.
And so you break an egg in there, do you?
Yeah.
And then you pour the white out there.
You pour it out like a teapot.
And it looks like he's snotting.
Big snotty globules out of his nose and the yolk stays in the cup.
How many times would you actually use that to separate an egg?
I mean, if you're making a cake,
maybe.
You egg whites
using a cake, don't you?
Yeah, you do.
You might need to separate them
at some times
and use the yolk
for the cream later.
I've done some people
who like watching their weight
or whatever,
they go egg white omelette
just to let white
because there's less
protein like calories.
I wouldn't use that
because that's haunting.
It's really disturbing.
Yeah, and the idea
of it having like snotty globules come out of its nose is...
It's kind of disgusting.
It's like that.
As we all know, with the hierarchy of disgusting bodily fluids,
snot and phlegm is at the top.
You know what it's missing?
Wouldn't you say, Paul?
Yeah.
You know what it's missing?
When you see someone's phlegm on the sidewalk.
Or when you see a bogey hanging out of someone's nose dangling there.
That's...
That is one of the most grotesque things.
I don't know what...
Oh, I'm...
No, let's move on.
God, he's set himself up.
What's funny is it's missing a trick there.
It needs an electronic component.
The idea is you should pour it, and then as it's doing that,
you can tip it back, and it goes...
And that, when you tip it back and it goes and that when you tip it back
it goes
it sniffs
that is a terrible
terrible thing Paul
really ugly
and kind of disturbing
but
it has a sort of
quality of build
it's
well made
do you know what I mean
whereas the 18 legal
there's nothing redeeming
about it at all
Gary from the shop
goes I've got
20,000 pint glasses to shift.
What were you putting on him?
You knew good.
You know what I mean?
You've done well.
It was close,
but I am going to give it to your mucky 18 and a legal.
It's worse for more reasons.
Do you know what I mean?
This is just sort of ugly.
It feeds a kind of mindset.
And a bad taste.
This was pretty bad, I have to say.
It's not what I want in the kitchen,
separating eggs.
Oh, he's looking in his bag again. I have to say. It's not what I want in the kitchen, separating eggs. But I'm just...
Oh, he's looking
in his bag again.
I just want to show you
this other thing I got, Paul.
Yeah.
Because it's weird.
It's like a snow dome.
It's like a sparkle globe.
It's got gold glitter
and golden balls.
What is in there?
Look what's in there.
It's like a castle
on top of a magic golden hill.
It looks like a tit
with a ray gun on it. Yeah. Bizarre. And then there's... Yeah, because it's a weird mountain that top of a magic golden hill. It looks like a tit with a ray gun on it.
Yeah.
Bizarre.
And then there's...
Yeah, because it's a weird mountain that kind of is sloped slightly to one side.
But that's like a building on top, isn't it?
Yeah, it's like a magic castle.
Now, you're missing...
There's another aspect to this object, Paul.
There's coins in there.
Are they coins?
There's a coin in there.
Or maybe that's...
No, it is a movable...
It's a coin.
And there are golden balls of black...
And there's golden balls with black holes.
No, they're not actually that.
They're not...
They're just like beads.
They're just beads.
There's just beads in there.
Oh, it's got...
Hang on.
Yeah.
Oh!
It's got a battery on it.
Is it...
Didn't expect that.
Look, and it lights up.
It's glowing.
There's LED, coloured LEDs in the mountain.
Is this Chinese music?
I asked the lady in the charity shop,
I said, is that some sort of religious thing?
Because I think, and she said, yeah,
she thinks it's Hindu, like it's an Indian,
that there's some kind of Hindu...
I kind of like it.
It's kind of cool, but it's also...
It's kind of trippy, isn't it?
No, so that's a strange item, isn't it?
Very strange.
Definitely not one for me...
Me...
Poo-casser...
Oh, look, there is a coin in there, isn't there?
Yeah.
I wonder what's on that coin, if it's like...
It probably means something, all this.
You know, the golden beads and the coin.
No, that looks like a nickel.
That looks like a...
Oh, weird.
I'm turning it off.
That's a strange object.
It's a very strange object.
But someone might know what it's for.
But it looks like it's maybe a bit of touristy kind of tat celebrating a religion thing.
Yeah.
Anyway, there will be photos of all of this stuff.
Oh, you better believe it.
On the website.
So if anyone's got any ideas, keep them to yourself.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's get going with the show then.
I was going to do other bits.
I thought that was the
show no i was gonna mention a winky update i've got a few things coming up with that basically
i've translated it into english and we will be recording it soon for a forthcoming episode no
more details there but i'm quite happy with the translation oh and you know there's that other
song nostradamus uh what the one that was On the YouTube channel That had no views Yeah
By the same guy who did
Yeah someone translated
This for us as well
The same guy
Manuel
A proper Frenchie
Right
He translated the
What he was saying in there
Nostradamus
And goes here it is
I'll just read it quickly for you
Okay
Wow
Human
I'm here
Wow
I'm not like you at all
I'm only mad because
Wow
Ostrogoth
And then he says in here
As in the Germanic tribe from the late antiquity
Visigoths
Ostrogoth
But it also can mean in quite old slang
A rude and odd person
Anyway, the poem continues
I'm awaited, last Christian Pope
Benedict XVI
Get out You won't be able to stop the violent uprising Some noodles I'm awaited last Christian Pope Benedict XVI get out
you won't be able
to stop the violent
uprising
some noodles
what?
that's what it says here
some crib sheets
and then again
it says
old slang
the translation for
a crib sheet
is
untul
which sounds like
the verb tulie
which means
to stare
hence the fact
it comes after
the noodle verse
I think
maybe
what?
what's happening Paul? and taciturn the poem continues pupils you only use them to stare. Hence the fact that it comes after the noodle verse, I think, maybe. What? So, yeah.
What's happening, Paul?
And taciturn, the poem continues.
Pupils, you only use them for that.
Oh, sorry?
Get out.
You smell of gas.
The sentence can be taken literally,
but it could also be in the old slang.
You feel as there's something wrong.
The poem continues.
You're going to blow up everything.
In French, the word pita can mean to blow up something or to fart.
So, yeah, he smells the gas.
There's probably a bit of fart metaphor in here.
Well, the gas would be a fart metaphor as well.
Nuclear, that's with you. That's
clear. Gonna go up in the air.
Wow, I'm human. Wow, Ostrogoth.
And that's it.
Well, the guy obviously...
Broke this about you. Why?
Hang on, sorry. Because I'm an Ostrogoth who
farts, am I? Yeah. Noodles. Well, fuck you. Noodles. Maybe he predicted the coming of you. Why? Because I'm an Ostrogoth who farts, am I? Yeah.
Well, fuck you! Noodles? Maybe he
predicted the coming of you. Noodles?
This French guy predicted the coming
of Eli Silver. Well, he did well.
Anyway, that's very strange.
And no wonder no one wanted to
watch the video, didn't he? He probably didn't tell anyone
about the video. No. What was he
doing with himself? I'll make a video.
Well, this rustic wall,
I'll just have some shots of that.
And a cat smoking a spliff.
And a cat smoking a spliff.
I mean, how can you forget?
Right, that's the beginning of Cheap Show.
Let's go into the next bit of it.
So, do you have a jingle for your spoff shop?
No, I'm going to be playing the shopkeeper
because it's a reverse now,
Paul, so I just want you to play out the scene.
No jingle. You just walk down the street.
And I enter the shop, ting-a-ling-a-ling, yeah?
Alright, I'll tell you what.
Let's play this out.
Can I have you
just pubescent? It's just starting.
Oh, mate, don't.
Please don't.
Can I just say at this point,
we've got another one-star review on iTunes.
Did we?
You know what it said?
Utterly vile.
They're probably anti-Semitic.
What?
I know.
I'm thinking, I mean, don't like the show,
but I wouldn't say we're anti-Semitic.
Utterly vile.
I know.
Oh, well.
Some not pleasing.
So you can't please some people.
You can't please some people, can you?
You try and make endless spoff jokes and some people don't like it.
That's all we want to do is just make spoff gags.
You sort of try and surreptitiously fart on your podcast and it's fucking highlighted
and it's magnificent.
It is magnificent.
I want someone to kind of art of noise all those fart sounds up.
Do you know there was that app?
My friend used to be on it.
Like a worldwide league of farts.
Farts, yeah.
Great use of technology, that.
Great mark of humanity, too.
Rate my shit.
You know what I mean?
I bet there is a rate my shit.
There's bound to be.
Look at this one.
It curls on and on and on.
Yeah, I know.
There's that weird sort of mid-European poo humour
that people are into, isn't there?
Yeah.
You know, the little shitty man in Spain.
Oh, look, it's for poo, yeah.
Which we talked about before on the cheap show.
The shitty man in flame.
Yeah.
No, the shitty man from Spain.
Oh.
Remember the little squatting thing you could buy?
Oh, the little shitty man.
So anyway, I'm going to be a small child entering your sweet shop.
Not a...
Just a child.
A nondescript child
of indeterminate age.
And I'll just be in here.
Right.
And I'll walk down the street.
And what's the
definitive
sound effect noise
that you're going to have to make?
I don't know.
Tinkle, linkle, linkle.
Of course it's
tinkle, linkle, linkle.
Really want to hear
a tinkle, linkle, linkle.
Alright, okay.
Here we go.
I walk down the street.
Oh, I've just finished school and I'm going to go home.
But I've got 50p in my pocket and I'm going to go along.
And oh, there's a shop I've never seen before.
Eli Silverman's Spoff Shop.
Oh, it's interesting.
I'm going to go in.
Tingle, lingle, lingle.
Oh, hello.
Oh, no, don't do that voice.
Hello. Who's this?
Hello. I'm a small boy with some money
to spend on sweets. Well, you've come to
the right place, little sunny gin.
Do not like the way this is panning out.
No, I've got sweets. I'm totally, listen.
I'm totally cool.
I'm cool. Got cool sweets.
Come on in.
Right, what have you got?
Here we go.
What kind of sweets do you like, my lad?
I like sweets that go fizz in my mouth.
I've got lots of fizzes for you.
I've got a veritable cornucopia of fizzy, poppy, sweetie things.
Oh, I can't wait.
What did you say your name was, little boy?
Why is all your sweet shop contained in one bag?
Well, I'm just...
I'm moving.
Why are the windows boarded up in this shop?
It's not really a sweet shop.
Mother!
Mother!
Right.
