Comments on: Beacon Of Hope

By: -273

-273 — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:07:17 +0000

From a Guardian fluff piece about the best adverts of the last ten years…

That Cadbury’s Gorilla ad is shite. Clichéd crap. The sort of ad only made by ad execs to win awards. And don’t get me started on that fact that he’s not drumming in time and DOESN’T EVEN LOOK LIKE A REAL GORILLA.

I’m sorry, it just makes me angry.

Back in the day, PG Tips would have a real monkey drumer tortured into shape quick smart for our advertainment!

By: Tiger's Wood

Tiger's Wood — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:51:21 +0000

As I recall, Stan did his other Teutonic laugh riot, making extensive use of the word Fokker, on some chat show pre-watershed. He didn’t do so much TV after that. Either that or Alexei Sayle’s fab Bobby Chariot brought comedy commissioners to their senses. If I’m right.

By: That Bloke in the Corner

That Bloke in the Corner — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:00:16 +0000

@Jesus Chris, I’m fairly sure Boardman is alive, I am positive that he was on some lame show on Radio 4 not long ago with Simon Mayo at around 6.30 in the evening, you see how the mighty have fallen? It wasn’t funny and he did keep rattling on about Germans bombing chippies,that was about the sum of the humour for the entire god forsaken half hour.I’m sorry I haven’t a clue,it was not.

By: Bit Special AKA La Spesh

Bit Special AKA La Spesh — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:39:05 +0000

@Manly – you weren’t the only one.

By: Ren C Bugrat

Ren C Bugrat — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:13:56 +0000

@Cropped trousers

You wouldn’t be Silent Koala’s little sister by any chance?

By: Cropped trousers

Cropped trousers — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:01 +0000

When did it become Ok to stop talking about how fab Silent Koala is. Eh, eh, eh?

By: Jesus Chris

Jesus Chris — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:21:54 +0000

@YeGods

Stan Boardman was way funnier. Or still is. I don’t know if the cunt’s dead yet. It’s not hard to be funnier than Ken Dodd, but it’s hard to get repeated laughs out of “De Germans? Dey bombed our chippies!”

Which he did.

By: Ben C Rugrat

Ben C Rugrat — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:37 +0000

Where’s the footnote for “f***”?

Ken Dodd was quite amusing a long, long time ago, but not as funny as Max Wall.

If I’m right..

By: YeGods

YeGods — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:03:58 +0000

I once attended (pretty much by accident) the switching on of Xmas Lights by Ken Dodd. Being Ken Dodd he was late, very late, and the various minor council employees and micro-local radio personalities desperately tried to keep the punters happy. “Let’s sing along with Jonah Louie once more”

Eventually they clearly decided f*** it, and switched the lights on themselves just as the funniest man in the Western World* arrived.

He leapt onto the stage** and started his routines as his entire audience streamed away to the car parks to go home.

A life-affirming experience.

* I made this bit up. He’s not funny at all actually
** And this bit. After all, he is 102 years of age

By: Felix Castor

Felix Castor — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:58:50 +0000

Alexandra Burke triumphed in last year’s X Factory. She recently topped the charts with her pop anthem “Bad Boys”. The song is shit, obviously, but Ms Burke is reasonably attractive and I suspect it is possible to wank over her image.

Scientifically speaking I should probably test that theory. BRB.