[TV orNotTV] NotTV: The Sausage Roll Guy Wins UK Christmas No. 1--Again

[Mark Jeffries]

>From the country where wacky novelty records still get played on the radio 
outside of morning zoos and Dr. Demento, graphic designer and YouTuber Mark 
Ian Hoyle, aka "LadBaby," who has only put out four singles in his 
recording career, has for the fourth year in a row claimed the coveted 
Christmas no. 1 on the UK's Official Singles Chart.  He's done it every 
year with a parody song about that peculiar Commonwealth food favorite 
sausage rolls:  "We Built This City" (parodying the Starship song), "I Love 
Sausage Rolls, (Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' "I Love Rock and Roll,"), 
"Don't Stop Me Eatin'" (Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'") and, this year, 
"Sausage Rolls for Everyone," parodying Elton John and Ed Sheeran's new 
song "Merry Christmas," the song that logically should've been the 
Christmas no. 1:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59762286

It should be mentioned that all four records  were fundraisers for a food 
bank network in the UK.  I can't find the amount raised over the years, but 
you can't discount a good cause.  In addition, Sir Elton and Sheeran were 
good enough sports to appear on the record.  Meanwhile, Hoyle now has the 
record for the most consecutive Christmas No. 1s in the 70-year history of 
the Official Singles Chart, with a tie for second among the Beatles ("I 
Want to Hold Your Hand," 1963; "I Feel Fine," 1964; "Day Tripper/We Can 
Work It Out," 1965) and the Spice Girls ("2 Become 1" in 1997 and two 
records the following years that were not U.S. hits).  The full list of 
Christmas no. 1s (including the successful 2009 attempt to block an "X 
Factor" winner from the slot after an oughts domination of the no. 1 by TV 
talent show winners with a Rage Against the Machine song):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_Singles_Chart_Christmas_number_ones

BTW, that school choir grandma song in 1980 kept John Lennon's "(Just Like) 
Starting Over"  out of the number 1 slot completely.  Once again, the 
wackiness of the UK singles charts.

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Re: [TV orNotTV] Quickie Review: American Auto

[John Edwards]

Better Off Ted was brilliant, and I think I still have Casual Fribsday
listed as an event in my calendar.

On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 10:39 PM PGage  wrote:

> Loved BOT…
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> On Thu, 23 Dec 2021 at 6:09 PM Kevin M.  wrote:
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>> Not a new premise, not new jokes, not good casting. The premise of the
>> pilot episode is borrowed quite a bit from an episode of Better Off Ted,
>> which was a favorite show of mine that nobody watched. Better Off Ted did
>> it better.
>>
>> Episodes 1 & 2 on the Hulu
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Quickie Review: Being The Ricardos

['Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV]

With all due respect, Sorkin doesn't understand anything about anything 
other than his own thought processes, speech patterns, and interests. He 
doesn't create characters; he creates mouthpieces who oscillate wildly 
between baffling ignorance and spouting reams of factoids in an instant. 
His characters all talk alike (which is to say, like him) and would need 
significant shading to become even two-dimensional. He's a hack who's 
bamboozled people into thinking he's smart because he's developed an 
ability to write smart-sounding words, which he repeats as often as 
possible. 

I will give him credit for one thing: he's almost single-handedly ruined 
the Democratic Party by writing a dewy-eyed show about politics that was 
about as grounded in reality as Gilbert and Sullivan.

--Dave Sikula



On Thursday, December 23, 2021 at 12:39:16 PM UTC-8 Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote:

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> I’ve had the privilege of being in writers rooms on numerous TV shows, and 
> writers often argue with each other and egos get bruised and petty 
> jealousies are everywhere… the critic who wrote the article seemed annoyed 
> that Sorkin didn’t make funny the process of writing a comedy; I can only 
> guess the author has not sat in a writers room. I won’t speak as to the 
> accuracy of women as written by Sorkin, but Sorkin didn’t accurately write 
> the men’s roles in the film, nor do I think he intended to. He wrote 
> characters (or imbued characteristics to his fictional account of real 
> people) to tell a story. If the story is furthered by making one character 
> self-conscious about her weight or another character self-conscious about 
> his age, that’s what he will write. 
>
> I don’t mean to defend every choice Sorkin made… again, there was no added 
> value to the old people talking about the week of production in flashback 
> form… but Sorkin set out to tell a good story, and he did that. 
>
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Quickie Review: American Auto

['David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV]

 I still find it amusing that Jay Harrington (Ted) is now on SWAT.
I agree with Kevin about American Auto.  Saw the pilot, and the casting is 
really underwhelming.  Another thing that Better Off Ted managed to do better.
David

   On Thursday, December 23, 2021, 07:39:40 PM PST, PGage  
wrote:  
 
 Loved BOT…
On Thu, 23 Dec 2021 at 6:09 PM Kevin M.  wrote:

Not a new premise, not new jokes, not good casting. The premise of the pilot 
episode is borrowed quite a bit from an episode of Better Off Ted, which was a 
favorite show of mine that nobody watched. Better Off Ted did it better.
Episodes 1 & 2 on the Hulu -- 
Kevin M. (RPCV)


  

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