Now Show - John Finnemore on the Frog and the Scorpions

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  • Broadcast on 'The Now Show', BBC Radio 4, 2nd May 2014.
    Featuring Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and Marcus Brigstocke.

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  • @theemperorsfinest7297
    @theemperorsfinest7297 9 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Mr Finnemore, I hope you read the comments on your posts because everyone agrees that you are brilliant. Thank you.

    • @antonycornell6284
      @antonycornell6284 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Neil Gaiman has recruited John to co-write the second series of Good Omens

    • @alfje5492
      @alfje5492 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@antonycornell6284 I was so happy when I heard this! Can't wait for season two!

  • @susandurrant6357
    @susandurrant6357 10 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Always beautiful, always simple and always inspiring .... Our future national treasure

    • @EBGBeee
      @EBGBeee 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I'm pleased he's rarely on TV, because it means we don't have to share him so much ... yet it bothers me that he's not yet been asked to rule the universe.

  • @andrewmogford
    @andrewmogford 10 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Listening to it again it just gets better each time. Perfectly written and all the more powerful because it's logical and reasonable not a hysterical rant.

  • @norahherbie8537
    @norahherbie8537 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What a truly brilliant piece by John ' brilliant' Finnemore

  • @YateKate
    @YateKate 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Loved this. Righteous anger never felt so good. Or so righteous.

  • @olafurhh03
    @olafurhh03 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Such a witty fellow. Just brilliant.

  • @legorenegade
    @legorenegade 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is....Brilliant!

  • @MatthewLeathes
    @MatthewLeathes 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    the finest piece of satire I've heard in some time

  • @Wipeout325
    @Wipeout325 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Brilliant absolutely brilliant

  • @sisterstiffticket1
    @sisterstiffticket1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just superb! Thank you again John.

  • @leavemebeggl5502
    @leavemebeggl5502 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    listening this for the first time beautiful!

  • @hlocne
    @hlocne 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This is probably my favourite JF sketch from the now show, I just wish that he did more stuff like this. He's much funnier on this than on stuff like the unbelievable truth (not that that's not hilarious), but CP and JFSP are the best! I just wish that Radio 4 would broadcast the final episode! Anyway, very funny and I can't wait for more!

  • @andycloquet
    @andycloquet 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    True Satire at its very modern best!

  • @GabrielKnightz
    @GabrielKnightz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Brilliance gilded in humour.

  • @louieroberts4273
    @louieroberts4273 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Loving it John so brilliant

  • @muserocks1
    @muserocks1 10 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I like how the first thing on the investors list is Abu Dhabi. I see what you did there.

  • @BrokenPointeShoes
    @BrokenPointeShoes 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You're always brilliant!

  • @kathish
    @kathish 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I truly admire your ability to combine humour, logic and anger. Speaking of, perhaps you'd consider making an official video of the Legal Aid monologue? It's one of my favourites.

  • @SWbloodwolf
    @SWbloodwolf 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love what you do and how you do it! Brilliant as always you are :D

  • @maartjedenie
    @maartjedenie 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ooeoeh with pictures! Even better!

  • @ArtichokeHunter
    @ArtichokeHunter 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Loving this, but still can't think of the scorpion and the frog without The Crying Game.

  • @alexdee6927
    @alexdee6927 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    genius at work ...

  • @zoo804
    @zoo804 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome work!

  • @JeghedderThomas
    @JeghedderThomas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ah, deliciously sharp satire there. Lovely.

  • @OliviaDrawsBoards
    @OliviaDrawsBoards 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love your writing so much! (Especially your shorts with animals. Why do you write animals so well?)

  • @gridref
    @gridref 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    spot on.

  • @edposs8483
    @edposs8483 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    amazing

  • @Wipeout325
    @Wipeout325 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Arg I didn't get tickets for the final cabin pressure episode :(

  • @josephinebennington7247
    @josephinebennington7247 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Having just heard this in 2020, it brings to mind Grayling’s (The minister, not the fish......, if there is a difference.....) contracting with a shipping ferry company that had no ferry ships. Clearly some, maybe many, of those in government are bred from frogs.

  • @KazakhToon
    @KazakhToon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Alan Bennett does Vince Cable

  • @Wipeout325
    @Wipeout325 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    For once mr finnermore is uploading this

  • @raxacoon
    @raxacoon 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Genius!

  • @josephinebennington7247
    @josephinebennington7247 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2024…going to a billionaire Czecko scorpion now….

  • @harryturner8701
    @harryturner8701 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think I need an empathy wee

  • @SADCOCK1970
    @SADCOCK1970 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    There's an old fable about a scorpion trying to cross a creek. The scorpion comes across a frog and - BUFFERING BUFFERING BUFFERING...