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Old 30-11-2016, 16:39
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However much material he has, his endings are often 💩.

You can hear his tone of voice shift as he 'builds up' to what he thinks is going to be a brilliant denouement, leaving people rolling in the aisles, but his delivery is poor (he often repeats the punchline, rarely a good idea) and you can tell he is nervous because he lacks real conviction in the delivery.

His really good stuff is usually disposed off somewhere at mid-point.

Really odd how he seems to have such a poor feel for a good denouement given how long he has been doing this stuff.
Does your constant bashing of Dave Gorman have a proper ending?
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Old 30-11-2016, 16:42
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Does your constant bashing of Dave Gorman have a proper ending?
I like Dave quite a lot.

You should probably read things properly before you comment.

Funnily enough, you can like someone and still provide constructive criticism and analysis of their work.
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Old 30-11-2016, 18:46
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Has anyone popped into Innocent yet ??
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Old 30-11-2016, 19:16
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I like Dave quite a lot.

You should probably read things properly before you comment.

Funnily enough, you can like someone and still provide constructive criticism and analysis of their work.
Constant criticism of how he deals with things, repeatedly calling him odd and using the shit emoji to describe part of his work is not constructive.
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Old 30-11-2016, 19:48
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I like Dave.

And he is a bit odd as a character and he can't do endings.
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Old 30-11-2016, 20:03
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I like Dave.

And he is a bit odd as a character and he can't do endings.
You may like him, but constantly calling him odd and using a shit emoji to describe his endings is not constructive criticism no matter how much you claim it is.
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Old 30-11-2016, 20:15
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I like Dave.

And he is a bit odd as a character and he can't do endings. Sometimes they are a bit 💩.
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Old 30-11-2016, 20:19
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I hadn't noticed it till you mentioned it. And once you had mentioned I still don't notice it.
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Old 30-11-2016, 20:24
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I hadn't noticed it till you mentioned it. And once you had mentioned I still don't notice it.
Ah well. Perspicacity is a rare quality.
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Old 30-11-2016, 20:39
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Ah! You are using the wrong tool for the job.
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Old 02-12-2016, 00:47
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I thought that he would feature a table tennis net/table at the end
I liked the part about uneccesary notices and companies being "chatty"/friendly/weird to you with their packaging
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Old 02-12-2016, 06:36
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Has anyone popped into Innocent yet ??
I've often glanced at the blurb on innocent packaging and wondered if anyone took them up on the offer and if so what the company's reaction was if a punter turned up. Found this episode hilarious. Didn't know that wackaging was now a thing. Does anyone take up washing conditioner manufacturers offer to phone them up with questions? What could you possibly ask? Patronising, smug gits
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Old 08-12-2016, 22:40
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Another really weak ending from Dave against this week.

I wonder if it's a weakness he is conscious of and works hard at or whether he just doesn't realise that his endings are often 💩.
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Old 09-12-2016, 00:07
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Another really weak ending from Dave against this week.

I wonder if it's a weakness he is conscious of and works hard at or whether he just doesn't realise that his endings are often 💩.
Your opinions are 💩.

There you go, a bit of 'constructive criticism', according to your definition.
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Old 09-12-2016, 00:09
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Another really weak ending from Dave against this week.

I wonder if it's a weakness he is conscious of and works hard at or whether he just doesn't realise that his endings are often 💩.
Maybe it's part of a larger plan for Dave, knowing full well how irritated you get with his supposedly weak endings, and in the next series he will do a show where he features excerpts from this thread in his found poem... The episode could be called 'Perspicacity is a rare quality.'..
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Old 09-12-2016, 09:10
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Why have a strong ending?
It's not a whodunnit mystery! If he had a strong ending then that implies there's a weaker build-up which is not what I want.
I like it just the way it is, except I would scrap the Found Poem bit, don't like it at all, boring.
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Old 09-12-2016, 09:25
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Why have a strong ending?
It's not a whodunnit mystery! If he had a strong ending then that implies there's a weaker build-up which is not what I want.
I like it just the way it is, except I would scrap the Found Poem bit, don't like it at all, boring.
Whilst the endings are not usually a great big 'ta-dah' moment, they do generally link back to something that's been referred to earlier, so I don't have a major problem with them but there's room for improvement for sure.

I wouldn't like to see the Found Poems go, I enjoy them in all of their glorious pomposity. I always did from when he used to do them on the radio. Besides, if you drop them, the shows won't have anything to name them after!
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Old 09-12-2016, 12:25
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He made some good points about social "rules" on signs and packaging this week which I mostly agree with, but felt he was being unfairly prissy with the chap who swapped the salt/pepper shakers around. They're his to do with as he pleases, who cares?
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Old 09-12-2016, 12:40
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Who in their right mind puts salt and pepper in the 'wrong' receptacles; unless doing it as a practical joke?!!
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Old 09-12-2016, 13:27
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He made some good points about social "rules" on signs and packaging this week which I mostly agree with, but felt he was being unfairly prissy with the chap who swapped the salt/pepper shakers around. They're his to do with as he pleases, who cares?
The only bit that was off for me this week was the forcing of the cerials into the order. Its like how magicians get you to pick the right option for a trick but obviously not as slick as a magician would do it. He kept saying you have put them in this order but the audiance hadent he had.
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Old 09-12-2016, 20:22
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The only bit that was off for me this week was the forcing of the cerials into the order. Its like how magicians get you to pick the right option for a trick but obviously not as slick as a magician would do it. He kept saying you have put them in this order but the audiance hadent he had.
Spot on. It was a feeble attempt really - and pretty pointless.
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Old 09-12-2016, 20:39
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And besides, everyone knows Coco the Monkey is much friendlier than a giant blimmin' Tiger!

I have to be honest, I thought his clickbait/Alan Sugar explanation this week seemed to drag on for ages.
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Old 09-12-2016, 21:18
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He made some good points about social "rules" on signs and packaging this week which I mostly agree with, but felt he was being unfairly prissy with the chap who swapped the salt/pepper shakers around. They're his to do with as he pleases, who cares?
Presumably someone got pepper all over their chips.
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Old 09-12-2016, 23:33
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The only bit that was off for me this week was the forcing of the cerials into the order. Its like how magicians get you to pick the right option for a trick but obviously not as slick as a magician would do it. He kept saying you have put them in this order but the audiance hadent he had.
Spot on. It was a feeble attempt really - and pretty pointless.
Totally agree. If you look up the word "contrived" in the dictionary, it'll have that entire segment as the definition.

Also his Found Poem was rubbish this week.

Starting to think he's running out of material.
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Old 09-12-2016, 23:42
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I do think it was his weakest episode this week, some of his points seem to fizzle out for me
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