Jam - Living Outside

[zzippyman1]

Echoes of L’Étranger here. Beautifully simple, yet so poignant. A masterpiece.

[cryptmonkey]

"...and you should lock up!"

[monsterakroma]

cool.

[aturek112]

Realizing there are so many amazing parts in this, the look up at "some tea" has to be one of my favorite looks of all time 1:56

[kipplewitz]

Morris. Can, or can't? 

[Boylieboyle]

@kipplewitz Oh definitely can't. What do you mean?

[randykawasaki]

can someone upload a non pixellated version of the gush..... it wont last, but the JAM version is better than the BLUE JAM radio version. X

[CelticReject]

I wonder what the book he was reading was? What started all this off?

[Boylieboyle]

00.52 Simultaneous sigh - deliberate?

[praisethenameofsatan]

Anyone read Morris' biography 'Disgusting Bliss'.? It's superb.

[perkyporkpie]

Thisis the greatest distilation of fear loss and sadness I have ever seen-just stunning

[jankath]

Do you know anywhere that i can find English subtitles for Jam?

[imdesignukDOTcom]

A plate of eggs, yummy!

[Letspreach]

Plenty of people jack off/finger themselves over Morris. I must give him time, but it's just not happening for me.

[belisariusorb]

Saw a BBC report about a bloke - also with an upper-middle class accent - living on an island in the Thames. Remarkably similar to this except with no wifey.

[badassmonkeyman]

I love the fact one of his lenses is missing.

[scatterbrainedfloozy]

this is incredible.

thank you for the upload.

[StillbornChrist]

Anyone got the sketch after this one where someone's giving directions to a guy and he starts pssing up the car? 

[QFIhawkman]

Some tea... mmm.

[chulk607]

(and you should lock up)

Is about as close as a happy ending as you're gonna get...

[sammybird]

My favourite parts the choreography wife lingering slightly behind him, Morris never answering to her, just to the camera, amazing sketch!

[sammybird]

My favourite things the choreography, wife lingering behind him, Morris never answering to her, just talking to the camera, amazing!

[invertedchords]

I'm craving some boiled eggs now.

[monkey26r]

Chris Morris is the Boz Boz.

[ozena52]

@monkey26r Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's A boz boz at the very least. He's also totally babylon zoo.

[monkey26r]

@ozena52 Oh yes he's the chung wit, the biff boff and the puff pastry hangman.

[DrChalkwithering]

@monkey26r He's as mad as a lorry, that's for sure.

[pigger11]

Oh dear, nervous breakdown.

Nicely done.

[Epistemofo]

Hilarious and strangely moving at the same time... Comedic poetry.

[kevbomb]

"a plate of eggs"

[Chully109]

at the end ".... and you should lock up".

[ashkanrabbit]

hilarious

[ashkanrabbit]

do you think its about a wierd marriage breakup?

'cant really indulge that thought it's dangerously persuasive"

[QFIhawkman]

"The only comfort I suppose is that I won't have to live with it quite so long.....

I imagine being picked off by a sharp frost in the winter..."

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry! The futility of it all.

[KaliberKing]

The timing and camera-work surrounding the word "cattle" makes me laugh every time.

"bedding down with the cattle"...

[Reuben0508]

Of all the sketches from Jam, this one is by far the most profound. A magnificent performance by Chris Morris.

[dutchpaedo]

beautiful

[FourZoas]

@mu9cephei

It may me very happy to read your post and see it had been approved all those times, because I agree with every word of it.

[wittlebo]

Plate of eggs. Brilliant!

[rayblack2004]

so touching, its like he's punishing himself

[Claayerhumph]

After all, people choose to be homeless...

[sewercat]

brilliant

[mu9cephei]

I've watched this many times - Chris Morris manages to convey the complete and utter estrangement of Anthony from his wife and by extension the whole of society in under three minutes. An astonishing piece of television. And Amelia Bullmore is excellent in this too. Why is she not on our screens more often?

[bibby5000]

last i remember was alan partrige series 2

[jjlothin]

Spot on!

