As regards the mrbrown show

On October 25, 2006 · 129 Comments · In Media, Podcast

DigitalLifeTo 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.

ZaobaoWork­ing 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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  • http://urbanrant.blogspot.com Urban­rant

    Miyagi,

    Thanks for the fond mem­o­ries.
    May you move on to big­ger and more excit­ing stuff.

    Blo­gOn !
    (urbanrant.blogspot.com)

  • http://urbanrant.blogspot.com Urban­rant

    Miyagi,

    Thanks for the fond mem­o­ries.
    May you move on to big­ger and more excit­ing stuff.

    Blo­gOn !
    (urbanrant.blogspot.com)

  • http://singaporeostrichboi.blogspot.com/ Wen Long

    Dear Mr Miyagi,

    Will miss your voice & the laugh­ter u bring in brown­show
    Hope u next time got time can make cameo appear­ance on mr brown show…

    cheers!

  • http://singaporeostrichboi.blogspot.com/ Wen Long

    Dear Mr Miyagi,

    Will miss your voice & the laugh­ter u bring in brown­show
    Hope u next time got time can make cameo appear­ance on mr brown show…

    cheers!

  • http://stevenkk.blogspot.com StevenKK

    Mr Miyagi

    Even though, I’m far away(perth,oz) from home(singapore) but I still could lis­ten to singlish and hokkien through the pod­cast which brings me closer to home.

    THANK YOU so much for all the podcast.

    YOU’RE A LEGEND!

  • http://stevenkk.blogspot.com StevenKK

    Mr Miyagi

    Even though, I’m far away(perth,oz) from home(singapore) but I still could lis­ten to singlish and hokkien through the pod­cast which brings me closer to home.

    THANK YOU so much for all the podcast.

    YOU’RE A LEGEND!

  • http://nalineebarrett.blogspot.com nAL

    will miss your slightly nasal voice, Miyagi.

    But yeah, you do have big­ger things to move on to. Hope you do your best writ­ing on this blog, so we can con­tinue to enjoy your uniquely Sin­ga­porean sense of humour.

    As the Best Motion Pic­ture High­lander says, who wants to pod­cast forever?!!

  • http://nalineebarrett.blogspot.com nAL

    will miss your slightly nasal voice, Miyagi.

    But yeah, you do have big­ger things to move on to. Hope you do your best writ­ing on this blog, so we can con­tinue to enjoy your uniquely Sin­ga­porean sense of humour.

    As the Best Motion Pic­ture High­lander says, who wants to pod­cast forever?!!

  • Barnie

    Dear Mr Miyagi,

    Agrees with “Wen Long”

    “Dear Mr Miyagi,

    Will miss your voice & the laugh­ter u bring in brown show
    Hope u next time got time can make cameo appear­ance on mr brown show…

    cheers!”

    Those laugh­ters reminds me of all my close friends in younger days.

    All the best in all that you do and hope to hear some sur­prise come­back in Mr brown show. Just not use to the show with­out “your pres­ence”. All the best to New Crews! They are great too!

  • Barnie

    Dear Mr Miyagi,

    Agrees with “Wen Long”

    “Dear Mr Miyagi,

    Will miss your voice & the laugh­ter u bring in brown show
    Hope u next time got time can make cameo appear­ance on mr brown show…

    cheers!”

    Those laugh­ters reminds me of all my close friends in younger days.

    All the best in all that you do and hope to hear some sur­prise come­back in Mr brown show. Just not use to the show with­out “your pres­ence”. All the best to New Crews! They are great too!

  • fynyx

    Hello Miyagi,

    Finally you’ve made the announce­ment,
    on pod­cast & on blog.

    Wish­ing you con­tin­ued enjoy­ment in doing
    your own stuff & your writing.

    Our fam­ily will miss your voice in the ‘cast.
    You were the smooth coun­ter­point to
    mrbrown’s col­lo­quial punch.

