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Adam & Jo
Adam Buxton & Joe Cornish the facts
The
Adam & Joe Show is a British television comedy show, written & presented
by Adam Buxton & Joe Cornish, which ran for four series on Channel 4 between
1996 & 2001.
Format
The show took the form of short, condensed
sketches interspersed with links filmed in what was purportedly Adam & Joe's
bedsit in Brixton, but was actually a shared "performance space" above
a Body Shop in the town. Although the two comedians were involved in other projects
before & after it was aired, The Adam & Joe Show is their most popular
& well-known creation, & its unique brand of humour gained a cult following,
especially among young twenty-somethings. The show is often described as one of
the definitive pop culture parodies of recent times.
Memorable sketches
Toymovies
Each
week, Adam & Joe would re-create a popular current feature film using stuffed
toys & elaborate cardboard sets. These 'Toymovies' condensed the story, look
& action of each film into a couple of minutes. The most memorable included
spoofs of Titanic (Toytanic), The English Patient (The Toy Patient) & Trainspotting
(Toytrainspotting).
BaaadDad
In this segment, Adam's pensioner father
Nigel Buxton (aka BaaadDad) reviewed music videos by contemporary groups that
he knew nothing about. In later shows he ventured out of his fireside armchair
& into the field, going on a Club 18-30 holiday in Ibiza, going undercover
at a public school ball, & smoking cannabis for the first time at the Tribal
Gathering music festival.
Vinyl Justice
Dressed as policemen, Adam &
Joe would raid rock stars’ homes, then examine their record collections for
embarrassing or surprising items. The star would then be forced to dance to the
shameful discoveries. Victims included Frank Black, Gary Numan, Tim Gane &
Laetitia Sadier, Dave Navarro, Cerys Matthews, Nick Heyward, Thomas Dolby, Ray
Manzarek of The Doors & Mark E. Smith of The Fall.
Songs
The Adam
& Joe Show regularly included songs on random pop cultural themes, co-written
with their school friend Zac Sandler. The most memorable included "The Footie
Song", an ode to football written by people who know nothing about it, "The
Robert De Niro Calypso", a tribute to the famous actor, "My Name is
Roscoe", a country & western song whose lyrics included the theory of
relativity & "Song For Bob Hoskins".
Star Wars TV
In this
segment, Adam & Joe used 1980s Star Wars action figures to parody current
British TV shows. Targets included You've Been Framed, Stars in Their Eyes &
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Throughout these sketches, Obi-Wan Kenobi was
memorably portrayed as a drunk vagrant.
Ken Korda
Ken Korda, a character
played by Adam Buxton, was an obnoxious, idiotic media entrepreneur who undertook
absurd pop cultural projects in the real world. These schemes included the production
of a short film about criminal junkies called Speeding on the Needlebliss, &
the formation of a teen band called 1471. By the fourth series, the segment had
become a parody of The South Bank Show, with Korda fronting overly serious profiles
of TV celebrities including Pat Sharp & Handy Andy.
Pranks
Adam &
Joe would regularly film each other performing camcorder pranks in the real world.
In the first series, they ventured into a supermarket in Brixton & began helping
themselves to the 'free' percentage from packages marked as including, for example,
"20% free". In the second series, they ruined an unsuspecting man's
front room while posing as designers from a home makeover show, then broke into
a brewery to see how easy it would be to organise a piss-up. In the third series
they built a poor-quality, movie-themed animatronic wax museum from mannequins
& charged tourists for entry, as well as competing as street mimes in Covent
Garden Market.
Links
Adam & Joe's links were performed sitting on
their bed, in front of a crowded backdrop of contemporary pop cultural clutter.
Memorable links included a guide to ways to fiddle with a candle while in a restaurant
with a boring person; the most entertaining household objects to put in your microwave
oven; & an experiment to see whether consuming Coca-Cola & Space Dust
sherbet really does make your stomach explode.
In 2004, a DVD was released featuring selected sketches from all four series, titled The Adam & Joe DVD. It included some previously unbroadcast material & other extras.
History
& other projects
Adam & Joe began working on comedy material during
their time at Westminster School together, where they created numerous amateur
films along with their friend Louis Theroux, some of which they submitted to Channel
4’s home video showcase Takeover TV in 1994. Their submissions led to the
duo hosting that show in 1995 & eventually being offered their own show the
following year.
They won the Royal Television Society Best Newcomers Award in 1998, published The Adam & Joe Book in 1999, & presented BBC Three’s coverage of the Glastonbury Festival in 2000 & 2002. Other spin-off projects included Adam & Joe’s Fourmative Years in 1998 & Adam & Joe’s American Animation Adventure in 2001. They also directed pop promos for Frank Black & Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, as well as appearing in two Surf washing powder commercials, in which they comically brutalised Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen & Keith Harris & Orville.
