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rionaleonhart) wrote2011-01-14 10:31 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2011-01-14 10:31 am
You Can Be Frodo If You Want.
Managed, courtesy of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
totaldrwhofreak, to go to the second unbroadcast pilot of 10 O'Clock Live, the live current affairs programme with David Mitchell, Charlie Brooker, Jimmy Carr and Lauren Laverne! As ever, I have written down what I can remember for the benefit of those who weren't there.
Carr: (to an audience member as he gets into position for the pre-title sequence) I'm just going to come behind you. Shh, shh, shh, it's the most natural thing in the world. (continues to coo 'shh, shh' into the audience member's ear when he's positioned behind him)
The pre-title sequence was meant to be one continuous take. Upon hearing they would have to re-record it:
Carr: (to his earpiece) Someone did it wrong, but you're not going to say who it was? Am I looking at them? Right, got it. We need a code. Just call her LL.
In said pre-title sequence, Mitchell said, 'It's ten o'clock; we're live; welcome to 10 O'Clock Live.'
As they were walking away afterwards:
Mitchell: I was lying there. 'It's ten minutes to ten, and this is pre-recorded.'
Brooker: That's disgusting.
Carr: (regarding the Queensland floods) Remind me: when your house is flooded in Australia, do you lose all your personal possessions clockwise or anticlockwise? (in response to audience reaction) I promise you, we had worse jokes.
Carr: (regarding a student imprisoned for rioting) Interestingly, the young offenders' institution he's been sent to is actually higher on the league tables than Hull University. (pause) ...is anyone here from Hull University? Oh no, don't cry. (pause) They probably haven't got it yet.
Brooker: When I'm trying to get people to do what I want, I generally have two options: I either shout 'til they cry or cry 'til they shout. But David Cameron thinks he's found a third method: a sort of Derren Brown mental manipulation.
As I had previously been speaking in the queue about how Cameron reminded me of Derren Brown without the charisma, this was somewhat unsettling.
Mitchell interviewed a former partner of the Goldman and Sachs bank.
Mitchell: And now for a spot of banker-bashing! No, not like that; get your hands out of your trousers.
Mitchell: (regarding a quote from a banker saying it was time for the banks to stop flagellating themselves and move on) But how much self-flagellation has really gone on? Apart from in private, for other reasons.
On the subject of bankers' bonuses:
Banker-Man (whose comic series never took off in quite the way Spider-Man's did): The question is: is it merited?
Mitchell: I'm not sure it's possible to merit eight million pounds. I don't think you can do that much work in a year.
Carr: Does anyone remember books? They were a bit like an early version of the Kindle, but they only had one story loaded onto them. They were rubbish.
Mitchell spoke to a student who supported the student demonstrations against the raising of university fees.
Mitchell: There's never any excuse for violence, is there?
Student: It depends; by 'violence', do you mean prodding a defenceless Rolls-Royce with a stick? The government have started wars, and now they're getting precious over a couple of broken windows.
Mitchell: Well, to be honest, if this is meant to be retaliation for the wars, the students are massively outgunned.
Student: You know, they searched the Conservative headquarters and they didn't find any weapons of mass destruction.
Mitchell: I don't know; I think a fire extinguisher, thrown correctly, could ruin any church service.
(GROANS. Mitchell becomes quite embarrassed.)
Mitchell: I apologise. There's a bucket over there if you need to be sick.
Another guest at the table expressed the opinion that the protests were ridiculous, to which the pro-demonstration student retorted 'YES, MILO, BUT YOU HAD A PONY WHEN YOU WERE LITTLE.'
Milo: This is why we're not supposed to talk in the green room!
Milo later said 'If you're empty-headed enough to vote Lib Dem...', to a collective disapproving intake of breath from the audience and Mitchell pointing out 'I was empty-headed enough to vote Lib Dem.' (pause) 'And now I deeply regret it. I loathe myself.'
Carr at one point wore a policeman's uniform. It was strangely attractive. He also introduced a mock 'witness statement', gave the statement himself in silhouette and with a distorted voice, and then said, 'We've disguised his identity by giving him a strangely puffy face. And wooden hair. And a case of erectile dysfunction even the best doctors can't seem to touch.'
At one point, Mitchell wandered into Laverne's shot. She teased him about it with a 'Thank you, David.' After her link was finished, she went over to talk to him; their microphones were off, so I don't know what they were saying, but they ended up giggling a lot and it was adorable.
Brooker: (regarding council-arranged royal wedding street parties) I won't be going. The problem I have with parties is they're full of people. And this one is to celebrate two more people. It's - it's overpeopled.
Carr: (to Brooker) You were criticising Glenn Beck earlier, but I liked how passionate he was. You could tell that he really cared about what he was saying.
Mitchell: Say what you like about Hitler; he gave a shit.
Carr: (cracks up) That's what I'm saying! ...oh, dear, I've ruined my career again.
