To think AA Gill must be the most joyless journalist on the planet.

[Vintageclock]

He just moans and drones about everything. His restaurant reviews are almost unreadable and he seems to make a point of despising the kind of television programmes that the Hoi Polloi love. Why doesn't he just go and live on top of a tree someplace where he can look down on the rest of us, lip curled with total disdain.

[mlamle]

He can take David Starkey up there with him while he's at it. And Liz Jones, who will have to make her own clothes from leaves...

[springybuffy]

They should rename the Sunday Times AA Gill because he writes most of it.

He has too much power and too much space - challenge is good for a person and he has none. He used to be amazing back in the day but now he spreads slime over everything he touches. Such a shame, he is monstrously clever.

[newgirl]

Agree - a good brain wasted on criticising tv and food. Perhaps he should try writing a drama?

[wanderings]

The fictional review by AA Gill in "Adrian Mole - the Cappuccino Years":

"The sausage on my plate could have been a turd. It looked like a turd, tasted like a turd, smelled like a turd, had the texture of a turd. In fact, thinking about it, it probably was a turd."

[wanderings]

No apologies for quoting the above - how joyless of me!

[FitzgeraldProtagonist]

He's Hilarious. I love a curmudgeon. If DP (funnily enough, a true optimist) ever shuffles off I will be begging AA Gill to be his blonde.

[Vintageclock]

I don't know how his current blonde puts up with him. Surely all that weary cynicism would wear you down after a while?

[EstelleGetty]

He is a boring dick. His sarkyness is so....90s.

And he's terrified of anywhere north of the Watford Gap.

[Beeyump]

He makes me feel nervous.

[Nancy66]

He has the worst halitosis I've ever encountered.

[HarlotOTara]

He says he's a Scot though

[grovel]

He doesn't drink alcohol. No wonder he's so miserable.

[curlew]

He's best friend is Jeremy Clarkson.

He shot a baboon to see what it felt like.
(No so hilarious, perhaps?)

No more need be said.

[mignonette]

Didn't he show naked photo's of his partner, Nicola Formby to Piers Morgan over lunch once?

He also has the insecurity of an auto didact around academics.

Maybe part of the reason why Mary Beard makes him feel so threatened and confused.

[curlew]

And he started the Mary Beard thing. And made ghastly homophobic jokes about Clare Balding.

Even more hilarious. Positive National Treasure material.

[motherinferior]

Isn't he the one who is convinced he is incredibly goodlooking, too?

[Kinnane]

Joyless too is Giles Coren. Describing the front row at London Fashion Week he says".....the dregs of society's shallowest echelon gawping down the runway..." ..."Our catwalk catastrophe has exposed the world of fashion. Behind the emaciated face is a sick heart ..... "
and
" Well, thank God London Fashion Week is over for another season. Ye Gods, what a procession of vain lunacy and simpering dimness. What a mockery of all that is modest and decent. What a hideous picture of female priorities and preoccupations. What a nuclear explosion of vomitous superficiality, custom-made and hand-finished to blast the public perception of women back to the Stone Age.
......"


i'm lost for words

[LadybirdsEverywhere]

I think he's hilarious, most notably in his Uncle Dysfunctional column.

[BringMeTea]

A very unpleasant person. I think the auto didact comment is correct. I believe he is dyslexic and I get the impression he revels in his flowery prose as some kind of salve for past academic troubles. This would help to explain his love of Jeremy. Makes him feel superior as no man more dim than him exists.

Think it was actually the Blonde herself who showed P Morgan the nekkid pics... Nice.

[Beeyump]

Kinnane Whenever I read Giles Coren's Saturday piece in the Times, I always feel vaguely stupid - like, am I missing out on the big, amazing joke? Am I just being slow and dull? Or is he really just a numpty.

[usuallyright]

Peter Hitchens (daily mail) is more joyless.

[EstelleGetty]

He is a Scot only by birth. And that could happen to anyone. He is one of those Scots who revel in their family's country piles, stag's head on the wall, recite a bit o' Rabbie wae a dram, but who would never, ever dreaming of living here unless his home was flanked by a ten-deep army of gunmen.

Which is totally fine with the Scottish population - I'd imagine most of us don't want him!

[Beeyump]

Estelle - agreed

[curlew]

"I think he's hilarious, most notably in his Uncle Dysfunctional column"

Yep. Especially when he shot a baboon through the lungs to see what it was like to kill a man.......absolutely hilarious.

[Kinnane]

Beeyump, He just seems so angry about almost everything. Possibly it is one way of being in the news and getting some attention. Publicity good or bad being welcome