Today I Heard My First . . . . .
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Adrian Juste
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Does anyone remember him?
He worked on Radio One, where he played recorded comedy sketches, which he interupted with his own 'zany' humour and sub-Kenny Everett voice-overs.
His efforts only underlined how talented and impossible to copy Everett was.
I remember seeing Radio One live in Blackpool in the '80's, and he was broadcasting from a marquee to about ten people.
The only people laughing were Juste - competely overcome with how witty and amusing he was, and his producer who seemed in danger of a coronary due to the effects of the pointless mirth Juste was offering to the nation. The people in the tent were all stoney-faced, possibly just shetering from the rain.
He was a shining example of how awful Radio One was at the time, culled in the Bannister era, and mercifully rarely on air since.
Music, the raison d'etre of Radio One, was simply a tedious interuption to his own voice - so cruelly speared by Enfield and Whitehouse.
Someone must have liked him - anyone on here?
He worked on Radio One, where he played recorded comedy sketches, which he interupted with his own 'zany' humour and sub-Kenny Everett voice-overs.
His efforts only underlined how talented and impossible to copy Everett was.
I remember seeing Radio One live in Blackpool in the '80's, and he was broadcasting from a marquee to about ten people.
The only people laughing were Juste - competely overcome with how witty and amusing he was, and his producer who seemed in danger of a coronary due to the effects of the pointless mirth Juste was offering to the nation. The people in the tent were all stoney-faced, possibly just shetering from the rain.
He was a shining example of how awful Radio One was at the time, culled in the Bannister era, and mercifully rarely on air since.
Music, the raison d'etre of Radio One, was simply a tedious interuption to his own voice - so cruelly speared by Enfield and Whitehouse.
Someone must have liked him - anyone on here?
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Things haven't changed much at the BBC over the past few decades. Then, as now, the main prerequisite for employment seems to be the future employee must must love the sound of their own voice. That can only be the reason why we're stuck with the likes of Jeremy Vine, Steve Wright etc who will never use two words when they can use twenty.
he used to be on weekend lunchtimes. while the very loose parallel with Kenny Everett was there, his style owed more to that of Jack Jackson, who occupied the same slot in 1967 and taped his shows at home in Tenerife, mailing them to the BBC. not surprising Mr Juste's producer was falling about laughing, he was himself a contributor to some of the comedy clips - he once told the old jump lead tie gag, among others.
perhaps a better holder of the weekend lunchtime slot was Kevin Greening. he once opened his show with something like:-
"I'm Kevin, and I'll be with you for the next 2 hours. unless I tell my Queen Mother joke now, that is....."
perhaps a better holder of the weekend lunchtime slot was Kevin Greening. he once opened his show with something like:-
"I'm Kevin, and I'll be with you for the next 2 hours. unless I tell my Queen Mother joke now, that is....."
mushroom - // he used to be on weekend lunchtimes. while the very loose parallel with Kenny Everett was there, //
To me, the Everett parallel, apart from using comedy inserts, is the voice Juste affected to sound 'amusing'.
Of course, Everett was streets ahead, not only in terms of wit and invention, but the fact that he created his own inserts, using his twin gifts of a boundless imagination, and boundless technical skill, to make them.
To me, the Everett parallel, apart from using comedy inserts, is the voice Juste affected to sound 'amusing'.
Of course, Everett was streets ahead, not only in terms of wit and invention, but the fact that he created his own inserts, using his twin gifts of a boundless imagination, and boundless technical skill, to make them.
Corby - // God knows why he lasted so long on Radio One. //
From long experience of listening to and watching the BBC, they do seem to latch on to certain individuals, and imagine them to have not only vast but also seriously long-lasting appeal to their viewers and listeners.
The danger of this, is that the individual can start to believe their own hype, and develop a sense of invincibility, which only ever makes them icreasingly insuferable.
The zenith of that attitude from the BBC towards its own 'legeng' was Terry Wogan, who ended up using such bizarre speech patterns that the could only have come from someone whose first language was not of this planet.
He was constantly whispering one moment and then booming the next, obviously convinced that his admittedly attractive radio voice needed some sort of perculiar enhancement which he conceived and then developed well past the point of charicature.
The only parallel that springs to mind is Jimmy Young, who did exactly the same thing, at the end sounding like something from another planet.
They did try the same with Patrick Kielty, shoe-horning into every single thing they could get him on - TV and radio - but the public simply refused to like him, and eventually the message permeated through.
As I have mentioned before, Len Goodman suffered a similar fate, where the BBC assumed from his Strictly personna, that he was gifted with wit and personality that was imply never there, and his new avenues of quizes and radio shows were swiftly closed off.
It's the way the BBC thinks and operates, from the top to the bottom they have an utterly undserved sense of self-importance and congratulation, as though they money they receive is earned by their own skills and efforts, instead of simply being handed to them year in year out, no matter how much of a hash they make by spending it on rubbish 'talent'.
From long experience of listening to and watching the BBC, they do seem to latch on to certain individuals, and imagine them to have not only vast but also seriously long-lasting appeal to their viewers and listeners.
The danger of this, is that the individual can start to believe their own hype, and develop a sense of invincibility, which only ever makes them icreasingly insuferable.
The zenith of that attitude from the BBC towards its own 'legeng' was Terry Wogan, who ended up using such bizarre speech patterns that the could only have come from someone whose first language was not of this planet.
He was constantly whispering one moment and then booming the next, obviously convinced that his admittedly attractive radio voice needed some sort of perculiar enhancement which he conceived and then developed well past the point of charicature.
The only parallel that springs to mind is Jimmy Young, who did exactly the same thing, at the end sounding like something from another planet.
They did try the same with Patrick Kielty, shoe-horning into every single thing they could get him on - TV and radio - but the public simply refused to like him, and eventually the message permeated through.
As I have mentioned before, Len Goodman suffered a similar fate, where the BBC assumed from his Strictly personna, that he was gifted with wit and personality that was imply never there, and his new avenues of quizes and radio shows were swiftly closed off.
It's the way the BBC thinks and operates, from the top to the bottom they have an utterly undserved sense of self-importance and congratulation, as though they money they receive is earned by their own skills and efforts, instead of simply being handed to them year in year out, no matter how much of a hash they make by spending it on rubbish 'talent'.
Remember the name Adrian Juste, but don't recall ever listening to him.
In regards to Wogan, I adored the man's style on the radio, with the little in jokes and his friendly style. I was a commited TOG and still miss his presence on the radio. I always found that Ken Bruce was the one who paralleled Terry the best, although I think much of Terry's style came from him aping the late, great Ray Moore.
In regards to Wogan, I adored the man's style on the radio, with the little in jokes and his friendly style. I was a commited TOG and still miss his presence on the radio. I always found that Ken Bruce was the one who paralleled Terry the best, although I think much of Terry's style came from him aping the late, great Ray Moore.
Mozz - // In regards to Wogan, I adored the man's style on the radio, with the little in jokes and his friendly style. I was a commited TOG and still miss his presence on the radio. //
I appreciate you liked TW, but do you take my point about his peculiar vocal delivery, which got worse and worse the nearer he got to retirement?
I appreciate you liked TW, but do you take my point about his peculiar vocal delivery, which got worse and worse the nearer he got to retirement?
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