UK TV

Although I might come across as a lovely fellow online – fingers crossed – I have, occasionally, done very bad things. One of these was to take my lovely wife to see Simon Munnery as The League Against Tedium (described by blog god Stewart Lee as occupying the wasteland where comedy meets art since no one else wants to) when we were first dating. Quite why she stuck with me after that, I don’t know.

Munnery went on to have two TV shows – Either/Or, a game show which I was on briefly and ended up losing/winning; and a BBC2 show Attention Scum. Just to give you the full flavour of what I put her through, here’s a clip.

Apologies again, lovely wife.

Everyone wonders why Amazon recommends particular books ("You’ve recently read Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. You might also be interested in Steven King’s The Shining and Gordon Ramsay’s The F-Word") or, in the US, why Tivo recommends particular TV shows – watched a documentary on the Korean war recently? Maybe you’d like to watch Lost then… No? Okay, we’re foxed…

But now YouTube’s recommending videos. And I’m wondering why, out of all the vast range of videos on offer on YouTube, the only one that’s recommended for me is the title sequence to 1970s kids show (that I never watched) The Double Deckers. What’s up there? And what does it say about me (be kind)?