Who is the X Factor type singer strangling some song I've never heard of?
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Baz, I gave up watching it too! So I even deserted a thread I set up!
@Carnelian posted:Baz, I gave up watching it too! So I even deserted a thread I set up!
I never started watching. I'm sure I haven't missed anything - except cringyness! 
@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:I never started watching. I'm sure I haven't missed anything - except cringyness!
Perhaps inevitably, it was a bit of a mixed bag. The musical numbers ranged from the embarrassing (as Carnelian observed) to the quite moving.
Like a lot of people, I was concerned that the much-touted return of "Little Britain" would fall into the "embarrassing" category, but in the end I thought it was really good. The jokes were surprisingly edgy for a charity do (during their "Lou and Andy" sketch, Andy informed a shocked Lou that he wanted to eat bat for dinner...), and I was impressed by Matt and David's home-made costumes and their skill in managing to pull off some quite physically interactive sketches despite obviously being filmed separately...
Matt Lucas's rendition of the "Baked Potato" song (with an animated baked potato) and David Tennant's remote-schooling sketch with Catherine Tate's Lauren were also pretty good.
@Carnelian posted:Who is the X Factor type singer strangling some song I've never heard of?
Didn't watch it but BBC iPlayer shows it as Sam Smith singing "Lay Me Down" at the time you were posting your query.
@Eugene's Lair my sister recorded the Little Britain bit for me on her phone and I thought it was really funny!
@El Loro posted:Didn't watch it but BBC iPlayer shows it as Sam Smith singing "Lay Me Down" at the time you were posting your query.
Oh, is that Sam Smith? He's a top-selling artist. I know that much. He X-Factored that song up to the max. I'm listening to it on YouTube and it's like fingernails down a blackboard while strangling a cat to me. Loads of people like it, I just don't get it at all.
@Carnelian posted:Oh, is that Sam Smith? He's a top-selling artist. I know that much. He X-Factored that song up to the max. I'm listening to it on YouTube and it's like fingernails down a blackboard while strangling a cat to me. Loads of people like it, I just don't get it at all.
I watched Davina McCall tell Sam Smith his song was about the best music in the history of music then a few minutes later she was telling a woman with dyed red hair that her hair was practically the most beautiful hair in the history of hair. She really does love her superlatives.
Back to the 80s with Dawn French and her toe-curlingly unfunny shtick.
That was about as much as I could bear