[TV] The body in the pool.

[paulfuzz]

Statement analysis

A good analysis of an interview with Barrymore

https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t...e-denial-analysis?highlight=micheal+barrymore

 

[Gritt23]

Will come back and fair points,he was like the Late Jeremy Beadle poked fun at people unable to answer back or even had the option,although J/B worked hard for his choosen charities. Never liked the pair of them,give me the Late GREAT Dave Allen every time.

Dave Allen was superb, you'll get no argument with me there.

Not saying Barrymore was my favourite or anywhere close, others have listed people they prefer, and I could do likewise, quite a long list actually. My point being that very few people seem to say "yeah, I thought he was quite funny" which is my view. It's as if everyone now believes they never found him in the slightest bit funny. There must be a lot of people who suddenly feel like they can't say they liked him.

 

[herecomesaregular]

A good analysis of an interview with Barrymore

https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t...e-denial-analysis?highlight=micheal+barrymore

A VERY interesting read, thanks for the link.

Pretty damning analysis, no wonder MB seems so haunted.

Also, an interesting read their views on the murder of Madeleine Mccann....

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Dave Allen was superb, you'll get no argument with me there.

Not saying Barrymore was my favourite or anywhere close, others have listed people they prefer, and I could do likewise, quite a long list actually. My point being that very few people seem to say "yeah, I thought he was quite funny" which is my view. It's as if everyone now believes they never found him in the slightest bit funny. There must be a lot of people who suddenly feel like they can't say they liked him.

You shouldn't be arguing this on your own. Barrymore was a massive star because he was frequently very funny. Obviously he was of his time but, most comedians like most musicians, have their peak period. NSC is full of critics of people's tastes in comedy, the papers they are assumed to read, their politics and sometimes football related stuff as if their opinion is the only correct one. Barrymore was unarguably a peak time celebrity and star watched and enjoyed by millions. His crash was meteoric and all the more sensational for the level of his fame at the time. He lost everything - fame, employment, wife, money, respect, the lot. Pretty much all self inflicted. I can't defend the man who had some pretty unpleasant traits, but I well remember watching his shows with my parents and all of us laughing at his quick witted humour.

 

[Icy Gull]

Dave Allen was superb, you'll get no argument with me there.

Not saying Barrymore was my favourite or anywhere close, others have listed people they prefer, and I could do likewise, quite a long list actually. My point being that very few people seem to say "yeah, I thought he was quite funny" which is my view. It's as if everyone now believes they never found him in the slightest bit funny. There must be a lot of people who suddenly feel like they can't say they liked him.

I have to confess that I found him pretty amusing and different. Quite liked his piss taking wit personally.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

A good analysis of an interview with Barrymore

https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t...e-denial-analysis?highlight=micheal+barrymore

Sorry, that looks like it's been written by a sixth former, even down to the misspelling of Michael.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

You shouldn't be arguing this on your own. Barrymore was a massive star because he was frequently very funny. Obviously he was of his time but, most comedians like most musicians, have their peak period. NSC is full of critics of people's tastes in comedy, the papers they are assumed to read, their politics and sometimes football related stuff as if their opinion is the only correct one. Barrymore was unarguably a peak time celebrity and star watched and enjoyed by millions. His crash was meteoric and all the more sensational for the level of his fame at the time. He lost everything - fame, employment, wife, money, respect, the lot. Pretty much all self inflicted. I can't defend the man who had some pretty unpleasant traits, but I well remember watching his shows with my parents and all of us laughing at his quick witted humour.

Indeed. I really liked him as an entertainer (and I tend to run a mile from mainstream entertainment normally). Dry, self deprecating and yet empathic. Odd really. I saw him interviewed a couple of years ago (may have been that scouse comic with the new teeth's programme) and found I still like him.

On the other hand, I always though that Jim Davidson, Bernard Manning and Freddie Star were gold-plated dullard shitters (the latter could be funny, if you like men dressed up as Hitler and, personally I do, but he came across as a nasty bully who'd mug you on the way home from a night on the beer, leave you in a pool of your blood and his vomit, then go round and shag your missus).

