http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=steve-wright The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 12:17:01 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=40310#post-114668 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:31:30 +0000 Oxbridge 114668@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sociologists across Britain are hailing a breakthrough in human behaviour last Sunday morning as a 37-year-old woman from Buckinghamshire sat through Steve Wright's Sunday Love Songs on Radio 2 without intending it as a silent reproach to her partner. Jessica Rowley, a marketing manager in a High Wycombe multimedia firm, told reporters that she and her boyfriend Gary Dawson simply started listening at random.</p> <p>'I quite liked the music so I carried on listening - maybe I'm showing my age,' Rowley told reporters. 'All that slush from these couples who have been blissfully happy for 25 years and feel to compelled to tell the country all about it was a bit nauseating, but I was busy waxing the table and I couldn't be bothered to change channels.'</p> <p>According to Professor Roy Wilde, author of 'You Never Say That to Me: Why Women Fall for Romantic Drivel', about 70% of women listen to Sunday Love Songs and shows like it to convince their husbands that they ought to worship the dust under their feet, while the other 30% are fantasising about the ex they should have stayed with. Rowley, however, says that neither of these things applies to her.</p> <p>'Gary is a fairly average sort of bloke but then I'm a fairly average woman, so we're pretty well suited all in all,' she said. 'Look, if you promise not to laugh at me - when I was younger, I thought Steve Wright was hilarious. Do you remember Mr Angry? He always used to get so angry he'd THROW the phone down ... oh look, you did say you wouldn't laugh.'</p> <p>After the end of the show, the couple went out to lunch in a local pub, during which Rowley did not glare Dawson's head, mutter anything about not being appreciated or ask repeatedly why he hadn't told her she was the most precious thing in the whole wide world. Professor Wilde welcomed this development but cautioned against it being seen as a new trend.</p> <p>'Listening to loved-up saps and their puke-inducing radio dedications is an essential safety valve for some people,' he said, glancing nervously at his wife. 'But best leave them to it - it might be dangerous to point out that most of the men are doing it because of guilt over their last affair or because they are hoping to finally get some anal. No, dear, not me, obviously...' </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11326 Fri, 07 May 2010 11:08:41 +0000 brownpaperreporter 11326@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The answer is obvious, Steve Wrights show must be coming live from the Isle of Wight </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11324 Fri, 07 May 2010 11:02:22 +0000 Ostsee 11324@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>This is a bit like The Mousetrap. Everyone knows the plot but is sworn not to tell. But I suppose it had to come out someday and on average May 7th is a pretty dull day, you get the same old day year in, year out with nothing exciting happening. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11320 Fri, 07 May 2010 10:56:07 +0000 MADJEZ 11320@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Last time I listened to Steve Wright on R2 I was convinced they were running repeats of his 1980s show. It's identical, same jingles, jokes, 70s &amp; 80s music. The only thing that's updated is the news. I think he actually died years ago and they've frozen his body at Broadcssting House (along with Jimmy Young). </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11305 Fri, 07 May 2010 08:56:56 +0000 Ostsee 11305@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Perhaps we should only consider those DJs still alive. This includes brain dead ones. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11301 Fri, 07 May 2010 08:30:35 +0000 Griffin 11301@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>How about Jack Jackson? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11297 Fri, 07 May 2010 08:18:27 +0000 Ostsee 11297@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>.....and Jack de Manio. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11294 Fri, 07 May 2010 08:05:09 +0000 Oxbridge 11294@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Steve Wright's twattish unfunniness makes me SO ANGRY I could throw the phone down </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11273 Fri, 07 May 2010 06:14:42 +0000 Ostsee 11273@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Bring back Jimmy Young. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11245 Thu, 06 May 2010 21:28:22 +0000 The All New Jeni B 11245@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Duff, seriously, don't take it personally. If you read the "Guidelines for writers" on the home page, the Editor explains that these things happen, and that we can expect this to happen.</p> <p>Stick around, you're doing good work. