Earliest TV memory?
I remember having an ironic conversation about The Flumps, which was a stop-motion kids show; they were essentially balls of fur with eyes stuck on them. It was mid-afternoon pre-school stuff, but I would watch it anyway because I was such a waster. I must have been about 11 or 12 watching The Flumps, and then went to a party and had a conversation with someone about how shit The Flumps were. We didn’t get to the point where we covered the fact that maybe part of the reason is because they’re aimed at toddlers and we were 10 years too old.
Unmissable show?
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! It’s peculiarly life-affirming; I end up really liking all the people in there. I’d love to go on that show. I think people think I’m being ironic, but I’m not.
I cried when…
Sometimes you see people that you like so much on TV that it makes you weepy. It’s weird. I don’t know what it is. Those ladies on Gogglebox who live in Brixton; I just think: “I love you so much, I want to be your friend, and I want the world to be populated by people like you.”
Bring back…
Channel 4 used to run lots of late-night shows about video art. There was one called Mirrorball, which was profiles of video directors, like Chris Cunningham. No one else was bothering to investigate them.
Pitch us a TV show
The show me and Joe always used to pitch was Adam & Joe’s Very Good Time. We would just travel round the world and have a very good time. They’d film us in first class having a very good time, and then we’d go to Hawaii and we’d have a really, really good time. I suppose it would be interesting to go out to somewhere like Syria . But I think that would make people very angry for a lot of reasons. I’m not saying that us flying around first class everywhere wouldn’t also make some people angry, but we at least would be having a very good time.
Adam Buxton’s Shed Of Christmas, Tue, 9.30pm, Sky Arts 1
