Pete-M Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Just had something to eat and thought it'd be a good time to sit down and watch the Portuguese rally on CH4. I've always liked rallying so you can imagine my horror when the announcer said during the ad break before it "Now on CH4, WRC with Jo Caulfield".Jo Caulfield is that blonde 'comedienne' who has the singular honour of never, ever, raising even the slightest chuckle from me. Rare for someone who's appeared on some of my favourite shows - Buzzcocks, QI, HIGNFY, etc.She fucking haunts me, if there's a good telly programme on you can guarantee that the one episode she appears in just won't be funny. I went to the Rawhide Comedy Club in Liverpool a few years ago for a friends birthday, guess who headlined? Yup. Jo fucking Caulfield. Probably the shortest appearance by a headline act as she stood there and failed to raise even the slightest titter from the 300 or so people in the club. After 10 minutes or so she was gone from the stage and people were back laughing at the other acts.Now she's on the fucking WRC. First question from that gormless geezer who normally presents it "So, Jo, do you like rallying?", her answer "not before today I didn't".SO WHY THE FUCK IS SHE THERE? SHE'S NOT FUCKING FUNNY, SHE DOESN'T LIKE RALLYING, AND IF THERE'S A WAY TO FUCK PEOPLE OFF IT'S SIMPLY TO PUT HER ON TELLY.So, there ya go. Rallying is fucked, and it's Jo Caulfields fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayd Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 I too can feel your painI am haunted my the very unfunny Catherine Tate.....she's just not funny, never has been, never will be....she's shit, no she's worse than that......at least she's not doing F1 commentating.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 I was so incensed that I wrote to Dave to complain. I haven't done that since I complained about the programme announcers and their dick-head comments. They clearly took no notice of that one...Sean Hughes was crap too.Less (un)witty banter, more sodding cars please!EDIT - a bit of positive spin, did like the snippet of Group B at the start. Lunatics everywhere! No wonder so many people got killed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pompei Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Slightly off tangent, did anyone see the BBC2 show about Ford last week? Some great archive film of rallying and also Rallycross! I used to be glued to Grandstand for that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSparrow Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Small rant on this topic:Yeah the Dave announcer is fucking shit. I think its that Ian Lee twat whose career seems to be appearing on 'top 100' shows. Also those Cobra beer sponsor ads get on my tits, the ones with 3 c*nts in a pub making un funny jokes.Glad that Five USA have got rid of the filler bits with that other unfunny prick Russel Kane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outlaw118 Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Dave have more than one cock-ender announcer; I'm sure one of the others is that twat Tom Ford, you know, that knob who thinks he's funny/Clarkson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outlaw118 Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Oh yeah, and Jo Caulfield can fuck right off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Station Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Dave have more than one cock-ender announcer; I'm sure one of the others is that twat Tom Ford, you know, that knob who thinks he's funny/Clarkson.Isn't he that fat ugly prick on Fifth Gear? I'd happily watch it if he wasn't on it. Him and Tiff 'I used to race cars me, here's a video of me racing cars' Needel and Jason 'I used to race BTCC me, I've got loads of money me' Plato. Pair of egotistical personality vacuums, an annoying lefty student, and some screeching harlett in the form of Vicky Butler Henderson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
155V6 Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 I know Jason Plato's not the best presenter,but he's still in the BTCC,& he won a race today in a Chevrolet Lacetti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashmicro Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 I know Jason Plato's not the best presenter,but he's still in the BTCC,& he won a race today in a Chevrolet Lacetti So did I.in Race Driver : Grid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcqueenmachine Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 I know Jason Plato's not the best presenter,but he's still in the BTCC,& he won a race today in a Chevrolet Lacetti Didn't they used to be Daewoos?And to think Ford once spent ten million quid (really, ten million quid) on a single series of BTCC. Just watched the F1 highlights and right at the end that boychild who until recently was introducing Dora The Explorer on CBBC said - and I swear I'm not making this up 'I remember Ken Tyrell saying that any car that finshed first was a good-looking car.' Ken Tyrell!?!? The gormless fucker is about eight years old and - in reality rather than what his Producer tells him to say - probably just about remembers Ralf Schumacker! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Well, if we're going to the the automotive world's grumpy old men, and continuing the F1 rant (though obviously I'm overjoyed that it's back on the Beeb and that The Chain is back as a theme tune)That completely, stupidly over-excited chap who now commentates - often talking all over Brundle when he's trying to explain some technicality, made a wonderful gaff today:Over-excited chap: "He's gone off again!"Brundle: "Er, that's a replay." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Over-excited chap: "He's gone off again!"Brundle: "Er, that's a replay."I haven't watched any of teh F1 yet this year but that quote sounds like it could have been Murray Walker from any time in the last 40 years! Has everyone forgotten how often he'd mess up in eh excitment of it all?