It sure is! Ep 3 is my very special interview with Richard Marsland, recorded just over 5 years ago. And in Ep 4, I chat to the hilarious Tim Vine and take the opportunity to evaluate some puns.
That is FAN-TASTIC. Your donations are making a huge difference at reducing the stress of not having any money. And for that I thank you from the bottom of my shallow, moth-filled pockets.
There’s still plenty of DMG Mugs left, so pick yourself up a set. They’re the perfect gift for someone without a mug.
It’s the 10th episode of 31 Questions for your YouTube viewing pleasure. This one features a cameo appearance from host of Deal or No Deal Australia, TV’s Andrew O’Keefe.
And thanks to the marvelous editing of Anthony McCormack, you’ll hardly even notice the terrible audio issues we had while shooting that sketch, and which we didn’t notice until we got to the editing room.
Let this be a free lesson for the aspiring television-maker: It’s not enough to just monitor the audio levels on the camera’s little viewing screen. You have to actually be listening with HEADPHONES. Otherwise you won’t pick up weird clicky noises caused be faulty XLR cables and be forced to dub scenes with audio from different takes.
But hey, that’s the fun of TV…
Thanks again to AO’K for being such a good sport and allowing us to blow him up for the entertainment of others.
We’ve had quite a bit of feedback from viewers recently, which is FANTASTIC!
Here’s a fine post about us from Bother’s Bar on the other side of the planet, where he describes me as “Tim Vine-esque”. I’ll certainly take that!
Fun fact: During my 2010 interview with Tim Vine, we jointly came up with the “Typo Magazine’s Man of the Ear” gag, which I later used in Ep #6 of 31 Questions.
That’s one of my favourite lines. I originally came up with “Typo Magazine’s Man of the Beer”. But Tim Vine suggested “Ear”. A superior punchline. Or punch “word”, really. In my opinion, it should be a contender for “World’s most perfect joke”. Just six words long, but it’s all it needs to be.
Of course regardless of its comic perfection, when I delivered that line in Ep #6 the joke bombed.
Makes ME laugh…
We also had a YouTube comment on Ep #10 from a guy called “jedimerchants”. It’s quite bizarre. This video response pretty much sums it up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkEDlQNoiaY
Thank you once again beautiful contestants!
Ep #11 arrives on your television screen (assuming you live in Melbourne or Geelong AND don’t live in an apartment building that automatically blocks out Channel 31… found that one out the hard way last weekend…) tomorrow (Saturday) evening 10PM on Digital 44.
David M. Green here, blogging live from Melbourne, and have I got a treat for you! On Tuesday I was thrilled to interview UK comedian Tim Vine! I loved him in “The Sketch Show”, so much so I even named my “On The Yacht” radio character after him (Norman Vine). He is the undisputed “Master of the Pun”.
We met outside Cafe Mediterraneum on Swanston Street directly opposite the Melbourne Town Hall. However, it turned out they closed at 5pm, so after taking some photos in a nearby stairwell we found a table alfresco across the street at Brunetti’s. I jammed my Zoom H2 recorder in the umbrella-holder in the centre of the table and recorded our conversation. It’s without a doubt the most enjoyable interview I’ve ever conducted. Tim Vine is genuinely hilarious.
Depending on various planetary alignments, a written segment of our interview will hopefully appear in an upcoming edition of RMIT University’s Catalyst Magazine. However, due to my supreme respect for the medium of the Internet, here now for your listening pleasure is the interview in full:
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Topics covered include his show “The Joke-amotive”, Guinness World Records, best and worst puns, his appearance on Neighbours, The Sketch Show, Scrabble, Steve Coogan, Shaun Micallef and Tim plays “the judge” in a mini-version of the comedy equivalent of “So You Think You Can Dance?” that I (DMG) invented just then: “So You Think You Can Pun!”
After the interview some good friends and I attended his show “The Joke-amotive”. Very funny. I’d certainly recommend seeing it. I think the last performance is tomorrow. Not all the jokes were hilarious but hats off to him for quantity. There must have been over 200 jokes in that hour, and the hilarious ones were certainly worth waiting for. Excellent prop-comedy too. 5 Stars.
Kind regards,
David M. Green
Photos by The Fabulous Ben Hagemann
