Davidson arrested.
― jed_, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
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― DavidM, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
"wicked laughs with the ladies"
― soma dude (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
James Cameron "Jim" Davidson, OBE (13 December 1953) is an English comedian. Despite early recognition and winning many awards throughout his long career, Davidson has become known for his use of jokes about ethnic minorities, homosexuals and disabled people in his stand-up act, which has made him a subject of negative media coverage and frequent criticism.
Another winner, then.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
GAH.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
'It's only a game, so put up a real good fight, I'm gonna be snookering you, Snookering you tonight!Snookering you, snookering you tonight! Snookering you, snookering you tonight!'
― DavidM, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
hahahahahaHA
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
god, jim davidson, exactly the person you always wanted to end his days humiliated and shamed
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
i'm kind of surprised you even know who he is
― Number None, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/comedian-jim-davidson-says-a-savile-no-2-household-name-celeb-is-about-to-be-revealed-as-a-paedophile/
blogpost seems to have disappeared for some reason but there is still a recipe for sweet and sour pork
― Sounds like something Maria Carey would of rejected (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
Writing on his personal blog, the comic said that the person – who he hasn’t named – is, “A bloke who’s a loner, dresses and acts like a nonce and thinks he is the most important person in the world.”
And of the allegations against Sir Jimmy Savile, Jim said, “Hmmm. I knew… and didn’t do anything.”
He added, “Mind you, I had no proof. To me he was just another pervert. There are lots of them in showbiz.
“There seems to be more gay ones than straight but that’s because there are probably more gays in showbiz than most professions.
“Who’s next to be the victim of a media feeding frenzy? I have the answer to that…
“But, like Jimmy Savile, it’s only rumours. But when these rumours come out… WOW!”
He also slammed the BBC over Monday night’s Panorama, which looked at the corporation’s failure to expose Savile and his alleged child abuse on the broadcaster’s premises.
He wrote, “How come the BBC can make a programme blaming the BBC? It’s like having yourself arrested and then being your own prosecuting barrister!
“The BBC has finally gone mental.
“This hot bed of leftyness has asked itself the question: ‘Should we have known?’ The answer is ‘yes’. We all knew, didn’t we?’’
― soma dude (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
Really astonishing to me that Jim Davidson is only 59.
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
really saddened by this, jim was a hero to me when i was a kid
fight the power big man
― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
I suppose the timing of this arrest was rather forced by the scheduled Celebrity Big Brother appearance, although it would have been some awesome next level reality shit if Davidson had been nicked for noncing live on air.
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think we want to see live noncing
― sufferin' sockattacks (electricsound), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I can live without that tbh
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
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― Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
guh
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
seeing some on the buses the other day was a reminder that if you were famous in the 70s and you weren't rogering precocious 14-year-old girls then you were probably considered a bit of a spoilsport.
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
rogering
― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
rogering some pert little fillies
roger that
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
anyone actually found guilty of anything yet? /spoilsport
― slitherin sockattacks (darraghmac), Thursday, 3 January 2013 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
Broadcaster Stuart Hall denies sexual assault charges
― scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Monday, 7 January 2013 12:21 (eleven years ago) link
We all knew it was bad but...
― Designated Striver (Tom D.), Friday, 11 January 2013 12:07 (eleven years ago) link
Shit hits fan, mostly livehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20983527
― pure dressed up like a white ninja (snoball), Friday, 11 January 2013 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
Commander Peter Spindler of the Met police: Savile "groomed the nation".
― Mark G, Friday, 11 January 2013 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
White haired lunatic in child abuse claims - German edition
― Designated Striver (Tom D.), Friday, 11 January 2013 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
Herzog should have taken those indians up on their offer to kill Kinski.
― pure dressed up like a white ninja (snoball), Friday, 11 January 2013 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
From what i recall, even the heavily edited version of Ich Brauche Liebe had some pretty O_O stuff about children.
