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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  • 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…

  • kayangmo TAN

    Wah lao,
    today the mrbrown­show pod­cast (with Imran) sounds like lao sai!

    I wrote to Mr Brown la, could not let him get away with such a poor edi­tion of the mrbrown­show.
    With­out you, it may look ok, but with Imran, I will def­i­nitely switch off the pod­cast after 1 min.
    Very lame.
    Even Mr Brown sounds like he knows it. At the end of that pod­cast, he “signed off” or “sighed off”.

    Jiak lart!

    Kay-angmo TAN
    Switzerland

  • kayangmo TAN

    Wah lao,
    today the mrbrown­show pod­cast (with Imran) sounds like lao sai!

    I wrote to Mr Brown la, could not let him get away with such a poor edi­tion of the mrbrown­show.
    With­out you, it may look ok, but with Imran, I will def­i­nitely switch off the pod­cast after 1 min.
    Very lame.
    Even Mr Brown sounds like he knows it. At the end of that pod­cast, he “signed off” or “sighed off”.

    Jiak lart!

    Kay-angmo TAN
    Switzerland

  • barnie

    Er.. Don’t lee dat leh! Not every­one the same gift Mah! But can develop kan? We all love the show also do want it to die? kan? Give some­time lah… for every­body to sort things out. Time and room for improve­ment lah.…… I believe they, includ­ing our beloved Mr Miyagi will sort things out. I have to say though, I just hope things will be like before. Can fall out, can also fall in, right? SAF always do tat wat.…

  • barnie

    Er.. Don’t lee dat leh! Not every­one the same gift Mah! But can develop kan? We all love the show also do want it to die? kan? Give some­time lah… for every­body to sort things out. Time and room for improve­ment lah.…… I believe they, includ­ing our beloved Mr Miyagi will sort things out. I have to say though, I just hope things will be like before. Can fall out, can also fall in, right? SAF always do tat wat.…

  • http://miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    Again, thanks for your kind comments.

    As for the mrbrown show in its cur­rent incar­na­tion, I reckon it’ll do great. They’ve got a great team on board, and Imran’s an expe­ri­enced writer with a cou­ple of years of tele­vi­sion work under his belt.

    I’m sure if you gave them a bit of time to gel, they’ll be chug­ging along just fine.

    We’ve all had “lau-sai” shows, and while it’s a good thing you only remem­ber the non-lau-sai ones I’ve been involved with, I can vouch that the new team will have a string of hits. Not every show can be a gem.

  • http://miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    Again, thanks for your kind comments.

    As for the mrbrown show in its cur­rent incar­na­tion, I reckon it’ll do great. They’ve got a great team on board, and Imran’s an expe­ri­enced writer with a cou­ple of years of tele­vi­sion work under his belt.

    I’m sure if you gave them a bit of time to gel, they’ll be chug­ging along just fine.

    We’ve all had “lau-sai” shows, and while it’s a good thing you only remem­ber the non-lau-sai ones I’ve been involved with, I can vouch that the new team will have a string of hits. Not every show can be a gem.

  • Clement

    Hi Miyagi,
    I’ve always been a lurker and now that I’ve heard the pod­cast on RoboBeng…

    I have to really admit that I’m feel­ing really sad cause I won’t be hear­ing this voice of yours again.
    As what other have men­tioned, you made peo­ple laugh till they fell over chairs, and laugh uncon­trol­lably on the MRT.

    I don’t usu­ally feel so emo­tional over such issues, but this is one time where i sin­cerely feel so.

    Take care and good luck in your future endeav­ours. I wish you great suc­cess and in what­ever you love to do.

  • Clement

    Hi Miyagi,
    I’ve always been a lurker and now that I’ve heard the pod­cast on RoboBeng…

    I have to really admit that I’m feel­ing really sad cause I won’t be hear­ing this voice of yours again.
    As what other have men­tioned, you made peo­ple laugh till they fell over chairs, and laugh uncon­trol­lably on the MRT.

    I don’t usu­ally feel so emo­tional over such issues, but this is one time where i sin­cerely feel so.

    Take care and good luck in your future endeav­ours. I wish you great suc­cess and in what­ever you love to do.

