Saint & Greavsie or Baddiel & Skinner?

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― @~@~, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 08:53 (twenty-two years ago)

s+g obv

― lukey (Lukey G), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, Saint and Greavsie.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Did B&S show that Greavsie casual racism clip last night to pe-empt this thread and try to curry favour? :-)

Still S&G, though I profess to not fully understanding the B&S hate on ILE.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

S&G.

what did Greavsie say?

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe it's because Baddiel is one of the least funny people in the world?

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a shame because Skinner is so sharp.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Until the other day I had forgotten all about Baddiel's Syndrome. It was car crash tv in the extreme.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Complaining about the fact that its Baddiel and Skinner when Baddiel is unfunny is a bit like complaining about Bez being in the Happy Mondays when he didn't contribute to the band, isn't it? I suspect that if anyone suggested to Skinner that he dropped Baddiel he'd get well offended and say "you can't do that, he's my mate".

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Baddiel drags him down with him though

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a game of two halfwits.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Did something happen to Baddiel at some point, or did the world move on? He was certainly the official funniest person ever at some point.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

11.57 and 17 second on the 12th of July 1993, it passed rapidly.

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

baddiel & skinner: classic

one of the two good things about football, including football itself.

(the second thing isn't football)

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Ian St John was funnier than Baddiel. Even though he told no jokes and spent most of the programme saying "Greavsie you kill me" in mock hysterics.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The Greavsie bit was from his fairly short lived 80s talkshow, "Greavsie's Gaff". In the clip they showed, his asked Kim Wilde to "make the tea, luv" as he had something else to do. "I've just got to phone my good friend, and Michael Jackson look-a-like, Frank Bruno."

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that all????

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

It was in Jackson's pre-caucasian period.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

even so, it's hardly Big(ot) Ron stuff is it?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

and in fairness, Kim Wilde gave a Nazi salute.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Baddiel's a wanker and Skinner's a cunt. There's reasoned argument for you.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)

And Greavsie is a soak. And Ian St John. He's a...hmmm...he's a...NO WAIT! He's Scottish!

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe it's just me then, I found that pretty offensive, saying "they all look the same".

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Baddiel and Skinner appear to consider themselves so funny that they no longer see a need to actually be funny in the first place. It's enough for them to loaf ostentatiously during prime time. Maybe that's the funny bit? I dunno.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

My only memory of Saint and Greavsie was their continued use of the Mexican pop style tune from the 1986 world cup well into 1989. They also used to have chat about Big Kevin Francis, as Stockport always played on Friday nights and they had the highlights.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Rob Newman >>>>>>>>>>> Baddiel altho i did like Baddiel until the late 90s and i liked Skinner until probably just a couple of years ago perhaps. i still laugh at stuff on their show, altho perhaps their own brand of casual racism (jokes about Heskey having a big cock and Jews and Germans - from Baddiel of course) is no better then Greavsie's if not worse

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Mexican pop style tune from the 1986 world cup

'Aztec Gold'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

This reminds me that somehow I caught a bit of The Mary Whitehouse Experience when I was in the UK in 1992 -- I just remember Barry White or someone supposed to be him reading something and then nuclear bombs going off.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I enjoy Baddiel and Skinner, football or not. Last night I liked Beckham calling the ref a fucking wanker most.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

The other night I liked the potato that looked like Wayne Rooney. I don't understand the Baddiel and Skinner hate either. Obviously Cabbage & Mikey G & Stevem & Dave B and other ILXors could also sit and banter football more amusingly on the telly, but Baddiel and Skinner got there first, and they make me laugh.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Ronan Fitzgerald's Big Impression (Keano Special)

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I cannot banter about football. I just spread salacious and untrue rumours about the sexuality of players.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Boyle is spot on about S & B, though he could have gone in harder.

― the junefox, Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Obviously Cabbage & Mikey G & Stevem & Dave B and other ILXors could also sit and banter football more amusingly on the telly

This MUST be done. Who's got a video camera?

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:41 (twenty-two years ago)

self-satisfied, smug, pleased with own irreverance, stunted, sepia-tinted mateyness,

they typify this country more than anyone else i can think of right now

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:45 (twenty-two years ago)

that fabled british sense of humour. playing fields of eton.

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:46 (twenty-two years ago)

i envisage it more as a radio thing (x-post x2)

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:46 (twenty-two years ago)

middle class woide boys

― Frank Clark (blueski), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:47 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, that's clearly true for Cabbage and Boyle - but a bit hard on poor old Stevem and G.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:48 (twenty-two years ago)

radio

no, definitely TV. I'm already making the cardboard studio backdrop and decorating it with pictures of footballers and Portuguese scenery.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm no woide boy, though I concede I'm mc these days.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 17 June 2004 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Another Greavesie casual racism bit I remember from S&G;
'That Jim Rosenthal knows all about betting. He had a tip-off when he was a kid'

The thing that's always intrigued me about Greaves is that he bears no physical resemblance whatsoever to the footballer Jimmy Greaves, and we seem to only have his word for it that he's the same person.

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Thursday, 17 June 2004 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave, did you find any dirt on the situation I mentioned the other night?

― chris (chris), Thursday, 17 June 2004 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

ooh - remind me again....

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 17 June 2004 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Glynn Hurst, his move to county and "it's not about the money"

― chris (chris), Thursday, 17 June 2004 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't get the Jim Rosenthal quote.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 17 June 2004 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

He's Jewish.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 17 June 2004 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i laughed at that 'tip-off' joke

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 17 June 2004 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Please disregard anything positive I said about Baddiel and Skinner up-thread - their Euro 2004 programme is bloody awful.

'Greavsie's Gaff' looks like a test-run for UKIP.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Sunday, 20 June 2004 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

According to Radio Times, Saint and Greavsie are actually appearing on tonight's programme.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Sunday, 20 June 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

mmm. I thought this thread was "Saint & Greavsie on Baddiel & Skinner?"

And the number of answers made me think "did I miss some wild moment/controversy?"

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 21 June 2004 07:48 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5vlPDt_YH8

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 25 April 2008 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.acousticguitar.com/issues/ag87/CurrentIssueImage.gif

― Thomas, Friday, 25 April 2008 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

Separated at birth!

― Neil S, Friday, 25 April 2008 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Skinner, man of passion:

Upcoming projects include a documentary about George Formby for BBC4 – he is a ukulele devotee – but plans for a novel have been permanently put on ice. His book – about a 50-year-old Christian superhero called Thunderman who sold out and got bored – stalled at 60,000 words.
"I thought I'd have this mega-novel and people would say 'who'd have believed that laddish bloke could have written this work of art?' I didn't really read fiction – I recently started reading it again – the only fiction I ever read was comic books."

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 16:41 (sixteen years ago)

His career has taken an unexpected turn of late with him acquiring a weekly opinion in The Times. More than once I have been confronted at length with his musings on Catholicism in today's world. He's not bad, actually.

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 16:47 (sixteen years ago)

It's a game of two halfwits.
― Tim (Tim), 16 June 2004 10:32 (5 years ago) Bookmark

quality post

― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 16:47 (sixteen years ago)

And here he is in today's paper, musing on Catholicism in today's world

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 5 March 2010 17:21 (sixteen years ago)

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