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Well apparently now Trump has won Katie Hopkins is now moving to the USA. Hurray! The only good thing to come out of this result.
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I normally delete the recordings after I've watched them, but the last two have been such classics that I'm saving them for the TV desert on Christmas Day.
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Well apparently now Trump has won Katie Hopkins is now moving to the USA. Hurray! The only good thing to come out of this result.
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I suspect that if Clinton had won the election then tonight's programme would have had a quite different tone.
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Look I don't like Trump, I wouldnt have voted for him if I was an American.
Millions of people watch HIGNFY every week and no wonder they want to kick the establishment when posh Ian Hislop and Charlie Brooker are telling them they are morons. |
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They forgot this is meant to be a comedy entertainment show this week and just made it a political tirade against Trump so it just was boring. It proves the BBC are losing the plot
They should have had someone like Katie hopkins or Clarkson as the host that would have been funny as it would have set up some banter. Lipman wasn't in the least bit funny and just came across as bitter. Total waste of time. Is this the policy where they have to have a female guest on now ? |
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supporters of Brexit ('closet racists, fruitcakes and loonies) and Trump (racist, rednecks, 'basket of deplorables' etc.) .
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Well as you say you can only 'suspect' and never actually know so your comment takes us nowhere really does it?
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My litmus test is simple. Did it make me laugh? And yesterday felt like a wasted opportunity. It seemed like they were collectively all too angry/dismayed/bemused than to be funny. . |
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I'll reword it then and say "I know the programme would definitely have had a quite different tone". Lipman and the American would have been gushing about how wonderful Clinton is.
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Again how can you 'know', unless you have some sort of psychic power?
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I'll reword it then and say "I know the programme would definitely have had a quite different tone". Lipman and the American would have been gushing about how wonderful Clinton is.
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Well apparently now Trump has won Katie Hopkins is now moving to the USA. Hurray! The only good thing to come out of this result.
![]() http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...k-America.html |
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They forgot this is meant to be a comedy entertainment show this week and just made it a political tirade against Trump so it just was boring. It proves the BBC are losing the plot
They should have had someone like Katie hopkins or Clarkson as the host that would have been funny as it would have set up some banter. Lipman wasn't in the least bit funny and just came across as bitter. Total waste of time. Is this the policy where they have to have a female guest on now ? I would have thought with your left wing views you would be in favour of diversity i.e. having a female guest as part of BBC policy?
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Can you laugh and be funny when the lunatics have taken over the asylum - I doubt it.
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Great show last night. Gave me almost as many laughs as the patently obvious Trump supporting Brexiters posting on here!
My my they really are touchy aren't they?
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Its a light entertainment programme, as HIGNFY used to say to placate the lawyers, "allegedly". Unless BAFTA was wrong of course awarding the show "Best Comedy Entertainment Programme". Its lost its way humour wise...surely its very raison d'etre... and has become a boring rant-fest recently. If the likes of Hislop is so eaten up and cant even feign wit rather than oozing bitterness, then he needs to pack it in and concentrate on his magazine before long term subscribers like me pack him in.
HIGNFY is a show about the news (the clue is in the title after all). The news can be light or it can be dark - for a lot of people the news right now is pretty much pitch black, so you (or I) have no right to say that our view of the news should take precedent over theirs. As far as I know, when you pay your licence fee you're not sent a signed contract that says 'All shows will meet your expectation of what they are and how they behave'. If they want to be light and frivolous they can. There are comedians who are light and frivolous, after all. if they want to be overtly political and ranty, they can. There are comedians who are overtly political and ranty, after all. Charlie Brooker is famously NOT light and frivolous, so it was a fair bet when it was his turn to host the show wouldn't be either. Given the lead times bookings, it may simply be a coincidence he's on this week, although I suspect in fact it isn't. You, or I, or any other individual viewer, cannot define what any given show is 'supposed to be', because we are only one opinion among millions. The people who make the show get to make the show they want to make. If nobody likes it, they don't get to make it any more. There are no other rules, outside of specific factual news broadcasts, anyway. |
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Great show last night. Gave me almost as many laughs as the patently obvious Trump supporting Brexiters posting on here!
My my they really are touchy aren't they? ![]() Long may it continue. |
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I think that given the comedy potential this was a disappointing edition. Hall and lipman (who the hell does she think she is) were just unfunny. Some light and shade were needed we have to think about why Trump was successful just spouting vitriol about his supporters does not make for intelligent or amusing debate.
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Well apparently now Trump has won Katie Hopkins is now moving to the USA. Hurray! The only good thing to come out of this result.
Great episode last night for me. |
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Great show last night. Gave me almost as many laughs as the patently obvious Trump supporting Brexiters posting on here!
My my they really are touchy aren't they? ![]() |
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I sure she said she was going to leave if Brexit won.
Great episode last night for me.
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To be fair the BAFTAs famously gave Top Gear a 'best factual programme' award, even the presenters thought that was stupid. So BAFTA's opinion of the nature of a show shouldn't be taken as somehow sacrosanct and a 'fact'.
HIGNFY is a show about the news (the clue is in the title after all). The news can be light or it can be dark - for a lot of people the news right now is pretty much pitch black, so you (or I) have no right to say that our view of the news should take precedent over theirs. As far as I know, when you pay your licence fee you're not sent a signed contract that says 'All shows will meet your expectation of what they are and how they behave'. If they want to be light and frivolous they can. There are comedians who are light and frivolous, after all. if they want to be overtly political and ranty, they can. There are comedians who are overtly political and ranty, after all. Charlie Brooker is famously NOT light and frivolous, so it was a fair bet when it was his turn to host the show wouldn't be either. Given the lead times bookings, it may simply be a coincidence he's on this week, although I suspect in fact it isn't. You, or I, or any other individual viewer, cannot define what any given show is 'supposed to be', because we are only one opinion among millions. The people who make the show get to make the show they want to make. If nobody likes it, they don't get to make it any more. There are no other rules, outside of specific factual news broadcasts, anyway. |
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I think that given the comedy potential this was a disappointing edition. Hall and lipman (who the hell does she think she is) were just unfunny.
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Its a light entertainment programme, as HIGNFY used to say to placate the lawyers, "allegedly". Unless BAFTA was wrong of course awarding the show "Best Comedy Entertainment Programme". Its lost its way humour wise...surely its very raison d'etre... and has become a boring rant-fest recently. If the likes of Hislop is so eaten up and cant even feign wit rather than oozing bitterness, then he needs to pack it in and concentrate on his magazine before long term subscribers like me pack him in.
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