Julie Burchill is a great sitcom character just waiting to be put in a sitcom. She reminds me a lot of that woman in Will & Grace, the receptionist or whatever. Hilarious voice. 
That's Burchill. Have you heard the woman speak? You have to, it's comedy heaven. Especially when she's ranting and raving, which she almost always is. It's like she's made herself up. Shame she isn't on TV more.
Quote: Steve Sunshine @ June 10 2011, 12:40 AM BSTI liked her as Ethel on number 73 back in her Saturday morning TV days
Speaking of Number 73, did you know that the ginger woman, who used to skate around the house on rollerboots, won an Oscar a few years ago?
Needy slapper who became lesbian to make herself more interesting cannot cope with realisation that not all homosexuals are exciting rebels.
Quote: Timbo @ June 10 2011, 10:34 AM BSTNeedy slapper who became lesbian to make herself more interesting cannot cope with realisation that not all homosexuals are exciting rebels.
Ouch!
Couldn't agree more.
Burchill is nine-tenths vitriol and 10% puss - with a squeeze of lemon.
The kind of journalist where everything she writes is actually about her.
Like we give a toss.
It seems right that she has been writing for The Independent, she is cleary alone in her opinions. I don't think anyone hates Sandi Toksvig that much, at least not for the same reason.
She is probably independent in her life as well, not a man/woman/animal or even Piers Morgan could stand to be around her, she is just that unpleasant.
Unbearable Smugness of Males, discuss...
I sense with Burchill a class thing here. Anyone who's heard her speak knows that she is proud of her working classness, and her rabidness tends to accentuate this pride. Is she picking on ST because she plainly alligns herself with the dryer, higher end of comedy like the Radio 4 crowd, who tend to be a bit more literary and show the roots of their Oxbridge background?
JB does have a history of revelling in her almost chavvy level working classness. She's a bit like a female Citizen Smith.
Quote: Steve Sunshine @ June 10 2011, 12:40 AM BSTI liked her as Ethel on number 73 back in her Saturday morning TV days
I loved number 73. Alot better than the BBC Saturday morning offerings. Talking about kids' TV on Saturdays, who was that bloke who loved cheese, Norman or something?
I think he was called The Anorak
Quote: dellas @ June 12 2011, 6:17 AM BST
The unbearable smugness of males is bearable when one is being smug or engaging in an act of smugness, however if other males are being smug or are engaging in an act of smugness then a seething rage builds up within oneself.
Will that do?
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ June 12 2011, 9:43 AM BSTJB does have a history of revelling in her almost chavvy level working classness. She's a bit like a female Citizen Smith.
Very accurate assessment, just like Citizen Smith; a fabricated character.
I remember she was very proud of supporting Soviet Communism, despite all the stories of the human rights they inflicted.
She'd get lots of heated responses to her Guardian column, truly the work of a troll. Mind you, Guardian readers react to the slightest thing; typically a letter will go " how can you print a picture of slim fashion models in the same issue that has a feature on famine victims?"
Julie Julie quite contrary.
Next week in the Julie Burchill column; 'We need more great leaders like Adolf Hitler', 'the Beatles are crap while Simon Cowell is a genius' and 'Rose West is a feminist icon.'
Thing is, they don't actually seem remotely unrealistic.