41 Evening Standard, 31 January 1994.
42 Evening Standard, 27 January 1994.
43 Evening Standard, 27 January 1994.
44 Guardian, 25 August 2007.
45 Guardian, 10 January 1994.
46 Guardian, 21 February 2003.
6 PUTTING A SPINE IN A BAP
47 The Times, 20 January 1994.
48 Independent, 6 February 1995.
49 Independent, 18 April 1998.
50 Armando Iannucci in interview with Mark Lawson, 2 January 2007, BBC4.
51 Sunday Times, 6 March 1994.
52 The Times, 24 December 1993.
53 New Musical Express, 15 June 1996.
54 Daily Mirror, 5 July 1996.
55 Daily Mirror, 5 July 1996.
56 The New Yorker, 5 November 2007.
57 Sunshine on Putty, Ben Thompson, p. 50 (Harper Perennial, 2004).
58 Independent, 6 February 1995.
59 Observer, 31 December 1995.
7 WHY BOTHER?
60 Publish and Bedazzled, No. 13, August 1998.
61 Guardian, 25 July 1994.
62 Independent, 18 January 2004.
63 Peter Cook: A Biography, Harry Thompson, p. 457 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1997).
64 Publish and Bedazzled, No 13, August 1998.
65 How Very Interesting, ed. Paul Hamilton, Peter Gordon and Dan Kieran, p. 428 (Snowbooks, 2006).
66 Guardian, 17 January 1994.
67 Independent, 18 January 1994.
68 Evening Standard, 27 April 2000.
69 Publish and Bedazzled, No. 13, August 1998.
70 Guardian, 25 July 1994.
71 Time Out, 1–8 June 1994.
72 Guardian, 8 July 1994.
73 Guardian, 25 July 1994.
74 Guardian, 25 July 1994.
75 Guardian, 8 July 1994.
76 Guardian, 25 July 1994.
8 BLATANTLY HIDING THE GROUND
77 Guardian, 25 July 1994.
78 Guardian, 25 July 1994, John Dugdale ‘Taped Up for Auntie’
79 Macmillan, Alistair Horne, vol. ii, p. 371 (Macmillan, 1989).
9 NOT SO MUCH THE NEINTIES AS THE JA DANKETIES
80 Chris Morris in conversation with Paul Lashmar, 6 March 2007, Wessex Media Group, Bournemouth University.
81 Word, March 2005.
82 Chris Morris in conversation with Paul Lashmar, 6 March 2007, Wessex Media Group, Bournemouth University.
83 Will Self, Observer, 9 March 1997.
84 Guardian, 27 April 1998.
85 Hansard, (House of Commons) written answers part 10, column 169 (23 July 1996).
86 Issued by the Independent Television Commission.
10 BRASS EYE
87 Time Out, 20–27 November 1996.
88 Guardian, 27 April 1998.
89 Storm over Four, Channel 4, 1 January 1998.
90 It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, Michael Grade, pp. 258–9 (Macmillan, 1999).
91 Guardian, 25 November 1996.
92 Guardian, 25 November 1996.
93 NME, 30 November 1996, p.9.
94 Melody Maker, 29 November 1997.
95 Sunday Times, 23 February 1997.
96 The Times, 14 February 1997.
97 Chris Morris in conversation with Paul Lashmar, 6 March 2007, Wessex Media Group, Bournemouth University.
98 Channel 4 at Twenty-five, More4, 30 September 2007.
99 It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, Michael Grade, pp. 258–9 (Macmillan, 1999).
100 Independent, 15 March 1997.
101 Peter Fincham at Rose d’Or Festival, 2004.
102 Observer, 9 March 1997.
103 ITC Programme Code 2.8 (1998 edition). The ‘Brass Eye clause’: ‘A different kind of set-up situation is one where the subject consents to being recorded for a different purpose from that covertly intended by the programme-makers.
