"Can You Do That Again?, I Made That Crap" (John Prescott)

Once again, today's been very much run of the mill although TV-wise it was pretty good this evening.

Starting off of course with Mock The Week where one of the guests Sean Walsh appeared to look and sound like a real life Paul Calf. He wasn't too bad although it would be easy to suggest that his act represented Paul Calf's catchphrase.

Frankie Boyle had finally shaved although there was quite a bit of stubble on a few of the other panellists including Russell Howard and guest Fred Macaulay.

Once again, I won't give away any of the jokes although the suggestions for this week's "Scenes We'd Like To See" relating to work were hilarious.

Straight after that was "The Funny Side Of Live TV" which featured interviews with Tony Blackburn, Mike Read, Paul Coia, Gaby Roslin, Emma Forbes and Nick Ferrari amongst others.

This traced the history of live television from Nationwide, to Noels House Party and even featuring the infamous venture "L!VE TV" as developed by Janet Street-Porter in the mid 90s to much humiliation. And it gave us Richard Bacon.

Quite a lot of clips were ones I hadn't seen before including plenty from the Late Late Breakfast Show, and the cooking spots on Going Live! where I can now understand why Phillip Schofield got hysterical after holding a metal tin that was "meant to be hot";

"Ooh, it's just come out of the oven!"

My favourite clip was one that's been shown a few times involving Alistair Yates on BBC World struggling with an autocue and swiftly moving onto the next story;
"I'm sorry but this story's absolute.... nonsense, Right.."

It was also good to see footage of Richard Bath on London Plus in the late 80s who I can vaguely remember although when it became Newsroom South East he switched to reading the overnight ITN bulletins.

Overall the programme was a reminder of why I developed and interest in television and radio, and wanting to have a go at the latter myself.

To mixed results of course.

Good Night.