I liked them both. Always had a bit of a soft spot for Merton.


Incidentally, did you catch that Mark Lawson interview with Hislop?



Follow to dah Toob for other parts :)

You know, regarding that portrait, I think it's the camera angle that makes him seem like such a smarmy prick.

Most portraits are taken at the eye level. This one is taken at the level of his Adam's apple, so you have to look up at him and he's looking down at you. I have to assume this was his idea.

Missed that, so thanks.
Need to find a different recording though - even with both volumes on max it's too quiet for me to understand.

No. He really is that much of a smarmy twat.

Cleese is one of my favs, go figure. I agree with the others, send Morgan back. Snotty smarky bastid.

I'm conflicted about Clarkson, cause, I LOVE Top Gear... and hating every word he says on top gear makes the show BETTER not WORSE. His bullshit about, like, strikers being shot, or his usual offhand racism and sexism and homophobia, matches perfectly with his rhetoric about all bicyclists being shot. Jeremy Clarkson IS a character, and I enjoy the character even though I disagree with him.

I would pay a fair amount of money to see Morgan have the ever-loving shit slapped out of him.

Or fucked by a grizzly bear on bath salts...either/or.

Merc, that Cleese bit was very funny.

Ian Histlop is my hero. :D

Piers Morgan is always "misspelled" as Piers Moron in Private Eye.


I like Jeremy Clarkson and I think that people take him too seriously. He reminds our society that we need to get the fuck over ourselves sometimes and remember how to take a joke.

Yeah. It's good we have a middle-class, middle aged white man to make sure the rest of society can take jokes at their expense.

Victim....

Says the middle-class, middle aged white man :P

I actually don't mind Clarkson so much. He's quite entertaining, and as ibs suggested is a character. He plays up to his image of a curmudgeonly Little Englander.

But I don't really think that we need racist, anti-poor or misogynistic jokes to make us take ourselves less seriously. I'd be more impressed if he targeted some of his ire on those who aren't already the butt of everyone's jokes and occupy a stronger place in our society not a weaker one than him.

I have no real beef with Clarkson. He sends himself up too. Get what you say about criticism from a point of privilege though, Dans.

And yes, I know Cleese can be funny, but I just compare him to Michael "nicest man in the world" Palin. Same wife, same house (albeit extended), same values as when he started out. And some cracking travelogues to boot. Dinner party invite already written for when my boat comes in. His diaries reveal somewhat of a gourmand, but I bet I could serve up sardine and tomato paste sandwiches and still get a positive response.

Do we have a dinner party thread here?
I know Limey, DanaC and myself discussed a Dwellar version when in Glasgow. Don't think it made it to the board. Surprisingly for three women of a similar age and overlapping politics and humour, we had quite varying opinions on who we wanted to eat with. we kept cancelling out eachother's suggestions from what I remember.

Michael Palin is the shiznitt. I used tohave a major crush on him when i was in my teens :p