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11223 Thu, 06 May 2010 18:37:18 +0000 QorbeQ 11223@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Shades of Roy Orbison, Stevie Wonder and The Blues Brothers. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11215 Thu, 06 May 2010 18:15:06 +0000 Mrblacker 11215@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>shades of Rex 'Bob' Lowenstein......... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11208 Thu, 06 May 2010 17:44:19 +0000 PluckyMunky 11208@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>No! Stop now, Mr Duff! Believe me, I have been through this. I am a writer and also have a fragile ego and have often taken things said on here too personally. I was used to a very different sort of writing, before I came on here. I am well known, I suppose, for threatening to leave the site. Hang on in there! It is worth it. Yours, Plucky. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11201 Thu, 06 May 2010 17:36:36 +0000 Duff 11201@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Couldn't agree more about nothing new under the sun err...can I call you Plucky?</p> <p>Like all writers I have a rather delicate ego from time to time. If somebody says what I have written is shite then that's fair game. Not nice to hear, but you can't win 'em all.</p> <p>However if somebody suggests that I have ripped something off then, and I'm afraid to paraphrase (or should that be steal?) the words of Mr Vic Reeves</p> <p>"I won't let it lie!"</p> <p>I have better things to do than to be made look a wanker when "found out".</p> <p>*Bows out of discussion* </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11196 Thu, 06 May 2010 17:30:38 +0000 PluckyMunky 11196@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I suppose most writing is a variation on a theme. "There ain't nought new under the sun", as Gracie Fields said. </p> <p>Mr Duff, there are disagreements fairly regularly, on NB and I have been involved in a few of them, having been a bit thin skinned. Mr Jez is right: your sub was very funny (and he is a good judge of these things). Bless us all. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11193 Thu, 06 May 2010 17:19:19 +0000 MADJEZ 11193@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yes yours was very funny Duff, unfortunatley the 'legendary' Wogan story not only made the front page but was also read out on-air by the man himself on his second last day.</p> <p>I don't think simonjmr's link was meant to be a blunt as it appeared merely a 'this has been done before' comment. Everyone gets em, once you've been here long enough you'll start trying to decide if the story you just thought of was original or if you heard it on here !! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11192 Thu, 06 May 2010 17:14:33 +0000 Duff 11192@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks PluckyMunky. You have restored my faith in the site. </p> <p>They both have the same starting point but to me anybody reading both beyond the opening paragraph can see they are saying totally different things. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11190 Thu, 06 May 2010 17:02:35 +0000 PluckyMunky 11190@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yours is good, too, Mr Duff. I once heard SW assure someone, on air, that he wasn't a 'DJ' but a 'broadcaster'. Hardly modest. </p> <p>There are lots of ways of skinning the cat and yours is as good as anyones. Have a handful of stars. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11183 Thu, 06 May 2010 16:38:32 +0000 Duff 11183@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ahh, I see. It appears that I plagiarized it. Damn! How could I have been so foolish as to think that I'd get away with it? </p> <p>I fear that I am not in any position to really comment as I have never seen the first story until 30 minutes ago (after simonjmr posted link to it) having only joined the site 2 days ago. Mind, I have now read it and agree it's very good. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11178 Thu, 06 May 2010 16:34:34 +0000 PluckyMunky 11178@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>That's a bit sharp, Mr Minnit. Mr Duff probably wouldn't have seen that one. Bless him. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11176 Thu, 06 May 2010 16:20:31 +0000 arthurminnit 11176@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>Not sure why you have posted that link. Please explain</blockquote></p> <p>cos it was funnier first time around, perhaps? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11175 Thu, 06 May 2010 16:04:23 +0000 Duff 11175@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Not sure why you have posted that link. Please explain. