That was the first time I've seen him on anything. I tried to put aside all the comments I'd read about him on this forum and give him a chance (I'm sure he'd be thrilled to hear that).

I *did* try. I really tried. But no, he was shit, unfunny, irritating and generally dislikeable. The only laugh he gave me was provided by my first sighting of his facial hair. Even that got irritating after a while, though as I write this, I'm chuckling at the thought that he obviously consciously decided that it looks good like that.

Sorry Dave, but it's 10 out of 10 on the cuntometer.

Comes over as rather smug, don't he?

Do the other ninety-nine Dave Gormans have to grow sideburns like that?

I've yet to see any Dave Gorman TV appearances (or hear any radio appearances) where he was actually funny, however I've always thought him good when I've seen him live.

Maybe when you see him live, you're close enough for him to tickle you with his whiskers - hence mirth?

Sheep I have copy of him on the Now Show (leave it alone) where he was quite good, will mail it to you. (Do i have your address?)

[email protected] . Did you get the list I sent?

I think I may have the Dave Gorman stuff from Now Show. The Friendly Numbers routine? (amongst a few others?)

I have to say that fell into the "unfunny" category too - though in part due to atmosphere. I've seen him perform it on stage and I thought it was funny, but it didn't come across right on the radio and I thought it was a bit too tedious.

I still think he's good. Just, so far, not very good on TV or radio.

He's got a TV series coming up soon....

"Meet Dave Gorman's Beard"

NO.
It's a series with stand up clips and some crap about him meeting people with same name.

"Are You Dave Gorman's Beard?"

GGggrrrrr.

Dear RHC,
Not all postings which follow your postings are aimed at you.

Two of Dave Gorman's jokes were quite funny, although (or maybe because) they were prepared beforehand. They were when he asked for David Soul's autograph and when he told Mark Lamarr that "for a guy who does ads to save energy, you're wasting a lot of televisions", or something like that.

His ad-libs were crap, however.

anon- if they aren't aimed at me, would people please make that clear by mentioning who they are aimed at?

Hardly any of the jokes in Nevermind the Buzzcocks are ad-libs, they go over all the questions for an hour beforehand so people can make up their jokes. It was really awful on last weeks show, where they were doing guess the lyrics with Fire by Jimi Hendrix, because they were playing the studio version and had no video to go with it, so they chopped up the video of him on the Lulu show playing Voodoo Child (Slight Return) and cut it really badly to make it look like he was playing Fire, as in just cut it completley randomley and try and get a bit where he is moving his mouth at the same time as the the vocals on Fire. And they milked this for about 10 minutes going on about what a bad mimer he was, christ..

Phil Jupitus also made a pun about Changing Rooms, hilariously calling it Changing Wombs, and then proceeded to get up and raise his arms in air and head held skyward for a minute in the mistaken thinking that he was some sort of comedy god for coming up with a crap pun. How come nobody has mentioned Dark Ages to him on the show yet? Is he exempt from embarassment? Perhaps he should look up old school bullies in the phone book and tell them what a comedy god he is now, and not the 'Big Fat Twat' everyone called him in school, that will show them.

Dear RHC,

Sometimes people are continuing a conversation with another 'poster' or, as in the case of Nik above, elaborating a joke they have already made in the light of your posting. In the TGP #94 thread people were having silly pun-based fun which happened to start just after your posting. Not aimed at you in any way.

The world is not always about you.

YES IT IS! YES IT IS!

Enjoy it while you can, our kid. If you want to chatin peace without being accused of on-line hogging, meet me in the "why is there no-one else on-line" Strand. That isn't about anything at all.

Dear RHC,

I was, indeed, merely having a laugh at Dave Gorman's facial hair - nothing more. This was just because it was the only thing I found funny about him on NMTB the other night.*

I was not having a dig at you in any way, in fact I just thought of it as a bit of friendly banter. Absolutely no offence to you was intended and I apologise unreservedly if you were offended. I know it can be annoying if someone takes the piss out of someone or something you like, so I am sorry if it seemed I was aiming at you.**

Thanks to Anonymous for pointing much of this out already.

(*I must admit that I have not seen or heard his live stand-up work, which apparently is much better. I must also admit to having worn some rather worrying face-furniture in the past too; nothing as alarming as his though, and I didn't have the audacity to flaunt it on national tv.)

(**I do not apologise to Dave Gorman as if he is prepared to go on tv looking like that, he should get used to being laughed at in ways other than he intends. He is also considerably less (intentionally) funny and pleasant than RHC.)

I actually thought he came across really nervous. I say his Edinburgh show, and it was good - and very funny. However perhaps a comical music quiz show is not the right medium for his comedy.

>I must also admit to having worn some rather worrying face-furniture in the past too;

Dear Nik,
I thought you were a girl and was beginning to fancy you because you are funny. I am now going to have to re-think my sexual orientation*

*Unless you are a girl with facial hair

>I am now going to have to re-think my sexual orientation*

Please don't go to any trouble on my account.

>*Unless you are a girl with facial hair

If I was, I'd demand to be on tv in place of all future Dave Gorman appearances.

I did not post the YES IT IS YES IT IS thing okay am going to have to bloody registar this name otherwise preople will give me a worse name...

The thing with Gorman is that he is rather crap ('that pink tie is a cock!') and surely this must dawn on him sometime. No one can go through life completely oblivious that they're very mediocre.

I managed 15 years, any advances?

have just bothered to read the postings on this bored and am sorry for ignoring Nik's heartfelt... er... posting.
I love you all, (i think) thank you and goodnight.

The best method is to go through life thinking you're shit, then when, on the odd occasion you become merely mediocre (fixing a leaky tap without making the problem significantly worse, making a girl you fancy laugh, spelling occasion correctly) you can feel elated, and celebrate in some small private way.

There's nothing funny about celebrating.

>The best method is to go through life thinking you're shit, then when, on the odd occasion you become merely mediocre (fixing a leaky tap without making the problem significantly worse, making a girl you fancy laugh, spelling occasion correctly) you can feel elated, and celebrate in some small private way.

You are Jarvis Cocker AICMFP!
>
>There's nothing funny about celebrating.

>have just bothered to read the postings on this bored

This "bored"? Is this a comment on the quality of the postings or a random substitution of a word in your sentence for a description of your current state of mind?

>and am sorry for ignoring Nik's heartfelt... er...

er...?

>posting.

No problem - I'm used to it.

>The best method is to go through life thinking you're shit, then when, on the odd occasion you become merely mediocre (fixing a leaky tap without making the problem significantly worse, making a girl you fancy laugh, spelling occasion correctly) you can feel elated, and celebrate in some small private way.
>
>There's nothing funny about celebrating

That's beautiful when set to music.