Bruce Forsyth, the Robert Mugabe of British Television. One time fearless freedom-fighter, now despotic dictator in situ for life.
More or less.

This is the very thing that drives me insane, him insisting on explaining the jokes. Most of us have a brain and we do get it! People I assume do not laugh because the jokes are bad?

From the moment Brucie staggers on to stage and does that appalling shuffle to his cringeworthy jokes (then he explains them) to his shouting out "Look,another standing ovation" as if they were genuine poor old Forsyth is well past it.
Once he was an excellent game show presenter but now it's well past the time he bowed out.
This is one Forsyth Saga we wish would come to a speedy end.

I love the programme and modern technology allows me to mute Bruce's contribution or, if I give it half an or so before starting to watch, I can ff and avoid the embarrassment that is Bruce.

Just because viewing figures are good does not denote approval of Bruce - or indeed anyone else.

Those who show unmitigated admiration for a celebrity can be very vocal indeed - and God forfend that I should be associated with the Mary Whitehouse brigade. I speak myself and none other.

Oh no - please no!!

Here's to another year of watching on iPlayer so I can fast forward all the Brucie bits.

I don't blame you for ff over Brucie's bits.

Hurrah hurrah! Bruce is the spirit of the show and if he goes it will lose something. He can't go on forever but I'd be pelased if he remainjed the host for at least another year!

During the final when Bruce hilariously referred to Kara calling him a creep and said she hated him I thought he had reached his lowest ebb. Then I saw the Xmas special when the sour-faced prima donna had a temper tantrum at the winners lifting up the trophy..

What an entertainer. Thoroughly unpleasant and egotistical. Proper old school.

Old ferret head needs to retire now, not only from Strictly, but show business too. He's got an appalling character and an even more appalling act. Ditch him now for the sake of the show.

Bruce is well past his prime, his crap jokes and then the explaining of these jokes are awful!

This is what I was referring to in a different thread when I said he was the worst I had seen him. The audience seemed shocked!

Complain then simple as that.

I have a great deal of admiration for Bruce - a real trouper and an old-fashioned entertainer par excellence. He's a lot sharper than his fumbled autocue readings might indicate - he was very entertaining on ITT the week before the final when there was no autocue to slow him down, and there were flashes of his old wit when he managed to sneak in unscripted jokes ('lovely dress, Kara - I used to like blancmange that colour'). People who have been to the studio to see the shows being filmed are full of praise for him doing his own warm-ups (and doing them well).

But...

I, too, wish he would bow out now and let somebody else take over. The jokes are beyond lame; there is zero chemistry between him and Tess; and, basically, he adds little to the show. Having said that, the results show was the poorer without him, but only because it meant that Tess took over!

I take no notice of the BBC backing him now - they'd hardly say anything else, would they?

Bruce is the apotheosis of the attention seeker. He'll hang on like a limpet, essentially like he does with most of his jokes. He falls into the trap of:
1. telegraphing them
2. fumbling them
3. explaining them
4. disowning them
He's a tour-de-force, that's what he is.
Perhaps that should have been farce.

That is unfair, Brucie's wage inflation is nothing like Mugabe's. After two devaluations each time lopping off goodness knows how many zeroes at the end, today the Zimbabwe dollar stands officially at $583 to £1. So Brucie is paid at $250 million Zimbabwe dollars per season.

We licence payers should be relieved we have Brucie for a mere £400,000.

That was so excruciating and cringemaking. You could see that Kara and Artem were trying hard to look 'amused' too, even though they were embarrassed. *shudder*

It is sad because Brucie used to have razor-sharp timing and his genius was interacting with people.

Very disappointed that bbc are treating Brucie like he is their Knight in shining armour, when in fairness he has got an ego bigger than niagra falls and thinks corny jokes are entertaining. Get him out right now!

not sure how much to believe being in the daily record - not bothered that Kay not going on if true but more oh no not more brucie - i have to record SCD eaxh week just so i can ff all his bits he is truely terrible.

please do the honourable thing brucie and step down

Quite, as well as being wimpish and ineffectual.
Bruce is a bit old but he manages the show well enough. He pleases the older viewers. Apparently he is marvellous with the audience too.

There will come a time when he absolutely has to go but please no Vernon Kaye, he would be ten times the embarrassment.

support that mate.

Easylistener,

Your rocking chair needs mending.

Sir Bruce pleases viewers of all ages, he is a legend.

The continuing popularity of this third-rate end-of-the-pier comic is a sad reflection on the TV audience. It looks as if he is going to be there for EVER. As the Americans say, no-one ever went broke because they under-estimated public taste!

I just try to enjoy the dancing and not listen to Bruce or the judges.

This is dated 2010 they may have changed their minds now and have someone else lined up for 2012. I hope so.