Bgt Finals

[Samuraisan]

I swear, if that "No Voice Guy" wins, I will never watch BGT again. I don't find him in the least bit funny, has English humour changed? Or is this just PC nonsense.

[Ellipsis]

> and then just more of the same.

Jumping a gap from a raised podium to a raised platform while your brother's doing an unsupported headstand on your head, on live TV, was quite special if you ask me. Perhaps their problem is that they made it look too easy. But if it was that easy, we'd have seen it before ..

[pixie374]

I wouldn't want to watch it again- that was the point really. Impressive once you see it once, but not really entertainment.

[naomi24]

Like the X-Factor, BGT appears to have become a platform upon which the participants compete to generate sympathy, empathy, and a good deal of what I can only describe as mass fuzzy-wuzzy hysteria. For that reason I abandoned X-Factor long ago - and half way through this series of BGT, that went the same way. I don’t care who won. I watch what entertains me – and sob stories and tears don’t.

[pixie374]

That is why fast-forward was invented ;-)

[Ellipsis]

> I wouldn't want to watch it again- that was the point really

No, I don't think that is the point of a variety act.

> Impressive once you see it once

I think that's the poin of a variety act. This is what BGT is all about - finding an act good enough for the Royal Variety Show.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_show
Variety shows, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is entertainment made up of a variety of acts including musical performances, sketch comedy, magic, acrobatics, juggling, and ventriloquism. It is normally introduced by a compère (master of ceremonies) or host. ... In the UK, the ultimate accolade for a variety artist for decades was to be asked to do the annual Royal Command Performance at the London Palladium theatre, in front of the monarch.

naomi, I also dislike the soppy stuff.

[pixie374]

Ok- maybe so... and if the Queen wants to watch people carrying each other around on their heads... I wouldn't stop her :-). Each to their own...

[naomi24]

//That is why fast-forward was invented ;-) //

Ah, yes of course. And there's me thinking it should be about talent. ;o)

[pixie374]

No :-)

[naomi24]

Thought not. :o(

[hereIam]

Cowell is taking the winner to the USA for their show, I wonder how his humour will go down there ...

[Mamyalynne]

Lee Ridley/LVG is no stranger to the comedy circuit , am sure he knows it could go either way.

He won fair and square.

[hereIam]

Is that comment for me ???

[Mamyalynne]

My post is an addition to the thread and the topic it covers.

I wish him well in the USA.

[hereIam]

Jolly good.

[jennyjoan]

Let's face it - a computer won BGT.

[pixie374]

In the same way that a microphone wins X Factor, I guess. Did any of the acts use no technology?

[Mamyalynne]

Ouch JJ, you don't think he wrote his own material?

[jennyjoan]

He did Mamy but couldn't convey without the computer.

[andy-hughes]

jennyjoan - That's perhaps harsh - a computer can only tell what is programmed into it - so the gentleman did have to write the material and programme it in.

Personally, I didn't think he was funny, but as others have pointed out, it's a voting show, and the majority get their way.

[pixie374]

I'm buying Stephen Hawkin's computer then :-)