Balls of Steel spin-off?

[no_offenc]

Mark Dolan, writer for the Richard Blackwood show?

Arf.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

SPOOF GAME SHOWS specialising in stitching up Dr.Who fans

Hehehe!!! Let's be fair, they've been asking for it for sometime. Those twats who really like something. Don't they know it's not cool to really like stuff any more?

I find it highly ironic that Mark Dolans CV is the funniest thing he's ever been involved in.

[Marv Orange]

Don't make Dead Ringers angry, you wouldn't like Culshaw when he is angry.


Hi I'm Alex Zane....etc, yawn, etc.

[Mr Merlin]

It hadn't occurred to me that the producer may have been trying to throw the original poster off the Balls of Steel trail; for some reason that seems to require levels of cunning that I didn't expect anyone on the production team to have.

So, in summary then, coming soon in series 2 of Balls of Steel

Confirmed
Angry Black Man gets angry about chess
A quiz where people are told their answers are wrong

Possible
The "are you looking at my tits" Girl
A helicopter flying over an outdoor dinner party and making everything blow around.
A car driving in front of a line of planes.

[Luxus Oil Slice]

They're really picking their targets for the next series.  To look forward to: the team confuses the Cheeky Girls!

[Cjw]

Sounds similar to what they did last year winding up that guy who was an expert on Anne Frank. And then freqently repeated the clip where he got annoyed at them. Because obviously, only saddos get pissed off.

[Oscar]

Sounds similar to what they did last year winding up that guy who was an expert on Anne Frank. And then freqently repeated the clip where he got annoyed at them. Because obviously, only saddos get pissed off.

Yeah, old people who like actually care about stuff.
It's fine that teenagers have such an attitude, but Balls of Steel is made by adults, by fully grown men!

I'd love to interview someone from BOS, not as a wind up or anything, I'm just really curious as to the mentality behind it. If there are any viraleezers on here: Go on, let me interview you, go on, it would be your chance to really convince the people on here how funny you are, without their pesky, geeky interuptions. Don't be scared, wap out those balls and meet me in the pub.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

As most of us are suspecting- the BOS lot can dish it out but they can't take it. something which makes their program even more despicable.

[notlovingit]

Sounds similar to what they did last year winding up that guy who was an expert on Anne Frank. And then freqently repeated the clip where he got annoyed at them. Because obviously, only saddos get pissed off.

Yeah, old people who like actually care about stuff.
It's fine that teenagers have such an attitude, but Balls of Steel is made by adults, by fully grown men!

I'd love to interview someone from BOS, not as a wind up or anything, I'm just really curious as to the mentality behind it. If there are any viraleezers on here: Go on, let me interview you, go on, it would be your chance to really convince the people on here how funny you are, without their pesky, geeky interuptions. Don't be scared, wap out those balls and meet me in the pub.

That's a brilliant idea. I think you should call them and ask for an interview. Go on, do it!

[ffogems]

What's your number then?

[Johnny Yesno]

I'm Mark Dolan.

Just in case it's true: tosser.

Well, I didn't want to miss out.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

I was going to say you'd think he'd have better things to do on an afternoon but he probably doesn't does he?

[Pienaar]

I'm Mark Dolan.

Pienaar has compelling reasons for believing that this is not true.

[notlovingit]

What's your number then?

To speak to someone in C4 or the production company or someone actually in Bos you'll need to call someone in c4 or the production company or someone actually in BoS. Not me, I'm afraid, my little pretty.

A forum should pose two sides to an argument, and I find it really hard to digest people's opinions that are bitter and extremist bile, when they are talking about something that hasn't yet aired. I think the arguments are petty. So fucking what if they took re-takes for fillers etc

It's more than likley that you are a plant from a rival production company to BoS etc than I being The Black Man or Mark bloody Dolan, for God sakes.

[Johnny Yesno]

I'm Mark Dolan.

Pienaar has compelling reasons for believing that this is not true.

Pienaar has ruined my day. I was looking forward to my free pints I was bound to get for telling my story to all and sundry down the pub. Bah!

[Bert Thung]

So fucking what if they took re-takes for fillers etc

Well the fucking reasoning is that the fucking name of the fucking show is fucking Balls of Steel

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

find it really hard to digest people's opinions that are bitter and extremist bile

Yet you enjoy Bals Of Steel by the looks of things. What an odd world and all that.

[Brutus Beefcake]

As most of us are suspecting- the BOS lot can dish it out but they can't take it. something which makes their program even more despicable.