    Looks like the WTF!shows will take a new direc­tion
    too, if they ever con­tinue?
    Yours & mrbrown’s Switch nicely pro­duced videos are amongst my finest memories.

  • fynyx

    Hello Miyagi,

    Finally you’ve made the announce­ment,
    on pod­cast & on blog.

    Wish­ing you con­tin­ued enjoy­ment in doing
    your own stuff & your writing.

    Our fam­ily will miss your voice in the ‘cast.
    You were the smooth coun­ter­point to
    mrbrown’s col­lo­quial punch.

    Looks like the WTF!shows will take a new direc­tion
    too, if they ever con­tinue?
    Yours & mrbrown’s Switch nicely pro­duced videos are amongst my finest memories.

  • denise

    WHAT?! I can’t believe it. OH MY. I will miss you Mr Miyagi!!!! Do make some appear­ances in the mrbrown­show now and then!! ): ): The mrbrown­show will NEVER be the same with­out you.

    Take care and all the best for your future plans etc. THANKS SO MUCH for all the laugh­ter and joy you’ve brought through your lame com­ments and such. (:

  • denise

    WHAT?! I can’t believe it. OH MY. I will miss you Mr Miyagi!!!! Do make some appear­ances in the mrbrown­show now and then!! ): ): The mrbrown­show will NEVER be the same with­out you.

    Take care and all the best for your future plans etc. THANKS SO MUCH for all the laugh­ter and joy you’ve brought through your lame com­ments and such. (:

  • Stu­art

    “..and this is Mr. Miyagi, Hello Every­body” would be sorely missed out each time as I lis­ten to the Mr. Brown show podcasts.

    I only got the lat­est news from the recent pod­cast that you would be leav­ing to pur­sue other ventures.

    All the best to you and Good luck.

  • Stu­art

    “..and this is Mr. Miyagi, Hello Every­body” would be sorely missed out each time as I lis­ten to the Mr. Brown show podcasts.

    I only got the lat­est news from the recent pod­cast that you would be leav­ing to pur­sue other ventures.

    All the best to you and Good luck.

  • http://blacksheepoo.blogspot.com denise

    YES! The “..and this is Mr Miyagi, Hello every­body” will be DEARLY DEARLY MISSED..!! ):

  • http://blacksheepoo.blogspot.com denise

    YES! The “..and this is Mr Miyagi, Hello every­body” will be DEARLY DEARLY MISSED..!! ):

  • http://thisistherationalneurotic.blogspot.com ratio­nal­neu­rotic

    I know they will miss you on mrbrown­show… but I missed both you and brown’s posts on the blog. Not hav­ing your posts to read every morning/lunch/evening (delete where applic­a­ble) were the rea­son why I got con­sti­pa­tion: no chance to laugh/ponder/frown/smile at reg­u­lar inter­vals broke my post-blog bowel pat­tern. There’s really no one quite like you, miyagi, and also mrbrown. Some stuff can­not be replaced.

    I know you will be missed on the mrbrown­show, but can you hear a ‘hur­rah, he’s going to blog more often (I hope)’ from Hol­land V, mrmiyagi?

    Glad you’re con­tin­u­ing to con­tribute in any­way you can. =)

  • http://thisistherationalneurotic.blogspot.com ratio­nal­neu­rotic

    I know they will miss you on mrbrown­show… but I missed both you and brown’s posts on the blog. Not hav­ing your posts to read every morning/lunch/evening (delete where applic­a­ble) were the rea­son why I got con­sti­pa­tion: no chance to laugh/ponder/frown/smile at reg­u­lar inter­vals broke my post-blog bowel pat­tern. There’s really no one quite like you, miyagi, and also mrbrown. Some stuff can­not be replaced.

    I know you will be missed on the mrbrown­show, but can you hear a ‘hur­rah, he’s going to blog more often (I hope)’ from Hol­land V, mrmiyagi?

