Jonathan Ross: An Apology
I take my last post back. I do miss Jonathan Ross. After watching Angus Deayton on Saturday night's utterly lacklustre British Comedy Awards I'm praying that Ross will be back next year – I'll even chip in a fiver towards his fee if he's feeling a bit strapped for cash. Sometimes it takes a truly dull show like this to remind you that maybe certain people are worth the millions we pay them after all...
By the way, if you missed the whole programme the only thing you really missed was Inbetweeners head honcho Iain Morris brilliantly catching a bottle lobbed at him. Never mind television, the England cricket team needs people like him.
Have a look here...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mZvMHVOhbYM
I agree. What's normally a highlight of pre-Xmas TV, was a complete damp squib. Was it Angus's nerves, or the apparently poor script that was at fault?
At least Sharon Horgan (co-writer and star of Pulling) got the recognition she deserves - though I was sad to hear on the ITV2 follow-on show that Pulling has been dropped by BBC3.
Posted by: Richard Hancock | 09/12/2008 at 11:53 AM
Of course J. Ross should be back on our TV's. It was only a disgraceful witch-hunt in the first place that deprived us of his humour and wit.
Posted by: Mike Coventry | 09/12/2008 at 04:28 PM
Agreed! Good to hear someone saying it...
Still shan't miss Brand, though.
Posted by: HPK | 10/12/2008 at 02:14 PM
Finally, someone in the media talking sense!
Posted by: Nicola | 10/12/2008 at 04:26 PM
Jonathan Ross - humour and wit? now that is a joke!
Posted by: verity | 11/12/2008 at 09:46 AM
Definitely miss him! I miss Brand a lot more though, his radio programme was a different class.
Posted by: Oliver | 12/12/2008 at 12:54 AM
Well it was an award show, what do people expect .... and now that you have knocked him down (not undeservedly), now starts the rehabilitation...
Posted by: andy | 18/12/2008 at 11:59 PM
It was an APPALLING awards show! I had never seen Angus Deayton so out of sorts - he seemed nervous and inexperienced, not something I would readily have associated with him. He certainly made himself look completely wrong for this presenting role, he would have been better writing his own material because he appeared not to be able to read what he was saying and certainly seemed to have no idea how to present it.
I was getting tired of Jonathan Ross's innuendo and smuttiness, and hope that he will have been forced to rein in these elements of his character, which really spoil what is otherwise an interesting and appealing show. If he has learned that there is no need for this to be popular it will all have been worth it (but sadly I fear he doesn't care and that this period of offscreen 'punishment' has been insignificant and ineffective and will not have touched his ego in the way it should have).
Posted by: Pauline | 31/12/2008 at 01:43 PM
I miss Jonathan Ross as much as I miss the cold I had just before Christmas! I hadn't realised the British viewing public are so easily pleased by repetitious mediocrity - he is certainly not my idea of wit or originality.
Posted by: Neil Gillam | 13/01/2009 at 05:00 PM