Russell Brand, Jonathan Woss and Andrew Sachs

[JoolsToo]

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3263328/Russell-Brand-and-Jonathan-Ross-joke-radio -phone-calls-just-werent-funny.html

Have we not had a discussion about this? I'm surprised.

Seedy, sordid, unfunny little men pad obscene amounts of money to be obscene.

What's your view?

If you're talking about the Cancer sketch - well Dudley Moore was in it! So not really for me to be offended for him.

What is the point of copying and pasting stuff from a totally different website?

beanie - from what you are presumbly copying and pasting, I do agree that some of the comments on the BBC site are...getting fanciful. I thought we were discussing comments and debate on MN?

I don't agree with the 'pro-muslim anti-semitic' theory...but don't see how posters on the BBC site negate views posed on MN?

MM:
No.

And I heart MoChan's posts! If we think everyone is 'fair game' and we should not respect people or treat them gently if there is the remotest prospect of having a laugh at their expense instead, the we and our children will experience the consequences of it. I imagine the person who called a call centre and shouted 'I hope your children die' at a Mumsnetter's husband, thinks Brand and Ross are simply hilarious.

"I have a licence and therefore pay for lots of shit I can't stand. Should I demand that everything I hate should be scrapped? "

If it is actually hateful offensive shit that could be classed as harassment - then yes, of course you should demand it is scrapped. If it is merely not to your taste, then no.

I agree with you MoChan, and with Blu's post of 13.23 about the BBC. We are really fortunate to have such an excellent, diverse public broadcasting company, the envy of the world, so it is a PITA when clods like JR and RB pull this sort of pathetic, meanspirited stunt.
I've been pissed off for a while about the amount JR is paid (others too) and I don't even dislike him particularly.

No - I have never met and nor do I know the presenters - what a really odd question!

I think that this uproar has become bigger than it should as a result of an agenda against the BBC and these two people in particular. So many of the comments from viewers and from people on here start with 'I don't like Russel brand/J Ross anyway'

I think people are negatively swayed by their existing opinions of them both!

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beany, pick the BBC forum comments apart on the BBC forum, why don't you?
There's not really much overlap between the foamflecked stuff you are cherrypicking from there and the current posts on this thread tbh

I cant wait until this story is old news and chip wrapper. What they did was wrong - but the tabloids print FAR worse lies and are not held accountable.

There are far worse things going on in the world and this is the sort of media circus that will cause the goverment to rub their hands together in glee! Whilst we are debating this the fact that our economy is in meltdown, we are still at war and we are all SKINT is not talked about as much.

Andrew Sachs interpretation of a 'dumb' abused spanish waiter in Fawlty Towers was far more offensive! (that was a joke - I love Fawlty Towers.

I bet more people listen to Russel Brands radio show after this. The best thing if you dont like the two blokes concerned is to SWITCH off. If what they did was illegal - let the police deal with it.

Wow - just heard that 4,500 complaints have now been received about this. I think it slightly odd that so many people are complaining retrospectively. Not that I am saying it wasn't utterly stupid and rude, because it was.

yes i am going to write to the BBC and demand that my licence fee is never used towards anything with Mr Tumble in it.

"To keep track of where I am in a pattern, I just stick the pattern in a plastic sleeve and then use a dry erase marker to mark where I am. This is especially helpful during the more complicated areas of a pattern".
Handy tip from Ravelry.
Contentious use of a plastic sleeve there, anyone with relatives in the commercial stationery business want to manufacture an argument out of thin air?

Oh now you're talking BBBeast

With any luck, this will make the industry ditch prank phone calls. They are cheap and nasty - having a laugh at the expense, usually, of some innocent person who has to pick up the phone, often receptionists.

Beanie - it does your argument no good at all to make sweeping and negative judgements about the opinions of those with whom you disagree. It is highly derogatory to the other posters and their opinions to suggest that they are speaking based on blind bias rather than, as I see in their posts, an intelligent appraisal of the incident in question.

Indeed, as I have already said, it is my previously good opinion of Jonathon Ross that is making me all the more horrified at this incident. He struck me as intelligent, funny and decent before this - and this has made me rethink radically.