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The sketch where Mark Heap installs a giant woodchipper on his ex's front garden, jumps into it and sprays him bloody remains over her bedroom window is legit the most fucked up laughing fit I've ever had.
I'm in a weird sleep deprived mood so the punchline about the guy jumping off the balcony on the first floor 40 times instead of the fortieth once absolutely slaughtered me
The Blue Jam radio show is available on UA-cam, and is a great to listen to as you drift off to sleep. A lot of the music has been removed for copyright reasons, which means it's hard to get the full, weird experience that original listeners had at 2am when it first broadcast. But it's close.
I love that TV Lizard sketch so much. The technician slowly antagonising the couple with his advice to the shit eating grin he has on his face saying that he is "Mr. Lizard" and that his boss is "Mr. Lizardé" while the husband loses his fucking mind is hysterical. pure gold.
I once described this series as "comedy so black you have to sign a waiver saying you're not Anish Kapoor or acting as his representative before you're allowed to laugh at it".
I'm a dirty American obsessed with British comedy shows and drinking a bunch of nyquil while sick and binging Big Train, Fifteen Storeys High, Monkey Dust and Jam over the course of a week is one of the greatest memories I have. Chris Morris is the best.
Green Wing is one of my favourites of that era, it was a surreal show set in a hospital that had story arcs like a drama but was just absurd jokes from beginning to end. To this day it is my favourite UK comedy even surpassing Big Train and Spaced, thankfully the entire cast are from those two shows and the shows you mentioned.
Plumber Baby / Smart Pipes remains one of my favourite sketches of all time. It is so well-written. On top of the main premise, there is a back story about the woman's relationship with her husband being strained by the death of their child that is revealed in some of the throwaway lines ("You fixed the taps and you did a lovely job - they've never dripped since. And what's more important, a baby or a tap? He's only 3 weeks and they're supposed to last much longer. My husband says he'll leave if I keep talking about the taps, but I know I'm right." and the faded out closing lines of "Oh, you've got such smart pipes! I think Daddy will like your pipes. I don't think he'll go when he sees your pipes."). And you just know that there is further tragedy round the corner when the husband comes home to find that his insane, grief-stricken wife has routed the boiler through the corpse of their dead baby.
That sketch is devastating, but so fundamental. Incredible how a 'comedy' sketch can evoke such a wide range of emotions. A commentary on how bereaved mothers will do everything they can, even to the edge of madness. I was floored when I heard it again recently.
I don't know why, but that TV lizard sketch has me crying from laughter. There's just something about the dude slowly descending into a mental breakdown while the TV repair guy teases him and runs out laughing
I've never experienced anything like this before, despite being very into surreal and absurd comedy. I started laughing hysterically when he broke down, without knowing what in particular I found funny about it. Amazing
Hearing #20 from Aphex Twin slowly fade in while Davis tells that woman about the man (presumably her husband or son) that drowned in his canoe was an utterly terrifying yet powerful moment. I gotta watch this show...
One of the best shows ever made. I once made the mistake of trying to share it with a group of folk after a dinner party. The stunned silence haunts me. :)
Monkey Dust was also notable for its use of music and is dark af , regular characters include The Paedofinder General and a divorced father who tries really hard to connect with his son but it goes wrong every week ( I won't elaborate as it's a spoiler)
A few other dark animated shows that come to mind in a similar vein are Modern Toss, Popetown, and Arrgh! It's the Mr. Hell Show! Mr Hell is on UA-cam. Not sure about the others...
I love Jam, watched it relentlessly when the DVD came out, listened to the CD too many times to mention. Chris Morris is such a genius, and the cast have never bettered their off kilter performances here. Julia Davis especially kills every scene, my personal fave is the 'hiring stupid people to do jobs for you' sketch, so masterfully performed that it perfectly encapsulates the experience. And as you said, the soundtrack is freaking awesome
at 7:39 it's worth noting that 'brief timelapse' is actually very early use of motion control technology which was a wildly ambitious thing to use for a small comedy sketch show - more groundbreaking visuals...
I remember an animation sketch show called Monkey Dust around the same time as Jam which had a similar creepy dark feel. The only cast member I can recall is Mordena Banks who was part a 90’s comedy sketch show called Absolutely. Both shows are worth seeking out.
@@howtoappearincompletely9739Even if they did, they wouldn't have the original accompanying music, better to download them from somewhere. Still to this day extremely relevant.
Mark Heap is a gem. His impression of a bar patron interpreting everyone’s banter as an jab at him not being married in Big Train is absolutely hysterical.
Yes I wanted to comment, " I'm not afraid of you" But it might be, "I'm not scared of you" And now I think he may have added, "... you know", at the end. I'd have just watched it, but if I do, I might not find your comment again, so I can share our pleasure at the brilliance of this sketch.
