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Post by sweet soul on Feb 10, 2009 11:26:33 GMT
BBC IN NEW THATCHER ROW, BUT THIS TIME IT’S MAGGIE NOT CAROL The crude comments, on the quiz show QI, prompted hundreds of complaints from viewers. The row comes just days after Lady Thatcher’s daughter Carol was sacked by the BBC for likening a black tennis player to a “golliwog” in a private backs tage conversation. Jo Brand, who stormed out of The One Show green room when Carol Thatcher made her remarks last month, caused her own furore on QI by comparing Lady Thatcher to a personal hair remover. She said: “It was great, actually, when she became Lady Thatcher, because then she sounded like a device for removing pubic hair.” The host, Stephen Fry, laughed and said: “It’s true. Absolutely. The Brazilian Lady Thatcher.” Later in the episode, when a doctored picture of the former prime minister was shown with her mouth and eyes altered, Phill Jupitus pointed and shouted: “Burn the witch!” The BBC admitted 200 viewers had lodged complaints about the programme, which was shown on Friday night at 9pm. www.express.co.uk/posts/view/84100/BBC-in-new-Thatcher-row-but-this-time-it-s-Maggie-not-Carol |
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Post by sweet soul on Feb 10, 2009 11:26:50 GMT
"And senior Tories accused the BBC of bias."
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Post by flatandy on Feb 10, 2009 11:33:59 GMT
I think I'm going to sue the BBC, because that's actually quite funny, which is something I'd never expect of Jo Brand.
There I was, expecting a story mentioning Jo Brand, to be utterly humourless and annoying, and it garnered a giggle, and that's not what I signed up for.
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Post by tarrant on Feb 10, 2009 11:43:49 GMT
Later in the episode, when a doctored picture of the former prime minister was shown with her mouth and eyes altered, Phill Jupitus pointed and shouted: “Burn the witch!” Disgraceful. They pinched that idea from the Tories!! |
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Feb 10, 2009 11:46:39 GMT
Jo Brand can be very funny. And she's a Palace fan so I won't hear a word against her.
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Post by flatandy on Feb 10, 2009 11:46:45 GMT
Burn the witch
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Feb 10, 2009 11:47:04 GMT
Oi!
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Post by flatandy on Feb 10, 2009 11:47:05 GMT
Jo Brand can be very funny. And she's a Palace fan so I won't hear a word against her. I think this is the most wrong thing you've ever posted. |
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Post by flatandy on Feb 10, 2009 11:47:46 GMT
That was much funnier because it was accidental.
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Feb 10, 2009 11:48:08 GMT
She's great. She got heckled once and she said "If you don't shut up I'm going to come over there and sit on your face." The guys says "Yeah yeah you said that last week too" and she said "Yes, but I wasn't on my period then."
Top bird and no mistake.
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Post by jonren on Feb 10, 2009 11:51:01 GMT
Brand is a fat talentless lump of lard as well as an ugly cow. Now she can sue me. Adrian Chiles is shafting the Irish cow and denying it. She can sue me too.
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Post by sushimo on Feb 10, 2009 11:51:12 GMT
I had recorded this, as I always do, and did watch it last night. Must admit to feeling a tad uncomfortable with this bit, but I was consoled when I reminded myself that Jo Brand is everything a woman shouldn't be!
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Post by omnipleasant on Feb 10, 2009 11:52:18 GMT
"200 viewers had lodged complaints about the programme"
Fcuking hell. Who are these people? What catastrophe befell them in life to make them so. So. Pathetic?
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Post by mids on Feb 10, 2009 11:52:23 GMT
Jo Brand is spectacularly unfunny. Her act for the past 25 years summed up:
"I'm fat. Men are sh*t. Periods."
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Post by sushimo on Feb 10, 2009 12:22:57 GMT
Same kind of people that branded Miss Thatcher a racist Omni?
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Post by omnipleasant on Feb 10, 2009 12:26:14 GMT
I doubt it somehow Sushi.
It's one thing refusing to be cowed by PC and calling a spade a spade (or a racist a racist, in the case of Thatcher).
This is a different kettle of fish.
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Post by dwad on Feb 10, 2009 12:29:49 GMT
Jo Brand is about as funny as terminal cancer: "Look at me, I'm fat"...
But I happened to see this and it was actually very amusing. It seems complaining to the BBC is the new black this season.
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Feb 10, 2009 12:30:10 GMT
Well it's not really in the same league, is it? Using racially offensive/inflammatory language is hardly the same as saying "Lady Thatcher" sounds like a hair removal device. Burn the Witch is arguably much more offensive and maybe it was Phil Jupitus they were getting annoyed about.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2009 12:30:18 GMT
I want to invite Stephen Fry for dinner, anyone got his number?
Jo Brand ain't invited.
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Post by mids on Feb 10, 2009 12:32:10 GMT
Has anyone ever complained to the BBC about anything? I'm quite tempted to now that it's all fashionable and everything.
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