how come the bbc always gives comedy jobs to middle class boys

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it's a bit boring.

at least bravo has the cockney geezer danny dyer

Who was that posh cock end that was on Top Gear on Sunday? I couldn't stand him and his braying.

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DH thinks he is called Michael Mcintyre. What ever he is called, he is an unfunny public school wanker.

i think the bbc is run by old public school boys

Truly interesting comedy always comes from outside the middle-class-male circle so I don't know why they always seem to get the breaks.

I'm thinking of The Royle Family, Victoria Wood, Peter Kay, Father Ted... there are loads.

There was a documentary about Little Britain's Walliams and Lucas a while ago and the amount of support and breaks they got, despite many, many failures, was unbelievable. Yep, middle class boys.

I like Michael McIntyre

I think it's one of the reasons there isn't much gripping drama these days, and nothing realistic or that people can relate to.

I read an interview with the actor who plays Lester Freamon in The Wire asking why he thought there wasn't the equivalent of the fantastic HBO shows over here, and he thought that it was because there were too many MC people with degrees in TV and that it wasn't necessary to be a graduate to write good drama.
I agree with him.

Do you think he's funny Frasersmum? I like Russell Brand and me and DH are going to see Simon Amstell in October. Thinking about it, Simon Amstell is fairly posh isn't he.

Agree mrsruffallo.

I bet Paul Abbot hasn't got a crappy 2:2 in media studies and he wrote probably the best new TV drama of recent years with Shameless.

No Paul Abbott hasn't got a crappy 2:2 in media studies but he did start (and then drop out of) psychology at Manchester Uni