Chris Morris - what's he upto?

*Simone*

Huge fan of his stuff; The Day Today, Brasseye, recently got Jam on dvd and picked up some of his early radio work with Peter Cook. All very funny.

But what's he been upto lately? I know he was involved with writing and directing the sitcom series Nathan Barley, which wasnt hugely well recieved, but Ive never seen it myself.

Anyone know if he's got anything in the pipeline? Any other admirers of his work? Or are people still hugely offended by that oh so controversial paedophile special of brasseye?!! :eek:

johnnyrotten

Was'nt he a defender for Celtic and Ireland?

johnnyrotten

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Morris_(footballer)

Pigman II

* Chris Morris now runs a pasty restaurant called Morris Pasties in his native Newquay. He has now branched out and opened a second pasty shop in St Merryn near Padstow in Cornwall.

* Is also thought to sell wheelbarrows as a money-raising sideline

* recently started selling shovels to gay builders fof fifty pence

* He was once caught stealing gypsies but got away with it (according to his autobiography - I Love Nelson Crocker). He is also famous at the rowing club in Newquay for being the fastest to down a pint in only 3.4 seconds.

Angus MacGyver

Chris Morris rules, I screamed laughin at Jam, Its so original. I read reviews of it on imdb that dont do it justice. Possibly the blackest comedy sketch show ever and the music was brilliant too, O yeah and the special features where the episodes were shown in crazy formats.

Brass Eye was genius, pity there arent more shows like it although it would be very hard to match let alone better.

Apparently he is very reclusive and doesnt do any interviews.

spooydermot

last time I saw him on TV he was playing "the boss" in "The I.T. Crowd", which was written by Graham Linehan (Black Books) - I believe that they're doing a second series.

zuutroy

spooydermot wrote:

Graham Linehan (Black Books)

Any reason why you chose this to remind people and not Fr. Ted? Just curious.

mike65

Black Books was better? Or maybe spooydermot has never seen or even heard of Fr Ted? Sure it could be!

Mike.

monkeyfudge

*Simone* wrote:

But what's he been upto lately? I know he was involved with writing and directing the sitcom series Nathan Barley, which wasnt hugely well recieved, but Ive never seen it myself.

Nathan Barley is well worth picking up on DVD.

At first it wasn't quite what I was expecting, but once I got into it I found it to be fantastic.

zuutroy

mike65 wrote:

Black Books was better? Or maybe spooydermot has never seen or even heard of Fr Ted? Sure it could be!

Mike.

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: to both comments!

Pigman II

Nathan Barley is rubbish and I hope it in years to come it will have dissappeared into obscurity and never be spoken of again.

mwnger

There were rumours of him sighted at a public debate on suicide bombers. Maybe another Brass Eye special dealing with that issue? Or, even better, a movie spoof on Michael Moore type-documentaries/agit-prop? Or is that too predictable for the likes of Morris?

spooydermot

zuutroy wrote:

Any reason why you chose this to remind people and not Fr. Ted? Just curious.

I just prefer Black Books, there was something about it, that for me anyway, makes it more memorable than Father Ted. Don't get me wrong Father Ted was hilarious, but something about the characters that Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey portrayed keeps me going back to Black Books as opposed to Father Ted, another factor I suppose is that I'm also a fan of Bill Bailey's and Moran's stand up stuff too.
Saw a few mins of Nathan Barley, but it didn't do much for me.....might give it another look sometimes...

I think Morris is going to face the problem (with his own material at least) that he has become quite visible and it'll be hard for him to pull more stunts like those on Brasseye i.e the fake celeb appeals...heavy electricity etc

that said, he's very clever and no doubt will find a new angle to deliver his material from...

*Simone*

spooydermot wrote:

Don't get me wrong Father Ted was hilarious, but something about the characters that Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey portrayed keeps me going back to Black Books as opposed to Father Ted, another factor I suppose is that I'm also a fan of Bill Bailey's and Moran's stand up stuff too.

I got "Like, totally... Dylan Moran live" and it is f**king hilarious. But still I'd alway quote/think of Father Ted when it come to graham linehan!

