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On the contrary, Brand is about the only "funny" broadcaster on R2. Ross is frequently funny on his show as well but to a great extent that depends on who his guests are.

synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 10:49 (fifteen years ago) link

ah well, i disagree. apples and oranges etc.

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 10:50 (fifteen years ago) link

Brand was funny a couple of years ago - now instead of jokes he just says "ooohh my dinkle!!!". Ross needs to be reminded that "chat show" doesn't mean that he continually interrupts his guests and makes unfunny scripted crap jokes over the top of them.

snoball, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 10:51 (fifteen years ago) link

That's why I prefer him on the radio where he's naturally funny, improvises and doesn't rely on scripts.

synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 10:52 (fifteen years ago) link

I think both are occasionally very funny indeed, but both are also massively prone to indulgent and aimless ego-stroking wittering. The two together is like a pair of schoolkids egging each other on to swear so much the teacher gives them detention. Which is kind of pathetic given how potentially talented they both are.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 10:53 (fifteen years ago) link

Like Pete and Dud weren't.

synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 10:54 (fifteen years ago) link

Or Milligan and Sellers.

synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 10:54 (fifteen years ago) link

Which exonerates Brand and Ross how?

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 10:55 (fifteen years ago) link

They're both cunts, I'll be happy if their careers are in tatters.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 10:55 (fifteen years ago) link

I actually like both of them when they are doing what they are good at, though both have strayed way from their comfort zone through the media's insistence on overexposure of "popular" celebs (see also Myleene Klass, Anton DuBeke, Carol Vorderman, Kerry Katona, Katie Price, Jade Goody, etc etc etc) to the point where they think they can get away with anything because they are so popular and loved, when basically they were just liked for doing what they used to do before they got turned into poster children for taking the fucking piss and irritating the fuck out of everyone with their omnipresence.

ailsa, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 10:55 (fifteen years ago) link

HI DERE I HVAE BAALSACK!

THE AMAZING RUSSELL (ken c), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link

The video footage of them making the calls immediately made me think of Derek and Clive.

"I'll be happy if their careers are in tatters" - come off it Matt, if you were them you'd love every second of this and you want their lifestyle so much, as do we all. Be honest!

synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 10:58 (fifteen years ago) link

OH NO LAST NIGHT I DID A POO ON UR GRANDDAGHTER'S FLANGE

JONU R (ken c), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 10:58 (fifteen years ago) link

"I'll be happy if their careers are in tatters" - come off it Matt, if you were them you'd love every second of this and you want their lifestyle so much, as do we all. Be honest!

what does the first bit have to do with the second bit?

Fake Tuomas (ken c), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 10:59 (fifteen years ago) link

Not as easy as it looks, is it, Ken?

synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 10:59 (fifteen years ago) link

apropos Brand impersonation

synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 10:59 (fifteen years ago) link

Their careers in tatters = even more airtime for Graham Norton.

ailsa, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:00 (fifteen years ago) link

I can't say I do want their lifestyles, actually; I'm by nature a reasonably quiet and lazy homebody, and I don't imagine either of them has a great deal of time for lolling around with kittens.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:00 (fifteen years ago) link

i wish i can get paid £6m talking about my balls, but i also wish other people don't get paid £6m talking about their balls (or mine). i'm being v honest.

Fake Tuomas (ken c), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:01 (fifteen years ago) link

if you were them you'd love every second of this

erm, Brand didn't look like he was loving too much of it on the footage of him being hounded by journos. Just repeating Krishna over and over, very nervous.

And FUCK if you think we ALL want his lifestyle, how can you make such a bollocks claim?

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:01 (fifteen years ago) link

xposts it was very easy

Fake Tuomas (ken c), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:02 (fifteen years ago) link

how can you make such a bollocks claim?

correct term is ballsack.

Fake Tuomas (ken c), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:02 (fifteen years ago) link

I think Marcello was being facetious, dudes.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:03 (fifteen years ago) link

no wai matt.

Fake Tuomas (ken c), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:03 (fifteen years ago) link

i wish i can get paid £6m being facetious.

Fake Tuomas (ken c), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:04 (fifteen years ago) link

I can't say I do want their lifestyles, actually; I'm by nature a reasonably quiet and lazy homebody, and I don't imagine either of them has a great deal of time for lolling around with kittens.