In 2003, Buxton & Cornish presented Adam & Joe Go Tokyo, a Tokyo-based magazine show covering Japanese pop culture for BBC Three & BBC One. The same year they began hosting a show on UK radio station Xfm, filling in for Ricky Gervais on Saturday afternoons. When Gervais left the station they took over permanently, & continue to present the Saturday morning show, the best parts of which are condensed into a podcast. Bizarrely, their only TV show to be regularly repeated is their 2001 E4 series Shock Video, in which the duo provide an often totally irrelevant comic commentary on soft-core porn clips from around the world. It is currently screening on Bravo in the UK.
The Adam & Joe DVD, containing highlights from the original four series & some new extra material, was released in 2004. They are sometimes involved with The Idler, a biannual literary magazine.
Since 2006 they have also hosted the "Coca-Cola New Music Podcast", which showcases unsigned bands from around Europe, presented in a similar style to their Xfm show.
Adam & Joe started presenting the BBC Radio 6 Music Saturday morning show as of 27th October 2007.
Adam Offord Buxton (born 7 June 1969) is an English comedian, who together with his comedy partner Joe Cornish wrote & presented the Channel 4 comedy series The Adam & Joe Show, as well as Adam & Joe Go Tokyo.
His first television appearance was in an episode of Channel 4's Takeover TV as a man called "Louise" dressed as a Klingon, complaining about Star Trek: The Next Generation being taken off-air (see external links below). In 1995, he hosted the show itself, & following this he & Joe Cornish created the The Adam & Joe Show for the same channel, which ran for four series. A DVD featuring the 'best of' The Adam & Joe Show was produced by the pair & released in 2004.
Buxton co-wrote & acted in the Channel 4 mini-series The Last Chancers (aired Christmas 2004). In 2005 he moved from screen to stage, performing character-driven stand up comedy at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival, with a show was entitled "I, Pavel", for which he grew an extremely large beard. He continues to work as a stand-up comedian, appearing primarily at London venues.
His work with Cornish has extended beyond their Channel 4 series, with the pair producing an Adam & Joe themed book, & presenting radio shows on XFM together. Expanded extracts from the radio shows have been released as podcasts, which were placed in the UK's top 10 most downloaded. Currently the pair are also recording podcasts for Coca-Cola's 'New Music' strand. In 2007, Buxton portrayed nosy journalist Tim Messenger in Edgar Wright's action-comedy film Hot Fuzz. Buxton also appears in new BBC Three comedy sketch show "Rush Hour", which premièred on the 19 March 2007. Buxton plays many different characters throughout the show.
Other appearances
Buxton has made appearances
on Have I Got News For You, The IT Crowd, Don't Watch That, Watch This, &
Look Around You. He appeared as a future version of himself in the BBC comedy
series Time Trumpet, which began a six-part series in August 2006.
He also appeared in the Doctor Who audio drama The One Doctor by Big Finish Productions, & has taken other comedy roles on productions for BBC Radio 4.
He has taken part in a number of major films, including his aformentioned performance in Hot Fuzz, as well as appearing in the forthcoming film Stardust, deputizing for Noel Fielding, who was ill at the time of production. Recently, he has released a number of popular videos on YouTube, & has, according to his website, been commissioned to produce a pilot programme for the BBC based around work of this kind.
Personal life
Buxton was born in London. His father is Nigel Buxton,
& was best known as a travel writer & wine critic before his work with
his son on The Adam & Joe Show as 'Bad Dad'. Along with Joe Cornish &
close friend, Louis Theroux, Adam was educated at Westminster School. According
to an interview with The Guardian newspaper, he attended Warwick University for
two terms, before dropping out to study sculpture at Cheltenham College of Art.
Adam is married & has two young sons.
Joe Cornish (born Joseph Murray Cornish
December 20, 1968) is an English comedian who, along with his long-time comedy
partner Adam Buxton, forms one half of the comedy duo Adam & Joe. He was educated
at Westminster School in central London, where he became friends with both Adam
Buxton & Louis Theroux. He went on to study at the Bournemouth Film School,
indulging & cultivating his love of films.
The Adam & Joe Show was a heavily-ironic pop culture sketch show written, presented & directed by the duo. The show found considerable cult success during its four series run between 1996 & 2001. The best-known segments featured hit feature films recreated with stuffed toys, British TV shows parodied using Star Wars action figures, & Vinyl Justice, in which the pair invaded rock stars' homes & searched their record collections for embarrassing records.
During this period Adam & Joe hosted a number of Channel 4 specials, including Adam & Joe’s Fourmative Years (1998) & Adam & Joe’s American Animation Adventure (2001). They also directed pop promos for Frank Black & Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, as well as appearing in two Surf washing powder commercials, in which they comically brutalised Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen, & Keith Harris & Orville the Duck.
Adam & Joe won the Royal Television Society Best Newcomers Award in 1998, & published a spin-off book The Adam & Joe Book in 1999. They also wrote material for the BBC Two comedy series Big Train in 1998 & presented BBC Three’s coverage of the Glastonbury Festival in 2000 & 2002, as well as their coverage of the Fuji Rock Festival in 2001.
Post-The Adam & Joe Show
Since the demise of The Adam &
Joe Show, Cornish has continued to work in British television & radio as a
presenter, writer & director, both with & without Buxton. In 2001 he fronted
the topical discussion show This Week Only, alongside Nick Frost & Lauren
Laverne. He also wrote & presented the BBC Radio 4 film programme Back Row
between 2002 & 2003.
