Off Topic Mark Steels in Town - Hull Edition

Anyone else listen? He's in his 8th Series of visiting various towns and devoting a 30 minute show poking fun at their various peccadilloes and idiosyncrasies.

He had plenty to work with in Hull.....he covers everything from Patties to Dead Bod to the worlds only submarium....

I found it quite funny.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09k6pn3

(Not sure if the link will work)

 

Made me laugh.

 

That was really funny.

 

That's funny but he really doesn't look like what he sounds like, to me anyway.

 

yes, listened last night and enjoyed it.

 

Not a fan of his usual left-wing/right-on stand-up, but this was very funny. Thanks for posting.

 

I enjoyed it - thought he got the subject matter/references right.

But although he's usually good on accents, he didn't get Ull right.

 

One thing he got wrong - and the audience response showed it - was when he said (twice) about people saying 'Going on the road'.

There's no 'the' in that announcement.

 

Had a good laugh at all of that.

 

I’ve never heard the term ‘hard on’ meaning asleep.

 

I went to the live recording of it with Mrs Tash
It was really funny
The radio version was cut down (the walking on road bit for example) but still really good

When we listened to it the other night she kept saying she could hear me laughing in the crowd! I think she was right actually

 

Really? Heard all the time in our house back in the day. Eg 'where's me dad? Ooh, he's on settee hard on'

 

Nup, never heard it and it’s a really ****ing weird saying if it’s legit.

 

Yeah it is legit and a bit weird

 

You're right, it is weird but it's also legit. Mark Steel won't have made it up and it was commonplace in my wider family.

 

I didnt think he had, doesn’t he say someone told him it was a saying?

 

It's a saying. 'Hard on asleep'. I wonder if its origins stem from 'Morning Glory'?

 

I was there too, I haven’t had a chance to listen yet - do the comments about City/Allams make the cut?

 

He doesn't mention City at all.

I've also heard the saying hard on too.

I haven't heard the term lob on for ages though....

 

What comments did he make about city and allams?