And the homeless... what's that all about?Business manager... sits in his office all day looking at chartsHe'll sort out the paperwork, and Bob's your filmAh, RobinMathsHello?Oh I doI know, and isn't that great that we're going to share it with so many peopleWowHave you ever taken acid?Because maybe you shouldA4 soundsA kind of concept album about the various sizes of paperIt actually induced the first of many nervous breakdownsAll of which I've chosen to ignoreDecember 8th, 19803amI'm sat cross-legged, on a cushionTrying to come to terms with myselfWhen quite without warning, John Lennon's head thrust through my floorboardsHe was passing me the torchThanks JohnRobert Palmer lives in my mobileNo, noPlace, a farm for ideaRocket, consistently redefines thinkBe enabled Place is creativilisationThis is my ape hourWould you move off there please, that's my high rockDo you know, I've had an ape hour, every day, since watching this thing on DiscoveryAh, yesProstitutes, some of them are awfulDavid Hoyle (born 19 September 1962, in Blackpool, Lancashire, England) is a performance artist, actor and comedian. He is notable for presenting his own arts TV show Divine David Presents on Channel 4, 1999 under his stage persona The Divine David. This was followed a year later by the series The Divine David Heals. Hoyle is openly gay.[1]
Hoyle publicly killed off this character in 2000 and put his career on hold to cope with a nervous breakdown.[2]
His two recent series of shows, Magazine and Magazine the Reprint, in London have played to capacity audiences. In a recent episode of Magazine the Reprint, David Hoyle raised the issue of HIV and AIDS, presenting a film of his own HIV test, taken earlier that day.[3]
His most notable acting role to date was in the comedy Nathan Barley (Channel 4). He also appeared prominently in the music video for Faith No More's cover of "I Started a Joke".[4][5] Hoyle is currently performing in ensemble theatre piece For All The Wrong Reasons, a collaboration with Contact Theatre (Manchester) & Victoria Theatre Co. (Belgium) alongside other work.
[edit] Works
* Played Freddi in Velvet Goldmine (1998)
* The Divine David Presents (1999)
* The Divine David Heals (2000)
* The Divine David On Ice (2000)
* Played Doug Rocket in Nathan Barley (2005)
* David Hoyle’s SOS (2006-7)
* Magazine (2006)
* Magazine: The Reprint (2007)
Nathan Barley is a Channel 4 sitcom written by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris, starring Nicholas Burns, Julian Barratt and Claire Keelan, which follows the exploits of a loathsome, fictional twenty-something Hoxton, London media type. The first episode of six weekly episodes was broadcast on 11 February 2005 on Channel 4.
Described by his own creator as a 'meaningless strutting cadaver-in-waiting', the character originated on Charlie Brooker's TVGoHome – a website parodying television listings – as the focus of a fly-on-the-wall documentary called Cunt. After the cult success of TVGoHome, the name "Nathan Barley" was frequently used pejoratively towards those whose lifestyles were satirised by the series.
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* 1 Plot
* 2 Characters
* 3 Promotion
* 4 Cast
* 5 Nathan Barley 2
* 6 References
* 7 External links
[edit] Plot
Nathan Barley played by Nicholas Burns is a webmaster, guerrilla filmmaker, screenwriter, DJ and in his own words, a "self-facilitating media node". He is convinced he is the epitome of urban cool, and therefore secretly terrified he might not be, which is why he reads Sugar Ape magazine, his bible of cool. The magazine is an obvious parody of Vice Magazine and even has one issue called "The Vice Issue".
In reality however his output is of no real interest to anyone but him and his immediate friends. The website consists of stupid pranks caught on camera, photos of him with attractive women and famous figures (some of them digitally edited to insert himself), and photos of him standing on street corners in major cities around the world. He is fully of the belief that because he has a camera, some knowledge of web publishing and a webspace, this he has a talent.
The humour derives from the rapid rise of both the internet and digital television, and the assumption by publishers and broadcasters that almost any such work is worthy of attention. Barley and his peers are often hired ahead of actual journalists and talented writers trying to make intelligent points, such as the earnest documentary film maker Claire Ashcroft, and her brother Dan Ashcroft, a jaded and apathetic hack who, having written an article for Sugar Ape entitled "The Rise of the Idiots", is disgusted to find that "the idiots" in question – Nathan and his contemporaries – have adopted him as their spiritual leader, failing to see that they are the very people he was criticising.
Format Sitcom
Created by Chris Morris,
Charlie Brooker
Starring Julian Barratt,
Nicholas Burns,
Claire Keelan
Country of origin UK
No. of episodes 6
Production
Running time 26 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel Channel 4
Original run February 11, 2005 – March 18, 2005
David Brent (from The Office UK)
Claire Ashcroft (Nathan Barley Series)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Dan Ashcroft (Nathan Barley series)
Midnight Candymen and myhouse-yourhouse.net
Jonatton Yeah? (Nathan Barley series)
Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere
Doug Rocket (Nathan Barley series)
Car Park Catchphrase with Roy Walker - BBC Radio 1
Tim Canterbury (from The Office UK)
Ned Smanks (Nathan Barley series)
George W Bush - State of the Union 2006
