>He has repeating dreams where Simon constantly banters on his wife's book. >Over and over all through the years >Can't take it no longer >Decides to take a way out
Not knowing that Armstellxinugh is waiting for him in the void. With that shuddering sound like voice he hears >Daily Mail........Upmarket >WWE CANNNT LOOOSEE PRESSTONN
Preston soon wakes up again, eve to face the horror.
tbf the spanish do have dangerously low balcony rails, not even waist height, and for the average beer bellied lad on tour with a high centre of mass it forms a dangerous combination.
Reminder Preston did nothing wrong. He showed humility and stoicism to stand up and walk away. Don't ever let clowns speak to you like that. Don't even acknowledge them.
If you deliberately go on that show to promote yourself knowing you will get roasted only then to walk off you must know people will see you as a butch who can’t handle the banter. He dug his own grave there.
His wife was being picked on in her absence, I'd say walking off was the correct thing to do
Shy of smacking that weasel Amstell around the head with mining equipment, I don't see what else he could have done
And there's a difference between banter and straight insults
>Go on panel show infamous for being crass and insulting the guests >Act surprised when it happens to you
If this was any old talk show yeah fair enough, but come on. He could have just brushed it off. The fact he walked out signals that he knows the book was moronic and that he wouldnt actually defend it.
>Go on panel show infamous for being crass and insulting the guests >Act surprised when it happens to you
If this was any old talk show yeah fair enough, but come on. He could have just brushed it off. The fact he walked out signals that he knows the book was moronic and that he wouldnt actually defend it.
Yeah agree, he may have walked out under the guise of defending his wife but really it was because he was embarrassed that he'd traded in any "cred" that he believed he had to be with her. Reading the book out loud was intended to remind of this. It was quite brutal really but the thing is The Ordinary Boys were shit anyway and never had any cred or respect - they were an obvious flash in the pan at the time. Basically he was too self-serious, and Amstell knew this and ruthlessly exploited it.
Buzzwieners particularly was known for the brutal personal nature of the roasting. If you go on there you need to be able to take it and of course if you have any degree of wit and intellect you can give back as good as you get to that goblin Amstel. People will naturally see you as a b***h if you storm off. Doesn’t matter what’s right but you need to do a risk assessment for the benefit of your career.
Just remain calm and say "Thanks for promoting the book".
Walking off says he knows Amstell is right about the stupidity of the book. He didn't defend his wife at all, he made it look like he was ashamed of her
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He should have leaned into it and treated it like a This Morning interview but someone like Preston wouldn't have been capable of this kind of quick thinking. Amstell would have also correctly identified the fact that he had a bit of an ego to exploit as well.
The early/mid-2000s really was the era for cruel comedy and Preston should have known what he was in for. I don't really have any sympathy for him.
if you can't take jokes don't go on the show
it's that simple
the main reason simon went at him so hard is because he was making sour faces and acting offended at being insulted right from the start, even before his wife was brought up
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They MUST know they're going on a show with roasting. They MUST know this. There is no way the agent or the director or producer or the guy who invited them on doesn't tell them this.
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>acting offended at being insulted right from the start, even before his wife was brought up
No, he wasn't, and I don't even like him but you're wrong there.
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he was, watch his introduction
he didn't take the initial jab well at all
No, ideally you are a witty person and can make fun Amstell back, or also make fun of the book but do it in a way that doesn't hurt your wife's feelings.
>brutal personal nature of the roasting
How? From the clips I’ve seen it seems anything else at the time he’ll you could argue it’s what we have now >no they bring up drugs and how some of them might be addicts!
They still do that now
I agree that it's obvious he's making fun of it for being vapid and pointless (which Chantelle was - that was the whole point of her) but by walking out Preston is sort of admitting that fact. I think the winning move would have been for him to say, in earnest, something along the lines "thanks for promoting my wife's excellent book, if you're a fan of hers you'll find it really enjoyable". You have to dare Simon to come out and admit that he's making fun of it and then you can do the "how dare you" stuff. Not easy under the studio lights though.