As for Morris, I love that he doesnt give interviews and lives a life of mystery! Makes it all the more exciting when he comes out with a new project. But I'd agree Id say from now on he'll be working more in the backround ie producing/writing rather than being apart of the skit.

As for johnnyrottens comment, yeah he tried the whole pro football thing but it just didnt work out.......?!!! hah

grumpytrousers

*Simone* wrote:

Huge fan of his stuff; The Day Today, Brasseye, recently got Jam on dvd and picked up some of his early radio work with Peter Cook. All very funny.

But what's he been upto lately? I know he was involved with writing and directing the sitcom series Nathan Barley, which wasnt hugely well recieved, but Ive never seen it myself.

Anyone know if he's got anything in the pipeline? Any other admirers of his work? Or are people still hugely offended by that oh so controversial paedophile special of brasseye?!! :eek:

if your'e into chris morris, make sure you pick up the DVD of The Day Today...the 9/11 easter egg alone makes it worth the money...

DublinWriter

*Simone* wrote:

As for Morris, I love that he doesnt give interviews and lives a life of mystery!

His face is badly disfigured from severe acne scarring, maybe that's something to do with it?

But it didn't stop him from getting a first in Zoology from Cambridge (an ology no less!), marrying and having a couple of kids. Brave, brave man.

His historic long-running spat with Victor Lewis Smith is also very entertaining.

spooydermot

*Simone* wrote:

I got "Like, totally... Dylan Moran live" and it is f**king hilarious.

ah black books is rife with quotes "I ate all your bees"

Have you seen Dylan Morans first DVD ,Monster?
It's actually funnier than "like totally" ...well worth picking up...
Actually now that I think of it...that I think of it, that series he did on the BBC a few years back ("How do you want me") was pretty excellent as well.....

sorry slightly off topic there.....

*Simone*

grumpytrousers wrote:

if your'e into chris morris, make sure you pick up the DVD of The Day Today...the 9/11 easter egg alone makes it worth the money...

Yeah I have that on dvd already, well I lent it to a friend about 6months ago and just got it back this evening funnily enough!

No I havent seen Dylan Moran's first dvd, must give it a look.

And I didnt know Morris was married with kids? - Damn. There goes my chance :mad:

By the way I strongly recommend getting the radio series "Why Bother?" on cd, it's Peter Cook with Morris "interviewing" him - basically its all improv and it is the funniest thing I've ever heard. Was listening to it on the bus one day and I literally started laughing out loud, got some horrified looks I picked the cd up on amazon.com for about a tenner I think. Well worth it.

DublinWriter

*Simone* wrote:

And I didnt know Morris was married with kids? - Damn. There goes my chance :mad:

Yes, his young son appears briefly in the Brass Eye 'special'....you know the episode I'm talking about!

*Simone* wrote:

By the way I strongly recommend getting the radio series "Why Bother?" on cd, it's Peter Cook with Morris "interviewing" him - basically its all improv and it is the funniest thing I've ever heard.

Chris Morris *and* Peter Cook? How could you possibly lose. I must hunt this out straight away. Was it originally on R4?

radiospan

grumpytrousers wrote:

if your'e into chris morris, make sure you pick up the DVD of The Day Today...the 9/11 easter egg alone makes it worth the money...

I got the DVD this week, the special features on disc two are great.

I can't find the easter eggs though, how can I get at them?

grumpytrousers

plazzTT wrote:

I got the DVD this week, the special features on disc two are great.

I can't find the easter eggs though, how can I get at them?

for the 9/11 thing...disc one, you're at the main menu...select an episode so you get a funny graph thing...and then select BACK to go to the main menu...all should appear as normal, but after a while you'll note the swirley globes turning into eggs.....

turn up the volume...chris and peter o'hanrahanrahan having a chat...

flogen

DublinWriter wrote:

Chris Morris *and* Peter Cook? How could you possibly lose. I must hunt this out straight away. Was it originally on R4?

It goes by the name of 'Why Bother?' and features Morris interviewing Cook in the character of Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling... basically it plays out as a pissing contest between the two as they try to out-do each other in terms of the surreal (hitting each other with odd revelations and reactions to try and make them corpse) and (somewhat) satire. Needless to say it's top quality stuff.

