Well, I sure as heck did not tune in to watch the return of Jonathan Ross to his BBC1 Prime-time Friday night slot. Did you? I read reports that it was his usual combination of vulgarity and narcissism. The thing that gets me is that this vulgarian is paid an absolute fortune care of YOU and ME – the license tax payer – to engage in a weekly exhibition that degrades any sense of standards that the BBC may once have had. Ross is a superb example of all that is wrong with the BBC – but just like his employer Ross does not see that there is even a problem.
WOSSY BACK.
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Actually, he wasn’t too bad. He opened the show with a full and frank apology, admitting that he’d made a mistake and realising that as a BBC employee he had a responsibility to show more diligence in his behaviour. The most vulgar he got was asking Tom Cruise about farting in bed.
Still, his days at the BBC are surely numbered. His brand of entertainment is more suited to commercial broadcasters.
I thought he was quite good actually.
There’s nothing particularly wrong with Ross. He’s the type of shallow, modestly talented, loudmouthed entertainer who is ideal for TV and beloved of the TV goggling classes for giving some variety to their ludicrous diet of soaps, bric-a-brac buying and selling, doctors/nurses/cops/robbers dramas and lottery shows.
But why do I have to chip in for his £6 million per year wages just because I want to watch a football match or two on Sky TV without getting a fine and a criminal record?
How guests agree to do his show I am not sure. Each time it is 15 minutes of lewd jokes and a couple of minutes for a plug. The worst is when he gets on one of his “mates” like the awful Gervais or Vegas or some other hack. I used to give Ross the benefit of the doubt considering his Film programme used to be worth watching, but stopped watching Ross altogether after he opened one episode of Friday Night with a cheap Sarah Palin gag, and the same can be said for Have I Got News For You (or any beeb “comedy” in fact).
Not me.
” No tele no Woss,no license no cry”.
“Actually, he wasn’t too bad. He opened the show with a full and frank apology, admitting that he’d made a mistake and realising that as a BBC employee he had a responsibility to show more diligence in his behaviour.”
For whores like him, mouthing a prepared statement is simply a case of lying back, closing his eyes and thinking about the pile of dosh he’s screwed out of the public this week.
“The most vulgar he got was asking Tom Cruise about farting in bed.”
The fact that you don’t think this is particularly vulgar, is a perfect reason to abolish the BBC that has come to this state.
“There’s nothing particularly wrong with Ross”
Other than being a vulgar piece of shit that doesn’t deserve to handle my wheelie-bin, you mean?
Tom
his brand of humour is more suited to the playground.
Ross is good. A joy to have his excellent R2 show back.
The bbc went in for some serious self-flaggelation this morning on Today. They had charles moore and the wonderful kelvin mackenzie commenting at length. Bias and under carpet sweeping was there none.
Well done aunty beeb.
Hmm … very odd. Two of my posts have disappeared.
“Ross is good. A joy to have his excellent R2 show back.”
You are taking the piss, I assume.
Each to their own nearly. I like the guy.
That’s fine Mike – you pay for him! Each to fund their own, as it should be.
The irritating thing is for the price of that very mediocre talent the BBC could have employed a dozen or more new talents and really done something different.
Alternatively they could give us all our money back
Well, yes, that’s the thing, isn’t it? The fact that some people like this disgusting person, fine, to each his own; but his pay is way beyond obscene for his very mediocre talent. Is he really 10 times more talented than, say, David Attenborough? And is a publicly-funded broadcaster, with a very specifically worded charter, entitled to pay him this amount? I will never accept that this is legitimate. In fact, I will continue to say that this is the sort of breach of the charter that should get the BBC shut down and its governors prosecuted. In a sane country, this would have happened by now.
The real insanity is that the BBC doesn’t realise it is a sellers market.Ross’s job could be advertised at £50,000 a year and there would be a queue from Lands End to John a Groats to pay it.