Neither can most comedy people though.

[Slackboy]

And what acitvities do you believe people should be allowed to do without being blown up - perhaps if you posted a list then everyone could alter their past times to fit in with your opinions.

Chess, poker, table tennis, badminton, squash, croquet, bowls, catch, Frisbee throwing, collecting china plates with images of the Royal Family/cats/dogs printed on them... walking, jogging, having sex with strangers (without consent), collecting beer mats, train-spotting, breeding hamsters/gunie pigs/mice, going to B&Q for a treat on Sunday afternoons, obsessing over a home-brewing beer kit... oh, and kite flying... and caravaning!

You're saying that these are the acceptable activities.
If you're saying that these are unacceptable, do you have any reason other than not liking them yourself? Apart from raping strangers, they all seem pretty harmless, just things people do because they enjoy them - like posting on a forum for example.

Either you're not getting that he's taking the piss, or I'm not getting that you are. Can you tell me which it is please?

[Morgan]

Oh God, what have I done now?

[Slackboy]

- Edited: because it was a bit twatty. Someone's probably going to quote it below though.

[alan strang]

I had fourteen cocks up my arse last night. And two in my ear. It were cowing brill.

Blimey, is this a record?

Edit: Dammit.

[Slackboy]

Checkmate, ay?

Damn these people are good. Where's a nice, big black man when you need one?

[Oscar]

Either you're not getting that he's taking the piss, or I'm not getting that you are. Can you tell me which it is please?

Yes, I get that he's taking the piss in a Balls of Steel "look I'm not serious about anything, I'm being ironic!" way. As far as I can tell with this type of thinking it isn't ever necessary to take responsibility for a point of view. Therefore you can be deeply insulting or unpleasant - genuinely mean it and geniunely offend someone - but if you are called on it then you can claim "it was only a joke."
I disagree with this, i think people should take responsibiliy for their words and should sometimes state an opinion with sincerity. I think that my view, in general, is not popular.
I suppose what I was trying to do with notlovingit is see if I could get a genuine, sincere, meaningful opinion out of him, because it is these opinions and not the flippant, ironic opinions that interest me. I do like joke posts, I would say most of my posts are just pissing about, but I do not like this kind of snide, bitchy-under-the-breath post, I think that it is cowardly, rude, unimaginaive and ignorant, so I challenge it in the best way I can think of.
I bet you're glad you asked now.

[Purple Tentacle]

Therefore you can be deeply insulting or unpleasant - genuinely mean it and geniunely offend someone - but if you are called on it then you can claim "it was only a joke."

This is something I'm trying to popularise in popular culture as 'Cunt's Trick Number One'.

[Emergency Lalla Ward Ten]

Does anyone know how Mark Dolan and Alex Zane are regarded on the comedy circuit? Are they openly despised by their fellow comedians, or is Balls of Steel the big elephant in the pub? I doubt either Dolan or Zane are stupid - they know full-well BoS is a rotten show made for twats. But I wonder if they try to justify it in any way.

[Bert Thung]

I've heard when he was at Edinburgh University, Dolan was meant to be a bit of a legend on their long running improv comedy shows. As much of a legend as you can be on Edinburgh University improv shows.* I think I saw him do stand up in the mid nineties, but I'm not definite it was him

Next time I heard of him, he was on telly.

* Other luminaries, Mitch Benn, Daisy Donovan and Archie the Inventor.

[Emergency Lalla Ward Ten]

I think I saw him do stand up in the mid nineties, but I'm not definite it was him.

Go on, Dolan - put that quote on your Edinburgh poster.

[The Mumbler]

* Other luminaries, Mitch Benn, Daisy Donovan and Archie the Inventor.

To be fair, weren't all four of the Bodgers (Docherty, Hunter, Baikie, Kennedy) also at Edinburgh University?

This just sounds like "Mike Flex Presents His Masterquiz" but without the satire (ie a broadcaster doesn't want to give away any prizes) or, er, the jokes.

[notlovingit]

'suppose what I was trying to do with notlovingit is see if I could get a genuine, sincere, meaningful opinion out of him'

Spare your vengeance. Any sincere opinions posted against BoS are all lost beneath vitriolic, bitchy, name-calling, cunt-calling rants. The tone has already been set. What I'm seeing is a few clickedyclick people flap about like tap-dancers fannies, and then feel disgruntled when someone  in disagreement reacts.