Humbug

[susie_flo]

Good grief...  amid my fangirl raving about The Killing, our tellybox has just been momentarily subjected to something that lives at the polar opposite end of the TV quality spectrum...    I refer to another episode of the 24-Hour Panel People bollocks that David Walliams did for Comic Relief.  (For those not in the know - he did 24-hours of non-stop "comedy" panel shows).
  
I am meh'd out by panel shows at the best of times, but this Walliams thing has been collossally shit from beginning to end.  For one thing, David Walliams himself is just really, really creepy, like a strange automaton from the 1950s ...and then combining him with people like Jedward is more than I can handle.  What is it with this WILFUL lack of intelligence on British popular TV?  Is it meant to be ironic?  I have no problem with stupidity if it is also funny (I give you exhibit You've Been Framed).  But really...   miserable cow I may be, I am yet to crack a smile at anything comic relief has thrown at the screen this year.
   
Still, I did watch the Through the Keyhole episode which resulted in me having a Harry Potter revelation that I'm sure everyone else managed to work out long ago...  this being that Dolores Umbridge is based on Anne Widdecombe!  They went into Widdi's house and everything was flowery but with swords hanging on the walls, and books about Thatcher, and her kitchen was FULL of ornamental plates with kittens on them!  Really the whole thing was Umbridgetastic - I'm amazed I didn't see it before.  :-)
  
Well... it's almost 4pm and I have managed to get out of my dressing gown, but could do with a nap.  Am really not firing on all cylinders today...
 

Comments

[chiller.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank god. I am the only person I know who doesn't enjoy Comic Relief. Flatmate stayed up and watched the whole 24 hour panel thing as it was filmed a week or so ago, live. I couldn't stomach five minutes of it - it's all so utterly puerile.

Comic Relief also annoys me in that we get film after film of poor little kids starving to death and "if it were not for this sachet of Plumpynut" or "if it were not for this sight saving operation"; and AT NO POINT does anyone address the fact that if we freakin well stopped selling arms to the people who run their country / the people who screw their country over / stopped supporting the patented technologies that are destroying that country's farming infrastructure, those kids' parents would be living in a society where people actually had a means to earn some income and we wouldn't need Comid Relief. But in a whole evening of telly and all the satellite programmes that occupy the weeks around Red Nose Day, NOBODY talks about the underlying issues that are killing these people.

The whole thing is really annoying me.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Curmudgeons are us! (I'd really not grieve if I never had to watch another ep of Mock the Week)

Also, what is this TV nostalgia that makes them want to bring back utter rubbish like Play Your Cards Right or Blankety Blank? TV of the 70s and 80s was, by and large, depressingly crap but with so little variety available that people watched it anyway. (It really baffles me, the popularity of channels like UK gold).

Pah!

[chiller.livejournal.com]

Yes, MTW is generally vile.

I do secretly like Jedward, though, and I loved the video for Newport State of Mind, which was at least contemporary.

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

You're not the only person you know who doesn't watch Comic Relief. Personally I avoid the whole thing like the plague (tho' I did watch the first few when I was Young).

I think you should do a poll: Love it/watch it out of guilt/watch it grudgingly with rest of household/don't care/avoid like the plague.