rather than trying to deliver a specific line just cheerfully prompt simon to keep reading more from the book, it would show that he can continue to take the embarrassment and its a subtle (or not so subtle) compliance attempt on simon
then it becomes more and more a "war of attrition" as simon tries to milk more laughs from reading the book while the rest of the panel become more irritated at him as the show is now just about the book (which they'll have to spend more time editing out before airing)
or simon anticipates the above scenario and pivots, "don't tell me what to do", finds something else to embarrass him with
there's not really a "winning scenario" there but walking out is the worst look
If I was sat there and he was reading out my girlfriends old Facebook posts, if I did anything other than get upset, I'd be in the doghouse >you laughed at what I wrote on national TV! How dare you make me look stupid
All I can imagine is Preston thought that walking off is what Chantelle would have wanted him to do.
inb4 anon is under the thumb and should control his woman
Understandable if it was old Facebook posts but it was her actual published book. I dunno if it was brand new at the time or what but by walking out he's kind of acknowledging that it is cringey and Amstell knew that reading out sections of it would embarrass a man like Preston. If the book was good and insightful then there would have been no reason to be embarrassed but then again, Amstell wouldn't have made fun of it in that case.
I can respect that he stood up for his wife but that book was an absolute joke. Strictly speaking all Amstell did was quote it, I doubt it sounded any better in context.
He chose that wife he should live with the consequences.
Are they even still married I have no idea?
You could read the yellow pages in that same facetious, passive-aggressive manner and it would annoy people
I have no love for that NME flavour of the month frickwit, but Amstel and Bailey made bigger arses of themselves
But boys will be boys
I get ya, but this did happen on Buzzwieners.
I think if you agree to go on the show you should know that there's going to be some cheap shots made at your expense.
Preston didn't do anything hugely wrong but if you cant stand the heat stay out of the kitchen.
He should have handled it like
I agree that it's obvious he's making fun of it for being vapid and pointless (which Chantelle was - that was the whole point of her) but by walking out Preston is sort of admitting that fact. I think the winning move would have been for him to say, in earnest, something along the lines "thanks for promoting my wife's excellent book, if you're a fan of hers you'll find it really enjoyable". You have to dare Simon to come out and admit that he's making fun of it and then you can do the "how dare you" stuff. Not easy under the studio lights though.
What did Bailey do? He quit the show due to scheduling issues, not because of anybody on the show.
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amstell on buzzwieners had the most brutal and most funny comebacks I've ever heard. truly a great time for panel shows and comedy in general, never to be seen again.
Also this. Amstell was just perfect at it. Shame it'd be considered too offensive for post-BLM BBC.
Bailey and Amstell made Buzzwieners so fricking good. They were both incredibly smart and quit witted and able to deliver stuff to perfect timing. Who was the guest who kept trying to rip into Bailey and Bailey just looked confused.
I saw Bailey live a couple of years ago. The man absolutely oozes talent, musical and comedic.
I'm sure he worked hard to get so good but it comes out of him effortlessly
I saw him live about 10 years ago. He got his guitar out and he found something inside it and he said >it's like a rubber coaster
So I yelled >EAT IT
Instinctively and he played along and got a lot of laughs (my claim to fame is my yell got a lot of laughs) but the real reason I did it is because in the series Black Books (which Bailey acts in) there is a scene where another character (Dylan Moran) is eating a coaster and Bailey points it out. I thought he'd get the reference, but he didn't. I felt like writing to him to explain it that it wasn't a heckle but a silly reference that I always remember. I didn't though. I did buy the recording of the show, so I have it always. I also got a high five from him at the end (he didn't know I was the guy, he just gave it me as he came down the aisle).
But yeah, I like Bailey. Wish he did more acting. He was fun in Hustle, even as a minor character who only appears once or twice.
>I thought he'd get the reference, but he didn't. I felt like writing to him to explain it that it wasn't a heckle but a silly reference that I always remember
based autist anon
If you could crystallise everything wrong with that mid to late 2000s era of music into a single person it would be an amalgamation of this guy and Preston. I’m glad they both got booty blasted.
That fricking dappy shit as well.
the late 2000s was the talent less age for a lot of gays in the music grifting industry.
I would not even really call them 1 hit wonders.. Because nobody ever hears their fricking songs anymore.
not if you were born after 2009. for gen a smoking is going to be the coolest thing imaginable and also far unhealthier because it'll all be that knock off shit that can't stay alight for more than a toke.
amstell on buzzwieners had the most brutal and most funny comebacks I've ever heard. truly a great time for panel shows and comedy in general, never to be seen again.
