Erskine Might wrote:As the saying goes, if you push against an open door, you just fall flat on your face. Parry needs someone to push against.
But not Ray Parlour, because Parlour has the attention span of a gnat, he has no ability to respond to someone like Parry other than out of sheer bewilderment and his addiction to double or treble negatives renders anything he says incomprehensible.
Danny Kelly is a better foil for Parry's comic turn, but the problem with Kelly is he's too vain to pretend he takes it seriously, so we merely get an exercise in meta-comedy. And also, Parry's apparent ignorance about world famous music acts only gets amplified by Kelly's need for 'I used to edit the NME' reminiscences.
Parry needs someone whom you really think is very, very close to snapping and hitting him in the face. So maybe any listener, or else Mark Saggers.
Interesting thoughts Erskine. As you say Parry needs a straight man to react to his nonsense. The trouble is, he thinks that he doesn't.
With Danny Kelly, there isn't the same sense that a row might break out at any time, as there was with Mike Graham.
