You know, there's hope. No matter how low you sink.

I agree, always have hope and also faith (whatever it may be in) and you can turn your life around.

Of whom do you speak ?

I didn't really get his humour and I can usually laugh at most things.

If he thought her thinness was good for the crack joke then I sort of see it but with the prostituiton comment, I didn't really get it. Or was it meant to be ironic because she's got that kind of prim and maybe even snooty look about her which would make the comment so far off that it would be funny? I just didn't understand the joke annoyingly, lol.

Feel free to enlighten me.

Absolutely with you on this Miriam.
I didn't get the joke either. To me it sounded like a rather nasty thing to say and not funny at all.

I was astounded as the 'joke' progressed.

I kept expecting them to say something about joke/lawyers but nothing came.

The original one liner from the comedian was actually funny because she looks so unlike anyone who's ever been a crack addict.

But the way they carried it on was crass.

I thought it was hysterical, but I did imagine this morning get complaints on the BBC switchboard from Daily Mail readers.

I laughed!

Micky Flanaghan did look like he felt a bit out of place last night - perhaps he should stick to Mock the week!

I was kind of shocked and grossed out by it, like 'Errr excuse me?' o_O

If I was Helen I'd be kind of mad.

I'm sure Helen has a sense of humour. Only a massive idiot would think for one second that he was suggesting she really was a crackhead prostitute. I would like to think that most people would've realised he was making a joke on her 'perfect' persona.

It was a complete non-sequitur. The guy had no idea how to upstage a candidate who made a 200,000-euro sale obliterating Liz Locke's £99,000 record. Unable to find clay feet on the monument he sought notoriety from defacing it.

It was a joke - based on a completely unlikely scenario - NOT a put-down.

You take this shit far too seriously.

I thought it was a bit of a random thing to say, and I too didn't really understand the joke

I didn't get it either. But even if I had, I very much doubt I would have found it funny...

I didn't realise she had been that low in her life.

She has done well to recover from it

She hasn't, it was a joke about her perfect persona

I know

So, you did get it!

Well if I get a joke, I laugh immediately. But I didn't, I just thought.......what is he on about?!

I hope they don't have him on again, lol.

He was pretty poor on that programme. (I'm not familiar with him elsewhere.)

But I still think, as a one liner, it was quite funny. It was their dragging it out that ruined it and made it rather gross.

You just have to look at Alvin Hall's reaction to see that it was extremely funny if you have that sense of humour. On iPlayer at 22:45. Seeing it again, it was the build up to the punch line that made it. Dara O Briain destroyed it.

Me too, it was a pathetic excuse for humour.

Yeah, it was almost as funny as Frankie Boyle's joke about Harvey.:yawn:

(Alvin, like a lot of Americans, tend to laugh at all our 'jokes' out of politeness as they don't really get British humour and don't wish to look silly.)