I had a gander at Peter Kay's "Top Of The Tower" DVD earlier tonight and it's a shame he didn't really take his stand up career further after his second tour, as he was one of the best observational comics around.
Although the reason could possibly be that he only really made observations about things that happened in the 1970s.
Asides that, there were parts of the DVD that still had me laughing such as him talking about for example, your dad pretending to put you into a headlock when a police car drove past, or asking why mums brought rubbish fizzy drinks such as Rola Cola.
One of my favourite parts of that routine is when Peter recounts his mother forcing him to drink it by saying "there's people starving in Ethiopia" to which Peter would respond "Send it over there then! They'll send it back!"
Quite a lot of the catchphrases have become stuck in my vocabulary as whenever it starts to rain moderately I will utter "It's Spitting!" in a jokey manner.
It's pretty much inescapable, along with the fact that thanks to Chris Moyles,
I can never utter the word "whoopee" in a sarcastic manner.
I love it at the end of the performance after possibly the third encore where Peter gives his rendtion of the Jim'll Fix It theme which probably relates to an early TV appearance on "The Sunday Show" in 1997 where Jimmy Savile was brought on to reveal that Peter had written in asking to fix it for him to sing the closing theme tune at the end of the programme.
During the end credits I liked how it used of the Lindisfarne song "Run For Home" which added quite a sentimental touch to it, especially with the caption dedicating the video to Peter's dad Michael who died aged just 51 in 1999.
Quite a few other familiar faces who would later appear in some of Peter's TV shows had cameos in the opening and closing sketches including Paddy McGuinness, Smug Roberts, Archie Kelly, and Jayne Tunnicliffe who I think bares a resemblance to fellow third year Caroline.
Dave Spikey also appears as "Jerry St Clair" and like I've said before the rather difficult relationship between them on screen possibly reflects how they got on in real life.
Following on from this I watched would could possibly be fellow radio student Eric's worst nightmare, that being Friday Night With Jonathan Ross
with Chris Moyles as one of the guests.
The interview itself was mainly about the Kilimanjaro climb which raised 3 million pounds for Comic Relief, but they did talk about the radio show and Jonathan mentioned that he thought the jingles were awful.
Then again the ones on his Radio 2 show aren't great in all fairness;
"Yeah Jonathan!"
However Chris defended them and even mentioned Sandy Beech who runs Music 4 who produce them for the show. Although that isn't his real name of course as I believe his first name is Carl.
Speaking of jingles, Jonathan had got some of his own produced for tonight's show which were done in a slightly similar if not amaterish style but they were rather funny.
Especially the one for Rhys Ifans who was also on the show that went
"#Rhys Ifans!, Rhys Ifans!" in a rather laddish punk rock style.
I'm heading back over to Canterbury tomorrow, I don't know exactly when but it will definitely be before midday.
Quite a lot to carry back with me, including the infamous Marantz recorder.
Good Night.
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