talkSPORT's first drunk
- Lou Grant
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talkSPORT's first drunk
Gerald Harper is simply credited as 'First Drunk' in Tony Hancock's 1963 film The Punch and Judy Man.
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Re: talkSPORT's first drunk
This blog from a producer who worked on the show is gold: http://www.masterton.co.uk/2009/11/champagne-and-roses/
My favourite part is undoubtedly this bit:
Gerald Harper always had a knack for taking everything at face value. The listener interaction in the early weeks of the show consisted of him throwing out requests for people to write in to the radio station so he could mention them the next week and award them the boxes of roses etc. When we began to do the shows live, he was delighted to discover that technology now meant that an instantaneous response via text and email was possible. One evening I came across a blatantly piss-taking email which read:
“Pls say hello to Mary. She fell down the stairs. I love her so”.
I handed it to Gerald as an example of some of the dafter things that would come through. Next thing I knew he was reading it out verbatim and promising a huge bunch of flowers for poor Mary to help cheer her up from her accident.
My favourite part is undoubtedly this bit:
Gerald Harper always had a knack for taking everything at face value. The listener interaction in the early weeks of the show consisted of him throwing out requests for people to write in to the radio station so he could mention them the next week and award them the boxes of roses etc. When we began to do the shows live, he was delighted to discover that technology now meant that an instantaneous response via text and email was possible. One evening I came across a blatantly piss-taking email which read:
“Pls say hello to Mary. She fell down the stairs. I love her so”.
I handed it to Gerald as an example of some of the dafter things that would come through. Next thing I knew he was reading it out verbatim and promising a huge bunch of flowers for poor Mary to help cheer her up from her accident.
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Re: talkSPORT's first drunk
He was Adamant that did not happen
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year