Thursday, 30 October 2008

For what it's worth...

...my comments on the Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross/Andrew Sachs fiasco which is obliterating everything else on the news just now.

1. Andrews Sachs (and his agent) gave his number to the BBC knowing it was for a Brand/Ross broadcast. Even *I* know a combination of those two presenters is not going to produce a result of which Parky/Paxman would be proud: both Sachs and his agent should have therefore realised they were likely to be the subjects of the usual asinine-rubbish-passing-as-entertainment from those two. Call me cynical, but if Sachs lands a nice plum role after all this, I shall be very suspicious indeed of his 'I'm just an innocent 78 year old' act.
2. As has been endlessly repeated in the reporting on this subject, the offending item was pre-recorded. Who, exactly, are the editors on this show? - because THEY are the real offenders, not Brand and Ross who can't reasonably be expected to behave in anything other than the jejeune manner in which they normally do.
3. That strange creature, Sachs' granddaughter, is quite right in saying that anything which occurred between her and the equally peculiar Brand was a private matter and should therefore not be aired publically. Why, then, was SHE plastered all over the Sunday newspapers bleating about it and spilling more beans than Brand did in his mercifully short broadcast? Call me a suspicious old moo, but given the lady's vitriol, I suspect Brand dropped dear Georgina like a hot potato after their sordid little liaison and the said fragrant Georgina is now taking every opportunity to get her own back... compare her 'sack both of them' attitude with the more philosophical response of her grandfather. If she doesn't want to be embarrassed publically she shouldn't sleep so readily with public figures who have as few inhibitions as does Brand with regard to hanging out his dirty linen. Now Brand has resigned, and therefore Georgina's got the revenge she wanted, I hope we'll hear less sanctimonious nonsense from her.
4. I seem to recall that Brand said somewhere in this broadcast or in his subsequent comments on the same that you could virtually commit genocide in this country but you couldn't make fun of Manuel. Well, he was bang on the money, really wasn't he? We are in danger of turning into a caricature of ourselves on this one, guys.
5. Frankly, there are a lot more important and far-reaching things going on in the world just now than a couple of 'comics' going OTT on another entertainer. And yet even the Prime Minister has waded into this particular little row. Let's get some perspective, for goodness' sake.

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