Why aye, man!
The famous actor and presenter Craig Charles has given a jolly nice interview to Newcastle's The Journal. The interview, published nearly a month ago, but managed to pass us by, is mainly about Robot Wars, but there are one or two other interesting snippets. Like this, on the subject of The Movie:
"I should be in Australia right now filming the movie but it has fallen through. Everybody says it is going to happen next year but I'll only believe it when I'm at the premiere."
Wah, frankly. It's not a good sign when the star is as cynical as the majority of the fanbase. Amusingly, the article states that "Craig visits conventions in America, Australia and Canada." Not in the UK, obviously. They don't pay him enough.
There is also news on Craig's latest project, Scary Fairy: "a no-holds barred version of classic children's nursery rhymes which will contain a lot of blood and gore". Not terribly original, but never mind. There will be 15 poems in the collection, and there will be a cartoon series based on them. That's something to look forward to. Can't believe it took us a pissing month to find it.
Oh, one more thing. The article refers to Red Dwarf as a "spoof sci-fi comedy". A spoof? Hadaway and bollocks, man.
Comments
"I thought I was in anorak city". Good to see that yet again Craig brings up the obvious sneery stereotypes...
Posted by John Hoare at November 27, 2003 10:27 AM
"Spoof" seems fine, considering the last 8 episodes...
Ooh, get me.
Posted by Pete Martin at November 27, 2003 10:47 AM
Well, people have said that the Blue Midget dance was supposed to be a piss-take on the video for The Artist Formerly Known As DJ Jazzy Jeff And The Fresh Prince's "Men In Black" video. And bits from Ace's universe in Dimension Jump are based on Top Gun-type figures (the score indicates this as well). But other than that, I fail to see anything spoof-like in Red Dwarf. The sci-fi plots are all taken seriously.
Posted by Ian Symes at November 27, 2003 10:51 AM
You could probably argue that certain episodes, like Polymorph, was a spoof. Not the series as a whole, though.
Reminds me of a review that said that Confidence and Paronoia played like a spoof of the ST:TOS episode 'The Enemy Within'. Where as far as I can tell the humour in CaP doesn't come from taking the piss out of the plotline...
Posted by John Hoare at November 27, 2003 10:53 AM
Actually, reading Ian's post, Polymorph doesn't seem quite as spoof-like as I thought. Hmmm. It does have a different feel to most of the SF stuff in Red Dwarf, mind you. I can't quite put my finger on why, though.
Posted by John Hoare at November 27, 2003 10:56 AM
I think it was Drum who quoted Craig as saying 'I don't do the Convention Thing'..
Posted by Cpt-D at November 27, 2003 03:44 PM
That's shite. I asked him why he didn't go to DJ... at another convention. He said that he'd just been busy for the last few weekends. This is despite him being with the half the cast at Memorabilia on the Saturday of this DJ, and all the others coming on the Sunday.
Posted by Ian Symes at November 27, 2003 07:03 PM
so what exactly is Shite then ?
Posted by Cpt-D at November 27, 2003 08:32 PM
No entry found for 'shite'.
Did you mean:
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Posted by Dictionary Corner at November 27, 2003 08:47 PM
What is shite is that Craig doesn't "do" conventions. He does Memorabilia, as The Stamp Centre pay him a lot of money to do so.
Posted by Ian Symes at November 27, 2003 11:02 PM
Ah, Right, sorry {again}, I thought you meant I was talking shite {again}...
I believe the response was given by Craig at Memorobilia, in response to someone asking if he would be at DJ...But I've heard several reasons including being stuck in Australia and someone else mixing dates up !
[It's Money isn't it] :)
Posted by Cpt-D at November 27, 2003 11:19 PM
"Craig chats to the Geordies"
Every time I read that it looks like 'Goodies'. Which I'd prefer, frankly.
Posted by Darrell Jones at November 28, 2003 02:18 AM
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