I accidentally caught the first ten minutes of the News Quiz on Radio 4 this evening. Hosted by dwarf lesbian Sandi Toksvig, her guests included hard left Jeremy Hardy, and the ubiquitous lesbian comedienne Sue Perkins. I see Mark Steel will grace the programme in the near future.
Within 60 seconds, the usual spleen was being directed towards John McCain and Sarah Palin. Naturally the Chosen One was left alone. These BBC alleged “comedy” programmes are nothing of the sort. They are a contrived platform afforded to left wing trolls like Hardy and Steel to spew out their venom. And while I’m at it, I see that Marcus Brigstocke now has his own programme on Radio 4 entitled “I’ve never seen Star Wars” – in which he invites guests to experience something they have never done before. In his case, that would involve being funny.
A FRIDAY JOY.
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There was one great anti Brown gag however. When describing the Large Hadron Collider, Sandi Toksvig said it was designed to make two very tiny particles collide, like bringing togetehr Gordon Brown’s competence and popularity. Made me laugh anyway
The 6.30pm slot on Radio 4 used to be something I’d look forward to.
I don’t think it was my sense of humour that got lost along the way…
Just listened to the first 10 minutes of this. Have had to switch off – that harpy’s voice is doing my head in.
Am I allowed to say that it was total unfunny shit?
So Marcus Brigstocke is inviting listeners to try a new experience is he ?
Well, I’ve never punched a left wing comedian in the mouth before….
HSLD | 26.09.08 – 8:19 pm | #
Get to the back of the queue!
Don’t care if they’re short, don’t care if they’re lesbian, do care always same ones, always same ****
sue perkins.
yuck
the worst of oxbridge
Hey don’t take the piss out of Sandi Toksvig.
It’s not big, and it’s not clever.
Don’t forget that Jeremy Hardy once called for the mass murder, with trial, of members of the BNP. Can you imagine the furore if some so-called comedian called for the massacre of all Islamic terroists and their supporters?
It is a Friday night and I am slightly pissed. (slightly? Ive just fallen off the chair) But even in this state I find the BBC comedy totally predictable left wing propaganda. Is there something about left whingers that mke them uniquely suited for comedy or is there something about comedy that makes its practitioners left wing.
Ron – good question. Where are the right wing comedians, especially when the left, or even moderate liberals, is/are such an obvious target of comic ridicule
While everyone is in a Friday night mood I must admit ‘dwarf lesbian’ makes Sandi Toksvig sound a lot more interesting than she is.
Right I have been far too indiscrete and honest. Au revoir.
Sorry! I should have said “without trial”!!!
Radio 4 is now like all other mainstream BBC channels. There’s so little chance of coming across anything half decent I can’t be bothered with it at all.
It seems to be aimed at a semi-educated affluent housewife.
So Marcus Brigstocke is inviting listeners to try a new experience is he ?
Well, I’ve never punched a left wing comedian in the mouth before….
HSLD | 26.09.08 – 8:19 pm |
That is outrageous.
Try using a baseball bat, or better still a lump hammer.
Kuffar,
I agree there – Toksvig’s voice is just about the most obnoxious grating sound emission you can hear on radio. When you then add her supercilious and smarmy left-wing babbling into the mix, it’s just too much to take.
Surely they audition presenters before giving them a job at the Beeb? That voice….aaaarrrgggghhhh!!!
I think Jeremy Hardy said something like BNP supporters should be shot in the head. As if he’d know one end of a gun from the other.
He’d need a lot of ammunition if he came to my village, at one time the Labour party could have fielded a donkey as a candidate and it would have won if it was wearing a red rosette.
In the last local election Labour came within an inch of losing to the BNP here, despite the BNP candidate running no campaign whatsoever and being well known as a bit of a knobhead.
We did get a lot of leaflets from ‘Hope not Hate’ telling us how marvellous immigration is and that we are a bunch of ignorant rednecks who should welcome our new overlords. I’m sure that helped a lot.
If Jeremy Hardy ever met a working class person he’d get filled in, in about 5 seconds flat. Especially if that working class person was me.
Unimaginative left wing jabs are a sure fire way for a crap comedian to generate noises of approval from audiences they know are likely to contain fair numbers of those under-30’s who instinctively whistle and whoop whenever they hear a performer make some “right on” comment which they relate to.
Let’s face it, if you’re a comedian and not very funny there has to be another way to create positive crowd noise aside from actually telling funny jokes.
I suppose it’s a bit like the singer of a crap band getting a cheer at a gig by telling the audience that they’re the “best yet.”
Or a comedian telling a crap joke about smoking weed and going to the all night garage to buy munchies. Guaranteed to generates hoots and screeches from everyone in the audience who smokes.
Occasionally a half decent comic ruins his act by making cheap lefty jibes. Bill Bailey is one – I bought one of his old live DVDs recently and it was hilarious, then he had to go and spoil it by taking cheap swipes at America and Bush.
adam:
sue perkins.
yuck
the worst of oxbridge
adam | 26.09.08 – 10:12 pm | #
How can you possibly say that, when the show was hosted by the atrocious Sandy Tossbag?
fewqwer:
Hey don’t take the piss out of Sandi Toksvig.
It’s not big, and it’s not clever.
fewqwer | 26.09.08 – 10:58 pm | #
Thanks, fewqwer, funniest thing I’ve read this week.
An interesting reflection was provided by Alexei Sayle on BBC4 a few weeks ago (I think the show was, “My Father was a Communist”) whose closing line was ‘Thank Christ people like me never got anywhere near power.’
But then Sayle’s (art school drop out) left wing comedy always felt infinitely more intelligent than the dull dross of Steel or Brigstock, and of course, he was, and is genuinely funny. I wonder if his closing remark was the reason why he’s never on TV nowadays. (I’m afraid that BBC4, the only channel in Britain I’d happily pay for is probably due for closure at some time in the near future).