  • Clement

    Hi Miyagi,
    I’ve always been a lurker and now that I’ve heard the pod­cast on RoboBeng that your were leav­ing for good.… I feel that I have to come out to write something…

    I have to really admit that I’m feel­ing really sad cause I won’t be hear­ing this voice of yours again.
    As what other have men­tioned, you made peo­ple laugh till they fell over chairs, and laugh uncon­trol­lably on the MRT.

    I don’t usu­ally feel so emo­tional over such issues, but this is one time where i sin­cerely feel so.

    Take care and good luck in your future endeav­ours. I wish you great suc­cess and in what­ever you love to do.

  • Clement

    Hi Miyagi,
    I’ve always been a lurker and now that I’ve heard the pod­cast on RoboBeng that your were leav­ing for good.… I feel that I have to come out to write something…

    I have to really admit that I’m feel­ing really sad cause I won’t be hear­ing this voice of yours again.
    As what other have men­tioned, you made peo­ple laugh till they fell over chairs, and laugh uncon­trol­lably on the MRT.

    I don’t usu­ally feel so emo­tional over such issues, but this is one time where i sin­cerely feel so.

    Take care and good luck in your future endeav­ours. I wish you great suc­cess and in what­ever you love to do.

  • esael

    Hi Pals and Miyagi,

    I noticed that I’ve been turn­ing off MB pod­cast mid­way a cou­ple of times. It just lose the “spark”. Some­times it is plain crude. There is no wit and humour at all.

    I start to sus­pect Miyagi is the spark behind the pre­vi­ous suc­cess­ful podcast.

    Esael

  • esael

    Hi Pals and Miyagi,

    I noticed that I’ve been turn­ing off MB pod­cast mid­way a cou­ple of times. It just lose the “spark”. Some­times it is plain crude. There is no wit and humour at all.

    I start to sus­pect Miyagi is the spark behind the pre­vi­ous suc­cess­ful podcast.

    Esael

  • celeste

    I’ve been lis­ten­ing to your pod­casts with mr brown, and i guess i’ve prob­a­bly heard all of them. But it was only yes­ter­day that i realised you’d not appeared on the mrbrown­show for a loooong time.
    Any­way, since you’ve made ur deci­sion to “move on” I wish you the best, but if any­thing, can i request that you do one last zhng my car, (at least so you get ur car back) LOL

  • celeste

    I’ve been lis­ten­ing to your pod­casts with mr brown, and i guess i’ve prob­a­bly heard all of them. But it was only yes­ter­day that i realised you’d not appeared on the mrbrown­show for a loooong time.
    Any­way, since you’ve made ur deci­sion to “move on” I wish you the best, but if any­thing, can i request that you do one last zhng my car, (at least so you get ur car back) LOL

  • jo

    hihi… have been lis­ten­ing to mr brown shows for a while… but the recent mr brown shows (with­out mr miyagi) aren’t as funny anymore…

    sounds a bit slow but i had ini­tially thought that mr miyagi was away on reservist or some­thing like that that’s why we didn’t get to hear him around. it’s a bit sad that mr miyagi has to leave but then again, peo­ple have to move on…

    mr miyagi, you’ll be sorely missed!! all the best in your future plans!! hope you’ll be able to work with mr brown on other projects! ;)

  • jo

    hihi… have been lis­ten­ing to mr brown shows for a while… but the recent mr brown shows (with­out mr miyagi) aren’t as funny anymore…

    sounds a bit slow but i had ini­tially thought that mr miyagi was away on reservist or some­thing like that that’s why we didn’t get to hear him around. it’s a bit sad that mr miyagi has to leave but then again, peo­ple have to move on…

    mr miyagi, you’ll be sorely missed!! all the best in your future plans!! hope you’ll be able to work with mr brown on other projects! ;)

  • barnie

    “We are one

    Feb­ru­ary 19th, 2006 by Mr Miyagi

    Pic­ture 11.pngFunny how the Chan­nel Newsa­sia text ver­sion of the inter­view man­ages to mash up quotes from mr brown and myself, then attribute them only to me. (Yes, we are doing a lot of things together, but we’re just friends, ok? Not even a Broke­back Hill here.)

    We also spoke about pod­cast­ing and how much fun we’re hav­ing with it, so they put that into another text arti­cle on their site.

