# Happy Happy! Chris Morris is back on TV! Joy Joy! Hes doing Nathan Barley!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 1, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-happy-chris-morris-is-back-on-tv-joy-joy-hes-doing-nathan-barley/287766 "2005-02-01T13:44:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-happy-chris-morris-is-back-on-tv-joy-joy-hes-doing-nathan-barley/287766/1 "2005-02-01T13:44:40Z")
For those of you who don’t already know this, Chris Morris is the genius behind Brass Eye; the Day Today; Blue Jam and some of the best radio around. He is doing a series (TV) around Nathan Barley – one of my favourite comic creations of the last decade. If you don’t know about Nathan Barley – google is your friend – but the language is not office-safe. Nathan Barley was created by the equally wonderful Charlie Brooker on TV Go Home (again well worth a look) The series is advertised around London as a spoof mobile phone ad – the “Speechtool” posters are Mr Barley. I can’t wait – Chris Morris has been off the TV for far too long. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-happy-chris-morris-is-back-on-tv-joy-joy-hes-doing-nathan-barley/287766/2 "2005-02-01T13:51:07Z")
Wow! Chris Morris always gives me the heebie jeebies though he’s a genius, and Brooker has a very similar sense of humour. I anticipate in horrified amusement. Or amused horror. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-happy-chris-morris-is-back-on-tv-joy-joy-hes-doing-nathan-barley/287766/3 "2005-02-01T14:35:54Z")
It’s hard to see Chris Morris’ work over here in the States, but I managed to get a CD of his “interviews” with Sir Arthur Streeb-Grebling (née Peter Cook), and they’re brilliant. The idea of him doing Nathan Barley is pretty amazing, though I can’t quite see how actually “seeing” Nathan could be funnier than reading about him on TVGoHome. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-happy-chris-morris-is-back-on-tv-joy-joy-hes-doing-nathan-barley/287766/4 "2005-02-01T14:47:48Z")
I like the nature programmes in TV Go Home “Look at the tiger. Look at the f_cking tiger, we spent months here wating for this poxy tiger, so look at the f_cking tiger”…