Toksvig’s voice is the sound of Polly Toynbee’s nails scraping over a blackboard.
The News Quiz has plunged downhill since Barry Took died. Toksvig’s appointment simply sealed it as being unlistenable. I wonder who they will appoint as chairman of “I’m sorry I haven’t a clue”? Ken Livingstone?
We don’t do well with right wing comedians in this country. Some of the funniest people in the States are right leaning. PJ O Rourke at his best is both hilarious and profound. But over here they tend to be of the end of pier variety. Steel and Hardy are quite unpleasant i think, although Hardy can be quite funny. Brigstocke is awful. BBC Radio comedy is, with few exceptions, an oxymoron. The best soon migrates to TV, which in the UK is going through something of a golden period.
CB:
But then Sayle’s (art school drop out) left wing comedy always felt infinitely more intelligent than the dull dross of Steel or Brigstock, and of course, he was, and is genuinely funny.
CB | 27.09.08 – 9:25 am | #
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What distinguished his stuff from the current crop of left-wing uncomedians and made it genuinely funny, was basically two things: firstly a willingness to take the piss out of himself, (not something you find in the current crop of smugly self-righteous twats like Steel, etc) and secondly a dominant streak of sub-Milliganesque surrealism that could be hilarious when on target.
I don’t see that from the current crop either…
I agree with CB – as I’ve said here before, I think C4 is about the only wortwhile thing BBC Tv has.
BBC3 was pretty good initially but now it seems to have gone almost completely ‘yoof’.
Loads of unfunny ‘yoof’ targetted “comedires” (not a misprint,btw), all so bad they make Two Pints Of Lager… look like Fawlty Towers
Alexi Sayle must be treasured for
I was actually driven mad by the indifference of architecture and council planners. Y’see I live in a tower block, and um, the thing about those is that there’s terrible noise problems, because there’s no noise insulation at all y’know, and 8 floors below you there’s always some bastard who’s got a Yamaha home organ, y’know. You’re just about to go to sleep and you hear this doot-doot! chh-chh doot-doot! chh-chh chkdt BAH WA DAH BAH NAOW! doot-doot! chh-chh doot-doot! chh-chh! and like, the people who live upstairs from me, I can’t understand what they’re doing! Y’know I listen, and all I can hear is this weird noise and it goes voom voom, BLAT-NN BLAT-NN, voom voom, BLAT-NN BLAT-NN, and it sounds, right, it sounds like two elephants on a motorbike riding round and round, while a seal bangs a kipper on the table! I went upstairs to complain, and the door was answered by this elephant in a crash helmet! Standing behind him is this seal going
[pantomimes hitting a table with an object, the other hand on his hip]
Mr. Balowski: WHAT IS IT NOW, RALPH?
Nobody has mentioned Russell Brand; but, then, perhaps he is not thought of as a comedian, just a repulsive oik.
‘We don’t do well with right wing comedians in this country.’
You would have to be really good to bypass the ‘he’s racist/a BNP supporter’ and get enough of a public following that the BBC would be forced to have you on (on BBC3 at 5am during a powercut).
I don’t even want right wing comedians on Radio 4. Just some that were actually funny would be good enough.
Rob: ‘Toksvig’s voice is the sound of Polly Toynbee’s nails scraping over a blackboard.’
I’d like to hear Toynbee’s front teeth scraping down the M1.
A couple of weeks ago Hardy was on a repeat of QI – a prog i really quite like (even though it is on the BBC) – mainly because it is not aimed at pond life. Anyway, in response to a comment about the popularity of Jim Morrisons’ grave in Paris Hardy launched into a rant about how people will be queuing up round the block to “piss on Thatchers grave”. This was beyond bad taste and my wife was shocked at the violence on my reaction. Do you think the BBC would dream of allowing a right winger to make a similar comment about Nye Bevan, or any one else in the pantheon of socialists who drove this country into despair and ruin? What about gloating in anticipation over the death of a hated left winger. Perhaps there should be a few jokes about plans to defecate on Scargills grave when he shuffles off into his workers utopia with 72 shop stewards to tend to his every dictat…
Hardy is a disease, and like diseases there is nothing much about him that makes you laugh
I’m a fan of Alexi Sayle too. Anyone remember that curly haired detective he played who solved crimes by simply staring into space and saying nothing?
The best comedians have always been those who leave politics out of it. Like the great stand-up Steve Wright:
“I got up the other morning and everything in my apartment had been stolen and replaced with exact replicas. I woke up my roommate to tell him what had happened and he says ‘do I know you?'”
or:
“I saw a guy on the street with wooden legs and real feet”
By the way, has anyone actually heard anyone else say that they like Jeremy Hardy? Even when I was a “right on” lefty teenager my mates and I all thought he was a prat with a face like a blistered piss pot.
Dagobert | 26.09.08 – 11:12 pm |
Yeah, but if those fuckers desecrate my fathers grave one more time I’m gonna buy a gun and help him!
What is it with the BNPs desire to kick over gravestones and scrawl their hate on them? Cunts!
Ken Dodd was on the Steve Wright show the other afternoon and he said the lowest form of comedy was sarcastic, satirical cynisism. The BBC pump that kind of humour out every day. It is dull, boring, uncreative unoriginal and unfunny. Shame on all those responsible for putting this rubbish over the air. I have stopped watching TV and listen to the radio when I’m desperate for some noise to fill the silence. The BBC are a disgrace.
I heard Alexi Sayle recalling his earlier days in comedy…”all you had to say was Thatcher is a bastard” = loads of laughs and plenty of work.