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Comic Relief
Posted by goatboyuk69 on 13 March 2009 - 10:18pm.
It may be against the ethos of the evening of ghastly rubbish but let this be the repository for your hateful meanderings about this evenings offense against humour, love , life and the joy of existing on a spring evening.
It makes money and good for it. Why does it have to be so awful?
Bonus points for anyone being nasty about James Corden.
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Comic Relief
Whitehouse and Enfield's Victorian Dragon's Den was the only comic bit that seemed to work.
Catherine Tate AND Little Britain? You must be joking, but probably not.
The TOTP show demonstrated clearly just why the show was cancelled.
Even poor Sir Tom Jones struggled with Islands on the Stream. Just didn't suit his voice.
It did prompt my wife to say he needs a rock band behind him. Maybe Jimmy Page could give him a call.
Glad I missed it
These special comedy bits are usually a let down - never as good as proper full length shows. I chose to watch BBC4 Rough Trade doc and Rough Trade On BBC show now on. Currently enjoying The Smiths 'This Charming' Man live clip.
Tom Jones "voice"
Here's a list of things that suit Tom Jones' voice:
Tubular Bells
Duelling Banjos
Beethoven's 5th
There are many more but you get the idea.
Vivian Stanshall might have been miffed.
"Grand Piano.... reed and pipe organ..." etc.
Bloody Alan Sugar
He looks like a dirty cotton bud. Maybe a cotton bud is taller.
brilliant!
now, where did i put those screenwipes?
new
Have never seen Gavin and Stacey so James Corden has passed me by but I have seen him twice , once at the Brits and now this sketch. Fuck ,he is one unfunny man. In fact was that sketch meant to be that unfunny. Maybe this is the new comedy, unfunny wankers like Carr, Corden Williams and the rest of them sitting around drinking together thinking the shit they put out is good. If I was that bad at my job I wouldn't last too long. Have acid will travel
I have to say
I thought the French and Saunders defenestration of 'Mamma Mia' was very funny indeed. It may be because I have a completely irrational horror of said movie, which I haven't even seen. Might be better to watch it now with this ammunition.
Outnumbered
Stood out like a sore thumb. By far the funniest turn.
Mind you the night has given The Daily Mail a chance to stick the knife in over their two favorite subjects. Swearing and Jonathan Ross/Angus Deayton says bugger and civilisation has ended.
The Script
Nondescript would be more more like, do you see them murder "Heroes"? They should be made to surrender their Irish passports straight away. We have a new Cranberries.
god, it was atrocious...
it just goes to show that covering a song is trickier than you'd think. Oasis had a rattle at it a while back and it wasn't the clunker it could have been; they realised that Eno had built a wall of guitars and they tried to replicate it, but without as much emphasis on the searing (I think it was) Robert Fripp lead on it.
A stripped down acoustic version *could* perhaps work. You either do that, or you use the original as the template. The Script fell horribly between two stools!
Kasabian
didn't ITV use a version of Heroes by Kasabian as the theme for the European Championship or the World Cup fairly recently?
I thought
that David Tennant was quite good. Shame that they didn't leave Chris Moyles at the top of Kilimanjaro.
No.... you couldn't leave him there...
imagine the scene, you expend much energy climbing to the summit and expect to be rewarded with a view of awe-inspiring splendour. To one's horror one is instead greeted with the sight of a gigantic, hideous, sweaty, grinning buffoon who can't stop his mouth from constantly uttering complete bollocks.
Much better to bring him back to the UK and put him to work in an abbatoir.
Outnumbered and Mamma Mia
Were laugh out loud funny. Other items perhaps not so (Corden in particular). But why do we have to be so cynically nasty?
It's just taste
Well what you liked just shows that it's all a matter of taste. I thought Outnumbered was very good - ironically it could have been excellent if some of the red nose day references had been a little less in your face. There was studio laughter as well which I'm sure isn't normally the case. On the other hand, I saw the Mamma Mia thing and wouldn't have known it was even supposed to be funny if it hadn't been part of comic relief night - I haven't seen the film though.
£3m
whilst £3m is certainly not to be sniffed at - I believe that's what the Kilimanjaro walkers raised (I presume this is £3m profit) it doesn't seem like an awful lot when compared with the BBC salaries of some of those involved in the hike.
But......
Barlow then shelled out a rumoured £100k for a private jet to fly them all home...
Nice....