Best Jeremy Paxman weather report for newsnight

-Eastern parts will mainly avoid the rain except for those that don't. Western areas will have rain except in those places that don't have rain.
-Take an umbrella with you tomorrow.
-It's a veritable smorgasboard: sun, rain, thunder, hail, snow, cold, winds. Almost worth going to work.
-It's April, what do you expect?

"Did you threaten to overrule him?" repeated x 1 million

The first one is almost as good as most weather forecasts.

but I am voting for "almost worth going to work"

paxman is a cunt

Can you imagine how bad Piers Morgan would be as a weatherman?

paxman is a cunt

Perhaps, but I like him.

His cnutishness is directed towards people who deserve it, to be fair.

this fucking country tho, jeremy clarkson on hignfy applauding paxman's 'irreverent' refusal to deign to doing his stupid fucking job

piers morgan is the intrepid rat that found a bigger sewer [via cnn]

i have to go for the first one.

I was just thinking about the whole 'newsnight weather' 'episode' yesterday, after being reminded of the Russell Brand interview.

Paxman is watchable and actually does try to ask questions and take people out of their comfort (you could only say that of Jon Snow and maybe Kirsty Wark about five years ago). I guess that's overrating him in the TV news world, and how much these people can really do when guests (not just politicians) are so well drilled.

I laughed at the time, but he's faintly ridiculous. The markets mean way less than the weather, especially w/out any kind of context about why the Dow went down or the pound went up that day.

paxman's 'irreverent' refusal to deign to doing his stupid fucking job

what this

voted for 'its april...'

I laughed at the time, but he's faintly ridiculous. The markets mean way less than the weather, especially w/out any kind of context about why the Dow went down or the pound went up that day.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 11 October 2010 21:37 (4 minutes ago)

yeah exactly...if anything drastic has occured in the markets, it will be covered in the news, if not then it's a virtually inconsequential metric to all but ppl working for pension funds or w/e (who would already know it)

tho it fits w/ paxman's shtick, the appearance of temporal seriousness, the world of great measures that he considers himself to reflect upon and by proxy inhabit, whereas the weather forecast reminds him of his provenance on regional news

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qhkFkoFEyU

(Townshend is being interviewed by Paxman, in case anyone is wondering about the relevance to this thread)

(there's a tiny bit at the beginning where Paxo just about manages to corner PT re: hotel trashing, but Townshend is far too good an interviewee, although the footage is chopped up for 'The Kids Are Alright' docu)

yo is true paxman got sonned....

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even by ilx standards these libdems are risible human beings

It's April, what do you expect?

April is pretty unpredictable Paxo, it's hardly December or August or something.

u've never heard the expression april showers then

paxman is a cunt

Yeah and sometimes it snows in April too.

James O'Brien killing it on Newsnight when he deps imo

was sure that this revive would be about Paxman's hair on university challenge

lol

was it like that last week? this was the first episode I've seen this series. he looks like Russell Harty

didn't see but he was similarly great a couple months ago. relaxed, funny, hard to impress. very little wasted energy.

that said there is also a welcome bit of stephen toast in him

though which bit i'm not at liberty to say

Just turned off Paxman's Victorians documentary because he's unbearable.

nakh was always already correct on this thread: paxman bad not good and ditto everyone stanning for him (i don't make the rules)

I'm too feeble atm to enumerate the ways in which he's terrible but as a documentarian he's insufferable.

he cried on "who do you think you are" which was quite sweet: re the (genuine) dismal suffering of an ancestor

this is the only leeway i will allow tho

Victoria Derbyshire anchoring, a TUC economist in the studio, the first 20 minutes and counting dedicated to the cost of living crisis. Newsnight is good again?

it's like hearing that a pub has closed down which I used to go to a lot when I was in my twenties but which had an awful makeover, went gastro, couple of bad landlords didn't help and to be honest I'd been wondering why it opened up after the pandemic. https://t.co/YQe4zutRgl

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