Woss and Brand?

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Listening to Radio 4 last night, it seems the 'outrage' is felt by a certain audience. Radio 1 listeners thought it was all hilarious. And on TV, they talked to two different TV audiences (Alan Titchmarsh's show, and Never mind the Buzzcocks, and lo! and behold, the Titchmarshers thought it was despicable, and the Buzzcockers thought it was funny. It seems we're all old....

Personally, I think it was hardly comedy, and I dislike any practical joke type thing. I'm not bothered by Ross either way - I don't watch/liston to any off his shows - but Brand has made me laugh in the past - not that I've seem his stuff alone, more when he's been a a guest on something....

I don't suppose it'll do either of them a jot of harm even if they get sacked. Someone else will snap them up.

 

[Greedo]

Over 18,000 complaints now.
Talk about escalating interest rates.

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Russell who? Never mind, what's that BBC number again?

 

[Andy in Sig]

It's my impression the BBC thought/still thinks they did nothing wrong and nothing would have been done at all - and that's a problem.

Have you ever watched one of those programmes when the DG of the BBC and a couple of his sidekicks get to be grilled by a studio audience on the corporation's performance? No matter how legitimate the points raised nor how eloquently and persuasively they are put, there never seems to be an admission of simply having got it wrong.

 

[Greedo]

What's this all about????

Phoning the BBC. I'm up for that.

What am I complaining about? Who am I supposed to be jealous of and of their salary?

Russell who? Never mind, what's that BBC number again?

 

[Mr Phoebus]

What's this all about????

Phoning the BBC. I'm up for that.

What am I complaining about? Who am I supposed to be jealous of and of their salary?

It's also important that you mention that you're a licence payer.

 

[Greedo]

Oh don't worry I will!

Make sure you mention that you :-

"feel let down by such an institution like the BBC"
"You feel cheated"
"You expected higher standards"
"The standard of programming in ridiculous"

and the finally

"If I had done something like this in my job, i'd be out on my ear"

It's also important that you mention that you're a licence payer.

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Oh don't worry I will!

Make sure you mention that you :-

"feel let down by such an institution like the BBC"
"You feel cheated"
"You expected higher standards"
"The standard of programming in ridiculous"

and the finally

"If I had done something like this in my job, i'd be out on my ear"

Boom Tish!!!

I've been Greedo, you've been amazing.
Thank you and good night!!!

 

[Tim Bennet.]

You must use the term 'grand daughter' as often as possible. It rings the Pavlovian 'kiddy fiddling' bell with all those who are 'outraged' by this. Otherwise not everyone might understand how suggesting that a twenty something year old women has had sex with a twenty something year old man is 'obscene'.

And let's not forget that Andrew Sachs had agreed to an interview with the pair. I'm sure his agent tipped him off about the nature of the program. The comments and 'humour' they left on the answer machine was probably not a lot different to that he would have got face to face if he had turned up for the interview as arranged.

 

[Trillian]

woss can be quite funny and whitty if he can keep away from being lewd and vulgar

 

[Greedo]

I'm sure the reason this is rumbling on is nothing to do with his grand daughter seeking publicity in her quest to become a model/actor/celebrity!!!!!

The thing is, i've heard worse from Frankie Boyle on Mock The Week, so what is the big deal about it?

You must use the term 'grand daughter' as often as possible. It rings the Pavlovian 'kiddy fiddling' bell with all those who are 'outraged' by this. Otherwise not everyone might understand how suggesting that a twenty something year old women has had sex with a twenty something year old man is 'obscene'.

And let's not forget that Andrew Sachs had agreed to an interview with the pair. I'm sure his agent tipped him off about the nature of the program. The comments and 'humour' they left on the answer machine was probably not a lot different to that he would have got face to face if he had turned up for the interview as arranged.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Now tell me this. You work in a company and one day you do something to a customer they are not happy about. Your boss is aware, talks to you about it and you apologise to the said customer and think the matter is closed. Then the customer tells eveyone they know and all of a sudden people who don't know what happened and the full facts complain in droves. 11 day's later you are suspended by your boss.

Would you not feel hard done by????

If I left a message on an elderly customer's ansaphone saying that I had ****ed their granddaughter and then laughing and singing about it, I would expect to be fired.

I would not feel hard done by unless I was very stupid and uncaring indeed.

The number of people complaining is entirely irrelevent to whether the action was right or wrong (in fact it's a logical fallacy), however it does say more about the BBC management's rather poor sense of its own moral responsibility and chain of command.

 

[wafflycat]

If I left a message on an elderly customer's ansaphone saying that I had ****ed their granddaughter and then laughing and singing about it, I would expect to be fired.

I would not feel hard done by unless I was very stupid and undaring indeed.

The number of people complaining is entirely irrelevent to whether the action was right or wrong (in fact it's a logical fallacy), however it does say more about the BBC management's rather poor sense of its own moral responsibility and chain of command.

+1

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Life just isn't fair! Why couldn't it have been Simon Cowell that f**ked up, instead?

 

[Greedo]

i'm sure you would. But your customers grand daughter then wouldn't be doing a highly paid interview for a tabloid newspaper!

We're talking about showbiz and the media though where the boundries are slightly different.

I abhor witchhunts and this is what this is to me because of jealousy about their salaries as that's all that ever gets mentioned.

If I left a message on an elderly customer's ansaphone saying that I had ****ed their granddaughter and then laughing and singing about it, I would expect to be fired.

I would not feel hard done by unless I was very stupid and undaring indeed.

The number of people complaining is entirely irrelevent to whether the action was right or wrong (in fact it's a logical fallacy), however it does say more about the BBC management's rather poor sense of its own moral responsibility and chain of command.