DARK JAM - Battersea Arts Centre 30th May 1998
Chris Morris put this show together himself and played it at the BAC, where works his brother, Tom, apparently. The sketches used were as follows:
Play-In Music (general acid jazz
stuff)
Archbishop Diana Tape Edit (in full)
Intro (...coin land on third side .... insiiiiide)
Doctor's Surgery: Telephone Diagnosis
Sweary Man: Fucking Noddy
Monologue: Rothko The Dog
Acupuncture Torture
Monged Sex ('Introduce me to Gladstone...')
Uncaring Parents: The Missing Child
Lizard TV
Doctor's Surgery: Synchronized Cocks
KIddie Gangster: Dial-A-Murder
Telling The Birds To Shut Up
Outro (uzi pulznar welcome)*
* note - unlike the radio shows,
there was one sketch before the intro and the
intro was different to the outro
Mike Scott of Some Of The Corpses Are Amusing passed this sketch list to us and shared his memories of the event. Read them:
"The first two series of 'Blue Jam' were
plundered for a 75-minute
compilation, played quadrophonically to a small audience in a pitch-black
room. About thirty people (mostly Hampstead media jerks, who wouldn't know
comedy if it was diluted with Red Bull to make it taste like sweeties) lay
with their heads on cushions in a tiny studio theatre. Anyone requiring
urgent assistance throughout the event was asked to call out the name
'Lucy', whereupon the usherette would attempt to locate the source of alarm.
"Although the publicity literature had promised that the selections would
include out-takes from the series, the only hitherto untransmitted item on
offer was the complete 'Archbishop/Diana's Funeral' edit piece, with the
final few lines intact. This item kicked off the show, as the house lights
dimmed gradually. By the time total blackout had been established, Morris'
opening monologue emerged. All material was taken from the episodes as
transmitted, rather than re-mixed from rushes or original 'clean' sessions,
and there was much awkward seguing in evidence as Morris tried to cross-fade
the start of each unwanted music track into the beginning of the following
sketch.
"Morris was present throughout, although he did not make his presence known
to the audience. Some have noted that the inclusion of the 'Archbishop'
sketch as the opening item was uncharacteristically corny of him. Morris,
meanwhile, was disappointed with the audience's polite, sycophantic
laughter, arguing that this wasn't a suitable reaction to a child being
buggered."