    Not that anyone’s inter­ested in this mat­ter right now, now that there’s that Nanyang Poly­tech­nic Sex Scan­dal thing going on. Blardy hell, now no-one will down­load our podcasts!

    Video Pod­cast: the mrbrown show (video) 19 Feb 2006: Show 2, CNA interview”

  • barnie

    “We are one

    Feb­ru­ary 19th, 2006 by Mr Miyagi

    Pic­ture 11.pngFunny how the Chan­nel Newsa­sia text ver­sion of the inter­view man­ages to mash up quotes from mr brown and myself, then attribute them only to me. (Yes, we are doing a lot of things together, but we’re just friends, ok? Not even a Broke­back Hill here.)

    We also spoke about pod­cast­ing and how much fun we’re hav­ing with it, so they put that into another text arti­cle on their site.

    Not that anyone’s inter­ested in this mat­ter right now, now that there’s that Nanyang Poly­tech­nic Sex Scan­dal thing going on. Blardy hell, now no-one will down­load our podcasts!

    Video Pod­cast: the mrbrown show (video) 19 Feb 2006: Show 2, CNA interview”

  • http://peihanblogs.blogspot.com janine

    A big fan here!

    You will be missed.

  • http://peihanblogs.blogspot.com janine

    A big fan here!

    You will be missed.

  • barnie

    For me, I think mr brown is too stressed, tats why the show didn’t sound too good. To churn out fresh ideas and new pod­cast to muse peo­ple like us every day is not easy. I think he should try alter­nate day instead. And I also feel that this whole blog thing, beside jokes is also about friends, gath­er­ings, TKSS; talk cock sing song. And I love the ele­ment of sur­prises every time the new show is on. Every time have to guess who’s behind the voice. And those bar leh, bar leh NGs, laugh­ters and com­ments! FRIENDS, true friends some­thing quite hard to find nowa­days. I am drawn by this more than any of the above! Jokes can be heard every­where but to leave behind a deep per­sonal impres­sion, to me is that friend­ship thing. I used to love the shows, later I found out that they have inter­views, talks, I began to lis­ten care­fully to these too, per­sonal mah! That why “Reservist Talk” is one of my favorite­and this one too “www.mrbrown.com/blog/2005/04/browncast_prima.html”. I think also, can­not sound too com­mer­cial­ize lor. Just my two cents.

  • barnie

    For me, I think mr brown is too stressed, tats why the show didn’t sound too good. To churn out fresh ideas and new pod­cast to muse peo­ple like us every day is not easy. I think he should try alter­nate day instead. And I also feel that this whole blog thing, beside jokes is also about friends, gath­er­ings, TKSS; talk cock sing song. And I love the ele­ment of sur­prises every time the new show is on. Every time have to guess who’s behind the voice. And those bar leh, bar leh NGs, laugh­ters and com­ments! FRIENDS, true friends some­thing quite hard to find nowa­days. I am drawn by this more than any of the above! Jokes can be heard every­where but to leave behind a deep per­sonal impres­sion, to me is that friend­ship thing. I used to love the shows, later I found out that they have inter­views, talks, I began to lis­ten care­fully to these too, per­sonal mah! That why “Reservist Talk” is one of my favorite­and this one too “www.mrbrown.com/blog/2005/04/browncast_prima.html”. I think also, can­not sound too com­mer­cial­ize lor. Just my two cents.

  • barnie

    And every unhap­py­body , both men are great! Don’t thumb down any­one lah! Great men some­time dif­fer, just have to move on lor.…. Okay, have to go to work now.

  • barnie

    And every unhap­py­body , both men are great! Don’t thumb down any­one lah! Great men some­time dif­fer, just have to move on lor.…. Okay, have to go to work now.

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  • kayangmo TAN

    Mrbrownshow.com

    down leh?

    Wah, some­thing more serious?

  • kayangmo TAN

    Mrbrownshow.com

    down leh?

    Wah, some­thing more serious?

  • barnie

    Hey! Clean room! very nice! I like the new design, very fresh!

  • barnie

    Hey! Clean room! very nice! I like the new design, very fresh!

