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The show is on tonight Lesley i think, ad earlier said Jo Brand in the chair.
Reply #2821. Jun 10 11, 10:35 AM
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Professer
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was entertaining Lesley as usual had to watch via catch up as clashed with the mentalist
Reply #2823. Jun 11 11, 10:19 AM
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| lesley153
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| I've just watched it too. Good, wasn't it? AND I learnt a new "knock, knock" joke. :) |
Reply #2824. Jun 11 11, 11:08 AM
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| lesley153
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Might watch Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow later. Just hope there's enough McIntyre to compensate for a load of people I haven't heard of much or at all. Milton Jones is a treat on MTW, but I don't know what he or the others are like doing stand-up.
Here's Jones in 2007:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F3Kqgzbhm0
- about as silly as he is now. I enjoyed what he said about the way people attempt to terminate a conversation by saying "I'll let you go." What the hell is that about, and what patronising twit first said it?
Frankie Boyle was the hard-edged genius of MTW, but I've seen him doing stand-up, and he's not at all funny, IMHO, just nasty. Shame, because he's talented, and doesn't need to be quite so vicious. |
Reply #2825. Jun 11 11, 11:23 AM
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satguru
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I love those, but don't remember Folk Song, that's in the queue for tomorrow. If it wasn't for my father (as in the case of Liberace in 1974) I'd never have recognised Bernard Cribbins pushing a pushchair in Westbourne Grove a few years ago- he had a fluffy white beard and wouldn't have known it was him behind it until it was pointed out to me. My first celebrity encounter was similar, when I was at a book fair in the late 60s and my mother pointed to Clement Freud and told me to get him to autograph my programme. I had it for years but didn't make it to the autograph book I bought some years later and vanished among the rest of the paper. He was clearly very enthusiastic about meeting his fans, and glad I'd approached him- they're not all like that as you'd have expected.
Reply #2827. Jun 11 11, 7:46 PM
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| lesley153
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David, did you see him in Doctor Who?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Mott
Jonathan met Michael McIntyre at a book signing. He bought a book for himself and one for his girlfriend, and he was nervous.
"Will MM mind signing two books?"
I doubt it. I think he'll be pleased to have sold two books.
"Suppose he's not the same as he is on TV?"
But he was, just the same as he is on TV; chatty and friendly. He spent a few minutes chatting to Jonathan, and write a different, personalised message in each book. Phew.
We know they're not all like that. We also know that looking down your nose at a fan is the quickest way to find yourself one fan light. |
Reply #2828. Jun 12 11, 5:02 AM
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Professer
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He does seem different to some so called celebs i have to say.
Reply #2829. Jun 12 11, 6:17 AM
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| lesley153
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He's had the same wife since 1955 - that's a good start!
I don't normally watch Doctor Who, but I watched it when he was in it, because he was in it. No doubt the Beeb expected us to switch on for Catherine Tate, and perhaps some of us did. She's good, but she hasn't got quite the warmth and wit he's got, which is OK, because most people haven't. |
Reply #2830. Jun 12 11, 6:27 AM
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satguru
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I never miss Dr Who, not many of the programmes I grew up watching have actually been revived in recent years- the new version of Crossroads was barely recognisable but had to watch it as they'd at least made the effort and unlike the ridiculous films and remakes of series with new casts they did keep the same one and did continue where they left off.
I'm trying to think of any dodgy celebrities I've met- and only one comes to mind, John Thompson from the Fast Show, he just gave me a dirty look when I made a joke when watching an outside broadcast being filmed. Two I wrote to invited me to watch them and met me after the performance, and one took me to the after show party. And having a music lesson from Lionel Blair (the whole cast of Oliver that is) was something to remember. He's exactly the same as on TV and a real gentleman.
Reply #2831. Jun 12 11, 8:22 AM
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| lesley153
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Good, because Lionel Blair has always struck me as being natural and charming.
Jonathan's been to studio recordings (favourite student pastime) and played in a practice orchestra for Maestro, and has reported back about most of the participants. He said that Michael Parkinson and Bradley Walsh are two very different people on and off camera, but Ian Hislop and Paul Merton don't notice if the cameras are on them - they're the same all the time.
A few years ago, he asked me if I'd heard of someone called something that sounded like meatloaf. He'd walked out of a college building and got shouted out for walking into a photo shoot. He remonstrated but they refused to believe that anyone over the age of three hadn't heard of Meat Loaf. Not the singer's fault - just his blinkered publicity machine.
