Hal has charisma and talent ... Alex doesn't
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:Moonie posted:Saint posted:Why is Alex Brooker constantly on our TV ?
Why is he famous?
Who is he, never mind about his fame?
I find him quite funny and incite full. But humour is such a personal thing. I for instance hate MaCintyre a person who seems like he should be a Conservative MP and just as funny.
I was thinking about another bloke Charlie Brooker (see below). I don't find Alex Brooker that funny at all.
How on earth did Charlie Brooker end up with gorgeous poppet Konnie Huq?
He comes from a long list of smug, self satisfying, arrogant men including ...
Gordon Ramsay
Jamie Oliver
Flavio Briatorie
Brendan Cole
Kurt Cobain
David van Day
Steve Cram . . . I could go on
Saint posted:How on earth did Charlie Brooker end up with gorgeous poppet Konnie Huq?
He comes from a long list of smug, self satisfying, arrogant men including ...
Gordon Ramsay
Jamie Oliver
Flavio Briatorie
Brendan Cole
Kurt Cobain
David van Day
Steve Cram . . . I could go on
Please, go on. I would like another 27 examples. 
*keeps Saint occupied for the day*
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:Saint posted:How on earth did Charlie Brooker end up with gorgeous poppet Konnie Huq?
He comes from a long list of smug, self satisfying, arrogant men including ...
Gordon Ramsay
Jamie Oliver
Flavio Briatorie
Brendan Cole
Kurt Cobain
David van Day
Steve Cram . . . I could go on
Please, go on. I would like another 27 examples.
*keeps Saint occupied for the day*
Norty EC 
Godfrey Bloom
Now Moonie and EC - your turn
Michael Gove
Saint posted:Godfrey Bloom
Now Moonie and EC - your turn
Ollie Locke.
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:Saint posted:Godfrey Bloom
Now Moonie and EC - your turn
Ollie Locke.
Now listen you !!
I wouldn't call him smug or arrogant but does surprisingly possess that 'hero' mentality with a paper thin ego.
Today I was watching a programme called 'Posh Pawn'. A chap comes into the pawn shop bearing two rings. One a diamond ring, the other a sapphire ring. As part of the back story we find out that the chap bringing in the rings is a psychic.
Later in the show we get to see this chap come back into the shop for the evaluation and conclusion to the transaction.
What struck me is that this chap (the psychic) should have known what the pawnbroker was going to offer. He didn't. Not really a great advert for a psychic.
Eugene's Lair posted:Sprout posted:Saint posted:Josh has done radio sit coms and comedy tours so has prob earned a slot.
Others seem to have the right connections
Very unfair
I watch HAL CRUTTENDEN - a very funny comedian whose virtually unknown
Maybe he's not being promoted enough...hasn't got the right people behind him
I have to say that I've also seen Hal Cruttenden guest on a lot more shows than I have Brooker. As for being "unknown": well, I wouldn't say he has a memorable name, but he does have a memorable face.
The thing with Alex Brooker is that as well as being a presenter on a popular and very high-profile show, he's also seen by many as being a hugely inspirational figure. As I said, he's been ranked 2nd on the list of most influential people with a disability - way ahead even of the likes of Stephen Fry, who's done documentaries on bipolar disorder.
I didn't know that EL
velvet donkey posted:I'm sure that pawnie based in Sheff is doing a Paso Doble with your selfie queen from last nites celeb island.
Apparently she was an unredeemed pledge.
Yep, that was the geezer on the pawn show.
Patrick Kielty
Utter tw@t
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:Moonie posted:Saint posted:Why is Alex Brooker constantly on our TV ?
Why is he famous?
Who is he, never mind about his fame?
I find him quite funny and incite full. But humour is such a personal thing. I for instance hate MaCintyre a person who seems like he should be a Conservative MP and just as funny.
If it's any consolation, I find Charlie a lot funnier than Alex too!
Sprout posted:Eugene's Lair posted:Sprout posted:Saint posted:Josh has done radio sit coms and comedy tours so has prob earned a slot.
Others seem to have the right connections
Very unfair
I watch HAL CRUTTENDEN - a very funny comedian whose virtually unknown
Maybe he's not being promoted enough...hasn't got the right people behind him
I have to say that I've also seen Hal Cruttenden guest on a lot more shows than I have Brooker. As for being "unknown": well, I wouldn't say he has a memorable name, but he does have a memorable face.
