Dara O brian....... ummmmmmmm
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I like the show and think Dara is brilliant, I actually think I enjoy You're Fired over the actual show quite often.
The main reason I got into the Apprentice was to appreciate You're Fired.
I used to be a fan of Dara O'Briain and have seen him live but I think he spoils the show. He makes it all about him and his 'jokes' which he drags out too far. To rehash an old Clive James comment (re Liza Minelli & emotion in songs) he thinks he has to put the humour into the programme rather than bringing out the humour that is there.
I used to savour it thinking "Chiles will have something to say about this" but the blunderbuss doesn't spot the subtleties.
I used to be a fan of Dara O'Briain and have seen him live but I think he spoils the show. He makes it all about him and his 'jokes' which he drags out too far. To rehash an old Clive James comment (re Liza Minelli & emotion in songs) he thinks he has to put the humour into the programme rather than bringing out the humour that is there.
I used to savour it thinking "Chiles will have something to say about this" but the blunderbuss doesn't spot the subtleties.
Originally Posted by alan_m:
“Canned laughter
Just watch the final scene in any Top Gear. One of the presenters will drop a "bomb shell" and the assembled audience will erupt with howls of laughter - while the picture shows them standing there looking completely bored with their mouths shut.”
“Canned laughter
Just watch the final scene in any Top Gear. One of the presenters will drop a "bomb shell" and the assembled audience will erupt with howls of laughter - while the picture shows them standing there looking completely bored with their mouths shut.”
Not canned laughter. The audience is, of course, encouraged to laugh at everyone's jokes (not just Dara's) - that's kinda the point of having an audience there.
As Dara himself said to the audience at last night's recording, "If you're the kind of person who laughs on the inside, you're no f***ing use to me."
Last night was my first time in the audience of You're Fired. The laughter was genuine. I went to be entertained, and I was. And in reality most of the funniest jokes get cut out as they're deemed too edgy or risque for broadcast. There was one joke about Jimmy Savile which was very funny but will clearly not make the final edit ...
Originally Posted by lammtarra:
“I do not think Adrian Chiles is the answer but certainly Dara upsets the balance of the programme.
Firstly, there are now two comedians, and often the guest who is unused to television gets overshadowed by Dara.
Then the specialist guest often gets elbowed out. It would be nice to hear more of the inside track on how new beers are normally developed, launched and sold, for instance, to illuminate where the losing team went wrong.
Quite what is the point of the middle panellist, the celebrity Apprentice-fan, has always eluded me. For the most part, they fail to entertain or inform.
Ideally (imo) the programme would combine comedy with some serious analysis of the task -- just how hard were the sums that flummoxed the women? Should it have been obvious that the Kent beer festival was a waste of hops, or were they just unlucky? -- and maybe a look at the team dynamics.”
“I do not think Adrian Chiles is the answer but certainly Dara upsets the balance of the programme.
Firstly, there are now two comedians, and often the guest who is unused to television gets overshadowed by Dara.
Then the specialist guest often gets elbowed out. It would be nice to hear more of the inside track on how new beers are normally developed, launched and sold, for instance, to illuminate where the losing team went wrong.
Quite what is the point of the middle panellist, the celebrity Apprentice-fan, has always eluded me. For the most part, they fail to entertain or inform.
Ideally (imo) the programme would combine comedy with some serious analysis of the task -- just how hard were the sums that flummoxed the women? Should it have been obvious that the Kent beer festival was a waste of hops, or were they just unlucky? -- and maybe a look at the team dynamics.”
On the bright side, there's no celebrity Apprentice fan on this week's panel ...
Originally Posted by awowzer10:
“...dara...tries to hard and just becomes annoying when he is gabbling fifty words a minute with lots of umms and errs. i really much preferred adrian chiles...”
“...dara...tries to hard and just becomes annoying when he is gabbling fifty words a minute with lots of umms and errs. i really much preferred adrian chiles...”
Originally Posted by Reality Sucks:
“I prefer Adrian Chiles too. The humour was a bit drier in my opinion and more conversationally observational if that makes sense.”
“I prefer Adrian Chiles too. The humour was a bit drier in my opinion and more conversationally observational if that makes sense.”
Originally Posted by Rutakateki:
“Well put. It's been said before, but now it's a bit too much like "it's Mock the Apprentice- with Dara O'Briain!" I'd prefer to find out a bit more about the fired candidate- especially as they are the one unique thing about the show that week. They are the show's USP- they should have more focus. I think Adrian Chiles was great at this- he could find subtleties about their character, and maybe explore their vulnerabilities about the process in an empathetic way, which I found very interesting. It doesn't always have to be played for laughs, and I think one of the things that is lost is the sense of seeing the candidate more as a person, than the somewhat caricatured persona that we see on the main show.
Oh well, it is what it is, errrrrrrrrrrrrr
”
“Well put. It's been said before, but now it's a bit too much like "it's Mock the Apprentice- with Dara O'Briain!" I'd prefer to find out a bit more about the fired candidate- especially as they are the one unique thing about the show that week. They are the show's USP- they should have more focus. I think Adrian Chiles was great at this- he could find subtleties about their character, and maybe explore their vulnerabilities about the process in an empathetic way, which I found very interesting. It doesn't always have to be played for laughs, and I think one of the things that is lost is the sense of seeing the candidate more as a person, than the somewhat caricatured persona that we see on the main show.
Oh well, it is what it is, errrrrrrrrrrrrr
”
Lol I said this on here a couple of years back and I was flamed by one of his fanboys.
Originally Posted by 4smiffy:
“Drives me up the wall, bring back Adrian Chiles.”
“Drives me up the wall, bring back Adrian Chiles.”
Originally Posted by Chris1964:
“It was unfortunate that Chiles had to leave the BBC as the programmes he had were a perfect fit really. Certainly he was made for Fired. Dara gabbles, errrrrrrs and ummmmmms his way through to the extent that I cant always tell what he is gabbling urrrrrrring and ummmming on about.”
“It was unfortunate that Chiles had to leave the BBC as the programmes he had were a perfect fit really. Certainly he was made for Fired. Dara gabbles, errrrrrrs and ummmmmms his way through to the extent that I cant always tell what he is gabbling urrrrrrring and ummmming on about.”
Agree with all these posts. Sadly, Dara has (belatedly) made me appreciate how good Adrian Chiles was.
Never thought I'd miss Adrian Chiles but I'm getting increasingly fed up with 'The Dara O'Briain Show'.
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