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I’ve just spotted Stephen Fry talking a load of arse, poo and widdle (bollocks, in other words) about the issue of MPs’ expenses on Newsnight (video clip here). According to Fry, MPs doing things like claiming £2,000 of public money to have the moats of their manor houses cleaned (Douglas Hogg), or £35,000 for a “second home” [...]

Fear and loathing, moral pomposity, confused lines of argument, unfunny satire, tastelessness and hypocrisy have all been on show as never before in recent weeks as the nation’s newspaper columnists wring their last buck from terminally-ill cancer victim Jade Goody. Here’s a compendium of choice quotes on the subject from the media Twatosphere. Allison Pearson: [...]

I’m a long-standing admirer of Noel Edmonds. How his work in the field of light entertainment hasn’t yet been rewarded with a knighthood is something none of us, I’m sure, can really fathom. In case you haven’t noticed, the bearded libertarian tossbag (I use these terms in the most respectful way possible) has a new-ish [...]

As Jonathan Ross returns to our screens later, both ITV and the BBC’s flagship current affairs programmes have scheduled timely and hard-hitting investigations into the issue of very rich famous people saying “he fucked your grand-daughter” and stuff. ITV’s timely attempt to tackle to hard-hitting subject, part of the Tonight strand, was on earlier and [...]

By far the most hideous aspect of this year’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here is the various idents for Iceland that appear around each ad break. They feature a range of party food that looks so disgusting it could easily become the subject of a Bushtucker Trial. Firstly, what the hell is [...]

Nice to see someone is daring to divert from the Daily Mail party line over Russell Brand. Unfortunately that someone is… the Daily Sport. Russell Brand resigned yesterday following thousands of complaints about his Radio 2 show… But the Daily Sport is backing the long-haired weirdo…Forget all that Political Correctness Shite and BRING BRAND BACK!!! The [...]

One of the most enlightening pieces of journalism re the Russell Brand/Jonathan Toss incident was when the BBC’s David Sillito solicited the views of people queuing to watch the filming of the Alan Titchmarsh Show and compared them with the views of people queuing to watch Never Mind the Buzzcocks. The former group (old people) [...]

Russell Brand and his pal Jonathan Toss have clearly touched a nerve over this whole “He fucked your granddaughter” business. But let’s get it into perspective. Why is Gordon Brown even thinking about this when real actual stuff is happening in the world? Aren’t we supposed to be on the verge of a global recession [...]

I was intrigued to see in the promo promoting the forthcoming BBC drama schedule (you know, the one with Elbow singing in the background) that Kenneth Branagh is starring as Kurt Wallander in an adaptation of the Henning Mankell books. I recently discovered the joys of Scandanavian crime fiction, which is a generally magnificent and [...]

Comic Sarah Silverman’s apparently disastrous appearance at the Hammersmith Apollo over the weekend proves that if you hype something beyond the level to which its promise can possibly be fulfilled, the risk of it being shit is magnified tenfold. Thus an appearance on Jonathan Ross and the cover of the Guardian Weekend is not a [...]