Carrot cake is yummy. Because it doesn't taste of carrots.
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Quote: zooo @ January 5 2013, 1:23 PM GMTit doesn't taste of carrots.
Exactly.
I thought that was extraordinarily poor. Really, really dull. If it weren't for Frank Skinner there would have been almost zero humour. You could tell just how little of anything of interest or humour any of the guests had to say, and he kept having to step in to avoid a bunch of dead air.
I found Miranda funny, but of course people like John Craven aren't going to be that entertaining. Maybe they should have more comedians on the panel. (But not loudmouth, screen hogging ones, ahem, Johnny Vegas.)
Quote: zooo @ January 7 2013, 10:59 AM GMTI found Miranda funny
Yes.
Quote: zooo @ January 7 2013, 10:59 AM GMTbut of course people like John Craven aren't going to be that entertaining.
That can happen.
Quote: zooo @ January 7 2013, 10:59 AM GMTMaybe they should have more comedians on the panel
Maybe.
Quote: zooo @ January 7 2013, 10:59 AM GMTBut not loudmouth, screen hogging ones, ahem, Johnny Vegas
Yes, yes, yes. And that goes for I.Q. too. These attention seeking but unfunny people are annoying.
I didn't like the choice of things they hated. OK, so you hate yoghurt drink, why is that? Just because it's yoghurt? Hardly enlightening or entertaining. The same with Miranda's carrot cakes, she hated them 'just because'. I want to hear crazy logic as to why these things are chosen, not just "don't like it." If you hate yoghurt drink, tell us you fell into a vat of it as a kid and had to drink your way out. If you hate carrot cake, say you once slipped and fell over on one, and then you could even demonstrate it to 'hilarious' effect.
Quote: Nogget @ January 7 2013, 11:49 AM GMTI didn't like the choice of things they hated. OK, so you hate yoghurt drink, why is that? Just because it's yoghurt? Hardly enlightening or entertaining. The same with Miranda's carrot cakes, she hated them 'just because'. I want to hear crazy logic as to why these things are chosen, not just "don't like it." If you hate yoghurt drink, tell us you fell into a vat of it as a kid and had to drink your way out. If you hate carrot cake, say you once slipped and fell over on one, and then you could even demonstrate it to 'hilarious' effect.
And you have to be a woman to understand how someone can hate big tits. 
That's a potential problem of this show. You have to have a real hatred or disgust for the thing you want to put in Room 101. So if the guest is a genuinely nice person without any aggression ("Everything's ZEN, groovy!") and Room 101 is just another panel show to participate in then he has the problem to come up with good explanations.
That's why deeply cynical and almost misanthropic persons* as Rob Brydon, Ricky Gervais or Steve Coogan (or Frank Skinner himself) are suited best for such a show.
* I could give you 60minutes long lectures on why I hate certain things.
Quote: Nogget @ January 7 2013, 11:49 AM GMTI didn't like the choice of things they hated. OK, so you hate yoghurt drink, why is that? Just because it's yoghurt? Hardly enlightening or entertaining. The same with Miranda's carrot cakes, she hated them 'just because'. I want to hear crazy logic as to why these things are chosen, not just "don't like it." If you hate yoghurt drink, tell us you fell into a vat of it as a kid and had to drink your way out. If you hate carrot cake, say you once slipped and fell over on one, and then you could even demonstrate it to 'hilarious' effect.
That's why David Mitchell, Lee Mack and maybe Jon Richardson need to be permanent panellists.
Ooh yes, Jon Richardson.
And Sean Lock. I was watching his episode of the old Room 101 (with Merton) the other day.
Pineapple is absolutely pivotal on a pizza.
Craven was an incredibly uncomfortable guest though. Totes cringe, as the kids say.
Quote: Aaron @ January 9 2013, 10:05 PM GMTPineapple is absolutely pivotal on a pizza.
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ January 4 2013, 9:00 PM GMTI liked that episode...and Miranda is right: Pineapple have no business being on a pizza!
Without it a Hawaiian is just a ham pizza.
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ January 4 2013, 9:11 PM GMTSweet and salty things don't mix well.
To prove this wrong - yoghurt covered pretzels. Divine.
Quote: zooo @ January 7 2013, 10:59 AM GMTI found Miranda funny,
Well, there's a first time for everything I suppose.
Yes, I am definitely the first person to find Miranda funny. Good observation.