The thing with Alex Brooker is that as well as being a presenter on a popular and very high-profile show, he's also seen by many as being a hugely inspirational figure. As I said, he's been ranked 2nd on the list of most influential people with a disability - way ahead even of the likes of Stephen Fry, who's done documentaries on bipolar disorder.
I didn't know that EL
You can read the full list here: the top ten is listed between pages 66 and 77.
http://edition.pagesuite-profe...f4-8df5-fc5a8dc9436f
What's interesting is how many of the top ten are household names: I even consider at least half of them to be personal heroes/heroines (and no - I'm not including Alex Brooker in that!)
Eugene's Lair posted:You can read the full list here: the top ten is listed between pages 66 and 77.
http://edition.pagesuite-profe...f4-8df5-fc5a8dc9436f
What's interesting is how many of the top ten are household names: I even consider at least half of them to be personal heroes/heroines (and no - I'm not including Alex Brooker in that!)
Warwick Davis in there 
Weetabix on-the-go breakfast drink advert
"I don't have time for breakfast" says the thrusting young executive guy ... only to enter work where everyone else has breakfast on the table.
Idiots
Saint posted:Weetabix on-the-go breakfast drink advert
"I don't have time for breakfast" says the thrusting young executive guy ... only to enter work where everyone else has breakfast on the table.
Idiots
"Breakfast in a bottle" 
Saint posted:Weetabix on-the-go breakfast drink advert
"I don't have time for breakfast" says the thrusting young executive guy ... only to enter work where everyone else has breakfast on the table.
Idiots
Yeah - he actually pushes away a free croissant!
AND they've started work before him
Saint posted:AND they've started work before him
...and how stupid are they that they did not even notice he arrived from above and not through the door !!!
VISTAPRINT tells people there's no better way to advertise your business than by using their cards.
They advertise Vistaprint . . . . on TV
Those people who slag off parking wardens, calling them all the names under the sun.
It's really simple. There are laws and by-laws. You break them then you deserve to be fined. No ifs, no buts, you deserve it. Anyone who complains is an idiot, plain and simple.
A road near me was closed today due to falling masonry.
Cue 3 Police cars and about 7 coppers all standing around doing nothing as the road had already been roped off.
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
Those people who slag off parking wardens, calling them all the names under the sun.
It's really simple. There are laws and by-laws. You break them then you deserve to be fined. No ifs, no buts, you deserve it. Anyone who complains is an idiot, plain and simple.
EC there's a big school near me. Opposite is a large field.
Rather than build a place for parents to park so they can safely collect their kids the council has painted double yellows and have regular patrols of a car fitted with a camera to log illegally parked cars number plates.
PRINCE WILLIAM has spoken passionately once again about the hunting of elephants for their ivory and how their numbers are being decimated.
There's no evidence he then celebrated his message getting across by shooting several impala and a water buffalo.
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
Those people who slag off parking wardens, calling them all the names under the sun.
It's really simple. There are laws and by-laws. You break them then you deserve to be fined. No ifs, no buts, you deserve it. Anyone who complains is an idiot, plain and simple.
I would agree.. but...... I used to be married to a Traffic Warden. 
Those stupid Microsoft adverts which all contain the line "I could not do that on a Mac", well you could. You are only colouring in a drawing.
The fact that in a typical bottle of fragrance, only 2p is the cost of the fragrance itself, so much more is the cost of the bottle and the packaging.
Failed actors, because they usually end up serving me.
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
Those stupid Microsoft adverts which all contain the line "I could not do that on a Mac", well you could. You are only colouring in a drawing.
Lightening fast processing, monitoring progress a thousand times a second.
So how come I can't watch You Tube??
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
Failed actors, because they usually end up serving me.
Was watching a prog with TOYAH buying a house.
She explained her career,
"We were the first girls that weren't Lulu or Sandie Shaw, we weren't packaged. We were the first to challenge convention."
Err . . . I don't think so - Suzi Quattro did that way before you did.
Speed with Guy Martin.
He is peddling a small helium airship across to France, really quite slowly. Not seeing the speed element in that.
Can't get passed his mutton chops
Saint posted:Can't get passed his mutton chops
Will he do it?
Of course he will. 
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:Saint posted:Can't get passed his mutton chops
Will he do it?
Of course he will.
I was wrong. 