― Tullamorte Tullamore (ShariVari), Friday, 11 January 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
i seem to remember a dodgy scene involving Natassja somewhere along the line
― Number None, Friday, 11 January 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
... talking of dodgy scenes
― Designated Striver (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 January 2013 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
Dear BBC
Who exactly was being upset by this caricature?
Kids? They wouldn't even have recognised him when it was originally broadcast.
Adults? Probably.
Would they be even more upsetted by seeing this on all the news programmes? Or is that all right then? And yet the children who weren't awake at before 09:00 on Sunday could quite possibly be awake for the news programmes.
Etc.
― Mark G, Monday, 21 January 2013 11:51 (eleven years ago) link
probably don't want to be unnecessarily portraying him as an amusing kids presenter now. don't think anybody was especially scandalised, just bookmarking it for the Stalinist video purge
― non-elitist melted poo (Noodle Vague), Monday, 21 January 2013 11:55 (eleven years ago) link
BBC needs to hit back whenever News International report on things like this, because it's blatant trolling/fake 'casebuilding'.
Shorter response: nice tits, The Sun.
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Monday, 21 January 2013 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
i guess the Beeb is like the monarch in these situations, it's pretty much never a good look to respond
― non-elitist melted poo (Noodle Vague), Monday, 21 January 2013 13:16 (eleven years ago) link
There are moments when just putting your hands up and going "we made a dumb mistake, sorry" is the best course of action and this is one of them.
― Matt DC, Monday, 21 January 2013 13:23 (eleven years ago) link
interesting tho the way kids tv writers put these kinds of ideas into the shows as jokes for the parents (also funny that if Theroux hadn't done his show on otherwise-forgotten-about Savile in 2000 he probably wouldn't have been a joke for people to bother referencing much at the time).
― nashwan, Monday, 21 January 2013 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
There is absolutely no sense in which Jimmy Saville would be or was otherwise forgotten about.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 21 January 2013 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, Theroux's show was great, but it had very little effect on Saville's stature at the time...
― I had such a fontasy (stevie), Monday, 21 January 2013 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
It's weird that Jimmy Savile seemed to have been perceived by everyone around him as being so powerful and popular. I don't remember anyone liking him when I was a kid. We all watched Jim'll Fix It and Top of the Pops but he was just an annoying weird man talking shite in between the good bits.
― Stop Gerrying Me! (onimo), Monday, 21 January 2013 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
There is a sense in that I don't remember him having been on TV much at all for quite a few years prior to the Theroux doc - do correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe the subsequent effect of that show made Savile's profile throughout the 90s seem slighter than it really was (was even Hugh Dennis was on TV much in the late 90s to be leading the regular impressions of him? that feels like a more recent (ie post-Theroux) revival).
― nashwan, Monday, 21 January 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
Well yeah, his flagship Jim'll Fix It ran 75-96, but it would not have been wise to bet on a random collection of people greeting a Saville impersonation with blinking unrecognition. Which obviously is partly his work - he was first and foremost a cartoon, and happiest that way.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 21 January 2013 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
There was a repeat of an old "Have I got news for you", it was pre-olympics as they were discussing the opening ceremony to come. At which point Jo Brand said something along the lines of ".. and just to scare the kiddies, we've dug Jimmy Savile up as well" ...
― Mark G, Monday, 21 January 2013 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
i guarantee that if anyone realised that re-run had a cod-savile in it there is no way it would have aired. but you can have a "stalinesque rewriting of history" or you can have a few embarrassing moments, you can't have both.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 January 2013 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
absolutely, i'm all for the odd embarrassing moment personally, depending on context.
― non-elitist melted poo (Noodle Vague), Monday, 21 January 2013 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
Are they melting down his waxwork, or are they moving it into the chamber of horrors next to Hanratty, etc?
― Mark G, Monday, 21 January 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
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― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Monday, 21 January 2013 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
Up The Arse corner.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Monday, 21 January 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
A dead eyed soulless mannequin... and his waxwork dummy.
― pure dressed up like a white ninja (snoball), Monday, 21 January 2013 22:00 (eleven years ago) link