russell brand - C or D?

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

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

Shouldn't you be reading something edgier?

I read my nan's issue of Saga Magazine once, it had a music column by that dude that edits Word Magazine.

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.

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.

can't help loving how they title these webpages

yeh, those are substantially more entertaining than the articles themselves!

I smell a merger

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Check the cartoon halfway down the page
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080839/Ross-says-I-fear-Im-finished-In-meantime-juvenile-thoughtless-star-gets-16k-day-doing-nothing.html

IT'S THE ONLY LANGUAGE THEY UNDERSTAND.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1081601/Gemma-Arterton-Amanda-Holden-brave-London-chill-thigh-catching-dresses.html

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.

Yeah, but unfortunately that's what keeps them in business.

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.

Have they printed a picture of Georgina with her clothes on yet?

(xxpost) I just look over the shoulder of whoever's reading it on the bus.

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?

Mr Thompson, who has been in Sicily as the crisis unfolded

YAYYYY THAT'S WHERE WE COME FROM

Who are the vested interests in the BBC? The licence fee payers who pay Jonathan Ross £6million a year?

wow Judy Dench has a 007 tatoo

where is a paper brave enough to track down former fawlty towers cast members to find out their opinions

read the bottom of that Mail article...