[johnnyvicious2]

@mu9cephei is it meant to be his wife? The dialogue and the sense of the piece suggests his mother? Could be wrong though, and in terms of the actual sentiment conveyed I don't think it matters.

[jarzhinio]

@mu9cephei Well said, I can only assume it is because she has high standards and doesn't want to risk doing anything which isn't totally great.

[oisaveloy]

@mu9cephei She is now. She's always on that sodding advert.

[mu9cephei]

@oisaveloy Only too true...home insurance adverts weren't what I'd been thinking of when I posted that

[cam100000]

Yeah it's 'Over' by Alpha.

[Kirkwuk]

There's five of their albums up on Spotify. Brilliant!

[synestheticmusic]

@Kirkwuk wtf?? under what name!?!?

[babyp3k]

@synestheticmusic Alpha

[mu9cephei]

Excellent video from Chris Morris as ever.

Can anyone tell me what music this is?

[Wolviepayne]

"I never lock up at night ya know?"

[Swafferjohn]

"and you should lock up"

[SohJinh]

"Just doesn't bear thinking about"

XD HAHAHA Genius!

[GenBanks]

I get moments like that lol, when I feel kind of like wandering around aimlessly living outside. Great sketch, funny and surreal and just... weird but thought provoking.

[adamduke1986]

1:55 'Eat a plate of eggs' GENIUS!

[PoisonInc]

The character Chris Morris portrays here reminds me of the character in his Blue Jam monologues. Maybe they're the same person?

[HarryW1234]

To me, Chris Morris seems write a comedy of acute alienation, from media, the comforts of consumption, authority figures, relationships, from everything.

He observes them all acutely, notes their absurdities and self-deceptions and uses deadpan surrealism to highlight them.

[PoisonInc]

I couldn't have said it better myself. It seems that Morris wrote material more like this during the mid/late 90s, during his 'depressed' phase.

[uchewbb]

it's a shame c4 dont repeat this on e4, as they do with Friends, over & over & over again!!!

[CelticReject]

Now , now. You don't want people beginning to think and becoming all imaginative. Better they all sit gormless and brain dead in front of the tube and laugh at nonsense!!! Much easier to control and manipulate that way.

[Wolviepayne]

That's true & probably why you were rejected at being Celtic! ;)

[CelticReject]

Not quite sure what you mean but lol anyway ;-)

[Wolviepayne]

Me either HAHA

[unionjackthelad]

so easy to be distracted by the quality of acting by chris

[mowithchickens]

something so wistfully sad about his 'plate of eggs' that's the limit of his desires having lived outside so long!

[Mullin808]

samuel beckett, all the jam fans check the great mans work, morris has his moments, beckett has a world of them

[soupdragon27]

rather wistfully looking at the cozy scene there..by the fire.. loooll

[khalithistle]

this sketch basically sums up the ethos of everything chris morris has ever done

[MisterShazam]

Plate of eggs...dangerously persuasive.

[olbertus]

I sometimes have to fight the cats for food...

[BusterDwarf]

Strangely enough, apart from the mad intros, his acting roles in Jam really seem to show the spaced out depression he felt during the Blue Jam days.

[deadvk]

the subtle details.. the bent eyeglass lens.. the glass missing in one eye..

[BusterDwarf]

I love the punchline at the end of this.

[BelatedCommiseration]

This sort of sketch really highlights the sense of almost puritan self denial that is inherent in a lot of Morris's work...the disdain for comforts and things as ultimately meaningless and the people that hanker after them as brainless parasites, yet desiring them yourself. You can tell this bloke went to a Jesuit boarding school...thats for sure...

[KaliberKing]

Deep thinking

keep drinking

[TheAnxiousMan]

@BelatedCommiseration yeah....i saw him in selfridges the other month

[oldoddjobs]

@BelatedCommiseration Can't say I have ever noticed "the disdain for comforts and things as ultimately meaningless and the people that hanker after them as brainless parasites" in Morris's work, let alone a lot of it. Perhaps you could give an example? One can tell he went to a Jesuit boarding school by reading that fact on wikipedia, I very much doubt it could be deduced by listening to or watching his stuff.

