Digitiser - Channel 4 Teletext

I can't believe for one second that I'm the only person on here who used to read Digitiser on Channel 4 Teletext. It was their computer games section, but it was written by a comedy genius called Mr Biffo. He could do surreal humour much better than 'jokers' such as Noel Fielding.

One of my favourite things they did was their letters page where they would happily insult their audience. One viewer once wrote in complaining about something and digitisers reply was "Press Reveal". Then, when you pressed the reveal button on your remote a pair of 'stuck up fingers appeared' with the message of 'Up Yours'.

They also used to a diary of a man called The Man which was hilarious. They also had a running gag about Mr T complaining about people going near his bins.

From wikipedia:

Digi-Speak

A further element of Digitiser's other-worldly charm was its unusual take on the English language. Often this amounted to little more than using "the" in unusual places or adding curious suffixes to existing words (including, but not limited to -uss, -O, -ston, -Oh! and -me-do), but occasionally invented whole new sounds using words that never been used in that context, such as "huss" becoming an exclamation of some joy rather than, as is more common, a variety of dogfish.

Using tramps as similies ("That's like putting lipstick on a dead tramp and calling it a supermodel"), the phrase moc-moc-a-moc and irrelevant sentences which read merely "And!" were all elements of the Digitiser lexicon.

It was common practice for Digitiser to mock the names of contributors to its letters page. Generally, the more obvious the better (for example a reader with the surname "Major" could well find themselves being referred to as "John"). Notable bits of name-calling included Digitiser viewer Matt Gander being rechristened "non-shiny goose", and a Mr. Tedesco being called "Safedeway", alluding to supermarket chains Tesco and Safeway.

Sorry, but here's some more:

http://www.btinternet.com/~moononastick/sp58/MrT.htm

Wow, I'd forgotten all about this guy. I seem to remember The Guardian ran a column on him once. Funny f**ker.

Paul Roses blog is very entertaining. I've mentioned it before: http://biffovision.blogspot.com