I'm going to hand you one.
Yeah.
Oh.
Look at that.
Because we had one of these on before.
Stop doing that. Stop doing that now. We've set it up. Right. Okay. Oh. Yeah. Because we had one of these on before. Stop doing that now.
We've set it up.
Right.
Okay.
Oh, can I just say
a tinkle,
linkle,
linkle.
A tinkle,
linkle.
Right.
Right.
What have we got there,
Paul?
I have got,
it's a little
gummy burger.
And it comes in a
little plastic gummy
style,
little plastic
burger style
container. A clam, or what they call a clam plastic burger-style container.
A clam, or what they call a clam.
Clam.
Clam design.
A clam shape.
Clam shape.
Clam design.
It's got a nice springy action to it.
It's nice, that.
And it's a little burger in there.
But I remember them being a bit better than that, burgers I've seen before.
They've just taken three vag, vaguely round gummies.
And stacked them.
And it doesn't look like a burger, does it?
No, it looks like they've put three fruit gums on top of each other.
You know what I mean?
I mean, I suppose the top one is vaguely bunny.
Bunny.
It's got a bit of texture to it.
What is it?
Is it a bit of an eggy, foamy one?
Yeah.
I'll have the middle layer, which is apparently the lettuce layer.
There's no meat layer.
Where's the brown patty?
That's it, the red one.
Hang on, let me test the grill.
Standard.
Yeah, it's standard
but it's not unpleasant.
A lot of gummies,
low quality gummies
have unpleasant aftertaste.
So that's not.
That's fine, is it?
All right.
It's made by a company
called Funtime.
They also had
a pizza.
That's what we tasted before
was a pizza
but this was a different one but this was a different one.
It was a different one.
That was all right.
Standard.
Unremarkable.
How much was it?
30p or something.
Oh, that's fine then, 30p.
I bought a load.
And the guy said to me in the shop,
he went, oh yeah, the kids love that section.
As in, what the fuck are you doing?
Please tell me you have children.
Like he's pressing a little secret doorbell
on the counter
I suppose it is strange
for a fully grown man
just to get loads
of childish sweets
I mean it is
it's the way of the world
Eli
I've got another thing for you
Eli
it's the way of the world
it certainly is the way
of the world Paul
here's another thing for you
oh
what's this
it's a little tube
and it's called
brain liquor it's a brain liquor I've got a before I open. Oh, what's this? It's a little tube and it's called Brain Licker.
It's a brain licker.
Before I open this, this already looks like a roll-on deodorant.
This is the gummy version of that, I reckon.
Well, I would think it maybe has something that looks like a brain that you lick.
Let's find out, shall we?
Yes, open it now.
I'm twisting the top off.
It is a roll-on deodorant.
It looks exactly like a roll-on deodorant.
Oh my God.
And I imagine, you know.
You're meant to lick that ball.
I'm going to do it.
I'll do it for the pod.
I'm going to do it.
All right, you do it.
You lick my ball after me.
I'll lick the ball first.
I don't want the sloppy seconds
on the nugget.
I'll lick it from the side
a little bit.
I'll lick the ball at the side
and then you can lick
the other side of the ball.
So, you know, look.
And I'm doing it right over the brain liquor logo.
It's not brain.
There's no brain.
No.
It's literally a roll-on deodorant.
Yeah.
I'm going to test it.
Filled with sugar water.
Here we go.
How's that?
Weak.
It's not sour.
It's just weak kind of blueberry.
If you give this to your kid, and they've got it in the back of the car on a long journey imagine that
it's gone a bit blue
don't make me look inside your fucking mouth
gross
alright
that is a terrible thing
look at the colour
if you took the lid off
that ball off
and just downed it
how quick you'd have a heart attack
get diabetes
that's a terrible thing.
It's not satisfying though, is it?
But kids like that
just lick it all day.
You know what I mean?
I don't know.
If I was an adult
and I went,
yeah, you, you,
I got this for you.
What is it?
It's candy, isn't it?
And I'm just going to watch you
eat it and enjoy it.
Oh, come on, Paul.
Oh, fuck off.
Vile.
Fuck off.
He's probably a racist.
Alright what else
have we got in here?
I don't know.
Now what mark
would you give that?
Really low.
One.
Yeah it's a terrible
the brain liquor.
It seems expensive
and I don't find it satisfying.
It was a quid for that.
Think of the plastic waste
in that ball and everything.
It's a deodorant that they've sort of changed into a sweet item.
I've got this job, lot of fucking roll-on deodorants.
I can't shift.
Just clean out the deodorant.
Push it under the tap and stick some fucking Ribena in it.
You know what I mean, basically.
And also, it's like mis-selling because it says brain liquor.
There is no brain.
The only brain is in the word brain on the label and a picture of a brain.
They're selling it as a gross, you know, gross toy.
Yeah, but there's nothing gross about it.
It's just weird.
That's a very shit thing.
Yeah.
And that colour of green, that's the same colour as the...
That's what I call...
The Slap Chop.
That's what I call...
Isn't it?
The Slap Chop you got the other day.
Oh, yeah.
Same colour.
I call that 90s...
It's avocado.
90s Nickelodeon green.
Yeah.
You know what I'm getting at?
Yes.
Gak.
Slime.
Here's another thing, Paul.
Oh.
What have we got there?
Eli's giving me a stinger, ladies and gentlemen.
And it's not a euphemism.
No.
Swizzles.
Now, they're a famous brand.
They are.
I think they are.
They're sort of...
They do the penny sweets type stuff. There's a lot of Swizzles products in there. I think they're a famous brand. They are. I think they are. They're sort of... They do the penny sweets type stuff.
There's a lot of Swizzles products in there.
I think they're a competitor to Bobby's.
Bassets and Maynards.
Yeah.
But I think they're on the more cheaper side, like Bobby's.
I think they overlap with Bobby's.
Tooty-fruity chew bar with a fizzy centre.
The cheekiest chew bar on the planet.
Well, we'll be the judge of that, Mr Swizzles.
We will be the judge of that, Mr Swizzles.
We will be the judge of that.
I'm going to open it.
I want a cheeky rating.
Now, this obviously, to me, looks like a wham bar.
Wham.
And refreshers do them now as well, don't they?
Love wham bars.
But I reckon they've changed over the years.
They have totally changed.
The flavour's completely different.
And also the texture.
Because I think they had to, by health and safety,
said your bars are pulling out fillings and you know what I mean?
Like breaking kids teeth
and stuff.
It was so hard
that when you bit it
it smashed like glass
in your mouth.
You've got big chunks
of it in your gums.
You went,
are you fucking out?
Yeah, it was like,
oh!
Splinters of rock hard
wham bar
under your gums
bleeding.
Blood trickling down
your wham bar.
It's not a proper wham bar
unless you've got
gum blood
trickling down it. Trickling down your wambar. It's not a proper wambar unless you've got gum blood trickling down it.
Trickling down it.
He's gone rogue again.
You're not a wambar.
Sorry.
I try to think of something funny.
I can't think of anything funny.
They can't all be good.
They can't.
It's just a numbers game, isn't it?
Anyway, Stinger.
It's also nice. Okay, you go it? Anyway, Stinger. It's also nice.
Okay, you go for it.
Nice, again, green.
It's a similar shade of green to the brain liquor, isn't it?
Tooty fruity.
It tastes like a fruit salad.
Has it got any sourness?
No.
You'd think if it said Stinger, it would have some...
Tiny bit of fizz.
I don't think that's very good.
It's got nothing to it.
Do you know what I mean?
It tastes like a slightly fizzy fruit salad.
Yeah, it's not...
Yeah, and it's too thin as well.
Like a fruit salad's nice
because it's got that little cube chew-ness to it,
like a chew-it shape.
Right.
And you think, ooh.
That's underwhelming.
And do you know what?
I can't help but think that if that was made by Bobby's,
the flavour would be better.
Do you think?
Yeah.
Probably more potent, like, you know, stronger.
Yeah.
Maybe a bit too sugary, but we won't know.
Almost floral old ladies perfume.
Now, Eli, here's the next question.
Is it the cheekiest chew in the planet?
No way.
Is it?
We've seen cheekier.
I've seen cheekier. I've seen cheekier
chews
in a...
They can't all be winners,
can they?
The numbers gave me life.
You just gotta keep trying.
That's all we can do.
What else you got?
In my shop.
That got you
You look like you're losing the will to live, Mr
I fucking am
I'm sweating all of a sudden
It's the sugar
Now, this is curious
I've never seen one of these
Well, that's why I thought I'd pick one up
or review it on this section of the show
I'm going to go ahead and say
this is a Cadbury's knock-off of Kinder
but let's have a look
It's a dairy milk Freddo Treasures Freddo is a thing I've seen off of kinder but i let's have a look it's a dairy milk freddo treasures so it's a little freddo is a thing i've seen freddo i've a freddo cheap chocolate sweet
it's in the shape of a frog cabris yeah cabris yeah okay there you go cabris dairy milk which
is a big brand yeah it's a chocolate brand it's just a chocolate bar little one for kids it's
like a cheap one shaped in the shape of a frog. I think some have caramel in. The frog is Freddo, isn't he?
Yeah.
Freddo the frog.
But this is
Discover a Surprise Toy.
So it must be a little Freddo
and a toy
inside this plastic purple chest.
It's like a little purple
chest of chests.
It's a bit like an egg box,
isn't it?
I like this.
Mini egg box.
It's intriguing,
the box.
Can I open it?
Paul, it's made me think.
You know, they've reimagined a roll-on deodorant as a confectionery product.
Yeah.
Well, couldn't they start doing it with other things?
Like?
Tenor lady soccer balls.
Go on.
It's...
Can't all be winners, can they, Mr Silverman?
It's a numbers game
isn't it
it's a geriatric
ladies nappy sweet
how do you eat it
you suck on it
and the juice comes out
god
fuck me
what about
what about aerosol
just spray
an aerosol mix
I think they do have that
don't they
they have a squirties thing
but what about
an aerosol spray
that you spray in your mouth
do you remember those
aerosol bottles that were just water just cold water yeah but were about an aerosol spray. Like you spray in your mouth. Do you remember those aerosol bottles that were just water?
Just cold water?
Yeah, but were they proper aerosol?
No, no, that was proper aerosol.
That's what aerosol is.
It's gas, Paul.
I can't fucking open this.
I want to open the Freddo box.
Give it to me!
I want to get the treasure out.
