It’s strange how some people are trendy for a while and are all over the place. It seems to be that the trendy idiot of the moment is Alan Carr. Given that he’s not very good, his agent must be fantastic. He really does get on my nerves — I’ve yet to identify anything with his act which isn’t just annoying. While Justin Lee Collins moved on to make some light hearted documentary type programmes, Alan seems to have just gone on to do anything he possibly could. And he doesn’t bring anything to any of them. I thought that maybe I’d be safe listening to BBC Radio 2, but no — his irritating voice popped up there too. Lets hope he’ll burn out reasonably quickly, although I guess that would just leave a gap for the next one to come along and be in everything…
Someone I thought might have burnt out by now is the bloke who does the voice over for a whole load of programmes on Channel 4, the Jingles on Absolute radio (formally Virgin), and pretty much everything else — Peter Dickson. You’ll know who he is. He seems to have been doing the rounds for ages. Actually, it’s this particular voice he does which annoys me. He can do other things (there are lots of examples on his website), but it seems that it’s that one voice media people think we want to hear. I sometimes wonder if they ever bother watching other things or if they think they’re the first to discover this kind of things.
The reason I’m thinking about this is because currently on Channel 4 is Alan Carr’s Celebrity Ding Dong. It’s really rubbish. This week it’s ‘Fashionistas’ verses ‘Hard Men’. The funny thing about it is that these ‘Hard Men’ are all actors. I’ve been around actors since I was about 13, some of my closest friends are actors, and I work with actors in my professional work. All actors are the same. I worked with Ray Winstone in 1999 and he was the same. They are all lovvies. Celebrity Ding Dong proved this nicely — there was more hugging and giggling from the ‘Hard Men’ than from anyone else. Including trend of the moment “I’m gay and going to build my entire act on it” Carr.
Forgive me, I’ve just spent the last half hour bitching and whining. I’m off to go and fry myself a cheese sandwich, something I don’t think I’ve done since I was a student. And very healthy.
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