  • barnie

    Dear Mr “Silencer”,

    For you, if have not seen this yet!

    http://www.xiaoxiaomovie.com/index02.htm

  • barnie

    Dear Mr “Silencer”,

    For you, if have not seen this yet!

    http://www.xiaoxiaomovie.com/index02.htm

  • http://miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    No, just minor DNS issues this morn­ing which has been fixed, mrbrown tells me.

  • http://miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    No, just minor DNS issues this morn­ing which has been fixed, mrbrown tells me.

  • kayangmo TAN

    Just heard the new Band­ing pod­cast.…
    ever thought of “ban­ning” this podcast?

    Still sad, still no “mo qi” leh…?

    Or is he just full­fil­ing the con­tract by the spon­sor?
    So sad.

    Wah lao eh, what’s the prob­lem, you guys quar­relled or some­thing? Wanna make state­ment or not?

    Ever won­der why Mrbrown and mrbrown­show, both dunt have your miyagi.sg link? Wah lao eh.…why u so like that?

    Kayangmo in Switzerland

  • kayangmo TAN

    Just heard the new Band­ing pod­cast.…
    ever thought of “ban­ning” this podcast?

    Still sad, still no “mo qi” leh…?

    Or is he just full­fil­ing the con­tract by the spon­sor?
    So sad.

    Wah lao eh, what’s the prob­lem, you guys quar­relled or some­thing? Wanna make state­ment or not?

    Ever won­der why Mrbrown and mrbrown­show, both dunt have your miyagi.sg link? Wah lao eh.…why u so like that?

    Kayangmo in Switzerland

  • http://miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    Got link. Who say no link? Gort!

    Can see here.

  • http://miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    Got link. Who say no link? Gort!

    Can see here.

  • barnie

    Wah! mr kayangmo.

    “Wah lao eh, what’s the prob­lem, you guys quar­relled or some­thing? Wanna make state­ment or not?”

    Very the sharp shooter leh!

    Seems that it’s now bye bye also must exprain! Cos their blogs are always here.

    Whole blog­ging world’s wait­ing liao.….

    Maybe it’s Mr Brown’s turn. He blocked all the comments.

  • barnie

    Wah! mr kayangmo.

    “Wah lao eh, what’s the prob­lem, you guys quar­relled or some­thing? Wanna make state­ment or not?”

    Very the sharp shooter leh!

    Seems that it’s now bye bye also must exprain! Cos their blogs are always here.

    Whole blog­ging world’s wait­ing liao.….

    Maybe it’s Mr Brown’s turn. He blocked all the comments.

  • any­howhum­tum

    wah lau kayang­mor eh, prease dun any­how spec­u­late and spread rumors can? you guys try­ing to cause a rift between them isit?

  • any­howhum­tum

    wah lau kayang­mor eh, prease dun any­how spec­u­late and spread rumors can? you guys try­ing to cause a rift between them isit?

  • barnie

    Er.… I hope Mr Miyagi don’t block the com­ments. Very hard to voice con­cern you know?

  • barnie

    Er.… I hope Mr Miyagi don’t block the com­ments. Very hard to voice con­cern you know?

  • any­howhum­tum

    mrbrown com­ments not blocked what. his email also on the site what. i email him before.

  • any­howhum­tum

    mrbrown com­ments not blocked what. his email also on the site what. i email him before.

  • http://rennaisance.blogspot.com mmuli­bra

    It’s time for you to move on, as mrbrown­show is abit too com­mer­cial nowa­days, no more the the pure funny pod­cast, but abit too artificial.

    More­over, it should be called mrbrown_and_mrmiyagi_show instead.

  • http://rennaisance.blogspot.com mmuli­bra

    It’s time for you to move on, as mrbrown­show is abit too com­mer­cial nowa­days, no more the the pure funny pod­cast, but abit too artificial.

    More­over, it should be called mrbrown_and_mrmiyagi_show instead.

  • http://mangowithoutice.blogspot.com man­gowith­ice

    mr miyagi,

    thanks for the jokes and fun from the MB show.

    for the past few(quite many actu­ally) pod­casts, i found that they have been very lame and i found myself not even laugh­ing once after the pod­casts have ended.

    Well, after read­ing about your absence, I can put 2 and 2 together.

    sigh… the stress of hav­ing a pod­cast every­day due to spon­sors and the absence of mr miyagi has resulted in the worst pod­casts since its creation.

    good luck miyagi :)

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