Give me the Freddo box.
I'm going to do it.
What about...
Scissors!
Yeah, there you go.
That's the one you put up your fucking dick.
No, it isn't.
It is.
Look.
Can I just make it clear, Paul?
I haven't put scissors
up my dick
since I was a very young man
a lifetime ago.
Okay?
I'm sorry.
What was that you put
the scissors up
the dick of a young man?
No, I didn't.
Is that what you said?
No.
I don't know.
I'm not listening.
Vile.
Open it
and see what the surprise toy is.
I'm opening it.
This is exciting. Chocolate buttons. So they're surprise toy is. I'm opening it. This is exciting.
Chocolate buttons.
So they're not Freddos.
They're chocolate buttons.
Freddos are frog-shaped, are they?
You like that?
You can't have them.
I don't want it.
I'm opening the toy section.
I want the toy.
Oh.
What's in there?
It's a chocolate Freddo.
It's a little monkey.
Oh, it's a chocolate monkey.
It's not a chocolate monkey. It's just a monkey. It's just a little monkey. It's just a chocolate monkey. It's not a chocolate monkey.
It's just a monkey.
Oh, it's just a little monkey.
It's just a little monkey.
Hey, look, it's got a lenticular face.
Does it?
It makes the eyes blink.
It's fucking great.
It's a blinking monkey.
I want a blinking monkey.
Open it.
I'm opening the blinking monkey.
Hey, and I'm having chocolate.
This is great, this.
Right.
That is going on my shelf, but I mean... Tell But I mean It's a nice little
Key chainy fob thing isn't it
It is
It's just a toy isn't it
Oh he's going
Hello
And look he's got everything
You can
Oh he's got a name
What's his name
Look they're all
Having an adventure together
In their flying
Purple chest
He's called Raz
Raz
He's Raz
Raz the monkey.
Hello, Raz.
Um.
Oh.
Hey.
Oh.
What?
Watch out.
Let's have a look at Raz.
I know what his voice would be.
Go on.
Oh, Raz.
No, that's all your voices ever are just that.
No.
That's Mariotti.
No, it isn't
hey i'm raz wow let's go on an adventure yeah boy you got it okay raz hey i got a ferrari
i'm jimmy biscuits I can't do American accent.
You'll go Jimmy Biscuits.
Don't do Jimmy Biscuits.
I was trying to do
Salt the Egg Jogging
at Game Jimmy the Biscuits.
Don't.
Jimmy the Biscuits.
He's a make man now.
J-Bisc.
So he's Jimmy the Biscuits.
I think he should have
a rap career as J-Bisc.
J-Bisc.
J-Tisc.
Bogeyman.
I've lost your fucking mind.
Right, that's it. Oh, lost your fucking mind? That's it.
Oh, you know what?
That's not it.
I'm going to have to rate it.
Oh, yeah.
You like that.
I'm going to give it four.
How much was it?
The toy is not that bad compared to the Mario gift egg, for example.
That was much worse.
Vastly better than that.
How much was it?
A quid?
Yeah.
That's great, then, because those eggs cost a quid,
and you get shitty candy and a horrible type.
This is better candy, because it's just chocolate.
It's Cadbury's buttons.
It's dairy milk, yeah.
And you've got a little Raz, a little Raz guy there.
Yeah, I like it.
Okay, not too bad at all.
Not too bad at all.
All right, what's next?
This is your favourite item so far.
Yeah.
I've got two of these, Paul.
Yeah.
Oh, he's got it.
It's a Chupa Chup product.
Say what you see.
Chupa Chups Tropical Fizz.
It's a lolly by Chupa Chups, but they're designed like a cocktail glass.
I mean, this looks like a pint of beer.
It looks like a pint of beer, yeah.
It's got a shape of a glass thing.
It's got a head on it, doesn't it?
It's got a frothy, foamy, spoffy top. Spoffy top? It's got a spoff a glass thing. It's got a head on it, doesn't it? It's got a frothy, foamy, spoffy top.
Spoffy top?
It's got a spoffy top on its golden face.
I like to scrape the froth off and then I knob it round.
I scrape my little spoff off and put it in the ground.
When my spoff's been there for years, it gets so
green and smelly.
I go and eat my
old dirty spoff,
and then I wash it down.
Vile.
You vile anti-Semites.
That's all I can say.
Let's taste this. vile. You vile anti-Semites. That's all I can say. Right, let's taste this.
Vile.
I'm really upset that person thinks we're vile, Paul.
We are. We are kind of vile.
Yeah, we are, but we're not hateful.
There's a difference.
Yes.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
We're mucky, but we're not hateful.
Okay.
Unless you're Noel Edmonds or Brett and Link.
Brett and Link.
Let's taste mayo.
Yeah, we did that, Bretton Link.
We did that.
We had the first and final word.
We actually found something out about mayo.
What?
Remember what we found out, Paul?
You shouldn't eat it raw on a spoon five times in a row because it'll make you sick.
Well, apart from that, we discovered that Hellman's, one of the most revered brands in all of food stuff,
I couldn't tell the difference.
In fact, I thought Sainsbury's own brand was better.
Yeah, well, there you go.
No blind test.
So that tells you something about mayo.
Is that the kind of thing that Brett and Link do
where they just go,
there's nothing here, no content, I'm bearded, fuck off.
Fuck this.
Now let's drink each other's piss.
Right, let's test this.
This is a Chupa Chups Tropical Fizz.
Oh, it's a boiled sweet candy. Chupa Chups Tropical Fizz Oh, it's a boiled sweet candy
Chupa Chups are
The top's really rough
It's got a textural
Is it like one of those things you get on a toothbrush
Like a tongue cleaner
It's just a very rough top
And what's its flavour like?
Like a tropical drink
It's like a pineapple-y, mango-y sort of thing
Is that nice? Chupa Chups I don't know if we've discussed this before Like a tropical drink. It's like a pineapple-y, mango-y sort of thing.
Is that nice?
Chupa Chups.
I don't know if we've discussed this before, but that was designed, wasn't it?
The logo by Salvador Dali.
Was it?
Yeah.
Genuine fact.
Yeah.
Never knew that.
Very strange, isn't it?
Very strange.
But then he also worked with Disney for a while.
He did, yeah.
And they tried to get an animated feature made and it never panned out.
I'm tasting one because we have two of these.
We're not sharing lollipops.
It's very pleasurable.
You like that?
Yeah, it's very pleasurable.
Okay, one more sweet and then I've got a special item that I want to discuss because it is pertinent to our...
Can we not...
Can we go escape to the pertinent item?
Okay, so you're done.
You're done with sweets, yeah?
Yeah, let's move on.
Let's sum up the froth shop.
What do we have?
You know what?
It's not good as Mr. Gaddon's froth shop,
but there's some definitely delicious treats here, sir.
So you'll come back to the froth shop?
No.
Young lad.
No, I'm going straight to the police after this.
Young boy.
No.
Young Jimmy lad.
Young my jab.
My Jimmy.
Young Jimmy.
I've walked into a madman's hut.
At least I've got sweets and maybe bananas.
Right.
What am I going to do?
I'm going over here.
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
It is a numbers game.
God loves a tryout.
Do you know what?
You know I didn't work properly, Paul.
You're talented.
It's a lovely lollipop.
Because you didn't say tinkle, tinkle, tinkle.
You didn't give it that magic.
Give it the pizzazz.
Give it the oosh.
Your problem is.
What?
Your problem is you expect too much of me.
And the problem with me is I expect too much of you.
And we both fight to give it.
So we're at this kind of war of attrition.
Where?
Right now, I'm licking a lollipop.
I'm not listening to a fucking word you say.
You're not.
You're not even listening to yourself, though, Paul.
That's the sad thing.
No.
You're just like...
Wait, what's your special thing?
No, let's just sum up quickly what we had.
What did we have?
We started with the fun time.
Gummy, fine.
Gummy burger.
I want to see a proper trolley one,
because there was actually some attention to detail on the moulding.
You could see, for example, the little sesame seeds on the bun on a trolley one.
Do you know what I mean?
We'll try a trolley.
And the lettuce layer actually looked like, you know,
it had the veins
on the structure
of the lettuce
it was basic and bare minimum
but it was fine
for what it is
it wasn't that bad
but you know what I mean
I want more accurate
two and a half
that was terrible
stinger
completely fine
stinger was not good
that's my least favourite
two
I give that
I thought the flavour was weak
it had a real
grandma's palmer violet
sort of artificial
perfume-y
thing to it
for me. Then we had the Freddos.
I think that's your favourite, wasn't it?
It's the runaway success story of the day.
You like chocolate. I mean, I know it's brand
and blah, blah, blah, but as an
alternative to a Kinder Egg,
not too bad. A lot of fun. Yeah. We'll have to see
what the toy quality is like going forward.
Well, I think that's it. I think they just do this
line, so you just get... There's lots of them to collect so there's a freddo obviously
i think i would have preferred to get the freddo rather than what's the treasure it says
treasure oh apparently there's a few things as well you can get a watch type thing and a jigsaw
and a maraca so this stuff there now paul are there people as kinder must have been going for
over the years and years right i think they must have been going for years and years, right?
I think they must have been going for like 30 years or something.
And there must be people who actually collect Kinder toys.
Yeah.
Yeah, definitely,
because they want to get all the right line and they collect them.
Yeah.
It's a bit like you and me have got, well, I have.
I've got a little bit of obsession with decorated clipper lighters at the moment.
We both have a bit of that at the moment, don't we?
And then finally, the lollipop.
I like...
Chupa Chups Tropical Fizz Lollipop.
Nice, simple lolly, but you know what?
I'm having a lot of fun sucking it.
Also, we forgot the other...
Brain lick is the worst thing to me.
That is the worst thing.
That's the worst thing.
That's wild.
That was terrible.
That's like the amount of plastic waste on it.
Waste on a piss poor candy.
Just pure shit.
And it's always good.
If you gave that to your kids as well,
they're going to make the whole back of the car
like sticky with the shit.
Do you know what I mean?
Never rubbing it in their ear.
You know?
And stick it in their face.
Yeah, yeah.
There's going to be fights.
What about this?
Takes his eye off the road for a minute
and hits a big semi.
Chocolate tampons.
No.
Well, you could just rebrand
Cadbury's Fingers.
Couldn't you?
Mummy's chocolate
tampons.
Right. What about
oh, what
about gummy razors?
No.
Tropical colostomy bag drinker.