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11171 Thu, 06 May 2010 15:58:42 +0000 simonjmr 11171@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2009/12/16/wogan-siege-enters-fifth-day/" rel="nofollow">http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2009/12/16/wogan-siege-enters-fifth-day/</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3939#post-11168 Thu, 06 May 2010 15:48:35 +0000 Duff 11168@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Wacky Radio 2 Disc Jockey, Steve Wright, has locked himself in his studio and is refusing to come off-air unless the station's top-brass exceed to his demands. The seventies throwback is said to be unhappy with his recent treatment at the BBC, and feels that people are sniggering behind his back every time he mentions his "Big Show"</p> <p>Wright has consistently referred to his show in this manner for years; as if it was in some way better or more deserving of higher billing than those of say, Chris Evans or Ken Bruce. He has always maintained that he's just being ironic, but it's no secret that this behaviour has put a few big noses out of joint in recent times.</p> <p>The veteran 'jock' has had quite a bit of time off-air lately and tongues have begun wagging round Portland Place. Rumours are rife in broadcasting circles that the former 'big hitter' is being eased-out of his afternoon slot in favour of one of his recent stand-ins.</p> <p>It's understood affable Steve is demanding that all staff at the station call him 'Your Majesty'. Upon entry to broadcasting house each day, he is insisting that he is crowned with a ermine-trimmed gold crown and full ceremonial robes in a short coronation ceremony held in reception, and finally, that a flag bearing his family's crest is flown from the flagpole on the roof at all times when he is in the building.</p> <p>A spokesman for the station issued the following statement.</p> <p>"The corporation is extremely grateful for all of Steve's past efforts, but one DJ does not an amazing daytime schedule make. If Steve comes out of his own volition we may be prepared to talk. There's a new slot between 2.30 and 4.30am on Sunday mornings. We're very excited about it and we'd love to put all this silliness behind us and sound him out about taking up a new challenge".</p> <p>The standoff is now entering its second day and has taken a sinister turn as Wright is refusing to allow his comedy sidekick, The Old Woman, out of the studio. Trained negotiators are said to be standing by armed with tranquilizer guns and chloroform-soaked rags. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1651#post-4626 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:54:44 +0000 Basil_B 4626@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'll break the silence to say nice work Oxbridge.<br /> That Steve Wright love song show always gets me darting to the retuning dial. I'd rather listen to gardners question time (I fucking hate gardening) or some cheese weasel DJ from Radio local than listen to Steve bring me a bucket to throw up in Wrights love song show. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1651#post-4607 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:59:10 +0000 Oxbridge 4607@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It's the ominous silence that I can't stand... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1651#post-4577 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:07:42 +0000 Oxbridge 4577@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sociologists across Britain are hailing a breakthrough in human behaviour last Sunday morning as a 37-year-old woman from Buckinghamshire sat through Steve Wright's 'Sunday Love Songs' without intending it as a silent reproach to her partner. Jessica Rowley, a marketing manager in a High Wycombe multimedia firm, told reporters that she and her boyfriend Gary Dawson simply started listening to Radio 2 at random.</p> <p>'I quite liked the music so I carried on listening - maybe I'm showing my age,' Rowley told reporters. 'All that slush about these couples who have been blissfully happy for 25 years was a bit nauseating, but I was busy and I couldn't be bothered to change channels.'</p> <p>According to Professor Roy Wilde, author of 'You Never Say Those Things to Me: Why Women Fall for Romantic Drivel', about 70% of women listen to 'Sunday Love Songs' and other shows like it to convince their husbands that they ought to worship the dust under her feet, while most of the others are fantasising about a perfect ex that they should have stayed with. Rowley, however, says that neither applies to her.</p> <p>'Gary is a fairly average bloke but then I'm a fairly average woman, so that's OK,' she said. 'Look, if you promise not to laugh at me - when I was younger, I thought Steve Wright was hilarious. Do you remember Mr Angry? He always used to get so angry he'd throw the phone down ... oh look, you did say you wouldn't laugh.'</p> <p>After the end of the show, the couple went out to lunch in a local pub, during which Rowley did not glare at the side of Dawson's head, mutter anything about not being appreciated or ask if she was the most precious thing in the whole wide world. Professor Wilde welcomed the development but cautioned against it being seen as a new trend.</p> <p>'Listening to loved-up saps and their puke-inducing dedications on the radio may be an essential safety valve for some women,' he said. 'It might be dangerous to point out that most of them are doing it because of guilt at their last affair or because they are hoping to get anal that night.' </p>