I ain't watching that Amy Winehouse movie unless they've remade bits from this episode. Like how the Ian Curtis movie did shot for shot recreations of Joy Division playing on Granada.
I stopped watching Buzzwieners shortly after Amstell left and that fat James Corden came on.
Seems like if there have been any kino buzzwieners moments since then, no one here is mentioning them.
Ironically Armstel got blacklisted on the panel show circuit after Buzzwieners.
They all wanted "safer" comedians who would not go after the celebs pushing their new movie/book/attention prostitute
>panel show circuit >They all wanted "safer" comedians
Panel shows have always been a low form of comedy but, they became utter dogshit by the mid-2010s. Too safe. Too many of the same faces over and over again. Too many unfunny hires for diversity sake - unfunny being the key as I am sure there are female and minority comedians out there who must be better than what they get. Everyone telling the same tired jokes.
They're made by talent agencies; that's why the conveyor belt comics can't wait to blurt out their next top zinger or advertise their new book nobody reads.
They make more from scheduled programmes than they do on tour.
I call it the jimmy Carr's cavalcade of unfunny diversity hires. >Nish Kumar >The other indian/paki one nobody cares about >The slow speaking potato, that every has to be blackmailed by career death in to pretending is funny
EVERY FRICKING SHOW THESE UNFUUNY OXYGEN USERS TURN UP
The talking potato could be funny if they were actually, you know, normal. But she talks slow. Isn't she the one who screams and shouts everything? There is one who keeps being forced onto every show, even non-comedic, and I just turn it off even if I want to watch the show. Ramesh is also completely and totally unfunny and I have no idea how he keeps getting jobs (I mean I do know why, but you know what I mean) I assume you meant him.
> I assume you meant him.
Yes, that was his name.
Those are only a few of the unfunny twats he hangs with.
There are others who need to just frick off for being one note hacks. >Jo Brand(DID I MENTION MY HUSBAD!!!!) >Rustle Brand(FUKIN TORIES/DAILYMAIL AMIRIGHT?)
There is also that other guy who is there just be a walking punchline about his teeth. Can't even remember his fricking name other than the amout of use Jimmy gets out of his teeth.
I don't find Jo Brand funny, but she is at least able to do stuff that isn't safe shit. Russel Brand is intelligent and his stand up (early days) was good. He just went a bit mental. You mean Rob Beckett.
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He means Russel Howard
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Eh Howard has been OK but he isn't now, no.
shame he hasn't been funny like that for the last 20 years
I disagree, I think he is a fun actor. The Totally Made Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin is exactly the kind of show you'd expect him to make. Which he did.
I think the better outcome for Preston was to deck him. His band were fricking nobody's and him walking off was just reinforcing it.
A punch would have put him on the map really.
The one who doesn't take it up the bum. Llitle homosexual was lucky Preston didn't knock his teeth trough the back of his head. You don't insult a man's wife like that.
>In an interview with NME after the incident, he claimed that Simon Amstell didn't write his own jokes, and called him a "snotty little posh boy".[9] He later regretted this, reflecting to the BBC "I'm struggling to think why I would have acted so weird." Speaking of Amstell, Preston said he is "funny, charming and likeable, which made it [walking off] all the more embarrassing".[10]
He was just a gay israelite on BBC that was run by Cohen and yentob at the time. The dude was witty but he is still a israelite and a homosexual, anon. Lamar was better. Conversely, we had it good back then with tfi Friday and big breakfast. Having Denise van houten first thing in the morning before school
Lamarr (double r) was good, yes. Amstell got the roasting style just right for me. I just though Bailey and Amstell really elevated the show. I don't care he is a israelite or a homosexual, they're everywhere, so I either don't watch media or put up with it. He didn't make it his personality on the show so I don't care.
You guys see the one with Frankie Boyle and Michelle from Destiny's Child? She was a wholesome church girl who even made a gospel album. A match made in heaven, kek. But she was a good sport and it's a fun episode.
He did Would I Lie to You? after he left Have I Got News for You - so (although leaving WILTY) it is not as if it he was barred from panel shows. Looking at his acting credits post HIGNFY he has 12 credits from Nighty Night (2004-2005), 16 credits for Pramface (2012-2014) and 36 credits for Waterloo Road (2013-2015).
