Room 101 - Will Self (1 of 2)

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[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Why does it feel like Will Self is being played by Peter Cook in this episode?

[@londonenglishclasses]

+LukesEnglishPodcast Hello old boy! Fancy bumping into you here!

[@whitepanther84]

Will self is like a bond villain with no one to fight, his waxwork escaped one day and became alive, and it walks the earth, shouting haikus into the sky and whispering soft threats into the ears of passing pensioners, or he could just be a twat

[@diamondjames7721]

Will Self in my opinion is on of the most complexly profound idiosyncratic characters of modern literature. He's a genius with a subconscious arrogance that intrigues me.

[@pekkokuopanportti6859]

"Is it possible to have too many whelks?" Sean Lock might have an answer to that question.

[@headgirlblues]

Will appears to have morphed into a cross between Peter Cook and Nietzsche

[@MaraisNic]

headgirlblues Brilliant description.

[@talbrott]

the second coming of Peter Cook

[@ceeg0]

Back and forth between two brilliant minds, fab.

[@taffwob]

Couldn't agree more. The episodes with Johnny Vegas & Spike Milligan were TV gold.

[@GiantSandles]

Positively splendiferous.

[@JimJimothy]

I'm kind of shocked that Merton didn't know what magma was. I was hopeless at science in school, but even I knew that.

[@stitcha123]

He was definitely joking.

[@royfr8136]

@@stitcha123 Difficult to tell when he is funny. He rarely is.

[@EJFerny]

YES!!!! Couldnt agree more with the nylon sheets hahaha

[@ck2590]

cheers for this!

[@padraigcronin1172]

Will Self is as lugubriously marvellous as ever/

[@simonfirth5838]

Great use of the word lugubrious

[@bigbowlowrong4694]

Simon Firth great use of the word great

[@Pilkie101]

@@bigbowlowrong4694 Great use of the word nut!

[@doctortehe]

Will Self would love what the King of Sweden wears.

[@jackbarker3283]

awww, vhs was lovely

[@lydia5489]

He's a likeable version of Morrissey.

[@jjaammeess84]

Or a less likeable version of Hunter S. Thompson.

[@dean8705]

+Borderline Incapacitated He does have certain mannerisms that remind me of Morrissey. He admires Morrissey, I know that.

[@LordBillington42]

Watched the first two minutes of this, and it's already funnier than anything I've seen for years on the BBC.

[@TheDensley7]

Thanks very much for this. I'm off to one of his book readings on wednesday.

[@fritspas]

Ah yes, that seems to make perfect sence, thank you.

[@laylapontello]

Some people are hostilized for their authenticity. Some don´t. Because they are a fake, a void....Love Will.

[@ThreeWordsFirstWord]

I like Will Self purely for the reason that he puts something relating to the royal family into that little Room 101, or more preferably, The Tower.

[@iloveken222]

i think will self is brilliant. he's so smart, and so funny.

[@SuperFerdie1965]

E L Wisty without the laughs.

[@bobnlouie]

I'm with Will Self on B&Bs. Me and three friends once stayed at one which seemed quite nice, until we got shown into the dining room for breakfast. The whole room was filled with stuffed animals of varying size and species. It was the creepiest meal I have ever had. Hundreds of tiny glass eyes, from wierdly postured dead things, watching our every move. Brrr.

[@SethHesio]

Will Self reminds me of a cross between Peter Cook and Johnny Rotten.

[@MrJoeyWheeler]

Brilliant! "Can we have two TARDISes please?"

[@dimmuborgir82]

aww hes lovely isnt he

[@wafi84]

i like his airport ideas

[@IdaSputum]

B+B's, it cannot be denied, are indeed misery laden in my experience, - would that it weren't - hope springs eternal, but they've always let me down horribly

[@TIMDRY]

Peter Cook is alive and well and is now Will Self!

[@Jeremyramone]

@TheDensley7 that is fantastic. how did it go? anything interesting occur or what was your overall impression? thanks kindly for sharing these videos, cheers from san diego

[@Tommyfazz]

''...can you fit a Tardis inside a Tardis? '' great.

[@CrownedWithLaurels]

I thought the point was that these are the things that would go to create your own personal little hell on earth - say, being stuck behind slow walkers with a sock that's fallen down into your shoe and having to listen to Abba for eternity - and the fact that Room 101 is supposed to contain things that will break your spirit entirely is just exaggeration for comic effect. But hey, I don't imagine very much thought went into it.

[@Tommyfazz]

yes he does...but thinking as you fall.

[@alanwakeish]

I know this is very geeky, but you can get a tardis within a tardis, it happens in one of the short stories on the complete series 6 boxset.

[@HarrysSecret]

Head & breakfast sounds ok.

[@duran75]

Will Self began as a novelist, he is still a novelist, the rest is merely an adjuvant!

[@pfalky2k]

anyone else notice that Will Self is the real life equivalent of Sheldon (big bang theory)?

[@Anagzable]

but cooler

[@TheodorBjork]

@TheDensley7 You're right. This was filmed in 2000. It looks older, though

[@Twirlyhead]

Hi, Will !

[@mauriristola3282]

God Save the Queen... WATP

[@GiratinaofFury]

Isn't it just strange that shortly after the initial run of the show ended, there was a sudden increase of annoying things that belong in room 101?

[@fritspas]

Isn't room 101 supposed to contain our greatest fears, instead of stuff we just dislike?

[@Zttbm]

Will Self reminds me of "Bez" in an alternate universe.