The only piece of negativity I've ever encountered was ages ago in Chelsea, when I spotted "The lovely Aimi Macdonald" walking towards me on an near-empty South Molton Street. She appeared to be very full of her lovely self, and to be using her very lovely nose mostly for looking down, so it gives me great pleasure to recall that she had a dirty great smut on the end of it. Ha ha! |
Reply #2832. Jun 12 11, 8:51 AM
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Rowena8482
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We went to see Andy Parsons (the bald one from MTW) recently and I was pleasantly surprised - he is very intelligent and well informed, and was using material from that day's news, ans involving the audience, so ad-libbing as he went along. Even various people being totally weird and trying to put him off (or just really being THAT ess-ewe-pee-tee-eye-dee lol) didn't put him off stride :-D
I can take Frankie Boyle and/or Jo Brand in small doses, but they each have one joke and just tell it in different words over and over and over ad nauseum (FB is mean to someone who can't answer back, quite often they are mentally ill, and JB mocks her own size. Moderately amusing the first time, but downill from there)
Reply #2833. Jun 12 11, 12:02 PM
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| lesley153
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Oh yes - the one who gets a laugh on MTW just by doing his muscle-bound walk-on. Good, I'm glad you enjoyed him, and pleased to hear that he can cope with idiots!
I find one-joke comics irritating too. When Jo Brand started out, she had two jokes - men don't know what a clitoris is or where to find one, and she's Sew Fat because she eats Sew Much Cake. Boring. I didn't enjoy her act then, but thought she'd got better, when the truth is that she has half the jokes she started off with!
The little hairy bloke on MTW, the one who got his only laugh impersonating Michael McIntyre, is a non-comic in the mould of Patrick Kielty. Insulting famous people isn't funny: Kielty and little hairy bloke, please take note. People laugh because they've come a long way and queued for hours to get in when they could have been at home in the warm with a cup of cocoa, and the warm-up act was good, and they've come to be made to laugh, and laugh they will, at any cost. But they'd laugh more if the jokes were actually funny. {off soapbox now} |
Reply #2834. Jun 12 11, 12:27 PM
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Rowena8482
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I read Frankie Boyle's book too (it was practically free on Kindle lol) and wound up feeling sorry for him, which was probably not his intention. He's just not a very nice/likeable person :-S
Reply #2835. Jun 12 11, 3:51 PM
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| lesley153
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| I remember you saying that the title was pretty apt. Shame. |
Reply #2836. Jun 12 11, 4:17 PM
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| lesley153
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Reading about Frankie Boyle reminded me of something else the little hairy bloke said: something about wanting to punch Justin Bieber in the face. Crumbs, that's hilarious.
Rather like the title of Boyles most recent ("final"?) tour: "I Would Happily Punch Every One Of You In The Face." You don't suppose that's where the hairy one got the idea from? Or that he has delusions that he might step into Boyle's shoes? No chance!
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Up at crack of dawn this morning (nine o'clock ouch), had time to sing to Rowena and get to the hospital for a 10.20 appointment. It was just a routine retinal screening. My eyes are fine and haven't changed since I started going three years ago.
It's not that long since I could have two or three medical appointments in a week, so it's rather nice to have them strung out now. Same time, same place, next year. :) |
Reply #2837. Jun 13 11, 9:41 AM
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| lesley153
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Busy beginning to the week... Hospital, lunch date, haircut, Alexander lesson, exercise class...
Today nothing but relaxing. Difficult when the sun has coaxed the scum next door out of the woodwork and into the garden. There's an old man who talks or laughs raucously non-stop, a small child screaming and crying, and a woman who joins the loud old man in shrieking at the child to stop crying. They all have exceptionally ugly voices, and it's like living in a 24-hour rehearsal of East Enders. I have no idea what keeps them shouting and cackling for hours on end, or why they're compelled to keep themselves laughing for hours on end. OK for an hour or three at a comedy show, but not six and eight hours of it joking and laughing. Must be exhausting. Can't help wondering if there's something wrong with people who need to do that.
So I'm drowning them out by playing Götterdämmerung at full blast. Thank you, YouTube, for playlists. The worrying thing is, I think I'm beginning to enjoy it. |
Reply #2838. Jun 16 11, 9:25 AM
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Professer
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Sorry to hear the hell thats the neighbours are causing distress Lesley, shame you cannot get a restraining order on them. They might decide to move if you could.
Had a reasonable day still same old aches and pains but hey ho is life, Due to change in weather mum decided to get car out and run me home she struggles but insisted i did say i did not want her too but as did not want to upset her i gave in.
Got my CD's today both signed can def make out Michael crawfords signature, is not a bad cd will take a few listens.
Reply #2839. Jun 16 11, 10:44 AM
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| lesley153
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Thanks, Gary. Restrained? I'd like to get them muzzled.
Good for your mother for pushing herself, unless she suffered for it. Is it possible that she was itching to drive again but needed an incentive to override her lack of confidence?
Enjoy your new music. |
Reply #2840. Jun 16 11, 12:08 PM
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