Thank you for doing a video on this !!! Literally a top 3 show ever made for me, no other show has blurred the line between deprived horror and potent, indistinguishable satire like Jam. The soundtrack is amazing too, plentiful of Aphex Twin, Stereolab, Mixmaster Morris and Eno! Shoutout the Richard D James album in the back you got when showing off the CD hahaha. Aphex the goat! Hope this channel gets more attention since the quality and editing is incredible ! Four lions is the best film ever made too hahaha
I luv little british man in my computer screen. I can't believe you have only been doing this for such a short amount of time. the amount of effort and entertainment I got just out of your two videos is more than I get out of some entire UA-cam channels out there. and the fact that you can create such interesting and honestly refreshing experiences while still not excessively stretching your videos is admirable. I am completely mystified by you mister and I hope to see many more surprises from you. 💜 I am so glad UA-cam randomly recommended me your videos
Your channel is immensely underrated and I’m really looking forward to more content like this! The way you described such a niche and morbid show in a way that got me invested proves you’re a great content creator. Real funny too!
@@reubengvTV fr only found you now but the amount of views in the Russian Roulette vid sure is a very good indicator of how good u are. Looking forward to whatever u are planning to do
Always great to hear people talking about JAM, I think it's one of the greatest things ever televised. The DVD has alternative versions of each episode, my personal favourite being for episode 3. It's called 'Quadrilateral Lava Lamp Version' and though practically unwatchable, the memory of my friend and I watching it and absolutely howling with laughter for 20 minutes is something I treasure. I recently uploaded it on my channel as I couldn't find it anywhere online to those interested. Also a travesty that no comments mention David Cann, his lovely buttery voice is so perfectly suited to contrast the surreal horrors of this show.
Mark Heap had an amazing career around this time. He went from Spaced, to Jam to Green Wing, creating an overall amazing ability to act like a bloke who's just about ready to lose his mind. Kevin Eldon was similar, but his shtick was about being able to play roles with various strange accents. In Black Books we was "The Cleaner", in IT Crowd a computer helpline with a voice that could barely be legible, and is still going to this day, most recently seen in Doctor Who as the alien 'ribbons'.
"I AM Rod Hull!" Eldon also managed the impossible, and pulled the Dad's Army : Lost Episodes together with his Clive Dunn as Lance Corporal Jones impersonation.
@@DokkaChapman I've always thought of Eldon, Heap and Davis as the glue that binds. Julia Davis was one of the few good things about Gavin and Stacey. Her portrayal of bored housewife on the cusp of a sexual awakening stole the show. That's probably why Corden used her sparingly.
I just watched your last video after it was recommended to me and here you are uploading the next one in the exact same moment. Must be destiny haha. Keep up the good work.
man! im just getting my mind blown by ever episode... i started by watching episode 4 (dont know why)... the one with the "making people need help" made me trip, the music with the "drowning with his canoe" scene... i cant believe this show... im loving it so much... already watched episode 1 and 2... the music and the camera works are amazing thanks a lot for sharing it!
The best bit about the box set is a link to an audio file where you can watch the shows to the accompaniment of distant artillery fire. The link doesn't work, of course, but I still spent about an hour getting stuck in loops on thier deliberately obtuse website trying to find it.
I appreciate the nod towards Nothing To Do With Me by Stereolab song in the background at the start. Researching lyrics and finding out they only used quotes from Jam was how I learned about Chris Morris.
Ah man, brings back so many wonderful memories. I used to love listening to Blue Jam on late night radio 1 back in the day, not only was it so refreshingly dark and funny, but he music tracks that played in between the sketches were fantastic. And then a few years later, the TV show was just as good. Chris Morris, the genius!
Morris struck literal gold with that cast. Eldon, Heap and Davis are three of the finest comedic actors that Britain has ever produced. I'm hoping you get around to Nighty Night at some point, because Julia's work is continually overlooked and frankly that's criminal.
Idk why youtubes recommendations for me are so on point. Love discovering lesser known youtubers who make content this top-tier. Keep it up man, looking forward to more.
before Jam, there was "blue jam". It was on the radio in the wee hours so you had to either stay up or get up at about 2-3am and then some would record the rambling weirdness on a C90 cassette tape. If you were a bit tech savvy, setting a timer switch and praying to the porcelain Gods, you could possibly wake up and the cassette tape was probably chewed to bits by your Sanyo tape recorder. Thus recordings of Blue Jam are few and far between.
There waa a CD, which lost sone of its 'bite', I think. Probably the proximity to trendy Warp cultdom - one needed to chance upon it for the full effect.