Yeah randomly looked him up the other day, he is still working and done some radio stuff, but how does that work if it's your job?
And early WILTY? was so weird. Laddy "lol i shagged sum1 mingin while i woz wreckd" tone. Glad it found its footing, it's still funny and apparently genuinely improvised.
Simon was based for trashing all these garbage autobiographies >it’s a real page turner, I turn them all at once
Celebs all deserve to be taken down a notch
meanwhile i'm still here watching Lee & Herring videos from the 90s on YouTube. think i prefer young and edgy Stewart Lee to old postmodern/alternative Stewart Lee.
Was always obnoxious and witless on QI for example, always doing the whole loud and bombastic = funny thing without adding any interesting contributions. He was in so many episodes too annoyingly.
I wouldn't reintroduce smoking inside even as a smoker. It legitimately is awful thinking back plus being forced outside is either a great way to meet people and/or a great excuse to leave a situation inside.
Yeah as a non-smoker that was the best part about having smoker friends. Popping out for a gay with them at a club, you could actually speak to people and take a break.
Even in your own home though, ruins everything. Books, clothes, walls. Mental that was ever normal.
16 year olds know everything about who they want to shag, but nothing about being an adult. Age of consent should be 15. Voting should be set to whether or not you've ever paid income tax in the UK.
simon still makes money
he can also walk more than 10m
The only way you could fall from that balcony is if you were acting like a stupid c**t
He was pushed
Oh no, we can't lose Preston
Kek how did he fall lmao
Simon pushed him
>He has repeating dreams where Simon constantly banters on his wife's book.
>Over and over all through the years
>Can't take it no longer
>Decides to take a way out
Not knowing that Armstellxinugh is waiting for him in the void. With that shuddering sound like voice he hears
>Daily Mail........Upmarket
>WWE CANNNT LOOOSEE PRESSTONN
Preston soon wakes up again, eve to face the horror.
Too israeli to do it himself he probably paid some goy
>Simon kept chasing him and reading from his wife's book until he'd been cornered on a balcony and the only way out was to jump
what the frick is it with brits and falling off balconies?
It's our culture bigot.
my brother in college saw someone fall off a balcony to his death. drunk chavs are always at it
went on a holiday in Magaluf when i was a teenager, walked right into a mirror thinking it was another room.
now imagine that except it's outside. and a thirty foot drop. could happen to anyone.
>could happen to anyone.
nah mate you're just moronic
yeah wasn't even pissed just a bit slow.
proper laugh like. can't get those days back now.
My neighbour got paralsyed when she fell off her balcony, although she's South African so maybe it's something in the water here
Name one baby
>baby
i assume you tried to type "brit"?
Was trying to get you to refer to Eric Claptons kid
tbf the spanish do have dangerously low balcony rails, not even waist height, and for the average beer bellied lad on tour with a high centre of mass it forms a dangerous combination.
it's a laugh
BOYS WILL BE BOYS
Reminder Preston did nothing wrong. He showed humility and stoicism to stand up and walk away. Don't ever let clowns speak to you like that. Don't even acknowledge them.
If you deliberately go on that show to promote yourself knowing you will get roasted only then to walk off you must know people will see you as a butch who can’t handle the banter. He dug his own grave there.
His wife was being picked on in her absence, I'd say walking off was the correct thing to do
Shy of smacking that weasel Amstell around the head with mining equipment, I don't see what else he could have done
And there's a difference between banter and straight insults
>run away or chimpout are the two best options
I suspect you might not be of very high intellect, much like your champion preston
You haven't been married yet, have you?
If it was going to always be a problem then why go on the show? That way you don't even have to defend your absent airheaded wife
Albums and singles don't promote themselves, and anyway
it's the guy's wife
he didn't even try to defend her
I have, and unlike preston I didn't marry a moron I'm embarrassed about
>Go on panel show infamous for being crass and insulting the guests
>Act surprised when it happens to you
If this was any old talk show yeah fair enough, but come on. He could have just brushed it off. The fact he walked out signals that he knows the book was moronic and that he wouldnt actually defend it.
