Quote from: ItsOver on April 10, 2019, 08:07:30 AM
Damn. To think I missed Jorch asking Fanthorpe for his thousandth recital of Spring-heeled Jack on C2C.
It was brutal. Because of George of course. I love Lionel Fanthorpe, he is indeed a great storyteller with a golden throat - the man should have been a voice over actor on this side of the Atlantic. George gets an hour with him and rather than taking the opportunity 'You're an incredible story teller my friend. Let's hear some stories the Coast audience has never heard you tell before.' George IS 'Lenny' from Mice and Men 'Tell me about the rabbits again Lionel' so we got an hour that Tommy could have pulled out the archives. This is the same for every recurring guest George has on, that's how limited and lazy both George and Tommy are. It's pathetic.
The highlight was George going on and on about Lionel and his classic telling of Twas the Night Before Christmas and it's an annual tradition that George plays it on Christmas Eve. Lionel apparently didn't know this and was flattered. George of course with no other ideas of how to conduct the interview asks Lionel to do some of Twas the Night Before Christmas. Lionel was like 'WTF' but wanted to please his idiotic host so he did the first verse and laughed that's all he could remember. So the interview continued and 15 minutes later George has what to him is a brilliant idea 'Let's listen to your Twas the Night Before Christmas and you can comment over it' So 4 months after Christmas there we were in the middle of the night listening to a very long recital of Twas the Night Before Christmas. Bizarro world.