Tom Allen's You're Fired.

[jobjockey]

Is there a less funny or cruder show
than this, his motley guests don't get
a laugh until they come out with the 'F'
word, puerile entertainment'

[naomi24]

I watched a bit of a quiz show he was hosting. I say ‘a bit’
because I couldn’t stand it for long so turned it off. Dreadful. If I see his name paired with any programme I don’t bother to switch on at all.

[Prudie]

I always used to switch over to the you're fired bit after the apprentice but not looked once since Tom Allen started doing it. I really can't stand him, he's obviously flavour of the month at the moment with the beeb. He seems to think he's the first and only gay comedian and has to make sleazy references to the fact at every opportunity.

[douglas9401]

Tom Allen is gay?!?!

When did all this come out.

[andy-hughes]

No! Next you'll be telling me Elton John is gay!!!

[MissTerious2]

Is the awful Rosie Jones still in it? We haven't watched it at all this season. The Apprentice is the best comedy now for us!

[fitdarren]

Not a fan of Tom Allen at all, he builds his act around being gay and fancying any vaguely attractive man he sees! He appears on the spin off show from GBBO with Jo Brand and I always fast forward when he's on. I remember once he kept going on and on about a male contestant, but no-one was laughing. Can't wait for him to have his day!

[MissTerious2]

I forgot to say I can't stand him either!

[pastafreak]

I've only really seen him on the GBBO spinoff...which I now never watch because of him. He can come across as rather nasty.

[andy-hughes]

I think Mr Allen's personnel is designed to be 'waspish', which is a character a lot of gay men assume to deflect the daily atmosphere of hostility in which they live.

It can be amusing, but not when over-cooked, as Mr Allen now seems to be doing.

Perhaps he is ageing the 'vinegary old queen' persona that Paul O'Grady used on his highly popular, and recently abandoned, Radio Two show.

[douglas9401]

He is a lot funnier when he's not flouncing and gaying.

[andy-hughes]

'Gaying'?

Is he allowed to do that on TV???

Gosh!!

[naomi24]

//which is a character a lot of gay men assume to deflect the daily atmosphere of hostility //

Gay people in 'show biz' don't live in an atmosphere of hostility. It's running alive with gay people.

[MissTerious2]

I would agree Naomi

[MissTerious2]

Can someone tell me what GBBO is please.

[naomi24]

Great British Bake Off?

[10ClarionSt]

Who TF is Tom Allen?

[andy-hughes]

MissTerious - // I would agree Naomi //

Then you also appear to believe that 'showbusiness' is some sort of hermetically sealed bubble where only gay and gay-friendly people live, and they never have the tiresome trouble of actually interacting with the wider world where homophobia is rife.

And of course gay people emerge fully qualified for a show-business career ready formed for them - they don't have to work their way up to that level with the standard knockbacks and nastiness that the real world offers, and doesn't make exceptions for gay people.

It's a nice perception, but that's all it is, a perception - and a wrong one.

[MissTerious2]

If you say so Andy.

[MissTerious2]

Thanks. I've never watched bake off. I have no interest in baking or cakes.

[naomi24]

//Then you also appear to believe that 'showbusiness' is some sort of hermetically sealed bubble where only gay and gay-friendly people live...//

That surely deserves a 'So' at the beginning.