russell brand - C or D?

only a filthy Commie could be this uncouth

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Fawlty Towers box sets all at eye/buy-level at the entrance to Fopp at lunchtime. Andrew Sachs is victimised and John Cleese laughs all the way to the bank, doing a funny walk.

The controller of BBC Radio 2, Lesley Douglas, has resigned over the prank calls involving Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross.
Ms Douglas said the decision to leave her job was "mine and mine alone"

Douglas was the one who said Lamb was a good person for the station because he would appeal to women or something?

So well done guys, your campaign kinda worked. :)

Fawlty Towers box sets all at eye/buy-level at the entrance to Fopp at lunchtime

How much? That and the Father Ted box set are ones I keep picking up hoping they'll go down in price.

Lesley Douglas was the one who said she'd go if the beeb insisted on blaming the producer/editor I think? This whole things seems beyond ludicrous now. Theresa May is calling for a full debate in the House. 30,000 complaints and still rising. And I understand some of the Sluts will be on CookalongaRamsey tomorrow.

^^^ according to their MySpace page, yes. Ramsey is a mate of Wossy, so maybe this is going to be some kind of damage limitation effort by proxy.

good job Question Time is in Washington DC tonight.

And I understand some of the Sluts will be on CookalongaRamsey tomorrow.

hahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa

it's all taking an entertainingly surreal turn now! maybe we will yet get ross in the stocks

Ross suspended without pay for three months
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7700816.stm

Wihtout pay. Oh, the humanity.

Fawlty Towers box set was £20 I think.

I got it years ago for less with a free tiny car and a tiny model Basil holding a tiny tree branch.

A quick search online says you can get it for less than £15.

let's run a book on who ross's first guests will be when he's back on the beeb in 3 months.

Russell Brand, Ricky Gervais, and... Ricky Gervais

was hoping he'd be sacked :(

The BBC would probably have to give him an enormous fucking payoff if they did that.

ITN going on and on about this, trying to dredge up any bit of dirt and make it stick, hypocritical wankers.

don't care about payoff, just want him out of public eye and his horrible voice out of my ears for good

don't care what ulterior motives any other media groups have or what hypocrisy they're guilty of either - jonathan ross is worse

Brand and Ross are just dicks with big mouths. This whole Daily Mail/ITN "you'd better believe everything we tell you about Britain in the gutter or else" preaching is genuinely harmful in the long term. It tries to hook into the deep seated inferiority complex that many people have in Britain. This is why people are narrow minded and short sighted. This is why people have an undeserved sense of entitlement. This is why people are living beyond their means in a hole they've been encouraged to dig for themselves on easy credit. This is why some kids carry knives and others have no ambition other than to be "famous". Sections of the media, newspapers, magazines, television programmes, politicians, public figures, celebrities, and comedians, have been grinding us down, belittling us, trying to make us "little people".

I'm still totally confused about why the 25-year-old producer of the Brand programme still has his job. And/or why the compliance people who vetted the show still have theirs. The show was pre-recorded. Brand and to a certain extent Ross were hired specifically to be puerile and idiotic. I don't even really blame them, they're just doing what they do.

I thought that the controller said that if the producer was going to be sacked she would resign. And the BBC said 'great, thanks very much - see ya! Rossy - you're off the hook...3 months suspension ok?"

Hmm OK. Seems strange. The producer should really be the one ultimately responsible I'd think.

Really tough questioning of Mark Thompson from the Newsnight woman tonight - it must have felt a little strange for her to be asking the boss of her entire corporation if he "had considered his position".

There seems to be a growing tendency to want to take these things as high up the "chain of command" (urgh) as possible, but where do you stop?
I presume this is all pre-empting the OFCOM investigation which will report, when? And will probably lead to another load of anguished headlines and BBC self-flagellation.

How does the BBC justify the incredibly high salary that Ross recievies? I mean, isn't BBC funded by all the people who pay the mandatory tv license fee? Feels weird that the public thinks it's acceptable, or maybe they don't? Was there ever a debate about his salary?

