As we race toward Sotonians 2nd birthday, I find myself remembering some of the early days. One of the first decisions taken was the name of our Banter Forum. @tokyo-saint and I, in better times (sniff!) eventually settled on Monkey Tennis.
Like the forum it was intended to replace, it wasn’t original. It was a reference to this brilliant scene from I’m Alan Partridge, arguably the widest comedic influence on this site.
My starter for ten?
Chainsaw Does Eight out of Ten Cats Does Countdown.
There is no second series. Pitch your show, Sotonians
Male a female participation finally proving that long-term pudding-pulling doesn’t damage the contestant’s IQ…or in the case of certain Sotonians…does damage the contestant’s IQ
I’d like to put myself forward as head of the judging panel.
a) designed to appease Chapel Kate?
b) a bit like when that record “I’m a wanker” was sold as “I’m a winker (misprint)”*
* The scandalous accusation that I am trying to popularise “winkers” as a colloquial term for “people from Winchester” because of this record has every basis in fact.
Young(ish) men bedecked in Stone Island clothing sit in a café, enjoying a nice cup of Orange Pekoe and cheery, good-natured banter. A truly heart-warming show.
An erudite man with a suspect groin inspects the contents of his wardrobe before selecting one of his most flowery shirts. Thus attired, he heads out to a pub to partake of a sour-tasting beer, produced by the country’s most litigious, bully-boy brewery.
A combination of Supermarket Sweep and One Man and his Dog. Dale Winton invites shepherds to put their dogs through their paces in a large Tesco Extra, herding the sheep through the aisles and exiting correctly via the checkout. Points are dropped if the sheep stop to graze in the vegetable aisle, or if the dogs do so in the meat aisle.
A cautionary tale of a group of people, mainly men of a certain age, and their attempts to stay relevant by posting messages on a fans’ forum of their local football team.
Watch the jolly japes, misunderstandings, humour and ongoing feuds between some of the posters.
Surely one of the best advert for the reintroduction of Care In The Community …
“Barry or not Barry” - nice Shakespearean title for this quiz show where contestants are given hyperbolic and often outrageous statements and must guess if they were made by Barry Sanchez.
Face off style, perhaps knocking off the Chase but with Bruce Forsyth’s reanimated corpse to present.
