To ask, is Jim Davidson really a nice man?

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I was just chatting with OH here and I said I quite liked him on CBB. Apart from a few questionable remarks to Casey he seems a reasonably nice guy. OH reckons he has a bad reputation. Is this true? If so why?

When he mentioned how much money he'd spent on "top lawyers" to get him off the charges he faced following operation yew tree, I wondered why someone innocent would feel the need to do this. If you are innocent, there is no evidence against you, therefore you cannot be found guilty.

Shamelessly stolen from friend on Facebook...

This story did the rounds on twitter last night: if it's not true it should be. During making of awful ITV sitcom up the elephant and round the castle there was an ep in which Jim's character was mugged. So unpopular was he with the crew that they had a whip round and offered the pot to the young actor playing the mugger if he would punch JD for real. Cameras rolled and young actor in question drove his fist into the JD fizzog. 'You'll never work again' screamed JD as blood gushed from his nose. 'I've got connections in this business and you are fucked!' Young actor in question did alright as it turned out - it was David Thewlis.

Constable Savage arrested someone for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO8EpfyCG2Y walking around with an offensive wife]. I'd have thought Davidson would find that hilarious

Whoops, sorry.

If you are innocent, there is no evidence against you, therefore you cannot be found guilty

I'm no fan of Davidson bumpotato but I strongly disagree with that.

This government is trying to do away with publicly-funded skilled legal representation on the grounds of austerity and the: 'if you're innocent...' argument.

It is to be resisted. Sorry for the hi-jack but truly.

Perhaps Jim Davidson might like to address the nation on the matter.

Or perhaps he might prefer to squirrel away his earnings and fuck off back to a tax haven such as Dubai.

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What a Dick!

Davidson outwitted by boy Scout heckler

Jim Davidson was furious after being put in his place by a heckling boy Scout.
The 53-year-old comic was said to be seething after receiving foul-mouthed abuse from the junior punter during a packed pantomime.

Davidson, in character as Dick Whittington, asked the Kent audience: Do you know who I am?

And the Scout, in full uniform, brought the house down by yelling back: Yes, youre a fucking wanker.

According to The Sun, Davidson spent the rest of the half with a scowl on his face. He went to try to find the scoutmaster in the foyer during the interval to give him a piece of his mind, but to no avail.

The comic, who used to be a Scout himself, was apparently left speechless, with an unnamed source saying: He didnt like the fact he was being laughed at.

The newspaper has now put an appeal out to the lad, whose interruption came during the Sunday matinee performance at the 920-seat Orchard Theatre in Dartford.

Posted: 20 Dec 2006

Goddess, I hope the story about David Thewlis is true, I liked him before I bloody luff him now!

GottaLuffDavidThewlisTiggaxx

mate says that she can also back the women employees hated him at local theatres stories

but the squaddies loved him - so kept coming

as the rest of the british working class also do, it seems

awful

Not just working class though. Was in nice gastro type pub mon night and the general consensus was they all loved him Was so shocked esp at the women all boden and highlights

ah well the highlights renders their opinion MEANINGLESS

#sassy

I genuinely didn't watch this (and am glad I didn't, as would have given me The Rage - let's face it, Dappy being runner up is hardly a compliment to the viewers' judgement either).
So can anyone tell me - what happened to Lionel Blair? He always struck me as adorable, I'd have expected him to be a total vote-magnet. Was he really irritating in large quantities?

maybe they have bleached their brains away.

D'you reckon there was a plague that wiped out people that laughed at him back then? It all used to be "Nick Nick" & Chalky impressions in the part of Essex I grew up in when I was 12 or so....

The rather tenuous point I was making was that he had a huge fanbase back then (statistically some of you are lying bastards who used to laugh at him) and would appear to still have a following of sorts today - although looking at the absolute bunch of nobodies he was in with, it's more a case of "Cream of the Crap" than any great endorsement of him as a person...

I don't remember ever really seeing him on tv when I was young. He was very very good at manipulating people and invented a kind of good guy in front of the public's eyes.Not one person pulled him up on his leering at the model

Captain the kids who found JD funny back in the 80s were the same arseholes who bullied me at school. Believe me there are lots of them still around.. seeing Jim on the tv back in the 80s was depressing as a child. (and do bear in mind i was a kid so it wasnt always my choice what programme got watched) because it showed me that there were bullies to face later in life after school finished and i found that depressing and hope dashing.

ItsATIARA You don't want to know about Lionel Blair, I wish I could bleach my brain of the site of him simulating bumsex and f'ing and blinding. This is a "clean" write-up of some of it

If you are innocent, there is no evidence against you, therefore you cannot be found guilty

Not defending JD but try telling that to the people who get imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. It happens all the time.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's acceptable humour & I imagine I'd be absolutely gobsmacked if I was to watch it today.

But, in the bad old days, it was considered acceptable, the same as Bless This House, Bernard Manning, Chubby Brown, Please Sir & loads of other tosh that'd get people sent to jail nowadays!

And it's people who remember laughing along to "good old Jim" et al that probably voted for him, alongside others that haven't heard any of the other stories about him & just votes on what they saw.

And I can see he's not a particularly nice man - but he's not totally bad (which is why I mentioned the work for the Forces)

As imperfect as JD might be, he's no worse an advert for mankind than last year's winner Charlotte Crosby is for womankind.

If a son of mine turned out like Jim, I'd be very disappointed indeed.

But if my daughter turned out like Charlotte, I'd send a bulk email apology to every man, women and child on Earth and then I'd hang myself.

Ugh Roy Chubby Brown. Both him and Jim make my skin crawl.

Piscovorus you here too! .

I ended up liking Jim, I think hes been honest to admit the past year, he obv went on CBB to clear his name publicly (and who doesn't? think Les Dennis and Amanda stuff), he seems like a changed man

yes hes from the Bernard manning/roy chubby brown school of stand up but so were most people in the 70's/80's, plus what about franky boyle and jimmy carr these days?

he behaved better than anyone else in the house, okay a couple of below the belt remarks but linda was a bitch and poisoned everyones mind about him, look at nthe change when she left, at least (apart fro mthe getting out of bed)he didn't show flesh/sleaze arounbd like lionel whos suddenly become mr nice guy again, jump from one bed to another and run around naked and stuff.

He has not changed he was completely inappropriate with casey and admitted if he was his real self he would be out. I cannot believe people are taken in by him.

Tried to post in site stuff but it wouldnt take Is anyone else getting a notification from MN along the bottom of the screen every time they post asking them to save or open a file.

Cant stand Boyle or Carr either.