Ian Hislop on his disastrous interview with Tom Waits

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Ian Hislop reflecting on his program "Smooth Talk" on the show Room 101. Room 101 is a BBC comedy television series in which celebrities are invited to discuss their pet hates and persuade the host to consign those hates to oblivion in Room 101, a location whose name was inspired by the torture room in George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four which reputedly contained "the worst thing in the world". Ian Hislop talks about his hosting of the show "Smooth Talk" and this episode of it in particular as something he would put in his room 101. From room 101 S01 E02. Ian Hislop. Originally broadcast Monday 11th July 1994 on BBC Two.

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@squirrelarch Ай бұрын

I used to watch Loose Talk when it was on Channel 4 and always remember this encounter. My sympathy was with Mr Waits. Losse talk was a shambolic programme where the audience often seemed to be talking amongst themselves during the interviews but the live bands were often quite good.

@caeserromero3013 Ай бұрын

You know what they say: "Tom Waits for no man," 😂😂

@christinavuyk2026 Ай бұрын

Given Time anyway… 😜

@OmegaNovaB Ай бұрын

😂 Bravo! Like it

@KismetMulhaneski-to3wg Ай бұрын

Can't imagine Hislop or Merton being Tom Waits cup o' Bourbon.

@effess8698 Ай бұрын

Given that Loose Talk was only on air in 1983 the piece of work that Tom is talking about is presumably the album Swordfishtrombones. Which has aged much better than the interview, or indeed the Room 101 clip. Never could stand that dog.

@OdditiesandRarities Ай бұрын

2:49 "incredible amount of .. what? songfoir?" ?? anyone know what that word is?

@mrindecisive100 Ай бұрын

'Sangfroid'.

@matthewcoombs3282 Ай бұрын

Literally cool blood....a pretenous way of saying he kept his cool

@thewomble1509 Ай бұрын

@@matthewcoombs3282 A French way of saying it.

@highdownmartin Ай бұрын

I used to like 101 when it had time to go through half a dozen items with one guest. Find out a bit about them and have a laugh en route. Hancock and Merton were good. I like skinner but the format is shallow and more contrived

@christinavuyk2026 Ай бұрын

Tbf Hislop might have thought he was sounding cool but in reality it can’t be argued that he sounded sarcastic af 😂😂😂

@flammenjc Ай бұрын

I think he gets off on being an arsehole and then claiming it to be all in good fun to be honest.

@jhjhjhjhjhjhify Ай бұрын

I think Hislop dropped the ball on that one. Obviously he didn't mean to, but I can understand how Waits would have thought it rude or indeed wasn't quite sure what he was trying to say so got annoyed (I think the problem was it was being filmed live so Hislop couldn't just ask Waits directly to speak up. From what I understand the show itself was a bit of a mess and the sound recording seems awful anyway). Worth noting it was about 10 years before Tom Waits became sober as well, and like Hislop implies he may well be drunk/high here, which doesn't help. Hislop can be a good laugh. I'm a big Tom Waits fan though! Wonderful singer/songwriter, and a really good actor as well. He's actually quite a good talk show guest, but you have to get used to his weirdness/brand of humour. Not sure if his music or personality was Hislop's thing.

@josefk-g5u Ай бұрын

I love both Tom Waits and Ian Hislop

@oldschoolm8 Ай бұрын

I'm slightly neutral with this clip as I'm an Ian Hislop and Tom Waits fan. Ian was right, it's a talkshow, you have to speak up, but Tom is such an ethereal, oddball artist, you've got to respect his ways. Btw, what the hell happened to Nick Hancock? Did he have a Richard Bacon/Angus Deaton style kink dethroning? He was a great presenter.