    Glad you’re con­tin­u­ing to con­tribute in any­way you can. =)

  • http://kennysia.com ken­nysia

    Damn. No won­der I felt some­thing was amiss.

    Ah well. Seems like Miyagi will never get his car back from Johnny anyhow.

    Good luck in what­ever else you do. :)

  • http://kennysia.com ken­nysia

    Damn. No won­der I felt some­thing was amiss.

    Ah well. Seems like Miyagi will never get his car back from Johnny anyhow.

    Good luck in what­ever else you do. :)

  • dada

    Hey Mr. Miyagi all the best to your future endeav­ours. Thank you for enter­tain­ing us, Sin­ga­porean stu­dents in Aus­tralia for the past year. Yes you have many lis­ten­ers down under. All the best then…erm…but will there be a spe­cial con­clu­sion to ‘Zhng my Car’? Seri­ously not get­ting your Mazda back from Johnny’s work­shop? on a seri­ous note, the pod­casts keep us con­nected and we always feel so at home. Hee…cya around, mate.

  • dada

    Hey Mr. Miyagi all the best to your future endeav­ours. Thank you for enter­tain­ing us, Sin­ga­porean stu­dents in Aus­tralia for the past year. Yes you have many lis­ten­ers down under. All the best then…erm…but will there be a spe­cial con­clu­sion to ‘Zhng my Car’? Seri­ously not get­ting your Mazda back from Johnny’s work­shop? on a seri­ous note, the pod­casts keep us con­nected and we always feel so at home. Hee…cya around, mate.

  • Alphonse Yu

    Why not have your own podcast?

  • Alphonse Yu

    Why not have your own podcast?

  • TAN

    Hi Mr.Miyagi
    The gasps could be heard loud and clear from the final pod­cast (robobeng.

    Well, I guess it is the right time to come out of the shadow of “Mr Brown” Show. Why not call “Brown and Miyagi Show” hor?
    I think I sense that drift along­side with the sud­den split.

    Ruby and Imran? Some­how doesn’t gel the same leh. Remem­ber the DJ Joe Augus­tine and the Fly­ing Dutch­man? Some­how Joe or Fly­ing Dutch­man just does not cut it going alone.

    Well, it is all my own con­spir­acy the­ory. Mr Brown did not sound too good, when you announced the last pod­cast leh? Hmm.

    Good luck to your new ven­tures, keep me posted hor?

    TAN
    Switzerland

  • TAN

    Hi Mr.Miyagi
    The gasps could be heard loud and clear from the final pod­cast (robobeng.

    Well, I guess it is the right time to come out of the shadow of “Mr Brown” Show. Why not call “Brown and Miyagi Show” hor?
    I think I sense that drift along­side with the sud­den split.

    Ruby and Imran? Some­how doesn’t gel the same leh. Remem­ber the DJ Joe Augus­tine and the Fly­ing Dutch­man? Some­how Joe or Fly­ing Dutch­man just does not cut it going alone.

    Well, it is all my own con­spir­acy the­ory. Mr Brown did not sound too good, when you announced the last pod­cast leh? Hmm.

    Good luck to your new ven­tures, keep me posted hor?

    TAN
    Switzerland

  • http://www.haato.com.sg lin­coln

    ?? WTF… I tot you were busy get­ting new mate­r­ial for the show and that was why you weren’t on…

    Man… what now ?

  • http://www.haato.com.sg lin­coln

    ?? WTF… I tot you were busy get­ting new mate­r­ial for the show and that was why you weren’t on…

    Man… what now ?