[BelatedCommiseration]

@oldoddjobs The examples are purely subjective and open to interpretation but I can name a few. In his blue Jam radio series there is a disease called the 'gush' which comes on after sex and basically you just can't stop cumming till you die. Traditional catholic concerns about the essential sinfulness of sex arriving to the fore me thinks. Also Morris's other works such as 'my sins' where a dog accuses the man who looks after him of sinfulness is catholic satire of Swiftian dimensions.

[oldoddjobs]

@BelatedCommiseration @BelatedCommiseration Well, this is speculative historicism no? Which is doubly useless when considering someone who is into surrealism, i.e the incongruous. Mind you, it's widely supposed that his medical stuff (e.g the gush) is influenced by his parents both being doctors, the animal stuff by his study of Zoology etc,. so you could very well be right. I thought HarryW1234 put it best elsewhere on this page. P.S hahaha sketch is fucking hilarious

[BelatedCommiseration]

@oldoddjobs Its interesting you should bring up the surrealism. A movement where almost all its members were lapsed catholics who used religious imagery as absurdity. You only have to look at any film by Bunuel to see the free use of such imagery as a critique. In fact the parallels between later Bunuel and his nonchelant absurdity (i.e discreet charm of the bourgeoise) and Morris here in Jam are quote striking. Whilst I'm sure there are other factors I do notice a sensibility re this.

[oldoddjobs]

@BelatedCommiseration The trouble with surrealism is that it co-opts and hijacks nonsense! Which of course doesn't need and has never needed an -ism, in fact seems to negate the notion by definition. Yet the 'movement' has these antecedents that you rightly point out. Ever watch that Meades doc on surrealism? It's here on youtube, there's a kind fellow named MeadesShrine who has uploaded loads of the shows

[BelatedCommiseration]

@oldoddjobs I agree. Jonathan Meades is a complete legend. Although I did see him prostituting himself in an advert somewhile back whch disappointed me. I didn't know someone had uploaded the whole oeuvre, so I will probably go and look at this now. Thanks for the heads up (: I remember a documentary he did about travelling the country with his father, which may have been linked to the 'travels with pevsner' series which was on BBC I suppose about a decade ago now which I thought was very fine

[Mokkor]

I think I'd rather live outside and fight the cats for food

[zrgh]

jam is groundbreaking stuff

[tigerboy1966]

interesting to see CM without make-up

[jjlothin]

.. and deeply tragic!

[jbphburg]

JAM is amazing, I love Brit comedy and anything out of theordianry, and JAM is just perfect!

[dekionplexis]

I love this one, and 'The Gush', Morris is a terrifying genius.

[cam100000]

Unfortunately 'The Gush' which I uploaded over a month ago has just been removed due to being "inappropriate nature". Oh well...

[BusterDwarf]

Considering the graphic ejaculation scenes, it's really no surprise at all. Still, it's a shame.

[angusfungus]

I uploaded that one a while back, too. I made the mistake of naming it "Porn 2000", or some similar name for it I saw in the DVD notes. It was down within minutes.

[brocklagan]

@cam100000 That's a shame, the gush is great and I suspect the censors didn't get the gag.... Thanks for posting, Jam is/was/will be the best comeddy series ever. Loved it on the radio first time round

[ShankingArmitage]

@brocklagan

other than theft do you know if you can get Blue Jam the radio stuff anywhere? really love the monolgues. you should check out "Rothko" and "Suzy's Wedding"

[brocklagan]

@ShankingArmitage "Armitage shanks", very good! Not sure to be honest, I'd say possibly BBC online archives as it was broadcast on Radio1, circa 1997. It was pretty much broadcast as you "hear" it on the JAM DVD, the images were done after which is why a lot of it doesn't sync up

[badassmonkeyman]

@ShankingArmitage The Suicide Journalist is one of my favourite sketches.

[DSMOO2]

just like the good life

[dzmoo]

deep.

[Parsefone]

Beautiful.

[Vortex42]

That is exactly the correct word.