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havn't read the whole thread through but in no particular order


2 guys from peep show and Sophie (in show)

Jeremy Bowen

Jenny Eclair of course

John (I think) Pinar

Nesbit

The scottish plumber guy from This life and boyfriend in show fergie or something!!

Steph Barnes (long time I know)


more when I remember

I can't stand that smug, self righteous tw@t!!!! He genuinely reminds me of Clarkson!!!


Fair enough, some of the people I've seen him interview have been talking nonsense, but his way of doing things seems to be along the lines of "if you disagree with me, you're wrong".....


Hope I'm not thinking of the wrong person here, and sure he's had worse criticism if he reads this....

You got the right person Keef. Here's an excerpt from an article he wrote last year in The Times about life in his new home in East Dulwich:


"Everyone living down my road who isn?t a baby or a mum is a semi-famous lesbian comedian who occasionally crops up on Radio 4, being gently arch about something.....Where on earth can I be? I?ll tell you where: London metropolitan suburbia. Dulwich, to be precise, a place which makes Crouch End resemble Compton on a bad day. Its very name is a giveaway, pronounced Dull Itch...But how Lordship Lane has changed! All those lovely food shops and bars and restaurants: if we can get rid of Somerfield and Iceland and Cafe Nero, we will truly be back in 1950 ? which was a much better place to be, by all accounts, except for the Korean war and the tail end of rationing, and rickets and polio. Right now we have a butcher, a few bakers, a candlestick-maker, boiled-sweet shops and a strange outlet that sells only white things. It?s like living in Trumpton."

Muttley Wrote:

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> You got the right person Keef. Here's an excerpt

> from an article he wrote last year in The Times

> about life in his new home in East Dulwich:

>

> "Everyone living down my road who isn?t a baby or

> a mum is a semi-famous lesbian comedian who

> occasionally crops up on Radio 4, being gently

> arch about something.....Where on earth can I be?

> I?ll tell you where: London metropolitan suburbia.

> Dulwich, to be precise, a place which makes Crouch

> End resemble Compton on a bad day. Its very name

> is a giveaway, pronounced Dull Itch...But how

> Lordship Lane has changed! All those lovely food

> shops and bars and restaurants: if we can get rid

> of Somerfield and Iceland and Cafe Nero, we will

> truly be back in 1950 ? which was a much better

> place to be, by all accounts, except for the

> Korean war and the tail end of rationing, and

> rickets and polio. Right now we have a butcher, a

> few bakers, a candlestick-maker, boiled-sweet

> shops and a strange outlet that sells only white

> things. It?s like living in Trumpton."


hahahaha.

I dunno - thought it was quite funny myself. He doesn't impinge on my life much, so I don't really know much about the guy, but it strikes me that just because he wrote it, it doesn't necessarily follow that he thinks it himself. Or thinks it to that extent and with that particular slant. Perhaps he's writing in a persona, for an effect, whatever.


/devil's advocate

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