AIBU in liking 10 O'Clock Live?

[TiggyD]

People seem to be very critical of it, but I quite like it. Charlie Brooker is nice and ranty in a foaming at the mouth kind of way. David Mitchell brings the sex appeal of a sort. He must get a lot of 'pity shags' with his sad, big eyes like a little puppy who shits on the carpet but you can't help but love. Jimmy Carr looks really cute when he dresses up, in the same way as a kitten always does when made to wear a hat. 1funny.com/kitten-hat/ .
And of course you have the other one.
Am I being unreasonable or are there other people who like it?

I can never do links first time! 1funny.com/kitten-hat/

I like it, except for Lauren Laverne. I just don't understand why she's on it. I love Danid Mitchell, quite like Charlie Brooker and don't mind Alan Carr. I ff through Laurens bits though

YANBU

YANBU, I like it too. My cousin and I, and a couple of our friends, were in the audience of the pilot show we met Jimmy Carr after too.. he is really quite small IRL!

I love Charlie Brooker and David Mitchell.

Yes I like it, except for Lauren Laverne. I appreciate the need for eye candy for the guys (sort of) but if they got Victoria Coren they would have looks and intelligence together!

Surely David could have a word....??

YANBU David Mitchell is brilliant, and I've grown to like Jimmy Carr. Lauren Laverne isn't as funny, but she does do a good job as a presenter. The only one who doesn't come out of it well is Charlie Brooker - I used to like him, but now his faux grumpy persona is starting to grate, and also his habit of recycling his material for his column in the Guardian.

Eye candy?
Maybe she's there because she is articulate and has a track record of hosting live shows. Who knows?
I like them all.

I suppose she does a good job of weighing down that forth stool. Without her a high wind could send it flying across the studio doing untold damage. Maybe if there was another 'non combative' non comedian on the show she wouldn't stick out as much.

Yes, Charlie does have a tendency of re-using the material in his Guardian column, which is highly annoying and makes it very 'scripty'. Lauren Laverne's pieces tend to be more serious - she did an excellent one before the election on the need to vote. I think it's a bit obvious to have the woman as the 'non-comedian' anchor-person, they could just as well have had a male straight man (so to speak) and got Sue Perkins in to be her usual hilarious (if rather less sweary) self, for example.

I actually find Jimmy Carr more grating in that format - his 'in costume' sections all seem a bit Saturday Night Live-ish, and he seems to need his material to be more overtly controversial than satirical.

Would be fab to have Victoria Coren on as well but she seems quite busy!

Eye candy? Maybe she's there because she is articulate and has a track record of hosting live shows. Who knows?

Well I think we will have to agree to differ on that one Pilgrim You're not my DH are you because I think he would say the same as you, but for me she is the very quintessence of ditziness with nothing much to say.

Really Sarah? She doesn't come across to me as a token space cadet, although I find it highly irritating that she has to have a different hair style every week. (This, I suspect, is not her decision).

Assuming they all script their own bits (by no means certain) she has as much to say as the others.

Oh well I am going to have to admit I am out of step on this one. Actually you are probably right, she is not too bad at doing what is obviously a scripted piece (may or may not be self penned as you say) and I have no doubt that she is a good dee jay (hardly ever listen to Radio 6) but they wouldn't dare let her loose on bits where you have to think on your feet as with David Mitchell, and she never comes back with a quick-witted retort like Jimmy Carr.

I just can't help thinking that if she weren't so very gorgeous they would never have considered her (and now that I think of it, why not Jo Brand, Sandi Toksvig, Sue Perkins (as you said yourself)...the list goes on!

I've just remembered she said hello to Mumsnet during the week

I definitely think her role is defined as one of host person and her experience in working in a live environment probably makes her a better choice for that than either of the guys with stand-up experience, or Charlie Brooker who would be tempted to go mental on live TV just for the hell of it. I would imagine being v good looking (with aforementioned annoyingly versatile hair) was at least part of the reason she was selected, esp as none of the others are exactly eye candy. Sandi Toksvig would be hilarious and brillant but also completely out of touch with 'tha kidz' (much as I am, and proud to be so) and they already have David Mitchell pigeon-holed in that role.

