Entertainment For Lively Minds
Possibly stating the bleedin' obvious
Posted by Rigid Digit on 23 October 2010 - 6:59pm.
Never Mind The Buzzcocks is not funny anymore. Its not even a half-decent Music quiz, with comedy thrown in, anymore.
Have watched the last few series with the general feeling that its losing it. Watched the new one on Thursday (series 24) and despite a few (possibly forced) smiles it really wasn't that great.
I fully support Mitch Benns view seen in these pages a couple of days ago ("I'm proud Of the BBC"), but I think this horse has been flogged long enough.
And while I'm here - QI has lost something as well
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The Curse of Phil Stupidass
Buzzcocks never appealed to me and I find myself avoiding every episode of QI that fat git's in.
I've always loathed Never Mind the Buzzcocks...
a snide, deeply unfunny repository of shite.
Boy!
yo shore gotta purdy mouth ;)
You say 'Buzzcocks' isn't funny anymore...
...but it's still a damned sight better than when either Richard Fairbrass or Shovel were on seemingly every bleedin' week.
I liked Buzzcocks...
...when Simon Amstell was on it. I hated it when Mark Lamarr was in charge, as he always struck me as genuinely horrible. Maybe it's just a persona, but christ, he was foul.
Although I did like it when Lemmy stormed off in a huff.
I don't really understand the antipathy to Jupitus. I don't love him, but I know several people who HAAAAATE him. I don't get it - he seems OK to me.
It sucks, in spades
I think the show sucks and I agree with you about Lamarr. He came across as a real misanthrope and I just don't get the impression that his humour comes from a good place.
As for Jupitus, he can be reasonably witty, but I can't forgive the 'ironic' veneration of murderous tyrants. Wearing a Mao-tse-Tung badge is not big and it's not clever. A man of his age really should know better. If a BBC regular started wearing a Hitler badge, I suspect that the invitations to deliver 6th form knob-joke banter on dreary panel shows would soon dry up.
Or maybe I just didn't appreciate the retro-irony of it all.
Method acting?
If Mark Lamarr's was a persona then I can confirm that it wasn't just an on-screen one!
Lamarr
yep, vile. Every inch the archetypal school bully, a comprehensively nasty piece of work.
Never liked him, me.
Well it's been a busy day for Jupitus bashing...
Come over and join the QI thread...
http://wordmagazine.co.uk/content/how-rubbish-are-qi-opening-titles
Jupitus said at the Kirsty MacColl gig
that 'the next lady was a guest presenter on my shitty pop quiz, she was excellent, the pop quiz is still shitty'. - so why carry on, Phill?
- so why carry on, Phill?
...err £'s perhaps?
That
is a given.
Bring back Pop Quiz!
I loved Pop Quiz. Did exactly what it said on the tin. Hell, bring back Mike Read to host it - he could do with the cash.
Mark Lamarr, as far as I can tell from everything I've seen, read and heard of him, is simply vile.
Lamarr
was employed 5to be a mouthy shit and so did his job. Least he knew when to make a gracious exit before it got stale (Shooting Stars also)
Plus his old GLR shows and God's Jukebox have introduced me to some stunning new and old music. He's obviously happy to stay on the radio playing music he loves
The Word (not that one)
He did all right on that TV show also. For example, the Shabba Ranks incident.
While we're on "quizzes"
Has anyone here watched A League of Their Own? I haven't dared, so appalling do the trailers make it look. Is it as bad as it looks??
I like it
It's very contrived but they seem to have generated an atmosphere where the guests are quite natuarl and they don't seem to mind being mocked. It is very funny at times. Probably to be avoided if you don't like James Corden though.
Yes it terrible
as it concerns sport