Ant and Dec - s/d

Psyche is obviously their bestest album because it has Let's Get Ready To Rhumble, Our Radio Rocks, Tonight I'm Free and Why Me (=>is one of the BEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME).

The Channel 4 show was a bit crummy and that BBC1 show wasn't too great but they're total class on Pop Idol.

My sister-in-law used to work with them and she said she was REALLY REALLY tempted to call them PJ and Duncan all the time but she managed to resist temptation. Apparantly they're the nicest people in the world.

I think they have managed to juggle their audiences perfectly, and the reason why Slap Bang didn't work is that it did not have a formula (All good TV shows are based on an existing formula - you can then subvert that all you like cf Don't Forget Your Toothbrush etc.) The loose kids TV Zoo formula worked well for them because they are nice, childish and yet smutty. Double entendre works best when there is a whole section of the audience who aren't supposed to get it.

"When I Fall In Love" is, seriously, the greatest pop record of all time. NB the version GMTV's Hits 97 CD, the only such compilation I own, which according to destiny, is also one of Sara's ten CD's (She also has "A Tribute To Bon Jovi" = Identical royalty- free covers for playing in Poundstretcher)). I played the first 10 seconds at The Picnic In The Sky, before chickening out as it starts way way camper than I remembered (RickyT: "You're one fast DJ").

Interesting attempt by Polly Vernon to write about A&D in the Guardian Guide on Saturday. I'm not sure she entirely succeeded, but it was nice to see someone trying to avoid that "oh-shucks-i'm- pushing-30-but-still-a-tweenager-inside" Heat-reader arrested- development cultural alibi, and actually try to say why a piece of mainstream pop culture was rich and strange. Certainly better than Zoe Williams on Buffy in the Guardian mag a few weeks earlier.

The burning question, of course, is can Finn-out-of-Hollyoaks be anything other than an embarrassing failure? I remain to be convinced, but, let's face it, the alternative is Dani bleeding Behr.

Cannot do any main A&D style sketches. So out goes Chums (no great loss) Dec Says, Cap'n Justice. Wonkey Donkey goes, Challenge Ant could be tweaked but best left alone. But must keep up similar kind of features. Must increase Cat's role in the program basically as she is now the star - not the sidekick (think early SM:TV which is how she was presented).

My advice. Urgent & Key to get Cat's best buddy Enid in from Capital Radio show as a female double act. No Louise.

But Fin from Hollyoaks aka James Redmond ROWR.

Ant rappin, steppin stone, dec wiv floppy fringe - ahh the memories

Ha ha - missed this till now:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2009/sep/01/express-ant-dec-headline-error

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2009/9/1/1251803937314/Daily-Express-Ant-and-Dec-001.jpg

The split doesn't seem very central - is there supposed to be an advert/another article further left or something?

(also lol etc)

Yeah, I think there must have been an ad on the left.

I still don't get these guys.

http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2013/2/22/222904/default/v1/daily-mirror-front-page-1-329x437.jpg

Shock confession my foot! Haven't these guys ever heard Tonight I'm Free?!

Feel that it's worth clarifying that I was referring to the drugs thing. Tbh "ANT VOTED TORY" has kinda blindsided me

Well.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2018/04/16/TELEMMGLPICT000160587298_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq5aRdMHGDa-jqnScdcNR_M_85rEiupeUllyY2F-w69s8.jpeg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/02/9c/c8/029cc8e5777d3dfd0d888dc42cbfec9e.jpg

This fuckin guy (ant) is like Mr Google Trends. I swear, every damn day he's showing up there. "Ant celebrity" "Ant and dec ant" "Ant McPartlin" (I've even learnt the c*t's surname, something I'd have thought impossible)

<jots down note for possible future use>

possible wordplay on Dec and Ant- Dec a dant

*also remember athletes foot powder

challop alert:

i feel bad for the guy and i hope he gets the help he needs

Don't want another Moaty scenario for sure, though, personally, I hope he never appears on my TV screen again.

i've found that the secret to keeping him off tv is not to watch anything he shows up in, it's worked pretty well for the last 20 years or so

I've not been following tbh, are things that bad?

Don't want another Moaty scenario for sure

not gonna lie, the thought of ant and dec and gazza has a certain appeal

I don't understand why people really loathe these guys as TV personalities. They were good on SMTV and the light entertainment stuff they've done since isn't designed for me so it doesn't bother me.

yeah, they're fine with me - i actually kinda like that two adult males have had such a long and visibly affectionate friendship for so long, it's not something you see too often in the public eye

too many longs there, sorry

I wish he would take up drunken skiing in the Alps during avalanche season or base jumping on m-cat or something. He can fucking Rhumble off into oblivion for me, and the other twat!

*checks watch* you're slipping mate, i would have expected you to be here wishing death on these guys at least half an hour ago

lmao calzino pushin back hard on this

classic calz

I think you are overstating that slightly tbh. I generally just ignore celeb crap on here, it's only roughly once every couple of months I'll post something nasty.

Obviously there's worse people on TV, but I don't think being personable is that much of a talent tbh.

And once you start drunkenly ramming into cars full of kids, well...

I think they both voted for Cameron. Actually could picture the cunts going into the voting booth together.

Hey god speed to the lad idc, but this bit rubs me up the wrong way:

District Judge Barbara Barnes told McPartlin "you are a well-known and successful entertainer", whose weekly income is around £130,000 a week.

Sentencing him, she said: "At the time when it happened you were struggling with various personal problems and also alcohol issues for some months.

"This incident happened, sadly, when it seems you suffered a brief relapse."

Seems awfully nice for a judge to say. He should've said all this himself in first person, no need for a judge to add extra sympathy. Or would she say these nice things if it were a non-famous person too?

if it was a non-famous person who also earned £130,000? probably tbh

£130,000 a week i mean

You mean a rich person. Definitely.

I think you could change the "and Whitey's on the moon" refrain in the Gil Scott-Heron song to "and Ant + Dec are on quarter of a million quid a week, jesus fucking wept, why?" and it would still be good.

I've always said, and so I'll say it again..

If you want a sympathetic ear from a judge, do drink-driving. Something about that has judges going "ahh, that could be me you know.."

^^ nails it

Ant's a great guy apart from destroying wildlife in the name of entertainment, or laughing at the vulnerable and deluded on a Simon Cowell game show, or drink driving like a cunt, great guy.

sort of related - someone I went to school with got done for drink driving, probably aged around 19 or 20, his dad was apparently a judge and the cops were fucking loving it that they nicked a judge's son. maybe because he kept letting people off for drink driving? dunno. That story is at least 3rd hand though, he wasn't a friend of mine. For all I know he could've tried a "my dad's a judge" attempt at getting let off.