Totally agree with this
Lauren Laverne is the epitome of the token woman on that show, she isn't a comedian and doesn't know anything about politics. Jimmy Carr also appears to know fuck all about current affairs.
Stopped watching it when I realised I was skipping more bits than I was watching. Love David Mitchell though.
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Lauren Laverne is the epitome of the token woman on that show, she isn't a comedian and doesn't know anything about politics. Jimmy Carr also appears to know fuck all about current affairs.
Stopped watching it when I realised I was skipping more bits than I was watching. Love David Mitchell though.
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I have nothing against any of them
And mostly I love DM and CB in other stuff, but I couldn't get on with that program at all. It's just all too easy, point after point preached to a fully converted choir - they say things they know the audience will lap up and the audience lap it up. Pull on someone slightly right of centre to ridicule everything they have to say and put a social worker who helps under priveledged kids in the same discussion for the audience to cheer.
Pisses me right off it does. Room full of self congratulation and beneath all 4 of them.
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And mostly I love DM and CB in other stuff, but I couldn't get on with that program at all. It's just all too easy, point after point preached to a fully converted choir - they say things they know the audience will lap up and the audience lap it up. Pull on someone slightly right of centre to ridicule everything they have to say and put a social worker who helps under priveledged kids in the same discussion for the audience to cheer.
Pisses me right off it does. Room full of self congratulation and beneath all 4 of them.
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agree. Mitchell is perhaps the closest to balance.
but its all cheap jokes and young-leftie pandering. Brooker shows more intelligence in his other programmes.
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but its all cheap jokes and young-leftie pandering. Brooker shows more intelligence in his other programmes.
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