Yeah agree, he may have walked out under the guise of defending his wife but really it was because he was embarrassed that he'd traded in any "cred" that he believed he had to be with her. Reading the book out loud was intended to remind of this. It was quite brutal really but the thing is The Ordinary Boys were shit anyway and never had any cred or respect - they were an obvious flash in the pan at the time. Basically he was too self-serious, and Amstell knew this and ruthlessly exploited it.
Buzzwieners particularly was known for the brutal personal nature of the roasting. If you go on there you need to be able to take it and of course if you have any degree of wit and intellect you can give back as good as you get to that goblin Amstel. People will naturally see you as a b***h if you storm off. Doesn’t matter what’s right but you need to do a risk assessment for the benefit of your career.
So just take insults against your wife with a smile on your face, on national television.
I forgot that board is full of superheroes.
They weren't insults, moron. He was LITERALLY quoting a fricking book.
Just remain calm and say "Thanks for promoting the book".
Walking off says he knows Amstell is right about the stupidity of the book. He didn't defend his wife at all, he made it look like he was ashamed of her
He should have leaned into it and treated it like a This Morning interview but someone like Preston wouldn't have been capable of this kind of quick thinking. Amstell would have also correctly identified the fact that he had a bit of an ego to exploit as well.
The early/mid-2000s really was the era for cruel comedy and Preston should have known what he was in for. I don't really have any sympathy for him.
if you can't take jokes don't go on the show
it's that simple
the main reason simon went at him so hard is because he was making sour faces and acting offended at being insulted right from the start, even before his wife was brought up
They MUST know they're going on a show with roasting. They MUST know this. There is no way the agent or the director or producer or the guy who invited them on doesn't tell them this.
>acting offended at being insulted right from the start, even before his wife was brought up
No, he wasn't, and I don't even like him but you're wrong there.
he was, watch his introduction
he didn't take the initial jab well at all
No, ideally you are a witty person and can make fun Amstell back, or also make fun of the book but do it in a way that doesn't hurt your wife's feelings.
>brutal personal nature of the roasting
How? From the clips I’ve seen it seems anything else at the time he’ll you could argue it’s what we have now
>no they bring up drugs and how some of them might be addicts!
They still do that now
Didn't Bill Bailey quit the show because he found Amstell so loathsome?
>https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/417/why_bill_bailey_quit_buzzwieners/
Looks like he says it was due to scheduling.
All Simon did was read his girlfriend's book.
That's his wife
All Simon did was read his wife's book.
He’s out of order.
Pottery
I agree that it's obvious he's making fun of it for being vapid and pointless (which Chantelle was - that was the whole point of her) but by walking out Preston is sort of admitting that fact. I think the winning move would have been for him to say, in earnest, something along the lines "thanks for promoting my wife's excellent book, if you're a fan of hers you'll find it really enjoyable". You have to dare Simon to come out and admit that he's making fun of it and then you can do the "how dare you" stuff. Not easy under the studio lights though.
rather than trying to deliver a specific line just cheerfully prompt simon to keep reading more from the book, it would show that he can continue to take the embarrassment and its a subtle (or not so subtle) compliance attempt on simon
then it becomes more and more a "war of attrition" as simon tries to milk more laughs from reading the book while the rest of the panel become more irritated at him as the show is now just about the book (which they'll have to spend more time editing out before airing)
or simon anticipates the above scenario and pivots, "don't tell me what to do", finds something else to embarrass him with
there's not really a "winning scenario" there but walking out is the worst look
If I was sat there and he was reading out my girlfriends old Facebook posts, if I did anything other than get upset, I'd be in the doghouse
>you laughed at what I wrote on national TV! How dare you make me look stupid
All I can imagine is Preston thought that walking off is what Chantelle would have wanted him to do.
inb4 anon is under the thumb and should control his woman
>inb4 anon is under the thumb and should control his woman
Unironically yes
Understandable if it was old Facebook posts but it was her actual published book. I dunno if it was brand new at the time or what but by walking out he's kind of acknowledging that it is cringey and Amstell knew that reading out sections of it would embarrass a man like Preston. If the book was good and insightful then there would have been no reason to be embarrassed but then again, Amstell wouldn't have made fun of it in that case.
Me, because I have no idea who either of these gays are and I don't care.
>listen to me talking shit about your wife
No.
