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rise of the nutters / spinners and losers commentary highlights:

-> 'can i have a donut? seeing as my days on the thick of it are numbered?' [extremely loud paper bag noises next to microphone] 'that's the donut.' [peter capaldi audibly has his mouth full for the next minute and a half]

-> 'never thought i'd say that on a dvd commentary. the tail end of clinton.'

-> 'we're talking about hookers and breakfast. should we be talking about the programme?'

-> '[phil is] ollie's opposite number [...] ineffectual, pathetic, but just blue instead of red'

-> 'well, peter capaldi started it by saying, "can you be more interesting?" when he's gone i'm going to talk about tits.'

-> ‘i saw john major while filming this, and he had security men with him.’ 'what was he afraid of, retro hitmen?’ 'he really thinks people remember him?’ 'yeah, people who want to assassinate currently irrelevant figures.’

-> '[re: ollie's costume] i feel genuinely weakened as a person when i start putting those burton suits on. i can't quite look people in the eye at that point.'

-> 'how do you feel about being cast as a tall, posh idiot?'

-> ‘a lot of my friends were genuinely concerned about what was going to happen to malcolm.’ 'he’s going to regenerate.’ 'you better hope not, you’ll come back as david tennant– no offence.’

-> 'there's something profoundly terrifying about david cameron, isn't there?' 'the eyes, the smile.... and the fact that he went to eton.'

-> 'we did many, many takes of [the bathroom scene], as i seem to remember, and then at the end you tell me to wash my hands again, even though i’d just washed them, which you hadn’t said before, and then i– i genuinely felt compelled to do it.’

-> 'as we record this, we have no idea what the result will be, or if we have any civil liberties.... left'

-> 'the one thing i've always thought about alastair campbell is that actually he's quite crap at spinning.'

-> ‘we are working on a third and fourth sex, for those of you in space who are interested’

-> 'malcolm is very good.... is he?' 'he's sort of good.' 'he's good at surviving.'

-> 'he [alastair campbell] might want a role in the next series' [everybody groaning in pain]

-> 'you told me years ago, i said "are you any good at theatre acting?" and you went "no no, i’m a furniture toucher."'

-> 'we [the opposition] were simply put in as the setting for you.' 'you are the caryatids holding up the proscenium arch.'

-> 'season three, the laser battle of course,'

-> 'this is probably better acting than i've done in anything else, and i have no idea what i'm doing.'

-> 'maybe you, in ten years' time?' 'a health spa? ollie's health spa?' 'called ollie's.' 'yeah. ollie'z, with a z.'

-> 'i've always said malcolm isn't based on alastair campbell.' [polly kemp does a spit take]

-> ‘it took will and i a good 30 to 45 seconds to get through the cellophane. it was truly pathetic. oh, god, i have pretty low self-esteem vis-à-vis masculinity as it stands, i can’t open cheese,’

-> ‘i don’t do anything else. i do 'penny drops’, and, erm, a face of repose.’ 'face of repose? so doing nothing?’

-> [justin edwards impersonating david dickinson]

-> ‘i don’t know what we’re going to do about jamie.’ 'he’s going to have to be neutered. he’s going to have to be run round a pound once a day, like the battersea dogs.’ 'do you think he’s been with about three or four families, who’ve all taken him back?’ 'handing over a hundred quid donation, going, “we’re really sorry, we know this is against the spirit of the thing.”’ 'we wish jamie was just for christmas.’

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yeah, well, if the pm’s giving me a blowjob, i always put a sign up.

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i need to make more webweaves

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stripped, depeche mode / wilde (1997) / a very english scandal (2018) / judge john deed 3x03 "conspiracy"

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testimonials for oliver francis reeder phd, director of communications to the labour party:

-> ‘he’s a smart young man, ollie, but he would sell his own grandmother to get ahead’

-> ‘not much of a fucking soldier, is he?’

