What happened to Peacock and Gamble?
The Ray Peacock Podcast was successful, spawning live shows (attended by special guests such as Harry Hill and The Office actor Ewen MacIntosh), but ended after four series, as the presenters felt they were spending too much time making fun of Raji.
Who does a podcast with Ray Peacock?
Hosted by Ray Peacock (Ian Boldsworth), Raji James, and Edward Gamble.
When did the Peacock and Gamble podcast start?
2009 (actual podcast) – present. The Peacock and Gamble Podcast was a weekly podcast hosted by British comedians Ray Peacock and Ed Gamble. Hosted on Chortle.co.uk and accessible via iTunes and RSS, the show started in 2009 as a spiritual sequel to the Ray Peacock Podcast. A live show spawned from the podcast, the Peacock ...
Who created the Peacock and Gamble show?
The show was devised in part by agent James Taylor, who suggested that Peacock and Gamble should establish an online presence in connection with a television show they were then writing. The television programme was occasionally mentioned in the show, which then progressed to the pilot stage.
How many episodes of Ray Peacock are there?
Only forty-nine episodes of the Ray Peacock Podcast were recorded, in its original run, and only forty-eight of them were released. However, a final fiftieth show was recorded in September 2010, and released in conjunction with the fiftieth episode of Peacock and Gamble .
Why did Ray Peacock end?
The Ray Peacock Podcast was successful, spawning live shows (attended by special guests such as Harry Hill and The Office actor Ewen MacIntosh ), but ended after four series, as the presenters felt they were spending too much time making fun of Raji.
What did Peacock ask the listener to eat?
For the last few episodes of the feature's run, the "foods" that Peacock suggested were no longer even edible - rather, he would ramble for two minutes, asking the listener to eat tractors or ghosts, or ambiguous concepts such as physics and religion .
What episode does Peacock eat Cadbury boost?
By episode 40 , Peacock would embark upon a two-minute soliloquy, ranting about increasingly mundane foods and suggesting that the listener eat them in bizarre, improbable ways - imploring the listener, for instance, to travel to Egypt and eat a Cadbury Boost on a sphinx.
Who was Sidebottom on Peacock and Gamble?
Sidebottom was a friend of the duo , and upon the occasion of his death, Peacock and Gamble dedicated a section of the podcast to the man's life, and ended the show with his cover of " Bohemian Rhapsody ".
Overview
The Peacock and Gamble Podcast was a weekly podcast hosted by British comedians Ray Peacock and Ed Gamble. Hosted on Chortle.co.uk and accessible via iTunes and RSS, the show started in 2009 as a spiritual sequel to the Ray Peacock Podcast. A live show spawned from the podcast, the Peacock and Gamble Emergency Broadcast, which was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe as part of a tour. They also performed a live show in the winter of 2009, which has not be…
Podcast history
Ray Peacock (real name Ian Boldsworth) met Ed Gamble at a revue at Durham University. Their first podcast work together was the Ray Peacock Podcast, which was co-hosted with "Little Raji James who used to be in EastEnders but ruined it" - Peacock's actor friend, Raji James. Ed Gamble first joined the cast in episode 4 of the first series, and became a permanent host from series 2 onwards. Raji's role in the show was mainly as the butt of the jokes, with features such as "Raji's …
Features / sections
The complaint letters feature was a double-headed feature produced by both presenters. The concept was that they would send complaint letters to big businesses in order to trick them into giving them free merchandise as compensation, the joke being that the complaints were incredibly unrealistic and often badly-written. The complaints would invariably report the mishaps befalling an eight-year-old boy Fraser, the letters written from the perspective of his mother, Mrs…
Music
The podcast uses music kindly donated by popular comedy-musicians the Tiger Lillies and Frank Sidebottom. The Tiger Lillies contributed "Gouge My Eyes Out", which is used as the show's theme tune, whereas "Vagina", "Maggots", and "Banging in the Nails" are used between sections. The closing theme is an instrumental version of Sidebottom's cover of The Smiths' "Panic". Sidebottom was a friend of the duo, and upon the occasion of his death, Peacock and Gamble dedicated a s…
Reception
The Peacock and Gamble Podcast, while not broadly acknowledged by the mass media, has been praised by critics. Hazel Davis of The Guardian listed the podcast first in a run-down of the top 10 comedy podcasts, describing it as "35 minutes of pure gold." It was nominated for a Chortle award in 2011.
External links
• Official website
• Ray Peacock at Avalon Entertainment
• Ed Gamble at Avalon Entertainment
• Twitter - The Peacock and Gamble Emergency Broadcast.