Welcome to the first installment of our regular celebrity-enriched album review column, Stars and Their Ears. Here’s the lowdown: we give an album to a celebrity, they listen to it and then review it for us.
Today, James Corden tackles a collaboration LP between Norwegian noise overlord Lasse Marhaug and gauche Swedish-Israeli musician Dror Feiler, out now on No Fun. Go here to listen to some clips and, if you like what you hear, buy it.
Hiya!!! It’s the fat one from Gavin & Stacey here! You’ll probably be very familiar with my annoying bloated gob and my tranny-esque sidekick’s leathery face because we are on every TV channel constantly. I am desperate to get as much attention as possible before people come to their senses and realise I am just a painfully unfunny fat guy on a staggeringly overrated comedy programme, so when Vice asked me to review this CD I jumped at the chance.
Enough about me, let’s talk about the CD (briefly). This album is out on a label called No Fun, which is ironic because that is the exact opposite of what I am. I am very fun. I am all fun. I am all man. I like to fuck. Please have sex with me. Only joking – I’m a Christian, remember!
So, Vice told me this album would be a little weird, which I thought would be fine since I once bought a CD which had mistakenly been left in the alternative section of Zavvi, but this stuff is just weird. I don’t mean Radiohead weird, I mean really weird. Matthew would definitely not play this CD at his trendy east London club night!! And that’s saying something because he plays some right shit! (Only joking, Matt! Ha ha!) It sounds worse than when I take my shirt off and Matt pulls his trousers down and does a big fart on my belly! It doesn’t smell as bad as that though. Phew! That guy has some of the worst bowel excretions known to man. He only eats crab meat and gherkins.
Seriously though, this stuff is really scary to listen to. It’s even more scary than my new film with my best mate Matthew Horne, Lesbian Vampire Killers, out now in some cinemas. The end. Bye!!!
As told to PRANCEHALL
Reader Comments
March 18th, 2009
10:54 am
Click on the link below to read my shit blog.
March 18th, 2009
11:16 am
HAHAHA. THE PIG HAS SPOKEN.
What a moron. Climb under your rock mr blobby.
tomorrow can we hear what jade has got to say about the new annie lennox album? if she’s not available maybe patsy palmer?
nice one vice.
March 18th, 2009
11:17 am
I’d say that’s about fair, cheers.
March 18th, 2009
1:43 pm
horne and corden was shit. especially corden
March 18th, 2009
1:57 pm
is this a joke or not?
March 18th, 2009
1:57 pm
what i mean is…has vice written this as or not?
March 18th, 2009
5:29 pm
What the hell Vice? This is like beating up a kid in a wheelchair.
March 19th, 2009
4:44 am
He’s so fit. What a funny, crazy and wacky guy.
He’s what Steve Martin/John Cleese/Eddie Murphy/Kenny Everett/Larry David COULD have been.
March 19th, 2009
5:14 am
I FUCKING HATE FAT PEOPLE
March 19th, 2009
6:00 am
What about Leon Jackson on The Sun Ra box set re-release ?
March 19th, 2009
7:12 am
nice
tounge firmly in cheek
March 19th, 2009
9:10 am
what a self obsessed arsehole
March 19th, 2009
2:36 pm
vice and fat, over-exposed celebrity album reviews?
this party is most definitely over.
March 19th, 2009
3:09 pm
Oh Vice, you are so predictable. How unfortunate.
March 20th, 2009
10:34 am
What is this fucking heat magazine? Who fucking cares about this fat blob
March 20th, 2009
12:48 pm
it’s a joke. duh.
March 20th, 2009
2:08 pm
this HAS to be a joke.
March 20th, 2009
3:38 pm
Sometimes reading the comments on viceland is better than telly.
Mostly because all that’s on telly is Corden, Sidekick and Goody.
March 20th, 2009
7:31 pm
Am I the only wankshaft willing to link my fuckwad of a blog to my comment?
March 21st, 2009
11:00 am
I thought it was pretty funny
March 21st, 2009
4:07 pm
Hmmm…not the best review i’ve ever read. But at least its easy to take the piss outta the guy who wrote it.
March 21st, 2009
7:59 pm
Really can’t stand this guy. I don’t get him. He’s not funny. Just loud?
March 21st, 2009
11:30 pm
I actually find it hilarious that some people took this seriously.
March 24th, 2009
7:16 am
Moyles has has some competition. I hope it ends with them trying to digest each other in an Escher-style feeding puzzle.
March 27th, 2009
10:13 pm
Too easy?
April 1st, 2009
7:30 am
do most of you comment before reading or after?
April 2nd, 2009
4:51 pm
“Really can’t stand this guy. I don’t get him. He’s not funny. Just loud?”
I really can’t stand this guy, etc.n co.
April 5th, 2009
2:58 pm
ugh what a prick. and that corden’s a bit of a knob too. yep.
April 9th, 2009
10:00 am
cool idea you know, potential to be interesting and entertaining, a real winner, almost impossible to fuck it up. oh wait…
April 18th, 2009
3:52 am
this was way harsh. Lets look at the reasons why…
1- this guys movie was crap and nobody went to it (apparently)
2- this guys sketch show was crap and nobody watched it.(apparently)
3- this guys comedy show has only got one series left.
4- he’s fat, ugly, and (apparently) a sexual bully that is leveraging his ’success’ to root decent looking femmes (who must rush to the shower afterwards.
5- he is 18months away from being a davro/dennis/cheggers type saddo.
So cmon vice, cut him some slack, sure he’s a twat on a downward spiral, but there’s no need to rub it in.
April 20th, 2009
12:06 pm
A tad ironic that Vice’s dig at woefully unfunny comedy is itself woefully unfunny. Much like Horne and Cordon, this piece appears to have been written by a pre-pubescent schoolboy. Got to do better if you really want to be culturally relevant.
April 28th, 2009
5:00 am
“this piece appears to have been written by a pre-pubescent schoolboy”
ehhh that might be cos its in the style of an unfunny fat man. i liked it. struggle to figure out how some people could think it was a genuine piece though.
May 5th, 2009
5:15 pm
You people are fucking scum.
June 25th, 2009
9:12 am
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August 22nd, 2009
4:15 am
It’s not often I endorse anything done in Vice and I’m not going to now. I agree with porkchop on Corden however I did go and see ‘Telstar’ and I thought he was brilliant in that, perhaps he is more suited to period performance roles.
October 14th, 2009
9:48 am
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