More on it here, and you can buy it on CD here for just over a tenner (bargain for any Cook or Morris fans). Should also be available from the BBC site too, just incase Play don't get it back in stock soon.

Not sure what Morris is up to - hard to tell what he'll do. I'd love to see a Brass Eye or Day Today type show again, but I'd be a bit surprised if he did go back to either of those - if anything he might just make a satire on more modern news coverage - maybe focusing on 24 hour news or one of the more desperate ploys undertaken by some parts of the media.

Nathan Barley was an odd one for me - I watched it and felt appreciative of most jokes (as in I thought 'that was funny' or 'I see/like what they're doing here') but I never actually found it funny or laughed. I did only watch 2 or 3 episodes though, and one was largely good (the underage/not underage model one) - mainly memorable for his moral dilemma which was superseded by the respect he got from mates from getting a blow job from a kid - sharply followed by his boasting on a bus... felt that was quite a sharp slap at the social animals targetted by the show, but it did feel largely like an in-joke - Morris ripping on people that most of us don't deal with (the high-up realms of the muppet London media).

monkeyfudge

flogen wrote:

and one was largely good (the underage/not underage model one) - mainly memorable for his moral dilemma which was superseded by the respect he got from mates from getting a blow job from a kid - sharply followed by his boasting on a bus...

I loved the line 'Potentially Polanski!'

And the episode where he is rapping while going down on Claire was very funny.

oh and apparently Morris met with Will Adamsdale to discuss writing a new series of Nathan Barley.

flogen

monkeyfudge wrote:

oh and apparently Morris met with Will Adamsdale to discuss writing a new series of Nathan Barley.

What's Adamsdale to the show? I'd heard they were talking of a new series too, I think Morris said he loved the 1st and wanted to do more....

Someone did comment to me about the weakness of Morris working on a show created by someone who is essentially a Morris-wannabe and I can kind of see the reasoning behind that, but in fairness Charlie Brooker is pretty funny in his own right and his TVGoHome stuff, while satirical, was pretty unique from what Morris had done... that said the TVGoHome TV show was kind of poor, although Inspector BumHat always made me chuckle.


Edit: One thing that kind of strikes me is the way Nathan Barley digs at amateur media and its enthusiasts - perhaps it was/is the next step for Brass Eye and The Day Today, but I still don't think it worked quite as well.

Robbo

Whilst not bad per se, I felt that Barley was about two years to late for the people it was satirising but it's probably come back around again what with this ineffable trend towards blogging, myspace and the like.

*Simone*

grumpytrousers wrote:

for the 9/11 thing...disc one, you're at the main menu...select an episode so you get a funny graph thing...and then select BACK to go to the main menu...all should appear as normal, but after a while you'll note the swirley globes turning into eggs.....

turn up the volume...chris and peter o'hanrahanrahan having a chat...

I love that you figured that out! Hah I must check that out...

P.S. with all these conflicting views on Nathan Barley Im not sure if its worth buying to check it out!

P.P.S if you're gonna get that cook/morris cd on amazon.com, you can team it up with anoter radio series cd called 'Ad Nauseam' and its Peter Cook with Dudley Moore... They seem to just be hammered throughout and just come up with the most bizzare and depraved topics - also very very funny. If you buy the cd's together its cheaper! (I dont work for amazon I swear )

Birneybau

Hey everybody,
Came across this recently on t'internet.
Hope any Chris Morris fans enjoy it.
Pretty dark stuff.

http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~cow/studio/geefe.html

lifelister

I'm a great fan of his and just came across this thread today. Saw something a few days ago on another site. Some kind of interview with Charlie Brooker, with whom he did Nathan Barley talking about how they may start work on another series of NB but hadn't yet because Charlie was working on his Zombie programme and Chris was working on something about Jihadis. However reported him being seen at the suicide bombing discussion could well have been spot on.

BTW hello! This is my first post!

lifelister

you can see I don't get out much!! Thought this was my first post but it turns out I posted last year and forgot all about it.