Get A Grip

[eddiebun]

I always knew Ben Elton was unfunny and out of touch, but how unfunny was this show?

[4getmenot]

didnt even bother watching it, dont like him and she is a strange one.

[gina32]

watched the first 5 mins and thought what a load of rubbish, and turned it off

[curlyperm]

What what???? tell me? what have i (not) missed????? : )

[4getmenot]

This ( )

[curlyperm]

lol .................but please tell me, i am now begging you ; )

[Tiny E. A]

I agree eddiebun, I accidentally watched it (as you do) and it was really atrocious, just Ben Elton, who I don't find particularly amusing anyway, repeating gags that have been around for ages and then laughing smugly at them. It was so scripted, if I was that girl I'd be humiliated to have been bought in as his fall guy. Such an old fasioned set up aswell, old, established male comedian and young, pretty, 'rising' female, while all she really did was set up his self satisfied rhetoric. Terrible.

[almcd007]

I think basically it was supposed to be her all modern and calling him "dude" and asking "Yoof" type things and being argumentative and trying too hard to be "in touch" and him being - well him.

It was very cringeworthy and scripted and sh!te !

it's done nothing for the careers of either one of them.

[curlyperm]

am i invisable?? ; P

[Tiny E. A]

Curlyperm, it was a tv programme on ITV last night, I think it might be a weekly thing. It had Ben Elton and that girl from pop world, I think she's called Alexandra Chung on it as the presenters and they did a comical look at conspiracy theories. As almcd007 says, the girl was meant to come from an amusing youth point of view and Ben Elton was, well, just sh!t really!

[curlyperm]

HURRAH!!!! thank you Tiny, i hate to feel left out of things lol will try and catch it next week! x

[gina32]

curlyperm i shouldnt bother, you'll get more pleasure watching paint dry!