Just spotted this at the bottom of an yet another Ross Brand article on the Sky News website.
(there's a screen grab below if it's changed) I wonder how an article about "Hitlers TV Dinner" ended up on the same page as "Sachsgate" Possibly a "web bot" automatically sorting stories into relevance. Brand...check.....Ross.....check.....Sachs....check....Daily Mail.....check.......Hitler......check......
Well if any good has come out of the 'Sachsgate' then this has got to it. Last night Emily Maitlis on Newsnight doing Frankie Boyles gag about the Queen's pussy to the DG. Something of a Halloween special I think you'll agree. Enjoy!
(picture: doing the rounds by email - created by ’Beau Bo D’Or‘ - my Halloween costume tonight)
This week, most people have come to the Man Made Mound by searching on google the following terms.
Georgina Bailley, Georgina Bailly, Georgina Bailey topless, Andrew Sacks, Andrew Sachs, Sack Andrew Sachs, Sachsgate, Johnathan Ross, Manuel, Manwell, Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand, Satanic Sluts, Voluptua, and even Russel Brand.
Just for you, here is Chris Applegate's Daily Mail Headline Generator (the Daily-Mail-O-Matic):
This Ross and Brand thing is exasperating. Who'd work at the BBC now? What's really annoying is the reaction of the people you respect. Take Lucy Mangan in The Guardian. I'm a fan of her TV reviews and Cable Girl column, but then she writes this.
She didn't think it was funny, fair enough. But she takes a matronly tone (odd, as from her photo she definitely looks young enough to be a GDRBWLTF) and then compares what they did with other 'funnier' prank phone calls, listing examples of Peter Cook, Victor Lewis-Smith and Rory Bremner phoning up unsuspecting victims, including celebrities, pretending to be someone else.
Which is not the same thing at all.
Brand and Ross called up as themselves someone who had originally intended to be on Brand's show that day, and left a funny/inappropriate/offensive message, only to make it worse/funnier by phoning back to apologise.
I mean, what's the point if the jokes you're comparing are completely different? I'd have forgiven that, though, because they are funny examples, and it's worth repeating them. But then she says the funniest, actually she says 'greatest', prank caller was Jon Culshaw. Jon Culshaw!
Every impression he does sounds like. Jon Culshaw! He's not even remotely funny and he constantly looks constipated, with a face you'd punch if you weren't certain he'd just turn around and do a really rubbish impression of you that's basically Jon Culshaw repeating something you just said. How on earth does he get to keep his job?
And to make matters worse, The Guardian's wonderful policy of outlining any updates or corrections to articles means we get to see that Lucy, the TV critic no less, originally referred to Lewis-Smith's brilliant hoax on the This Life office, rather than the That's Life office. Because a shakicam-heavy potty-mouthed genital warts 'n all drama about twentysomething lawyers and a one-for-all-the-family watchdog, campaigns and nudge, nudge, wink, wink comedy magazine show are so easily mixed up. She might just as well have referred to the show with the Irish fella and the big red book.
Speaking of which, I hated This is Your Life. The theme tunes for that and Sale of The Century still send bored 10-years-old shivers down my spine.
That Lewis-Smith call to That's Life is worth a listen. Mangan says reading about it makes her laugh, but why do that when you can use your lugholes here.
I was hoping it would be on Youtube but no such like. Instead, there's this. And it's still current. Enjoy.
Yes, him with the questions was the first actor to play James Bond in a 1956 adaptation on the radio. So maybe in thirty years Daniel Craig will be presenting an afternoon quiz show with posh teenage contestants.
Remember the ad campaign and promos for "Life on Mars" that used the old BBC blue and yellow globe and the classic BBC logo? A quick reminder..
Well the American version of "Life on Mars" has justed started on ABC in the United States - and they've got in on the act too. Check out this nice 1973 style trailer..
Lets hope they don't take it all the way and elect Richard Nixon next week..
