Brand, Ross and Sachs Page 8

Quote: chipolata @ October 29 2008, 1:47 PM BST

One of the things I've enjoyed was Kelvin McKenzie saying how outrageous that a young woman should be objectified and treated with so little respect. What paper was it you used to edit again, Kelvin?

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God forgive me for defending The Sun, but Page Three girls go into the 'job' knowingly, willingly, and openly. They don't have their sex lives advertised on national radio without their prior knowledge or consent.

Quote: sootyj @ October 29 2008, 1:51 PM BST

She never denies f**king Brand.

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On the contrary, she has admitted it.

Quote: Matthew Stott @ October 29 2008, 2:06 PM BST

Itll never happen again.

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Now, this 'ban' button...

Quote: chipolata @ October 29 2008, 1:55 PM BST

As for Brand, doesn't his Ponderland start this week? Albeit on Channel 4.

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Yes, I do believe so.

I can't believe how blown out of proportion this has become, Yet again the do gooders rule the country.

Just fine them and be done with it.

And as for the Prime Minister having an opinion, he should get back to I dunno.....sorting out the economy that he already f**k** up anyway.

Quote: sootyj @ October 29 2008, 1:51 PM BST

Of course as I said earlier Chris Morris and Sasha Baron Cohen have done far worst.

Thing is their comedic geniuses.

I always said you can get away with anything that's funny.

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Exactly. Anything involving prank humour is fine as long as there is some kind of underlying point and the joke is executed with some wit.

The kind of, till now unchecked, witless nonsense that Brand indulges in is completely pointless and lacking in any kind of merit. Ross should just know better.

For me, this story exposes the paucity and thoughtlessness of content in so much modern broadcasting. Content should never be second to, or replaced by, ego.

Quote: Richard Wells @ October 29 2008, 2:10 PM BST

I can't believe how blown out of proportion this has become, Yet again the do gooders rule the country.

Just fine them and be done with it.

And as for the Prime Minister having an opinion, he should get back to I dunno.....sorting out the economy that he already f**k** up anyway.

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What do gooders? Is there a new form of PC that protects elderly exsitcom stars of yesteryear.

If you're budnling the Daily Mail and David Cameron into the PC brigade, then that describes a degree of paranoia.

Akin to calling Sara Palin a Muslim communist.

Quote: Griff @ October 29 2008, 2:22 PM BST

I think you missed chip's point, Aaron.

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Not at all. I just interpreted it in the way which I assume MacKenzie intended the comment.

Anyone have a transcript or something of whatever it was he did say, exactly?

What gets me most, is that there are so many people who will go out of their way to make an official complaint. It baffles me.

Bloody Piers Morgan is calling for Jonathan Ross to be sacked.

Why he feels the need to stick his nose into it is beyond me.

Maybe next week they can repeat the phone call with the McCannes?

Quote: Richard Wells @ October 29 2008, 2:26 PM BST

Bloody Piers Morgan is calling for Jonathan Ross to be sacked.

Why he feels the need to stick his nose into it is beyond me.

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Why does Piers Morgan exist, and why do I have to hear about him so bloody much?
'As thick as my chubby thumb' That advert makes me want to vomit. Smug git.

Quote: sootyj @ October 29 2008, 2:27 PM BST

Maybe next week they can repeat the phone call with the McCannes?

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Now that would be funny.

You know that's a sketch bad enough for NR, if I put it in critique am I going to get hatemail?

Quote: sootyj @ October 29 2008, 2:29 PM BST

You know that's a sketch bad enough for NR, if I put it in critique am I going to get hatemail?

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Piers Morgan would cry for your head.

Just as long as he doesn't give it.

Could Russell Brand and him fight to the death?

Quote: Griff @ October 29 2008, 2:30 PM BST

I agree with Stephen Fry who defined "Countryside" as "murdering Piers Morgan".

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Quote: Matthew Stott @ October 29 2008, 2:27 PM BST

Why does Piers Morgan exist, and why do I have to hear about him so bloody much?
'As thick as my chubby thumb' That advert makes me want to vomit. Smug git.

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I agree. And lets not forget this was a man censured by the Press Complaints Commision for breaching standards of financial journalism. And for the toothless duffers to of the PCC to censure you, you must be up to no good. Plus he was later sacked as editor of The Mirror. The man's a cretin.