My views:

Linda and Jim: I liked their little sketch before the show started. I wish they would do more comic stuff like that.

Liz: Not easy to enter a talent show as a writer. I would say she was hit and miss. Jim's trousers being 'as tight as my arse' was a miss imo, but she made some good and amusing points, and really didn't hold back with Luisa.

Lee: Looked scared to death, and it was a bit generic, but well done to him for actually writing a song and performing it on the spot.

Casey: She does have a fair amount of cheeky charm, but I thought it was awful! When Jim said, "now go and make up your own material", she seemed to have zoned out. I'm sure he didn't mean her just to reproduce, inaccurately, the not-very-good jokes he had given her. It sounded plain odd to me to listen to her cracking decades old sexist jokelets.

Dappy: I thought he sounded great! But of course it was a far easier task to sing your biggest hit than to write a new one.

Sam and Ollie: I loved it. They both really went for it, and it was funny and quite touching. When a tear rolled down Ollie's cheeks I was dumbfounded. Next stop, Hamlet at the Old Vic.

I loved Casey and thought she was very funny - clearly she has asked Jim for help but she performed very well.

Lee - I was quite surprised at how good his voice was

Dappy - it was good but he has performed (I would imagine) that song loads of times

Ollie and Sam - they performed well but I only saw Sam use one prop - did Ollie use any? Perhaps they cut that out.

Liz - some of her performance was funny, others not so much.

I would have awarded Casey the top score.

I thought Jim, Linda and Luisa's intro was great - shame they missed out the first part though (it was on the clip)

I agree with most of what you've said. Dappy did surprise me and in a good way. He really delivered.

Liz's routine was all a miss for me. Her BB 'news article' was a better representation of her talent.

Casey was all cringe for me.
Last edited by Pollyusa : 20-01-2014 at 16:51

My views:

The judges were quite fair on the whole.

Liz: Surprisingly good. I didn't agree with everything she said but she did well for someone not used to the spotlight.

Lee: Well at least he tried to write an original song but it was very average.

Casey: Must have been hard for her but she did reasonably well with the material given to her by Jim. Shame she didn't come up with anything original but I guess she's not used to being a standup.

Dappy: He was OK but he didn't write anything original so I would have given him a lower score.

Sam and Ollie: Ollie was good but I wasn't very convinced by Sam. Ollie should try and get into real acting.

I thought they all did really well.

Loved Casey though, that made me chuckle.

Linda and Jim having a banter was lovely to see. If only that were to continue. But I fear hell will freeze over first.

I agree - he seems to be good with accents too.

I thought they were all rather good.

Better than last time by miles. I can't really remember who did what except that we had some really excruciating stand-up stuff, and that one of them - Sophie Anderton? - could offer nothing better than showing them how to walk down a catwalk.

I don't know if I liked any of them but they were all brave to do it so give them that.

I didn't particularly like any.

I saw Ollie and Sam's (seemingly) unedited version on Youtube and thought it terrible. It looked better in the edit on the show, obviously.

Casey was confident and brassy in her character, but the material was ancient and not very funny.

Lee looked out of his depth, cobbled together something generic and delivered it poorly.

Liz, Jim, Linda and Luisa just delivered some insults. I found the unedited Youtube stuff between Jim, Linda and Luisa cringey. I seem to remember Liz delivering a few good barbs along with the misses, but it didn't really appeal to me.

Dappy did the best job, but also should have singing his own hit. I did hear somewhere he wanted to do a new song but BB wouldn't let him, but I don't know if that's true.

If I missed anyone out it's because I can't remember them.

Under the circumstances I thought they all did well.

First place. For me was Ollie & Sam, I just wasn't expecting anything nearly as good.

Last place would be Dappy as he sang a song he's really familiar with, whilst the rest learnt something new.

and Ulrika singing absolutely out of tune with the little fella - can't remember his name. It was so bad it was actually funny.

I know what you mean about Ollie. He has more potential than I expected. Was it Lionel that suggested he gets some proper drama training? I think he could be very successful.

To be fair he wanted to perform something new but according to BBOTS he was told to do his biggest hit.

the only thing which occured to me was about sam and ollie , I never watch TOWIE , but it seems that essentially they're just acting-improv workshops , why don't they just become actors , or have a go at it .

And - why don't TOWIE ask Mike Leigh to direct an episode ? and I'm only half-joking !

Ollie followed by Sam's spot

Seriously though Ollie is a pretty good actor. Wasn't expecting that/

Not sure where I heard this (bbbots?) but I definitely heard someone say that Dappy wanted to sing a new song but big brother made him sing the hit. They had the backing track but he wanted to sing it without. He is a pillock in my opinion but he sang better than I thought he would

Dappy also seemed to have trouble keeping his breathing under control, I was surprised as he's supposed to be a professional performer.

It also made me smile that Jim down-marked Ollie & Sam for just doing their day jobs but he gave Dappy a 10!

On the whole it was very good though

I liked them all.

Casey made me laugh - at times she made me think of Francine Lewis doing an impression of Stacey Solomon. I didn't so much notice what she was saying as how she was saying it.

I found Lee's voice quite appealing- I was just surprised he was quite so nervous though. I guess he felt under real pressure having to write a song by himself in a very short space of time.

I was genuinely surprised by the quality of Dappy's singing.

Liz's critique of the HMs' fashion sense was, I thought, very well observed and amusing.

Sam and Ollie's acting skills shone, particularly Ollie's. To produce a tear without an onion for assistance was amazing. Just made me wonder how much, if at all, he is acting in the House.

Loved the whole show, even the repartee of the judges

loved ollie and sam

Jim - only one with any charisma or timing.

Ollie and Sam - completely cringy rubbish, my year 5 class could do better.

Lee - too far up his own @rse to even know how rubbish he was.

Dappy - energetic rubbish.

Liz - just not very good - if that's like her column I'm glad I've never read it.

Casey - what talent?

Linda and Luisa - bookends.

All in all apart from Jim a talentless bunch.

I'd have been more impressed if Dappy had sung the old No Regrets by The Walker Brothers....now that IS singing!!!!

Lee - He sang better than I imagined he would and it actually seemed heartfelt. I found it quite touching in a way, which I certainly didn't expect!

Must have been hard for you to know what to think when Linda and Jim were doing an identical joke in unison.

Or the whole of Wagner's Ring Cycle...