He is ghastly
But I still listen to him in the early hours

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Last edited by Michael Ross : 18-05-2016 at 21:04

[quote=Peachykeen;82443355]I will also congratulate Steve on his award.

He does seem to have a lot of love and respect from his peers and that speaks volumes I think.

Yes i will add my congratulations, too. Sometimes i can have a good laugh with his programmes when my mood is right and he must've been doing something right to still be around since 1979.

Maybe his private persona is different from the sarcastic one that comes across in his daily show. Or maybe that "love and respect" shown to him by his peers is put on to avoid feeling the rough edge of his tongue in the early hours of the morning.

So is importing 330,000 people a year, but none of the main parties seem to want to talk about that either.

Only managed to listen to 10 mins of Katie tonight......10 mins too much! Iain Lee's ratings must be receiving a boost

Time to bring in a law similar to that in India where only people of Indian origin can buy property.
Here, far too many empty houses and apartments are owned by absent foreigners. A ludicrous situation when we have a housing crisis.

The RAJAR figures are out. According to Paul Easton's graphs, the 4am spike is still there, although Ferrari tops it by a mile. The worst figures seem to be around 9pm on Saturday, where the line disappears off the graph! It seems nobody's very interested in sex and relationships.

http://pauleaston.co.uk/radio/london-rajar-q12016/

Morning all.

The new Mayor was proposing me thing among those lines in his phone in with JOB.

Ahhh. What a sensible man.
Let's hope he actually does something about it.

NF seems to detest that agreement has been reached in the doctors dispute.
Comments like the BMA have had to climb down and asking a doctor if her salary started with a 3 point to Ferarri caring more about a perceived government victory than an end to a dispute.
Lickspittle.

Audience plummets through the floor between 10am and 1 pm Before we get the usual 'all audiences fall after breakfast' excuses offered, tell me another station who lose graph plunges so far and so fast during those 3 hours . Path continues down for another 90 minutes before a tiny plateau, then another fall. Leaves Dale a tough job to revive the figures after the deadweights of the previous 6 hours.

it is not a "usual excuse" when the clear fact is no one is bothering to compete in that time slot because it just is not worth it.

so steve allen won a award for slagging off celebs, and then buttering them up, when the same people appear on his in conversation show. piers morgan and boy george are just two celebs he's grovelled to after years of slagging them off. steve is the only broadcaster i know who says really hurtful and hateful things about his audience. he calls them sad and lonely, and stupid if they have a different opinion to him. he's always bragging about how much money he gets paid. one time he said he wouldnt get out of bed for £70,000 a year. this is just a terrible thing to say, especially when people are struggling in this country to make ends meet. i think the guy has lost the plot. he was ok ten years ago but now his head is so swollen i think he believes the world revolves around him, and this award will make him even more bigheaded.

One of the "deadweights" is presenting Newsnight again tonight. The frequency of his appearances seems to be increasing fast.
This is no surprise to me after watching his very confident and relaxed showing last week.

Surely, between us, we can figure out why Newsnight are not desperately courting Nick Ferrari, the man who invented the concept of the Trampolining Dwarf Weather Presenter?
Yep. It's a real puzzle. 4 sure.

No it doesn't. It starts going down after a big spike at 8am but still maintains healthier figures than the rest of the day.

If JOB's appearances on Newsnight mean't less shows on LBC, I would be all for it. The figures show his style does not suit mid-morning radio.

Deja vu.
We should all save ourselves alot of effort and just read again the posts from the last raja figures.

I wouldn't worry too much about what Fanny says. He'll soon say something completely contradictory - sometimes even in the same sentence. Words fall out of him like s**t out of a diarrhetic cow. For years his radio shtick has been to just keep talking and talking without worrying too much if what he says makes any sense. Small wonder that over time he has pretty much disappeared up his own inner monologue and his radio persona has melded indistinguishably with his "real" self.

I don't think he believes the world revolves around him so much as he lives in his own world with little interest or understanding of anything or anybody else. That's fine when he is babbling on about things that he has done or people he knows but he is lost when he tries to talk about anything or anyone outside his direct experience because he lacks knowledge or empathy. That's why he is able to slag off people who he hasn't met and then to be so unctuous with them when does and they become "real" to him.

It is this mix of life in his tiny and arcane little world and his struggle to interact with everything outside it that apparently makes him so uniquely entertaining. I must admit that I do find him funny and ghastly in equal measure but I am mystified why some people actually seem to identify with his daily outpouring of bilge. Still, as he said not long ago "I'd rather people laugh at me than with me" and I'm happy to oblige.

Iain Lee totally lambasted SA on air last night, he accused him of everything that he gets criticised for on this thread, and more. That's all I'm going to say about that ...... in case I get into trouble.

Good morning all.

That's quite a spectacular drop and then shoots up again at 10pm for Nick Abbott.

It really is an odd show for LBC to put out. Totally at odds with the rest of their output.

Iain Lee has many a dig at SA (especially on Twitter )but obviously still listens to him. I've always assumed it's because of Steve's 'mentally ill' comments when Iain has had well documented problems with depression or maybe something happened when Iain was at LBC.

It just amazes me that he will listen to Steve if it winds him up. That's not healthy.

I've said before that was one of the reasons why I stopped listening to Ferrari. He winds me up no end and I didn't think shouting at the radio at 7.30 in the morning was not a good way to start my day.

The discussion is on the Rajar figures for LBC, which again show them falling off a cliff between 10am and 1pm. What a BBC show, run by ex Guardianistas, does is utterly irrelevant.

To me, it was totally unprofessional and, even though he was speaking the truth, it was uncalled for as it was quite a long rant.

They've never got on. Iain has problems holding down a job for thirty-seven months, let along thirty-seven years. He's a loose cannon who will eventually run out of stations willing to employ him.

You're not wrong there.

If it wasn't for Talk Radio coming along he would probably still be unemployed.

I don't think Steve will be losing sleep over Iain's comments.