The Whole Nine Yards Season 2 Ep 31 29.8.21 Only Joking with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Radio 103.8FM

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The Whole Nine Yards Sunday 29th August 2021

Ep 31 3-5pm with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Community Radio 103.8FM

www.burgesshillradio.co.uk/listenlive

Only Joking

The Sad Clown paradox is where comedy exists on the outside and depression and anxiety on the inside. Smokey Robinson captured this beautifully in ‘Tears of a Clown’.

Robin Williams, Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Williams, Tony Hancock, Peter Cook and Spike Milligan all suffered from cyclothymia which drove them in pursuit of gags and quips in professional settings, despite inner turmoil.

Humour is used as a form of self-medication. So there is a constant anxiety amongst comedians that people may stop laughing and their careers, and even their lives may be over. That’s why dying on stage is literally no joke.

Some great songs have been written on this theme – some by writers with personal experience of depression.

This week’s show is about funny faces and broken hearts.

Playlist:

Hour One

Rod  Stewart – I was only Joking (Foot Loose & Fancy Free 1977) (Album version)

The Bee Gees – I Started a Joke (Idea 1968)

Matt Holcroft – Every time you smile (Single 2019)

Llumi – The Joke’s on Me (Single 2019)

The Smiths – That Joke isn’t Funny Anymore (Meat is Murder 1985

Manic Street Preachers – This Joke Sport Severed (Journal for Plague Lovers 2009)

The Fall – The Joke (Cerebral Caustic 1995)

Donnie Iris – Joking (Back on the Streets 1980)

The Young Canadians – The Joker (Single 1966)

Faith No More – I Started a Joke (Who Cares a Lot? 1995)

Steve Miller Band – The Joker (The Joker 1973)

Allen Toussaint – Soul Sister (Life, Love & Faith 1972)

Teddy Pendergrass – The Whole Town’s Laughing at Me (Teddy Pendergrass 1977)

Jefferson Airplane – Share a Little Joke (Crown of Creation 1968)

The Guess Who – Laughing (Canned Wheat 1969)

Hour Two

Pet Shop Boys – I Started a Joke (Winner EP 2012)

Semisonic – Secret Smile (Feeling Strangely Fine 1998)

Reel Big Fish – The Joke’s On Me (We’re not Happy if you’re not happy 2005)

Guided by Voices – The Finest Joke is Upon Us (Mag Earwhig! 1997)

Hall and Oates – It’s a Laugh (Along the Red Ledge 1978)

Alicia Toner – Joke’s On Me (Joan 2021)

Brandi Carlisle – The Joke (By the Way, I Forgive You 2018)

KD Lang – The Joker (Drag 1997)

Lilith – Joke’s On You (Single 2021)

Lakemont – Joke (Single 2020)

Sharon Von Etten – Joke or a Lie (Tramp 2012)

Shack – Comedy (HMS Fable 1999)

Kathryn Williams – I Started a Joke (Relations 2004)

Hugh Masekela – The Joke of Life (Brinca De Vivre) (Waiting for the Rain 1985) — Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/roy-stannard/message

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Published by Roy Stannard

I'm someone who doesn't like parameters, barriers or fences. I'll try and climb over them, burrow under them or just pretend they don't exist - until they don't. Sometimes I'll write about the mind in a poetic way, or poetry with neural undertones, or I'll proselytise endlessly about my favourite new band - or one of the old ones. My Blog will give you the keys to the kingdom. A kingdom with no borders, no expectations and, therefore, no failure.. Because I am endlessly empathetic with people, their motivation, their behaviour,their problems and their quest for knowledge, I work with the pioneering Brighton-based homeless, vulnerable women and disempowered school students charity Off The Fence Trust that has tried to redress the equality deficit for over two decades. I produce, host and promote two radio shows a week: The Whole Nine Yards Sundays 3-5pm on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM (www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen) - and Lost Immortals on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM on Sundays 5-7pm.

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