Oh, God.
Squeeze the bag.
Wake the drink.
That's a good idea.
Do you know that?
Talk about Orangina.
Yeah.
Well, that's their thing.
Shake the bottle, wake the drink, isn't it?
What's your thoughts on Orangina?
I kind of like it.
I like it.
But it's a bit costly for what it is,
which is basically slightly weak Fanta.
But with bits in.
Yeah, because that gives it the edge.
Yeah.
Let's wrap this up.
Right, so that's the froth shop, but I just wanted to mention these.
Oh, what's this?
Because we've done Doritos on the League of Crisp.
Oh, we have, yeah.
Which is our very, very serious, scientifically vetted,
and rationally thought out, crisp ranking system, which I
think is the best of its kind.
Why do you have to make that noise?
It brings me joy.
And we covered Doritos, didn't we?
Yeah.
Yeah, because they are basically the biggest brand.
Fuck me, you draw things out so much.
What's the whole point?
What are we doing here?
I'm just talking shit.
Yeah, but for brevity's sake, mate, just sometimes say,
I bought some nuts.
They are not nuts.
These are Doritos bits.
What does that mean?
Factory floor sweepings.
That's what you'd imagine.
But yes, they must be corn maize meal that is left over in some way from their manufacturing process.
But these are spicy cheese.
Oh.
They're a spicy cheese flavour, Paul.
And it's like a nut pack.
It's not like a crisp packet it's in.
It's in a nut sack.
I've got a nut sack of spicy cheese.
Yeah.
I just drooled.
Stop.
I just drooled all down myself
Thinking about me spicy nuts
Come on, put some of your spicy cheesy tangy cheesy nuts in me hand
Here we go
These are bits
They look very peculiar
Oh god, they do look like
They're like rigatoni or something, aren't they?
They're weird spiral things
Like the broken bits of spirals.
It's like spiral pasta, but
like, um, shattered.
It's kind of like a Bombay mix
feature. Yeah.
Tastes like... What do you think?
It tastes like, yeah. Tastes like small
bits of Doritos. Yeah, they do.
They're okay.
Right then, can I go
now, Mr Mr Silverman
He's still here
Yeah
Right go then
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It's a numbers game, isn't it?
They can't all be winners.
It's time for Gannon's Gramophone,
where we all get around Gannon's Gramophone
and look for amusement or disheartenment
around a track that I find
on...
Fuck off!
I'm sorry.
You just knew when you said disheartenment.
That's when you took the misstep there
in that sentence, Paul.
You went from just about coherent
into incoherent bullshit try again
it's gannon's gramophone it's gannon's gramophone that's your only fucking jingle device that is
it's gannon's gramophone where we sit around and listen to some vinyl from yesteryear and decide whether it's hot
or whether it's not.
So I found three
okay so I went to Brixton
on a kind of charity shop hunt
because I've been to Brixton
in ages.
What?
I went to Brixton
for what?
What are you alluding to?
To buy some charity shop stuff
and get my gift.
Yeah.
What are you suggesting?
To Brixton.
Are you suggesting are you suggesting I sell my body in What are you suggesting? To Brixton. Are you suggesting
I sell my body
to Brixton for
sex?
Yes you do.
I was just in a
back alley with
some woman.
You're dropping
poultices out by
the five.
Dropping blotches
everywhere.
Dropping blotches?
Yeah I don't
know.
No I was
suggesting you
went there to
buy marijuana.
A woman of
later years buys my time and takes me to a room.
A woman of later years?
Above a room in a pub.
What's a woman of later years?
And she's like,
Hey, Shani, I'm a woman of later years.
Why don't you lie down over there, Shani,
and I will sit upon your face and part my grey dripping flaps over your mouth.
Oh, God. And then you move your... How are we here? Why is this happening? flaps over your mouth. Oh, God.
And then you move your...
How are we here?
Why is this happening?
I don't know.
I'm sorry.
Paul.
Yeah?
Can I just pick up
when you said a woman of lady...
I'm mad of lady plops.
Oh, yes, she is.
It is mad of lady plops.
I want to sit on your face and plop
and I'll pay good money.
Listen, if you want to go see the lady plops,
you have to get through me.
I'm Squishy Jim.
I'm acting as a pimp on this.
I want to paint lady plops.
A £500 two plop in my gob.
Let me check your genitals for warts.
There you go.
Yeah.
It's good.
It's got two or three on there.
It's good.
It's quite good.
It's nice.
It's good.
Those two make it look like a wild animal.
Madam!
Madam!
Yes!
Yes!
We've got one.
We've got a goer.
Lovely. Send him up! Is the money good?
Show us your money.
Here we go, 500 bad.
Now, remember.
Yeah.
Before I take this off here, look in Squishy Jim's eyes.
Yeah, I will.
And tell me.
Yeah.
I'll love her.
You will respect lady plops.
I'll treat her like she's my own mum.
Alright. Watch out for all the shit that's in there as well.
As I empty my load inside of her, I'll think
just like me old mum.
Right.
Shake them up!
Go on then.
I feel a plopping
coming. Yeah, mind off all the shit.
You're right. You lie down there.
Alright, thank you.
Can we...
Oh, let's segue away from this scene.
That's not how Mrs. Lady...
Madam Lady Plop does it.
That sounds like Madam Diarrhoea.
We all know she can do hard, ball-like pellets
that she can get out her trouser leg with no mess.
Yeah, like that.
There we go.
That's the noise of lady plops.
Thank you very much.
The end.
Anyway, I went to Brixton.
It all came because...
Because I said, yeah.
I went to Brixton.
I was actually trying to say, you know,
you went to Brixton to buy marijuana.
Because that's what I used to do.
Clapham.
Remember the green door in Clapham?
Mr. Greenleaf. Yeah. Yeah. There used to be do. Clapham. Remember the green door in Clapham? Mr Greenleaf.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There used to be queues.
And the Cafe Cairo next door.
That's closed down
as we can happily say.
I think it's opened up again
on the new management
but you're not allowed
to smoke at all in there.
In Cafe Cairo.
Yeah.
You know what?
We'll save that story
for another time
when we do our drugs episode
because I think it'll be fun.
Are we doing a drugs episode?
Yeah, we're going to.
People want it.
We've done a sex one.
We'll do drugs
and then we'll do rock and roll.
And we'll talk about drugs.
Our drugs experiences.
Yeah.
Okay, good. In a done a sex one. We'll do drugs and we'll do rock and roll. And we'll talk about drugs. Our drugs experiences. Okay, good.
In a rational, mature way.
Yes.
Why?
Anyway.
So I went to Brixen and I didn't see many charity shops.
I saw one and it was huge.
It was a Dr. Bernardo's.
I know that one.
It's on the corner.
Yeah.
And I found three, I think, amazing finds in terms of novelty. Interesting.
They're all LPs.
So let's start with this one, I think.
Now, this is
vinyl. Is it a
double LP? No, it's just a single bit.
It's a gatefold cover. For no reason, really.
And basically, it's an album
called Saturday Scene, hosted
by Sally James. And was Saturday Scene a show? Yes. It was a TV show as well, so it's an album called Saturday Scene, hosted by Sally James.
And was Saturday Scene a show?
Yes.
It was a TV show as well.
So it's a TV...
Saturday morning show where Sally James introduced...
It was based around...
Oh, come on, brains.
Glam rock, bands like that.
So that's why Gary Glitter, Shawoddy Woddy.
They're all glam rockers.
Yeah.
But it was like a Saturday morning thing that went on for hours.
A couple of songs
A couple of interviews
And then it would go to
Thunderbirds for an hour
Then come back
And then Cheat Talk
That kind of thing
One of those ones
Yeah
So for some reason
In
Where is it
I want to say
What year does it say
It was made in
Must be mid 70s
74, 5
Yeah maybe
Yeah it's
It's on the disc
Sometimes
Alright you have a look
At the disc I'll read the thing out So yeah it's an album Based on the disc sometimes alright you have a look at the disc
I'll read the thing out
so yeah it's an album
based on the TV show
74
74
okay
and it's Sally James
singing two songs
and then
a lot of interviews
with people like
David Cassidy
Shawoddy Woddy
Alvin Stardust
Sparks
interesting choice
Sweet
and
infamous nonce Gary Glitter.
And it really is, with the hindsight of knowing that Glitter is a nonce.
Disgusting human being.
A terrible criminal.
It does make the interview sound sinister in places, doesn't it?
It does.
We'll get to that in a second.
On the front cover, you see Sally James.
She's adorable, isn't she?
She's very cute.
She's adorable. Is she still about? I don't know. Do the death you see Sally James. She's adorable, isn't she? She's lovely. She's adorable.
Is she still about?
I don't know.
Do the death check on Sally James.
Okay, Google.
Sally James.
According to Wikipedia, Sally James is a former presenter on the ITV Saturday morning children's show Tiswas from 1977.
Oh, she was on Tiswas.
Until it ended in 1982.
And then I think in that time she was also doing Saturday Scene.
No, Saturday Scene was...
She's 68 and she lives in London.
Yeah, she's just...
She's all right, she's banging around.
Doesn't do it anymore.
And what...
What, talk to Gary Glitter?
No, she doesn't.
No, she doesn't do TV anymore.
She probably maybe had a family.
Maybe.
But anyway, she says here,
Hello, everyone.
I'm Sally James,
a lucky girl who's been interviewing a lot of exciting pop personalities
over the last year for my programme, Saturday Scene scene because this show is only seen in london i have talked to some
of the most exciting stars for you all on this album they are lovely guys and i hope you learn
a little more about your particular favorite enjoy yourselves sally james now she does have a kind of
charm as a presenter don't you think she's got I would say, in a slightly derogatory way, but not really.
She's got that kind of...
Woman of the good life.
Yeah, you know, like a head girl attitude.
Oh, it's dreadfully nice to meet you, Mr Sweet.
Sort of posh, but softly spiced.
But nice.
Enthusiastic.
Polite.
Do you know what I mean?
There is a quality.
You can see why they...
She obviously makes a good presenter.
I think a lot of the female audience,
the young female audience,
who would like to meet Gary Glitter.
Definitely, yeah.
You know, David Cassidy.
Well, they wouldn't want to meet Gary Glitter.
Not now.
Obviously, but at the time.
Yeah, they still,
they didn't know that they wouldn't want to.
They thought they wanted to
until they didn't want to anymore.