My favourite character was the doctor. Fave sketch 'Casual Parents'. Hope your post introduces people to this long-forgotten, dark gem of a series! Not watched it for years; I've been in Symptomless-Coma for quite a while 😂. 👍
Wow one add break in the middle is great. In the US it's about 4. They also like to add a commercial whem the episode is done, but they'll leave a 15 seconds closer that you'll miss out on if you dont wait. But then right after that 15 sec you have a another ad break before the next show. No surprise the internet won
I saw Suicide With An Escape Clause in the early days of UA-cam and it remains one of the best things I've ever seen with my morbid little eyes. My other favourite suicide joke: I tried leaving my car running in a closed garage but ... my car is electric, so eventually the battery just died and I was jealous of the battery. (Australian comic, iirc, and I would kill to know her name. I remember really curly light brown or blonde hair)
The algorithm served me well today -- had never heard of this show (or your channel), and if the sketches you included in this showcase are any indication, it will be among my favorites. Thanks for putting me onto something old that I likely never would've heard about otherwise. Cheers!
I had to move my driver seat as far forward as I could to move a bed in my old hatchback. Spent the majority of the journey shouting "FUCKING NODDY?!!!"
I was lucky enough to watch this when it first aired. Completely blew me away. One of the most original, but still compelling, TV experiments I've witnessed.
holy shit dude, i'm loving these videos, something proper special about old channel 4, warp media and all. i got this record made by chris in an oxfam a couple months ago, bushwacked 2, picked it up cause it looked a bit daft but when i found out chris and warp were linked to it it all clicked in my head haha, well worth a check out if you can find it about anywhere
I'm a huge fan of both artists and I absolutely recommend Jam. The music is always great by itself but the dissonance between the relative calmness of something like "#20"/"Lichen" by Aphex Twin or "An Ending (Ascent)" by Eno and the absolutely unhinged nature of the sketches they soundtrack is worth the price of admission alone, but Chris Morris is one of the funniest people working and you'll be able to tell because so many Jam sketches are all-timers. Plus, the show is short, so it's easy to watch in one go if you can get past how disturbing the contents of some of its sketches are.
I love how you decide to cover very surreal and insane topics and this show seems very david lynch inspired. Beautiful video man i hope you keep making them!
Ahh man, the sketch where the guy enlists the help of a little girl with a mutated voice to help get rid of a dead body. So fucked up and yet also wonderful
Good video thanks for posting this cause it unlocked some vague memory I have of catching some of this show randomly on tv late at night and never remembering what it was called or even what channel it was on... Need to look this up.
Great comedy you wont see again. Chris Morris is a genius. If you purchased Jam on DVD and chose to play in Jam mode I think it was the disc would play the whole contents in that slurry slow motion and you could NEVER get it back to normal mode.
Jam is brilliant I'm so glad it's getting some attention again I saw Limmy talking about it the other day too. Also I highly recommend the series "Nathan Barley".
Damn dude, you’ve only got a couple videos and your already one of my favourite UA-camrs. Look forward to many more videos to come, but don’t stress yourself out, make what makes you happy🙏
I’m from the states, and I’ll never forget reading about it in 2008. I wanted to expand my horizons with what media and comedy could do. I found the entire series posted on UA-cam. The sense of dread, existential horror, and hilarity left me petrified. It haunted my nights. Similar to what watching “Eraserhead” was like when I was sixteen a few years prior. Jumping many years later and it still a captivating series that brings back great memories. This video was a great summation of “Jam”. (BTW:The series is still available to watch on UA-cam if you search well enough!)
I was a huge Day Today/Brass Eye fan at the time. Caught one of the middle episodes, the one with the Mark Heap Homunculus intro which itself I found genuinely upsetting, but I did watch the rest. Later my brother got the DVD (I'm not sure if I told him about it or he found it on his own) and I watched all six episodes in one sitting. I think I laughed maybe twice? I don't watch TV much anymore and I don't really miss it. What I do miss is channel hopping late at night and running into uncomfortable, weird stuff that I was too young to really understand.
i just found this channel and my god i love it! your content is amazing. genuinely one of my favourite youtube channels now :) can’t wait for what you’ll put out next!
There's also the remix series Jaaaaam, which takes the unnerving qualities to the next level. Not for everyone but then again the best things usually are.
Jam almost feels like proto Adult Swim but in a much drier, subdued British way. Totally can see how this series was ahead of it's time, like it almost predates post-ironic internet humor by like 20 or so years.
I had never heard of this. Thank you very much for introducing me to it, seems like exactly the kind of thing that I would like! Warp has produced some of my favorite artists, including Boards of Canada and Squarepusher. It's hard for me to learn about things like this since I live in New York City, so I really appreciate you putting this together!
