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Feel the same way - I couldn't care less about whether it's funny, but when you've been dating, or at least sleeping with someone you should have more respect. On top of that when they've specifically told you not to mention something to a relative of theirs then you'd have to be insane to then phone up that relative and tell them about it.
Doing it with hundreds of thousands listening in return for £200,000 a year... I don't quite understand why people think that makes it more acceptable rather than less.
Either way man, if I did sleep with someone at a drug fuelled orgy it'd be pretty insane to think - 'I know I'll call their grandad and tell them about this...'
I think we all need to think about the type of people at drug fuelled orgies [mmm - whoops got distracted] - and really, they are generally NOT going to be on a level playing field of sanity..
That said, I can totally appreciate where you are coming from with the respect side of things.
TBH though I think this whole thing has been blown out of proportion.
Anyway - how the devil are you?
Millions. So you think it's distasteful to boast that you've slept with someone? So do plenty of others, but 2 million people who tune in to listen to Russell Brand obviously don't. And that is the audience that the programme is made for. As for the phonecall, he apologised for it. Anything beyond that is about your personal taste of what's acceptable in a radio programme, and that is different for everyone.
What I don't get is the actions of the BBC. Why are they so keen to pander to the opinions of 20,000 people who don't listen to the show, rather than the 2 million people who do listen to and enjoy the show? They don't make the programme for the readers of the Daily Mail, they make it for the audience that they are aiming at. Obviously the crux of the issue is that if this was a commercial broadcaster, they would've told the Daily Mail to go and fuck themselves, because they would only have to answer to the 2 million who did listen to the show, and the individual who was offended by the phonecalls in question. But because the BBC is funded by a licence, it seems that everyone has to approve of every show that is broadcast, at least on the evidence of this. It's a pathetic situation for a broadcaster to be in.
Because the people who don't listen are still paying?
Thought the 20,000 and 2 million figures are simplistic - 20,000 complained, but I bet there's many more who didn't and still think Ross and Brand should have some punishment, and some of these will be amongst his listeners.
However, it was a nasty, vindictive little stunt and frankly I couldn't care what Brand's listeners think. If they think its amusing - they're just as bad as he is (slighly worse in that at least he can claim he was doing his job).
Noooooo!!!!
But that's the point, isn't it? Sach's couldn't make the broadcast and had, therefore, had made himself unavailable to be included in the show. But Brand decided to make a 'show' of him anyway, without Sach's consent.
1. My license fee money being wasted on what is likely a criminal offence.
2. It not being funny at all in the slightest.
But either way, I think this issue has been blown WAY out of proportion by the likes of the Daily Mail. You could limit the humiliation caused to this fella and keep quiet about it, let Sachs and the BBC deal with it themselves, but no, not the Daily Mail (I stress they aren't alone here, but you get the idea anyway).
As we all know, the Daily Mail loves any excuse it can get to poke the BBC, with all it's stories of it being another sort of stealth tax, and it sells them papers amongst the lemmings that lap this crap up.
Do the Daily Mail crowd seriously think they're doing their 'national treasure' a favour by having this pointless and redundant crusade on his behalf? I mean, there's some war going on somewhere in the world, but I guess that just stops them young 'uns stabbing each other outside the Job Centre and now they're doing us a favour by shooting them brownies...:rolleyes:
He's pretty much said that he's ready to move on, so can't the relevant people just learn their lessons now? There's more importaint things happening around us, surely?
And don't get me started on those opportunistic MP's getting their noses in on the action.....
Also, is it just me or are thee the same wankers who's complain if their favourite BBC period drama ended up being interrupted by loan adverts?
How the hell thay manage to get paid for what they do is beyond me...:rolleyes:
Oh I will. The Scum has been very busy in all of this rubbishing the BBC.
To the Mail newspapers' credit, they don't have it in for the BBC nearly as much as the S*n, which doesn't miss a trick to stick the knife in.
Of course, the sight of the Scum carrying the story of of Sachs' granddaughter crying foul about actors or pop singers having their privacy invaded would have made many a reader quite sick.
Don't get me wrong, the whole incident was quite despicable. But I can only hope in time people will be able to see how massively this story was overblown, and who was behind it all.
I don't watch TV, for the reason that most of it is shows of this stature, so if not Dancing on Ice then something similar. But I wasn't complaining about the licence fee, so the fact that it's on another channel is irrelevant.
If it happened while Sachs was actually on the show, then a different scenario would have panned out. Being an up-coming guest did not qualify him for involvement in that particular broadcast, right then and there.
Anyhow, I'm sure we all agree that this has indeed become far more inflamed than it should have ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1081966/Even-Russell-Brand-row-raged-BBC-comedians-insulting-Queen.html
Orf with their heads! :rolleyes:
I saw that episode, I thought it was funny.
Ooh, scary. Hold off buying your licence fee until just before the old one runs out? God, that'll have them shitting themselves.
And long might it continue. If the Mail had it its way it would bring Mary Whitehouse back to life and put her in charge.
That episodes at least a year old as well. Their always taking the piss out the royal family on Mock the Week.
That episode was a repeat as well. I didn't hear of any complaints last time...
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1874459.ece
She keeps her job after a few complaints.
Crappy British comedians face sack after prank call to the grandather of a woman in a band called satanic sluts who describes herself as a swinger.
Jesus fucking christ Britain no longer has any right to say it has a sense of humour.
Seriously.
We are now America.
Exactly. So why it is only an issue now?
With programmes like Mock The Week & HIGNFY, isn't offense sort of expected?
:yes: Personally, I did find that Mock The Week episode funny.