Tuesday 19 January 2010

Brass Eye's Chris Morris, Clearly Taking the P*ss on Early Morning ITV Topical Discussion Show

The Time The Place, Chris Morris





This is the first edition of the Chat Shows genre, showing you classic and obscure clips from classic and obscure UK Chat Shows from the past. And we begin with a gem. Chris Morris, quite known as the presenter of faux-news programme "The Day Today" at the time of 1996, jostles with "The Time, The Place" presenter John Stapleton, calling himself Thurston Lowe, a supposed academic. The discussion topic is about "Are British Men Lousy Lovers?".


Morris, who clearly loves to give the system a good jolt, and takes a satrical take, perhaps drubbing the of so-called experts who turn up, on these type of shows, but a wonderful break from the norm. He gained much of a reputation, of fooling people and celebrities into believing in his projects, as seen in the future "Brass Eye". In his inane banter, he tells of how the Saxons serviced Roman women from Italy, the absurd notion that the Greek mythical creature The Minotaur, was also regarded as a four-legged breast by Brits...oh, just watch the whole clip!


"The Time, The Place" was ITV's answer to the BBC's "Kilroy" located in an early morning loke post-9am, 9.25am, say. The show ran from 1987 to 1998, while "Kilroy" steamed on until 2004. These type of shows now feel rather stuffy compared to the likes of "Vanessa" and "The Jeremy Kyle Show", but they did so at the time compared to US chat shows, with obvious comparisons to "The Jerry Springer Show". The shows itself could be interesting, but it lacked bite, otherwise it would've been on late-night TV, probably Channel 4, and some of the subjects felt rather drawn out.

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