possibly the best parody of all time, my eyes are watering after watching Jackson Jeffery Jackson , I don't blow I suck. priceless as are the names of the various musicians and bands.
A huge shoutout to Phil Pope, who wrote the music for the jazz club sketches. He managed to both lampoon the genre whilst also writing incredibly well within it.
I always get a bit of a pain when I see Caroline Aherne on the Fast Show. Still hard to believe this beautiful and talented woman is no longer with us. Felix Dexter went far too young as well.
Such a great part of the fast show. Makes me wish jazz club was a real show. RIP Smokes Stacksman better known in jazz circles of course as Trevor Worthington.
Probably one of the best segments was where the intro started with LB standing outside the studio smoking as the smoking ban had come into force so folks couldn’t smoke inside anymore classic 😂😂😂
I've been to actual gigs at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival that feature dance collectives and titles like 'Inevitable Geometry'...this isn't so much satire, just a mildly exaggerated version of reality...
Loved the attention to detail in this show. Like here where they put the work in to actually compose music for it, when they could've just thrown together nonsense and called it a day. That's what makes it work, is so much funnier for being close to reality. And all the music theory, I get what it all means, and it's still hilarious, and still sounds like it could be made up on the spot yet oddly if it was just babble and it didn't make sense, it probably wouldn't sound as much like that nor as funny. Also how many of these songs are legitimately awesome? Taking away the silly bit, when that's a thing. Especially like the Colon one and the cuban band who gets shot with arrows's song. Oh and how good is Paul's singing during the scat singer bit in the Christmas show? Merry squee-doobaday!
Funniest for me was the Nigel Kennedy parody, the look on Louis’ face 12:27 is priceless. Also a shout out to the costume director on this - some of the outfits are inherently hilarious in themselves!!
The joke being that it's a very middle of the road and pleasant enough sound, but also a bit dull...not exactly loud and dangerous as was promised! Saying that, it would have been a good Beatles song back in their day!
I am here because I am listening to a jazz album called "Solid" by Woody Shaw, and I found the title track quite familiar ("Solid" by Sonny Rollins). I turned here, and sure enough, there is "Piles" Hussein at 4:33 playing a very similar tune ("Nic Nac No"). Niiiiice.
I'm absolutely convinced that john thompson coming from manchester has been to the annual manchester jazz festival, cos this character is the bang on the nail piss take of the guy who introduces the bands and artists on stage! I'm currently looking for for a louis balfour t-shirt to wear at this years festival, just to see if any of the bands notice and i get thrown out!
The guy who introduces the bands is he Steve Mead? www.google.co.uk/search?q=steve+mead+jazz&rlz=1C1AVNE_enGB688GB689&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJr8LJxvDUAhVqDMAKHYISAIoQ_AUICigB&biw=1366&bih=662
30:37.. the icing.. wow. I remember seeing Jack Pott & Tom Bowler in what was such a short credits clip and I just pissed myself and asking myself "i wonder if anyone else thought this was the funniest thing they ever saw" To have them incorporated into the stage show.. I just feel validated
It’s funny you should mention that, i’m just watching some documentary on Blue Note records on sky arts and thought i’d watch this instead cos it’s more entertaining!!!!
Hah, I'm American and I love British humor so much... it's extremely dry. American humor is more 'knock knock joke' kind of corny stuff with punchlines. This is a great bit.
Chris Price Well, here in Finland we like The Fast Show. Maybe Finnish sense of humor is close to British one, at least my friends outside Finland believes so. And once in "The Jazz Club" Finnish band was mentioned. :)
Nikke88 The Finnish song John Thomson mentions is an actual song called "Vanhoja poikia viiksekkäitä" (=moustached old bachelors) by a prolific Finnish songwriter, Juha Vainio. The song tells a sad tale about an old man and a seal, both bachelors who have lost their loved ones and are the last of their kind.
Chris Price I know that song, it's still very popular here in Finland. :) The title of the song is actually a pun, because if you write it like "vanhoja poikia" it means just "old boys/guys", but written like "vanhojapoikia" it means old unmarried "boys". (vanhapoika is a Finnish term that describes a man older than maybe 40yo, who haven't been married at any point in his life) The seal mentioned in the song is Saimaa ringed seal, that is critically endangered species. In the song it's mentioned, that there is only around 100 seals left in lake Saimaa (only place in nature where those seals can be found), but luckily nowadays it's up to around 300. It could have something to do with this song, at least it brought national attention to the alarming situation of the Saimaa ringed seal. In the end, there is a huge difference between "vanhojapoikia viiksekkäitä" and misspelled version "vanhoja poikia viiksekkäitä".
