We did record the first episode of the second season of LugRadio, and it should be out at some time on Monday or within the few days afterwards (Mixer Boy Jono is busy enjoying himself rather than doing work, I am afraid to report, which might account for a slight delay; a fatal beating has already been administered on behalf of our loyal and long- (long, long) suffering fans.
Meanstwhile, if you ache for the spirit of the LR team and you’ve already listened to everything in the archives, I cannot do better than to recommend QI, a television programme I discovered last night. It, a comedy quiz, embodies the true glory of LugRadio, just on telly. Stephen Fry and four panellists ramble and tell jokes in a manner at best peripherally related to the questions at hand and one which astounded me in its likeness to our own glorious LR. I would claim that we got there first but (a) not even I think that we are as funny as professional comedians, (b) if we didn’t then I might be sued for libel, and© although it seems like a lifetime we have only been doing it for eight months and we took three of those off, a working schedule of almost Bushian laziness. Oops.
On I wrote LugRadio Season 2 Episode 1 due out very soon, on the subject of Uncategorized.
Paul Freeman
sil
Never even heard of the programme before last night. I got halfway into it, laughing like a drain at how they all rambled and told peripheral personal stories and were generally silly, before I realised that the reason I find LR so funny is that that’s what we do as well…
mrben
Heh – I’m a huge QI fan as well. I got most of the first series, and intend to watch all of this one without fail.
Tom
I can’t help thinking QI would be much better if they kept Stephen Fry but ditched the rest of them, especially Jo Brand. The episodes I’ve seen seem to end up with Mr Fry answering his own questions.
sparkes
I thought you already knew about QI. I seem to remember talking to you about it. It must have been, Matt, Rob someone else.
My memory isn’t all it was ;-)
Bill (the proper one, not the impostor)
I’ve spoken about it with him before as well. I blame the aluminium saucepans. The poor fellows loosing it.
sil
Oi! You lot can all sod off; if you want to pick on me, do it on your own website, not on mine :)
We have steel saucepans. Steel.
Well, as far as I can remember, we do. Spot the flaw in this argument.
Last night? You mean you missed the excellent first series?
Personally I didn’t quite see the similarities apart from the talking nonsense, but then Stephen Fry doesn’t swear