http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 26 May 2013 08:53:28 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769&page=2#post-5171 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:17:02 +0000 StoopyDeGunt 5171@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I don't like Caroline Quentin.</p> <p>But that's because she's the sort of person who says she doesn't 'suffer fools gladly'. I'm not sure why I've taken that personally, but I have.</p> <p>Self imporant git. She's just a comb over hairstyle away from being a real life Captain Mainwaring. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769&page=2#post-5126 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:43:13 +0000 thackaray 5126@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Just had the misfortune to see this "Life of Reilly" sitcom, flicking through the TV channels before the footie comes on.</p> <p>It's crapness, raises "My Family" to the bastion level of "Yes, Minister".</p> <p>The way this thread started out, was knocking all female comedy actors/comedians. </p> <p>My take on some female comedians: who's that female Geordie comedian who's been MTW, brill. Jo Caulfield, funny depending on my mood. The Iranian lady, Shapi something or other, funny. Gena Ashaware, can be funny, but delivers her humour aggressively too often.</p> <p>Female comedy actors: Caroline Quentin, don't like. All the female actors from 2 pints of lager, brill....mmmmm Sheridan Smith. Smack the Pony crew, very funny. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769&page=2#post-5122 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:23:19 +0000 the coarse whisperer 5122@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yes, it is a good tag. I should get a Balto gravatar. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5119 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:06:50 +0000 edward hack 5119@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Heroes, isn't that a gay sauna underneath the arches in Stourbridge MCA - surprised you never got herpes.<br /> Saw Jo Caulfield live the other night - she is both very funny and a good sort.<br /> Some great 'tags' given to people recently...Virt, FaG and now Husky (nice one mary) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5114 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:31:18 +0000 MrChigleysAunt 5114@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I used to go to Heroes occasionally. Never had herpes but I did enjoy their hot chocolate with marshmallows. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5101 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:15:07 +0000 PluckyMunky 5101@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Herpes' scarves are quite posh, I think. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5100 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:12:34 +0000 smyke 5100@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>There's a nice little cafe in Oxford called 'Heroes' whose sign has been altered to read 'Herpes'. Medical students, eh? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5090 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:35:19 +0000 Mary Evans 5090@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well it's never been funny when I've had it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5087 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:19:06 +0000 fernandomando 5087@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm surprised that the delightful Madam Evans has not been picked up on her suggestion that herpes is not funny. 'Herpes' evokes images of an evil Greek messnger God, and it is also closely associated with the word 'Bonjela' (in the context of cold sores) and women swimming in black motorcycle helmets. Maybe there is even the making of a sub in there somewhere. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5086 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:16:48 +0000 Basil_B 5086@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Quite agree Caroline Quentin is as funny as toothache and I think i'd much rather watch Sue Pollard do stand up than have to watch anything involving her.<br /> Speaking of Sue Pollard, does anyone think she has metamorphised into Jenny Eclair.<br /> I challenge anyone to say they've ever seen them in the same room together. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5081 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:55:57 +0000 Mary Evans 5081@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You raise a very interesting point, Husky. I suppose even those with no apparent sense of humour find something funny, even if it's torturing hamsters. Consider my world view slightly altered for your contribution. I thank you. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5079 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:47:48 +0000 MrChigleysAunt 5079@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I hope, for your goat's sake, that no one tells you that very often. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5078 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:44:01 +0000 the coarse whisperer 5078@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm a bit nonplussed by this "sense of humour" thing. Paradigmatically "Oh come on, where's your sense of humour" is something the school bully says when he's stamping on your face. In other words it's a way of coercing other people into your way of seeing. I either find a joke funny or I don't, it gets up my goat to be told that it shares the Platonic essence of funniness that I just haven't the wit to comprehend. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5074 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:15:11 +0000 MrChigleysAunt 5074@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>That's a very fine theory thank you Smyke. I think there may be something in it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5068 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:57:06 +0000 Oxbridge 5068@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I remember Caroline Quentin on HIGNFY when she was still married to Paul Merton. Her idea of humour was unfunnily insulting him, while he wisely/chivalrously/whatever refrained from making mincemeat of her. Unfunny cow. