Yes, yes, yes and more yes.

Genius, especially 'Jam' and 'Blue Jam'.

An unseen sketch from the 'Sex' episode of 'Brass Eye' has just surfaced on Youtube:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nZAnj1pEcuw

many of the writers/producers do not get enough credit i feel. armando iannuci for one.

Hilarious. I'd not seen that one before. "Part your belief curtains..." indeed.

PS: For those that don't know, David Sullivan is the uber-slimey owner of a number of top shelf mags as well as the Newspaper The Daily Sport (think of the final chase sequences in Benny Hill shows, in newspaper form). He's a kind of rubbish british equiv to Hugh Hefner, without the silk robes and pipe, or a modicum of class.

absolute genius..... total and utter media genius...


this is a special one.... giving socks to a real daytime topical event chat show...
chris morris on the time the place
clasic!

aceptance speech for 1992 comedy awards.... bizarre

fur q- uzi lover

jLB-8- lil white butt

blouse- me oh myra

blue jam- the gush

That's true, Patrick Marber being another one who is seriously underrated and I never tire of promoting. I really, really like Peter Serafinowitz and Robert Popper too, even though I don't think they have anything to do with Chris Morris.

What is the Patrick Marber connection? I don't know him. What else has he done?

Biography


Writer (and occasional director and actor) Patrick Marber was born in London in 1964. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford.

He worked as a stand-up comedian for a number of years and then co-wrote and appeared in the comedy programmes 'On The Hour' (Radio 4), 'The Day Today' (BBC2), 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' (Radio 4 and BBC2), and 'Paul and Pauline Calf's Video Diaries' (BBC2).

His first play, Dealer's Choice, was first performed at the Royal National Theatre in February 1995, transferring to the West End later that year. Among numerous productions across the world the play has been produced in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Melbourne, Berlin, Vienna and Zurich.

Marber's second play, Closer (1997), premiered at the Royal National Theatre in May 1997, transferring to the West End in March 1998. The play became an international hit and has been produced in more than a hundred cities in over thirty different languages across the world. His latest play, Howard Katz, opened at the Royal National Theatre in June 2001. After Miss Julie, his free version of Strindberg's Miss Julie, was broadcast on BBC Television as part of the 'Performance' series in November 1995. A collected edition of his work, Plays One, was published in 2003.

In addition to directing his own plays, Marber has directed Craig Raine's 1953 (Almeida), Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills (Royal National Theatre, Lyttleton), David Mamet's The Old Neighbourhood (Royal Court) and Harold Pinter's The Caretaker (Comedy Theatre). In 2000 he acted in the West End revival of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, directed by Peter Gill.

In 2004 he adapted his play Closer for the screen. It won and was shortlisted for several awards. He has since adapted Patrick McGrath's Asylum and Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal for the screen. His latest work is on screenplays for the films The Tourist, and Alan Partridge: The Movie.

Patrick Marber lives in London.own plays, Marber has directed Craig Raine's 1953 (Almeida), Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills (Royal National Theatre, Lyttleton), David Mamet's The Old Neighbourhood (Royal Court) and Harold Pinter's The Caretaker (Comedy Theatre). In 2000 he acted in the West End revival of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, directed by Peter Gill.

In 2004 he adapted his play Closer for the screen. It won and was shortlisted for several awards. He has since adapted Patrick McGrath's Asylum and Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal for the screen. His latest work is on screenplays for the films The Tourist, and Alan Partridge: The Movie.

Patrick Marber lives in London.

Thanks Sarramkrop. I really don't go to the theatre nearly often enough -which is odd, because I invariably really enjoy it when I do. Certainly prefer it to going to the cinema these days. Seems like I'm missing out on a whole load of good stuff.

WHY can we no longer think of the British Isles without the word "Paedoph" in front of it.
aaaaaaaaaaaaah!

The play Closer is excellent, I haven't seen the movie.

Noted. I'm in the mood for something like that. Nice one.

I prefer his irreverent, more 'fun' material like The Day Today and Brass Eye to the likes of Jam. There is an Adam And Joe parody of Jam, which gets it about right (doesn't seem to be on You Tube though).

Apparently he's doing another series of Nathan Barley (which should be good) and something about suicide bombers (which could be awful), inbetween having arguments with Martin Amis (a few of his articles on The Guardian are worth looking at).

Hahahahah! That is absolutely brilliant!

Wow. He deals with that really well. He's a really good actor.

Thanks for that.

Finally after a 16 year wait the complete On The Hour collection is going to be released on 8 cds, released on November 24, 2008.

Maybe one day they will release the entire Blue Jammmmmmmmm radio series too.

Brilliant!!! Thankyou SO much for posting this Stu666. I know what I'll be blowing my Christmas pennies on.

Yeah thanks for that Stu.

As well as this, there's also news that Morris is currently working on a feature length film which supposedly centres on 'wannabe suicide bombers'. It was originally gonna be a series, but C4 refused it. More info.

Oh, and check this out http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iB1zwtkTVfQ

^ haha, great stuff jim :)