Growing Up With Vince & Jeremy
We grew up in the UK from 1970 to 1990. This show is all about the two of us looking back and putting bits of our shared past under the microscope, from the early ‘80s ‘Protect and Survive’ /Mutually Assured Destruction nuclear panic, to the theme music from The Incredible Hulk; from Wimpy Burgers to wimpy Orac from Blake’s 7; from the Falklands War to Falco’s Rock Me Amadeus. We look back with fondness and bafflement and sometimes with abject disbelief at what life was like when we were growing up.
Growing Up With Vince & Jeremy
S02E02 Violent Cornish Pasties (Not The 9 O' Clock News (1979 - 1982)/ Who's That Girl? by Madonna (1987) / Death Wish (1974), Charles Bronson and the Films My Dad Loved)
Jeremy looks back with fondness at the alternative comedy sketch show "Not The 9 O' Clock News", which ran on BBC2 from 1979 to 1982, much to the horror of hedgehogs. With funny songs, biting political satire, and Rowan Atkinson walking into a lamppost, NTNON became the biggest comedy group since Monty Python. And on top of all that, there was Pamela Stephenson to raise more than laughs.
in 1987, Madonna had a UK Number 1 hit with "Who's That Girl?". We argue this was a bad thing. We are not champions of "Who's That Girl?", and indeed we actively seek its destruction.
Vince strokes his beard and examines the cultural fad for beard-stroking examinations of American Liberals dealing with American violence, best depicted in Charles Bronson vehicle "Death Wish" (1974) and its increasingly preposterous sequels. Will Vince grow a Bronson moustache, put on a black beanie hat and stalk the graffitied streets and badly-lit subways of crime-ridden New York City on a Nietzschean vigilante spree? Doubtful, as he's got a bad back.
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