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Michael Mcintyre Chat Show.
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What were your feelings regarding last night's Michael McIntyre's chat show, why they felt the need to include Abbey Clancy, surely there must be more interesting women who can contribute more to this type of show?
Although I don't particularly like jeremy Clarkson he was interesting enough, but not a patch on the great talented Sir David Jason.
Although I don't particularly like jeremy Clarkson he was interesting enough, but not a patch on the great talented Sir David Jason.
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I didn't watch it, because I don;t like MM, his flutey voice irritates me so much, I can't take in what he is saying, so I have no idea how finny he is.
If it's the usual Parkinson-esque style of feeding cues to extract after-dinner stories, then no-one is missing anything.
If it is someone willing to ask some awkward questions, and genuinely know how to actually conduct a conversation - as opposed to a 'chat', then it will be worthwile, but even unseen, I am willing to bet the format is the former, rather than the latter.
AA Gill reviewed it in the Sunday Times, and compared it with MM's comedy personna, his 'I don't know what I'm doing ...' delivered in a 'I know what I'm doing ...' style, and reckoned that the chat show was all of the former, and none of the latter, which may have made for uncomfortable viewing.
The telvision manderins delight in the assumption that someone who is good at one thing will be entertaining viewing as they try to master another - but it's proving repetitive and tedious.
If it's the usual Parkinson-esque style of feeding cues to extract after-dinner stories, then no-one is missing anything.
If it is someone willing to ask some awkward questions, and genuinely know how to actually conduct a conversation - as opposed to a 'chat', then it will be worthwile, but even unseen, I am willing to bet the format is the former, rather than the latter.
AA Gill reviewed it in the Sunday Times, and compared it with MM's comedy personna, his 'I don't know what I'm doing ...' delivered in a 'I know what I'm doing ...' style, and reckoned that the chat show was all of the former, and none of the latter, which may have made for uncomfortable viewing.
The telvision manderins delight in the assumption that someone who is good at one thing will be entertaining viewing as they try to master another - but it's proving repetitive and tedious.
He had Wogan on???
What a nightmare that must have been!
That old ham has taken the art of self-deprication and turned into an act of verbal flagelation, all delivered in his uniquely irritating vocal inflection - either whispering in his brogue and ... taking ... a ... breath ... between ... each ... word, or else YELLING AT THE TOP OF HIS VOICE LIKE CAPTAIN AHAB IN A NOR-WESTER!!!!
It sounds like car-crash TV, when I feel the urge to wind myself up, I'll have a look on catchup.
What a nightmare that must have been!
That old ham has taken the art of self-deprication and turned into an act of verbal flagelation, all delivered in his uniquely irritating vocal inflection - either whispering in his brogue and ... taking ... a ... breath ... between ... each ... word, or else YELLING AT THE TOP OF HIS VOICE LIKE CAPTAIN AHAB IN A NOR-WESTER!!!!
It sounds like car-crash TV, when I feel the urge to wind myself up, I'll have a look on catchup.
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To return to your OP AOG, I think Abbey Clancy made a lot of friends in the viewing public after Strictly Come Dancing.
She exhibited a wonderful grace and elegance as a dancer, combined with a genuine down-to-earth persona and considerable physical charm and allure - plenty have parlayed far less in any of those areas into a TV career - Messrs Wogan and Mcintyre to name just two!!
She exhibited a wonderful grace and elegance as a dancer, combined with a genuine down-to-earth persona and considerable physical charm and allure - plenty have parlayed far less in any of those areas into a TV career - Messrs Wogan and Mcintyre to name just two!!
andy-hughes
/// She exhibited a wonderful grace and elegance as a dancer, combined with a genuine down-to-earth persona and considerable physical charm and
allure ///
That well may be Andy, but what qualifications does she have to be a guest on a chat show, apart from looking good?
/// - plenty have parlayed far less in any of those areas into a TV career - Messrs Wogan and Mcintyre to name just two!! ///
A "TV career", apart from winning 'Strictly Come Dancing' what other attributes to television does she possess?
And in rep[ly to your obvious dislike regarding Messrs Wogan and Mcintyre, I would much rather listen to their chat and wit than any from Ms Clancy.
Also interesting to note your criticism of Wogan's brogue, but failed to mention Clancy's irritating strong Liverpool accent.
/// She exhibited a wonderful grace and elegance as a dancer, combined with a genuine down-to-earth persona and considerable physical charm and
allure ///
That well may be Andy, but what qualifications does she have to be a guest on a chat show, apart from looking good?
/// - plenty have parlayed far less in any of those areas into a TV career - Messrs Wogan and Mcintyre to name just two!! ///
A "TV career", apart from winning 'Strictly Come Dancing' what other attributes to television does she possess?
And in rep[ly to your obvious dislike regarding Messrs Wogan and Mcintyre, I would much rather listen to their chat and wit than any from Ms Clancy.
Also interesting to note your criticism of Wogan's brogue, but failed to mention Clancy's irritating strong Liverpool accent.
AOG - in modern times, I don;t think you need to bring anything - even your tired old after-dinner annecdotes - to a chat show, you just have to turn up and be admired.
The current audiences' capacity of incisive wit and entertaining conversation are at an all-time low, and guests' ability to provide either is at a similar level.
So - Ms Clancy has simply to turn up and look gorgeous, which i am sure she did - the rest is redundant.
The current audiences' capacity of incisive wit and entertaining conversation are at an all-time low, and guests' ability to provide either is at a similar level.
So - Ms Clancy has simply to turn up and look gorgeous, which i am sure she did - the rest is redundant.
andy-hughes
/// So - Ms Clancy has simply to turn up and look gorgeous, which i am sure she did - the rest is redundant. ///
That completely destroys the the need for the title "Chat Show" which was designed for celebrities to chat on items that the audience find both amusing and interesting.
If we are to have these celebrities replaced with people who simply turn up and look gorgeous, then we might just as well turn these shows into beauty contests, and I presume the Women's Groups would soon put a stop to that.
/// So - Ms Clancy has simply to turn up and look gorgeous, which i am sure she did - the rest is redundant. ///
That completely destroys the the need for the title "Chat Show" which was designed for celebrities to chat on items that the audience find both amusing and interesting.
If we are to have these celebrities replaced with people who simply turn up and look gorgeous, then we might just as well turn these shows into beauty contests, and I presume the Women's Groups would soon put a stop to that.
AOG - "That completely destroys the the need for the title "Chat Show" which was designed for celebrities to chat on items that the audience find both amusing and interesting."
Indeed it does - but in my view, the format is redundant anyway.
It dates back to the time when we had stars, rather than celebrities, and they were almost otherworldly in their level of sophitication and experience of a world we could only imagine. Thus, audiences would listen enraptured to stories of this or that, and it was indeed a chat show.
Now, thanks to reality TV and an ever-more intrusive media, there is no gap between celebrities and public, so there is little they can do to entertain a tv audience in terms of simply talking.
Better to abandon the whole format and put on something else instead, rather than flog this long-dead horse using a comedian as a jockey.
Indeed it does - but in my view, the format is redundant anyway.
It dates back to the time when we had stars, rather than celebrities, and they were almost otherworldly in their level of sophitication and experience of a world we could only imagine. Thus, audiences would listen enraptured to stories of this or that, and it was indeed a chat show.
Now, thanks to reality TV and an ever-more intrusive media, there is no gap between celebrities and public, so there is little they can do to entertain a tv audience in terms of simply talking.
Better to abandon the whole format and put on something else instead, rather than flog this long-dead horse using a comedian as a jockey.