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 S'pose you're right Seth. In twenty years time, we'll all be saying "bring back that excitable chap! He had real character!"The F1 has been worth watching - less than half a race today, but a ridiculous amount going on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 F1 today was great, and I suspect I may be watching the rest of the season which is more than I've done for the last few years. Think the last time I was really into it was 1998 or so! Less electronics, more skill and I actually think decent commentary.I also LOL'd at the 'replay' thing although like you said, Walker got away with far dafter gaffes in his time.I did notice something though, I didn't try it but apparently if I'd have pressed the red button during coverage, I could swap to either the Five Live commentary, or the CBBC one - WTF? F1 for the kiddies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lobster Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 I actually quite like Jonathan Ledgard (he who commentates alongside Brundle) as he does at least know the sport inside out and was always good when he was on 5Live.The young 'anchor' presenter (whose name I don't know or care) seems a bit at sea with it all. Don't see why he got the job, maybe just so they had someone with excessively styled hair in a misguided attempt to drag in a few new viewers.And another thing. Eddie Jordan. Now I like EJ, he seems a decent bloke. But why is it that whenever he's on screen he is awkwardly shifting a load of A4 paper between his hands. It seems a bit like he's just been told 'quick, on screen NOW'.Otherwise, rather liking the BBCs F1 coverage so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Cheer up everyone! Just go on Youtube and put in 'Murray Walker' for some quality nonsense commentary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 By the way, UK TV has thanked me for my feedback about ditsy women on WRC. So, go on, let 'em know! http://www.uktv.co.uk/uktv/item/aid/528249 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Creep Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 I've just seen an episode and I must admit I'm struggling to see what the problem is? I didn't have a problem with any of the presenters and they seemed to do the job just fine. If we're talking 'death knell's then surely it's the fact almost all marques have abandoned it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete-M Posted April 8, 2009 Author Share Posted April 8, 2009 I've just seen an episode and I must admit I'm struggling to see what the problem is? I didn't have a problem with any of the presenters and they seemed to do the job just fine. If we're talking 'death knell's then surely it's the fact almost all marques have abandoned it?Any excuse to have a go at that wretched Caulfield is enough of an excuse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karmann Ghiaman Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 I too can feel your pain I am haunted my the very unfunny Catherine Tate.....she's just not funny, never has been, never will be....she's shit, no she's worse than that......at least she's not doing F1 commentating....You have my complete agreement. Seems to appeal to 11-year olds, but for those of us who grew up with the likes of Peter Cook, Ronnie Barker & Dick Emery, this sort of thing is total & complete crap. In the case of rallying, some Public School twonc at UK TV thinks it's not very exciting, I know, let's have a comedian making uninformed comments, that'll liven it up. This is the rot that set in with Clarkson & Co. Because the people involved in making the programme don't know anything about the subject, all they can do is turn it into a 'comedy' so that it will appeal to the Lowest Common Denominator (11-year olds). This is why comedy actors keep making documentaries on things they know nothing about: Paul Merton goes to China, Richard Wilson tries to drive cars with gears, etc. They've run out of jokes, but they're popular so maybe more people will watch this 'difficult' show if it's presented by funny old so-&-so. I'm worried about two disturbing phenomena often noticed in history documentaries: (1) Making old photographs 3-dimensional. They cannot show any still photo without cutting everything out to give a crap toy theatre effect. Water is made to look 'wavy', they might even colour in bits of black-&-white pictures. WHY? We know it's an old photo. We know it's 2-dimensional, we know how to interpret it it, even if it was taken in the 1950s. Just let us look at it; we'll still be listening to your inane commentary jabber. Is this to give the IT person something to do? If he wants to do that, why not just piss off & make those creepy pixar cartoons somewhere? (2) Talking in the present tense. They CANNOT make a history programme without some nitwit, often, tragically, the academic expert on the subject, describing something from long ago as if it was happening right now. 'So Henry discovers that Catherine is having an affair with Lord Effingham and he's very angry. what's he going to do? Well, he's going to put her in the Tower of London, etc., etc.' WTF?!? We KNOW it was 500 years ago. You don't have to give it modern 'relevance'. we are watching the stupid programme, we are interested in the subject, honest. Anyway, that's what I think & I'm sorry about the rallying. Next up, our new 20 part series on the World War Two Holocaust presented by Graham Norton and the late Jade Goody... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrogeezer Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 Just watched the WRC....I fail to see what on earth Jo Caulfield was doing there. Added absolutely fook all to the programme. As for JP...anyone that can drive like this deserves a bit of respect. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPCGnkApnDU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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