TS: jonathan ross vs terry wogan

neither, both are entirely contemptible
― lex pretend, Monday, 9 July 2007 08:03 (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag PostPermalink

^^^^^^

Largely how I feel tho maybe a tad strong for my feelings about Wogan

i love wogan tbh.

ross is so so so much worse than tel could ever be.

definitely, but I listened to Wogan a lot as a kid and I've never really connected to him - too glib for me, albeit in a different way than Ross

The Secret Pirate Radio thing above, which is all over my Facebook, captures something though, about how he's always seemed more audience-focussed than a lot of his peers (despite never as far as I know actually doing any old school pirate radio - he was straight RTE->BBC).

I'll go one further than LG - I liked him doing Eurovision, and can barely listen to Graham Norton.

Agree with LG, Wogan was charming and comforting, Wossy is mostly an obnoxious bore.

Also apparently (true story - I definitely read it) - Wogan was the first person to play Reggae on the BBC in 1968.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/31/terry-wogan-intriguingly-subversive-national-treasure

Such sharp humour was most apparent on air in Wogan’s laconic television commentaries on the Eurovision Song Contest, which were reputed to have brought protests to the BBC from the broadcasters and even ambassadors of some of the countries whose competitors he skewered. He escaped discipline, though, because these voiceovers were another example of his clever use of found material. Most often, he was merely reciting, with a slight inflection of scepticism, the descriptions of the host nations or songs distributed by publicists.

Anyone talked about his eurovision meltdown or was it all part of this subservise act?

did he have a meltdown?

He quit live on air didn't he? Accusing Eastern Euro/Russia of bloc-voting iirc

I'll go one further than LG - I liked him doing Eurovision, and can barely listen to Graham Norton.

Ruined it more like, insisted on treating it as a big joke long after it had ceased to be a joke, xenophobic old fart, and what's with these Union Jack waving Irishmen and who are more British than the British, sure didn't a few of youse die so you didn't have to wave the Union Jack anymore?

He quit live on air didn't he? Accusing Eastern Euro/Russia of bloc-voting iirc

― xyzzzz__, Monday, February 1, 2016 12:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He stayed to the end of the particular show.

So, bloc-voting means that the same countries win every year, right?

People forget that his chat show was a total dog too, and the Beeb kept dragging it on and on in the hope that it would get better, but it never really did. I hear he was good on radio though.

So, bloc-voting means that the same countries win every year, right?

That's why it was stupid. iirc someone did a few sums and there was no conspiracy as such. It was just xenophobic shit.

Of course, still better than Jonathan Ross.

Exactly. xpost.

Wogan statue unveiled in Limerick yesterday. the state of it

https://www.thesun.ie/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/06/nintchdbpict000334099076.jpg?strip=all&w=650&quality=100

Och, not so bad. They're always terrible. These statues.

I was there. Briefly, and hungover, but I witnessed

Microphone size and placement looks... wrong

I guess it's no worse than the average but the brown leather jacket colour is pretty nasty

Not only is the microphone slightly, er, odd looking it's not even the microphone associated with Wogan, that would the long thin one he used on Blankety-Blank. Of course it would be forever being snapped off by assorted scallywags and wrong 'uns which I'm sure are as prevalent in Limerick as they are anywhere else - maybe more, I know nothing of Limerick tbh.

you're on the right track

It's missing a certain something

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/04/08/article-0-01F9E19F000004B0-441_468x348.jpg

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