In 2003, Buxton & Cornish presented Adam & Joe Go Tokyo for BBC3, a Tokyo based magazine show covering Japanese pop culture. In the same year they began hosting a show on UK radio station XFM, filling in for Ricky Gervais on Saturday afternoons. When Gervais left the station they took over permanently, & continued to present a two hour Saturday morning show & a popular podcast until the end of their most recent run in 2006.
The Adam & Joe DVD, containing highlights from the original four series, was released in 2004. Cornish has also made a behind the scenes documentary following the making of Little Britain series 2, which was screened on BBC Three & is included on the Little Britain Series 2 DVD, & a video diary of his brief cameo as a zombie, which appears on the UK Shaun of the Dead DVD.
He has continued his work in television comedy, directing parts of the pilot of Modern Toss, & the pilot to Channel 4's Blunder. According to an interview in Word Magazine he pulled out of directing the series of Blunder due to creative differences with Channel 4 & the production company.
Cornish has, however, recently been involved with several non-comedy projects. In 2006 he was announced as co-writer on a feature film adaptation of Marvel Comics comic book character Ant-Man, with Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright. The film is currently scheduled for release in 2008. He also makes a brief appearance in Wright's film Hot Fuzz as a CSI officer. In early 2007 he directed the video for Charlotte Hatherley's single I Want You To Know. Cornish & Buxton also hosted the "Coca-Cola New Music Podcast", which showcased unsigned bands from around Europe.
Following 2 weeks covering
for Shaun Keaveny on the BBC 6 Music Breakfast show during August 2007, Cornish
& Buxton joined the station permanently, signing for a year of weekend shows.
The Adam & Joe Show currently goes out between 9am & 12pm each Saturday
morning on BBC 6 Music.
Adam and Jo are very funny, they said they were
bullied in school. Indeed in Adam and Jo go Japan, a brilliant series which showed
the different culture of Japan, which at that time still seemed futuristic compared
to Britain, so cool, though maybe not so much anymore. As it is not miles richer
anymore. Well they did all the cool stuff in their interestinmg ways, and showed
Japanese life, a intresting way of life, similar to Britains. A bit like those
Ray Mears or the Tribe, progs except for a modern place. Its even interesting
when its just a similar place with just different newspaper headlines at times,
Even just a different city to yours or twon to yours at times, though not always.
So exotic and with interesting things. Jo Cornish said about a Japanese guy who
was copying Jamiriqui that the guy looked like he was copying him as he was recovering
from bullying to recover from merciless or something bullying. Then Adam Buxton
said but you were mercilessly bullied too, anyhow, that was good to see. As at
that stage there was a rash of horrible comedians, who said being bullied is something
to be ashamed of, and that bullied people should feel ashamed. You jknow people
made jokes labout bad people saying that person was probabably bullied, when in
fact it is bullied who end up as bad people, and the bullied who end up as good
people. Some bullied may then if successful like many bullied people, then act
like they are good, to get respect, but they are not. nyway it was good Buxton
added this, as it showed you can still do well after being bullied, this important,
as there are still some wful people who pretend it is the bully we should feel
sorry for not teh bullied, and who feel we should shame the bullied, by making
nobody admit they were bullied, and by not making those who admit they were bullied
be shamed. This shaming of the bullied is like when a child abuser abuses kids,
and expects none of them to admit they were abused, what they would fear most
is everybody telling somebody who can do something about it. Let it out in the
open, not that that is always the right thing, and not that people have to say
they were abused or bullied, that would be equally as bad to force people to admit
such things. But Adam and Jo went against the grain and did well there. Really
cheered me up, just like the whole series, at a dull oppressed period of my life.
Now it ios not so much and I am confident and realise I should not walk around
being ashamed of myself for being insulted by some low life. Partly as of this
jump start of a TV programme of good. When bullies and thugs just Should and must
for good be ashamed of themselves it is essential as that would be good I feel.
Its hard to explain but even bullies think people who are bad to them shoukd have
the bad so its the same for them Its important hard to explain, we all know I
am right on this, o that is that. People should be proud of themselves just like
that statement indictaed. In another episode Adam Buxton was talking to Pat Sharp,
and passed his school, he was being his Melvyn Bragg style character, and at the
school did a mock cry do you remember the things they used to do to you at school,
and say why, he said, ho ho, how witty, as people used to be bad to him, he indicates,
how wittyy, Anyway Pat Sharp, very nicely, acted liike he believed this was real,
infact I think he did, and he said, allright allright, its ok, it was very funny,
what a witty show. Bullied people doing good, its so great and brilliant the best
thing in the world. And themselves able to make jokes about it, for others to
empithise with, but in a happy, non downs and unhappy way, but uplifting wiitty,
you can do great way. Its true, its so true, and its fantastic. And I prove it
and every bullied person who just tries proves it. Its absolutely true, whatever
any demeaning disdainful awful individual comes up with, whatever rubbish sketch,
or argument, they come up with, its so true and it is the greatest truth there
is.
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