Comments on: Here’s Judie Tzuke to take us up to the news

By: Chris The Siteowner

Chris The Siteowner — Sat, 29 May 2010 22:54:10 +0000

Indeed he does. But I’d still contend that’s spelt “down”.

By: Dave F.

Dave F. — Sat, 29 May 2010 19:01:25 +0000

After the Pat Boone line he sings it as “dow-wow-wow-wown”

By: Chris The Siteowner

Chris The Siteowner — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:34:56 +0000

Oh bloody hell, thank you. What a howler.

By: Dave Cooper

Dave Cooper — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:19:53 +0000

Utterly pedantic but I think “Judy” Tzuke should actually be “Judie”.

By: TWO FAT FEET

TWO FAT FEET — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:21:44 +0000

Probably cos it’s a great name.

By: Norbert D

Norbert D — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:20:31 +0000

Yeah, that’s what I thought/hoped. Still grates a bit for me, though, anyway.

It’s that “questions in corners of my mind that lurk” bit too, like the bad comic on an episode of The Simpsons – “I think about weird things. Like what if ET married Mr T? Then you’d get Mr ET, wouldn’t you? ‘I pity the fool that doesn’t phone home’.”

I’d have thought NB57 would be quite into Judy Tzuke. Not sure why.

By: TWO FAT FEET

TWO FAT FEET — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:11:51 +0000

I have to say I felt much the same as Norbert, the road gritters line seemed like a rare slip from Nigel. It was only when I heard him do the song on an Andy Kershaw session that it clicked, that the whole verse was a send-up of crass DJs. Pity Judie Tzuke had to be denigrated by association though, I quite like that song she had.

By: Charles Exford

Charles Exford — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:13:20 +0000

Given the contents of the adjacent lines, I’ve always assumed it’s a piss-take of people (particularly people like stand-ups & DJs) who think it’s original to say things like “How do the road-gritters get to work ?”, which you hear every bloody winter from people who think it’s original, when it’s fairly obvious that the gritters usually go out before the snow falls, and that if the roads were truly impassible they wouldn’t get to work.

After all, NB57 himself is not actually in a position to give out a cruise, wheras the kind of DJ who plays Judy Tsuke might be.

By: Norbert D

Norbert D — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:47:38 +0000

I always hated that road gritters line, as it really did seem like the kind of whimsical, bad-stand-up line HMHB usually manage to steer clear of (hence the radio DJ patter that comes after it, maybe).

But it’s a fair point, isn’t it? I still don’t know how the road gritters get to work.

By: TWO FAT FEET

TWO FAT FEET — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:48:56 +0000

Don’t the road gritters get to work BEFORE the snow to grit the roads in preparation?

Actually no, they probably don’t and it shows.

Had this song as my ringtone for a bit, then I changed my phone and couldn’t work out how to program it in again.