russell brand - C or D?

"We have received six complaints, and are looking at what action - if any - will be taken."

haha such a cocky remark from ofcom.

I complained to the BBC. About them taking Ross's Friday night show off the air.

Marcello pretty much otm through the entire thread. If the BBC had people like Hugh Greene and Huw Weldon in charge who'd be prepared to stand up to bullying by the rightwing press then it would have been defused days ago instead of dragging on and on.

i looked up Press Complaints Commission's list of what you can complain to them about but apparently they don't deal with 'offensiveness'.

If the BBC had people like Hugh Greene and Huw Weldon in charge

... then i very much doubt russell brand would have a radio show anyway. and jonathan ross would probably have been put out to pasture some time ago.

And as for George Lamb...

they would kill Lamb mercilessly. it would be quite a vicious execution of Lamb. he would be very much like a lamb being put to death.

... *drifts off into blissful reverie*

What is it with all these Cockney Wankers anyway?

... then i very much doubt russell brand John Peel would have a radio show anyway. and jonathan rossDavid Frost, Peter Cook, Dennis Potter, Ken Loach and Alf Garnett would probably have been put out to pasture some time ago.

Bollocks

you never get cockney continuity announcers

Jonathan Ross, Scourge of the Establishment, aye right

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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.

I can't think of Huw Wheldon without thinking of John Bluthal impersonating him on Milligan's Q series: "Good evening and, um, OBE"...

"Good evening and expenses" surely?

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

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.)

Let's remember the real victims here.

Even Greene, though, had to stop TW3 after undue, tabloid-bolstered political pressure and the Whitehouse demon aided his premature retirement.

Brand was sacked from MTV after arriving at work dressed as Osama Bin Laden, on 12 September 2001

lol forgot about this

that's unfair dismissal based on religious grounds

fuck me, i think i'd rather my share of the licence fee went to jonathan ross than on this kind of jism

"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?

Dr Oliver Double, who lectures in stand-up comedy at Kent University

you can take a degree in anything these days

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Oliver Double Egg and Chips

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.

I'm going to lecture a degree in MSPaint

(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.

Brand could do with getting someone to write him some material

he can be a lecturer

lecher.

Brand can use my George Lamb joke if he likes

He only insults women he's slept with

that doesn't narrow it down, though, eh? eh? EH?

wa-hey! ooh, missus.

etc.

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..

Haha I know people who did that stand-up course, it was a module in a drama degree I think.

Let's remember the real victims here.

Neo-burlesque 1, chubby 90s indie girls with hairslides 0

All Dom's bases covered.

Where Is Steampunks?

O soz.

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.

and apparently female gossip columnists with a few inches to fill always have the option of giving russell brand a call.

yatta ta ta ta ta darrrraarrrrap!

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.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1077755/Fiona-Bruce-sexy-Antiques-Roadshow-dumbed-say-angry-viewers.html

Fiona Bruce is on the cover of Saga magazine this month = I think the Mail is overreaching a bit here.

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

can't help loving how they title these webpages