>awww Preston, we're having fun!
I'm not.
>implying Preston was somehow the lesser man
I can respect that he stood up for his wife but that book was an absolute joke. Strictly speaking all Amstell did was quote it, I doubt it sounded any better in context.
He chose that wife he should live with the consequences.
Are they even still married I have no idea?
You could read the yellow pages in that same facetious, passive-aggressive manner and it would annoy people
I have no love for that NME flavour of the month frickwit, but Amstel and Bailey made bigger arses of themselves
But boys will be boys
I get ya, but this did happen on Buzzwieners.
I think if you agree to go on the show you should know that there's going to be some cheap shots made at your expense.
Preston didn't do anything hugely wrong but if you cant stand the heat stay out of the kitchen.
He should have handled it like
suggested
What did Bailey do? He quit the show due to scheduling issues, not because of anybody on the show.
Also this. Amstell was just perfect at it. Shame it'd be considered too offensive for post-BLM BBC.
He did nothing wrong
AMSTISS!
He showed Thatcher!
Complete and utter prat that thought he was the next Johnny rotten
A girl who went to my school said she encountered him in a record shop around that time and he was really nice.
Him trying to outwit Bailey was funny, but not in a way that made him look funny.
Bailey and Amstell made Buzzwieners so fricking good. They were both incredibly smart and quit witted and able to deliver stuff to perfect timing. Who was the guest who kept trying to rip into Bailey and Bailey just looked confused.
I saw Bailey live a couple of years ago. The man absolutely oozes talent, musical and comedic.
I'm sure he worked hard to get so good but it comes out of him effortlessly
I saw him live about 10 years ago. He got his guitar out and he found something inside it and he said
>it's like a rubber coaster
So I yelled
>EAT IT
Instinctively and he played along and got a lot of laughs (my claim to fame is my yell got a lot of laughs) but the real reason I did it is because in the series Black Books (which Bailey acts in) there is a scene where another character (Dylan Moran) is eating a coaster and Bailey points it out. I thought he'd get the reference, but he didn't. I felt like writing to him to explain it that it wasn't a heckle but a silly reference that I always remember. I didn't though. I did buy the recording of the show, so I have it always. I also got a high five from him at the end (he didn't know I was the guy, he just gave it me as he came down the aisle).
But yeah, I like Bailey. Wish he did more acting. He was fun in Hustle, even as a minor character who only appears once or twice.
>I thought he'd get the reference, but he didn't. I felt like writing to him to explain it that it wasn't a heckle but a silly reference that I always remember
based autist anon
True enough.
If you could crystallise everything wrong with that mid to late 2000s era of music into a single person it would be an amalgamation of this guy and Preston. I’m glad they both got booty blasted.
Pete Doherty too, that forgotten frickwit
That fricking dappy shit as well.
the late 2000s was the talent less age for a lot of gays in the music grifting industry.
I would not even really call them 1 hit wonders.. Because nobody ever hears their fricking songs anymore.
>Because his helmet turned blue
Literally what did he mean by this?
it was something about purple paint, I assume he meant he was using it to turn his helmet(bellend) the right colour again? thats how I interpreted it
His wienerend
I HATE THE ANTICHRIST
my bum hole farted in your muff
I see you anon. Nice
He's smoking a cigarette! That you can legally buy in shops!
not if you were born after 2009. for gen a smoking is going to be the coolest thing imaginable and also far unhealthier because it'll all be that knock off shit that can't stay alight for more than a toke.
>this is what I think of you
>small penis?
Even he laughed at that one
amysisters....our response?
>They tried to make me go to rehab...
>I said nonono
>On second thought Amy, maybe yes?
amstell on buzzwieners had the most brutal and most funny comebacks I've ever heard. truly a great time for panel shows and comedy in general, never to be seen again.
I ain't watching that Amy Winehouse movie unless they've remade bits from this episode. Like how the Ian Curtis movie did shot for shot recreations of Joy Division playing on Granada.
I stopped watching Buzzwieners shortly after Amstell left and that fat James Corden came on.
Seems like if there have been any kino buzzwieners moments since then, no one here is mentioning them.