There is a mass of talent out there,but the BBC hires some bozo like Ross,builds him up with the unprecedented exposure available to the BBC. When the bozo duly becomes a household name,the BBC lies back and lets the said bozo screw it for as much as they can get.
Typical public sector dipshits.
But this site has a treasonous attitude towards david attenborough. despite being the greatest living englishman, his views on AGW render him a twit in
the eyes of many b-beebers. praying him in aid of yr case is a bit rich, unless you repent of this view.
I’d tread easy here. My better half loves nothing more than celebrity-bollox and property-porn. Claims its an escape from the horrid world of work, and who am I to deny this. Its entertainment (of a sort) and 8m plus people tune in for it, so the fact I don’t like it is part of the rich variety of human interest. I’ll pass on it, as I am sure a lot of telly-tax payers don’t like the stuff I do and they still have to pay for it.
What is unforgivable is BBC News.You have to start out with honest reporting, not some post-modernist bollox: the criminal and the victim are not equally valid points of view. Flying planes into buildings is not a valid “point of view”. Murdering psychopaths are just that. Terrorists remain that. Democracy is our values, the UK, not rule by medieval cleric cabals or oil-bloated monarchies. Impatiality has its place, but not here. I recall the Private Eye “trendy vicar ” spoof: “The Devil. Is he all bad?”. Yes I’m afraid he is. No place for “impartiality”
“his views on AGW render him a twit in
the eyes of many b-beebers. praying him in aid of yr case is a bit rich, unless you repent of this view.”
Hate the sin,love the sinner.
“Each to their own. I like the guy ”
You pay for him then, and dont expect others to.
Allen @ Aberdeen,
Sorry to repeat what you said, but when I came in late, MWL`s post was the last one, then I posted and saw six new ones.
It’s definitely worth complaining about the BBC’s excessive news coverage of Ross’s return. It’s essentially glorified advertising and it’s completely inappropriate for a supposedly independent news service. Why is the ratings figure the number 3 news story of the day? It’s not even the only BBC story of those three!
I did actually enjoy the Stephen Fry bit, who is an interesting guy, and whose Stephen Fry in America programme is awesome. Good on him for making the point about “pig-ignorant” liberal types that make offensive generalizations about Americans.
I particularly enjoyed the bits where Fry made it hard for Ross to talk over him or monopolise the conversation in general.
Sod it, a piece of software banging out questions could do a better job than this self-absorbed, middle aged adolescent f***ing c*** with more braincells in his f***ing hair than my f***ing head.
Hopefully, his latest blunder should be the cue to have this smug, smirking, piece of shit thrown off the air like a f***ing shopping trolley into a canal!
S’cuse these outbursts, I really do detest this person and all that he stands for.
Commenter Mike Wine Liberal works for the BBC.
Must concur with much of what has already been posted in this thread on the subject of the woeful Mr Ross.
I despair of living in a country where this man has risen to the position of being by-far the highest paid broadcaster in the industry.
We need to get rid of the BBC tax and force the corporation to fend for itself in the commercial world.
Only then can it hope to reach the standards of ITV, Channel Four, Five and Sky’s wonderful entertainment offerings.
Oh dear!
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I quite like Ross but he is vulgar and hard-pressed taxpayers should not be forced to pay for the ‘entertainment’ he provides.
Verity | 25.01.09 – 10:24 pm |
Commenter Mike Wine Liberal works for the BBC.
No, he doesn’t. He just thinks like many Beeboids.
It’s great to have Jonathan Ross back on TV and radio. I have missed him.
I did actually enjoy the Stephen Fry bit, who is an interesting guy, and whose Stephen Fry in America programme is awesome. Good on him for making the point about “pig-ignorant” liberal types that make offensive generalizations about Americans.
Since Fry is a smug, self-important, pig-ignorant asshole who shot off his mouth about Israel’s righful defence of its population, I see no difference between him and the shitty Ross.
Harrison: try to get a life.