>I know it's not been on yet, but come on it's presented by Jim Davidson! The Corrs! 5ive! Ed Byrne!
>Forget Chris Evans: Can anyone remember a time when JD was funny?
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>Whose man enough to admit they're going to watch it? And Why?

It's weird - round about 10 years ago, Davidson was as good as washed up on telly. Home James! had run its course, then there was Stand Up Jim Davidson (or Shut Up Jim Davidson as I side-splittingly renamed it at the time). Thames basically let him go.

Then came Big Break...and reinvention. Thanks Auntie Beeb.

So Ed Byrne, eh? Any others from the circuit who are going to be chewing the fat with Jimbo on stage?

Jeff Green on show 4? Just guessing.
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Faceless person at the BBC: "Jim Davidson - he's popular with the proles, isn't he? If we pay him enough, he might stop making darkie jokes. Then he could help us to flog the dead variety horse for a few more decades. Excellent!"

I don't know why you've all got it in for Jimbo, the man has incredible talent. So Jim doesn't exactly hold the type of lefty views you love. So what? As far as I'm concerned Jim Davidson is a genius of comedy. So he's got a bit drunk every once in a while speeded in his car and knocked his wives around. To listen to you lot you'd think he'd committed some kind of crime. You seem to forget that Jim is the first one to offer his services to our troops when the lads go into action. The man is a true patriot, a real John Bull. I doubt whether the Falklands would have been such a breeze if it hadn't of been for our Jim. How the troops laughed at Jim's General Belgrano jokes. Of course all the PC lot didn't see the funny side of it: �What about the poor men that died?� I thought the war was marvellous myself. It was a bit expensive though (£700 million spent and only 750 Argentines killed. That getting on for a million a corpse.) But I digress. I'm proud and happy by the way the BBC has kept this loveable rogue going. He's well worth the million or so he's paid every year. Thanks Jim.

Yeah, and, you know, those black people are really smelly. Good old Jim, he really knows what he's talking about.

You know, i remember when i saw my first banana. I was still on rations of course, and i could believe this yellow object was a fruit etc etc

(PJ Snr new book - Not a warrior, just a survivor - is available at all good bookshops. Well, it's available at some, anyway)

Can I just say, at the risk of being heavily insulted, that I actually think Ed Byrne is (whisper it) quite funny?

>Can I just say, at the risk of being heavily insulted, that I actually think Ed Byrne is (whisper it) quite funny?


What, are you stupid? Ed Byrne funny, you wanker, what're you talking about...

Seriously though, i don't think there's a a problem with liking Byrne and finding him funny - my view is just twisted by the adverts he made for Brannigan's shoes, or whatever they're called. (reminds me of a song Joe wrote...)

Still at least he didn't do it naked

Jim Davidson is a cunt.
Can we say cunt on sotcaa?
I can't think of any other way to describe him you see.

Ive just watched Jim Davidson presents.Its hard to believe that we are in the year 2000!Some of the jokes I used to tell in primary school in 1977 for Shits sake! Pathetic.Ed Byrne just faxed his performance in and as for Supergirly.These overrated Aussies are appearing more and more everywhere peddling their lazy pop parodies,that a small child might make up at Sunday bathtime, listening to the top 40.God help us if some arsehole will try and groom them into the next Dawny and Jenners.Kill me now.Mr Zed was interesting but appeared to have wandered off a Paul Verhoevan film shoot onto the stage by mistake.The Corrs dish out the usual anaemic musak.Bob Monkhouse was actually the shows saving grace but Im sure I recognised a few cast offs from certain circuit comics amidst his material.Weve already seen the Palladium debacle on the other side , why on Lucifers earth do they think this format will work.As Alexei Sayle used to say"Variety is dead ,because it was shite!"Jims tie was quite nice though.

Jim Davidson does a lot of performances for British servicemen around the world. Good work. He certainly makes me feel like killing someone.