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Monty Panesars magnificent appearance on Celebrity Mastermind

Started by biggytitbo, January 12, 2019, 12:09:42 AM

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BlodwynPig

Quote from: checkoutgirl on January 12, 2019, 09:18:17 PM
If you're that stupid you should avoid Mastermind.

BBC dredging the barrel for their flagship shows. They don't make celebrities like they used to.

mothman

Hell, ever since they started the Celebrity shows they've had some really duff entrants. Never forget when David Blunkett - then Home fucking Secretary, back when that meant something (the last three in the job hardly covered themselves with glory... then again neither did the previous... um... actually scratch that, the post has never meant anything) - answered questions on Harry fucking Potter, and was terrible at it. The holder of one of the Great Offices of State answering questions on a then-incomplete children's book series is bad enough, but to not actually then know anything about it...

BlodwynPig

Quote from: mothman on January 12, 2019, 09:41:03 PM
Hell, ever since they started the Celebrity shows they've had some really duff entrants. Never forget when David Blunkett - then Home fucking Secretary, back when that meant something (the last three in the job hardly covered themselves with glory... then again neither did the previous... um... actually scratch that, the post has never meant anything) - answered questions on Harry fucking Potter, and was terrible at it. The holder of one of the Great Offices of State answering questions on a then-incomplete children's book series is bad enough, but to not actually then know anything about it...

I'm sure only to appear "down with the kids". Fucking jokers.

Stoneage Dinosaurs


Jittlebags

Quote from: jobotic on January 12, 2019, 08:13:17 PM
Pissing on bouncers? Now that's ball tampering!

Cheers

Talk about the snowflake generation. Back in the 80s, you'd never been to a football match unless someone had pissed into your pocket through a rolled up copy of The Echo.

gilbertharding

Quote from: Harry Badger on January 12, 2019, 04:17:17 PM
He has suffered greatly with mental health problems and tragically, recently wrote to all 18 counties asking them for a trial contract. None replied.

Yes - I heard him interviewed during a rain break on TMS last summer and really felt for him about that. The awful thing about it was that pretty much whatever the interviewer asked him (eg his recorded but yet-to-be-broadcast appearance on Masterchef the Professionals), his answer reverted to pleading for someone - anyone - to give him a chance to play cricket again.

The disconnect between this, and most people's picture of him as a cricketer (a happy-go-lucky clown) was quite alarming.

imitationleather

Quote from: BlodwynPig on January 12, 2019, 03:59:55 PM
The BBC should stop dumbing down all their shows then. Fucking shambles.

Because I am now old and have no life I've been watching the new Who Wants to Be a Millionaire presented by that corpse who can drive cars and beat up producers. Either I have become massively cleverer (it definitely is not this - I guesstimate that my IQ has probably halved in the past decade) or the questions are now ridiculously easy compared to the old version of the show. I could watch some of the reruns on Challenge, but I can't bear Chris Tarrant. Yes, I genuinely find Jeremy "Charmless Friend of the Worst Tories and Cheese-Making Twat Alex James" Clarkson a less irksome presence on my screen than Tarrant. A damning indictment for the man who unveiled Sophie Wessex's ubbs to the world in that photo of them together on holiday that time.

Sigh. Watching quiz shows. I used to go round my Nan's and not be able to understand how she could spend seemingly all day every day with them on but here I am. It's like I can hear Death's bell tolling in the distance, approaching ever closer. Next I'll be going on about how the general knowledge questions on the 1980s version of Bullseye are a lot, lot more difficult than you'd expect them to be. And yet somehow, despite only getting about two seconds before that fucking Bully mooing sound interrupts them they more often than not get them right! The 1980s Tory government has a lot to answer for, removing General Knowledge as a compulsory subject from the curriculum at secondary moderns. I think that's what happened, anyway.

We've got all the information in the world and we have definitely become far, far stupider as a result.

Norton Canes

Mastermind has been shit ever since they cut they time for the specialist round from two minutes to a minute and a half. Like they thought if they spent too long on some freaky specialist questions it would put people off.

"What mate? Spend a whole two minutes watching some cunt answer questions on Turkish chemists of the late C17th? Fuck that, off to watch Get The Bailiffs In. What? Only a minute and a half..? Well..."

jobotic

I can remember me and a few toothless old boys watching the Weakest Link in my local (now gone) after work back in the good old days. Proper ladies man I was.

QDRPHNC

Quote from: gib on January 12, 2019, 04:32:42 PM
Maybe he heard 'season' and his mind went for the idea of a theatrical season.

I think he heard Keats, and then the thought process was:

Keats is an old writer -> say the name of an old book -> Oliver Twist


wub1234

Monty is a bit thick. But then people that win Mastermind are shit at bowling left-arm orthodox spin.