Anyone mentioned the licence fee yet?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Monday, 27 October 2008 13:04 (fifteen years ago) link
how much did they used to pay Wogan?
Far too much
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Monday, 27 October 2008 13:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember thinking Jonathan Ross was OK but that was in 1988 or somnething.
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Monday, 27 October 2008 13:10 (fifteen years ago) link
i think he can be funny. but he's not worth £6m of the license fee each year, especially when the beeb is stripping back its news department. if ross is worth that on the open market, let itv or channel 4 or sky pay it.
― MacElby's Puddin'© (stevie), Monday, 27 October 2008 13:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Ross was new in 1988, and OK in 1990. He is abysmal and unbearable now.
I find it bizarre that a 47-year-old married man, and father of 2 or 3 or whatever, could partake in this disgusting, scumbag activity. But one should not be surprised by anything, re. Ross and Brand. They are scumbags. They lazily mock others, they sail the BBC and British culture into the gutter, they pick up huge salaries for it, and they laugh. They are scum.
― the pinefox, Monday, 27 October 2008 13:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd be surprised if any of this actually took place at all.
But hey, It's A Good Story and it gets Andrew Sachs publicity!
― Eric in the East Neuk of Anglia (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 27 October 2008 13:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Still, his wife _does_ have amazing tits.
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 27 October 2008 13:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Ross, not Sachs.
I have no idea what Sachs' wife looks like.
I foresee a career revival for 78-year-old Sachs off the back of this episode
― The Slash My Father Wrote (DJ Mencap), Monday, 27 October 2008 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link
presenting Bargain Hunt
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 27 October 2008 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Why were they wanting him on Russell Brand's show in the first place if it wasn't for "lol he shagged your grand-daughter" related roffles?
― ailsa, Monday, 27 October 2008 13:42 (fifteen years ago) link
...
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, 27 October 2008 13:48 (fifteen years ago) link
it's good that he got to have sex with that girl though
― Annoying Display Name (ken c), Monday, 27 October 2008 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link
then he let us sniff his finger
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 27 October 2008 13:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean, obviously that was the only reason they phoned him, but doesn't he have an agent or something? Why on earth would Andrew Sachs, who IMDB tells me hasn't done anything for ages, think going on Russell Brand's show was going to be about him?
― ailsa, Monday, 27 October 2008 13:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I really don't think this is about raising Sachs profile.
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 27 October 2008 14:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Quite possibly Andrew Sachs doesn't know who Brand is beyond some basic recognition of his face & name, I mean Sachs is an old guy.
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Monday, 27 October 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
my sachs profile was certainly raised looking at pictures of the granddaughter
― max, Monday, 27 October 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
bdoom tish
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, 27 October 2008 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
No, it was about having a cheap laugh at his expense. Which they did. And were going to whether he complied or was involved, I imagine. I just don't quite get why he initially said he would appear as a guest on, of all things, Russell Brand's show. Is he doing the rounds of the chat shows for any reason just now?
xxpost that's why I was wondering about his agent's role in all of this.
― ailsa, Monday, 27 October 2008 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link
has russell brand got a daughter yet?
― Annoying Display Name (ken c), Monday, 27 October 2008 14:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Probably.
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 27 October 2008 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
poor things
― Annoying Display Name (ken c), Monday, 27 October 2008 14:27 (fifteen years ago) link
He shoots blanks. I think I'll phone up Jonathan Ross and tell him this.
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Monday, 27 October 2008 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www3.waterstones.com/wat/images/nbd/m/21/9780593060827.jpgWhy do you say these things Wossy? Because 1) you have a big mouth and an overinflated sense of importance, 2) you have shit writers (three of whom are pictured on the cover of the above book), 3) somehow the BBC thinks you're worth £6M a year. A potty mouthed radio show, a mediocre film review show, and a chat show where you don't actually let the interviewees get a word in edgeways? "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross" is a long step down from "Parkinson", or even that Bentley totalling edjit Wogan. The BBC is unaware that they could show anything on a Friday night and people would watch. But soon they're going to realise that they could stick Alan Titchmarsh in that chair and save a whole load of money.
― snoball, Monday, 27 October 2008 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
i vote snoball for ross' slot
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, 27 October 2008 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
"Slot". Hyuk hyuk hyuk. D'you heaw that Wussell, he said "slot".
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Monday, 27 October 2008 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Nah, I'd be too expensive. Get a schoolboy to do it instead.
― snoball, Monday, 27 October 2008 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually, I vote this guy:
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, 27 October 2008 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Found next year's Eurovision entry as well.
― snoball, Monday, 27 October 2008 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link
i turned louis's link off at the chorus. it was too catchy, and i can imagine myself singing it aloud in mixed company.
― MacElby's Puddin'© (stevie), Monday, 27 October 2008 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm singing the chorus to myself right now!
― snoball, Monday, 27 October 2008 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm using an ar... um yeah, right now
― Annoying Display Name (ken c), Monday, 27 October 2008 16:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I listened to this show, it was pretty funny actually.The story behind it all was that Sachs was lined up for an interview to promote an appearance on a special episode of The Bill or something. When they called him up, presumably at an arranged time, they got his answer machine. Odd thing is, the show wasn't live, it was a pre-record, so it all could have been edited out.
I'm glad it wasn't though. I mean, it was a nasty, cunty thing to do, sure, it was also funny.
― DavidM, Monday, 27 October 2008 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Hilarious
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Monday, 27 October 2008 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
How do I get that song LJ posted to be my ringtone?
― snoball, Monday, 27 October 2008 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
You might like the related videos. "Fucksticks" especially.
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, 27 October 2008 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
ask ashley cole?
xpost
― Annoying Display Name (ken c), Monday, 27 October 2008 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
what was funny about it
― lex pretend, Monday, 27 October 2008 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
YEah, leaving abusive messages on a 78 year old's answering machine is hilarious.
― Neil S, Monday, 27 October 2008 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
lol, still not as knob obsessed as Ross though.
― snoball, Monday, 27 October 2008 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd be interested to know the number of complaints the BBC received immediately after the broadcast compared with the number they received after it was spread all over the Mail on Sunday.
Fairly typical Rag Week humour aimed at a Rag Week audience - I didn't find it funny but nor did I find it particularly offensive.
But then the Mail publishes the whole thing in lurid detail and suddenly there's a scandal, rebukes etc.
Seems fairly clear to me who the actual "villains" are in this case.
― synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 09:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Ross and Brand?
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 09:27 (fifteen years ago) link
No one would have given a toss about any of this had the Mail not decided to make an issue out of it because of their long-standing vested interests in getting rid of/privatising the BBC.
But Tabloids Need Good Stories and especially Good Headlines!
― synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 09:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Andrew Sachs might have cared. It's not exactly newsworthy but then again it's not the NOTW publishing the names of every sex offender in Britain either.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 09:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm not aware that the Daily Mail was the only one newspaper to cover this story
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 09:50 (fifteen years ago) link
yeh, and it's not just the mail who've run with it, either.
i've got next to no interest in this story, didn't hear the broadcast and haven't been paying much attention, so i don't feel entirely qualified to comment. i am a little surprised by how upset people seem to be getting about it, but perhaps that's because i'm an old cynic with a heart of stone.
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 09:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyway, if the BBC are going to employ Jonathan Cunt for £6 million a year go ahead and privatise the fuckers
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 09:53 (fifteen years ago) link
^ yes.