really?



could we be in for a good 11OCS?



surely not..

On a recent trip to the bar at LWT, I noticed one of the pictures lining the corridor leading to it - Iain and Daisy - had been defiled. In wavering block letters, someone had scrawled "cock" across his forehead...

I vehemently refute certain recent allegations that I had anything to do with it... that's just the Richard and Judy photo...

Simon Harries:
>I vehemently refute certain recent allegations that I had anything to do with it... that's just the Richard and Judy photo...

Here's the only Richard Madeley pic you'll ever need: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mrgnet/pinch.jpg

Simon, the picture wasn't defaced. That's what he really looks like - it's an unfortunate birthmark that has ruined his life and baffled the world's greatest scientists. When he's on TV they remove it with computer effects, but it still causes the curious strained atmosphere of the show that is so unsettling to us viewers at home.

Has he really quit, then? What a bastard to walk out on them at the last minute before a new series. Bet he never works again.

When's the new series supposed to air? Presumably they're now scrambling to find someone with the same unique range of talents.

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What could possibly replace him?
(Holds up wire coathanger)
]

1. Has he really gone?
2. Did he jump/ was he pushed?

1. Yes he has.
2. He went of his own accord.

And yes, he is a twat for pulling out at the last minute and Talkback/Channel 4 will have to find someone to replace him pretty sharpish.

The new series begins a week on Tuesday (October 3rd).

"Talkback/Channel 4 will have to find someone to replace him pretty sharpish."

Can one of us lot audition for it?

[Serious voice:] And finally today, the medical profession were stunned at the news that Iain Lee had left the 11 O'Clock Show before it was due to start filming [Arch:] They say it's a first time a dick pulled out, and someone was still left holding a baby. Goodnightanthenkyou!



Was that satirical enough? Obviously I'm hoping you'll have a team writing the topical stuff for me.

Very droll

>Very droll

Still more amusing than anything I saw on the last series of it.

I feel strangely unmoved by this news anyway. The problem with The 11ocs remains this:

Can you do a three times a week topical comedy show, guaranteeing reasonable ratings, and being consistently funny?

Well, no, it's clear you can't. I think Chris Morris and Peter Cook would have had trouble, let alone the no-brains who've been saddled with doing it.

Iain Lee will still get work, sadly. An ironic documentary about internet porn, possibly. Maybe a bit-part in some poor British film.

The 11ocs: thanks for terminally fucking up the British comedy scene.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Lee fronting some banal panel quiz on C5 in the near future.