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[Bruce]

I've been rewatching all of my end of year FIA tapes, and just finished watching 1993 (Senna Fights Back).

This tape kills me. The guy who narrates it has trouble with "L"s and "R"s. OK, so it's not so nice of me to enjoy someone's speech problems, but what the hay is this guy doing acting as a narrator? And I'm afraid that the comic effect is undeniable...

The problem is, F1 had just TOO MANY "R"s in it that year...

Heh comes Pwost in the Wiwwiams Wenault, catching up Matin Bwundle in the Weejee-ay and and Jean Awesi in the Fewawi and stwaeming past at the twicky white handa at Wedgate..."

I parapharse, but you get the idea...

Strangely, there is no credit for the narrator on the video itself - one must look at the box... he is none other than "Jonathan Woss" oops, thats Jonathan Ross...

Anyone know who that is?

[JayWay]

I still think they should get either Jean Cretchier (Sp??) or Sean Connery to do the narrations.

[theMot]

Dont know who it is but i know who your talking about. I pirated that video from our local rental place. So suck my left nut Bernie! You dun be getting Mots money!!

Yeah hes real annoying the way he talks. Also i hate that Peter Ustenov guy who done the 87 tape i think it was. he sounds like a fat queer. Best one was Clive james.

[Daemon]

Yeah, Clive James rocks. Why does it always seem that he's taking the piss when he is narrating something. It cracks me up, like its some big joke only he's privy to...

[Jonathan]

Originally posted by Bruce
I've been rewatching all of my end of year FIA tapes, and just finished watching 1993 (Senna Fights Back).

This tape kills me. The guy who narrates it has trouble with "L"s and "R"s. OK, so it's not so nice of me to enjoy someone's speech problems, but what the hay is this guy doing acting as a narrator? And I'm afraid that the comic effect is undeniable...

I have that same exact tape. It isn't much. In addition to having the narrator with a speach impediment, the most amazing F1 Racing sequences of that year (there were several) are sadly missing from the tape.

Some scenes from 1993 I will never forget :

South Africa (Senna agressively holds off Prost for several laps - Really made me nervous just watching this)

Donnington (tyhe entire race!).

Also the first lap of Spa where Senna unfortunately spins and patiently waits for the entire field to go by before restarting, and yet manages to finish a respectabe 3rd (?) place

[Steve]

Jonathon, isn't it Hockenheim where Senna spins then recovers?

Bruce, I end up laughing every time I watch that video.
"Pwost sewenely motored on to victowy, the fiftieth of his distigwished caweer."

[Frans MSH]

it's a great tape, they talk about all stuff, TRACTION CONTROL ETC!!!!!!!

Fully legal back then......

Worked very well on the McLaren that year, Benetton developped since Monaco? Don't remember, I saw the tape months ago...... great season.

[Bruce]

Clive James should do all the tapes! He's hilarious, and whats more, seems to know what he's talking about. Mot - I agree, Ustinov came off as a fat, unfunny poofter, and spend to long drooling over the pronounciation of drivers names... "here comes AnDraa-yea De CHEAS-A-ray....

Another desperate year for the FIA tapes was 1985 - that year thay had the drivers do the commentating for the races... kind of interesting in a sense, but there is a reason that these guys are drivers, not commentators.... the worst was having to listen to Mansell for a whole race...;)

[Pit Babe]

Wrong forum - moved to RC

[whiplash]

jonathan ross is a fairly ubiquitous british comedian, who is famous for not being able to pronounce his 'r's. i don't see why he got to do the commentary, he's more into appearing on (dumb) pop quizzes.

[theMot]

Was that the same guy on the Pizza Hut commercial with that hoooooooooooooootttttttt blonde? It sounded like the same guy.

Do any of you remember the commercial?

[JG]

LOL! Yeah! I got that one.. I instantly thought of Monty Pythons character in "Life of Brian", Biggus Dickus It's totally impossible to enjoy the FIA 93 season review tape because of that.

[Mila]

let's hope for his sake he doesn't drive a (L)and®over!

Clive James was special--not only did he possessed some good humor, but the verbal skills to compliment the dramatic events on the track. (every now and then, though, he seemed a little snotty).

I especially liked his comments for the 82 German GP. when Piquet went after Salazar--after the latter took out the former while being lapped--James suggested that the two of them had taken karate lessons together, and that, once out of their wrecked cars, they figured that it was a good opportunity to practice.

[Witt]

Haven't seen the whole 93 review, but i think i've heard this guy on a few MPEG's, probably off that video.

Clive James should do all the reviews! I loved how he always picked on Christian Danner and whenever Keke Rosberg retired in 1986, it was because of Nicotine cravings, etc. As well as being funny, he had the tough job of dealing with the deaths of a few drivers in those years, what made it harder was they used to include the actual crash on the tapes back in those days. He dealt with them very well, dropping his sarcasm to pay a fitting, funny tribute to the drivers.

The reviews in 88 & 89 are a bit of a joke. They have Stirling Moss doing 88 with Tony Jardine, i think, and they commentate as though the action is happening live for them. It sounds real messy, almost unscripted, and the tapes even include them jumbling up their words too.

Mot, i think that guy on that Pizza Hut commercial must have been the 93 guy. That bird was Caprice. Unbelievably hot! She was in FHM a few months back. Drool......

[theMot]

*Mot currently searching for the words "nude" and "caprice" on internet search engines.

[Cinquecento]

Does / did Jonathan Ross host a late night chat show in Britain. I remember in the Live! Tonight! Sold Out! Nirvana rockumentary, a guy who had Nirvana on his show, and after the band finished and smashed their equipment, the host turns to the camera and says: Well, that wasn't the song Nirvana were supposed to play, that was Lithium (?). But it was Nirvana anyway, you can book them to children's parties from 0800...

[Eric McLoughlin]

Jonathan Ross is a well known TV presenter in British TV. Over the years he has tended to specialise in "fun" celebrity game shows and other light hearted stuff. However, he is quite a movie buff and has presented some interesting documentaries on "B" movies and the old Saturday Matinee serials. He recently took over BBC's mainstream movie review programme,"Film 2000" when its longtime presenter, Barrie Norman was "poached" by Sky. Ross is also a keen comic collector and has some interesting "First Editions" including an original copy of "Astounding Stories" from the 1930's featuring the first ever "Superman" story - worth thousands today.

He is quite a bright bloke - really.

[Simioni]

The 93 video is also good to learn how to pronounce "Andrea de Cesaris" in 101 different ways

Anyone knows who were the narrators from the 94 and 95 videos? Those two were the best, nice and objective. They´ve put some real clowns there since 1996. They insist on trying convince you the action is happening in real time and make a total fool of themselves.

[nigel red5]

Classic Clive James 1982 review moments...

"Piquet tried to drive thro a small hill, instead of taking the long way round by road." - South Africa.

"Pironi`s ferrari had been blown off, by a car that had the power to weight ratio of the barbican art centre!"(warwick`s toleman - britain)

"Patrese.....who briefly did immaculate three-point turns on an imaginary circuit of 50m in diameter.....before dimly realising that it was time to come in for a nice lie down." - brazil.

"Arnoux drop-kicked cheever out of the race........cheever hardly laughed at all" - long beach.

[Indian Chief]

There are several clips of this guy at the Russian F1 site.
Look at this
http://f-1.sovintel....ton/donin2.html

"Allesandwo Zanaadi spins his Lotus. A move duplicated by Chwistian Fittipaldi's Minaadi." Hilarious stuff.

There is another clip of Brazil '93 in which he says "Pwost stayed out fow an extwa lap, only to collect Chwistian fittipaldi's spining Minaadi."