Funny Business
Funny Business was a feature on Scott Mills and Chris Stark's Radio 1 show. These articles collect write-ups of the feature from the archive.
London's most rivalled view
Before seeing Suicide Squad, Scott and Chris visit a hotel rooftop bar promising “unrivalled views of London”. They reach the top to find murky weather, a plant and the top of one barely identifiable building. Listeners agree that the view is unrivalled only in its disappointment.
The failed rooftop becomes another example of ordinary things being oversold. Scott posts the evidence online, while Chris supplies his own equally unimpressive “unrivalled view” of Scott.
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Is Gary working beside her?
An anonymous listener, disguised with a voice changer and called Dave for the conversation, suspects that a new colleague may be Unlucky Gary. The evidence is that he has mentioned being dumped at an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet, an unusually specific misfortune that listeners already know from Gary's story.
Scott suggests testing him with Gary's old on-air alias, "Gary Bint". The listener calls the name across the office twice, but the colleague shows no sign of re [...]
Calls to Doggy Style and Dick Lovett finally gave the revived funny-company-name game a title the show wanted to keep. [...]