Never mnd the buzzcocks, Simon Anstell the thread.

Actually, I think SA was more sexist towards Penny Smith. Everyone on this episode seemed slaughtered - I'm amazed it even made it to air.

enrique, all the spitting because Winehouse was quite blatantly out of her fucking tree.

Amstell: "why don't you work with someone nice like Katie Melua"
Winehouse: "I'd rather have cat AIDS"

the thread should have been "Is Lily Allen this generation's Amy Winehouse?"

-- benrique (miltonpinsk...) (webmail), Today 12:51 PM. (later) (link)

They both seem to get on quite well...

I also watched The Sharon Tate Show beforehand, and found it very funny in parts.

Preston does the "strop"

The Amy Winehouse one was the best thing I've seen on TV in ages.

In the offending passage from Chantelle's book, Living the Dream, the reality star described a photo shoot where she wore clothes from Marks and Spencer.

"I've always loved M&S but it has always been too expensive for me," she wrote, adding that the session made her feel "very posh and upmarket".

But you don't really go on unless you're sure you have some kind of comeback ability do you :P

fru the magic of youtube i've been able to see some of this, mostly the recent ones but some of the older ones as well. all i knew about the show was mark s calling it self-regarding somewhere (Noise Piece maybe?).

i know this is less of a big thing in the uk, but it was refreshing to see a game show/reality thing where the "contest" is obviously irrelevant and treated as such. i don't think a show like this would work here, for that, and also cos you couldn't get US c-listers to show up and have some dick make fun of them, while doing a bs quiz about music. so, tired as the show may be, i liked it!

on the evidence, amstell is funnier than lamarr.

amy winehouse was funnier than anyone on the show, ever. better comic timing, more charismatic. and she was tanked.

british indie is truly dire.

dale winton was pretty funny, too.

fair points all

When are the new episodes starting again? Any official word? Last few years they've started end of October or so.

The best recent episode of the show, and the episode I direct people to when I want to get them to start watching, is the ep with Donny Tourette and Noel Fielding.

I think Amstell > Lamarr too.

"i DICK on them" still makes me laugh

ha yes "donny tourette"! couldn't believe he existed.

the other big uk/us difference: the cruelty that they visit on the extras in those lineups is pretty breathtaking. it'd never work here. a picture is fair game, but someone standing in your presence?!

lamarr was never good and by the end (ie 1998-2006) unwatchable.

I'm old enough to remember MLamarr *was* good and occasionally good in later episodes (the one with Sparks on was brilliant)...

Amstell gets as good as he gives, and so is better.

Series being repeated at the mo (was on last night)

amy winehouse was funnier than anyone on the show, ever. better comic timing, more charismatic. and she was tanked.

My brother worked on post-production of this and said there was tons of Winehouse that was unshowable.

Oh wait he sez it up there ^^^^^^

I'm intrigued enough by Simon Amstell to have booked to see his stand up show in London in October. It got very mixed reviews at the Edinburgh Festival.

He is a consummate artist at needling people, but can he carry a full show by himself?

gf saw Amstell at charity gig and apparently he was appalling.

no-one uses their "good" material at charity gigs!

not very charitable of them