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ganderpoke66
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Something going on between Toksvig and Susan Calman.
Susan is never off the show this series , a bit of BBC leg upping between those of a sapphic persuasion perchance.
Surely not, what would Barry Took make of it ? :cool:
Susan is never off the show this series , a bit of BBC leg upping between those of a sapphic persuasion perchance.
Surely not, what would Barry Took make of it ? :cool:
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Jeez! What stone did the OP crawl out from under!
OP it's called reacting to humour - just because they 'respond' doesn't mean there's a sexual connotation! It can be down to one appreciating the sense of humour of the other!
Sheesh!:rolleyes:
None of which is relevant to The News Quiz.
Barry Took was superb as a chairman, the show was funny but without the political drum-banging we hear nowadays, particularly from Jeremy Hardy, whose political leanings are now - frankly - getting boring.
I used to listen for the comedy; I don't want overt political lessons. So I rarely hear the show now, and often end up turning it off when I do happen on it.
Maybe I'm just too old for it. I miss Richard Ingrams and Alan Coren too.
Not to a male actually
Agreed, I always used to make a point of listening to the prorgamme, even recording to listen later. Often now I just can't be bothered mainly because of Hardy but others can be as bad.
I know someone who wasn't a regular listener but went to a recording of the News Quiz and was impressed with Hardy's performance. That kind of comedy, combining passion, wit and silliness, is rarely heard these days.
Incidentally there was a good interview with Stewart Lee on Rensonance FM last week. It's available on Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/resonance-fm/til-debt-do-us-part-the-entire
Why does everyone on here who uses the "dude with sunglasses" emoticon have to be a petty, stirring little bigot, btw? And Martin Watkins *would* miss a blatant anti-Semite ...
I don't listen to the show with a political ear, I just love hearing the high, mighty and pompous brought down a peg or two by those who have the ability to do so.
The News Quiz is a highlights in my listening week, I get the podcast via iTunes.
Hardy is an absolute master and his rants are one of the joys of the programme.
The idea that only raving far-leftists can love Hardy (or some others like him) is nonsense. Many people who aren't left-wing in any real way think Radio 4 has improved since it let that generation in.
It works the other way too. I'm a convinced socialist but, believe it or not, I got a lot of pleasure out of Auberon Waugh. Some people are good enough that they transcend political tribalism.
Dearie me, get your facts right before posting eh ?
Susan is very funny [ and Scottish, much to Jezza Hardy's Home Counties xenophobic sensibilities ] but I think she got the News Quiz gig because of her friendship with Toksvig, plus it means the much funnier [ also Scottish ] but boringly straight Fred McCauley has been dropped off the guest roster of late.
I agree with every word Martin
Ditto
The problem with Jeremy Hardy is that he is a classic example of a left-winger who has become rich enough to make his own choices and has forgotten that rather less well off people don;t have those options and need the ability to be able to control their own lives through other ways.
The other week he was arguing against people having the right to choose what energy company to use on the basis that he can't be bothered to do so. Previously he's argued that people shouldn't have the right to choose what hospital to be treated in because he can't be bothered. He's seems quite content to leave the poor at the bottom of the heap just so long as nothing challenges hs 1970s view of socialism.:(