She said, there's something in the woodshed...*


That aside, could someone give a quick rundown as to what this actually is? i'll be in the country in a little over a week, and I'd like to know if I should avoid it like the plague on principal...?





*I'm sorry, it's the effect of popular culture.

Sorry, that was me.

>She said, there's something in the woodshed...*
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>That aside, could someone give a quick rundown as to what this actually is? i'll be in the country in a little over a week, and I'd like to know if I should avoid it like the plague on principal...?
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Well, at least they haven't used Divine Comedy as the theme tune - that really would have been insulting.

Anyway. Basically it's Denise Van Outen hosting a sort of cattle market collision between Blind Date and The Generation Game. The first item I saw (and this was as far as I got) was a bloke who liked breasts and who had to match up the face and breasts of several women. The twist being (and this will surprise you) that one of them was his girlfriend.

I got no further. Do you really want to put yourself through this? Watch the news instead. Watch the wall.
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If someone would like to hand me a can of pain, i'll watch that.

So it's another DvO vehicle, eh? Apparently she'll be back on the Big Breakfast sometime (or so the forum says).

pain

damn, i meant 'paint'.


QAnother one for the Hall Of Amusing Typos, then.

4:25 in the morning? Go the hell to bed, man!

Surely the real issue is that 'Something For the Weekend' was the name of a shit sketch show on BBC1 on Saturdays in the late 80s? It came back in 1990 as 'Up to Something' (co-scripted by Lee&Herring, they admit on their own website), which was even worse.

One of these incarnations featured the once-in-eternity comedy collaboration of David 'Friday Night Armistice/Day Today' Schneider, and Shane 'Loads of crap on ITV' Ritchie. Those were the days when producers took risks...

>Surely the real issue is that 'Something For the Weekend' was the name of a shit sketch show on BBC1 on Saturdays in the late 80s? It came back in 1990 as 'Up to Something' (co-scripted by Lee&Herring, they admit on their own website), which was even worse.
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>One of these incarnations featured the once-in-eternity comedy collaboration of David 'Friday Night Armistice/Day Today' Schneider, and Shane 'Loads of crap on ITV' Ritchie. Those were the days when producers took risks...

Blimey, Jon - well remembered there. Didn't it also feature Susie "missing link between Russ Abbot and Victoria Wood" Blake? I think "Up To Something" launched Schneider, Iannucci and Herring onto an unsuspecting Saturday night audience.

(>4:25 in the morning? Go the hell to bed, man!

nonsense, it was only 10:25 over here.)

Van Outen has no talent for anything other than shouting. The you-know-what-I-mean-girls banter is just more brianless drivel, the Magi Clark school of pissing people off. Why don't you hire someone with integrity? Why not employ someone who says, right, this persons useless, these people are morons, she talks out her arse, he is an arse. Every day and every weekend the same smiling mediocrites. The same vacuous heads stumbling a long with the script. The same pretty faces jumping up and down and waving their arms. The same children's presenters ruining adult programmes. You don't employ one person who can adlib or think for themselves. Christ the money you're paying out surely you can get some talent from some where!

Should have read 'brainless'

'Brianless' was better. Drivel without reference to Brian Blessed, Brian Conley, Brian Cant, Brian Johnson... that's my sort of drivel.

Conversely, someone who said "PlayAway / 1st series of BlackAdder weren't very good" would be talking brianful drivel.

I should explain that the 2nd person pronoun (you) in my Outen posting was aimed at Channel 4. Re-reading it I sound like a demented carpet-biter. AND YOU KNOW THAT ISN'T TRUE DON'T YOU!

>Surely the real issue is that 'Something For the Weekend' was the name of a shit sketch show on BBC1 on Saturdays in the late 80s?

It was also the name of a short-lived BBC NI chat-show a few years ago which had various presenters - a different one every week. Gloria Hunniford was one of them.

>>Surely the real issue is that 'Something For the Weekend' was the name of a shit sketch show on BBC1 on Saturdays in the late 80s?
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I think I remember that. It had Dale Winton on it. One of the guests was a man famous for being The Boy Who Didn't Like The Chips on Fawlty Towers. That was the only highlight, for me anyway.

On the subject of Saturday evening programs, does anyone remember an early-nineties sketch show featuring Shane Ritchie and other "comedians"? It only lasted one series. It used to start with the cast sliding down a fireman-type pole and saying something witty, like, "Ow, it must be all the pole-tacs," etc. It was horrible, obviously, although I seem to remember laughing at it in my childishness. Can someone put me out of my misery and tell me what it was called?

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>On the subject of Saturday evening programs, does anyone remember an early-nineties sketch show featuring Shane Ritchie and other "comedians"? It only lasted one series. It used to start with the cast sliding down a fireman-type pole and saying something witty, like, "Ow, it must be all the pole-tacs," etc. It was horrible, obviously, although I seem to remember laughing at it in my childishness. Can someone put me out of my misery and tell me what it was called?


You've Got To Be Joking! (title relevance: optional). Summer 1991, starring Shane Richie and an impressionist called George Marshall, who used to do Star Trek characters and no-one else. I was 21 and it was balls.