Graham is so fantastic at taking the piss out of his guests in a totally friendly way. Never oversteps the mark. Always en point. "She couldn't have meant that show where I'm looking for intelligent people..." Haha. Always makes them feel relaxed. What a pro.
The Zucker brothers (Airplane! The Naked Gun) owned a horse that raced in Hollywood Park called It's All Pink. They purposely instructed the jockey to stay on the rail, no matter how the race unfolded...because they wanted to hear the track announcer say, "It's All Pink on the inside."
This has nothing to do with that, but it reminds me of an accidental pun by a German ski reporter who once said: "Sie standen an den Hängen und Pisten" (they stood by the slopes and pistes), but "Pisten" sounds like "pissten" which would make the sentence "they stood by the slopes to pee".
At Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto there was a horse named for the commercial catch phrase “Mikey Likes It.” When I heard Darrel Wells say “Mikey Likes It coming up the rear!” I laughed heartily.
He should however have mentioned that the video with Hoof Hearted is from the USA, considering that the names mentioned before that had been submitted for registration in the UK.
there are other really funny ones that arent rude. Just watched an old clip of a race where one horse was named "the wife knows everything" and another one was called "the wife doesn't know", this sounded confusing when the comentator was announcing their positions : P Another example is with a horse named "ARRRRRRRR", the announcer got real piraty on that one.
My wife and I were sitting at a bar with the horse racing in the background and after one of the races was finished she said point blank "Found my new passwords"
People try it with aircraft registrations too the CAA are really good at weeding out the rude ones but they forgot the G prefix so one owner has G_ONAD (Cessna 421C Golden Eagle).
I've said this on a Russell Howard vid and I'll say it on this one. I really want someone to buy a horse and name it Nobody, just so I can laugh in people's faces when the immortal words "And Nobody's won the Grand National" are uttered from the loudspeakers.
Where I used to work there was a tannoy where the secretary would make announcements to the shop floor. We regularly left her notes to announce such as 'Hugh Janus is here to see Mike Hunt'. She was oblivious.
My sister is a public school teacher, and as a joke for the staff person who read the morning public announcements, wrote down in pseudo Vietnamese two names of “students” to be called to the office. They were “U Dumh Phuc” and “Mai Long Dong”. Fortunately the announcer figured it out beforehand and it never got read publicly.
I remember long time ago when people tried to sneak dirty names into the phone book. They went in last name first, middle name or initial, second and then first name last. It was funny when they got passed the people looking the names over.
In the USA, there use to be a very nice mare named Bodacious Tatas... I think she ran in 57 races in her lifetime. There was also a fan favorite named Stalwart Member - who was a gelding. lol. I've been following horse racing since 1972, when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby, and have seen a lot of clever names. Those in the clip that didn't get by the censors, are funny. I liked Arfur Foulkesaycke the best.
I'd call my horse MY FACE just so I could see all the girls on race day that put money on it cheering and shouting out "Come on My Face, Come on My Face!!
There was a race i sawa few years back in UK and one of the horses was called hoof hearted, so it did get through over here, i was hoping it would do better than it did as the great peter o sullivan was commentating and boy does he talk fast :)
If I am fortunate enough to get another chance at another life, I would want to be MINNIE DRIVER! Not for celebrity, not for money, not for beauty (of which she has all), ..But for MINNIE'S FABULOUS SENSE OF HUMOR & RAZOR SHARP INTELLIGENCE, & CLASS!!!! Can't develop those qualities, you had to be born with them!!!!
Managed a thoroughbred farm whose owner and his pals got drunk at an auction and bought a filly,who was a dud at racing.they named her" 49 and puke" after all the booze they consumed.funny,she was a gorgeous silver dappled filly.she sucked at racing but produced beautiful babies.those were the days.
Minnie Driver should know all about funny horse names; in the nineties she appeared in The Day Today with Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge, and there was a segment on that where he commentated on a horse race and some of the horses names were hilarious, names like "Christ's chin", "Two Headed Sex Beast" and "Astonishing Bum Queen".
