Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast

[lankyguy95]

Starts next Monday.

https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2020/04/15/45881/frank_skinner_to_launch_a_poetry_podcast

Frank Skinner is to launch a new podcast all about poetry.

In the new show, to launch on Monday, the comic will 'share and dissect the best verses of familiar and lesser-known poets... both contemporary and classic.'

He said: 'I plan to talk about poems the way I talk about football. I'm passionate about both and believe there is a real space for something that brings listeners on board a literary journey stepping stone to stepping stone, never stranded behind.

'I'll be like that guy who sits at an adjoining table in the bar at Euston Station, leaning across to tell you something amazing before leaving to get his train.

'It will be direct, urgent, personal, funny and passionate with me holding the listener's forearm until I've said my piece. I will be like Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, stopping the passing wedding guest, telling his arresting tale, of albatross slaughter and HR unrest, and then disappearing into the night.'

How many more podcasts are there for comedians to do?

[Pranet]

This might be worth a go actually.

[The Bumlord]

This might be worth a go actually.

It would be if poetry wasn't shit.

[Pseudopath]

It would be if poetry wasn't shit.

Just called my mate John Keats. Says you're a cunt, mate. Actually he said:

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or had to read another Utterdrivel post
One minute past, and thought, "Oh what a cunt".

Wordy bugger, ain't he?

[The Bumlord]

As though of hemlock I had drunk?

Just say it's like you were poisoned mate. Idiot.

[Pseudopath]

As though of hemlock I had drunk?

Just say it's like you were poisoned mate. Idiot.

Yeah...but then it wouldn't rhyme with "cunt". Thinks ahead old John, I tells ya.

[The Bumlord]

Drunk doesn't rhyme with cunt.

I don't know who this Keats man is but you can tell him from me to sort his life out, sharpish.

[Jittlebags]

It does rhyme with spunk though.

[Annie Labuntur]

Old army joke, Sgt Major addressing his platoon: "Tonight we've got someone coming to give you a talk about Keats, and I bet half of you horrible lot don't even know what a keat is."

I'll definitely give it a listen. Skinner's got a Master's in Eng Lit and there's no mention of David Baddiel.

[lankyguy95]

This might be worth a go actually.

I also think so to be fair.

[magval]

Just called my mate John Keats. Says you're a cunt, mate. Actually he said:

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or had to read another Utterdrivel post
One minute past, and thought, "Oh what a cunt".

Wordy bugger, ain't he?

It's pronounced "Kates", you cretin. This podcast'll be doing the world a favour.

[Chriddof]

Drunk doesn't rhyme with cunt.

I think it might count as a half-rhyme.

https://literarydevices.net/half-rhyme/