-> ‘fucking pondlife’

-> ‘no, ollie has got plenty of good points, it’s just that he’s a little bit morally bankrupt, and massively self-centred, and a tiny bit dangerously unreliable’

-> ‘[malcolm’s] pathetic voodoo marionette’

-> ‘entirely self-serving and spiritually ugly’

-> ‘i mean, anyone who’s been unfortunate enough to come across ollie reeder will know that he is a genuinely atrocious person’

-> ‘he is a man without a spine, he is a man worm, he’s a writhing mollusc without any strategies or convictions’

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congratulations on your first confirmed kill. [link]

best friend on the payroll - morrissey

i turn the music down / and i don't know why, this is my house

evil - interpol

leave some shards under the belly, lay some grease inside my hand / it's a sentimental jury, and the makings of a good plan

hungover in jonestown - amigo the devil

the greater the power, the more the abuse / you are the hand, i worship the bruise

london - the smiths

you left your girlfriend on the platform, with this really ragged notion that you'd return / but she knows, that when he goes, he really goes / and do you think you've made the right decision this time?

alsatian cousin - morrissey

and so came his reply / 'but on the desk is where i want you'

personal jesus - depeche mode

feeling unknown and you're all alone, flesh and bone by the telephone / pick up the receiver, i'll make you a believer

discipline - nine inch nails

am i taking too much? / did i cross the line? / i need my role in this very clearly defined

still ill - the smiths

i decree today that life is simply taking and not giving / england is mine, it owes me everything

post blue - placebo

bite the hand that feeds, tap the vein that bleeds / down on my bended knees / i'd break the back of love for you

master and servant - depeche mode

domination's the name of the game / in bed or in life, it's all just the same

i wanna be your dog - the stooges

and now we're gonna be face to face / and i'll lie right down in my favourite place

handsome devil - the smiths

and when we're in your scholarly room / who will swallow whom?

fantastic bastards - death spells

i hate everything i do, 'cause i learned it from you / i'm your bastard

everything counts - depeche mode

the grabbing hands grab all they can / all for themselves, after all / it's a competitive world

the face of dorian gray - rational youth

they stop and stare to see the boy pass by / they see the blackness in his eyes

alpha dog - fall out boy

you're not the first, or the last, but you're possibly the prettiest / he's a fighter, past his prime / he's in the gutter waving his hand, 'i'm just fine'

reel around the fountain - the smiths

fifteen minutes with you, i wouldn't say no / people said you were easily led, and they were half right

little bit - lykke li

and for you i keep my legs apart, and forget about my tainted heart / and i will never, never be the first to say it / but still i, yeah, you know i, i, i

never let me down again - depeche mode

promises me i'm as safe as houses / as long as i remember who's wearing the trousers

my sweet prince - placebo

never thought i'd have to retire, never thought i'd have to abstain / never thought all this could backfire, close up the hole in my vein / me and my valuable friend can fix all the pain away

brutus - the buttress

i love you, and if you want, i'll call you king / but why do i lie awake each night thinking instead of you, it should be me?

walking in my shoes - depeche mode

try walking my shoes / you'll stumble in my footsteps / keep the same appointments i kept

in our bedroom after the war - stars

dishes, tv, and bed, the darkness filled with dread / but at least the war is over

pierrot the clown - placebo

leave me bleeding on the bed, see you right back here tomorrow for the next round / keep this scene inside your head, as the bruises turn to yellow and the swelling goes down

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you don't have to be malcolm tucker to sit in that chair. [link]

career boy - dorian electra

cheap office coffee is pumping through my veins / i work for the man, but you know i love the chains

somebody told me - the killers

it's not confidential / i've got potential

nancy boy - placebo

kind of buzz that lasts for days / had some help from insect ways

discipline - nine inch nails

am i taking too much? did i cross a line? / i need my role in this very clearly defined

master and servant - depeche mode

domination's the name of the game / in bed or in life, it's all just the same / except in one you're fulfilled at the end of the day

starfuckers, inc. - nine inch nails

i sold my soul, but don't you dare call me a whore / and when i suck you off, not a drop will go to waste / it's really not so bad, you know, once you get past the taste

puppet boy - devo

puppet boy, you're not a robot slave / consider that no strings attached could ever make you misbehave

that's what i get - nine inch nails

just when everything was making sense / you took away all my self-confidence

heir apparent - morrissey

you think it's so easy, i tell you it isn't / but you may change minds with your winning smile

commercial for levi - placebo

you're the one who's always choking trojan / you're the one who's always bruised and broken / sleep may be the enemy, but so's another line

give great thanks - dorian electra

put me in a cage, i shall not complain / i will give great thanks to you

brutus - the buttress

perhaps my name could also be known / that i helped return good to the people and restored greatness to rome

