Surely somebody else must agree with me that James is annoying. Likable but annoying.
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He's a nice bloke but its like being faced with the kind of daft Uncle who insists on making a joke out of everything.
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My feeling is that he makes working relationships based on sharing a common 'enemy' - whether it is you and him against the world, your client, your product or your boss, it is not always a great way to get things done.
Especially when he said 'Which ugly sister are you?' to Jo Brand when she made a joke about him being a panto character.
And putting that stuff in his application form was just daft.
It was. It may give away the fact that he had already decided to set himself up as a likable joker ready for a media career and wanted to signal that to the producers.
I've found James extremely irritating through the process. I haven't found him amusing or endearing as the majority seem to have.
I have a feeling that he had it all worked out in advance. You could sometimes see the wheels going round in his brain slightly too slowly for comfort, wondering where he could get the next one in. His judgment is off too when he has to think fast- like with the comment to Jo Brand. That became a silly insult by virtue of the fact that it wasn't funny.
Found him a bit of a pratt throughout tbh.
Thank god for this forum.
I thought I was the only one who felt this way about James. His one-liners sounded very rehearsed.
And another thing that wound me up was that dopey expression he wore constantly.
Sid, that's exactly why I started this thread. I watched the love in they gave him on YBF and thought I must be missing something.
Well I'm glad you did
My mum absolutely loves him and was howling with laughter as she watched him tonight whilst I just got increasingly agitated by the buffoon!
I'm not mincing my words tonight
he brought some much needed humour to the show.:)
Well done minxymoo- he's a nice man and I don't want to be horrible to him.
He's still not funny though.....................:D
The winner of the Apprentice is the person who screws up the least. In this respect, James was never going to win!
His 'ugly sister' remark to Jo Brand clearly rehearsed and also made him come across as a bit sour, as if he couldn't take a joke against him and had to retaliate. Also badly judged since Jo Brand has made a career out of dealing with hecklers telling her she's ugly - he's lucky she ignored it rather than laying into him.
Came across much worse than in You're Fired! when speaking as live than he did in the main programme, whereas I thought Debra and Lorraine both came across better when they were relaxed.
Agree wholeheartedly with this. Shocked at how apallingly he came across in the interviews and then shocked again at how badly he came across on YF. YF is 'redemption city' for candidates and most of them really come across much better than on the show and the viewer is left with a good(ish!) impression of them, whereas with James, I was left with an impression of a petulant, childish, unprofessional and not very likeable man.
And agree also re his remark to Jo. James seems to be good at dishing it out but not so good when he's at the receiving end of what was, on Jo's part, a harmless and affectionate joke at his expense.
Yes. I reckon he spends a considerable amount of time thinking up his lines in readiness for a semi-appropriate time where he can shoe-horn one of them in.
Unfortunately he lacks the articulacy or the timing to really make it work. Instead it comes across as a bit clumsy and contrived.
I think he's a nice guy though... and I don't find him annoying... more embarrassed for him really.
Actually... I thought his "ugly sister" remark was one of the few spontaneous ones... and he didn't intend it as a harmless joke either... it was a kneejerk retort to Jo Brand referring to him as a something or other (can't remember) knobhead... he was offended and he intended to offend back. Jo Brand clarified after ignoring his comment that she meant that in the nicest possible way of course.
That might be the case for the "joker" who can, at least, still remain reasonably articulate under pressure.
James has a tendency to totally lose the plot at the worse possible time though...