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posted 17-08-2008 23:30
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some bits of telly just never lose their edge, do they?
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posted 17-08-2008 23:36
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Should there be a link there?
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posted 17-08-2008 23:40
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No, it's just they're showing a Brass Eye repeat at the moment, the one which in the adbreak announces that Noel Edmonds has shot the aforementioned entertainer. It's just as disconcerting as first time around, I thought, even when you know what's happening.
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posted 18-08-2008 07:13
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I was expecting the words '....has died' as soon as I clicked on the thread.
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posted 18-08-2008 07:15
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I always get Clive James mixed up with Clive Anderson. Even when I don't, I assume I have, and have to have a sit down and work it all throuh.
I'm the same with the letters J and G, and also with Malibu and Bacardi. I think it's a rare form of dyslexia known only to a few top Science Nerds.
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posted 18-08-2008 07:22
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He's giving a talk in Brighton soon as part of the comedy festival. I might go. I've got several volumes of his TV criticism from the mid-1970s and, even though he's often an insufferable snob, it's always readable stuff.
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posted 18-08-2008 07:25
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I agree, I read that stuff, too. Whatever his flaws, he's as eloquent and amusing as the best of them.
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posted 18-08-2008 07:32
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And he's a decent tango dancer.
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posted 18-08-2008 08:03
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I've got them, too. I like the way he makes three channels of TV that usually starts at noon and finishes at midnight sound a thousand times better than 200 24-hour channels.
And I reckon Clive James on Television must be one of the most influential programmes on British TV ever. It's weird watching it today knowing that most of the stuff the studio audience pissed themselves looking at barely excite comment today.
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posted 18-08-2008 08:15
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These days I think he might be all snobby xenophobia (discernible in the excellent Observer columns) and no wit. Judging from a talk I saw him and PJ O'Rourke give soon after 9/11, anyway.
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posted 18-08-2008 10:10
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QUOTE:
I always get Clive James mixed up with Clive Anderson.
So does Toro, by the look of it.
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Last Edit: 18-08-2008 10:11 By Hofzinser.
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posted 18-08-2008 12:03
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Indeed.
His many autobiographies are fun. He's very much an easy targets man- sixties student revolutionaries and all- but good fun.
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posted 18-08-2008 18:02
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QUOTE:
So does Toro, by the look of it.
Yes, d'oh...
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