No One Watching Red Nose Day ?

[emmie]

good causes or past its best

[Arksided]

Although a worthy cause, I find the show unfunny to even bother with. So I didn't see any of it yesterday.

[emmie]

can't say as i blame you, one infantile Jonathan Ross and that was definitely enough.

[Arksided]

Lol... that says it all.

[gness]

Togo...what is it you think I have said?

Rob thinks wearing a wristband is a public display of support for a charity and is ridiculous.

I was merely asking if Rob feels that my wearing a poppy and my buying a ceramic poppy to display in the garden to support the British Legion is ridiculous?

[Mamyalynne]

I understood your reference Gness which is why I attempted to answer Baldric's question - though it turned out he wasn't actually interested.


My strong feelings on the RBL and Poppies have been stated often enough without me needing to repeat them.

[gness]

Thank you, Mamya......maybe Baldric saw his error?......x

[Togo]

I await with bated breath to see fields of rubber wrist bands bloom in the fields that hold the remains of millions of brave men. Perhaps some people do indeed hold the poppy symbol, and the I gave to Red Pose day in the same regard.... I don't.

[sunny-dave]

What an astonishingly (but predictably) ungracious reply, Togo - you made a mistake in misunderstanding gness's original point - would it have hurt too much too admit it, rather than a feeble attempt to justify your error?

[Togo]

Puts me in mind of an audience members response when Bernie Winters joined his brother Mike on stage at the Glasgow Empire. Oh my gawd there's two of em.

[PrincessAnswer]

I watched a tiny bit of it but i didn't see most of it

[andy-hughes]

The general consensus seems to be that the worthiness of the cause, and the money raised, does not go anywhere near mitigating the sheer awfulness of the evening's output.

[AB Editor]

I didn't even know it was on emmie. Maybe I am just out of the loops, but it seems to have been generally overlooked.

[gness]

It's a strange one, Andy.....I don't watch it and, like Ed, didn't know it was on....but I have caught a clip showing how much was raised and what has been achieved in previous years through folk's generosity.... and that's heart warming......x

[fiction-factory]

You can wear a poppy with pride and a wrist band, Togo. But wearing one doesn't one doesn't imply the other is less important. Poppies are worn around November time; wristbands , pins etc can be worn at other times or even at the same time.
As for Red Nose day, it would be interesting to see the viewing figures. I'd happily pay a bit more for them not to show it - or maybe just a have a 30 minute programme

[emmie]

not only did they have a very long show, but last evening showed the highlights, why?

[andy-hughes]

It's not as surprising as ITV showing 'highlights' from The Nightly Show!!

Chortle ... snigger ...

[gness]

I've not seen The Nightly Show......is it as bad as I'm told?..... Is Gordon Ramsey really hosting?.....☺

[andy-hughes]

gness - It really is car-crash television.

It's so horrible, it's fascinating, and I think people are tuning in to see if it actually got worse from Week One - it absolutely did!

The problem is, they don't know what kind of show it is, so they are sticking in loads of 'bits', most of which don't work.

They have a 'chat bit' with a celeb, but it's so short that they can't get a conversation going, and in all cases, the hosts have not know how conversation actually works - the notion of 'I ask a question and then shut up while you answer it' has eluded all of them, none more than Mrs Shouty Davina McCall. She also didn't realise that you don't sound less out of your depth if you shout louder.

Didn't watch Dermot O'Dearie, so they may have dropped the 'film / pop' skit which was so dire it was pitiful, and the 'game' bit', amazingly unfunny.

So have a look - and yes, Gordon Ramsey has confirmed he is not taking his wife's advice and walking away, so expect another ill-suited person doing a job they don't understand and have no experience of - but with lots of shouting and swearing!

[netibiza]

Who was the awful lady presenter in a silver tight skirt?

[Mamyalynne]

Luisa Omielan.