10 O'Clock Live is starting up in earnest next week; it'll be shown on Channel 4 on Thursday evenings. You can probably work out what time.
totaldrwhofreak, to go to the second unbroadcast pilot of 10 O'Clock Live, the live current affairs programme with David Mitchell, Charlie Brooker, Jimmy Carr and Lauren Laverne! As ever, I have written down what I can remember for the benefit of those who weren't there.Carr: (to an audience member as he gets into position for the pre-title sequence) I'm just going to come behind you. Shh, shh, shh, it's the most natural thing in the world. (continues to coo 'shh, shh' into the audience member's ear when he's positioned behind him)
The pre-title sequence was meant to be one continuous take. Upon hearing they would have to re-record it:
Carr: (to his earpiece) Someone did it wrong, but you're not going to say who it was? Am I looking at them? Right, got it. We need a code. Just call her LL.
In said pre-title sequence, Mitchell said, 'It's ten o'clock; we're live; welcome to 10 O'Clock Live.'
As they were walking away afterwards:
Mitchell: I was lying there. 'It's ten minutes to ten, and this is pre-recorded.'
Brooker: That's disgusting.
Carr: (regarding the Queensland floods) Remind me: when your house is flooded in Australia, do you lose all your personal possessions clockwise or anticlockwise? (in response to audience reaction) I promise you, we had worse jokes.
Carr: (regarding a student imprisoned for rioting) Interestingly, the young offenders' institution he's been sent to is actually higher on the league tables than Hull University. (pause) ...is anyone here from Hull University? Oh no, don't cry. (pause) They probably haven't got it yet.
Brooker: When I'm trying to get people to do what I want, I generally have two options: I either shout 'til they cry or cry 'til they shout. But David Cameron thinks he's found a third method: a sort of Derren Brown mental manipulation.
As I had previously been speaking in the queue about how Cameron reminded me of Derren Brown without the charisma, this was somewhat unsettling.
Mitchell interviewed a former partner of the Goldman and Sachs bank.
Mitchell: And now for a spot of banker-bashing! No, not like that; get your hands out of your trousers.
Mitchell: (regarding a quote from a banker saying it was time for the banks to stop flagellating themselves and move on) But how much self-flagellation has really gone on? Apart from in private, for other reasons.
On the subject of bankers' bonuses:
Banker-Man (whose comic series never took off in quite the way Spider-Man's did): The question is: is it merited?
Mitchell: I'm not sure it's possible to merit eight million pounds. I don't think you can do that much work in a year.
Carr: Does anyone remember books? They were a bit like an early version of the Kindle, but they only had one story loaded onto them. They were rubbish.
Mitchell spoke to a student who supported the student demonstrations against the raising of university fees.
Mitchell: There's never any excuse for violence, is there?
Student: It depends; by 'violence', do you mean prodding a defenceless Rolls-Royce with a stick? The government have started wars, and now they're getting precious over a couple of broken windows.
Mitchell: Well, to be honest, if this is meant to be retaliation for the wars, the students are massively outgunned.
Student: You know, they searched the Conservative headquarters and they didn't find any weapons of mass destruction.
Mitchell: I don't know; I think a fire extinguisher, thrown correctly, could ruin any church service.
(GROANS. Mitchell becomes quite embarrassed.)
Mitchell: I apologise. There's a bucket over there if you need to be sick.
Another guest at the table expressed the opinion that the protests were ridiculous, to which the pro-demonstration student retorted 'YES, MILO, BUT YOU HAD A PONY WHEN YOU WERE LITTLE.'
Milo: This is why we're not supposed to talk in the green room!
Milo later said 'If you're empty-headed enough to vote Lib Dem...', to a collective disapproving intake of breath from the audience and Mitchell pointing out 'I was empty-headed enough to vote Lib Dem.' (pause) 'And now I deeply regret it. I loathe myself.'
Carr at one point wore a policeman's uniform. It was strangely attractive. He also introduced a mock 'witness statement', gave the statement himself in silhouette and with a distorted voice, and then said, 'We've disguised his identity by giving him a strangely puffy face. And wooden hair. And a case of erectile dysfunction even the best doctors can't seem to touch.'
At one point, Mitchell wandered into Laverne's shot. She teased him about it with a 'Thank you, David.' After her link was finished, she went over to talk to him; their microphones were off, so I don't know what they were saying, but they ended up giggling a lot and it was adorable.
Brooker: (regarding council-arranged royal wedding street parties) I won't be going. The problem I have with parties is they're full of people. And this one is to celebrate two more people. It's - it's overpeopled.
Carr: (to Brooker) You were criticising Glenn Beck earlier, but I liked how passionate he was. You could tell that he really cared about what he was saying.
Mitchell: Say what you like about Hitler; he gave a shit.
Carr: (cracks up) That's what I'm saying! ...oh, dear, I've ruined my career again.
10 O'Clock Live is starting up in earnest next week; it'll be shown on Channel 4 on Thursday evenings. You can probably work out what time.