Brand can use my George Lamb joke if he likes
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:06 (sixteen years ago) link
He only insults women he's slept with
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:07 (sixteen years ago) link
that doesn't narrow it down, though, eh? eh? EH?
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link
wa-hey! ooh, missus.
etc.
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:09 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
Let's remember the real victims here.
Neo-burlesque 1, chubby 90s indie girls with hairslides 0
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link
All Dom's bases covered.
― cold and super-rational with anger (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Where Is Steampunks?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:42 (sixteen years ago) link
O soz.
― cold and super-rational with anger (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 30 October 2008 13:44 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
yatta ta ta ta ta darrrraarrrrap!
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:21 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
can't help loving how they title these webpages
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Shouldn't you be reading something edgier?
― cold and super-rational with anger (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:35 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
yeh, those are substantially more entertaining than the articles themselves!
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I smell a merger
xxxpost
― The Slash My Father Wrote (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:39 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
IT'S THE ONLY LANGUAGE THEY UNDERSTAND.
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:41 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, but unfortunately that's what keeps them in business.
― Doreen, Dorset (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:45 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
Have they printed a picture of Georgina with her clothes on yet?
― ailsa, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:49 (sixteen years ago) link
(xxpost) I just look over the shoulder of whoever's reading it on the bus.
― snoball, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:49 (sixteen years ago) link
In case you're wondering (after doing some fact checking), the Mail owns a 20% stake in ITN (hence all the snickering on News At Ten last night) and a 29.9% stake in GCap Media, which includes Capital Radio.
Vested interests in doing down the BBC and Radio 2? Says who?
― Doreen, Dorset (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Mr Thompson, who has been in Sicily as the crisis unfolded
YAYYYY THAT'S WHERE WE COME FROM
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Who are the vested interests in the BBC? The licence fee payers who pay Jonathan Ross £6million a year?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
wow Judy Dench has a 007 tatoo
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
where is a paper brave enough to track down former fawlty towers cast members to find out their opinions
― max, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
read the bottom of that Mail article...
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MK3ZHVTXL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
still havent heard john cleese's take
― max, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
what is connie booth's opinion
― max, Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
and the guy who played one of the germans, surely his thoughts are vital
No comment from the Pope yet, but...
Prunella Scales, who starred with Mr Sachs in Fawlty Towers spoke out with her husband, actor Timothy West.
They said: 'We think it is an unfunny, sickening attack by overpaid stars. How do they get away with it?'
XPOST DAMMIT!!
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
God, being british is great isn't it? We're so much smarter than other nations.
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Last night, walking through town, every bookshop had JRoss' "Why do I keep saying stuff like this?" in the window.
And on walking through HMV, episodes of Fawlty Towers playing on the TVs and lots of boxsets for sale.
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
If only Fawlty Towers guest star Ken Campbell had lived long enough to offer us his views on the scandal.
Then again I think Nicky Henson's still around.
― Doreen, Dorset (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
And NATIONAL INSTITUTION Bernard "Televisual Feast" Cribbins!
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:03 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
It'd be pretty great to see, I dunno, Jimmy Kimmel and Dane Cook leave abusive messages on Donnie Most's answering machine as a tribute.
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
i think what the british public really needs to hear is the opinion of the fawlty towers themselves
― max, Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link