Will Self on QT

[ViolentPanda]

Look at the fucking moustache on that!

He looks like a baby ferret has taken up residence on his upper lip.
That, by the way, is not a good thing.
And I do wish he'd get over his his heavily-cultivated air of ennui. It is almost as boring as he appears to think other people are.
I enjoy his writing and journalism, but he's pretty much become a performing poodle on QT. You can predict who he's going to go for, and how before the intro tune finishes.

 

[MikeMcc]

You can tell how bad it's got in that the discussion is about the 'personalities' on the show rather than the points raised. Though there was damned little of that on last night with half the show being wasted discussing the stupid fucking non-news letter.

 

[ViolentPanda]

cos he's articulate and a tiny bit more well-informed than most recognisable 'faces' that the beeb feel they have to include in every QT. he's entertaining and he doesn't ever um & urr...

No-one who drawls as much as Will Self does needs "um & urr", do they?

and that's tv entertainment gold.

Yes, because the "entertainment" value is the most important factor about a current affairs programme, isn't it?
Bloody BBC management morons.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Is he living rough?

Last time I remember him on it was where he and Melanie Phillips clashed on Israel and she called him a self hating Jew or something.

 

[thegonzokid]

Self was the only one articulating the utterly grotesque mundanity of modern politics in the UK.

 

[London_Calling]

I thought he did ok. Very tough environment. Not sure why people aren't more focused on the rationale for including the pretty-boy rower.

 

[idioteque]

Didn't watch it, but lulz at this thread

 

[butchersapron]

cos he's articulate and a tiny bit more well-informed than most recognisable 'faces' that the beeb feel they have to include in every QT. he's entertaining and he doesn't ever um & urr. and that's tv entertainment gold.

Bolocks, it's because he drinks in the groucho. NO ONE ELSE IN WESTON DOES.

 

[Orang Utan]

what's weston got to do with it?

 

[butchersapron]

That's where the program was and the independent panelist is often someone relevant to the area, i.e a locally well know unionist or some CBI cunt.

 

[butchersapron]

You should be asking what the groucho has to do with it.

 

[Orang Utan]

i don't think the beeb gives a shit about representing from weston. they want people to watch the show. hence the appearance of self as a fifth panellist.

 

[discokermit]

You should be asking what the groucho has to do with it.

everyone on telly is just a chummy bunch of cunts.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

The Book Of Dave is total Hotspur, it must be said

 

[Orang Utan]

Hotspur? is that davespeak?

 

[editor]

Is he living rough?

I was on a chat panel with him once. He was a lovely chap.

 

[Onket]

The Book Of Dave is total Hotspur, it must be said

What does that mean?!

 

[Orang Utan]

it's a book will self wrote. some of it is written in a language that has developed hundreds of years after some kind of apocalypse. the only written language left is a diary written by a london taxidriver called dave. the spoken language has developed from the book, so i imagine dave was a spurs supporter and 'hotspur' is,, i supposethe new english's word for 'good'

 

[Onket]

Sounds fucking gash to me.

 

[zenie]

You can tell how bad it's got in that the discussion is about the 'personalities' on the show rather than the points raised. Though there was damned little of that on last night with half the show being wasted discussing the stupid fucking non-news letter.

(Paraphrased)

"Well actually we've had a high proportion of questions on this very subject"

So fuckin what QT? do you ONLY care about what's 'popular' not what's worthwhile and relevant?

Did make me angry that they went on about it for SO.FUCKING.LONG

Who gives a shit about Will Self, (what does he even do anymore?? *shrug* ) and wtf did they have James Cracknell on there?

 

[beeboo]

I actually found Will Self's facial hair quite disturbing. And I'm normally a big fan of beards.

I think that's the most worthwhile observation I have to make about the programme. Enough of this letter already.

 

[DotCommunist]

Sounds fucking gash to me.

It can't be any worse than 'How the Dead Live'.

I really tried with that book.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

How much better is Humphreys on QT than Dumblebee

 

[FridgeMagnet]

It can't be any worse than 'How the Dead Live'.

I really tried with that book.

Book Of Dave isn't bad, the structure of it is quite interesting, but the fact that half of it is written in this future corrupted-east-end-slang dialect makes it just a pain to read a lot of the time. I've never been a fan of novels written in phonetic dialect, particularly if it's been invented specifically for the book.

 

[tbaldwin]

I thought he was quite amusing. Talking about the afghan refugee that slept in his doorway....Wot a tool.....
I really like the way he constatly tries to sound clever and gets all self righteous.....
Like all of the panel what he had to say on immigration totally ignored the international consequences of an international problem.....but then wot do you expect from the public school establishment.
Anybody who gets taken in by his spurious liberal left bollocks needs to think a bit more about politics. He is just another x public schoolboy in love with his own image.

 

[Orang Utan]

Book Of Dave isn't bad, the structure of it is quite interesting, but the fact that half of it is written in this future corrupted-east-end-slang dialect makes it just a pain to read a lot of the time. I've never been a fan of novels written in phonetic dialect, particularly if it's been invented specifically for the book.

shame cos clockwork orange and riddley walker are both incredible

just watching QT now - will self has designs on our milkshakes for sure

 

[Orang Utan]

No-one who drawls as much as Will Self does needs "um & urr", do they?

Yes, because the "entertainment" value is the most important factor about a current affairs programme, isn't it?
Bloody BBC management morons.

missed this - qt is not a current affairs programme - it's entertainment

 

[weltweit]

...Anybody who gets taken in by his spurious liberal left bollocks needs to think a bit more about politics. He is just another x public schoolboy in love with his own image.

I didn't know he was an ex public school boy.

Mind you, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall went to Eton at the same time that Cameron was there.

But I suppose with a name like Fearnley-Whittingstall you had to go to private school.

 

[chazegee]

Self was quite panto, I quite liked his faux outraged air with the interruptions, it reminds you of just how bludgeoning politicians are with their chat.
I think in lieu of having any serious political opinions he just went for the grandstanding, which is fine by me as it's all a load of baloney anyway.
Probably a bit of a hack, but fuck it, that's showbiz. Nice tash.

Humphreys was okay, slightly over doing the don't fuck with me I'm a political hardman Paxo thing, but the show was well ran.

Torry crone, quite no nonsense but was showed up and looked utterly corrupt and evil at least twice.

Labour slime, fucking cheap shot saying of course Brown knows grief better than anyone, he's lost a kid, but fuck it, that shit will be lapped up by the public, it's like fucking blind date.
Also screwfix them and their DNA support, I'm on in their test tubes for swearing within earshot of a Transport officer. When Nick Griffin gets in, I'll be used as a master race blueprint and kept in a glass cage cos I'm so inbred (M&D=same name)

Lib bint, inconsequential.

 

[Sesquipedalian]

Just watched it on IPlayer.

I think Will Self was more than head and shoulders above the other nondescript panelists despite Humphrys doing his best to marginalise him.
A class act in a piss poor program.

What Cracknell was doing on the panel other than to create a vaccum is beyond me.

The Judy Finnigan performance from the Tory Dame was comicial and depressing in equal measure.