The more love letters to JAM the better, my friends older brother showed it to me one night when I was 15 after he came home from a party - off his head on speed SCREAMING "You must look at the subtex!!t" but 12 years later I truly understand lol
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Great work!!!! Already excited for your next one!!! I'm going to have to watch jam now. It seems like a surreal adventure to say the least!!!
it's a damn shame the algorithm didn't push this video nearly as much as the first one, but I still loved it :D
Really appreciate the accurate subtitles, not many people manually write them.
keep making the videos for yourself and we'll know how to appreciate it... thanks again
The sketch where Mark Heap installs a giant woodchipper on his ex's front garden, jumps into it and sprays him bloody remains over her bedroom window is legit the most fucked up laughing fit I've ever had.
Martina! I'm coming back, Martina!
I did not want to see this comment today this is fucking disgusting...
Thomas Dolby playing in background. Gold.
I'm in a weird sleep deprived mood so the punchline about the guy jumping off the balcony on the first floor 40 times instead of the fortieth once absolutely slaughtered me
Watching video essays while sleep deprived is an incredible feeling.
its hard to keep your eyes opened.@@INeedToSeeYourBalls1945
That is funny
@@INeedToSeeYourBalls1945you don't get suicidal or have seizures if you lose too much sleep?
It really happened
The show feels like the most accurate depiction of dreaming
Like your stuck and confused
yeah its a fever dream.
i swear ive seen some of these clips in my dreams before im sure of it
Was just thinking the same 😬
The Blue Jam radio show is available on UA-cam, and is a great to listen to as you drift off to sleep.
A lot of the music has been removed for copyright reasons, which means it's hard to get the full, weird experience that original listeners had at 2am when it first broadcast. But it's close.
I love that TV Lizard sketch so much. The technician slowly antagonising the couple with his advice to the shit eating grin he has on his face saying that he is "Mr. Lizard" and that his boss is "Mr. Lizardé" while the husband loses his fucking mind is hysterical. pure gold.
For some reason it reminds me John I Want a Divorce ua-cam.com/video/XDXrP9HET2A/v-deo.html
You dotn undsteand how loud i was fucking laughing just the way that he says it AND I FIND TEH ENDING FUNNY
WHY IS THIS 4TH SKetch SO FUNNY TOO THE WAY SHE SAYS THAT SHIT TO A PERSON BREAKING DOWN CRYING ITS HILARIOUS
Mark Heap is great in everything he's done, especially his work with Chris Morris.
it's my favourite sketch of all time
I once described this series as "comedy so black you have to sign a waiver saying you're not Anish Kapoor or acting as his representative before you're allowed to laugh at it".
i wasn’t expecting an art pigment fanbase deepcut here in the comments. very niche but very explanatory
hilarious
I’m glad you made a video about this obscure british show before pyrocynical did.
I'm a dirty American obsessed with British comedy shows and drinking a bunch of nyquil while sick and binging Big Train, Fifteen Storeys High, Monkey Dust and Jam over the course of a week is one of the greatest memories I have. Chris Morris is the best.
Great shows. Hunt down Snuffbox too. Matt Berry & Rich Fulcher's sketch show.
LOVE Snuff Box. I could listen to both Matt Berry and Rich Fulcher read a dictionary.
@@bigjonradio
Monkey Dust! There's another blast of high-octane nightmare fuel.
Monkey dust was awesome...in fact every series you mention is awesome...
Green Wing is one of my favourites of that era, it was a surreal show set in a hospital that had story arcs like a drama but was just absurd jokes from beginning to end. To this day it is my favourite UK comedy even surpassing Big Train and Spaced, thankfully the entire cast are from those two shows and the shows you mentioned.
I clicked this thinking "if it's not Jam, he's wrong".
I clicked on it thinking "If it's not Jam, I'll van him to the fens."
@@markboyle9941I clicked on this thinking "if it's not jam I'm going to go and swallow a gun and find this guy"
Plumber Baby / Smart Pipes remains one of my favourite sketches of all time. It is so well-written. On top of the main premise, there is a back story about the woman's relationship with her husband being strained by the death of their child that is revealed in some of the throwaway lines ("You fixed the taps and you did a lovely job - they've never dripped since. And what's more important, a baby or a tap? He's only 3 weeks and they're supposed to last much longer. My husband says he'll leave if I keep talking about the taps, but I know I'm right." and the faded out closing lines of "Oh, you've got such smart pipes! I think Daddy will like your pipes. I don't think he'll go when he sees your pipes."). And you just know that there is further tragedy round the corner when the husband comes home to find that his insane, grief-stricken wife has routed the boiler through the corpse of their dead baby.
