russell brand - C or D?

There is a fucking RECESSION in this country.

And MPs are wasting precious time talking about THIS?

Christ, Britain breaks up a little bit more with every day.

Well, Nick, who'd heard of her before this was all blown up out of any sensible proportion?

Truly Ross and Brand are Heroes of Comedy *sniff*

Personally if I were JR or RB I'd just fuck off to Sky or wherever and let the BBC stew in its own brown Windsor soup.

Kelvin "Scousers piss on dead bodies" MacKenzie is on BBC News 24 right now talking about how offensive Brand and Ross are.

Russell Brand had. On a swing.

i think at this moment it's worth remembering the original "celebrity" prank caller, john bean, aka leroy murcer -

from knoxville tennessee, ca. late 1970s/early 1980s - also, actually funny

Anyone who signs up with Max Clifford is probably hoping to profit from their unfortunate situation regardless of gender.

Gah when they said on the news last night that it was Commented Upon In Parliament, there were only about 20 MPs sitting.

So that'll be Mark Lamarr covering for Ross for a fortnight and Stuart Maconie in the evening to send everyone off to sleep/Radio 1.

i'm meant to be writing a lab report. perhaps i should sack that and dig out my unfinished (barely begun) sitcom. it actually had a couple of jokes in it, if i remember rightly.

If you want some advice there's a good thread to post it to.

politicians going on oligarch's yachts get to keep their job and these guys get suspended for making a prank call?

this is some country

i thought Alexander Bell made the first prank call. pretending to be a sailor.

haha mackenzie is loving this.

xpost to raw patrick: yeh, i'll obviously bear that in mind ;)

I took the "thousand journalists" comment as a sort of rap faux-braggadoccio. If he meant it then he really is a jerk

i think it was somewhere between the two extremes.

fuck this suspension lark: what does that mean for the first ep of russell brand's ponderland? because we've got a TV preview of that running in tomorrow's paper and if it gets pulled ... here, hang on, i'm not back in till friday. why am i worrying?

That's not on the BBC, though, so it shouldn't be affected.

at least, not if Channel 4 have any guts.

C4 will be glad of Ponderland ratings bump

Yeah, C4 it's on innit? They'll be loving this - highest ratings ever, as all the grannies check him out to see if he's offensive?

Director of audio and music Tim Davie said it was 'too early to speculate'

Hmm, so there's one person not issuing soundbites. Unless that's one.

BBC News website readers can follow prime minister's questions live on the BBC News website.

oh, good point: sorry, i was thinking it was BBC3. hmm. yeh, sorry, as we were.

thought the whole point of speculation was that it's too early

Did a vicar's son give the nod for Ross and Brand's obscene phone calls?

Tell you something else I found out yesterday,

From the "Move" 4CD boxset: One of their first 'proper' gigs, after Tony Secunda took the manager's job, was a fundraiser for the Conservative party to which they invited Ted Heath to join in with!

Does that mean they *all* go on the list, not just Bev "Bev Kev" Bevan?

Happier times: Georgina as a 10-month old in a treasured family photo

Daily Mail photo caption

Flipping hell (Grouty xpost) what was it with Brumbeat bands and their Tory leanings? One of the Idle Race's singles IIRC had its royalties donated to the Tory Party (allegedly) and some of the Moody Blues and Duran Duran are on the Tories' official celebrity list.

If Roy Wood consented to this he's just gone down approximately a zillion trillion percent in my personal ratings. Especially given that it was Joe Boyd who "discovered" them in the first place.

(or was this just general resentment/reaction against Wilson's libel suit?)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1081388/PIERS-MORGAN-Brand-just-sex-obsessed-ex-junkie--Its-Ross-BBC-sack-today.html

Finally, someone who matters has weighed in.

But recently, our relationship 'hit the rocks' as they say in showbiz circles, for reasons I was never able to entirely fathom - though I suspect it may not be entirely unconnected to the fact that I am going to host a big new rival interview show for ITV.

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The BBC should be ashamed at these sick stunts:

Brand is a pre-Raphaelite version of Bernard Manning according to Morgan.

?

I've just been to the gym, and this story was on the news channel the entire time I was there. There is NOTHING worse than the BBC talking about the BBC

Is this all detracting from the Daily Mail printing large pictures of FoxyKnoxy looking vampish? If so, we should remember who the real victim is here.

Everyone working in broadcasting knows that mistakes can happen, especially in a live environment.
I, for example, once inadvertently warned a terrified nation, 'I think Al Qaeda will strike this weekend', during what I thought was a private conversation with Fern Britton while co-hosting ITV's This Morning.
They didn't, thankfully.

I've just been to the gym, and this story was on the news channel the entire time I was there. There is NOTHING worse than the BBC talking about the BBC

Come on, if you can only manage a five minute work-out that hardly the beebs fault.

It's hardly the BBC's fault that nobody watched Piers Morgan's series of interviews with has-beens.

Give him a chance and what does he do? Scrap the page that strips him.

i can't believe people are letting this get in the way of serious discussion about guy and madonna

Who they?

Yeah, she's just been made head football coach of Argentina. Don't cry for me, etc...

you'd know if the bbc was doing its job.

No mention of Brand and Ross on PMQs - when are our elected leaders going to take this seriously!

is the recession really that important? i mean, really?

The BBC news has now gone back to the Brand/Ross story, phew.

I think it was before all that, and to be honest it smacks of the 'youthful rebellion' a'la Paul Weller's "conservative" Jam statements. Presumably, it didn't help (the Wilson case thing)...

xpost to Marcello re: The Move.

FTSE up 200 points on news of Brand / Ross suspension.

I know Andrew Sachs well, because I wrote a couple of books in the early 90s withshagged his son John, the former Capital Radio DJ. And he really is one of the most polite, impeccably mannered, and charmingslutty men you could wish to meet.

i mean, first you find out your granddaughter shagged russell brand, next you hear that your son had been writing books with piers morgan! talk about a double blow :(