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Thursday at 9pm on C4. Humour is subjective but i never have found Micheal Barrymore's style to be funny cheap jokes or setting people up who can't answer back for fun,at least the original Candid Camara was genuine. Barrymore may well be innocent of any crime,but this case carries an awful stink. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-dad-tells-barrymore-to-come-clean-over-death

must of been a pain in the arse for him
regards
DF

 

[Leekbrookgull]

You shouldn't be arguing this on your own. Barrymore was a massive star because he was frequently very funny. Obviously he was of his time but, most comedians like most musicians, have their peak period. NSC is full of critics of people's tastes in comedy, the papers they are assumed to read, their politics and sometimes football related stuff as if their opinion is the only correct one. Barrymore was unarguably a peak time celebrity and star watched and enjoyed by millions. His crash was meteoric and all the more sensational for the level of his fame at the time. He lost everything - fame, employment, wife, money, respect, the lot. Pretty much all self inflicted. I can't defend the man who had some pretty unpleasant traits, but I well remember watching his shows with my parents and all of us laughing at his quick witted humour.

SSE.NSC 'Full of Critic's of peoples taste's' ? Music/Comedy/Dance it is an Art form,so subjective.

 

[Lower West Stander]

Will come back and fair points,he was like the Late Jeremy Beadle poked fun at people unable to answer back or even had the option,although J/B worked hard for his choosen charities. Never liked the pair of them,give me the Late GREAT Dave Allen every time.

Comparing Dave Allen with Michael Barrymore is like comparing Planet Earth with Love Island.

He was the funniest comic I’ve ever seen. Bar none.


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[Triggaaar]

Can’t say I ever really saw much about him until that bloke was found face down in his pool with his arse in tatters.

A beautiful, heart-warming epitaph.

I did catch a bit of him on Big Brother somehow and he seemed like a viscious, bullying, mental, dick.

Agreed.

 

[Triggaaar]

Idiot Jeremy Vine suggested earlier arresting all 8 people tomorrow and telling them that the other one said they did it to force a confession.

He's like a real life Poirot

 

[LlcoolJ]

He's like a real life Poirot

The film maker bloke (who was actually very interesting and knowledgeable about the case) said something along the lines of "Well, I couldn't comment on that idea....".

Which I took as shorthand for "Please shut the **** up Jeremy you insufferable BELLEND".

 

[Triggaaar]

Not saying Barrymore was my favourite or anywhere close, others have listed people they prefer, and I could do likewise, quite a long list actually. My point being that very few people seem to say "yeah, I thought he was quite funny" which is my view. It's as if everyone now believes they never found him in the slightest bit funny. There must be a lot of people who suddenly feel like they can't say they liked him.

My memory of the time is that those who liked him are probably also those that like Mrs Brown's Boys (mentioned earlier). Those people do exist, but most of them don't post here.

 

[The Clamp]

A beautiful, heart-warming epitaph.

We all thought so.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

SSE.NSC 'Full of Critic's of peoples taste's' ? Music/Comedy/Dance it is an Art form,so subjective.

I agree. Yet NSC has decreed that Michael McIntyre and Mrs Brown's Boys, to name but two, are not funny. You are actually affirming my point thanks.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

SSE.NSC 'Full of Critic's of peoples taste's' ? Music/Comedy/Dance it is an Art form,so subjective.

Stuart Lee and Frankie Boyle are my favourites.

 

[Lenny Rider]

Quality documentary, which at the end you found yourself feeling desperately sorry for Stuart Lubbock's family.

Whether or not the Police ever solve the crime remains to be seen, but I bet ITV couldn't believe their luck when MB broke his wrist and was ruled out of Dancing On Ice, had he still been it would have been embarrassing watching this Sunday.

Holly 'Busy week Michael?'
MB 'Yes thanks Holly, did you see my documentary on Thursday night?'

 

[brakespear]

NSC is full of critics of people's tastes in comedy, the papers they are assumed to read, their politics and sometimes football related stuff as if their opinion is the only correct one.

Not 'as if their opinion is the only correct one' but because it is THEIR opinion, which is pretty much the point of critique or whatever, surely?

And there is hardly anything more facile on a forum than people going 'you only hate xxxxxxxx (for instance, Coldplay) because it is trendy to do so'

 

[Gritt23]

My memory of the time is that those who liked him are probably also those that like Mrs Brown's Boys (mentioned earlier). Those people do exist, but most of them don't post here.

Do you suppose they are the same people merely because you like neither?

Sorry to put a fly in the ointment, but Mrs Brown's Boys is not something I enjoy, but as stated already, I did find Barrymore funny.