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Old married media couples...
Last night I treated my self to a repeat showing of some of the matches from last season's six nations tournament that I had recorded (plastic taffy, me). The rugby was great but much of the pleasure was to be had in listening to the commentary of Eddie Butler & Brian Moore. Both are technically good at commentating and interesting (Moore particularly) but what's great is how they act together. They bicker and chunter and tease each other like an old married couple. Butler winds Moore up to exploding at least once a game. Its wonderful to listen to. A real double act, they set each other off. Its funny and they have "chemistry".
I've just ranted on the fantastic grumpy dumb entertainment thread about breakfast tv presenters who all unsuccessfully try to manufacture that chemistry where the combined effort is much greater than the sum of the parts. Some do achieve it. Macconie and Radcliffe have it. Ellen and Hepworth have it.
Who are your favourite other media double acts with chemistry? and equally who tries but just doesnt have it?
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BBC Breakfast
is rubbish when Bill Turnball and Sian Williams are not together
Enfield and Whitehouse have it in spades......
.....sadly, these days, less often the material to back it up, but nonetheless, keep it up, fellas.
Reeves and Mortimer, wherever they are as a double act now.
Diamond and Owen
had it in spades too but all other Brekkie TV combo's have failed miserably.
Scott/Bough
Phillips/Holmes
Parky/Frost/Ford etc....
Rat/Mallett
Other good ones,
Eric & Ernie (natch)
Jeff Stelling and Paul Merson
Saint and Greavsie
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost
Gardner/Bosanquet
This list is starting to sound like a theoretical physics symposium...."If we apply the Bough-Scott Integer...."
The Good Doctor and the other one
Mark Kermode & Simon Mayo - both worth a listen in their own right, but their weekly Five Live film review show/podcast is never less than wonderful. Despite rarely visiting the cinema I'm an avid fan, just because they're so engaging and enjoyable.
Nowhere else would I consider hearing Andrew Collins' opinions a disappointment, but when I tune in to find he's filling in for an absent Kermode, it's always tinged with sadness. Sorry, Andrew, but nobody can quite replicate that chemistry!
I'm also eternally grieving for
the separation of Mark and Lard. Please...carry on!
Lauren Laverne and...
...well, pretty much everyone actually but especially that man Kermode and I always enjoy her chats with Andrew Graham Dixon before his bits for the Culture Show.
The two Dannys
Baker and Kelly.
Eddie Waring and Stuart Hall
on It's a Knock-out.
Don't know why Waring and Hall reminded me.....
....but who recalls John Peel and Kid Jensen on TOTP. That were gradely.
Spooky - I think I've just seen the Kid
Standing in the queue of the Seashell Fish and Chip shop on Lissom Grove. This very lunchtime. I pretended to ignore him. He counted his change.
Haddock, Chips, Mushy Peas (me not him) if you ask. Excellent they were too.
John Peel and John Walters
The Golden Hind on Marylebone Lane beats the Seashell any day!
That's fighting talk
Plastic taff I may be, but Grimsby born and bread I am too. Best fish in London chippy is at the Seashell. And decent mushy peas. Chips a good 8/10.
Kirstie & Phil from Location Location...
the screen positively sizzles with their Niles & Daphne "will-they-won't they" tension!
Geals in Notting Hill used to be top for fish & chips in London but now it's been yuppified completely.
Don't know Grimsby at all but Whitby's Magpie Cafe is great!
I know the Magpie.
Its not bad but its not Grimsby...
Bert and Ernie!
How could I forget
Sorry?
Ellen & Hepworth have already been mentioned...
did somebody say
ellen & hepworth?
arf
"that was wonderful"
"well there were parts of it I didn't like"
"There was a lot of it i hated"
"That was terrible"
"Booo"
Extract from that first attempt at a joint review of Trout Mask Replica
Mark Ellen this morning
"I never review records and then I never fall out with anyone."
Actual quote.
A pretty good philosophy for a music Journalist...
don't you think?
So
What does he do then?
If you say "as little as possible" I will raise my cap to him.
If I had one.
Count his reviews over the year
If there's more than ten I'll buy you a present.
Life's too short
Besides he could be Joe Muggs for all I know
Netherstowe Fish Bar
Seems the best in Lichfield. Cypriot run, as are all good chippies, including the one once run by Peter Paphides dad, in Acocks Green. I don't know whether Alex Petridis' dad is a fish and chip shop owner or not. Andy Gill sounds as if his should be.
How on earth do you know that?
But you could have discovered a new thread - jobs of parents of the rock scribery.
Andrew Harrison's dad is a butcher, don't you know.
Peter Paphides
...wrote a rite of passage article in the Observer Music Monthly a year or 2 back. I read it as I like his pieces.
There's a guy works down the chip shop
swears he's Elvis' biographers Dad...
Rik Mayall and Adrain Edmondson
have bought much laughter in the last 25 plus years in their various guises. But none better than Bottom, their defining act. I bought my boys up on it along with Ren and Stimpy for good measure and balance. I'm still trying to explain the measure and balance concept to my wife, actually I'm still explaining why I let the kids watch Bottom.But they loved it then and still love watching the DVD's on a regular basis.
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May...
their onscreen chemistry is the reason I watch 'Top Gear', even though I have next to no interest in cars.
OK, a triple act...
but their inclusion is valid, methinks.
There hasn't been a shout about Millican and Nesbitt.....
....for a while, Archie. One could say they weren't necessarily as gelled a duo as many, but they were streets better than when Millican tried to make up and cover up for his comrades fall from grace, introducing an elderly childrens novelist to try and fill the unfillable. Millican and E.Nesbitt never did it for me.
I'm the Seymour Hersh of bad pop
Not a word for months and then suddenly, out of the blue, bam! An Abu Ghraib of a story.
Watch this space.
Not the Word demographic at all
But surely you can't deny that Ant & Dec are absolute masters in their chosen niche?
Any Today listeners out there?
During the summer Evan Davis and Nick Robinson really worked and they've not broadcast together often enough to be a married couple as such.
They did truly spark though...
Adam and Joe of course, still not sure who's who.
Radcliffe and Maconie- only joking folks. Great separate, not much cop together frankly.
I thought this was about *real* old married media couples
Richard and Judy
Michael & Mary Parkinson
Esther Rantzen and Desmond Willcox
Keith C 'n' Maggie P
Ian and Jeanette Krankie
Fanny and Johnny Craddock