This is without a doubt my favourite TV show ever!
Despite it's humble premise, it is a weekly show reviewing the latest UK film video and rental releases, the combination of Nige and Stef, the fantastically funny, often dirty as feck humour, honest yet insightful (and frequently elegantly wordy) reviews, the locations (my home town!!!) and generally the evident friendship between Nige and Stef and as the beating heart of the show, the absolute GENIUS of Nige.
I have many of these 25 minutes slices of pure bonobo biscuits taped and even though they are now years old I still watch them every now and then, sure, the releases are no longer current but the laughs remain and still frankly outranks anything made since labelled 'comedy'.
I don't know why this giant of late night TV was cancelled or ended but I genuinely still miss it, for every stinker like 'Pearl Harbour' or 'A.I' or 'true to life' Brit-trash like 'Notting Hill' or 'Love, Actually' I can imagine Nige and Stef tearing them apart critically whilst fitting in any number of masturbatory, middle class corn-fed sand eating silky boy jokes and comments and improvising new and hilarious SHOUTY NOISES. AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHH.
I have seen Nige on ScottishTV occasionally doing reports on the Edinburgh Festival and at New Year celebratory shows and he was a reporter at T in the Park 2003 but these slots are mere snippets of what he can do with his genius overshadowed by the likes of him-from-shetland-whose-brother-won-big-brother. Criminal eh? Bring back Vids Nige!
Basically, it's brilliant. If you ever seen it, like me, reading this will bring a tiny tear to the Japanese eye, if you never saw it, weep for the experiences lost to the ether and curse yourself for not staying up to watch it.
This programme had it all, I miss it constantly (yes, I am very sad). However, only a low-centre of gravity gruffle grabber would disagree!
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