Er yes, every day of every week. It is dull.

Maybe Gordon Brown should resign. It happened on his watch.

Ah, okay wasn't aware of that.

But I don't get all the fuss about this story. They made a tasteless joke, but why does that mean they have to get fired/suspended? Don't comedians say outrageous stuff ALL THE TIME? Is it cause the guy is old?

According to their latest Bulletin it's taken OFCOM 7 months to decide that...

The prolonged and close-up full-screen shots of the presenter stimulating and
massaging her bare breasts, pinching her nipples and shaking them to camera, were
in Ofcom’s opinion highly sexualised and not suitable for broadcast before 22:00. The
images of the presenter lying on her back with her legs open, briefly simulating
masturbation, and stroking her semi-naked body were also not acceptable before
22:00. (as shown on Bang Babes on Tease Me 2 apparently)

...which you would think was a pretty open and shut case.

No doubt they had to watch the footage several times before making a decision.

fucking self-perpetuating media wank fantasy clusterfuck stories such as this are a fucking joke and all 736 new answers should be almost as ashamed as the national news corporations for creating such a stinkingly enormous mound of prurient, utterly frivolous shite...BOTH main party leaders have commented for screaming out loud

i mean this is such bollocks

england should resign from the united kingdom

Alex Lester, Radio 2's weekday morning presenter, has will replace Brand as the station's new Saturday late night host, following his resignation on Wednesday.

So once Lester has resigned next Wednesday, he has will replace Brand?

BBC One's Friday Night with Jonathan Ross has been cancelled, and the 1994 film Speed will be shown in its place.

That'll get pretty tedious by the 11th week.

nah dude speed is a great movie

What is Jonathan Ross if he isn't presenting? A cheap. Gold. Watch.

bravo sic

And the new series - Ponderland?

Pretty good,I thought.

I was on the bus in LA and a story about this popped up on METRO TV

all 736 new answers should be almost as ashamed as the national news corporations for creating such a stinkingly enormous mound of prurient, utterly frivolous shite

I've found it quite entertaining. Prurient, frivolous, these are bad things are they?

they're good for a 30-second segment at the end of the bulletin

Isn't the 1994 film Speed being played on a semi-daily basis on ITV2 at the momenet, or, recently?

Stop being prurient or frivolous.

At the very start of this show Brand introduces Woss by saying something like 'here is the man who will destroy my career.' lols

Also I agree that complaining about The Incident is very Daily Mail but I can't imagine myself telling the grandfather of any ex of a friend of mine that my friend fucked his granddaughter. Not Ofcom-worthy but certainly o_O in the extreme.

Sorry about that sentence btw.

Richard Allinson to replace Ross and Alex Lester to replace Brand.

Suddenly Radio 2 has regressed back to 1973.

Dependable drones who'll do as they're told, won't rock the boat and will haemorrhage listeners to Absolute, xfm and Planet Rock.

Fuck this country of jealous, petty mediocrities and yellow-bellied "managers."

Ask yourself, Thompson; was the BBC being flushed down the toilet worth it just to appease the editor of the Daily Mail or Mrs Doreen Hitler of Childtoucher Avenue, Little Belsen, Dorset?

Another completely OTM Guardian piece.

no i agree, i think that's actually the crux of the matter for me - sure, the daily mail has gleefully whipped up hysteria over it, but it's picked this battle v cleverly cuz the 'prank' is kinda indefensible. it's a lot more jarring to me when i see people defend it as "just a bit of fun" or "just a bit of a laugh" than to see predictable huffy outrage. if this had happened in any other context whatsoever (imagine if a city boy wanker had done it!) it'd be seen as borderline sociopathic. someone upthread said they found it funny, but never explained what was actually funny about it - i can't comprehend that at all.

xps

i thought this column was good - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/31/bbc-jonathan-ross

although murray doesn't quite make the logical conclusion of her argument, which is that the blame should fall squarely and solely on brand and ross

And the producer(s) who should have seen all this coming well before air time. It's not exactly been a top year for the BBC.