Jonathan Ross has a great deal of time for lolling around with his little pugs and whathaveyou, dressing his dog up in stupid clothes forms quite a large part of his patter on his Friday night show. He's not been terribly controversial up until this point, has he? (I'm assuming this now to actually be controversial, even though I think it's bollocks). Agreed that Brand looked a bit uncomfortable outside his house, but I think he often does seem uncomfortable for one supposedly so egotistical.

ailsa, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:05 (fifteen years ago) link

I mean, look at Jonathan Ross. Plenty of fuck you money, the freedom to do what he likes how and when he likes, he can buy all the games and gadgets he wants (buy? he probably gets them all sent to him free) and be a total geek with them. And he's probably a lot more of a homebody than he gets credit for. What's not to want?

synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:06 (fifteen years ago) link

The video footage of them making the calls immediately made me think of Derek and Clive.

so it turns out jayne mansfield did have someone to push lobsters up her arse.

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The Slash My Father Wrote (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:06 (fifteen years ago) link

I wish I could get paid to talk about my hair, watch films, and have a wife with a nice cleavage.

I already do the first two.

Autobot Lover (jel --), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link

Ambition, Jel, ambition!

synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:08 (fifteen years ago) link

(xpost) your wife has just filed for divorce, and hired Max Clifford to be her publicist for the ensuing tabloid shitestorm...

snoball, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:09 (fifteen years ago) link

He's not been terribly controversial up until this point, has he?

He made the front pages after asking David Cameron if he ever wanked to pictures of Thatcher, apart from that I think the major controversy as far as Daily Mail World is concerned is his wages.

Cool Hand Tiller (onimo), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link

I wonder why he never asked the late Alan Clark? He would have got a positive response, probably.

synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:13 (fifteen years ago) link

was led to believe Brand's on air response to CBB racism was "there's been some right bad racism abaht today and no mistake my liege, it's made Mr Winkie shrink right up into my balls it has, and my balls have only gone and gone up me arse" or similar, now feel betrayed

Glans Christian Christian christian Christian Andersen (MPx4A), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:13 (fifteen years ago) link

If it's wishing to be something you're not - aim a little higher.

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link

When it's written out like that you realise that Brand's not that far removed from Wogan, just with added scatology.

synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:15 (fifteen years ago) link

I mean, Wake Up With Wogan is literally two hours of "and no mistake my liege."

synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:16 (fifteen years ago) link

Okay don't even go there comparing Wogan to Brand

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:16 (fifteen years ago) link

Oh no. Brand's way funnier.

synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:16 (fifteen years ago) link

OK, he's no Fred Macaulay, I'll give you that...

synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:17 (fifteen years ago) link

JBrand today: "The Beeb..beeceee... in it's infinite wisdom...shalom..."

XPOST YEAH! LET'S GO comparing Wogan to Brand

Mark G, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:17 (fifteen years ago) link

Ross Abbot was in the Sarah Jane Adventures on Monday! In 20 years, Brand will be doing the same!

Autobot Lover (jel --), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:18 (fifteen years ago) link

Wogan - septuagenarian disc jockey and unpleasant little right wing creep on the quiet who's traded off the same limited range of sub-Flann O'Brien whimsicalities for the best part of forty years.

synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:19 (fifteen years ago) link

Top stories from the Beeb

Woman loses assisted suicide case
Scores dead after Pakistan quake
Jonathan Ross TV show to go ahead

Cool Hand Tiller (onimo), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:19 (fifteen years ago) link

Still in the wrong order.

synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Jonathan Ross dead after assisted suicide

Fake Tuomas (ken c), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:21 (fifteen years ago) link

"But Sir David Attenborough, due on as a guest, says he is "discussing the situation with the BBC"."

Cripes.

Autobot Lover (jel --), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:21 (fifteen years ago) link

Russell Brand might have to be a filler guest. David, don't give 'em your mobile number.

Autobot Lover (jel --), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:22 (fifteen years ago) link

I understand Ricky Ger-vay is on standby.

synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:22 (fifteen years ago) link

So, if he drops out.. Hmm, who can they get at short notice, that would be reasonably expected to make ratings thicksoup?

xpost damn gave it away the punchline...

Mark G, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 11:23 (fifteen years ago) link


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