Did You See That

Unless you have been living on another planet, you can’t have escaped the furore surrounding Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand. Yes, I think they were wrong but what a feeding frenzy over what wasn’t really that big a deal and should have not been aired by the producers. Radio 2 presenters have been giving their reaction and a devastated looking Jeremy Vine says he says he will be interested to see how Jonathan Ross can come back from this - with his tone inferring that he shoudn’t - and saying he hopes Ross has apologised to the now ex-controller on whose watch this happened.

An edgy comedian pushing the limits sometimes needs to be reined in but I don’t think that in itself damages the BBC’s credibility. What does do enormous damage to the BBC’s credibility is when serious programming - such as the Election night coverage - reduced to an absolute joke by Jeremy Vine and the computer graphics department with cringemaking displays that embarrass us all. So on the topic of apologising, Mr Vine, how about you say sorry for making the once might Beeb look absurd with your awful election night performance?

Just in case you missed it…

The unique Russell Brand started his new show last night with a look at childhood.

The program was brilliant stand up from the living legend himself, interspersed with TV clips, such as the rick pickings of old public safety videos, that Brand was able to tease every comedic angle out of.

It reminding me slightly of a high octane version of the Bob Mills’ classic, In Bed With Me Dinner. With all the tabloid shenanigans, it’s easy to forget that Brand is actually one of the funniest comics we have at the moment. Ponderland reminds us of what he does best.

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