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Post by Travis on Oct 28, 2008 13:05:34 GMT -1
Now I know there's been a lot of predictable moral outrage about these phonecalls to Andrew Sachs' answering machine but are people in danger of missing the most important point of the argument here? It was fookin hilarious!! ;D By the way, does anyone else see the slight contradiction in The Sun's reporting of the incident? Just maybe the picture on the right undoes any authority they hold to pass judgement in their editorial and follow-up articles? www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article1858875.ece ;D
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Post by gt on Oct 28, 2008 13:19:35 GMT -1
It was vaguely amusing but I don't think making comments about someone's grandchild is particularly big or clever.
Brand is not the Chris Morris he would like to think.
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Post by gt on Oct 28, 2008 13:25:35 GMT -1
That said, I've laughed when Morris has done worse. I guess it just comes down to a mild dislike of Russell Brand!
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Post by Travis on Oct 28, 2008 13:25:32 GMT -1
It was vaguely amusing but I don't think making comments about someone's grandchild is particularly big or clever. Brand is not the Chris Morris he would like to think. The problem was in some of the hysterical reporting was that the girl in question was portrayed like some untouched, virginal, innocent whose life Sachs had no inclination of......yet she's a member of 'The Satanic Sluts' and has flashed her tits all over the papers, and as for the stories about her - and many of her group - and Brand? Well they've been discussed on the air a number of times. Maybe it was in poor taste, but to claim it's shattered the illusions an old man held about his granddaughter is another thing entirely. As for the parents being distraught......well what sort of life did they think their daughter led?
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Post by gt on Oct 28, 2008 13:26:36 GMT -1
It was vaguely amusing but I don't think making comments about someone's grandchild is particularly big or clever. Brand is not the Chris Morris he would like to think. The problem was in some of the hysterical reporting was that the girl in question was portrayed like some untouched, virginal, innocent whose life Sachs had no inclination of......yet she's a member of 'The Satanic Sluts' and has flashed her tits all over the papers, and as for the stories about her - and many of her group - and Brand? Well they've been discussed on the air a number of times. Maybe it was in poor taste, but to claim it's shattered the illusions an old man held about his granddaughter is another thing entirely. As for the parents being distraught......well what sort of life did they think their daughter led? All points noted and duly agreed with Sir!, but does he need to have it left on his mobile phone? If I'm being honest my main surprise was down to the fact that I thought he had died a while ago
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Post by Travis on Oct 28, 2008 13:28:04 GMT -1
That said, I've laughed when Morris has done worse. I guess it just comes down to a mild dislike of Russell Brand! Well to say the BBC were appalled, it didn't stop them allowing the podcast to be released the following Tuesday. Secretly get the feeling that the Radio 2 controller is rather relishing the publicity?
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Post by gt on Oct 28, 2008 13:28:47 GMT -1
That said, I've laughed when Morris has done worse. I guess it just comes down to a mild dislike of Russell Brand! Well to say the BBC were appalled, it didn't stop them allowing the podcast to be released the following Tuesday. Secretly get the feeling that the Radio 2 controller is rather relishing the publicity? I bet Sachs is in on it
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Post by Travis on Oct 28, 2008 13:29:16 GMT -1
The problem was in some of the hysterical reporting was that the girl in question was portrayed like some untouched, virginal, innocent whose life Sachs had no inclination of......yet she's a member of 'The Satanic Sluts' and has flashed her tits all over the papers, and as for the stories about her - and many of her group - and Brand? Well they've been discussed on the air a number of times. Maybe it was in poor taste, but to claim it's shattered the illusions an old man held about his granddaughter is another thing entirely. As for the parents being distraught......well what sort of life did they think their daughter led? All points noted and duly agreed with Sir!, but does he need to have it left on his mobile phone? If I'm being honest my main surprise was down to the fact that I thought he had died a while ago You did?!? Are you "from Barcelona"? ;D
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Post by gt on Oct 28, 2008 13:30:10 GMT -1
Must dig out my old Chris Morris 'On The Hour' tapes tonight. I love the skit where he gets the Sun editor of the time good and fuckin' proper ;D
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Post by Travis on Oct 28, 2008 13:30:33 GMT -1
Well to say the BBC were appalled, it didn't stop them allowing the podcast to be released the following Tuesday. Secretly get the feeling that the Radio 2 controller is rather relishing the publicity? I bet Sachs is in on it My first thought was that it must be a set-up in the first place, though if it was then they've handled the conceit very well in the aftermath. ;D
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Post by Travis on Oct 28, 2008 13:31:26 GMT -1
Must dig out my old Chris Morris 'On The Hour' tapes tonight. I love the skit where he gets the Sun editor of the time good and fuckin' proper ;D Anyone who thought Andrew Sachs was an easy target.......
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Post by gt on Oct 28, 2008 13:31:54 GMT -1
All points noted and duly agreed with Sir!, but does he need to have it left on his mobile phone? If I'm being honest my main surprise was down to the fact that I thought he had died a while ago You did?!? Are you "from Barcelona"? ;D Fawlty Towers was just sheer genius. Outside of Python poor old John Cleese has never lived up to it since. (maybe an honourable mention for Fish Called Wanda)
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Post by gt on Oct 28, 2008 13:33:21 GMT -1
Must dig out my old Chris Morris 'On The Hour' tapes tonight. I love the skit where he gets the Sun editor of the time good and fuckin' proper ;D Anyone who thought Andrew Sachs was an easy target....... Think it was circa 1992, he pretended he had a tape of a drunk Neil Kinnock berating a waiter, but got progressively more ludicrous until he was finally rumbled.
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Post by gt on Oct 28, 2008 13:34:16 GMT -1
I'm interested in this Satanic Sluts thing by the way. any more info? ;D
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Post by Travis on Oct 28, 2008 13:37:09 GMT -1
You did?!? Are you "from Barcelona"? ;D Fawlty Towers was just sheer genius. Outside of Python poor old John Cleese has never lived up to it since. (maybe an honourable mention for Fish Called Wanda) Not a fan of 'Clockwise' then? ;D www.satanic-sluts.com/Hmm, it's hard to even conceive how a member of such an exclusive membership would lower themselves to sleep with a celebrity lothario!
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Post by gt on Oct 28, 2008 13:37:34 GMT -1
I think they should make amends by prank calling Paul Jewell
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Post by Travis on Oct 28, 2008 13:43:14 GMT -1
I think they should make amends by prank calling Paul Jewell Maybe offering him a cast-off? ;D
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Post by gt on Oct 28, 2008 13:56:16 GMT -1
Clockwise? Hmmm, it starts off ok but fizzles out badly!
Struggling to think of much else he has done apart from Bond and a couple of American flicks.
LMAO noooo way am I clicking that at work ;D
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Post by Dr LuKas on Oct 28, 2008 15:29:29 GMT -1
You did?!? Are you "from Barcelona"? ;D Fawlty Towers was just sheer genius. Outside of Python poor old John Cleese has never lived up to it since. (maybe an honourable mention for Fish Called Wanda) It's probably the greatest sitcom of all time.
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Post by CHOPPER READ on Oct 28, 2008 16:59:09 GMT -1
Russell Brand is a total cocksucker.
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