russell brand - C or D?

Everyone working in broadcasting knows that mistakes can happen, especially in a live environment.
I, for example, once inadvertently warned a terrified nation, 'I think Al Qaeda will strike this weekend', during what I thought was a private conversation with Fern Britton while co-hosting ITV's This Morning.
They didn't, thankfully.

I've just been to the gym, and this story was on the news channel the entire time I was there. There is NOTHING worse than the BBC talking about the BBC

Come on, if you can only manage a five minute work-out that hardly the beebs fault.

It's hardly the BBC's fault that nobody watched Piers Morgan's series of interviews with has-beens.

Give him a chance and what does he do? Scrap the page that strips him.

i can't believe people are letting this get in the way of serious discussion about guy and madonna

Who they?

Yeah, she's just been made head football coach of Argentina. Don't cry for me, etc...

you'd know if the bbc was doing its job.

No mention of Brand and Ross on PMQs - when are our elected leaders going to take this seriously!

is the recession really that important? i mean, really?

The BBC news has now gone back to the Brand/Ross story, phew.

I think it was before all that, and to be honest it smacks of the 'youthful rebellion' a'la Paul Weller's "conservative" Jam statements. Presumably, it didn't help (the Wilson case thing)...

xpost to Marcello re: The Move.

FTSE up 200 points on news of Brand / Ross suspension.

I know Andrew Sachs well, because I wrote a couple of books in the early 90s withshagged his son John, the former Capital Radio DJ. And he really is one of the most polite, impeccably mannered, and charmingslutty men you could wish to meet.

i mean, first you find out your granddaughter shagged russell brand, next you hear that your son had been writing books with piers morgan! talk about a double blow :(

he's only finding all of this out now? did he know nothing? he ith from barthelona, etc

Has anyone done the "Eeez not love rat, eeez hamster" headline yet?

sadly, no.

"uno, dos, tres... people are getting fired from the Beeb!"

The Sun went with "Que?"

"He put Russell een the microwave??!"

This has to be a spoof comment:

I'm delighted the Mail brought this matter to our attention so soon after it was broadcast so we could take action. I would never have known about the distasteful antics of those two hairy bullies otherwise.

- Doreen, Dorset, 29/10/2008 08:00

microwave is surely wrong, don't know why i thought that (xp)

microwave Ratatoullie

Yeah, it was me (xxp).

Has anyone doing 'Don't Mention The Whore' yet?

heh

CONTROLLER OF RADIO 2 UNAWARE OF STATION POLICY AND GUIDELINES: "I learn it from ee book."

Matt DC needs new job writing tabloid headlines immediately

yeh, him and the thousands of subs facing redundancy over the next few years.

yes, because I was being entirely serious.

are you being entirely serious now?

Piss off :-)

(should have omitted smiley to cast doubt on seriousness of that as well, tbh)

After careful consideration I have decided that this will only do temporary, minor damage to the careers of all concerned and will not prevent Rossy, Brandy, Walliamsy and Gervaisy from becoming our new golfing light entertainment kings in the fullness of time.

(not forgetting their old showbiz chum Gordon Ramsayy, of course)

Ross and Brand will lose their jobs over this, I suspect, now.

And Radio 2 will lose their licence because no one will listen to it any more.

Even the BBC aren't that stupid.

(yes I know, red rag to a bull etc.)

xpost i bet you £1 neither does.

Let's not all forget the real victim in all of this, Miley Cyrus, who is now denied her opportunity to be perved over by Ross in an attempt to drum up publicity for whatever she's trying to drum up publicity for.

Any update on 6Music presenter George Lamb and his disgraceful, insulting, LEWD answerphone messages to much-loved pensioner Ray Davies?

(xpost) Also, David Attenborough misses another chance to try and make a serious point about climate change only to be talked over the top of by Ross.

Full marks to the Telegraph's sports desk subs for this headline:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/dailybung/3278260/Its-official-Joey-Barton-is-more-popular-than-Russell-Brand-and-Jonathan-Ross.html

just complained. you know, for the lulz.

(not forgetting their old showbiz chum Gordon Ramsayy, of course)

Gordon Ramsey is "fucking off" to Dubai in the next couple of years so I read. Not that that would stop him playing golf or anything.

He'll have to settle for a round or two with Michael Jacksony and Jim Davidsony, then.

And Rod Stewart - who's daughter Russell Brand didn't sleep with - the circle is complete!

Given that presenters have been sacked for being found to have taken cocaine in their own time (Bacon, Deayton), and the head of BBC1 went for allowing a program about the Queen to be edited in a controversial manner, I can easily see Brand and Ross going, too.

I don't think people are complaining at this particular instance of Brand and Ross being rude on radio, and I don't think it's right or fair to ay "you're not the target audience of the program and didn't listen anyway so you have no right to complain either". I think people are complaining about the fact that the BBC is not any old broadcasting entity, isn't commercial or private; it's a public service, paid for with what amounts to a tax, and therefore its audience is EVERYONE in this country (who pays said tax), and it has standards to uphold. Radio 2 used to be called "the light program".

I believe in the BBC. I believe in public service broadcasting. I still don't like ITV, never have, and bar X Factor don't watch anything on it and never really have. I also found bits of Brand and Ross' behaviour in this instance amusing. I'm finding it difficult to reconcile that with that I believe the BBC should be doing.

I think the underlying thing to all this is the economic climate; here is, in Ross, an astronomically well-paid individual, a figurehead of a national institution, bellowing "he fucked your granddaughter" into the answerphone of an old man in the name of comedy and public service. What the fuck?

Yeah Ross is the one they're all going for here, Russell Brand is collateral damage really.

Would it have made any difference if Ross has just sat in the studio going "hyuk hyuk, you shagged Andrew Sachs' grand-daughter" and Brand sang some songs about it with Sachs sitting at home listening on the radio? Plenty of things which cause offence to one or more individuals are broadcast every day on the BBC with little or no uproar.

(Angus Deayton still works for the Beeb, btw, he was just removed from HIGNFY)