Having got a borrowed iPod hooked up to my car stereo in the last wee while, I haven't been as attentive to the eternally entertaining Test Match Special as I was brought up to be this summer. Some may be bemused as to how listening to cricket cannot be worse than watching it in the first place, but trust me, it's a lot more fun. Between the celebrity commentators and guests, the ridiculously clever ways to sling insults back and forth (whilst staying within Radio 4's mandate!), and the number of ways Phil Tuftnell can come up with to say "yorker", it's basically the audio equivalent of sitting around a table with a lot of middle-aged men taking the piss out of each other. Which is, in fact, what they are usually doing.
One particularly fine example of some on-air corpsing was this quote from Christopher Martin-Jenkins as he attempted to use a fishing analogy and spectacularly failed, with innuendo-laden hilarity ensuing.
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