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Or 'fun need not be yuck'?

Can I pick apart one of his posts?

My verdict on the whole lot 7pm - 2:10am: very disappointed . Sad No where near enough live singing in the studio, and way too much tommy rot. Fun need not be yuck. The best bit was Graham Norton's section 1am to 2:10 am, featuring the bit with those ladies dancing (can-can style), the live stand-up comic Jason Manford (he was excellent) and The Full Monty.

Tommy rot (actually tommyrot, obscure word) means nonsense or garbage though I'm not certain what he means by yuck.

What they needed was a lot more live singing and more live comedy acts. Songs and stand up comedians could have alternated through the evening. I'd have liked to have seen Jimmy Cricket (I saw him perform live at Blackpool Pleasure Beach last year) and Jasper Carrot, for example. Also they could have had a magician.

So, it should have more of a variety show from 1982 feel then? There's a very good reason why magicians and washed up standup acts are at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Only two sorts of people appreciate them, the very old and the very young and usually for the same reasons.

This is how I'd have liked the evening to have gone:
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Once they'd spoken, a kids' activities slot to 7:30. Suggestions here:
* Talent show / singathon
* Had Pete Hillier on to do a Boogie Beebies style sequence of dances, but aimed at an older age group e.g. 6-14 year olds.
* Stuck the first appeal film in mid way.

7:30 - 8:00 A live song, a family friendly live stand-up comedian, another song.

Um, Boogie Beebies? This already sounds boring.

8:00 Ten minute LIVE regional split, showing live action in your region. E.g. BBC South region, it could be based at Milestones Museum Basingstoke, and have clips from all across the region (Southampton, Portsmouth, Winchester, IOW, Bournemouth, Poole, Dorchester). BBC West region have it at Explore-At-Bristol, and have clips from across the region (Taunton, Yeovil, Wells, Bath, Gloucester).

Getting the feeling he's just reeling off places he's been to.

8:40 A magic show.

8:50 Celebs racing around the stage bursting balloons.
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10:35 - 2:10 Back on BBC One. More adult material now.
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Group of celebs walking across a lowish tight rope positioned above a load of ballpit balls. Try to cross without falling in the ballpit below (a kind of competition) - this would be a laugh. Or it could be pick contestants from the audience - "come on down".

So not only does it have to be appealing to very few people it also has to hit tumbly's super sweet spot of ballpits. Groan indeed.

The right blend of pop stars singing recent / forthcoming hits, live stand-up comedians, magicians, hypnotists (e.g. Phoenix International) and puppeteers e.g. John Garland (I saw him perform at Blackpool Pleasure Beach last year).

Kept in the bit with those ladies dancing (can-can style), the live stand-up comic Jason Manford (he was excellent) and The Full Monty.

All in all, do whatever this idiot thinks is worth a damn and only that. Nothing new, nothing he might dislike, just shit he knows and likes. Come on, hypnotists and puppeteers? It's not a fucking kids birthday party, bear in mind this is after 10:30pm.

There you go, much better line-up in my opinion, more like Children In Need.

But... but it isn't Children In fucking Need, it's Comic Relief you humourless fool. Not even what you want is Children In Need.

Try again in two years time. Hopefully we'll have a decent show to watch that year. And also, please bring out decent T-shirts that I'll want to wear - it could feature the Red Nose Day 2011 logo, NOT celebs donning red noses.

Dear me, should they not make T-shirts he doesn't want to wear, heaven forbid. Well, our high master has spoken then, you know what to expect in 2011.

So, Tumbly. Zero self-awareness or piss-taker?

Either way, somebody kill him.

Kill him with fire.

and if tumbly wumbly's shite wasn't bad enough, the man from del monte has returned

My god it's turning into a nightmare with him.

I've never actually seen a more infuriating cunt who has no sense of humour.

Because he's getting to incredibly dense levels of not being able to take a hint, he's getting lowercased. I know tumbly said he has no mental problems but I struggle to believe he doesn't, nobody without even a smidge of the Aspies acts as he does, has the mental age he does and is as unable to relate to much of what people say to him in the way they mean it as he does.

This might very well get me a bollocking by Gav but I'll take the hit, he does have mental problems even if he denies it and you'd have to be a fool of tt levels to not see it. Ban him for his own sake, damn me and my merciful ways. Rob seems like having a pithy argument with showbiz in comparison.

Doesn't matter if it's real or him taking the piss... Tumbly's posts about his ideas for Comic Relief are definately contenders for the posts of the year.

10 minutes of people running around the stage bursting balloons.... genius!

Nini wrote:This might very well get me a bollocking by Gav but I'll take the hit, he does have mental problems even if he denies it and you'd have to be a fool of tt levels to not see it.

Give me some credit.

While I have previously asked for speculation of that nature to be curtailed for the sake of decency; having read that thread (and every other one he contributes to) its difficult not to conclude the same thing.

Sing-songs, balloons, Jimmy Cricket and a magician? Boogie Beebies dancing?

Good grief.

Do we stop then or is this permissive? It's rather fun, chaps at TVF are getting into it also so I'd rather if we didn't.

Onto Brekkie, I like the irony that his suggestion for an ignore feature would result in him being ignored by most. That and ignore features are stupid.

We have the option to turn one on here, I chose against it as I didn't want to give certain members the opportunity to talk shit unquestioned

That is one of the better reasons why we shouldn't. That and following threads with someone who is ignored becomes stupid after a while.