Hot Potatoes-about as good as using a cheese grater for a sponge.

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Have any of you seen this yet?

Well Jo Brand's on it. Enough said you'd think. So is Les Dennis. LES DENNIS? You'll be glad to see he's abandoned the black t-shirt and quadruple breasted sportscoat look which allowed him to put his arm around so many attractive ladies in his Family Fortunes days.

And then there's a few other goons, I don't know if they're celebrities or not. But the way the game works is Jo Brand, the hostess, asks a question like "ARE WE BAD DRINKERS IN BRITAIN", and then the 3 fuckwiteers on each team make the worst jokes you can imagine. GAAAAAAAH, it's so bad. They spent ten minutes answering that question and their "jokes" were things like "oh you know when you've had like 3 pints in Britain, you just drink another 3!!!!!!". "yeah whereas in France they're all ooh la la wheres my wine, ha ha ha ha, yeah we just guzzle it down, we do".

Then the next round was "what shouldn't the next harry potter movie be called".

DO YOU THINK THEY MADE LAME SEXUAL INNUENDOS ON THE TITLE OF THE FIRST ONE??????

What is this shit doing on TV? And is BBC sliding downhill a bit? I saw an ad for some series there which would have looked more at home on the Devils ITV.

Ronan, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

New cancers on skin of pop culture.

Ronan, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

is jo brand the grody fat dyke ? Liek hte one who looks like Kathy Bates ugly butch sister ?

anthony, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

saying "grody fat dyke" = more proof anthony is secretly straight

jo brand has not been even a tiny bit funny since c.1987

mark s, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ITV is bettah than BBC in several depts viz AT HOME WITH THE BRAITHWAITES

mark s, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jo Brand on Countdown joking with Richard Whitely was about as funny and appropriate as getting Rolf Harris to do stand up at your parents funeral or something.

Ronan, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i am sorry is there any better way to describe her ?

anthony, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I feel you painted an accurate portrait, Anthony.

Ally C, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Accurate except that she's not *technically* gay.

Archel, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

show is wretched AND tawdry

Alan T, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark S

jo brand has not been even a tiny bit funny since c.1987

Hang on a minute, I did PA engineer for her at newcastle uni, and she was very fu...oh, wait, that was before 1987. Yr prob right. She was very sweet, pleasant & professional tho. Ronan's question makes me not a little bit sorry we got rid ov the telly. LAst night at producer's place we saw iffy doc abt tower of london -they claimed ww2 german spy was executed for "treachery". WTF?

Norman Phay, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ronan = Mary Whitehouse of the noughties. "Do I pay my licence fee for this poorly produced filthy tat".

Except of course Ronan doesn't pay the licence fee. Shuffle off and watch RT-bloody-E if you don't like it.

Pete, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No RTE is depressing, it specialises in programmes with classical piano soundtracks and voiceovers about how every day is a struggle when you're a farmer/a rape victim/the mother of a disabled child.

Ronan, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it specialises in programmes with classical piano soundtracks and voiceovers about how every day is a struggle when you're a farmer/a rape victim/the mother of a disabled child.

You'd have to combine all three of those into the same program in order to get something as depressing as the average Lifetime movie.

Dan Perry, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A friend of mine got me tickets to see a recording of Hot Potatoes - it was the one with Paul Daniels and the "lovely" Debbie McGee. Trust me, if you think it's bad on TV you should see the stuff that doesn't make it. What's more alarming is the fact that Les Dennis' "impromptu" stuff is scripted.

Ailsa, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)


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