The Now Show Preview - Jeremy Hunt and the Cult of Hunting
On tonight's Now Show, Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis take a topical trip around tuition fees and Today tongue-twisters. Musical Mitch Benn sees the world through Lennon's eyes; German stand-up Henning Wehn probes our World Cup hypocrisy; John Finnemore wonders at the sexual magnetism of a certain Lib Dem MP and Laura Shavin reveals what every woman wants for Christmas.
But first, here's a preview of those Today tongue-twisters!
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Comment number 1.
At 10th Dec 2010, Andy Armitage wrote:One wonders how many they did during the recording before they got the one that was put in the can. Or maybe they didn't have to. I used to teach voice, and would tell people that, if they concentrated on the words they were saying - really kept "in the moment", as it were - they could manage such things as "imagine an imaginery menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie" (you have to say it really fast!), which is a favourite of mine and not likely to lead to any spudicrous loonerisms of the strictly taboo variety.
However, when I heard the Naughtie one on YouTube I found that what was funny was not so much his accidental utterance of the C-word, but the corpsing afterwards. I used to work in radio, and I know that corpsing can be really bad: once you start, it's very hard to stop, especially if there are others in the studio with you (being out of breath and trying to read a news bulletin is pretty damn hairy, too, because the delivery has to be formalised and of a certain expected speed, but your need to gulp large quantities of air won't allow that).
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Comment number 2.
At 10th Dec 2010, Mavarine Du-Marie wrote:The only name that I’ve a problem (writing and as well as speaking) with is: ‘Virginia’.
I pitied the poor girl at school, although luckily she understood that it wasn’t done on purpose by me, because she knew me better than that, as I wasn’t being rude, not at all, its just that particular name brought out an association.
For I kept calling her not a maiden; virgin, but that of a fibromuscular tubular tract leading from the uterus to the exterior of the body in female.
Not once, but every-time I went to speak her name, even though I had prepared to get it right in advance by practicing really hard. But no, every time I opened my mouth, that other ‘V’ word of that female sexual part come out instead of her name, but neither did she want to be called ‘Ginny’ for short, on that she was adamant.
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