Andrew Clay: “Getting millions of hits on YouTube is NO BIG DEAL, I assure you!” (Dec. 6, 2014)

6 December 2014 at 10:57 am

“Getting millions of hits on YouTube is NO BIG DEAL, I assure you!”
Top Kiwi funny man full of scorn for latest Savage single
The Panel, Radio NZ National, Friday 5 December 2014
Jim Mora, Andrew “Dire” Clay, Barry Corbett, Julie Moffett

Professional comedian Andrew “Dire” Clay has come to our attention on several occasions, most risibly last year, when he announced that he had stopped “being a liberal” and also that, as a comedian, “one is often mobbed by the ladies”…..
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-04122013/#comment-738941

Today’s edition of The Panel consisted mostly of light chat, but it did get interesting after the 4:30 news, with the studio full of the sound of Savage growling his hit single “Freaks”—the one with the trumpet riff. The big question of the day: IS IT REALLY A TRUMPET? A little later, Jim announced, he would ask the legendary trumpeter Edwina Thorne about it.

First, though, the opinions of the Panelists: Jim Mora’s kids love the song, so he’s on board with it; Barry Corbett has never heard the song, so doesn’t say much about it; Andrew “Dire” Clay, however, has very strong opinions. The song is crap, he reckons, and the trumpet solo is crude and simplistic and seems to have been sampled from a German oom-pah band. Clay’s dad was a jazz trumpeter, and Clay never heard a trumpet played like the one in this single. If you want to hear decent trumpet-playing, he urges, listen to Louis Armstrong….

JIM MORA: Yes but it has garnered millions of hits on YouTube.
ANDREW “DIRE” CLAY: That’s no big deal! Highlights of The Block get millions of hits! Getting millions of hits on YouTube is NO BIG DEAL, I assure you!

That’s not quite true, of course. A quick check of Andrew Dire Clay’s YouTube history shows that it’s very difficult to get more than 3,574 hits after more than four years….

The hit count for Savage and Timmy Trumpet is quite a contrast….

• Paul10.1

  6 December 2014 at 11:07 am

  It was a particularly dire edition of the Panel.
  • Morrissey10.1.1

    6 December 2014 at 11:24 am

    There have been far, far worse editions….

    http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-20082014/#comment-869959
    http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-11032011/#comment-306974
    http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-19072013/#comment-664870
    http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-04072014/#comment-844334
    • Paul10.1.1.1

      6 December 2014 at 11:27 am

      The one with Graham Bell brings back some bad memories.
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