That sketch is devastating, but so fundamental. Incredible how a 'comedy' sketch can evoke such a wide range of emotions. A commentary on how bereaved mothers will do everything they can, even to the edge of madness. I was floored when I heard it again recently.
I don't know why, but that TV lizard sketch has me crying from laughter. There's just something about the dude slowly descending into a mental breakdown while the TV repair guy teases him and runs out laughing
Thank fuck I'm not the only one lol
you'll like the one where they shrink kevin eldons car, that was the 1fps one shown lol
I've never experienced anything like this before, despite being very into surreal and absurd comedy.
I started laughing hysterically when he broke down, without knowing what in particular I found funny about it. Amazing
@@davidhatred7275 Who's going to drive that, FUCKING NODDY?!!?!
Hearing #20 from Aphex Twin slowly fade in while Davis tells that woman about the man (presumably her husband or son) that drowned in his canoe was an utterly terrifying yet powerful moment. I gotta watch this show...
But it's ok because she got to see Cats.
This whole show basically feels like if Aphex Twin made TV shows instead of music
@@nathanmcgill7249 as I understand it, Chris Morris and Richard D James are mates and have worked together on projects
If it's made by Chris Morris, then it's going to scar you and leave you laughing maniacally in equal portions. God I love it
One of the best shows ever made. I once made the mistake of trying to share it with a group of folk after a dinner party. The stunned silence haunts me. :)
Ha! You've gotta be hugely selective who you share it with. Just put the plumber sketch on loop with your work colleagues....
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I always suggest it when I meet new people as I find it is a good measure of the people. If they love it then we can be friends.
My 'ex' refused to watch it. Her stated justification was deeply unconvincing.
Monkey Dust was also notable for its use of music and is dark af , regular characters include The Paedofinder General and a divorced father who tries really hard to connect with his son but it goes wrong every week ( I won't elaborate as it's a spoiler)
Monkey Dust is a masterpiece. I've never seen something so unrelentingly depressing and misanthropic lol
TIMMMMMIEEE!!!!!
Don't forget first time cottager.
I'm Ivan Dobsky, the meatsafe murderer!
@@robdielemans9189 Primero cottagero
A few other dark animated shows that come to mind in a similar vein are Modern Toss, Popetown, and Arrgh! It's the Mr. Hell Show! Mr Hell is on UA-cam. Not sure about the others...
I love Jam, watched it relentlessly when the DVD came out, listened to the CD too many times to mention. Chris Morris is such a genius, and the cast have never bettered their off kilter performances here. Julia Davis especially kills every scene, my personal fave is the 'hiring stupid people to do jobs for you' sketch, so masterfully performed that it perfectly encapsulates the experience. And as you said, the soundtrack is freaking awesome
at 7:39 it's worth noting that 'brief timelapse' is actually very early use of motion control technology which was a wildly ambitious thing to use for a small comedy sketch show - more groundbreaking visuals...
I knew Chris Morris from IT Crowd personally and never thought any fucking second he would have played on that show.
Glad to learn with you, Reuben.
I remember an animation sketch show called Monkey Dust around the same time as Jam which had a similar creepy dark feel. The only cast member I can recall is Mordena Banks who was part a 90’s comedy sketch show called Absolutely. Both shows are worth seeking out.
Monkey Dust was f***d up 😅
Espionage when Clive is walking home to Goldfrap 😅
Monkey Dust was amazing. Such a shame the BBC never released the second and third series on DVD...
@@howtoappearincompletely9739Even if they did, they wouldn't have the original accompanying music, better to download them from somewhere. Still to this day extremely relevant.
Mista hopppiiiiiieeee!
Clive, where have you REALLY been?
(Sigh) I've spent the last 6 years trying to fill a bathtub with spunk.
Mark Heap is a gem. His impression of a bar patron interpreting everyone’s banter as an jab at him not being married in Big Train is absolutely hysterical.
Coke cans, not Tango, coke!
Yes
I wanted to comment, " I'm not afraid of you"
But it might be, "I'm not scared of you"
And now I think he may have added, "... you know", at the end.
I'd have just watched it, but if I do, I might not find your comment again, so I can share our pleasure at the brilliance of this sketch.
