Reply to: talkshyte's gaunt sacked!

[FiveTimes]

At least this will be the last of his talks about his new jaguar

[Bob Dalek]

Of course it's from Wikipedia

I know.

[Bagpuss]

Of course it's from Wikipedia

[Bob Dalek]

Gaunt is an ignorant bigot. A student socialist who became a comedy parody of a right wing racist facist, like Littlejohn but more stupid.

The Human Zoo reminds me of CUK...

The Human Zoo was a radio programme on talkSPORT, presented by Tommy Boyd, with his engineer Asher Gould effectively acting as co-presenter. It was broadcast from May 2000 until Boyd's dismissal in March 2002, and took its name from a 1969 book of the same name by Desmond Morris.


The programme had a straightforward 'phone in' format, except that callers were unscreened, went straight to air, and could say whatever they wanted, broadcasting regulations permitting. This unique radio experiment attained cult status, and quickly became the most popular programme on AM radio in Britain. At the peak of its popularity in the summer of 2001 up to a million calls were received over the course of a four-hour programme.

While not the most original format for radio, the Human Zoo was wildly successful. This has been attributed to the particular style of its presenter, who encouraged a very wide variety of callers to contribute, including some who called in to give short performances, play pieces of prepared audio or just shout out catchphrases. "Can I pleasure your wife?" was an oft-repeated slogan. Therefore, the mainstay of the programme for its listeners was the unpredictable nature of where the discussion would lead next. Very weighty issues not often discussed by mainstream phone in radio (which Boyd derided as all about "points missed in the debate so far") could be juxtaposed with frivolous, light-hearted or comedic items. Boyd divided opinion between devoted fans, many of whom considered him to be an extremely wise man, and critics who viewed him as arrogant or mad, often taking the opportunity to phone up to launch personal attacks or deride his ideas with the aim of starting heated and vitriolic arguments.

Boyd attributed the popularity of the show to the ability of its anarchic nature to strike a chord with people on a Sunday night, and elaborated on this theory many times, proposing that Sunday evenings induced a widespread and overwhelming mood of either resignation or defiance, and that the programme provided an outlet to those who felt trapped by the prospect of work the following morning.

Gotcha! The absence of spelling errors alerted me to you not being the author. It was from Wiki, yes?

[Doggy Styles]

According to wikipedia, he told someone being rude about the Royal family to F-off live on air. He also didn't get along with Kelvin Mckensie.

An admirable man on both counts.

[Bagpuss]

what was the reason for his sacking? [Tommy Boyd]

According to wikipedia, he told someone being rude about the Royal family to F-off live on air. He also didn't get along with Kelvin Mckensie.

[Badger]

I'm glad.

His show ended up being a 3hr advert for The Sun, and most of his 'guests' were other writers/editors of The Sun.

I'm sure his precious 2 little girls who he always banged on about are now very proud of their idoit daddy.

[Liability]

Gaunt is an ignorant bigot. A student socialist who became a comedy parody of a right wing racist facist, like Littlejohn but more stupid.

The Human Zoo reminds me of CUK...

The Human Zoo was a radio programme on talkSPORT, presented by Tommy Boyd, with his engineer Asher Gould effectively acting as co-presenter. It was broadcast from May 2000 until Boyd's dismissal in March 2002, and took its name from a 1969 book of the same name by Desmond Morris.


The programme had a straightforward 'phone in' format, except that callers were unscreened, went straight to air, and could say whatever they wanted, broadcasting regulations permitting. This unique radio experiment attained cult status, and quickly became the most popular programme on AM radio in Britain. At the peak of its popularity in the summer of 2001 up to a million calls were received over the course of a four-hour programme.