‘The use of such material without the subject’s permission can only be justified if it is necessary in order to make an important point of public interest. Consent to proceed should, where practicable, be given before recording by the licensee’s most senior programme executive or the designated alternative. Such consent is required again before transmission.’
104 Melody Maker, 29 November 1997.
105 Independent, 20 April 2000.
106 Guardian, 27 April 1998.
107 Guardian, 27 April 1998.
11 NOW, WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE PROBLEM?
108 Guardian, 27 April 1998.
109 Chris Morris in conversation with Paul Lashmar, 6 March 2007, Wessex Media Group, Bournemouth University.
110 Guardian, 27 April 1998.
111 Guardian, 27 April 1998.
112 Melody Maker, 29 November 1997.
113 Independent, 20 April 2000.
114 Guardian, 27 April 1998.
115 Mail on Sunday, 21 December 1997.
116 Radio Times, 21 March 1998.
117 Independent, 20 April 2000.
12 IF THE PRINTED WORD HAS ANY MEANING, THEN IT MUST COME FROM THE VERY EDGE OF FUCKY BUM BOO BOO
118 Sunday Times, 27 June 1999.
119 Guardian, 10 August 1997.
120 Sunday Times, 27 June 1999.
13 17.8 PER CENT SAFER
121 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/309814.stm.
122 Observer, 5 August 2001.
123 Channel 4 at Twenty-five, More4, 30 September 2007.
124 News of the World, 23 July 2000.
125 News of the World, 23 July 2000.
126 News of the World, 23 July 2000.
127 Independent, 5 August 2000.
128 Guardian Friday Pages, p. 2, 21 February 2003.
129 News of the World, 13 August 2000.
130 www.tvgohome.com/1905-2000.html.
131 www.tvgohome.com, 24 September 2001.
132 Guardian, 21 February 2003.
133 Guardian, 30 July 2001.
134 Daily Mirror, 4 August 2001.
135 Daily Mirror, 31 July 2001.
136 Daily Mail, 5 August 2001, Nick Pryer, Gill Martin ‘Why Doon, a mother of two young children, is in tears at appearing in show that shamed TV’.
137 Guardian, 31 July 2001.
138 Guardian, 31 July 2001.
139 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2027864.stm.
140 Guardian, 27 April 1998.
Chris Morris at Stonyhurst College on 17 December 1980 with friends Simon Armour (on guitar) and Paul O’Carroll
The Exploding Hamsters on Anglia’s City Sounds in July 1985. From left: Chris Morris on bass, singers Jane Reck and Mark Sendall, percussionist Jeff Lowrie, Shanti Paul Jayasinha on trumpet and John Telfer on saxophone
Chris Morris in the Radio Times, punting down the Cam for Children in Need in November 1986; in the same publication doing a Feedback Report in May 1988 on Radio Bristol and goodies for Radio Bristol fans
Taking the phones in the Radio Bristol studios
Wayne Carr is interviewed at GLR for the NME
Chris Morris in the NME in 1990, warning impressionable fans about hidden messages in pop records
Nirvana fan Chris Morris and Mercedes in June 1994, two months after the death of Kurt Cobain. ‘Morris wanted to use the impact while it still counted, as I remember,’ says NME photographer Stephen Sweet
Something approaching a publicity shot for The Day Today – blurred Morris with Dave Schneider, Patrick Marber, Rebecca Front, Doon Mackichan and Steve Coogan
Chris Morris at The Day Today’s portable keyboard
Sports desk – with Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan)
Peter O’Hanraha-hanrahan (Patrick Marber)
Barbara Wintergreen (Rebecca Front) for CBN News
Weather forecast with Sylvester Stewart (Dave Schneider)
Business news with Collaterlie Sisters (Doon Mackichan)
Chris Morris in a typically illuminating photo-shoot
A prop postcard for Brass Eye
Apes & Music would l
ater be better known as Jam
Chris Morris in 2006
Disgusting Bliss Page 26