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Fifteen seconds of fame

Soundtrack: Various Elliott Smith

My brief appearance on '90s post-pub programme The Word was repeated on the telly last night, as part of a list programme about TV's 100 funniest moments. It was highly peculiar, but amusing, to see my 21-year-old self onscreen. My appearance wasn't a funny moment per se - it purely served as an aide memoire of how appalling the programme was overall. [The actual funny moment was an incoherent Olly Reed trying to sing a cover of Wild Thing while barely being able to stand. Alcoholics are so hilarious, aren't they?]

For those of you too young to remember (and to those of you with lives who may never have seen it), there was a featured segment called 'The Hopefuls' in The Word which dared people to do various disgusting/outrageous things just to get on TV. I suppose if you were feeling charitable you could say it was a forerunner to the atrocious stuff you see on reality TV now. I'm happy to say I was part of those early days of barrel-scraping: the thinking man's Jade Goody, only odder-looking.

AND I'm still due the other fourteen and three-quarter minutes.

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In other news - Coldcut was fun. The aforementioned Jon Spencer was in evidence with an enormous beard. Good for him, he has to do something to detract attention from his height. Other guests included Roots Manuva and Robert Owens. Best bit? Warm-up DJ Ross Allen playing some of my favourite 80s songs, including Stool Pigeon. At-cha-cha-cha!

posted by deafdisco @ 9:50 pm