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News Quiz - Peter Oborne

19 replies

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 12/01/2018 19:54

Didn't work, did it? I had to switch channels, a thing that hardly ever happens. He just wasn't funny. Simon Evans is funny but he appears to be just about the only right-of-centre comedian around at the moment. Or have I forgotten anyone?

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Summi97 · 12/01/2018 21:38

Totally agree, had to check what programme was on. Not funny at all, and not a hint of a sense of humour. Don't know who was last week but wasn't impressed then either.

echt · 13/01/2018 05:56

Fuck me. I've just finished listening to it.

Entirely humourless, used the show to spruik the Daily Fail and attack the "leftieness"' of the BBC/ the scriptwriters, rather than engage with the material.

Completely missed the aim of show. Came over as a bit thick, too. No analysis, so anxious to prove himself and point score.

Awful, awful, awful.

allegretto · 13/01/2018 11:15

Completely missed the aim of show.

Exactly. Not sure what programme he thought he was on. I thought Miles dealt with him very well though.

Summi97 · 13/01/2018 12:00

Yes, rest of the panel and audience were laughing their heads off in disbelief...

billovitch · 13/01/2018 13:27

His intervention near the end - "is there such a thing as a right wing script writer" - was bizarre. It was a response to some jokes about the Queen's discomfort at her coronation:

Wearing a heavy crown gave her the most muscular neck in her cage fighting division
She was forced to ride in a gold carriage because of her terrible Uber rating after a corgi crapped in the footwell.
Wearing a crown isn't as bad as having to go through a hen night wearing a Claire's Accessories tiara.

Apparently, to Oborne this was a left wing rant impugning the Queen's reputation. He clearly spends too much time in the Daily Mail bubble in which one never refers to "the Queen" but always to "Her Majesty, the Queen".

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 13/01/2018 13:29

Switched off after about 5 mins or so. Assume from these comments it didn’t get any better after that.

parrotonmyshoulder · 13/01/2018 21:46

Just talking about this. Had to switch off too, for the first time ever. Dreadful.

LadyWithLapdog · 13/01/2018 21:48

Complete prat.

tribpot · 13/01/2018 22:02

I almost switched off after five minutes as well. I persevered, it didn't get better. Completely counter-productive of the Beeb really - basically inviting the right wing village idiot down for everyone to laugh at. Not helpful.

HerSymphonyAndSong · 14/01/2018 06:05

I listened all the way through. It was very awkward. It definitely wasn’t his rightwing-ness that was the problem, but his complete lack of a sense of humour

officerhinrika · 14/01/2018 15:08

All of the above! I got all the way through but he grated, like something stuck in the teeth. Kept wondering why he was there as he wasn’t contributing anything other than irritation.

annandale · 15/01/2018 09:50

Not just me then. I've heard alleged right wingers on the NQ before like Daniel Finkelstein who is cleverer than a clever thing and has a sense of humour. It would be fair for right wingers to consider the NQ biased to a leftwing position and to have to box quite clever to get their worldview accepted, but Oborne sneering without any jokes didn't work. Imagine working with him. Jeez.

parklives · 16/01/2018 00:06

Yep, didn't work.

TheLongRider · 16/01/2018 00:18

He was po-faced and slow witted. I wonder if he thought he'd been booked for "Any Questions".

squishysquirmy · 16/01/2018 00:34

He wasn't very funny but I thought the show was funny overall. The other panellists and the presenter had some quick comebacks.
He just kept making the same "joke" over and over, which was repeatedly complaining about the left wing bias of everyone at the BBC. Apparently, any joke at the expense of a Conservative government (on a news quiz comedy ffs) is proof of blatent, unacceptable bias.

Coyoacan · 16/01/2018 04:48

He wasn't very funny but I thought the show was funny overall. The other panellists and the presenter had some quick comebacks

Excellent come-backs!

LapdanceShoeshine · 20/01/2018 16:19

Only just spotted this. I was sufficiently stunned at the time to mention it on FB!

Oborne was truly awful & was put in his place brilliantly.
"I thought this was supposed to be balanced" (Really, Peter? Did you really?)
Miles - "well go righter, Peter"

Grin

I notice they've had a rightish person each week this series, which is good. The other 2 so far were sufficiently quick-witted AND FUNNY to hold their own but poor old Oborne was way out of his depth. I'm hoping to hear Hugo Rifkind & Danny Finkelstein in the next couple. Gyles Brandreth would be ok too.

But please, never Oborne again!

Anymajordude · 24/01/2018 12:24

Well he happily confirmed all my prejudices against the Daily Mail were valid.

He was pompous, self righteous and embarrassing and worse he wasn't funny.

TheEverdelightfulsamantha · 29/05/2023 13:22

I’ve just listen to this episode (working my way through old collections on Audible) and I knew there would be a post here - it the weirdest episode ever!

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