I love this era of British comedy, and jam and big train were both highlights imo
Thank you for doing a video on this !!! Literally a top 3 show ever made for me, no other show has blurred the line between deprived horror and potent, indistinguishable satire like Jam. The soundtrack is amazing too, plentiful of Aphex Twin, Stereolab, Mixmaster Morris and Eno! Shoutout the Richard D James album in the back you got when showing off the CD hahaha. Aphex the goat! Hope this channel gets more attention since the quality and editing is incredible ! Four lions is the best film ever made too hahaha
I thought no one would notice that!!! Cheers for the comment 🙌
I luv little british man in my computer screen. I can't believe you have only been doing this for such a short amount of time. the amount of effort and entertainment I got just out of your two videos is more than I get out of some entire UA-cam channels out there. and the fact that you can create such interesting and honestly refreshing experiences while still not excessively stretching your videos is admirable. I am completely mystified by you mister and I hope to see many more surprises from you. 💜 I am so glad UA-cam randomly recommended me your videos
Your channel is immensely underrated and I’m really looking forward to more content like this! The way you described such a niche and morbid show in a way that got me invested proves you’re a great content creator. Real funny too!
awww thank you so much!!!!
@@reubengvTV fr only found you now but the amount of views in the Russian Roulette vid sure is a very good indicator of how good u are. Looking forward to whatever u are planning to do
The 4ft card monologue is my favourite. "What am I? Fucking Noddy!"
fucking 4 foot vauxhall carton oh fucking yes!
Always great to hear people talking about JAM, I think it's one of the greatest things ever televised.
The DVD has alternative versions of each episode, my personal favourite being for episode 3. It's called 'Quadrilateral Lava Lamp Version' and though practically unwatchable, the memory of my friend and I watching it and absolutely howling with laughter for 20 minutes is something I treasure. I recently uploaded it on my channel as I couldn't find it anywhere online to those interested.
Also a travesty that no comments mention David Cann, his lovely buttery voice is so perfectly suited to contrast the surreal horrors of this show.
As someone who is depressed and suicidal the jumping off the first floor balcony bit was fucking hilarious.
This is one of my absolute favourite tv shows of all time it’s indescribable
great video reuben! it’s nice to see more attention put on channel 4s more underrated programs
hi bwurtt
Mark Heap had an amazing career around this time. He went from Spaced, to Jam to Green Wing, creating an overall amazing ability to act like a bloke who's just about ready to lose his mind.
Kevin Eldon was similar, but his shtick was about being able to play roles with various strange accents. In Black Books we was "The Cleaner", in IT Crowd a computer helpline with a voice that could barely be legible, and is still going to this day, most recently seen in Doctor Who as the alien 'ribbons'.
"I AM Rod Hull!"
Eldon also managed the impossible, and pulled the Dad's Army : Lost Episodes together with his Clive Dunn as Lance Corporal Jones impersonation.
@@bigpauliep6992 Yeah if anyone was gonna pull it off it was gonna be him.
@@DokkaChapman I've always thought of Eldon, Heap and Davis as the glue that binds. Julia Davis was one of the few good things about Gavin and Stacey. Her portrayal of bored housewife on the cusp of a sexual awakening stole the show. That's probably why Corden used her sparingly.
@@bigpauliep6992 Allegedly.
I make so much jam in my pants when I'm watching this show. It happens gleefully, from all holes. I try to save as much of it as I can
I just watched your last video after it was recommended to me and here you are uploading the next one in the exact same moment. Must be destiny haha. Keep up the good work.
man! im just getting my mind blown by ever episode...
i started by watching episode 4 (dont know why)... the one with the "making people need help" made me trip, the music with the "drowning with his canoe" scene... i cant believe this show... im loving it so much...
already watched episode 1 and 2... the music and the camera works are amazing
thanks a lot for sharing it!
man you know so much about TV shows, I'd like this to be a theme on the channel, like the place for documentaries about TV
That's the plan!
@@reubengvTV I can't wait for your next video man! you upload a video every month right?
Yeah
another reubengv banger. i don't usually watch this type of content but this kept my eyes glued to the screen the whole time
I went to your channel to find more of your content, but you only have 2 videos! One of the best first couple of videos on a channel I've ever seen.
The best bit about the box set is a link to an audio file where you can watch the shows to the accompaniment of distant artillery fire. The link doesn't work, of course, but I still spent about an hour getting stuck in loops on thier deliberately obtuse website trying to find it.
got the dvd, its one of the best purchases i ever made
I appreciate the nod towards Nothing To Do With Me by Stereolab song in the background at the start. Researching lyrics and finding out they only used quotes from Jam was how I learned about Chris Morris.
Ah man, brings back so many wonderful memories. I used to love listening to Blue Jam on late night radio 1 back in the day, not only was it so refreshingly dark and funny, but he music tracks that played in between the sketches were fantastic. And then a few years later, the TV show was just as good. Chris Morris, the genius!
Morris struck literal gold with that cast. Eldon, Heap and Davis are three of the finest comedic actors that Britain has ever produced. I'm hoping you get around to Nighty Night at some point, because Julia's work is continually overlooked and frankly that's criminal.
Do it. I was a latecomer to Nighty Night and loved it.
