John Lydon will appear on BBC1, The One Show this Friday, December 4th at 7pm.

Just so you know.

Is he plugging butter?

..

A. Chiles: "Are you here to plug butter?"
J. Lydon: "Up the Arsenal"

Odds are that Chiles' first question will be "What did you think of Katie Price going back into the jungle?"

Ooh, Ooh, I know that one...

He storms: “Jordan and Pete – that was a massive con. All that: ‘Aw we’re ’ere in the jungle, been ’ere a day and a half, let’s get married.’

“Despicable. It’s no wonder so many people get divorced when they see crap like that. Just like the rest of the show.

“I hear they’re paying Jordan 450 grand to go back. Well that’s money well spent. Now leave her there.”

Though he'd be happy to see Jordan getting 450 grand

http://www.filmdope.com/Gallery/ActorsJ/53119-10034.gif

I'm not going to see this...

the last two episodes of The One Show I've come across have featured, respectively, Salman Rusdie answering quickfire questions (Robbie or Gary? Mashed potatoes or new potatoes?) while trying to keep up with a table tennis ball-firing machine, and Mike Leigh displaying a portrait of Mick Hucknall made of a fried breakfast. As someone who lives on "let's take this cultural phenomenon to absurd extremes" jokes, I don't know what to do with this.

ey, ILM, d'oh.

apparently twitter is going crazy because a fire alarm went off during the one show and they cut to an emergency broadcast. I didn't think anyone watched it.

emergency broadcast = Nigel Slater making sticky chicken

is that why its sticky?

If Slater was making chicken sticky, there'd be no need to sound a fire alarm to evacuate the building - everyone would leave of their own accord.

i dont think i've ever seen the one show. Its on when the simpsons are on sky 1

I didn't see it either. I suppose that some DVR owning obsessive will 'Tube it soon enough. Although it's unlikely to have been as exciting as that studio light blowing out above Jan Leeming, or that time Nicholas Witchell had to sit on a lesbian.

yeah but she wasn't a lesbian until nicholas witchell sat on her

clip here: http://yfrog.com/9d3vlz

wonder what the bbc bashing daily mail will have to say about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D831pJ7wx7c

In answer to the question, Tamsin Grieg should have shouted "TWATS!!!" and run off.

Oh, JLydon was on yesterday, and on Daybreak this morning.

Basically, sounding off about Banks and offshore tax evasion, and promoting his £400 scrapbook (not joking)...

Saw him on the One Show, bit cringey

Uh-oh!

John Lydon to appear on BBC’s Question Time
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/rotten-john-lydon-set-for-question-time-7912122.html

Producers will be hoping there is no repeat of the Sex Pistols' famously foul-mouthed 1976 appearance on Bill Grundy's show which propelled them into the headlines and wrecked the broadcaster's career.

Oh are they?

As a viewer, I would be totes okay with it if he headbutts Dominic Lawson

I thought the indie was one of the better newspapers, but that website looks damn awful!

David Dimbleby chairs from Derby. Panellists include Ed Davey MP, Alan Johnson MP, Louise Mensch MP, columnist Dominic Lawson and former lead singer of the Sex Pistols, John Lydon.

You clearly haven't seen the Independent in years then.

John Lydon and Louise Mensch on the same panel is going to be amazing.

A. Chiles: "Are you here to plug butter?"
J. Lydon: "Up the Arsenal"

― E Poxy Thee Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 11:55 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kudos

next week, Rat Scabies gives his thoughts on the diplomatic stalemate in Syria whilst Stinky Turner asks whether the coalition government's deficit reduction strategy is doomed to failure.

to be followed by live footage of the BBC crawling into a ditch and dying

Question Time is a knackered format really, mostly soundbites and showboating, might as well do something fun with it.

Question Time was probably always pish, true, and the Day Today skit of it live from Wembley Stadium was pretty accurate, but it's still sold as and passes for political debate in the UK. which maybe says more about politics in the UK but really, fuck the Beeb, fuck Punk, fuck me for caring.

Lydon is an occasionally acute cultural analyst not unlike several hundred other ephemeral pop cult figures from the last 40 years who aren't on this cobblers.

Oh, I'm sure it'll be fine. All he's doing is being the 'layman' amongst the MPs and Journo usual panel.

xpost quite.

hmmm looks like my early morning meditation's wearing off still i say this more in baffled sorrow than in anger

Hasn't he lived in America for donkey's years? Let's have Rod Stewart on it as well... or Morrissey... or Martin Amis

that sentence had to end with "...and then nuke the studio"

Bit unfair on Rod tho

aye i don't hate Rod

Spare the rod and spoil the child and all that

Frankie Valli was on the One Show last night btw, seemed like an OK dud

... dude not dud. Still touring!

Great, get him on for his views on the Barclays scandal.

Sure he'd say that Diamond should just walk like a man

pun thwarted by Diamond not being a "Sir"

was OK.

I'd forgotten Lydon's flirtation with racially abusing black performers until yesterday.

didn't watch it. what did he say?

I saw the last 15 mins or so, I've set it up to record a repeat this wekend..

Basically, was sort-of "free and easily accesible informationon on all things will save us all"

Like, is there anybody that got into heroin didn't know it was a really bad idea really?

Like, is there anybody that got into heroin didn't know it was a really bad idea really?

There's thousands of 'em I'd say

I like Lydon especially when he starts riffing on a subject like a slightly inebriated lecturer. Having said that last after a making a couple of valid points he seemed at a points to become a little incoherent and verge on the edge of parody...you kind of wished he'd quit whilst he was ahead...they also warned of bad language before the start of the programme but to my knowledge I didnt hear any...maybe just a pre-emptive warning...

verge on the edge of parody

Welcome to the last 25 years in the life of Mr. John Lydon!

I'm still waiting for a response to the question I asked this morning about Lydon supposedly racially abusing black performers.

There was an altercation involving Kele Okerke of Bloc Party, but that's one performer, not 's'.

Oh that business. Pretty awful if it did happen, though I'm not sure whether it was ever conclusively proved.

his views on scotland were borderline offensive and left a tumbleweed silence amongst the studio audience. usual playing to the gallery, endlessly interrupting / hectoring. his "i don't want my drugs taxed" line was about the highlight.

it was quite uncomfortable to watch him talking so on that score at least he has been very consistent over the years!

Oh that business. Pretty awful if it did happen, though I'm not sure whether it was ever conclusively proved.

I thought it was blamed on his 'entourage' rather than him personally?

his views on scotland were borderline offensive and left a tumbleweed silence amongst the studio audience.

Guy's lived in California for 20-odd years, he doesn't know what he's talking about

how were his views on scotland offensive? didn't he just suggest that a scottish parliament would be unlikely to elect an english premiere? who would be offended by that? i may have missed something,

The press reviews afterwards was all about the Louise Mensch "I did loads of drugs me" line. Was she trying to 'validate' her anti-drugs stance sitting next to JR?

@frankieboyle
Johnny Rotten & Louise Mensch on Question Time tonight. Almost my ideal panel if the other guests are Anders Breivik and the Lottery Rapist

Pretty awful, but I laughed.