[@camillaparks]

@fritspas In 1984 it was said that anyone going in never came out, I think that's where they're going with it.

[@hufclufc]

Will Self is a very strange word indeed, isn't it?

[@TheDensley7]

@jeremyshambles He is such a nice man, really funny too. He is much more friendly and relaxed in person than his media persona would suggest.

[@gman8471]

@bobnlouie Had the owners never seen Psycho?

[@EmpathicMimicry]

LMAO @ their comments about the tardis at 6:55

[@treehousekohtao]

I went to the tower of london recently, its still all true. Conveyor belt, promo film, false sense of awe, silly men shouting, pointless wealth.

[@lorgnette3]

Will Self, meow, me likey. Wish the show wasnt so LCD so he could show his wares a bit more.

[@laylapontello]

I absolutely ADORE Will Self.

[@gman8471]

@Danazawa He seems all right to begin with but if you watch the whole thing he becomes a bit wacky towards the end. They probably took a break at some point during filming...

[@fritspas]

@camillaparks But they all came out, they weren't killed much later when they finally accepted the big brother doctrine.

[@gar1558]

he nearly quoted morrissey..

[@peggymount]

You can get a Tardis inside a Tardis. Just watch Logopolis.

[@smile221]

@bobokk In a documentary karl pilkington did called "satisfied fool" where he learn about knowledge and intelligence

[@TheDensley7]

@TheodorBjork I'm pretty sure he was clean by this point.

[@jimmy2k4o]

same here, and I have a fucking exam in the morning. I'm happy we ould have shared this experience together, live long and prosper.

[@rockdiva1983]

how can someone not know what magma is.

[@Chiscringle]

Will's right, actually. You can fit TARDISes inside each other.

[@cranecitytramp]

Fifteen years after appearing on room 101, he suddenly decides George Orwell was a terrible writer. Couldn't he have told us then and put the man who created room 101, into it ?

[@nakedmambo]

Good old George was a great critic, but a fairly middling novelist. 1984 is a sort of meeting of his two strands which somehow worked.

[@carolinekillelea9398]

Except he didn't say that. At all.

[@edmund184]

did you sleep well?

[@tenseman08]

Will Sell this shelf to Will Self

[@gwasgray9309]

13:50 Yeah, like that time he got caught getting high in the toilet on John Major's plane.

[@mistercarlton]

Will Self or EL Wisty?

[@wildvenisson]

@bobnlouie But that's a matter of taste, not something that make s a B&B better or worse. Then again I say that as a person who sees taxidermia as an art form. You're giving an inanaimate corpse a semblance of the life it once had. Besides anything taxidermed is actually only the skin and fibres of the animal, the rest is an exoskeleton designed to fit the animal, a flesh jacket fairly similar to wearing fur or leather only that the animal died often naturally and was reconstructed artfully.

[@Niandra]

What's with the hate for both of them?

[@destroydate7887]

There's nothing wrong with Will Self. You need his type of acerbic wit to break through all the nicey nice horse shit that you see on the telly.

[@2napoleon6]

Anorak :P

[@rodroddingson]

6:01 Sly Morrissey reference ;)

[@MrLookatmyshit]

Illuminati.

[@Benlamb1988]

Ahhh, back before Frank Skinner ruined the format

[@brianm2881]

I'll thumbs up this comment, but it's really more BBC incompetence than Frank, I'd say.

[@frickadele]

@xSJJACKSONx You can't comment on something ... unless you've tried it. I've TRIED these two and I don't like them. If I ever come across these two again... I'll know not to waste my precious time by watching them. This isn't a fan club website, is it?

[@bobnlouie]

@wildvenisson I can see your point, its all subjective in the end. I disagree with you, but that is by the by. Enjoy your hobby, and happy stuffing.

[@thedolphin5428]

I think Will's game is just to (seriously) take the piss out of anything and everything which takes itself seriously, including, and especially, stupid shows like Room 101 which self-evidently dumb down the populous. Guests go on shows like this simply for the cheque. So why not fuck up the host's and the audience's minds AND get paid for it.

[@palmeracallejera]

Will Self sounds like Pete off Pete and Dud, a bit. Not at all provocative of any urge to jump off a bridge; on the contrary quite engaging. I don't know about his manor - somewhere in London, where the dead go.

[@johnwalton3805]

NICE TO SEE TWO EX PARANOID MENTAL HEALTH PATIENTS BONDING SO WELL TOGETHER. MUST BE THEIR LOVE OF ILLICIT DRUGS THAT MAKES THEM SO INTERPERSONALLY COMPATIBLE ? I MUST SAY I PREFER MERTONS PERSONALITY .

[@ZER0--]

He said Megma at the start.... 0:57

[@morgankemeys7192]

since when did ralph fiennes become such a nob?

[@Alex-hj]

It was satire.

[@smile221]

will self was rude to karl pilkington but has since won me over again. pilko > selfo tho

[@TheodorBjork]

Self was on heroin at this time, right?

[@diskochimp]

06:50

[@bensimps123]

will self was rude to karl pilkington i dont like him since then

[@elvischrist8826]

No he fucking wouldn't.

[@V4Valmont]

god i hate will self..

[@rgwholt]

Paul Merton cannot stand Will Self, i think he cannot bear his arrogant , smug , sneering ex grammar school boy attitude. And the sad way that he tries to sound like and emulate the late great Peter Cook.

[@elvischrist8826]

Fuck off aids habour From Will