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Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

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Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.3808 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2015

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Just for the podcasters - a little bit extra from the acerbic wit of London's longest-serving talkshow host!

Transcript

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0:00.0

If I had to picture a moment of calmfulness, it would have to be at the beach.

0:05.0

On the edge of the sand, with the waves at my toes, what's yours?

0:10.2

Calm's herbal remedies.

0:12.2

Calm's days, a traditional herbal medicine used for stress, exclusively based on traditional use only, contains Valerian root. Always read the label.

0:20.1

This is a download from

0:21.9

LBC Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra morning everybody welcome along to your free podcast for today

0:28.1

here they go the names in the frames the scores on the doors all the usual malarkey it's hideous

0:34.0

when you sit here in the morning and the producer goes, right, this is what I've

0:38.2

taken off the internet.

0:39.9

And so we sort of run through it for about five seconds.

0:43.7

And he goes, I'll just let it.

0:44.9

I'm the only person in the building who can be given a pile of paper and make a programme

0:49.1

out of it.

0:50.9

And the reason we say that is because it's, you know, television and mainly television, actually, I think, yes, more so television than anything else, it's just full of dross. It's just full of people who you think, how, you know, I know what I do for a living. I have no illusions about, you know, what I do. I'm a radio

1:12.7

presenter. I've had a little dabble with television, not remotely interested, more than happy to sit

1:18.7

doing radio, but it makes me laugh that you get people who've been on a reality show and they go,

1:25.0

I think I'd like to do television presenting. And they have a go at it, and they

1:28.7

fail in the most spectacular way. But because they're so ignorant and because they're so daft,

1:34.0

they go, oh, I think I'd now like to try this, and you think, but you're not any good. You're not

1:38.3

any good at it. And that's why, when you look at Man Mountain, Man Mountain Gemma Collins and her dream to be the new Oprah Winfrey,

1:46.2

I mean, you're living in Cloud, are you drunk or something?

1:49.0

You're never going to be the new Oprah Winfrey of anything.

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