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Three comedians, some boats, some questions

Someone out there is desperate to know whether Griff Rhys Jones is gay. I don’t why he or she thinks he might be but for the last few days the search terms ‘griff rhys jones gay’ and ‘is griff rhys jones gay?’ have repeatedly referred someone, maybe more than one person, to my site. The [...]

The power of man

Forget advertising on the side of a bus. Paul Merton in India (Five, 9pm on Wednesday) showed us that the anti-God squad in India would rather pull a bus with the help of a rope and a few needles through three layers to skin to prove that miracles are the work of man and not of [...]

Paul Merton in India and Griff in NYC

I watched Paul Merton in India list night on Five (that’s him in China above, in an earlier series). I watched, like 1.8m other plebs, in real time, as it was actually broadcast. Then my preview tapes for the programme arrived in the post today. Handy. Sometimes I regret moving to Somerset, away from the [...]

Tonight: battle of the comedy travelogues

That should probably read ‘battle of the comedians’ travelogues’ but punction is never good in a headline, is it? I’m pushing it with the colon.
Paul Merton and Griff Rhys Jones (not my favourite person currently - see earlier post) are going head to head tonight on Five and ITV 1 respectively with travel programmes, Merton [...]

Eli Stone, Jamie Oliver and some of Griff

So much to blog about, so little time. First, the quickest of updates on recent telly watching. Eli Stone on Sci-Fi was disappointing. Yes, it has Johnny Lee Miller and George Michael in it, two of the sexiest men in the world. (What do you mean, one of them’s gay? Like we would be riding [...]

Losing It with Griff Rhys Jones

 
BBC 2’s Losing It is about a subject close to my own psyche: unbridled rage. It was fascinating and depressing all at the same time. Fascinating because Griff hit the nail on the head when he said anger was a taboo subject, that while people are happy to admit to the quality (good or bad) of [...]

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