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Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

The red carpet 'highlights' from the most boring Oscars ever

Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.5808 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

A little bit extra, every weekday morning, from LBC's longest-serving presenter.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a download from LBC. Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

0:05.9

Morning everybody. It's Monday. It's the 5th of March. Flooding. Flooding. Cracked pipes, burst pipes,

0:12.2

Thames Water. Oh, Economise. Coming out? Not on your nelly, they're not. In fact, they actually put the phone down on one of our neighbours.

0:19.1

Because I thought that Thames water, how naive am I?

0:22.6

I thought that if you had a water problem, if you've got a burst water pipe, they would come

0:26.1

around and fix it. Oh no, no, no, no. They'll only fix it off your property. So if the break is

0:32.7

off your property, I'm telling you this now on this podcast, because you might not know this.

0:36.7

And we thought, as we had thousands of gallons pouring into our building that they would be round straight away

0:43.5

to fix the park. No, no, no. It's on our property. There is a borderline. We knew this because the

0:48.9

fireman told us. But nevertheless, we've stopped it. We have a fabulous electrician called

0:54.1

Marsein, who is brilliant, and he's managed to restore a lot of the papers out drying it all yesterday with, you know, hair dryers and what have you and all the rest of it. So it's good. Meanwhile, over in America, over in America, the most boring Oscar ceremony of all time has been taking place. So I brought you up to date already with who was winning what.

1:13.6

Jimmy Kimmel is the man who was hosting it with swipes at Weinstein, Pence and Trump, and a plea to Hollywood to stamp out the bad behavior.

1:22.5

Which is the problem that they're having to live with. It doesn't matter what, what, you know, goes on in Hollywood.

1:27.4

The bad behavior continues. The casting couch has been alive and well and operating for donkey's

1:32.5

ears. What was interesting was that they were told to wear black, but not everybody wore black,

1:38.1

because it just starts looking a bit, you know, there's a limit. How, you know, if you say to them,

1:41.7

I tell you what, all wear black, and they go, okay, that's great, but I've got this fabulous red scarlet dress on with black trimmings and flashy things and all the rest of it.

1:49.2

What do you do? Do you say, well, you can wear that next year? Or next year do they go, no, you've still got to do it in solidarity with all those people who were affected. but a lot of people wearing metallic dresses so that was okay it is it's watched by millions

2:02.4

around i wouldn't i can't even imagine how big the audience is for the oscars but uh it's huge but in

2:08.9

the goody bags this year rape alarms they've all been given rape alarms fat lot of use that is

2:14.8

i mean we were reading one of the uh the of the stories from one of the people who was

2:19.7

interfered with, but, well, she wasn't, that's wrong, actually, she wasn't interfered with by Harvey Weinstein,

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