What's interesting, though,
is that there are two songs,
there's four tracks on this altogether.
She sort of dabbles with singing on this apparently.
That is not very good.
Well, she teamed up
with the band called
Love Together
who were a short-lived
70s British
glam.
No, pop glam.
They're kind of like
imagine a books fizz
kind of thing in the 70s.
Okay.
And so she does two songs.
Let's listen to one now.
This is Sally James
singing a song called
Isn't It Good?
No.
Hello, I'm Sally.
Over the past year I've been very fortunate
in meeting lots of really interesting people
some of whom you can meet on this album.
Also, I've recorded my first song.
I hope you like it. feeling that I've found It's an easy tune to follow along A rock and sway
in time with this song
Come and take a chance
You've got to dance, dance, dance
Give it everything you've got
Na na na na na
Here's your chance now
Watch me dance now
Na na na na na
Watch me move it.
Isn't it good?
Isn't it good?
Isn't it good?
You know the way you dance to the music.
Look at me now.
I'll show you how.
You can never, ever lose it.
Isn't it good?
Isn't it good?
Watch me move and then you'll see it happen.
Here comes the part where you can give it some heart. Na, na, but it's not awful.
It's not great, but it's not awful.
I'd say it's pretty awful.
It's not great, but it's not awful.
It's not awful.
We've heard awful.
This is just, it's like, it's very simple.
Actually, compared to some of the, one particular other record coming up,
that doesn't sound that bad.
No.
It was a nice contrast, frankly, after that.
And then, yeah, the interview is a kind of standard.
She's just very polite.
Oh, what's it like being on the road, shawoddy woddy?
It's nice.
How do you write a song?
The bit that got me
is when she's interviewing
Gary Glitter
and it's like
how did you come up
with that song
touch me
touch my privates
no it's like
how did you come up
with a
do you want to touch me
do you want to touch me
yeah
and he goes
oh yeah
it's because I was
on stage
I have all my ideas
on stage
yeah
I was out on the thing
and I reached out
to the crowd and they touched me but then the other side of the stage they Yeah. I was out on the thing and I reached out to the crowd
and they touched me.
But then the other side of the stage,
they were going,
oh, we want to touch you.
And I said,
do you want to touch me?
And they went, yeah.
And I thought,
that's a song.
And I can't help but wonder
how he got the inspiration
for come on, come on.
You know?
Yeah.
He's deviant.
And that other bit as well,
where he talks about,
what do you like most
about you know
what you do
and he goes
it's the way he delivers it
because of our brains
and what we know of him now
it feels like he's fighting
the urge to say
fucking love
fucking kiss
yeah I know
right
but he goes
I
like giving
pleasure
it's the pleasure
I give to the fans
no it is totally and there's a bit where he goes it's good to get out Pleasure. Pleasure. It's the pleasure I give to the fans.
No, it is totally.
And there's a bit where he goes,
it's good to get out of the country.
Yeah.
I like to go fishing because everyone out there,
we only talk about fishing.
We don't talk about anything else. Like our incessant sexual demons.
The other thing about this record,
as I mentioned to you before,
Paul, it's got the London Weekend Television logo,
and you don't see that on vinyl a lot.
In fact, that's the first time I've ever seen it, I think.
And that makes me...
I can just hear that, hear the idea.
It's like...
London...
Because basically, it's hard to imagine now,
but they used to actually take over this ITV on the weekends, didn't they?
It was like a different company.
There was more regional programming back then where certain times of the day were scheduled.
So like every channel, every ITV played Cilla Black's Blind Date at 8 o'clock.
But before then, you had like Granada Tonight or maybe you had London Weekend.
I had London Weekend.
Yeah.
Obviously, it's not a thing that you had.
What did you have?
Grundy.
Granada. Granada.
Granada.
That was what we had in the North West.
We had Thames during the week with the reflection of St. Paul's logo.
And then London Weekend television on the weekend.
But regional programmes are kind of gone now.
They're close to you get when you go, oh, now go to your area for your local news after the main headlines.
Oh, yeah.
You get that.
It's kind of it.
It's a shame, really, isn't it?
Most TV just doesn't have the money in it anymore.
Well, they do, but they just go, oh, let's do a load of repeats
and let's slap a load of dramas on.
They call it ITV12345.
Now, I've got to stop drinking this fucking lollipop
because I'm drooling like a prick.
He's drooling like Lakey Ken.
Yeah, pre-cum John.
Right. So, it'scum John. Right.
So, it's all right, that, really, at the time.
And also, it's strange to hear just a sort of really...
It's like a kind of audio magazine, isn't it?
Yeah, that's what I mean.
It's ephemeral.
The interviews are just like an interview that you might get on a live show or something.
You know what I mean?
They're not rehearsed.
Well, they're taken from the live show.
That's what I'm saying.
They're taken from it, yeah.
So they're filmed for the show,
and then what she's done here goes,
oh, you can buy this album anywhere in the country now,
and it has the things that you've missed on it.
Yeah.
So you'd never have heard these conversations.
But you know what I mean?
There's not much to it.
It's all faff.
Yeah, but that's what a magazine kind of is.
It's faff, isn't it?
I know, but it's unusual with the modern sensibility
to see a gatefold LP that was just designed as a magazine, just as a throwaway item.
This is the thing.
It says, also thanks to Lookin Magazine for their assistance.
And I'm guessing basically maybe they designed the artwork.
They did.
It's like a magazine, like a teen mag, isn't it?
But it's in the form of a gatefold.
I wonder if they did more.
Whether that was like a one-off and maybe not enough people bought it.
Who knows?
Because maybe people thought,
I don't want to hear Sally James
in this band I've never heard of
do their middling glam type stuff.
No.
You know, a nice curio
and a nice bit of nostalgia,
I think, as well.
Yes.
What would you think?
What would you think so far?
Your opinion of that?
It's very interesting as a curio
and yeah. Great feedback, mate. do you think so far your opinion of that oh it's very interesting as a curio and uh yeah
great feedback mate um great opinion i've dropped rob roy does it have actually has
does it have any songs by them i know it's only her songs and they're only her songs because i
bet you the reason why they did that was because of they can't get the copyright they couldn't
afford to put shawadi wadi on or something what have we got? So, moving from Saturday scene to one of the most interesting kind of...
I don't even...
What would you call it?
Like, overnight success, flash in the pan artists from the 70s stroke 80s.
So, same charity shop.
This and Saturday scene and the final one were all lumped together.
So it looked like a comedy collector or maybe some kind of like entertainment fan.
Entertainment fan, yes.
So this is an album by an artist called Roy J.
And it's a man quite thin on the cover wearing, you know, this kind of old fashioned Alcatraz prison costume.
And he's a stand up.
And he was super famous for a hot second in the 80s.
And somehow it led to this album.
Now, I'm going to go to...
There's not much about Roy J online.
It's mostly because he was been and gone quite quickly.
Why did he go so quickly?
Because he was just a shtick and everyone got sick of it.
Well, his shtick was...
He'd go, ooh, spooky....one-liners. But he was kind of like an emo Phillips everyone got sick of it. Well, his shtick was one-liners,
but he was kind of
like an Emo Phillips.
He kind of
weird kinked
everything he did.
He had this kind of
so they were weak jokes,
but he sold them
on the sort of
strangeness of it.
Yeah.
And that was it.
Emo was Emo's,
but Emo Phillips
isn't his material good
or is it all just kind of
No, no, I'm not comparing him
to Emo Phillips.
I'd say Emo Phillips
has got a very strange style,
but he's got the material to support that style yes where roy jay was more like uh
a standard one do you actually remember roy jay from back in the day no and yes yes because i
used to go on a lot of comedy forums like cooked and bombed and stories like roy jay would pop up
because a lot of people celebrated comedy from all eras and like entertainment and that's where
i kind of went down a rabbit hole with little and large stuff for a while.
So anyway, he's got a Facebook appreciation group
where people join up to say,
remember Roy J.
Nah?
He's dead.
Yes.
Well, it's part of the kind of weird myth of Roy J.
I'm just going to read out
what the Facebook appreciation page for Roy J. says,
all right?
Go for it.
All right, stop sucking.
Sorry. Right. This right, stop sucking. Sorry.
Right.
This is what this says.
Remember that guy who used to appear on TV back in the late 70s and 80s?
He would dress up in a convict's uniform and say,
Spook!
And slither hither.
No.
No, I do not remember.
That's the problem.
No.
A massive favourite in schoolyards all over the country.
I mean, maybe because we missed it.
That was not our generation.
So maybe the people slightly older than us remember Roy Jones. Late 80s, did he say? Late 70s, early 80 we missed it, that was not our generation, so maybe the people slightly older than us
remember Roy Jones.
Late 80s, did he say?
Late 70s, early 80s.
No, that wasn't our generation.
That was four or something.
A massive favourite in schoolyards
all over the country.
He also had a great singing voice
and made a little-known single,
Vehicle, on You Might Need Somebody,
which possibly did not even get a full release.
Although thought by many to be American,
because that was his style,
Roy was of Scots, Irish and Norwegian descent.
In the early 70s, following being a Ponton's Bluecoat in Walsham,
Lancaster, he started out as a straight gag man
and then cheesed a little fame and much notoriety around the clubs
when he started to use the catchphrase,
K-I-N-L, literally spelt K-I-N-E-L-L.
Do you see her? K-I-N-L literally spelled K-I-N-E-L-L do you see it
K-I-N-L
I'll shout out my bed
he was banned
from a couple of clubs
most notably
one in Withamshire
as well
I don't know
it doesn't say why
as well as being a comedian
he was also a singer
working with the
South African group
Four Jacks and a Jill
in Rhodesia
that was in Barway
in 1975
very strange because that's weird
because that tune which is the first one on this lp vehicle yeah i i have a version of which is by
an african artist oh that's weird it's not they're not called four jacks no it's not the band were
very popular were a very popular draw on tv there having several shows following this he developed
the slither routine
and broke into TV. He was popular on mid-80s
shows like The Laughter House, Seaside
Special, Cracker Jack, those kind of light
entertainment gamey show things.
I really find it very refreshing when I see
a new comedian arrive on the scene with a
style that's all his own. And I'd like you to
share that rare pleasure with me now.
Here's Roy Jay. I'm a friendly stranger in a black sedan Won't you hop inside my car?
I've got candy flaws
I'm a traveling man
And I will take you to the nearest star
Hey.
Hi, weirdos.
Spook.
