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Jam DVD and repeats.

jeff

20:14 / 09.04.03

The TV listings have Channel 4 repeating Jam tonight at 11.45, which is sweetness and light, and I hear thay are releasing a DVD of the seies in May sometime.

(Perhaps the 5th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

09:06 / 16.04.03

Flagging this up to the top because it's on again tonight

Old brown-eye is back

10:59 / 17.04.03

I was lucky enough to go and see the Jam DVD mid-production (was hoping to meet Mr Morris, but I think he was shy) and from what I can remember there's an awful lot of weird shit on there. According to play.com it comes out at the end of May, so hurrah!

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

12:06 / 17.04.03

It told you the release date at the end of the episode: April 28th, I think it was.

Old brown-eye is back

12:28 / 17.04.03

You're quite right - it's the end of April. D'oh!

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

12:47 / 17.04.03

No worries, I think they changed the date and moved it ahead.

Can't fucking wait.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

08:51 / 26.04.04

It's not wholly relevent to this topic but I didn't think it was worth starting a new one. Supposedly Armando Iannucci will be on Night Waves on Radio 3 tonight to discuss The Day Today ten years on. It should be available on the web from tomorrow from here.

The Day Today is apparently available to buy on DVD.

bjacques

08:12 / 07.05.04

Yep, got both Day Today and Jam on DVD. I'd only watched the first episode when I got it, but have watched the second (savoring it slowly) not long after the end of Nighty Night and damme if those are't Mark Eldon and Julia Davis! Ah luvs Julia Davis, she's eeevil! Anyway, there's the recurring character of the bent doctor, who diagnoses people with "symptomless coma," pretty much the basis for Julia convincing her husband he's dying in Nighty Night.

And Morris's Dutch accent and schadenfreude in the "Gush" sketch are perfect!

sleazenation

10:19 / 07.05.04

It isn't Mark Eldon - its the actor Kevin Eldon.

rizla mission

14:13 / 07.05.04

Out of date as ever, I just bought the Jam DVD.

Great stuff obviously.. most of the material I'd already seen/heard several times over, but there's still just no getting over how utterly fucked some of the routines in those last few episodes are..

I think the whole thing with the two DVD's is a bit ridiculous though.. I was hoping the second disc would be packed with cool extra stuff etc., and was quite disappointed to just find the same stuff all over again with slightly different editing and weird FX.. it's a bit of a swizz really, although I suppose it fits quite nicely with the other 'fuck you' features of the package (the undeleted scenes, 'miniaturised mode' etc.).

Oh, and it was brave of them to include the great Adam & Joe pisstake of Jam - absolutely spot-on, and makes the rest of it hard to take entirely seriously. Not that you're really supposed to take a supposed 'comedy' seriously, but, er, you know what I mean..

■

16:49 / 07.05.04

Yes, I know what you mean...
I KNOW WHAT A PARKING METERS ARE!

CameronStewart

17:51 / 07.05.04

"Brave"? I thought the Adam and Joe bit was painful - not in the slightest bit clever or funny or remotely successful as a parody (though I wonder if it's even possible to parody something so far over the top like Jam, it's like when Mad magazine tries to parody South Park). The inclusion of that pathetic sketch only reinforces the quality of Morris' work, not undermines it.

rizla mission

11:26 / 08.05.04

Well that's me told.

I thought it was a pretty funny little dig at the whole Chris Morris = Untouchable Genius mystique..

Our Lady Has Left the Building

19:52 / 08.05.04

The funny thing is, the Adam and Joe doctor's sketch was one that Morris had done himself in the radio show. And much as I love Morris and his works, I think the TV repairman sketch was a extremely good pisstake of Jam and the more 'shocking' aspects of it, such as the rape sketch or the jokes about abortions, miscarriages and babies.

rizla mission

00:11 / 09.05.04

Yes. As much as Chris Morris' intelligence, subtley and surrealism make his stuff great, in the end you've got to admit that a certain amount of the appeal comes simply from cheap shock tactics and morbid fascination, and I think the Adam & Joe spoof puts that element across quite nicely..

CameronStewart

22:38 / 09.05.04

See, to me, the Adam and Joe bit wasn't a clever send-up of Morris' shock tactics, it came across as two idiots who grasp only the most superficial aspects of Morris' work and decided to make a very simple, obvious, and deathly dull piss-take (kind of like those prats you see discussing The Invisibles or The Filth who focus purely on the superficially "weird" stuff and disparage it with no apparent comprehension of anything deeper).

I'm not one to insist that Morris is infallible and that everything he's done is the greatest achievement in any human endeavour, ever - I do think he's stumbled at times but even flawed his work is far more challenging, original and satisfying than most comedy.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

10:15 / 10.05.04

I hope Adam's Dad goes over the Atlantic and kicks your arse for that Cameron. Or was it Joe's Dad? Who was Baaaaaddad the Dad of? Have you ever seen the Adam and Joe Show Cam? The original ones, not the later E4 ones, which were a bit hit and miss.

The Media Chaos Collective, or whoever A & J play in the sketch, are two idiots who 'grasp only the most superficial aspects of Morris' work', that's the whole point. They were recurring characters each week and though I didn't see all of their stuff I think the point was they were these sad media studies nerds who read a book on Situationalism and think that therefore they are better than their mates who still watch Voyager and talk about 7of9 all day. You laugh at them and they think you're laughing with them.

CameronStewart

14:37 / 10.05.04

Ah, alright then, I'll concede to that. I confess I haven't seen any of the Adam and Joe show so I wasn't familiar that they were recurring characters. Context is everything, eh? Your explanation seems sound enough.

I still maintain that it's not very funny though.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

17:16 / 11.05.04

You're wrong and you're a grotesquely ugly freak.

Oh wait, that was Brass Eye.

TeN

04:02 / 06.11.07

I really wish they'd release the Jam DVD in NTSC

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