UPDATE 2 UPDATE OF LAST UPDATE: Dr Boswell has seen the light and following Russell Brands resignation the Dr is broadcasting to the nation again. Someone have a word with Radio 2 - I think we have found Brands replacement!
UPDATE: Just received this from Dr Boswell on his reason for taking down the clip. Looks like someone put the frighteners on the big guy "I removed the video as I received a huge amount of backlash against it. I will consider uploading it again" I sure hope you do Dr. - It's Gold!
Traitors! Kill them! Or some such palaver the Daily Mail's on about. It took three fully grown adults to write that and only a week-and-a-half after the original very, very funny incident, and nothing to do with Brand's apology to Sachs where he also asked to compare his misdemeanour to the Daily Mail's past hotties for Hitler. Interestingly, the Sieg Heil's article originally referred to Brand apologising on his radio show (just a week after the original incident and way too quickly for journalists to turn around a story) due to an imminent article in a newspaper, not mentioning it was their newspaper - that's now been dropped, including the reference to Brand having verbally apologised.
Apparently, the number of public complaints has now reached 10,000, despite this Mail article from two days ago saying the BBC had received just 2, a week after the programme went out.
And thankfully, we now know that Sachs would be distraught at the thought of Brand sleeping with his granddaughter, rather than, you know, really into the idea, perhaps even a little turned on, his refusal to comment until it got full media coverage merely projected coyness on his granddaughter's part, the little minx. But no, he's understandably miffed. Imagine if one of these moral crusading papers confirmed the deed, then, and showed a picture of her in kinky clobber, looking like she would if serial shagger Brand were just about to ravage her. Worse, imagine if she were topless. He'd probably have some kind of funny turn.
see also "andrew sachs" "georgina sachs" "Johnathan Ross" "Jonathan Ross" "Russel Brand" "Russell Brand" "BBC Radio 2" "satanic slut" "Georgina Ballie" "georgina bailey" "georgina bailley" "the sun" "satanic sluts"
Bill Oddie with Kate Humble near Poole and Brownsea Island plugging the BBC's Autumnwatch on BBC Breakfast to Bill Turnbull and Kate Silverton.
Check out the moment at 4:22. What a ray of sunshine that man is.
"Bill Oddie appeared on Breakfast with Kate Humble to talk about Autumn watch, yet had some words to describe the Daily Mail :) "
From The Independent:
Sparks fly at the BBC after a morning of grumpy guests Viewers of the BBC Breakfast programme were treated yesterday morning to a delightful ding-dong between the presenter Bill Turnbull and professional bird watcher – and all-round grumpy person – Bill Oddie. Oddie was interviewed with his colleague Kate Humble at Poole harbour in Dorset to promote the new series of Autummwatch.
As the interview went on, he became increasing grouchy with Turnbull, blaming his faulty earpiece and bizarrely, the Daily Mail, which (despite recently serialising his memoirs) he derided as "total toss".
After five minutes of some fairly terse exchanges, Turnbull decided to wrap things up.
"I tell you what, Kate, if he happens to tip overboard on the way over to Brownsea Island, don't pick him out too quickly," he said. "Give me John Prescott any day."
I don't know what makes the perfect montage, but I seem to have fond memories of a lot of these things in the 80s and this one has a special place in my brain library. I'm sure I first saw this on VHS at school, age 13 or so, when the teacher let us have a couple of frees as it was the end of the year - Blade Runner was the other feature. Gawky kid against the bullies, comedy foreigner, fighting and a cute girl next door in tight sweaters - what's not to like? There are other montages in the film, with requisite MOR soundtrack like Peter Cetera's Glory of Love, but the good thing about this one is that it has a literally punchy ending.
The training montage is always a good one, but I'm sure there are others - comedies?
Probably around the same time Bran Flakes hit the screens promising to be so very tasty, Scotch launched it's videotape that had two benefits over it's rivals. A lifetime guarantee and a promise that every recording would be as good as the first. Well we all know the first is bunkum but what about the lifetime guarantee? Anyone care to find out, I've got a box full here and nothing to play them on.