I used to be a schizophrenic,
but we're both okay now.
Wow, this place is weird, huh?
Slithered.
I met a guy outside tonight.
Slithered.
On his way to the Olympic Games.
I said, are you a pole vaulter?
He said, no, German, but how did you know my name?
He said no German, but how did you know my name?
So how well......and fronted campaigns for square crisps and schweppes.
Hey weird, unrelaxed.
They don't know the secret.
I tell them, but they're weird.
I'll tell you instead.
The secret is...
Shh!
Sparkling drinks from...
You know who.
Mate, he's a fucking hero.
Roy J exposed himself on stage.
He exposed himself on stage. Yeah, so he's a fucking hero. Roy J exposed himself on stage. Square Christmas Schweppes, he exposed himself on stage.
Yeah, so he's a hero.
Roy J exposed himself on stage at a show
and then stormed off stage in Jersey in the 80s
because no one laughed at his jokes.
Though he denied being drunk,
but this spelt the end of his TV career.
He was allegedly convicted for his behaviour.
It seems long after his TV career,
Ray toured the US supporting PJ Proby
for ending up in Benidorm
and opening a club.
He continued his comedy exploits
and died in an Alicante hotel
penniless in 2007, December.
His funeral was paid for
by a local businessman
who was a good friend of Roy
and after his body
laid unclaimed for two weeks
following his death.
The funeral was at a crematorium
in Villa Jojoja,
January 28th, 22nd, 2008.
He spent years battling addiction to gambling,
alcohol and substance abuse.
He worked the clubs, one being Chaplin's Bar,
and was noted for being the comic people saw
before the famous stripper, Sticky Vicky,
took to the stage with a mix of stripping and magic.
What a story this is.
A very talented but tormented guy.
Sticky Vicky.
But forgotten.
So, yeah.
That's cool.
That whole, like, his whole story,
like the Schweppes,
all the details are so redolent of the era,
don't you think?
Yeah.
Do you know what I mean?
Like the square crisps.
Have we done that on the league yet?
We need to do square crisps on the league.
No, we haven't, have we?
No. That's an important entry and We need to do square crisps on the league. No, we haven't, have we? No.
That's an important entry and we need to do it.
Anyway. Weird.
So this Roy J album,
it's a collection of just songs.
There's nothing funny about them.
No. There's no, I mean
there's one little bit. And they say
you had a great voice. I would not say
that. Let's play a little bit of
Vehicle, the most popular track on here.
The most one people might know the most.
Yes. I'm your friendly stranger in a black sedan
Won't you hop inside my car?
I got candy flies, I'm a lovable man
I'll take you to the nearest star
I'm your vehicle woman
Take you anywhere you want to go
I'm your vehicle woman
By now I'm sure you know
That I love you, oh won't you?
I need you, got to have you, child Great God in heaven You see, his problem is he can hold a note,
but it sounds like he's faking a stupid voice to sing.
Yeah, he just doesn't have much going on in the way of musical talent.
And what's interesting is that depending on the song
he changes his singing style
yeah
so like one minute
he's kind of like
trying to affect
a kind of a
he's doing a club singer
Isaac Hayes kind of thing
yeah
not in a racist way
but just in a kind of
intonation
a soul
sort of soul take
and then he's doing
like Curtis Stigers
type stuff
and he also does
sort of
it veers quite heavily
into sort of club singer
sort of style yeah there's one bit where I club singer yeah sort of stuff doesn't i said
to you why is he singing like wc fields yeah he sounded just like just like wc fields but the only
the thing is the bass on that tunes it's well produced it's a well-produced album but it's
like i was saying to you it's like that chevy chase comedy album uh album he made where
it's like you give a big high profile star an album and they either fill it with two earnest type covers or barrels of unfunny shit.
Yeah.
And Chevy Chase found the line between doing both at the same time.
But this is him trying to be a heartfelt singer.
Now, we should point out about this LP the copy that you've bought
yeah
has been signed
by the man himself
I know
I didn't even notice that
until you pointed it out
it says to Joanna
love and peace
then he's got spooks
yeah his catchphrase
in a circle
and then it has his name
Roy J
1983
or 5
but then he's also
it's 3 or 5
it's probably 83
I can imagine
this album came out.
And then it says Bailey's underneath.
And whoever, Joanna probably, who owned the record,
has put tape over it so it wouldn't rub off.
Yeah.
There's strips of tape.
So if anyone wants a signed, rare copy in reasonably good condition of Roy J,
please get in touch.
He's got Brothel Creepers.
That's the name of those shoes, isn't it?
Yeah.
Brothel Creepers and prison. And white gloves. This that's the name of those shoes isn't it brothel creepers
and a prison
and white gloves
this whole thing's
just slightly weird
isn't it
and bizarre
it's like a creepy
my mask
kind of thing
where he's doing a smooth
jazz
comedy take
and there's that picture
that's on the cover
on the back
plus another two photos
of him in the same pose
that must have been
that's what I don't get
it's sort of one leg raised and the hip...
Like he's been caught walking in the dark.
Like he's tiptoeing.
Yeah.
In the middle of tiptoeing.
Spotlights come on and he's been frozen.
Yes.
So one of him is just in a normal kind of outfit,
like a polo net, black polo net and sort of flares and brothel creepers.
And then there's one...
Wee Willie Winky style.
Where he's in a nightie.
Yeah. And one of those night hats they used to... Yeah Wee Willie Winky style. Where he's in a nightie. Yeah.
And one of those...
What, night hats they used to...
Yeah, Wee Willie Winky.
Did people used to wear those?
Nightcaps.
Weird pointy nightcap.
Yeah.
Why?
It's weird, isn't it?
Maybe people thought
headdress for bed was a thing once.
I bet fucking Jacob Rees-Smogg
still has one.
I bet he fucking does.
Yeah.
Maybe Roy J's Jacob Rees-Smogg.
Yeah.
No, but that's the other thing.
So there was a story that he may have faked his death. Who, Roy J? Yeah. Well, no. Jacob Reap's smog. Yeah. No, but that's the other thing. So there was a story
that he may have faked his death.
Who, Roy J?
Yeah.
Well, no.
Didn't you just say that?
It's just because he dropped off the radar
that people didn't know
he was dead or not.
It became a...
It's quite sad.
Did he ever exist?
Yeah, yeah.
It's quite sad.
What's also interesting
is that the closest this comes
to tapping into his musical,
his comedy background
is the reggae version
of Whiter Shade of Pale.
Fucking bizarre. Which takes up 50%
of Side B.
Shall we have a little listen to some of that? Just the beginning where he does
for whatever reason, a tribute to
Bill and Ben the Flowerpot. It's fucking
bizarre. Here we go.
Hi! Sliver Hooda! Hi, slither hither, the spook is back. This song is for the girl who smokes so many dog ends she's got hard pad of the lips.
Reggie music, huh?
It comes from Kingston, Jamaica, and so do two
lovable people called Bill and Ben, the flowerpot men.
Ooh, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.
Sha-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.
Sha-ba-ba-ba.
Where I'm Bill gone with the weed barn.
We skip the light blind and go.
Turn cartwheels
across the floor.
And then it goes,
and then it,
without any sort of humour,
it just carries on
being a reggae version
of White Shade of Pale.
A terrible one.
But you know what I will say?
I can kind of see why he did that version of it.
Because you know the chorus?
It does sound kind of Jimi Hendrix-y.
Do you know what I mean?
The chorus of White Shade of Pale does have a slightly...
I don't know if it's like a reggae thing,
but it's got this kind of soul to it.
Well, it's famously based on,
on,
what?
Handle.
Yeah.
The organ line.
Isn't it?
Is it Handle?
Or it's one of those,
the classical composer.
But it's lifted from that,
isn't it?
The actual,
I love White A Shade Of Pale.
It's a great song.
I love that song.
This one,
you just go.
It was huge.
Apparently 67,
it was like beating the Beatles and it was like and it was number one for a long time.
That's when songs like that could be number one.
You know?
Yeah.
And then after that, there's not been anything like that.
You don't like anything, do you?
Anyway.
I just said I like both White A Shade Of Pale
and Bohemian Rhapsody.
His socks disturb me as well.
They're so white.
Because they're clean.
That's what you're unhappy about.
Oh, right.
Because yours are full of your dead semen.
Choc-a-block with dusty death.
Hey.
So Roy J., an interesting kind of comedy curio.
I just want to point out as well.
Yeah.
Strange little anomaly on the cover.
It's got a range produced by da-da-da-da-da.
And then it says
Steve Sanger,
drums and percussion
and Chic.
Was there a band
called Chic?
There certainly was.
They were very popular.
And what kind of music
did they do?
You know Chic.
For the listeners,
come on.
I'm encouraging
conversations so we
can learn something.
Chic did
Niles Rogers
and Bernard Summers.
Yeah.
Bernard Summers.
I don't know.
Sumner.
Sumner.
Chic are a group
They did Sheik Sheer
Yeah
Disco
Freak Out
Disco
Digga dig dig dig dig dig dig
Yeah
They did Sister Sledge
We Are Family
That's Sheik
Okay good
Right
Now
And
The Vehicle
The first song
Because I know
I have a version of this
Yeah
They've got the name wrong
Of the writer of the writer.
Of the writer, completely.
Completely wrong.
Well, it's pre-internet.
The guy goes, oh, it looks a bit like that.
I can't see it from a distance.
No one cares.
No one cares.
I don't think a lot of people bought this extremely strange looking Roy J album.
Well, fucking Joanna did.
And she got it signed and probably saw him at a live show.
Maybe the one at Jersey where he got his cock out.
Maybe he signed it in his willy tears.
Why did he do that?
It was just like, he's dying so hard.
You think, oh, I'll give you something to laugh about.
No.
No.
I don't know.
At that point, I don't want them laughing,
especially if I get my cock out.
I know.
It's just like, have you won?
I've got to make them laugh.
I've got to make them laugh.
What can I do?
I know one thing is guaranteed to make them laugh.
The sight of my welted
John Hood
the rumour is
he was quite well hung
that's one of the
urban legend parts
of that
he was a massively
endowed man
so what the audience
went
yeah
they went
ooh
right
you're not laughing
look at this
boom
sonic boom
wipes out the audience
a shockwave
like Akira yeah yeah anyway Boom! Sonic Boom wipes out the audience. A shockwave.
Like Akira, yeah.
Yeah.
Anyway.
So there you go.
That's our second choice.
