The James Whale show was of course a LOCAL show for LOCAL people.

I'd forgotten what an absolute tool James Wale was

The interruption ratio is quite high!

James whale asking questions then immediately answering them himself. 😂

I hate conversations like this, where you dread pausing to gather your thoughts even for a split second because you know the other person will immediately sense an opportunity to interrupt

I was so surprised by how embarrassed Mark appears being on screen given what the future brings.

Mark Gatiss is an absolute gem!!

James Whale was a radio presenter, a very energetic and gabby presenter. This show was basically his radio show except done on the telly. You can see that he can't be doing with dead air - any brief pause, any tiny moment of reflection and he's straight in, filling the air with whatever comes into his head. That was just his style.

Mark Gattis is one of a generation a hero.

Love this period of British history, early 90s, when we weren't very confident on telly.

And almost 30 years later Reece's performance and character in 'Simon Says' would be inspired by Robert De Niro in 'King of Comedy'

Thank you for unloading- what a great find! very interesting to see Mark and Reece discussing their love of horror back in 1993 (as an aside Mark would write a biography of the other James Whale who would direct pioneering horror films like Frankenstein)

Ahh the James Whale Show - great post pub Friday night viewing!

"Is he local... is his identity known?" 👍🏻🇬🇧

Don't look now, blast from the past

The perfect opportunity wasted for Mark to ask fellow horror fan James Whale if he was a fan of James Whale.

What a total plank James Whale is

1:36 He talks over everyone. It would make me feel anxious that I need to speak really fast to get a word in edge ways.

Young Mark Gatiss is so sweet 😭

They’re both so awkward and embarrassed bless them 😂

"Boom time"!

be pretty cool if they retrofitted this clip in a 'inside no 9' episode

Reece 💕❤️💕

Wow, this was 30 years ago!! ✌️😙

Mark Gattis had written his first Doctor Who novel by then which was the New Adventure Nightshade which came out the year before.

Also Chris Morris on one of those morning debate shows. That was classic.

Thirty years ago !!

This could be the basis for an episode of Inside No.9

23 & 26 years old 😮 😂

This was a year after Gatiss published his first Doctor Who novel.

Omg Whale, LET THEM SPEAK!!

Oh the days when TV was just mad. Night time TV was stuff like this, Eurotrash, The Word.... I used to watch this show religiously back then. He transferred a lot of the ideas onto his TalkRadio show in the following years with regulars like Gary Jacobs (the lawyer at the start) making appearances and also that weird psychic guy Acura I think his name was. Good times.

I remember the episode where Wayne Hussey turned up pissed with a bottle of Black Tower in hand. He started swearing and they went to adverts early! Great telly.

"and you know in the future i will help make dr who?" 😂😂

Nice to see that Ross got mickey to clean up

legends in the making

Get this pumped up. Lyrical dance flap.

Hello Dave!

I watched plenty of shows like this during the 90's but I've never seen one this awkward before.

James Wale st his best !

James Whale always looked like Mick Hucknall wearing a disguise.

I think the embarrassment comes from appearing on the James Whale show more than anything else!

Both students at the now legendary Bretton College which was on the grounds of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Yup

"Is Dave there ?" ... I suggest hiding behind the couch. "He can ... do things .. "

lol Reece @ 1:06

“Justice with Jacobs” I remember the gut had a newspaper column!!

james wa nker

This comes across like a 'Brass Eye' sketch.

Oh, this is adorable. So awkward and excitable.... 🥰

Didn't they also parody Don't Look Now in The League of Gentlemen 😂

“I’m very scared of dwarves”

Were they plants or just bought tickets to get on the show?

Gary Jacobs at 0:18 right? I liked his show in the early days of Talk Radio, beforethe station turned shite. Edit: Yes it is, they name him later at 3:08

The moment he's forced to put the giant Gorilla head on makes me think this is almost like an early version of an inside no 9 episode!

Reece Shearsmith 😋 The thinking woman's crumpet

Gary Jacobs 😊

When Mark was Ga-tiz not Gay-tiz pronunciation. Was at college with them

Having mellowed over the course of t the last thirty years or so, I'm sure I'd hate James Whale even more now.

0:53

Back in the days before James Whale turned into a hard right loon. His shows used to be good.

STOP INTERRUPTING THEM. Jesus Christ what an irritating bloke. Ask a question then talk all over their answer.

i absolutely despised james whale

Massive nerds.

Reece is very sure of himself, isn't he?

Reece is so hot here

1:06 - did you dub that in lmao

So who is James Whale now?

Who would have thought they would both become massive stars and James Whale would go on to be a nobody?

Whale ..!

Young Mark Gatiss and Reece Shearsmith on The James Whale show in 1993. 0141am 18.7.23 i wonder who it was fiddling the books.. can he now tell us... and embarrass everybody involved......?

they was faking it

digital footprint preventing me from speaking my mind rn

Creme brulee 😂

" MORNING JOB SEEKER'S "…" STOP PICKING YA NOSE MICKEY "…@0:38

Is... is Reece playing a character here?

I like Gatiss and Shearsmith, can't stand James Whale but let's be honest this is a very dull YT video. Nothing more, nothing less.

Looks like they’ve lost been tucking into the complementary pies…

Although it was comedy, they created one of the darkest worlds of all, soz just stating the obvious I suppose.

Shed some weight since then one bloke 👍 😮😅

Never liked James Whale. Always found him to be one of those me, me, me presenters who hates being upstaged by his guests so keeps talking over them lest they get too much airspace..aaghhh!

Whale: "So what makes you young smegs so sure that you'll definitely be famous actors and writers?" Gatiss & Shearsmith: " Because we're gay. Which means that we will never be denied anything that we want within the media industry. Ever."

Oh dear dwarves, that didn't age well

Very frightened of dwarves??? Reece! It’s good to know that if any of us wanted to cancel Reece Shearsmith, we have this video in our artillery. Not that I I want to. But it’s nice to have that power.

So Reece and Mark were either (depending on when in 1993 this was filmed) around 23-24 and 26-27 respectively. It’s interesting to see Reece around my current age here, nearly 30 years prior.

Rivetting TV

I hope he has since apologised for making such a idiotic statement about little people

What an awful show The James Whale Show was.

Love Mark but the show overall seems useless.

My God, James Whale was a crass, awful human being.

James whale the Covid fascist

Why is the abuse of dwarves still acceptable?

Gatiss was going to attempt to explain something about the 'death drive and the pleasure principle' perhaps? It seemed to become difficult and embarrassing for him there because he realises how much projection you have to employ to get, um, maybe an 'intellectual' point across about human nature through the viewing or fetishization of horror. Unfortunately, he was in the company of James Whale (a lop headed tyrant) who he allowed to establish him as "nut" to the rest of the audience (and embarrass him by putting put a silly hat on him). All levels of sadism going on here XD! "I want to see" becomes "we" "other people" "them" and "they" who like to see such things also... Trump does this as a recent example. Always says the phantom "they" say this "they" say that to justify himself.