in thinking the whole Ross and Brand thing is a storm in a teacup and that people are DYING in the congo and quite frankly its pathetic to give two shits about Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand OR Andrew Sachs and his gobshite daughter?

[Eniddo]

hmm?

Thank god - I totally agree - instead of complaining about a programme two weeks ago that they didn't even hear they should be complaining about the crappy sentences given to rapists, and murders!!!

Amen Eniddo, exactly what I thought at the BBC Breakfast news. I'm so sick of hearing about Brand and Ross.

Lovebam, I work with rapists et al, so discuss sentencing at work, am I allowed to have a ponder on this subject in my own time?

Macdog - fab link, thankyou! Great site.

the granddaughter has come out worst in all this tbh

so you care so little about it that you had to make a thread to express your anger who do care about it because they don't care as much about a thread that you started and that's gotten you pissed off?but of course it's not like you care

wow

do you often overthink things mayorquimby?

Gordon Brown and Co got involved and it flew to the front of all the newspapers as Mandelson was implicated in this trying to get money off of very very rich russian people thing - all went quiet for him and thus taking heat of the government!

I think Ross is hilarious - don't like Brand as much - remember him as a young weirdo as we grew up in same town - FFS it was comedy and most of the wankers that complained didn't even listen to the original broadcast so deliberately listened later through other media platforms just so they could be offended!

I would be more embarrassed by what my granddaughter was getting up to if I were Andrew Sachs - and as he goes he did some really close to the edge stuff about Germans etc in Faulty Towers didn't he - sexism, racism etc too that most certainly would cause uproar if it were to be broadcast for the first time now.

I listened to the Brand show and heard the 'calls' and remember thinking at the time Ross and Brand were saling a bit close to the wind....

However, that's exactly why I thought it was funny. The bl**dy media have completely over-reacted and those who complained have probably nevr even heard the show, and in any case, those who complained are not the target audience for Ross or Brand so what is the point is everyone getting so het up about things?

True, there's more important things in the world going on. Totally agree, so why waste licence fee payers money on pointless meetings to even discuss this kind of thing? They'll now have to waste even more licence fee payers cash recruiting a new and as good as the outgoing BBC Radio 2 Controller and putting in place 'safety nets' to ensure the 'comedy' coming out the corporation is dim-witted and safe.

Do the BBC want to be a watered down state controlled waste of time broadcasting safe material which will never cause offence to anyone or do they want to produce and present cutting edge and 'of their time' shows with talented presenters?

There are other presenters such as Jeremy Vine who offends me on a daily basis with his dumbed down 'current affairs' magazine programme on BBC Radio 2 but I don't complain about him..although I might do so now!