I've spent tonight going through a VHS labelled 31.12.06 which includes the BBC's inferior answer to Channel 4's Big Fat Quiz, called "The Big Finish".
Hosted by Graham Norton this was dreadfully strung out and the rounds were all over the place with five teams consisting of newsreaders, sportsmen (yes I can say that cause they were all male) TV judges, showbiz and soap stars.
The newsreaders team featured Bill Turnbull, Penny Smith and Jeremy Bowen, sport had Colin Jackson, "Posh Ben" Fogle, and fellow Strictly star and in the words of Dale Winton "Everyone's favourite cricketer" Darren Gough pre Hole In The Wall.
The judges were Craig Revel-Horwood, Louis Walsh, and John Barrowman, showbiz had Myleene Klass, Bill Oddie and Big Brother 7's Nikki Grahame, whilst the soap team was the recently departed Wendy Richard from Eastenders, one of my favourite women on television Sally Lindsay and fellow Corrie actor Richard Fleeshman who in 2007 attempted to become a popstar.
This lead to an amusing appearance on Buzzcocks near the end of the year where he got a bit of stick for impersonating Will Young on Stars In Their Eyes.
One of the Next Lines was "I'd think I'd better leave right now" which Richard didn't get leading to taunts from Simon Amstell, to which Richard responded something along the lines of
"For your information, I did 'Evergreen'",
which he then followed with "Lamarr would have done his research".
Back to Graham, and the show plodded on with one of the questions involving having to spot the real Guy Kewney in a line up, after they showed the clip of Guy Goma on BBC News 24.
Goma appeared as a guest on Channel 4's Big Fat Quiz Of The Year where Jimmy Carr got a bit pissed off when the panellists said he'd be a better host than him.
However the funniest joke from Graham Norton was when he said that David Blaine despite failing his underwater stunt, did get into the Guinness Book Of Records
as "The Biggest Twat In The World".
I'd say it's either him or Steve McLaren after that stupid attempt at a Dutch accent last year.
I immediately followed this by re-viewing the 2006 into 2007 Hootenanny where the performers this year included Lily Allen, The Kooks, and oddly enough The Zutons and Amy Winehouse on the same show. Although they didn't perform together of course.
Amy did do a duet with Paul Weller though which was pretty good although last year he did an exclusive performance for the BBC dueting with Adele. Just goes to show the someone thinks she's the new Amy Winehouse.
Not that I'm a huge fan of either.
One of the less entertaining performances came from Prick Reeves who was just unfunny as always, although Ade Edmondson gave a big band performance of "Anarchy In The UK".
I reckon that if he got into the final two of Comic Relief Does Fame Academy in 2005, then he would have done that very song as Jools Holland and his band were the house band on the night itself including Rowland Rivron on drums.
Ade just missed out with the final two performances between Edith Bowman and Kim Medcalf from Eastenders. Edith won although I can't remember the song she did, but Kim gave a really lovely rendition of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" similar to Eva Cassidy but more with a Big Band angle.
Anyway, into 2007 and one of the guests Phill Jupitus predicted that one of the bands to look out for that year were The Hold Steady. It proved to be right as two years later they were on that very show.
However the stand out performance was a man who at the time I'd never heard before, Seasick Steve making plenty of noise with a guitar with only three strings.
It turns out he's been nominated for a Brit Award this year in the International category which should please alumni Paul Calvert, and second year Jake Franks who's also a fan.
I don't have that many VHS's with '06 dated on them and I definitely got back into the habit of watching more television after my illness last year as I felt a lack of television was partly responsible and I forgot what helped inspire me to want to do the Media Course at Westminster.
It came to a point when during the first year I found out that Carol Thatcher had won that year's "Celebrity" via a text message from Tim Pryor's parents whilst we were at the Undercroft on a Monday night.
I barely watched any of that show or Strictly Come Dancing during 2006 although I did watch some of the early audtions in the X Factor partly because I was still in Canterbury when they were showing.
And also because Ricky wanted me to get audio clips of Simon Cowell for him and Goodlass's "Fresh Factor" feature that didn't really work in the way they wanted it too, in terms of participation.
The best one was Tudor's Death Metal nursery rhymes which was the same show they did a vote to find out whether Richard O'Brien was "Cult Or Crap".
I cracked up laughing when Ross G announced "Richard O'Brien.... is a CULT ladies and gentlemen!" with heavy emphasis on the C.
Overall the stack of VHS's dating from 08-09 is probably the highest I've had whilst at Uni.
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