But now the third and final. What's the third and final platter on Gannon's gramophone today?
It's Cannon and Ball's Together album.
Mate, I...
You have a fondness for them because they are scouse.
They're not scouse.
Are they not?
No, they're from New Yorkshire.
Tell you what, Oldham Langashire is where Tommy Cannon is from.
Bobby Ball was near Oldham.
Forgive me.
Forgive me.
I thought there was...
Cannon and Ball were a double act,
big in the very late 70s, early 80s, on ITV.
Now, at this time in entertainment,
everyone was basically
trying to fill the void
of Morecambe and Wise
who were
the fucking
probably
the best double act
Britain's ever had
well the most popular
for sure
yeah
because you know
people would argue
that people are funny
or whatever
but no one loves
Morecambe and Wise
more than Britain
yeah
which I know
sounds like a stupid thing
but
no
they were
I don't care for it
that much
but you can see that it's
you can see why it's good
yeah
if you watch it
you know what I mean
it doesn't really
and when Eddie Brabham
started writing for them
that's when he started tapping
into that beautiful relationship
they had
they were a national treasure
weren't they
so
in that time
in the late 70s and early 80s
they were trying to bring in new blood
now the BBC
for whatever reason
went with Little and Large
we've spoken about Little and Large
and I'll say it again
I don't get Little and Large I don't get what they do no i don't get how they do it he's
just used to do a deputy dog impression i mean look ian lee recently interviewed uh little and
large or certainly eddie large recently and it was a very nice conversation about the career
and their thing and so it's like i'm not so much judging the people as so much as the quality of their material
which I'm like
and the market
that allowed them
to become big
because the thing is
nowadays
they look at a double act
on YouTube
and they go
like they're 20
we'll grab them
put them on the TV
as soon as possible
whereas
Little and Large
Cannonball
Morecambe and Wise
they'd all spent years
on the club circuit
on the club circuit
doing the very worst gigs
available. The most
terrifying. That stand-up today
could not fucking deal with. Physical
danger. They were probably in physical danger
if they didn't do well.
Maybe, yeah. Of maybe catching some kind of
disease from the stage.
There's a lot of stories about
Glasgow
gigs. Everyone feared the Glasgow gigs.
I'm very vague with this, but I remember reading a book
or watching a documentary about someone like Des O'Connor
or something like that saying,
we panicked when we did that.
Wow.
Can you imagine actually how scared you'd be?
The crowd would turn on you.
So, yeah.
So Cannon and Ball were part of that resurgence of new double acts.
But they definitely did their time in the men's clubs.
Well, yeah, they were both of a similar upbringing.
So both in the North, both very, very poor,
both scraped by to keep food on the table.
So it says here, Tommy Cannon on the back of this album says,
oh, hang on, hang on, hang on, let me find this.
No, Bobby Ball says,
in our family there were five, two sisters, mum and dad and me. Let me find this. No, Bobby Ball says, in our family, there were five,
two sisters, mum and dad and me.
It was often difficult to make ends meet.
So lunchtime, me and my sisters
would go to the local cotton mill
with our singing act
and it put bread on the table.
So literally, they would just go up,
knock on the door of a factory and say,
we'll sing and they'd get a couple of quid.
And then they'd go and buy some bread
so they could eat.
Wow.
And Tommy Cannon, similar thing.
He started out as a singer.
And when they both worked in a building site together as builders.
Started doing double act, where they would just do songs.
Singing, crooning, something silly.
And then one day, someone went up to them and went,
you know what?
To get more acts, get more gigs, throw in some comedy.
Because you stretch your act out.
And then that stumbled and developed.
And that became more popular than the singing.
Yeah.
And then I think they won like an opportunity in Oxford.
They got featured on some, you know,
search for a star type show.
Yeah.
So at the time, Little and Large were big at the BBC
doing their, I'm going to call it kids comedy
because it wasn't smart.
It was very broad.
And by and large, if it wasn't racist once a week,
they hadn't fulfilled their remit.
No, they were terrible.
So what, you're saying Little and Large came before Cannonball?
A little bit.
A little bit.
Well, this is the thing, Cannonball were coming up.
They're classier, but they're just better.
Frankly, I mean, look, it's a different era,
different comedy tastes and things like that,
so I completely understand why people think this is old-fashioned.
When you compare the quality of the sketches
Cannon and Ball did on TV
to the quality of sketches
that were on Little and Large
and it's a world of difference.
A world.
Okay, so I'm going off
on a tangent
because I get really excited
about Cannon and Ball
because they're a bit cheesy
and like entertainment-y
but they had an edge
that Little and Large
never had.
And Little and Large
was basically a bullying act
whereas Cannon and Ball
was a bullying act,
but it made sense.
Right.
Because they'd both give and take.
Yeah.
Cannon would throw the ball down
and then Ball would fight back
with something surreal and weird.
Yeah.
But whereas Little and Large,
it was just Large having a go at Little.
He's trying to sing
and then he does a load of impressions
to put him off and annoy him.
I mean, that was it.
And then every now and then
they'd cut to Elkie Brooks singing. It's that kind of thing. So Cannonball, what I'm saying is this is a wrong of impressions to put him off and annoy him. I mean, that was it. And then every now and then they'd cut to Elkie Brooks singing.
It's that kind of thing.
So, Callum and Bull, what I'm saying is,
this is a wrong precursor to say,
they brought out an album at the height of their fame in,
I think this is 82, 82.
And it makes sense.
Because remember, they started out as a singing act.
So what's on this album?
Don't know.
Songs.
Yeah, it's just songs.
The first track, which I'm going to play a clip of now,
is their theme tune, Together We'll Be Okay,
which is the big cannonball theme tune from their TV show.
So it's this. It's this. Laugh me a laugh, grin me a grin And then I know that we can win
Dance me a dance, joke me a joke And blow the clouds away
You gotta play me a tune, sing me a song And we can help push life along
Just you and me, come on and see, together we'll be okay.
Open the door, open your heart, and then we've got somewhere to start.
Just turn around, look what we've found, today's a brand new day.
You gotta run with me now now I'll show you how
the world is waiting
take a bow
show them it's you
what you can do
together we two can win
and I'm going to go and say it
right now
you like it
I think
after Morecambe and Wilderness
Bring Me Sunshine
this is the best
theme tune
for a double act
in comedy
in the 1980s.
Do you know what I thought
it was going to be
when it comes in?
Close to you by The Carpenters.
It starts like that, doesn't it?
Yeah.
Why do birds...
But no, I really like it.
It's got that entertainment feel
for a show.
It's also a kind of nice
Bring Me Sunshine kind of thing.
It's not that bad.
So the rest of the songs
are fine.
Not very good. It's like, you know, the rest of the songs are fine. Not very good.
It's like, you know when we compared it to Ross Abbott?
Yes.
And Ross Abbott is a cheap-sounding, cheesy...
Oh, he's awful.
Very bad.
He's just awful.
Bad album.
Yeah.
This is just...
It's light entertainment.
Cruise ship album.
It's cruise ship stuff.
You can imagine that when they were going on doing their tours around the theatres and
doing the Blackpool shows, they would come on do a sketch start with together we'll be okay sketch sketch
banter and then a song a serious ballad and then a silly song and then and this album's basically
that experience but it's weird it's again it's a totally different era where where entertainment
could contain both comedy and songs yeah where you don't get that these days.
They want you to be...
You know, Bill Burr doesn't do an album.
Do you know what I mean?
Like...
Well, it's more like...
Louis C.K. doesn't do songs, you know?
He just wanks into pop lines in front of vulnerable...
No, but it's like Ant and Dec would be maybe the closest to that.
That's true, yes.
Because they present, they act, and they've done a saga.
And they do comedy.
They do skits.
They do bits, don't they?
I mean, don't forget, their SMTV was the last beautiful gasp
of Saturday morning TV before it disappeared away forever.
I wasn't aware of that.
Did they do a Saturday morning thing?
Yeah, SMTV with Cat Dealey.
You know what I liked?
What?
Banana Bunch.
It was like...
Was it the animals in the huge suits? Yeah. Like a band?
Na, na, na, na, na, na.
That's Banana Splits.
Sorry, that's Banana Splits.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
But then they had little cartoons, didn't they, in it as well?
But it was like a mixed show.
Was it Hanna-Barbera's show?
Yes.
Or was it the guy who did...
No, it was Barbera.
Was it?
Hanna-Barbera.
And it wasn't the other guy who did Line of the Lost and stuff like that?
No, it was Hanna-Barbera.
Fine.
I think.
I'm not sure.
Oh, I don't know.
People will correct us on Reddit or below in this thing. Anyway, the point I'm trying to make... Fuck that. No, it was Hanna-Barbera. Fine. I think. I'm not sure. Oh, I don't know. People will correct us on Reddit
or below in this thing.
Anyway, the point I'm trying to make...
Fuck it.
Oh, God.
Go on.
No, I don't really have a point.
I'm just getting excited.
You like.
He's very excited,
ladies and gentlemen.
I just think, like,
their sketches were good.
They were a bit surreal.
There's a bit of anger
and edge to them.
Lovely show.
Simple.
And you compare it to, like,
what Little and Large were doing.
You just think,
oh, I want everything to eat me. I want to be eaten by my own fucking like rib cage my foot i want my
rib cage to come alive oh my foot's chomping down oh it's i've been eating by my own face
um but anyway i think i've mentioned this before but canon and bull were originally going to be in
uh bruce forsyth's big night out which was the the show that Bruce Forsythe did when he moved to ITV.
Didn't...
Which was a big get for ITV.
Right.
But didn't someone else have a Big Night Out?
Vic Reeves did, yeah.
But that was kind of the point.
That was spoofing those kind of shows.
So Bruce Forsythe did this show.
It was a massive flop.
But that was going to be Cannon and Ball's big breakout.
It was going to be featured on it.
And why weren't they included?
Bruce, he didn't like it at the time basically
they said
Brucey wants to sing
one more song
with Simon Davis Jr
so I'm going to cut your bit
and then it was like
alright
and then the next week
it was like
they just never put them on
so as a
sorry
they got a pilot
to make a sketch show
and that was a success
and then that's what
led to Cannon and Ball
they got
they had their own show
yeah
based on the fact
that they were treated
badly on Bruce Forsyth
so it turned out
alright for them
yeah
and look
this album's fine
there's one other song
on it called
Everybody's Making It Big
But Me
which has really
the only off-putting
moment on the whole album
it is quite off-putting
so Everybody's Making It
Big But Me
is a song originally
by Doctor Hook
and it's a nice
silly little song
about how everyone's famous.