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spin is dead; long live the spin [link]

london beckoned songs about money written by machines - panic! at the disco

i'm burning and i'm blacking my lungs / boy, you know it feels good with fire back on your tongue / if you talk, you better walk, you better back your shit up with more than good hooks while you're under the gun / start talking, a sensationalist, oh, he's slightly clever to just a certain extent

starfuckers, inc. - nine inch nails

i have arrived and this time you should believe the hype / i listen to everyone now i know that everyone was right / i'll be there for you as long as it works for me / i play a game, it's called insincerity

this is hardcore - pulp

this is me on top of you / and i can't believe that it took me this long

piggy - nine inch nails

nothing can stop me now / ‘cause i just don’t care

miss moneypenny - placebo

it's a dirty job, but shooting guns just makes you horny / he wants to spill his seed over guaranteed / service with a smile

alpha dog - fall out boy

welcome to the new déjà vu / i can almost see the wizard through the curtain / alpha dog and oh, oh omegalomaniac

the professional - pulp

you're only polite when you're out of your box / cocker's short for sucker / a sucker of

i wanna be adored - the stone roses

i don't need to sell my soul / he's already in me

special k - placebo

i’ll describe the way i feel / weeping wounds that never heal

jacky's only happy when she's up on the stage - morrissey

no script, no crew, no autocue / no audience telling her what to do / exit, exit, everybody's heading for the exit, exit

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trying to be me will fucking kill you. [link]

policy of truth - depeche mode

you had something to hide / you should have hidden it, shouldn't you? / now you're not satisfied with what you're being put through / it's just time to pay the price for not listening to advice / and deciding in your youth / on the policy of truth

leif erikson - interpol

she feels that my sentimental side should be held with kids' gloves / but she doesn't know that i left my urge in the icebox

pure morning - placebo

a friend in need's a friend indeed, a friend who bleeds is better / my friend confessed, she passed the test / and we will never sever

alpha dog - fall out boy

we must have the best coats, tell the best jokes / we must make it hard to look so easy, doing something so hard

red right hand - nick cave and the bad seeds

you're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan / designed and directed by his red right hand

lazarus - placebo

it's horrid to see you again now that you're back from the dead / it's horrid to see you again, so bored of being alive

stripped - depeche mode

let me see you stripped down to the bone / let me hear you speaking just for me / let me see you stripped down to the bone

running the world - jarvis cocker

if you thought things had changed, friend you better think again / bluntly put in the fewest of terms / cunts are still running the world

walking in my shoes - depeche mode

you'll stumble in my footsteps / keep the same appointments i kept / if you try walking in my shoes

the loop - morrissey

i just want to say, i haven't been away / i'm still right here where i always was / so one day, if you're bored, by all means call / because you can do / but you might not get through

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it does blow my mind that, as they reiterate multiple times in the commentaries, chris addison hadn’t done a whole lot of acting before the thick of it. just giving the blueprint performance of the modern brutus as new political animal on a 2000s satire like it’s nothing

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from wishbone, richard siken

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don't make a move 'til i say 'action': political spin as pornography

pulp, this is hardcore | the thick of it (2005-2012), dir. armando iannucci | brian mcnair, 'pr must die: spin, anti-spin and political public relations in the uk, 1997-2004' | in the loop (2009), dir. armando iannucci | kevin moloney, 'the rise and fall of spin: changes of fashion in the presentation of uk politics'

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the thick of it 4x07 | samuel beckett, endgame

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from the dvd commentary of spinners and losers | allthetropes | from an interview with paul higgins in the scotsman | georgian and tudor dog collars | simon blackwell quoted in the guardian | deleted scene | micrograph of rabies infection | spike milligan, the dog lovers

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and even a worm will turn

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stratford-upon avon 1973, 2013, 1980 | the other place, 2000 | the hollow crown, 2012 | the dunedin globe theatre, 2019 | the almeida, 2018 | the barbican, 2016