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And NATIONAL INSTITUTION Bernard "Televisual Feast" Cribbins!

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 (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.

i think what the british public really needs to hear is the opinion of the fawlty towers themselves

Ross should get a terrier and call it Dailymail. And then buy a shoal of piranhas and call them The Great British Public.

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

http://www.sitcom.co.uk/fawlty_towers/graphics/char_major.gif

EW, O RLY TWATS

I do like an occasional dose of Daily Mail to remind me why I hate it so much.

haha i know several people who are sort of addicted to the mail website just to gawp at the comments

favourite mail headline of recent times: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1080860/Is-debauched-Halloween-party-really-suitable-young-royal-Beatrice.html

so scolding!

"Is this debauched Hallowe'en party really suitable for a young royal, Beatrice?"

Sadly Much Loved Where's My Paper Fawlty Major Star Ballard Berkeley passed away back in 1988 but no doubt he would/wouldn't have approved.

Was he a Times man or Telegraph? Silly question, latter obv.

Ballard Berkeley may have had the greatest voice in the history of the English language

i think you're forgetting about Windsor Davies

the greatest voice in the history of the Welsh language

ah lol yes

Ballard Berkeley may have had the greatest voice in the history of the English language

When the word "wogs" emerged from his mouth, it was as if it had grew wings

if only he had made those calls to andrew sachs

it would have been like they were playing handels messiah on the bbc

of course, they wouldnt do that now, so as not to offend the muslims

Brand, a former heroin addict who resigned before he was sacked from the show he has presented since November 2006, said he took "complete responsibility" in a rambling apology in a video broadcast in which he appeared to be standing next to a photograph of Stalin.

wtf?

Say all that in one breath!

only a filthy Commie could be this uncouth

http://z.hubpages.com/u/6723_f520.jpg

http://www.wildcru.org/research/farming/moles/mole1.jpg

Fawlty Towers box sets all at eye/buy-level at the entrance to Fopp at lunchtime. Andrew Sachs is victimised and John Cleese laughs all the way to the bank, doing a funny walk.

The controller of BBC Radio 2, Lesley Douglas, has resigned over the prank calls involving Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross.
Ms Douglas said the decision to leave her job was "mine and mine alone"

Douglas was the one who said Lamb was a good person for the station because he would appeal to women or something?

So well done guys, your campaign kinda worked. :)

Fawlty Towers box sets all at eye/buy-level at the entrance to Fopp at lunchtime

How much? That and the Father Ted box set are ones I keep picking up hoping they'll go down in price.

Lesley Douglas was the one who said she'd go if the beeb insisted on blaming the producer/editor I think? This whole things seems beyond ludicrous now. Theresa May is calling for a full debate in the House. 30,000 complaints and still rising. And I understand some of the Sluts will be on CookalongaRamsey tomorrow.

^^^ according to their MySpace page, yes. Ramsey is a mate of Wossy, so maybe this is going to be some kind of damage limitation effort by proxy.

good job Question Time is in Washington DC tonight.

And I understand some of the Sluts will be on CookalongaRamsey tomorrow.

hahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa

it's all taking an entertainingly surreal turn now! maybe we will yet get ross in the stocks

Ross suspended without pay for three months
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7700816.stm

Wihtout pay. Oh, the humanity.

Fawlty Towers box set was £20 I think.

I got it years ago for less with a free tiny car and a tiny model Basil holding a tiny tree branch.

A quick search online says you can get it for less than £15.

let's run a book on who ross's first guests will be when he's back on the beeb in 3 months.

Russell Brand, Ricky Gervais, and... Ricky Gervais

was hoping he'd be sacked :(

The BBC would probably have to give him an enormous fucking payoff if they did that.

ITN going on and on about this, trying to dredge up any bit of dirt and make it stick, hypocritical wankers.

don't care about payoff, just want him out of public eye and his horrible voice out of my ears for good

don't care what ulterior motives any other media groups have or what hypocrisy they're guilty of either - jonathan ross is worse

Brand and Ross are just dicks with big mouths. This whole Daily Mail/ITN "you'd better believe everything we tell you about Britain in the gutter or else" preaching is genuinely harmful in the long term. It tries to hook into the deep seated inferiority complex that many people have in Britain. This is why people are narrow minded and short sighted. This is why people have an undeserved sense of entitlement. This is why people are living beyond their means in a hole they've been encouraged to dig for themselves on easy credit. This is why some kids carry knives and others have no ambition other than to be "famous". Sections of the media, newspapers, magazines, television programmes, politicians, public figures, celebrities, and comedians, have been grinding us down, belittling us, trying to make us "little people".

I'm still totally confused about why the 25-year-old producer of the Brand programme still has his job. And/or why the compliance people who vetted the show still have theirs. The show was pre-recorded. Brand and to a certain extent Ross were hired specifically to be puerile and idiotic. I don't even really blame them, they're just doing what they do.

I thought that the controller said that if the producer was going to be sacked she would resign. And the BBC said 'great, thanks very much - see ya! Rossy - you're off the hook...3 months suspension ok?"

Hmm OK. Seems strange. The producer should really be the one ultimately responsible I'd think.

Really tough questioning of Mark Thompson from the Newsnight woman tonight - it must have felt a little strange for her to be asking the boss of her entire corporation if he "had considered his position".

There seems to be a growing tendency to want to take these things as high up the "chain of command" (urgh) as possible, but where do you stop?
I presume this is all pre-empting the OFCOM investigation which will report, when? And will probably lead to another load of anguished headlines and BBC self-flagellation.

How does the BBC justify the incredibly high salary that Ross recievies? I mean, isn't BBC funded by all the people who pay the mandatory tv license fee? Feels weird that the public thinks it's acceptable, or maybe they don't? Was there ever a debate about his salary?

Er yes, every day of every week. It is dull.

Maybe Gordon Brown should resign. It happened on his watch.

Ah, okay wasn't aware of that.

But I don't get all the fuss about this story. They made a tasteless joke, but why does that mean they have to get fired/suspended? Don't comedians say outrageous stuff ALL THE TIME? Is it cause the guy is old?

According to their latest Bulletin it's taken OFCOM 7 months to decide that...

The prolonged and close-up full-screen shots of the presenter stimulating and
massaging her bare breasts, pinching her nipples and shaking them to camera, were
in Ofcom’s opinion highly sexualised and not suitable for broadcast before 22:00. The
images of the presenter lying on her back with her legs open, briefly simulating
masturbation, and stroking her semi-naked body were also not acceptable before
22:00. (as shown on Bang Babes on Tease Me 2 apparently)

...which you would think was a pretty open and shut case.

No doubt they had to watch the footage several times before making a decision.