Keep him on long enough, and he was surely going to say or do something funny eventually. And now, he has.
The execrable 10 O'Clock Live cannot possibly be brought back again after this. What, brought back with Jimmy Carr? Or brought back without him, for guests to mention every time that one of the presenters or the favoured protagonists needs to be brought down a peg or two?
This may even herald the end, not a moment before time, of the 20-year-old tendency to regard stand-up comedians as the fountains of all knowledge, understanding and wisdom. Thank you and goodnight to Stephen Fry.
The spectacle of Dan Hodges bewailing David Cameron for having betrayed Blairism by denouncing tax avoidance says so very, very much on so very, very many levels.
The spectacle of Dan Hodges bewailing David Cameron for having betrayed Blairism by denouncing tax avoidance says so very, very much on so very, very many levels.
And in return for the stamping out of all provision for the Crown
Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories to function as tax
havens, students from those Dependencies and Territories should be
recognised as home students.
Comedy is a serious business. And Ive been following it since Ted Ray, Tommy Trinder and Arthur Askey in the 1960s. All "conservatives". The same might be said of the overtly racist Bernard Manning, George Roper, Mike Reid in the 1970s.
ReplyDeleteAlternative Comedy was regarded as left wing and allowing for the squabbles between Alexei Sayle and Ben Elton ..we have to think that Stephen Fry and Rowan Atkinson are now pillars of the Establishment.
Is Frankie Boyle really any different from Roy Chubby Brown who is banned from TV. Boyle is just as offensive....although in fairness he does support Celtic....but can he really be let off the hook just because his targets are deemed more powerful.
Angus Deayton lost the HIGNFY gig because it was deemed inappropriate that a presenter of a TV quiz lampooning celebs and hypocrisy should get caught with bad girls and white powder.
So Carr.....8 out of 10 cats might prefer he was not presenting the show or indeed Comic Relief ....
I never thought much of Carr. He is no Ken Dodd. Well actually now that I think about it, there might well be a connexion. Always tended to liken Carr to Bob monkhouse, who people tell me was not nearly as smarmy as he appeared on TV.
Maybe the same is true of Jimmy Carr the Jimmy Dodger of our times.
Yet in the 1950s (before my time!!!) Max Wall disappeared from public view when the tabloids took against him...old comedian/young girl kinda thing. And re-surfaced via Parkinson and Coronation Street in the 1970s.
Maybe thats Jimmy Carrs fate. Look out for him in Eastenders in twent years. But the thought of Eastenders still being on TV is pretty depressing.
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