>James Corden
I'd sooner kill myself than watch anything with that c**t in it. I don't understand how he has a career
Guy on the right looking like a reincarnation of Grichka Bogdanoff
well it wasn't preston who went on a nationwide IM SAD!!!! tour so i give him the edge
guy didn't get cast as lex luthor for no reason... he's mean!
Ironically Armstel got blacklisted on the panel show circuit after Buzzwieners.
They all wanted "safer" comedians who would not go after the celebs pushing their new movie/book/attention prostitute
and that's why post lamarr/amstell buzzwieners was gay, had no edge, and swiftly cancelled
>panel show circuit
>They all wanted "safer" comedians
Panel shows have always been a low form of comedy but, they became utter dogshit by the mid-2010s. Too safe. Too many of the same faces over and over again. Too many unfunny hires for diversity sake - unfunny being the key as I am sure there are female and minority comedians out there who must be better than what they get. Everyone telling the same tired jokes.
Harry & Paul warned us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2z-AdzgKjY
Shame Enfield is barred from the BBC because he refused to apologise for black face sketches after the whole George Floyd purging of funny comedy.
>*leans back and plays with pen*
They're made by talent agencies; that's why the conveyor belt comics can't wait to blurt out their next top zinger or advertise their new book nobody reads.
They make more from scheduled programmes than they do on tour.
I call it the jimmy Carr's cavalcade of unfunny diversity hires.
>Nish Kumar
>The other indian/paki one nobody cares about
>The slow speaking potato, that every has to be blackmailed by career death in to pretending is funny
EVERY FRICKING SHOW THESE UNFUUNY OXYGEN USERS TURN UP
The talking potato could be funny if they were actually, you know, normal. But she talks slow. Isn't she the one who screams and shouts everything? There is one who keeps being forced onto every show, even non-comedic, and I just turn it off even if I want to watch the show. Ramesh is also completely and totally unfunny and I have no idea how he keeps getting jobs (I mean I do know why, but you know what I mean) I assume you meant him.
> I assume you meant him.
Yes, that was his name.
Those are only a few of the unfunny twats he hangs with.
There are others who need to just frick off for being one note hacks.
>Jo Brand(DID I MENTION MY HUSBAD!!!!)
>Rustle Brand(FUKIN TORIES/DAILYMAIL AMIRIGHT?)
There is also that other guy who is there just be a walking punchline about his teeth. Can't even remember his fricking name other than the amout of use Jimmy gets out of his teeth.
I don't find Jo Brand funny, but she is at least able to do stuff that isn't safe shit. Russel Brand is intelligent and his stand up (early days) was good. He just went a bit mental. You mean Rob Beckett.
He means Russel Howard
Eh Howard has been OK but he isn't now, no.
I disagree, I think he is a fun actor. The Totally Made Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin is exactly the kind of show you'd expect him to make. Which he did.
That fricking ragabathang or whatever his name is. That c**ts like herpes can't get rid of him
For me, it's the crab claw hand guy.
>keep my wife's book out of your fricking mouth
I think the better outcome for Preston was to deck him. His band were fricking nobody's and him walking off was just reinforcing it.
A punch would have put him on the map really.
The photoshoot was for the Daily Mail, which made me feel really posh and upmarket.
The one who doesn't take it up the bum. Llitle homosexual was lucky Preston didn't knock his teeth trough the back of his head. You don't insult a man's wife like that.
>In an interview with NME after the incident, he claimed that Simon Amstell didn't write his own jokes, and called him a "snotty little posh boy".[9] He later regretted this, reflecting to the BBC "I'm struggling to think why I would have acted so weird." Speaking of Amstell, Preston said he is "funny, charming and likeable, which made it [walking off] all the more embarrassing".[10]
anthony costa got it way worse
I want some points, let's go!
Honestly, who doesn't know Friday I'm In Love?
Name?
lily allen
Just watched it now, strictly speaking the twig on the left "won", but it seems like he has a habit of going too far with giving people a ribbing.
>left
Preston is that you?
Twig on the "right".
No I'm just moronic.
I forgot to mention at the end of my post but I am transgender (mtf) btw
Improves your panel show.
>chimps out
>tfw no scooby snacks
>OI CHUD, DID YOU JUST MAKE A LIGHT JOKE ABOUT TRANS FOLK
>AS AN ALLY I'M GOING TO HAVE TO SAY HOW INAPPROPRIATE THAT WAS!
