As regards the mrbrown show

To Terry, Kor­m­man­dos, Anni­brow, James and every­one else who’ve noticed and emailed me lately ask­ing why I haven’t been heard on the mrbrown show. Thanks for asking.

Well, I haven’t been on the mrbrown show for a few weeks now because it’s time to move on to other things.

But it’s been a great year and a half writ­ing and per­form­ing the silly skits that have made the show pop­u­lar, and I’ve really enjoyed my time col­lab­o­rat­ing with mr brown and some of our guests (as well as being the hap­less cus­tomer in the Zhng My Car series, and the hap­less ‘cus­tomer’ in the Bak Chor Mee skit).

I have to thank Kin Mun for com­ing up with the crazy idea of hav­ing a pod­cast in the first place, and remem­ber, we started out with an iPod and one of those plug-in mics you buy from the iShop or Apple Cen­tre. Noth­ing stopped the occa­sional record­ing, and I remem­ber a seri­ous bout of flu keep­ing Kin Mun at home, neces­si­tat­ing the com­plex set-up of Skype and other soft­ware which allowed us to remotely ‘host’ a thirty minute show talk­ing about such impor­tant national issues as ‘what is toi­let paper called in Mandarin’?

The answer I offered (that we used to call toi­let paper ‘shit paper’ in Man­darin) made Kin Mun laugh so hard he coughed him­self off the chair, knock­ing out cables and hav­ing to set up the setup again. At least that was what he told me. I couldn’t see for sure, and had to take his word for it.

As for the very pop­u­lar char­ac­ter ‘Johnny’, played inim­itably by Kin Mun, credit is due to our friend Daryl Sng, who, on a pub out­ing with us, said, ‘eh, you know it would be very funny to have a Sin­ga­porean ver­sion of MTV’s Pimp My Ride, called ‘Zhng My Car”, or some­thing. I para­phrase, but you know what I mean lah.

Work­ing on the pod­cast also made me realise that peo­ple take non­sense seri­ously, and it was both stress­ful and hum­bling to have guests ask to appear on the show. To date, we’ve had radio djs, film-makers, actors, singers, bands, writ­ers, fel­low blog­gers, and accord­ing to Kin Mun, we’ve also stashed away record­ings of taxi dri­vers, col­leagues and the laksa aun­tie down­stairs of the mrbrown show stu­dio in Katong.

I’ve had friends who’ve made jokes, laughed at their own jokes, and then paused to ask me, ‘eh, is that going to be on the pod­cast?’ Noth­ing was sacro­sanct, except things deemed sacro­sanct at com­mon law and acts of parliament.

I’m now look­ing for­ward to doing my own stuff again, and that includes writ­ing (hint: if you’ve got writ­ing gigs, let me know), and I’d like to thank every lis­tener who has been sup­port­ing the show all this while. Youse rocks!

Mr Miyagi’s last mrbrown show pod­cast: the mrbrown show 25 Oct 2006: robo-beng

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