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5066 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:47:46 +0000 ramblesid 5066@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sorry Zad, and just when there was a chink of light at the end of the tunnel </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5065 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:37:27 +0000 smyke 5065@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I have this theory, see, that there are some comedians who find an audience among people who are secretly terrified that they may have no sense of humour. </p> <p>They are so anxious to prove they have one that they try too hard and will go to recordings of The Now Show and Jo Caulfield where they can whoop and bray with confidence because it says 'Contains Comedy' on the label. </p> <p>It's a bit like Margot in The Good Life' who is, ironically, an inspired and tragic comedy creation who regards her perceived humour deficit almost as a disability. </p> <p>One of the worst things you can accuse a British, especially English, person of is having no sense of humour. They can get very angry and, in extreme cases, can lose their sense of humour completely, which sort of proves the point.</p> <p>It's just a theory, mind. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5058 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:46:29 +0000 MrChigleysAunt 5058@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thinking about unfunny women, does anyone find Jo Caulfield funny? She seems very nice, but has never so much as raised one of the famous Chigley smiles. There are other supposedly funny people who I don't find funny, but yet I can see why others might like them. But not Jo Caulfield - her humour completely baffles me.<br /> Someone once wrote in to Radio 4 saying how dangerous it was for them to broadcast Jo Caulfield during her drive home because she laughed so much she might lose control of the car. That baffled me too.<br /> Which, I suppose, goes to confirm a comment on another thread to the effect that life's odd. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5049 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:33:24 +0000 Zadok the second 5049@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>a nip down the newsagent's </blockquote> </p> <p>Don't, you'll kick off another rant. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5047 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:23:33 +0000 Mary Evans 5047@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Bless you, but alas ramalamadingdong, this article was many years ago, when I was a young hackette with a head full of dreams and liver full of Sauvignon. Besides, were I to publish my thoughts on Ms Q, she would doubtless sue me for slander. Or force me to watch her sitcoms. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5046 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:21:01 +0000 ramblesid 5046@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The excerpt from your article has me sold, Mary. When's it out? definitely worth a raid on my coppers jar for a purchase, or at least a nip down the newsagent's for a quick shufti. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5041 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:56:00 +0000 Mary Evans 5041@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Have never got Victoria Wood at all. Adore Julie Walters in a girl-crush kinda way. Felicity Kendal does peculiar things to my Dad, so I try not to think too much about her. And I'm still waiting for French and Saunders to be really funny. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5037 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:21:01 +0000 smyke 5037@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>French and Saunders? French and Bloody Saunders?! And Lenny Henry? Not even a woman, for Christ's sake. What's that all about, eh? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5036 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:17:39 +0000 Dickens or Shakespeare 5036@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Victoria Wood - very good but blotted her copy book with that terrible Christmas show.<br /> Julie Waters - good actress so long as she doesn't appear in anything written by Ms Wood<br /> Flick Kendall - Ahh!(Until about 1980).</p> <p>Can add French and Saunders - Hugely overrated, especially in Dawn's case. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5035 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:16:49 +0000 smyke 5035@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Victoria Woods? Don't talk to me about Victoria Woods. I don't know her either and now I can't stand her. And Julie Bloody Walters? I'll give you Bloody Julie Bloody Walters! No idea what she's like, either. And Felicity Sodding Kendall? I really haven't got a clue about her! I mean, what are they like, eh? They're all the same, if you ask me. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5033 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:15:10 +0000 Mary Evans 5033@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>5) She ruined Smyke's day. And she doesn't even know him. What a bitch. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5032 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:11:14 +0000 Dickens or Shakespeare 5032@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You are not alone <a href="http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1234571" rel="nofollow">http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1234571</a><br /> Love the "Casting <strike>couch</strike> sofa bed" jibe. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5031 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:10:40 +0000 smyke 5031@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I've never met her or even thought about her very much but now I hate her too. She really must be awful. I can't believe how angry she's made me. It's really spoilt my day. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5029 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:10:05 +0000 MrChigleysAunt 5029@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm glad you've told us that. I can't stand her but now I feel rational about it. Can you help in a similar way with:<br /> Victoria Woods<br /> Julie Walters<br /> Felicity Kendall (actually, she came across as OK in a recent magazine interview)<br /> ? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1769#post-5020 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:15:17 +0000 The All New Jeni B 5020@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm not too keen on her simply because I didn't like the character of Dorothy in Men Behaving Badly. </p>