As I predicted a week or so ago, Jeremy Newsboy’s new show Eating Media Lunch is a lot of fun. But who could have guessed exactly how much hilarity it would have prompted in the past 24 hours?
Yesterday afternoon Jeremy came up to bFM, as he does each Thursday, for a little feature we like to call Newsboy’s World of Sport. We talk, largely about cricket and rugby, people email us telling us we’re wrong, we admit we don’t know squat. It’s what they call interactive radio.
But yesterday Jeremy came bearing gifts. “Have a listen to this,” he says, a cheeky (some would say sinister) gleam in his eye.
Okay, enough build up: Here’s the Mike King phone message you're looking for.
What else needs to be said really?
Actually, I should add, Jeremy didn’t mean it to get out beyond his immediate circle of friends. I know that because I asked him what he was going to do about it. He said “nothing, we’ll just hang on to it, see what happens.” But things this precious, this classic have ways of getting out. And sure enough, after doing the rounds of a major advertising agency, it found its way quickly to TV3 News, and now to the front page of the Herald. I have it on good authority TV3 will be following up the story this evening.
I called Jeremy last night. He was sitting in the dark, contemplating life. Or so he says. I could imagine that grin getting ever wider, a smoking jacket, glass of cognac perhaps. When you’ve been Eating Media Lunch for a couple of weeks, it’s good to have a solid feed of New Zealand Pork.
Oh and in case you were thinking its an isolated incident, it's certainly not the first time Mike's potty mouth has run away from him, on tape (.mov file). Here it is as a Windows Media file.
A friend in the know also advises me:
"He sent a stroppy email to the Star-Times when Megan Nicol Reed (very briefly) panned his show. The b must be buzzing with the thought that New Zealand's favourite comedian has been outed as a psycho."
Ok. Enough about that, back to me for a sec. As you know I’m off to the Lord of the Rings junket in Wellington tomorrow. For all you fans out there, I will be posting a review about the film on Saturday, and more stuff after the premiere and junket on Sunday/Monday.
Have a great weekend. I know I'm going to.