  • Barnie

    Yes, def­i­nitely fall off chair lah! I also laughed until drop. Almost every one them is my daily dose of humor. Detense. Even my wife sound so brown when she com­plain me, my daugh­ter, 6, sings Mai Hum… It’s a great loss to Sin­ga­pore! Gomez! The car owner that never got to get his car back! Croc hunter! Indone­sian class­mate! Uncov­ery Geog­ra­phy! cpl Pluto! Trips! Gor! Mr Vic­tor Chan! Nose Shit! Local Ads! Potato, Tomato! CEO goes Pol­i­tics! Mum, I’m going to Sin­ga­pore! FOUND! Hey Mickey! Mos­quito ONE! …MAKE ME! EP! “Reservist Talk”, my Fav! Taxi! Only in Malaysia! CPI! Native Speaker! Daniel Gang!.….….. & “Sian”.

  • Barnie

    Yes, def­i­nitely fall off chair lah! I also laughed until drop. Almost every one them is my daily dose of humor. Detense. Even my wife sound so brown when she com­plain me, my daugh­ter, 6, sings Mai Hum… It’s a great loss to Sin­ga­pore! Gomez! The car owner that never got to get his car back! Croc hunter! Indone­sian class­mate! Uncov­ery Geog­ra­phy! cpl Pluto! Trips! Gor! Mr Vic­tor Chan! Nose Shit! Local Ads! Potato, Tomato! CEO goes Pol­i­tics! Mum, I’m going to Sin­ga­pore! FOUND! Hey Mickey! Mos­quito ONE! …MAKE ME! EP! “Reservist Talk”, my Fav! Taxi! Only in Malaysia! CPI! Native Speaker! Daniel Gang!.….….. & “Sian”.

  • jeep

    Dear Mr Miyagi,

    Thanks for keep­ing us enter­tained the past year.
    You are one half of a great team and will be greatly missed on mrbrownshow.

    All the best in your upcom­ing ventures.

    chee­rios,

  • http://nil jeep

    Dear Mr Miyagi,

    Thanks for keep­ing us enter­tained the past year.
    You are one half of a great team and will be greatly missed on mrbrownshow.

    All the best in your upcom­ing ventures.

    chee­rios,

  • http://www.wenjinweb.blogspot.com Wen­jin

    Net time you are very free, join back the Mr Brown Show!

  • http://www.wenjinweb.blogspot.com Wen­jin

    Net time you are very free, join back the Mr Brown Show!

  • Ryan

    It’s true, but ever since you left the mrbrown show, it seems the pod­casts have not been as funny as they used to be when you were on it. I’m not say­ing this for the sake of hav­ing some­thing nice to say, like when you’re in show­biz, and when you retire, the media would start giv­ing trib­utes, high­light­ing one’s pre­vi­ous achieve­ments, or, for a more recent exam­ple, Michael Schu­macher, where the papers are all say­ing that no one will be ever to com­plete his amaz­ing feat.

    Once upon a time, I would check the mrbrownshow.com or miyagi.sg for pod­casts, seek­ing for a laugh or two espe­cially after a long school day. How­ever, if you take time off to lis­ten to the newer pod­casts with Ruby and some­times Imran, you’d notice that they are not as funny. In fact, some of the jokes can be rather lame at times. Maybe they need time to gel.

    But all the same, I will con­tinue lis­ten­ing to the mrbrown show, and I wish you suc­cess in your future tar­gets. I still har­bour hope that you might one day return to the mrbrown show once you are sat­is­fied doing your own stuff, and once again be part of the for­mi­da­ble team that you were once part of.

  • Ryan

    It’s true, but ever since you left the mrbrown show, it seems the pod­casts have not been as funny as they used to be when you were on it. I’m not say­ing this for the sake of hav­ing some­thing nice to say, like when you’re in show­biz, and when you retire, the media would start giv­ing trib­utes, high­light­ing one’s pre­vi­ous achieve­ments, or, for a more recent exam­ple, Michael Schu­macher, where the papers are all say­ing that no one will be ever to com­plete his amaz­ing feat.

    Once upon a time, I would check the mrbrownshow.com or miyagi.sg for pod­casts, seek­ing for a laugh or two espe­cially after a long school day. How­ever, if you take time off to lis­ten to the newer pod­casts with Ruby and some­times Imran, you’d notice that they are not as funny. In fact, some of the jokes can be rather lame at times. Maybe they need time to gel.

