http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=no-stolen-ideas-here The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Thu, 23 May 2013 11:14:17 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54959#post-159097 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:33:54 +0000 DustyBinLaden 159097@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Wayland, could you sign my Haynes manual for my old Vauxhall Cresta PB? It's a work of art. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54959#post-159048 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:05:12 +0000 waylandsmithy 159048@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'll have to watch it. Is it as good as Swamp People?</p> <p>Dusty, everyone knows copywriters don't mean what they write, it's hardly written from the heart, is it? Whereas we technical authors often spend months getting into the mindset of an automatic control system for a retail network, eating cakes and ice creams if the role requires it, method-writing parts lists and researching the character's background by drinking heavily and crying. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54959#post-159045 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:57:02 +0000 DustyBinLaden 159045@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Just watched Funny Business, pinxit. I just can't understand why comics, or actors, with insane amounts of money feel the need to do ads. But as Mark Thomas said, if you're skint and funny, take the gig. Then again, I've been a copywriter for 20 years, so haven't really got a leg to stand on. Although if I did, it would be a leg from 'the Roehampton Artificial Limb Megastore, where we guarantee you a safe pair of hands.' That's a grand please. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54959#post-159031 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:44:11 +0000 DustyBinLaden 159031@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm launching a hair product called Well Gel. Aimed at the teenage market. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54959#post-159025 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:19:39 +0000 waylandsmithy 159025@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks for the tags! Just out of interest, who am I supposed to have stolen the idea off? I brought up my irritation with 'sell-out' voiceovers in a chatroom conversation, but I'm pretty sure this is a new angle. </p> <p>Is an idea nicked every time someone mentions the tories? The Daily Mail? Wotevs. U must B well jel, haters. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54959#post-159000 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:59:25 +0000 ronseal 159000@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Love it</p> <p>You hit a nerve.</p> <p>Then ruthlessly carried on drilling! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54959#post-158923 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 22:01:41 +0000 charlies_hat 158923@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Jesus - I've just seen Steven Hawking advertising Go Compare - WTF ????? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54959#post-158870 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:18:45 +0000 button 158870@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Very good Wayland </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54959#post-158868 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:08:33 +0000 dvo4fun 158868@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Good idea, well written and topical. Excellent </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54959#post-158858 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 09:45:17 +0000 pinxit 158858@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Did you see <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01pz9pn/Funny_Business_Gags_to_Riches/">'Funny Business'</a> the other night?</p> <p>We're all tarts aren't we?</p> <p>There's no business like show business. It just pays a lot more. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54959#post-158850 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 09:16:42 +0000 charlies_hat 158850@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Excellent. </p> <p>Alexei Sayle : communist and advertising voice over man, bloody annoys me. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54959#post-158849 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:27:03 +0000 Dick Everyman 158849@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Quality! Yours too DBL ;0) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54959#post-158848 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:24:41 +0000 DustyBinLaden 158848@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>There ain't half been some clever bastards. Proper satire. I just go for picking on defenseless flightless birds who all look the same to me. Nice one. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54959#post-158846 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:20:51 +0000 Squudge 158846@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>This is fabulous </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54959#post-158825 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:16:44 +0000 Perks 158825@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Top stuff again </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54959#post-158823 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:27:13 +0000 Midfield Diamond 158823@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>If there's a criticism of this, it is that it's too clever. I just keep reading it and each time I do, I notice something I missed on the previous reading. But maybe I'm a bit slow. Great stuff Wayland. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54959#post-158822 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:02:06 +0000 waylandsmithy 158822@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Oops, ta Yikes! Just added some obvious 'direct lining' gags too. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54959#post-158820 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:51:30 +0000 MADJEZ 158820@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>B E L T E R ! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54959#post-158819 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:48:51 +0000 Yikes 158819@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Great stuff! Lols here.</p> <p>Typo in last sentence of para 2 ... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54959#post-158818 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:41:51 +0000 waylandsmithy 158818@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Cyclical funnyman Alexander Armstrong has finally come clean, and apologised for his role in a series of Direct Line commercials. In a lengthy interview, Armstrong said he ‘didn’t feel guilty’ about promoting the RBS-owned business, and had been Direct Lining for 'months, maybe years'. But like legendary Direct Liners before him including Stephen Fry and Paul Merton, Alexander felt under pressure to ‘earn, at all costs.’ </p> <p>Armstrong had been seen as a role-model by many trendy young comics, who’d watched him rise through the pack to seize the career’s biggest prize. But instead of giving them the chance to roll their eyes and smugly call him a ‘sell-out’, he carefully avoided hypocrisy in private.</p> <p>“When you set out to be a politically aware entertainer, there are very clear rules you have to follow”, complained disillusioned comedy fan Andrew Wheaton. “You’re expected to sneer at the Tories, the Daily Mail and slag off the banks, before selling your soul to the first corporate giant that’ll have you.”</p> <p>Following in the footsteps of such legendary sell-outs as Ben Elton, George Carlin and latterly Chris Addison, Marcus Brigstocke, David Mitchell, Robert Webb and Jimmy Carr, Armstrong knew he couldn’t afford to drop a bollock. Clearly embarrassed by the questioning, Armstrong admitted ‘he found it difficult’ to throw away all his credibility, and so hadn’t pretended to be an angry political activist in the first place.</p> <p>“Armstrong has been hiding in plain sight”, claimed Wheaton. “He’s associated with known hypocrites on all those panel shows. But where he should have been conforming to stereotypes, he’s been all ‘moderate’ and ‘quite funny’. I feel let down, it’s definitely cheating.”</p> <p>Some comics are still supportive of Armstrong, not least fellow endorser Ben Miller. “If it’s a crime to promote a company you’ve never vilified or something that doesn’t conflict with your principles, then we’re both ‘guilty as charged’”, confessed Miller. “But you don’t know what it’s like out there, grinding towards the peak of your career. There’s an awful lot of pressure to be a dope.” </p>