The Adam Buxton Podcast

[Retinend]

I wonder if this is a generational thing - I get the feeling that if you grew up with The Young Ones then you love him, but if you didn't (and I didn't) then you don't.

I didn't and I think he's great. But I could be an outlier.

^same as Bernice for me as well.

Alexei is my god. Or he would be, if I had to have one.

I'm willing to be proven wrong - let's put it to a poll:

https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,85498.0.html

[sutin]

I wonder if this is a generational thing - I get the feeling that if you grew up with The Young Ones then you love him, but if you didn't (and I didn't) then you don't.

I only ever saw The Young Ones ocassionally when I was a teenager. I just like Alexei, he's warm and silly.

[Retinend]

I'm already getting trounced. Turns out I'm the outlier!

[phantom_power]

He is a firebrand as well, and has the courage of his convictions. It is interesting that his position is "Labour have reverted back to the useless shit they have always been" with Starmer rather than the more conventional "Labour have been lost to the soft left and centrists" of most other proper lefties

[Mobbd]

He is a firebrand as well, and has the courage of his convictions. It is interesting that his position is "Labour have reverted back to the useless shit they have always been" with Starmer rather than the more conventional "Labour have been lost to the soft left and centrists" of most other proper lefties

Strong agree. If his earlier pods are anything to go by, he's always hated the Labour Party for their lack of radical oomph, establishment feebleness and scent of corruption, only coming in from the cold under (I think) Foot and (clearly) Corbyn.

[Mobbd]

Just further to something retinend said earlier, Sayle isn't generally seen as a national treasure. He's a founding father of alternative comedy.

[phantom_power]

I think all that Jackie Weaver stuff is an example of the reasons why he hates the Labour party. All caught up in red tape and political infighting than actually trying to affect social change

[Dusty Substance]

Louis so much finnier, likeable and entertaining than Joe.

[C_Larence]

I think all that Jackie Weaver stuff is an example of the reasons why he hates the Labour party. All caught up in red tape and political infighting than actually trying to affect social change

Jackie Weaver is a tory

[phantom_power]

One for the Fuck My Hat thread

[EOLAN]

The Torvil and Dean episode is finally here.

[Dusty Substance]

The Torvil and Dean episode is finally here.

"Hahaha", I thought to myself, wondering which comedy double act EOLAN might be referring to, as I went to Adam Buxton's Soundcloud page and fuck me sideways it's the actual Torvil and Dean.

[Mobbd]

Oh my god, that's hilarious! Fucking hell!

[McFlymo]

I was hoping it was going to be a sort of "Rock Profile" style spoof episode, but let's see how it goes.

[ProvanFan]

Dermot Torvill and Dermot Dean

[McFlymo]

nyyyeaaah... That was fairly meh for me. They were a luvla caupul but there were cliches aplenty. Nice to hear that they've managed to not have a sad falling out like A&J / L&H but the highlight for me was the Squarespace ad, with yAndrew.

I swear I heard the podcast this is mocking late last year. Not sure what motivated me to give it a go, but it started out, boasting of lovely positive advice and guidance it was going to giveaway. By episode two it had an interview with some guy who owned a football team, or marketing company, or something and it was like being at some shit training session in a call centre job.

[phantom_power]

It is amazing to me how much fun Theroux is on these podcasts when absolutely none of that is in evidence in his documentaries (with good reason in most cases). Even his own podcast, though lighter in tone than his docs, doesn't show off his fun side as much

[popcorn]

I don't know anything about sports and genuinely had no idea who Torvill and Dean were. I went in vaguely expecting these two:



Can someone explain why it's so hilarious that Adam had them on as guests? Are they just deeply naff or what.

[Beagle 2]

I think it's because he normally interviews comedians, authors musicians or actors and they are ice skaters.

I bailed after a quarter of an hour on this one. "How did you get into ice skating" "well I went to an ice rink and practiced there at ice skating" etc.

[frajer]

Yeah I dipped out of this one early too for the same reason. Completely amiable but uninteresting.

Alarm bell sounded slightly at the start when Buckles said Dean had requested to come on the pod. Nothing wrong with that (and Stewart Lee did the same the other week as he wanted to promote King Rocker), but a bit weird if you invite yourself on and then have nothing you really want to say.

[thugler]

It's just a really weird choice of guests. I turned it off about 3 or 4 minutes in when Dean started talking about doing puzzles during lockdown. They just seem like very boring people and I have no interest in ice dancing.

[popcorn]

yeah, it was a bit dull. Once I'd learnt who they were I sort of hoped they would talk about subjects other than their ice skating career, like other guests do.

[mrfridge]

It was utterly tedious. Fair fucks to Buckles for giving them a go but hopefully it's put him off ever interviewing any other sporting personalities. Are there any who aren't dull as fuck?

"We were good at the sport after training really hard to do the sport, we won a shiny medal, then we retired from the sport but still did the sport a bit and then trained other people to do the sport. In between doing the sport we led utterly unremarkable lives and now we do talks at conferences in front of the fans of the sport". You can just copy and paste that for 99.9% of sports bods and it will be applicable.

That footballer who was on Louis Theroux's podcast last year had a vaguely interesting life but was still incredibly boring whilst describing it.

I'm not a sport fan. Fuck sport. Except fox hunting obviously.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

I can only assume that Buckles thought it might be a bit of a laugh to have such unlikely guests on his show. Not in a sneery way, rather just for the sheer incongruity of it. Who knows, some gold might arise?

No gold arose.

The only mildly amusing bit was when Adam, clearly searching for something to discuss, brought up the fact that Dean in his heyday was a bit of a perfectionist who could sometimes be quite tetchy with his partner. Torvill basically said, "Yeah, but I wasn't arsed about that, I'd just ignore him and then we'd get on with it." Scintillating drama.

[Wentworth Smith]

Yeah, they seemed amiable but slightly dull. There were a couple of things that suggested more to them in that they claimed, and I have no idea if this is true or not and can't be bothered to look it up, to be the first pair to change their routine every year. This at least hints at some creativity and restlessness alongside the training machines they inevitably had to be.

Also wanted to hear more about Dean being a copper in Nottingham during the miners strike with his Dad being a miner, but probably not the place for Buxton to press too hard.

[ProvanFan]

Dean being a copper in Nottingham during the miners strike with his Dad being a miner

This is a fun image (because I'm imagining it on ice)

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Alarm bell sounded slightly at the start when Buckles said Dean had requested to come on the pod. Nothing wrong with that (and Stewart Lee did the same the other week as he wanted to promote King Rocker), but a bit weird if you invite yourself on and then have nothing you really want to say.

I found that odd too. They weren't even there to promote the current series of Dancing on Ice; it's as if they were just a bit bored in lockdown and fancied a chat with the guy who hosts a podcast that Dean sometimes listens to.

Also wanted to hear more about Dean being a copper in Nottingham during the miners strike with his Dad being a miner, but probably not the place for Buxton to press too hard.

It did almost threaten to get quite interesting at that point, but Adam presumably felt that, seeing as it was a subject that didn't include Torvill in any way whatsoever, it would be impolite to dig any deeper.

[dr_christian_troy]

Out of interest, who would you like to see as a guest on the show? Off the top of my head I'm not sure myself.

[Avril Lavigne]

Out of interest, who would you like to see as a guest on the show? Off the top of my head I'm not sure myself.

Limmy.

[Retinend]

Jerry Sadowitz