Jill's performance at her hubby's fake funeral was epic 😂
Hunderby is genius
Idk why youtubes recommendations for me are so on point.
Love discovering lesser known youtubers who make content this top-tier.
Keep it up man, looking forward to more.
my new favorite channel
Brass Eye credits contained the names of members of the supergroup Parliafunkadelicment
before Jam, there was "blue jam". It was on the radio in the wee hours so you had to either stay up or get up at about 2-3am and then some would record the rambling weirdness on a C90 cassette tape. If you were a bit tech savvy, setting a timer switch and praying to the porcelain Gods, you could possibly wake up and the cassette tape was probably chewed to bits by your Sanyo tape recorder. Thus recordings of Blue Jam are few and far between.
There waa a CD, which lost sone of its 'bite', I think. Probably the proximity to trendy Warp cultdom - one needed to chance upon it for the full effect.
My favourite character was the doctor. Fave sketch 'Casual Parents'.
Hope your post introduces people to this long-forgotten, dark gem of a series! Not watched it for years; I've been in Symptomless-Coma for quite a while 😂.
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Yes. EVERYPARENT, anaethseitised by horror. Madeline McCann?
I am so glad people are still enjoying Jam. Morris is a national treasure
The Gush, was a brilliant sketch!
Wow one add break in the middle is great. In the US it's about 4. They also like to add a commercial whem the episode is done, but they'll leave a 15 seconds closer that you'll miss out on if you dont wait. But then right after that 15 sec you have a another ad break before the next show. No surprise the internet won
My favourite jam extra on the dvd was the play forever feature. Couldn’t stop it unless you switch off your player
I saw Suicide With An Escape Clause in the early days of UA-cam and it remains one of the best things I've ever seen with my morbid little eyes.
My other favourite suicide joke: I tried leaving my car running in a closed garage but ... my car is electric, so eventually the battery just died and I was jealous of the battery. (Australian comic, iirc, and I would kill to know her name. I remember really curly light brown or blonde hair)
Just watched both of your videos back to back and it was an instant subscribe. Keep these videos coming please!
Wait like 7 days and you'll have one! Check the community tab for updates
The algorithm served me well today -- had never heard of this show (or your channel), and if the sketches you included in this showcase are any indication, it will be among my favorites. Thanks for putting me onto something old that I likely never would've heard about otherwise. Cheers!
epic production quality on this video dawg well done
The little girl assassin, is the worst one. I don't know whether to laugh or grimace at that one;
_"It was the f*cking boiler! F*ck off!"_
the shrunken car sketch still regularly gets quoted in my friend group haha
FUCKING NODDY??
I had to move my driver seat as far forward as I could to move a bed in my old hatchback. Spent the majority of the journey shouting "FUCKING NODDY?!!!"
yesss someone finally talks about this! love your content too, so this is even better!
The first sketch I saw was the Piss Doctor. What a lovely first impression.
Now this looks like the kind of show I can watch when I need to feel normal
12:59 KILROOOOY
I was lucky enough to watch this when it first aired. Completely blew me away. One of the most original, but still compelling, TV experiments I've witnessed.
As others have said, try to track down the original Blue Jam radio shows. They are beautiful & fantastic.
I love Jam, it's like something you would see in a dream
holy shit dude, i'm loving these videos, something proper special about old channel 4, warp media and all. i got this record made by chris in an oxfam a couple months ago, bushwacked 2, picked it up cause it looked a bit daft but when i found out chris and warp were linked to it it all clicked in my head haha, well worth a check out if you can find it about anywhere
This was a very weird and disturbing thing to stumble on late at night when you weren't really awake, both radio and TV version.
The use of some Aphex Twin ambient works in the program is perfect
I watched this when it was first out. The darkest comedy I have ever seen, and I actively look for this stuff. Genius.
Are you kidding me? Aphex Twin and Brian Eno as background to sketches? Absolutely brilliant! I must watch this show!
I'm such a big fan of those two so this video was so nice to make lol
I'm a huge fan of both artists and I absolutely recommend Jam. The music is always great by itself but the dissonance between the relative calmness of something like "#20"/"Lichen" by Aphex Twin or "An Ending (Ascent)" by Eno and the absolutely unhinged nature of the sketches they soundtrack is worth the price of admission alone, but Chris Morris is one of the funniest people working and you'll be able to tell because so many Jam sketches are all-timers. Plus, the show is short, so it's easy to watch in one go if you can get past how disturbing the contents of some of its sketches are.
I haven’t watched the video yet I already love it. Thank you for talking about Jam ❤
Wait! Changing framerates? Posterization? Inverted colors? It's not creepy. It's "Plumbers Don't Wear Ties"!