Mind you, I should say I had never heard of Lauren Laverne before 10 O'Clock Live, so I just assumed she was a comedian I didn't know. Clearly she isn't - I don't mean she isn't funny but she isn't a comedian either. I think this is probably intentional but for myself I would oust one of the boys in favour of the fabulous Sue - Jo Brand would eat them all up for breakfast, I don't think she could be part of an ensemble cast!

I dunno Trib...JB makes an excellent host on HIGNFY

Regarding the other women I mentioned not being eye candy...exactly my point; I have a horridly uncomfortable feeling that gorgeousness was the number one criterion.

And you have (brilliantly!) touched a raw nerve with about being down with tha kidz (or not!). Judging by the studio audience the target audience seems to be early 20s. Why?????

Saddened to see so much Lauren Laverne bashing, I love her. She's just one of those annoying people who manages to be successful at whatever they put their mind to. I saw that as someone who bought the first Kenickie album some 15/16 years ago.

Hi Lauren, if you're reading

I say that as someone... Damn you autocorrect.

I like Lauren Laverne, Jimmy on the other hand doesn't seem to cope with live very well.

Most of the current affairs news programs are aimed at older people, I think it's great that they've done a reasonably decent one aimed at younger people - better than BBC3's approach of making the news as short as physically possible with no explanations of anything

Although I am miffed that even more people don't like MN now!

To be fair Violet I think it's only me, with a bit of playfulness from TiggyD thrown in!!

Hi Lauren, nothing personal!

Sarah, I agree, she does, but HIGNFY is a much more obvious 'one person in charge' kind of format, I don't get the impression you're really meant to realise one of them is hosting on 10 O'Clock Live.

When I said none of the others are eye candy, I meant the guys on 10 O'Clock Live, not the lovely Perkins, Toksvig or Brand. Not that if any of them are reading they will be weeping into their cornflakes to have been described as 'not eye candy'.

I agree, the target audience is clearly meant to be younger (quite a lot younger than the cast) so perhaps we should be grateful Charlotte Church was not available! (Love CC, thought her chat show was dire, although the idea of Jimmy Carr being her doing her 'singing the news' bit at the beginning is making me giggle).

No no - just to stress, Lauren was saying hello to Mumsnet in a good way. Jimmy Carr tried to pretend he'd got confused with the term MILF, hil-aaaaair-ious. Not.

Really? I thought it was fairly clear that Lauren is the host. She does all the intros.

When I said none of the others are eye candy, I meant the guys on 10 O'Clock Live, not the lovely Perkins, Toksvig or Brand. Not that if any of them are reading they will be weeping into their cornflakes to have been described as 'not eye candy'.

Gotcha. And you are absolutely right of course (re weeping into cornflakes, not) although in fact they are absolutely gorgeous afaic!

And veering off slightly, I am far more likely to find any person of either gender fanciable if they make me laugh. Upthread Tiggy said that David Mitchell brings sex appeal of a sort. He's right, but taken feature by feature David Mitchell is not your classic sex god, and indeed until about a year ago his USP was that he was celibate. But he is SO witty you just want to eat him (or is that just me???)

Yes, Lauren is the host - the others are funny (even Charlie despite my earlier post), but they don't have much experience of presenting a live broadcast> Lauren does, and I think she does it well.

Saying that, if C4 decided to do a version of 10 o'clock Live for, umm, more mature viewers such as myself, Jo Brand would be a brilliant choice to host it.

I've got a bit of Kenickie on the ol' MP3 player and often listen to her on 6. I also go out my way to see her on shows like Room 101 the other day. But she is funny in a witty conversational way. In the chat round the table she gets cut off by the boys too easily and her stand up bits are never going to be in the same league as the other's rude/aggressive/shouty/OTT bits. I think the balance is a bit off in the show at her cost, but overall it's a fuuny show and I would let her touch my bits.

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