Come Dine With Me

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This is the greatest programme on television, it is so fucking depressing. Give it up for passive aggression, unflattering lighting, crap food and a middleaged woman who has drank to much gin.

The voice over guy rules.

Watch the Bristol one with the lovely Dutch(?) girl making it snow and then watch the famous Preston ones.

I've seen this once, it featured some aspiring chef who butchered his own pigs and lived in a half-built studio, and a woman who put flowers in her salad. IIRC the pig-butcher won. It was quite entertaining. My best friend really ought to do this but he says he's holding out for Masterchef.

what the actual fuck @ mickey rooney on cdwm

Gest was great!

this is never off the telly

Hi i'm drunk, I though this said "Celine Dion With Me"

Right now they're repeating one of my all-time favourite five-episode runs (for someone who doesn't watch a lot of telly, I seem to have seen way too many of these): the one in Northampton with William the Blunt Scot and Alex the Immensely Likeable Artist Dude. I should be working but fuck it, I'll watch a bit of this first ...

I glanced a trailer and it looked like David Gest had blacked up. I imagine this wasn't really the case.

I find Alex the artist dude intensly irritating and I think I would hate him if I met him in real life.

Aw. I find the combination of haplessness, enthusiasm and over-confidence quite endearing.

the preston come dine with me is the most jaw-droppingly hilarious thing i've seen all decade. it was on youtube, if it's still there it's essential viewing

Is that the one with Bernard and co? Yup: just jaw-dropping.

haha yes! bernard is the clear star of the show by virtue of being completely mental but the others are amazing in other ways - valerie holliday's awesome sayings, noveau rich lady having a spectacular breakdown, drag queen guy desperately trying to hold it all together while perky young guy looks on bewildered.

preston v good as was dundee/st andrews

Come Dine With Me Australia really hired a shitty announcer.

Never have wanted someone not to win more than that twat tonight!

barrymore episode was something else

He's so desperate to be famous. It was embarrassing to watch.

i think he's a bit tapped. speaking of which how are YOU, stranger?

I've never really watched this before until a celeb one that was on a couple of weeks ago with Janice Dickinson terrifying the bejeezus out of everyone in her path, which was one of the funniest things I've seen on TV for years.

I'm now getting into watching the re-runs on Channel 4 of the "normal" people. Why on EARTH do people who don't like or know anything about food do this thing? (for those who have seen this before, it's the Croydon one, with a spectularly drunk and rude woman called Angelique)

Oh wait, she's not even the most annoying person. Hi dere Christian from Croydon who has never gets invited back to any friends' house if he's been round for food due to his constant criticism. What a total bellend. I love this programme, btw.

Gotta say, this is a particularly good episode - Christian, as you say, is a monumental tool.

"the egg is too old; that's not a fresh egg"

He is demented...

haha, seriously, he is writing wrong things on a list and complaining that he doesn't have enough to complain about.

Has there ever been a week that someone hasn't wrapped some crap up in parma ham? I don't even know wtf it is, but it is in every weekly series along with Eton mess. Are British people the only Europeans to eat with upsidedown forks as well? I love hearing their teeth hit the metal :).

best thing on tv

How do they find so many cunts to be on this?