Celebrity Choice - the latest erosion?

[french frank]

You're welcome to contribute to the "Funny thing happened on the way to the Forum" thread, you know!

It's often just fleeting moments that are lost once the moment has past and the context gone. But really I just meant I don't find stand-up comedy very funny. It's not that I think the younger generation of comedians aren't very funny (though it's partly that too), it's that I didn't think the oldies were very funny either. Clever situation comedies often do capture the natural comedy of life/people.

[LezLee]

It's often just fleeting moments that are lost once the moment has past and the context gone. But really I just meant I don't find stand-up comedy very funny. It's not that I think the younger generation of comedians aren't very funny (though it's partly that too), it's that I didn't think the oldies were very funny either. Clever situation comedies often do capture the natural comedy of life/people.

I agree with everything you're saying!

[Frances_iom]

nothing better than a random choice of pop items - conversation level no better than a 5 year old in terms of any depth to conversation - if I interpret the comments from the 'presenter' the BBC picked the items and DB merely lent her name to them - for me the only outstanding item , which has been repeated before, was the Bach Cello Suite No 3, BWV 1009 but as usual just inane comments from the gabmaster himself.

[jayne lee wilson]

I still take Radio Times, and seeing the title, smothering the evening, each and every night: Radio 3 in Concert: Celebrity Choice brought home even more vividly what a betrayal this is - absolutely a new low in its history.

Is there any programme with "Celebrity" in its title that is ever worth taking? Even if its something I usually enjoy (e.g. First Dates) if "celebrity" is added in I always avoid it....
A concept and a term that poisons everything it touches (even in pop-cultural contexts), and looks much worse after 2020.......

(Mind you, Celebrity Any Questions might engage the appalled fascination....).

[Ein Heldenleben]

I still take Radio Times, and seeing the title, smothering the evening, each and every night: Radio 3 in Concert: Celebrity Choice brought home even more vividly what a betrayal this is - absolutely a new low in its history.

Is there any programme with "Celebrity" in its title that is ever worth taking? Even if its something I usually enjoy (e.g. First Dates) if "celebrity" is added in I always avoid it....
A concept and a term that poisons everything it touches (even in pop-cultural contexts), and looks much worse after 2020.......

(Mind you, Celebrity Any Questions might engage the appalled fascination....).

I took the precaution of following up Bryn’s recommendation of Zubin Mehta’s Mahler 3 from Sunday nights Through The Night and I’m glad I did from what I’m reading this morning.

[oddoneout]

I still take Radio Times, and seeing the title, smothering the evening, each and every night: Radio 3 in Concert: Celebrity Choice brought home even more vividly what a betrayal this is - absolutely a new low in its history.

Is there any programme with "Celebrity" in its title that is ever worth taking? Even if its something I usually enjoy (e.g. First Dates) if "celebrity" is added in I always avoid it....
A concept and a term that poisons everything it touches (even in pop-cultural contexts), and looks much worse after 2020.......

(Mind you, Celebrity Any Questions might engage the appalled fascination....).

Yes, it's always a switch off for me, in the same group of irritants as the infamous (and inevitably untrue) "New Improved" applied to products. I suppose it doesn't help that I'm not up on my sleb recognition and so the faces don't mean anything - perhaps if one knows something about such people then extra excitement can be generated by the situations in which they (choose to )find themselves.

[french frank]

I suppose it doesn't help that I'm not up on my sleb recognition and so the faces don't mean anything

Apparently, when Lord [Chris] Patten was appointed chairman of the BBC, his daughters joked that celebrities were 'people Dad hasn't heard of'. Wasn't there a time when no one talked about 'celebrities' because the concept didn't exist? - not in the same way, anyway.

[kernelbogey]

...Is there any programme with "Celebrity" in its title that is ever worth taking...? (Mind you, Celebrity Any Questions might engage the appalled fascination....).

Celebrity Mastermind could be fun, too...!

[muzzer]

I’d pay to see Celebrity Shootout.

[french frank]

Celebrity Mastermind could be fun, too...!

I had fun once. It was awful.

[vinteuil]

I had fun once. It was awful.

... why am I reminded of George V -

“Abroad” he said “…is bloody – I know, I have been there.”


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[french frank]

... why am I reminded of George V -

“Abroad” he said “…is bloody – I know, I have been there.”

Not too keen on Bognor either, if I remember correctly.

[cloughie]

Celebrity Mastermind could be fun, too...!

Yes but sometimes one knowledgable contestant gets more points than all the others put together - may have been Philip Serrell who achieved that. When it comes to general knowledge I do wonder what is lodged in some heads instead of the useful/useless information that many of an older generation learned at school. I remember A level General Studies as being a gift - an exam with no curriculum but if lucky with the questions could write reams from things I knew about.

[Serial_Apologist]

I had fun once. It was awful.

It's said to be better second time around. Like jumping off Beachy Head.

[french frank]

It's said to be better second time around. Like jumping off Beachy Head.

You know those 'celebrity interviews', usually in magazines, where they ask people to describe themselves in a couple of adjectives? Somehow, I always think of 'bubbly' and 'fun-loving' as being particularly inappropriate for me .