Good video, though. Can't wait for more :D
I love how you decide to cover very surreal and insane topics and this show seems very david lynch inspired. Beautiful video man i hope you keep making them!
yo these are super high quality and a good length with entertaining amounts of information that spans throughout the video essay. Good stuff
Ahh man, the sketch where the guy enlists the help of a little girl with a mutated voice to help get rid of a dead body. So fucked up and yet also wonderful
Maria the Hit Girl!
Good video thanks for posting this cause it unlocked some vague memory I have of catching some of this show randomly on tv late at night and never remembering what it was called or even what channel it was on... Need to look this up.
The Gush is one of my favourite sketches ever made.
"It ish like trying to tighten a screw, wish a maggot."
Great comedy you wont see again. Chris Morris is a genius. If you purchased Jam on DVD and chose to play in Jam mode I think it was the disc would play the whole contents in that slurry slow motion and you could NEVER get it back to normal mode.
If you selected "forced viewing" the shows played on a 6 hour loop, only disabled by ejecting the DVD!
Aww my friend told me about it but yeah he said that once you made the option it stayed that way. Thanks for clearing that one up for me.@@reubengvTV
Jam is brilliant I'm so glad it's getting some attention again I saw Limmy talking about it the other day too. Also I highly recommend the series "Nathan Barley".
Such a good video hope to see ur channel grow. Keep up the good work
2 videos and I’m loving this channel already
So glad this show still has an audience all these years later, it was so damn good. Chris Morris is an unalloyed genius.
Damn dude, you’ve only got a couple videos and your already one of my favourite UA-camrs. Look forward to many more videos to come, but don’t stress yourself out, make what makes you happy🙏
Basically just found out about this channel due to your first video, love it
I’m from the states, and I’ll never forget reading about it in 2008. I wanted to expand my horizons with what media and comedy could do. I found the entire series posted on UA-cam. The sense of dread, existential horror, and hilarity left me petrified. It haunted my nights. Similar to what watching “Eraserhead” was like when I was sixteen a few years prior. Jumping many years later and it still a captivating series that brings back great memories. This video was a great summation of “Jam”. (BTW:The series is still available to watch on UA-cam if you search well enough!)
I sincerely hope your channel and your content blows up.
Love the topics.
Not trying to be funny rn. I find you in so many comment sections
Great to meet you again!
@@friendlygiant1507 I recognise the user name too haha
11:25 Jesus Goosebumps, it doesn't help that it's nightime
7:19 the guy on the left hittin the griddy
I was a huge Day Today/Brass Eye fan at the time. Caught one of the middle episodes, the one with the Mark Heap Homunculus intro which itself I found genuinely upsetting, but I did watch the rest. Later my brother got the DVD (I'm not sure if I told him about it or he found it on his own) and I watched all six episodes in one sitting. I think I laughed maybe twice?
I don't watch TV much anymore and I don't really miss it. What I do miss is channel hopping late at night and running into uncomfortable, weird stuff that I was too young to really understand.
Thanks for exposing more people to this show. So incredibly underrated.
i just found this channel and my god i love it! your content is amazing. genuinely one of my favourite youtube channels now :) can’t wait for what you’ll put out next!
i think i will eat you
There's also the remix series Jaaaaam, which takes the unnerving qualities to the next level. Not for everyone but then again the best things usually are.
Jam almost feels like proto Adult Swim but in a much drier, subdued British way. Totally can see how this series was ahead of it's time, like it almost predates post-ironic internet humor by like 20 or so years.
The great thing is that it's all based on sketches from his radio show, Blue Jam - they've transferred to video perfectly
What do you mean "not laughing"? Shit had my sides in orbit from the elevator sketch over the 40 times falling to the end
I had never heard of this. Thank you very much for introducing me to it, seems like exactly the kind of thing that I would like! Warp has produced some of my favorite artists, including Boards of Canada and Squarepusher. It's hard for me to learn about things like this since I live in New York City, so I really appreciate you putting this together!
You have convinced me to watch this - going to have a weird British alt-comedy day to myself tomorrow with this, Snuff Box, and Monkey Dust.
The more love letters to JAM the better, my friends older brother showed it to me one night when I was 15 after he came home from a party - off his head on speed SCREAMING "You must look at the subtex!!t" but 12 years later I truly understand lol
I've only ever watched the first episode of Jam, but I really liked it. This is a cool video!
Jam was incredible! Some of the funniest bits that I still quote to this day.
"It isn't a disease you knoooooow"
love a bit of Aphex and Brian Eno perfect atmospheres for surreal stuff
I hope this vid blows up like last one, your content is insanely good
I love your content, not many people cover it the same as you do, respect.
Methinks this is a precursor to many bits we have seen over the last few years on American “adult swim”, and has shades of Canadian Kids In The Hall