While not the most original format for radio, the Human Zoo was wildly successful. This has been attributed to the particular style of its presenter, who encouraged a very wide variety of callers to contribute, including some who called in to give short performances, play pieces of prepared audio or just shout out catchphrases. "Can I pleasure your wife?" was an oft-repeated slogan. Therefore, the mainstay of the programme for its listeners was the unpredictable nature of where the discussion would lead next. Very weighty issues not often discussed by mainstream phone in radio (which Boyd derided as all about "points missed in the debate so far") could be juxtaposed with frivolous, light-hearted or comedic items. Boyd divided opinion between devoted fans, many of whom considered him to be an extremely wise man, and critics who viewed him as arrogant or mad, often taking the opportunity to phone up to launch personal attacks or deride his ideas with the aim of starting heated and vitriolic arguments.

Boyd attributed the popularity of the show to the ability of its anarchic nature to strike a chord with people on a Sunday night, and elaborated on this theory many times, proposing that Sunday evenings induced a widespread and overwhelming mood of either resignation or defiance, and that the programme provided an outlet to those who felt trapped by the prospect of work the following morning.

what was the reason for his sacking? [Tommy Boyd]

[norrahe]

i noticed this on the article

"The radio presenter is also a columnist for the Sun newspaper"

nuff said!

[Doggy Styles]

Tommy will certainly be bouyed up by his fans on here.

[Bagpuss]

Gaunt is an ignorant bigot. A student socialist who became a comedy parody of a right wing racist facist, like Littlejohn but more stupid.

The Human Zoo reminds me of CUK...

The Human Zoo was a radio programme on talkSPORT, presented by Tommy Boyd, with his engineer Asher Gould effectively acting as co-presenter. It was broadcast from May 2000 until Boyd's dismissal in March 2002, and took its name from a 1969 book of the same name by Desmond Morris.


The programme had a straightforward 'phone in' format, except that callers were unscreened, went straight to air, and could say whatever they wanted, broadcasting regulations permitting. This unique radio experiment attained cult status, and quickly became the most popular programme on AM radio in Britain. At the peak of its popularity in the summer of 2001 up to a million calls were received over the course of a four-hour programme.

While not the most original format for radio, the Human Zoo was wildly successful. This has been attributed to the particular style of its presenter, who encouraged a very wide variety of callers to contribute, including some who called in to give short performances, play pieces of prepared audio or just shout out catchphrases. "Can I pleasure your wife?" was an oft-repeated slogan. Therefore, the mainstay of the programme for its listeners was the unpredictable nature of where the discussion would lead next. Very weighty issues not often discussed by mainstream phone in radio (which Boyd derided as all about "points missed in the debate so far") could be juxtaposed with frivolous, light-hearted or comedic items. Boyd divided opinion between devoted fans, many of whom considered him to be an extremely wise man, and critics who viewed him as arrogant or mad, often taking the opportunity to phone up to launch personal attacks or deride his ideas with the aim of starting heated and vitriolic arguments.

Boyd attributed the popularity of the show to the ability of its anarchic nature to strike a chord with people on a Sunday night, and elaborated on this theory many times, proposing that Sunday evenings induced a widespread and overwhelming mood of either resignation or defiance, and that the programme provided an outlet to those who felt trapped by the prospect of work the following morning.

[DodgyAgent]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7736353.stm

Bout time and all!

I dont agree with everything he does or says but I think its a great shame. I just hope he can get a job on a commercial station.

[Doggy Styles]

LOLOL! Sunday night as well!

The dude doing the Scooby Doo impression always cracked me up! Was an awesome show!

That explains why I'd never heard of Tommy Boyd's show. I'm at evensong Sunday nights. Then the pub carpark afterwards with the vicar's wife.

[Liability]

Tommy Boyd (ex Magpie) and the Human Zoo, best radio show EVER

LOLOL! Sunday night as well!

The dude doing the Scooby Doo impression always cracked me up! Was an awesome show!

[Bagpuss]

I've only heard three good presenters on Talkshyte: Andy Townsend, Mike Parry and Alan Brazil.

Tommy Boyd (ex Magpie) and the Human Zoo, best radio show EVER