Tom O'Connor put up the money to get Peep Show on TV - now if only John Bishop would put up the money to get himself removed from TV...
Nobody else was going to fund it - unlike, say, any number of the bloody abysmal sitcoms on BBC Three that crawl out of the swamp of Not Funny every month...
D'oh! I got the two mixed up. Andrew is the guy who put the money up for Peep Show, and (to my knowledge) is not related. And for my next trick, I'll say how non-*****phile (and **** The Mail for trying to make out that he was) John Peel's older sister was in The Avengers...
I hope you are right about JP. That suggestion knocked me sideways, would never have believed that was true.
Most of the stuff in the article - i.e. him running Schoolgirl of the Year competitions - was not just untrue, their main source was a hatchet article in the Grauniad by Julie Burchill, who always was a gobshite who needed with a history of printing wrong or libelous stories and being sacked shortly afterwards. There's a full account here: http://louderthanwar.com/one-half-rhinoceroses-a-defence-john-peel-daily-mail-and-others/
Because he was on the pitch, and Coates wasn't penalised. The sole reason for the goal being disallowed was wrong. Oh and by the way, if we all chip in I'm sure we could get Bishop off TV. Dislike those bland, Michael McIntyre comedians. Cannot stand her
Dirty Suarez should not have been on the pitch to score the (correctly) disallowed goal, Coates blatantly fouled the Everton defender when heading the ball to Suarez and the free kick which led to this chance was incorrectly awarded for a non existent foul on Gerrard. Thats 3 reasons why Dirty Suarez`s goal was correctly disallowed.
As part of a mini-poll, can the visiting Mousers tell me which of those Scouse comic icons they find the funniest? Tom O'Connor Jimmy Tarbuck John Bishop Joey Boswell (scrounging ne'er do well, off Bread) Alexis Sayle The Bloke With The Curly Black Hair (played by Harry Enfield) I believe I've listed all the main ones, but my apologies if I've left anyone off.
Alexie Sayle is a great comedian, but his stand-up act wasn't the greatest (yes, I realise this makes little sense...)
Comedy in general ran out of steam by the mid-90s. Look at the top stand-up of the late 80s/early 90s and compare them to the current crop. The best stand-ups on the circuit these days are the guys who came up in the 90s (Billy Bailey, Jack Dee, Eddie Izzard) and, barring Stephen K Amos and Rhod Gilbert, the current crop are either hopelessly unfunny or utterly obnoxious.
I forgot Dylan Moran! Gervais can do one, though - he's not even a comic, he started doing stand-up after The Office to satisfy his ego.
Not quite right there hbic, Gervais did stand-up before the Office which ran til 2005, his first main event was Edinburgh 2001...you can carry on disliking him now!