Great line in there about Elton John having two hot ladies.
Different times.
But then there's a bit where he's talking about how he has to kind of put mascara on and lipstick to compete with Bowie and stuff.
As in the original song, that's the lyric.
Except in this version, Tommy Cannon says, you're a puffer.
No, I'm not.
And that's it.
And you just think different times.
Very different times. Very different times very different times
very different times
that is a
slur
but it's troubling
you know
with the modern ear hole
listening to it
it is a trouble
it kind of makes you go
ugh
but album as a whole
if you're a Cannon and Ball fan
you want to hear them sing
you actually like it Paul
I do
I like Together We'll Be Okay
I love listening to it
I listened to it yesterday
when it was a bit down
it really fucking
really yeah I was walking down the street going to morrison's
and i was like oh it's raining i'm miserable and it was like
and i was singing and that's their theme that's their signature tune is it yeah that was their
theme tune that was written for them apparently tommy balls bobby ball said well they didn't
think it was real them getting this show and the first time they felt it was real wasn't when they heard
the theme tune
that was written for them
for that show
and I imagine
that would be kind of cool
to go I've got a little
theme tune for you
and it was a man
called Mr Hess
was it
yeah
he'd written a few
other TV themes
I think recently
like Ballykiss Angel
so that's not recently
but things like that
so they're my three choices
Music for Pleasure
that's on the label
Music for Pleasure never heard on the label Music for Pleasure
never heard of them
you have
have I?
yeah
they used to
pump out
records
is it kind of like
mixes and albums
compilations
compilations
and they do like
The World of David Bowie
where they'd get all the stuff
that he hadn't licensed
or you know
they get cheap licenses
for songs and stuff
stuff he did before
he was signed
but there's some good stuff
there is some
some good stuff
on the Music for Pleasure label
okay
and it was cheap
just a cheap
sort of bargain basement label
and yeah
and you get sort of
they do those ones
where they get
like session bands
to cover the pop
hits
and all of that
like the top of the pop albums
yeah
but there was a couple of Donovan
early Donovan LPs
oh yeah
that were on that
that are actually nice
if you like
I don't know too much
about Donovan
but there you go
that is my vinyl
my Gannon's Gramophone
selection today
it was an interesting
selection Paul
and we're mining
this vein of
naffness
as we do
yeah
and I like it
I like a bit of naff
I'll end up listening
to those more than maybe you know band albums we'll as we do. Yeah, and I like it. I like the bit of naff. I'll end up listening to those more than maybe, you know, band albums.
We'll do naff on this show, Paul.
Naff is a laugh on Cheap Show, isn't it?
Yes, it certainly is.
And not niff.
Not the niff that when you peel back the...
Can't all be winners with the silverman.
It is a numbers game.
I have fucking hit the wall today.
I'm sorry.
Right, let's sign off.
Okay.
Ladies and gentlemen, that was Cheap Show.
That certainly was.
It was.
It was.
Now, yeah.
Come on, Paul.
Do the end of the show.
Yeah.
I'm going to do it when you've burned out all your fucking boring, sad little shouts and exertions that you do when I'm trying to get information out.
You're trying to information.
Information me, Paul.
Trying to information me.
You can't come here trying to information me.
Just, that's it.
That's all I'm saying.
Yeah!
Go! Are you finished? No. Come on, then. I'll never be finished. No, you's all I'm saying. Yeah! Go!
Are you finished?
No.
Come on, then.
I'll never be finished.
No, you will.
I won't.
Yeah.
When?
When?
When will I be finished, then?
Can I just say, you said a lady of later years.
Yeah.
That's not an actual thing.
Later years.
What, she's a lady of the late 80s?
Of the later years.
Like, she's in her 80s, yeah.
No.
What? A lady of advanceds, yeah. No.
What?
A lady of advanced years,
you'd say.
You know what?
When you start doing more hits on this podcast
and being funny,
then you can correct me.
More hits on this podcast?
Yeah, when you start
knocking it out of the park more,
then start criticising
my efforts, alright?
But until then,
it's a very small greenhouse
making those stones
are awful big.
So, behave yourself.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, you're getting
too fucking big
for this podcast.
Am I? That's your fucking problem. No, I'm not. Yes yeah. Yeah. You're getting too fucking big for this podcast. Am I?
That's your fucking problem.
No, I'm not.
Yes, you are.
You're fucking shaking it around.
Movie star.
Yeah.
We'll talk about that.
Don't you worry, mate.
No, listen.
Just because...
No, we're not.
No.
It doesn't matter.
You put a vote to the people.
It's not...
You put a vote in front of the people about whether they wanted sources on the show or
not.
And unequivocally, unequivocally, they said yes.
No.
You know what, mate?
It doesn't matter.
We do want sauces.
No one cares.
We do want sauce.
No one cares.
What about gummy douche?
Oh, mate.
Seriously, it is a numbers game.
It is.
It really is, mate, isn't it?
It really is.
You're doing well toothbrush chocolate
right okay yeah what next um um bubble gum shampoo gummy condom yeah i'd eat a little pocket of i'd
eat that jelly yeah a little pocket of raspberry jelly 10 cc's of a creamy goosh at the bottom of
it oh creamy goosh so you sucked of it. Oh, creamy goosh.
So you suck...
Do you know what?
What?
Not a bad idea.
You're on your chupa chups.
Yeah.
Where can they go if they want to see photos of all the stuff we've covered in the show, Paul?
They can go to our website, thecheapshow.co.uk,
because we have a dedicated page for every episode of Cheap Show,
bar the early ones, when I didn't want to do that.
What?
It doesn't matter.
The first 14 episodes
don't have dedicated pages
because we built the website
after those 14 went out.
And lost to the mists of time, dear.
Lost to the mists of time.
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I don't know how many people
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Oh, I hope not.
You never know.
It's a very strange object.
We're talking about
the globe thing again.
If anyone does have any...
I'm trying to wrap the show up.
If anyone does know,
just let us know.
It looks like a castle
on top of an island
that's a rock
and it's orange.
Yeah, things we said
half an hour or so ago.
Well, I'm just reiterating.
Also,
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I've decided.
I've got something on this, Paul.
Yeah, I have got something on this.
Okay so. I've shaved
my beard off. Yeah. Recently.
So you can't do nozzle oily nozzles.
No. For the patrons. Yeah.
What about. Let's just cut out the middle
man. Pubes. Yeah. Straight on.
A ball slap.
Why can't we make it. Oil up the balls.
Yeah. Whopper whopper whopper.
Yeah. The pink pancake of the night. Whack Oil up the balls. Yeah. Whopper, whopper, whopper.
Yeah?
The pink pancake of the night.
Whack him on the window.
Yeah.
All right.
You're going to be in pain, though, if you do that.
I'll be in pain.
These people have, you know. I'll make good money for you to whack your balls on their window.
I'll flop it out.
Get some beard oil on my nuts.
Where's the rule book that says you can't put beard oil on your nuts?
There's no.
There's no rule book.
You've got a good point.
Whopper, whopper, whopper.
Why don't we come up with a selection of Eli Paltas's? Whopper, whopper. There's no, Rupert. You've got a good point. Whoop-a-whoop-a-whoop-a. Why don't we come up
with a selection
of Eli Pontus's?
Whoop-a-whoop-a-whoop-a-whoop-a.
What's that in the garden?
It's Eli.
He's whooping his nuts
on the window.
Whoop-a-whoop-a-whoop-a.
Sprying.
Whoop.
As I say,
mate, it's a numbers game.
Can't all be winners.
Yeah, no.
None of them are winners. If you support us, that would be lovely. If you don't, don't worry. Thank you very much. That's what I was going to say, mate, it's a numbers game. Can't all be winners. Yeah, no. None of them are winners.
If you support us, that would be lovely.
If you don't, don't worry.
Thank you very much.
That's what I was going to say, Paul.
That is what actually I was going to say.
Yeah.
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That's exciting.
We're going to try
and make as many films
as we can
and special little episodes
on and off.
We're going to try
and do that for you.
At least once a month.
There will be,
Noodle fans,
there will be
an advanced,
I'd like to think of that
as the beginning chapter
in the book of Noodle Pimping
that I'm
well
I'm developing
in this show Paul
oh yeah
yes
watch out
because I'll take it elsewhere
so what else
I'll take my noodles elsewhere
yeah
I will
if I thought you had any
proactive ability within you
I'd be worried
but I don't
because you don't
I'll take my noodles
elsewhere
where are you going to take them
ITV
there you are, yeah.
London Weekend Television. Yeah, because that
exists. That doesn't exist, but I could
relaunch the brand. Again,
if I thought you had any business
acumen, I'd be concerned.
But, mate, I love you.
I love you and everything, because we're mates, but
you're fucking useless. There were some
things that we didn't do on the... Mate, we're saving it
for next time. Sorry. These were fucking shitty. Can were some things that we didn't do on the... Mate, we're saving it for next time.
Sorry.
These were fucking shitty. Can I finish the fucking show?
Weren't they?
Can I finish the show?
You don't need a post-mortem within the show.
You can email us anything you'd like.
A tale from the dance floor,
a tale from the shop floor,
an adventure,
something you've seen,
something you've bought,
thecheapshowatgmail.com.
And if you want to go to iTunes
and give us a nice review
to offset that rather upsetting one.
Vile.
I bet they're anti...
She's just speculating
that we're anti-Semitic.
Why?
I don't know.
She didn't like the cut of our jib.
He or she.
We will never know.
But they are angry.
And if you're listening still,
ah, fuck them.
I don't give a shit.
If they're listening,
then whatever.
But if that was you,
if that was you
who wrote the little note,
I'll find you.
I have a special set of skills
and you'll regret it.
Are you doing a taken?
Am I?
He's just taken.
Am I?
Yeah.
I have no idea
how to end this episode.
No, you can't, don't you?
I think I've done
all the information,
haven't I?
The website, yeah.
We're on Facebook,
we're on Twitter, we're on Reddit, we're on SoundCloud,
iTunes, Stitcher,
Leave a Review, Spotify,
we've crossed a million downloads,
awards episode coming real soon.
Lots of stuff. Marshmallow
Pampers.
They can't all be a winner.
Can't be a winner.
Goodbye, everyone.
Bye-bye.
Bye.