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Alan Carr is standing in for Steve Merchant and just has come onto 6 Music.
For those outside the UK he's almost impossible to describe - image a camper Kenneth Williams or Julian Clary with glasses and really annoying voice. He's funny and his jokes are good, but unlike say Lily Savage or Eddie Izzard or Graham Norton something about his uber-campness comes over as desperately contrived.
He's quite big here, another example of a non-threatening camp stereotypical gay comedian, I wonder? He seems to play that up in his routine, it's depressing.
I much prefer people like Simon Amstell who are comedians who happen to be gay rather than the 'oops! there goes my sausage!' level of Mr Humphrys humour, although I can find some of that funny, it does get wearing to use your sexuality constantly in your act...and become a paper-thin one-joke character. In fact all the ones mentioned before rarely do.
*goes to switch it off*
For those outside the UK he's almost impossible to describe - image a camper Kenneth Williams or Julian Clary with glasses and really annoying voice. He's funny and his jokes are good, but unlike say Lily Savage or Eddie Izzard or Graham Norton something about his uber-campness comes over as desperately contrived.
He's quite big here, another example of a non-threatening camp stereotypical gay comedian, I wonder? He seems to play that up in his routine, it's depressing.
I much prefer people like Simon Amstell who are comedians who happen to be gay rather than the 'oops! there goes my sausage!' level of Mr Humphrys humour, although I can find some of that funny, it does get wearing to use your sexuality constantly in your act...and become a paper-thin one-joke character. In fact all the ones mentioned before rarely do.
*goes to switch it off*
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Date: 2008-01-20 07:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-20 07:36 pm (UTC)Remember 6 Music isn't about comedy, or personalities, it's about music. It's a music channel, to placate those pushed out by the focus on demographics and 'yoof' programming but aren't into bland safe Snow Patrol of Radio 2, or early music & jazz of 3.
BBC seems to be forgetting that and is currently annoying it's audience in the process. We want people knowledgeable about music, not camp comedians moonlighting from their day job.
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Date: 2008-01-20 08:34 pm (UTC)The BBC has been about personality over music for quite sometime. Since they took the risk that didn't pay off with the Top 40 show with that kid that was Djing in a local station in Kent, they have taken the safe option and everyone new on BBC radio is either a popular club DJ or a celeb.
Personally, I think if they wanted good music with a presenter that was really passionate about music - they would have called you a long time ago! :-)
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Date: 2008-01-20 09:21 pm (UTC)