I can't think of Huw Wheldon without thinking of John Bluthal impersonating him on Milligan's Q series: "Good evening and, um, OBE"...
― Doreen, Dorset (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:13 (fifteen years ago) link
"Good evening and expenses" surely?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:14 (fifteen years ago) link
No, without support from Weldon and Greene those talents wouldn't have been allowed to blossom on the BBC in the way that they did.
The operative word here being TALENT
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:15 (fifteen years ago) link
see, there's the rub: i do think RB and JR are talented. but you wouldn't know it, judging by their recent output.
george lamb, though: hmm. (i should add that i was drifting into a reverie upthread thinking about a world in which he didn't have a radio show; subjecting him to a brutal death is a bit much.)
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Let's remember the real victims here.
― cold and super-rational with anger (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Even Greene, though, had to stop TW3 after undue, tabloid-bolstered political pressure and the Whitehouse demon aided his premature retirement.
― Doreen, Dorset (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Brand was sacked from MTV after arriving at work dressed as Osama Bin Laden, on 12 September 2001
lol forgot about this
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link
that's unfair dismissal based on religious grounds
― Fake Tuomas (ken c), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:31 (fifteen years ago) link
fuck me, i think i'd rather my share of the licence fee went to jonathan ross than on this kind of jism
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:50 (fifteen years ago) link
"He has a Marmite effect, you either love him or you hate him," says Dr Oliver Double, who lectures in stand-up comedy at Kent University and is a former circuit comedian. "Few people are ambivalent."
Is this true about anyone?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Dr Oliver Double, who lectures in stand-up comedy at Kent University
you can take a degree in anything these days
― Fake Tuomas (ken c), Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:00 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost
Oliver Double Egg and Chips
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:01 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.kent.ac.uk/sdfva/drama/staff/images/o_double.jpg
Before becoming an academic, he was a professional stand-up comedian on the national alternative comedy circuit ('Delightful' -The Guardian). He was a member of Red Grape Cabaret ('Whoever it was that wrote off alternative comedy, they forgot to tell Red Grape Cabaret' -William Cook, The Guardian), and used to run The Last Laugh, Sheffield's longest running comedy club.
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm going to lecture a degree in MSPaint
― Fake Tuomas (ken c), Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:04 (fifteen years ago) link
(xxxxxpost) I feel ambivalent towards Brand, and have done for some time. Sometimes he can be incredibly funny, other times it's this "oh my dinkle!" act. Actually I feel much the same about Frankie Howard.
― snoball, Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Brand could do with getting someone to write him some material
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:05 (fifteen years ago) link
he can be a lecturer
― Fake Tuomas (ken c), Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:05 (fifteen years ago) link
lecher.
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Brand can use my George Lamb joke if he likes
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:06 (fifteen years ago) link
He only insults women he's slept with
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:07 (fifteen years ago) link
that doesn't narrow it down, though, eh? eh? EH?
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:08 (fifteen years ago) link
wa-hey! ooh, missus.
etc.
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:09 (fifteen years ago) link
By now actor Andrew Sachs has probably realised he is not the only person to have been offended by comedian Russell Brand.
No, is the person not offended etc..
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha I know people who did that stand-up course, it was a module in a drama degree I think.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Neo-burlesque 1, chubby 90s indie girls with hairslides 0
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:18 (fifteen years ago) link
All Dom's bases covered.
― cold and super-rational with anger (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Where Is Steampunks?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:42 (fifteen years ago) link
O soz.
― cold and super-rational with anger (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
re: Louis Walsh's apparent hatred of Brand, apparently gossip columnists with a few inches to fill always have the option of giving Louis a call and just asking how he is, and he'll soon enough rant about someone and give them that precious cheap story. So it's kinda surprising he didn't say more.
Every time I glimpse 'Georgina Baillie' I think I've seen 'Georges Bataille'. There's gotta be something in that.
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link
and apparently female gossip columnists with a few inches to fill always have the option of giving russell brand a call.
― Fake Tuomas (ken c), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link
yatta ta ta ta ta darrrraarrrrap!
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I think we need to organise a mass complain-athon about Last of the Summer Wine or the Antiques Roadshow or something equally Daily Mail-friendly.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1077755/Fiona-Bruce-sexy-Antiques-Roadshow-dumbed-say-angry-viewers.html
― cold and super-rational with anger (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Fiona Bruce is on the cover of Saga magazine this month = I think the Mail is overreaching a bit here.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
More great Mail headlines today:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1081696/Degraded-confused-very-tearful-How-contestant-felt-Gok-Wans-Miss-Naked-Beauty-parade.html
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:31 (fifteen years ago) link
can't help loving how they title these webpages
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Shouldn't you be reading something edgier?
― cold and super-rational with anger (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I read my nan's issue of Saga Magazine once, it had a music column by that dude that edits Word Magazine.
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Denise, Sonia and Emily, who appeared in the first episode, which aired last week, believe they had a lucky escape when they were rejected by Gok's panel of judges.
i read all that whining to come to this line, aha it all makes sense now.
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link
AA Gill said something in his S/Times TV column the other week about programmes like J Oliver's Ministry Of Food and by extension things like Gok Firehose missing a fundamental truth about the purpose of TV; i.e. that TV is a show-and-tell medium, not a look-and-learn one. Too much unearned finger wagging and patronisation going on in these shows, but then you'd think that would make them praiseworthy as far as the Mail was concerned.
― Doreen, Dorset (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:38 (fifteen years ago) link
yeh, those are substantially more entertaining than the articles themselves!
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I smell a merger
xxxpost
― The Slash My Father Wrote (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Check the cartoon halfway down the pagehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080839/Ross-says-I-fear-Im-finished-In-meantime-juvenile-thoughtless-star-gets-16k-day-doing-nothing.html
― snoball, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
IT'S THE ONLY LANGUAGE THEY UNDERSTAND.
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1081601/Gemma-Arterton-Amanda-Holden-brave-London-chill-thigh-catching-dresses.html
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link
You don't really need to read the articles do you?
Rather a lot of "oh noes, Kate Moss looks her age without makeup" and "oh noes, Katie Holmes looks her age without makeup" non-stories there.
Judging by their photos used to illustrate this shocking revelation, Kate & Katie look just fine, but "women look normal without makeup" is even less news than "women look different without makeup".
I do like an occasional dose of Daily Mail to remind me why I hate it so much.
― ailsa, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, but unfortunately that's what keeps them in business.
― Doreen, Dorset (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Aye, I know. I do my best with other papers to not even go onto their website, but the Mail's too roffletastic to avoid.
― ailsa, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link