Wandered back here after some few weeks of digging into Morris’s work; I’m working on an essay or two about him and wanted to make sure I wasn’t just about to rehash what you’d already written. And then I saw you had an old piece about The Thick Of It, which I’m also writing about, and I’ll skip that piece til I’ve done mine.
Now that I have more Morris under my belt, this essay clicks for me even more.
He really is a virtuoso of comic English, comparable with Joyce and Flann O’Brien, I think. The old radio shows I’ve been listening to are much more understandable to me as language than as satire, given that most of the topical and political and celebrity references are lost on me. But the language and audio editing are marvelous even when I don’t get the jokes.
This is just what I needed. I’ve seen Brass Eye, because I have friends who have the DVD. But all this other stuff is new to me. I’m a big Peter Cook fan too, but there always seems to be more of his work I didn’t know about.
Wandered back here after some few weeks of digging into Morris’s work; I’m working on an essay or two about him and wanted to make sure I wasn’t just about to rehash what you’d already written. And then I saw you had an old piece about The Thick Of It, which I’m also writing about, and I’ll skip that piece til I’ve done mine.
Now that I have more Morris under my belt, this essay clicks for me even more.
He really is a virtuoso of comic English, comparable with Joyce and Flann O’Brien, I think. The old radio shows I’ve been listening to are much more understandable to me as language than as satire, given that most of the topical and political and celebrity references are lost on me. But the language and audio editing are marvelous even when I don’t get the jokes.
This is just what I needed. I’ve seen Brass Eye, because I have friends who have the DVD. But all this other stuff is new to me. I’m a big Peter Cook fan too, but there always seems to be more of his work I didn’t know about.
Thanks mate. If you’ve not seen it, strong rec for Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s Derek and Clive Get the Horn
I’ve heard some of their stuff and it’s great but I don’t think I know that one. Thanks!
I want it greeeeeeeeeeeen!
Hahahah . Also ‘the gush’
Haha, yeah. Jam and Blue Jam were my favourites of his stuff. I put a DVD of Jam on once while I had guests. They were upset.