That aside, a catchy tune and the use of a Skeleton is remarkable and the fact he looks remarkable like Prof Heinz Wolff has always intrigued me
The Director's audio feed from the gallery (control room) from the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977. The BBC were host broadcaster, from, I think, Birmingham.
It's not very often you hear of a new sport being invented, after all most were created by accident - God knows what little William Webb Ellis was thinking when he picked up that ball and ran with it. At first it must have looked rather peculiar, but after a while the more people who watched it, the more it became the norm and hey presto the sport of Rugby was born. It is then with slight refrain I draw your attention to a "craze" spreading the states which appears to involve chasing small animals(mainly cats) up high objects scaring them (usually by mean of cherry picker and noose) until they drop, whilst the local news network catches it all on camera.
I can't decided if this the embryo of a new sport we seeing or last years you've been framed.
...an impressive 80ft drop. Not bad. Good use of fur as parachute.
Again Nice, Good use of noose to coax out a - spectacular horizontal fall maneuver.
Yet again good use of the noose to coax out the performance, but sub section 6.4d of the rules clearly
states 'the actual fall must be captured on camera' and sub section 6.8 details 'once you've missed the fall, put the camera down no amount of filming is going to recreate the moment and revive your earlier bad camera work'
oh please! thats just a bear on a trampoline - Nil Pois
I've never seen this in a film or TV show, have you? It's almost too perfect to be believable.
Just one man enjoying his job - in the UK, they'd be wearing him as a hoodie.
I love this in part because of the sheer dumb luck involved, but also for the supercamp narrator that does all of those America's Worst Police Somethingorothers.
Ouchies in the rugby - the blow by blow reconstruction at the end is brilliant, serious yet hilarious.
I'd pay to see this kind of performance. What makes it perfect is the long pause before anyone realises that this may not actually be his act.
More painful for the viewer than the contestant. Richard O'Brien clearly couldn't give a toss.
JAMES DYSON - Stop! You've done it. Really. You don't need to do any more.
You can now apply your time and engineering abilities to something else. I know, sit down, you're not going to like this. You can now apply your thoughts to something other than vacuum technology.
The world does not need any more features for machines that suck up dirt from the floor. Really. Honest. I asked them. They said no.
"Dyson, I can't get a good signal on my phone" "uh... I made a prototype of an attachment hose, which can be manipulated in different directions..."
"Dyson, most of Africa can't access clean water!" "uh... We found a way of manoevureing upright vacuums around obstacles such as chairs and table legs"
"Dyson, the polar ice caps are melting!" "uh... "We added a ball on the main chassis that means you can turn tight corners"
Here is how people treat your work, Dyson Engineer Man. Feel the disdain.
SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR TECHNOLOGY FALLS INTO THE WRONG HANDS.
Which begged the question, if Barack Obama is to be the first Black President of the U.S., who was the first Black Computer Game character?
The only 4 contenders I could find were...
JAX
A cybernetic enhanced soldier in the Mortal Kombat games, Jax is apparently the first African-American character in the series and his Friendship move in Mortal Kombat 2 is cutting out paper dolls for his opponent.
According to wikipedia,
"Jax is clear-headed, careful, and always keeping a watch on what his men are doing."
CARL "CJ" JOHNSON From the best selling game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, comes arguably the most controversial video game character, Carl “CJ” Johnson. During "The Introduction"—a short machinima video released with the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Official Soundtrack—he is seen mugging a passerby in the street.
and finally...
BLACK BOXER
Possibly the first black video game character from Activision’s Boxing for the Atari 2600. With a one button punch, you CAN be Sugar Ray Leonard, Larry Holmes, or George Foreman...
Unseen footage of Sarah Palin from the Far Away Kingdom of Alaska.
In the words of Jack Cafferty on CNN's Situation Room... "I'm 65 and I've been covering politics for a long time... that is one of the most pathetic pieces of tape I have ever seen for someone aspiring to one of the highest offices in this Country. That's all I have to say"
- Stop!
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