    But all the same, I will con­tinue lis­ten­ing to the mrbrown show, and I wish you suc­cess in your future tar­gets. I still har­bour hope that you might one day return to the mrbrown show once you are sat­is­fied doing your own stuff, and once again be part of the for­mi­da­ble team that you were once part of.

  • dada

    Yup, totally agree­ing with Tan. Like DJ Joe Augus­tine and the Fly­ing Dutch­man. They got the chem­istry lah! … Always tune in to their show every morn­ing dur­ing area clean­ing. ha-ha…even dur­ing Range I also never fail to lis­ten. Those were the dayz. Well, I guess with your depar­ture MB will have to re-?? the ?? with his new team but it will never be the same liao. ~cheers

  • dada

    Yup, totally agree­ing with Tan. Like DJ Joe Augus­tine and the Fly­ing Dutch­man. They got the chem­istry lah! … Always tune in to their show every morn­ing dur­ing area clean­ing. ha-ha…even dur­ing Range I also never fail to lis­ten. Those were the dayz. Well, I guess with your depar­ture MB will have to re-培养 the 默契 with his new team but it will never be the same liao. ~cheers

  • Barnie

    Yeah, man! Gahmen’s laugh­ing.….…. “Divide and con­quer”, divided? conquered?

    Once a issue to be wea­ried. Now? Ha!

    Well, give the new team some­time. And may the two be one again (If can­not, try super glue)! Very POWDERFUL, you know? Brown, Miyagi, Ruby, Imran, Mr Tan.…

    Wah! Tian Xia Wu Di!

    I really love you guys. Don’t spoil it lah! You know, I spe­cially bought a MP3 player for your shows. Sad you know?

    Seri­ously speak­ing, glue it back! Noth­ing is impossible…

  • Barnie

    Yeah, man! Gahmen’s laugh­ing.….…. “Divide and con­quer”, divided? conquered?

    Once a issue to be wea­ried. Now? Ha!

    Well, give the new team some­time. And may the two be one again (If can­not, try super glue)! Very POWDERFUL, you know? Brown, Miyagi, Ruby, Imran, Mr Tan.…

    Wah! Tian Xia Wu Di!

    I really love you guys. Don’t spoil it lah! You know, I spe­cially bought a MP3 player for your shows. Sad you know?

    Seri­ously speak­ing, glue it back! Noth­ing is impossible…

  • mz

    My Miyagi, what’s gonna hap­pen to The WTF! Show now that you are mov­ing on?

  • mz

    My Miyagi, what’s gonna hap­pen to The WTF! Show now that you are mov­ing on?

  • John

    Hi Mr Miyagi. I will miss you when you are away from Mr brown show… I really enjoyed the shows that you had with mr brown…

    Every­time when peo­ple think of mr brown and his pod­cast, we will also think of you…

    I wish you all the best in the future.

  • John

    Hi Mr Miyagi. I will miss you when you are away from Mr brown show… I really enjoyed the shows that you had with mr brown…

    Every­time when peo­ple think of mr brown and his pod­cast, we will also think of you…

    I wish you all the best in the future.

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  • http://miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    Thank you all very much for your very very kind com­ments and well wishes. Espe­cially Barnie’s… phwoar, all the titles and char­ac­ters come out ah!

  • http://miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    Thank you all very much for your very very kind com­ments and well wishes. Espe­cially Barnie’s… phwoar, all the titles and char­ac­ters come out ah!

  • stars

    Mixed feel­ings. Happy for Mr Miyagi for ven­tur­ing into new direc­tion, sad coz some­how mrbrown­show has lost its other significant.

    Mr Miyagi, many many thanks for bring­ing so much laugh­ter into my life and wish you suc­cess in all your endeavour.

    BTW, going to be PaPa soon izit? hehehe…

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