Amstell is just peak smarmy israelite frick that israelite
And yet, he was funny, quick and witty and made the show enjoyable. Sorry he upset you, Preston.
He was just a gay israelite on BBC that was run by Cohen and yentob at the time. The dude was witty but he is still a israelite and a homosexual, anon. Lamar was better. Conversely, we had it good back then with tfi Friday and big breakfast. Having Denise van houten first thing in the morning before school
Lamarr (double r) was good, yes. Amstell got the roasting style just right for me. I just though Bailey and Amstell really elevated the show. I don't care he is a israelite or a homosexual, they're everywhere, so I either don't watch media or put up with it. He didn't make it his personality on the show so I don't care.
TBF the only time he mentioned it was a rib along the lines of
>Guest 'i don't like your kind'
>Amstell 'jews?'
>Audience mad laughter
Amstel is funny, israeli, and gay.
SBC is funny, israeli and evil.
>leave Amstell to me
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Fielding was good too.
shame he hasn't been funny like that for the last 20 years
Sorry no, Fielding maybe just about saved face, but Amstell won that exchange.
What’s the best Amstell insult?
You guys see the one with Frankie Boyle and Michelle from Destiny's Child? She was a wholesome church girl who even made a gospel album. A match made in heaven, kek. But she was a good sport and it's a fun episode.
Don't talk about it, RAP ABOUT IT!
Are there any guests that turned the insults around and made a fool out of the host?
this thread reminded me of The Towers of London
It's like watching Bailey deal with a fly. Donny is s far out of his league here its hilarious
What ever happened to Angus Deayton? Bloke just took cocaine and shagged some prostitutes. That was his sin, 'before cancel culture'.
Peter Baynham is another one although he seems to have slipped in the background on purpose. He's written something YOU'VE enjoyed.
He did Would I Lie to You? after he left Have I Got News for You - so (although leaving WILTY) it is not as if it he was barred from panel shows. Looking at his acting credits post HIGNFY he has 12 credits from Nighty Night (2004-2005), 16 credits for Pramface (2012-2014) and 36 credits for Waterloo Road (2013-2015).
Yeah randomly looked him up the other day, he is still working and done some radio stuff, but how does that work if it's your job?
And early WILTY? was so weird. Laddy "lol i shagged sum1 mingin while i woz wreckd" tone. Glad it found its footing, it's still funny and apparently genuinely improvised.
One of the best episodes ever just after the 'expose' he was quality on hignfy
Simon was based for trashing all these garbage autobiographies
>it’s a real page turner, I turn them all at once
Celebs all deserve to be taken down a notch
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literally me
don't forget "regrets his past jokes" etc.
meanwhile i'm still here watching Lee & Herring videos from the 90s on YouTube. think i prefer young and edgy Stewart Lee to old postmodern/alternative Stewart Lee.
>Stewart Lee
c**t still thinks it's the late 80's and Bobby Davro is coming to get him.
still the best comedian working today.
They did my homie Dani Filth dirty
fricking plebs
He would've been perfect to play next gen Q
mark lamar
shooting stars > buzzwieners
Holy based . Jack Dee with a face like a two bob handjob
Like a suicidal paperclip salesman.
This is the only show that Jupitus wasn't a complete c**t on.
Was always obnoxious and witless on QI for example, always doing the whole loud and bombastic = funny thing without adding any interesting contributions. He was in so many episodes too annoyingly.
Neither
Re-reduce all age limits to 16, including letting them vote, but keep smoking banned from pubs.
Typical 16-year-olds know the quadratic equation and stuff, I trust their agency more than I trust average adults'.
I wouldn't reintroduce smoking inside even as a smoker. It legitimately is awful thinking back plus being forced outside is either a great way to meet people and/or a great excuse to leave a situation inside.
Yeah as a non-smoker that was the best part about having smoker friends. Popping out for a gay with them at a club, you could actually speak to people and take a break.
Even in your own home though, ruins everything. Books, clothes, walls. Mental that was ever normal.
The reverse is true also. When you go back inside the conversation's changed to someting completely different.
16 year olds know everything about who they want to shag, but nothing about being an adult. Age of consent should be 15. Voting should be set to whether or not you've ever paid income tax in the UK.
Is that just to match the ratings for films?