Popular late night BBC Radio 1 show Diplo and Friends has been revealed as the world’s smallest collaboration.
The show, which airs at 4 am every Saturday night/Sunday morning, is presented by Diplo and features weekly special guest appearances from some of the DJ’s friends.
However, it has been revealed that Diplo, real name Thomas Wesley Pentz, is an extremely unpopular figure in the EDM industry and the term “friends” is used “very loosely” when describing guests on his radio show.
Wunderground spoke to BBC executive Mike Handler, “It’s a well known fact that Diplo really doesn’t have all that many friends in the industry but he is quite popular with the fans so giving him a show on Radio 1 was a bit of a no brainer, we’re all about ratings so the popularity of a host among his peers isn’t really that important to us.”
“Chris Moyles was about as popular in the studio as a terminal cancer diagnoses but he worked here for eight years because the listeners loved him.”
“We decided to call the show Diplo and Friends because it conjures up images of a party atmosphere, which is perfect for its timeslot,” continued Mr. Handler. “If we were being honest about it we would have called it Diplo and Colleagues or Diplo and Professional Acquaintances but neither of those really have the same appeal so I’m happy with the decision we made.”
“The truth is, unless the guest is Skrillex, who has an unexplained fear of radio studios, or Madonna, which is never going to happen, then it will never actually be Diplo and friends on the show,” explained the BBC employee who claims the only man less popular than Diplo that he has worked with in the BBC studios is Jimmy Saville. “The closest thing we’ll ever get to Diplo and friends is when Diplo plays by himself, if you can show me a smaller collaboration than that anywhere in the world I’ll give you Pete Tong’s job.”
According to unconfirmed rumours, Pete Tong’s job has been cast into doubt after a one man traveling band called Tiny Tim and the Little People, who are reportedly forty percent smaller than Diplo and Friends, was reported by a listener on the Indonesian island Sumatra.
