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The Wall on BBC Three
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Mark said:
Did anyone see this last night? If so what is your thoughts?
I missed it and am not sure whether it's worth catching on the iPlayer or not?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b009wmh1.shtml
I notice they've drafted in Jonathan Ross and We Are Klang to help - I like both of them - but after the recent rash of terrible studio-based variety shows I'm wondering whether The Wall is any different and worth giving my time to?
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Marc P said:
I've just watched the first six minutes on iplayer. Didn't thoroughly grab me, but I will download and watch some more so I can fast forward. I guess the idea,eventually will be that user generated content is featured on the Wall. SO it could be a good opportunity for home made comedy to get an airing. I see that the C4 online initiative is floundering a bit at the moment and is being strangled by the technology that ought to be at the heart of it.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, hotzappa11 said:
6 seconds news? With a title sequence 2 times longer, eh. I honestly couldn't watch it even with Alexa Chung hosting. Maybe I'll try and watch it on the iPlayer.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
I am honestly shocked that this isn't repeated. I mean ... It's a BBC Three show, right? 
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, zooo said:
I love Rhys Thomas, so I'll watch it for him. I find him extreeeemely funny.
The rest looks a bit rubbish so far though.
Noel Fielding was supposed to be the presenter of this. I guess he dropped out...
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Watching The Wall must be very much like making love to a beautiful woman. You turn her on, sit back to enjoy the show, get bored half way through, but force yourself through to the end. Then when it's finished, you fall asleep.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, zooo said:
I really feel for your girlfriend sometimes..
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Did anyone get that reference? 
(So do I.)
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Marc P said:
I'm thinking Swiss Tony. 
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
(Toni*)
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, zooo said:
I didn't like Swiss Toni until he got his own show.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
I've ... *gets ready to hide* ... never seen him in anything else.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Marc P said:
Quote: Aaron @ April 9 2008, 5:33 PM BSTI've ... *gets ready to hide* ... never seen him in anything else.
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The Fast Show Aaron
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Like I said, I've never seen him in anything else...
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Leevil said:
Quote: zooo @ April 9 2008, 5:32 PM BSTI didn't like Swiss Toni until he got his own show.
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Other way 'round for me.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Tim Walker said:
Quote: Aaron @ April 9 2008, 5:33 PM BSTI've ... *gets ready to hide* ... never seen him in anything else.
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The character of Swiss Toni originally featured in The Smell Of Reeves & Mortimer, where he was trying to sell a car to the two Pats (the men who wore bras).
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, zooo said:
Oh god I love the men in bras. Absolute genius.
Aaron, do you mean you've not seen Rhys Thomas in anything else?
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
That is also correct. I think.
*looks up his filmography*
Well, a few other things. But that's the only show I have any recollection of him in.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Aha, a repeat is starting now. My bad.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, zooo said:
Jonathan Ross has a potty mouth! (If I may be American for a moment.)
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
And Alexa Chung is about to make an appearance elsewhere...
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, ajp29 said:
... in your dreams?
I saw a bit of this but then watched something else, think it was the Lakes. Anyway the bits I saw were good. I saw Ryhs ask 'you've had sex with a rock star' to Chung which was hilarious and also the 'indian' guy talking about sex.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Quote: ajp29 @ April 10 2008, 4:48 AM BST... in your dreams?
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No, here: http://board.sitcom.co.uk/thread/6643
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Tim Walker said:
Rhys was also in 'Nathan Barley' playing... 'Toby'? I think. "You pair of... towels."
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, chipolata said:
I only saw the last ten minutes but they were a poor ten minutes. The Indian guy might have been funny if he'd put a bit more time and effort into his material, which seemed pretty lazy. The same goes for the guy in the car.
I do however find myself increasingly attracted to Alexa Chung, but in a vaguely unhealthy way since she's got the emaciated body of an Auschwitz survivor.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Quote: chipolata @ April 10 2008, 12:09 PM BSTAlexa Chung (has) the emaciated body of an Auschwitz survivor.
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LOL.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Leevil said:
Someone get this girl a roast dinner - stat!
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Yeah, she could do with some meat inside her.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Oh sweet fucking JESUS that was bad. I mean, really, REALLY bad. I know these kinds of shows are largely dependent on the artistes in each individual episode, but this was absolutely, without a doubt, the WORST piece of television I have ever had the misfortune to sit through. The Wall puts Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps on par with Fawlty Towers. A show so bad that not even the fact it ended gave it any merit. Really, a new low point for television.
Of course, special mention must go to We Are Klang, for being marginally less funny than an Ian Huntley biopic.
Most shows, even if I don't like them personally, I can see SOME worth in. But this, ugh, the most liberal usage of the word "comedy" I have ever, ever seen.
Someone should swing for this.
(P.S. I'm 20; presumably well within the target audience age range.)
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, zooo said:
I know in the 10 minutes I saw, Rhys Thomas said something funny to Jonathan Ross.
I just can't remember what it was.
I'm still gonna watch it all on iplayer! I'm a glutton for punishment.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Quote: zooo @ April 10 2008, 8:58 PM BST
I know in the 10 minutes I saw, Rhys Thomas said something funny to Jonathan Ross.
I just can't remember what it was.
I'm still gonna watch it all on iplayer! I'm a glutton for punishment.
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I honestly have never felt such contempt/hatred/anger towards anything. Not even the French. Or the poor. This show was just so, so bad it's left me almost without words. I actually had to re-watch some of it, just to check if I'd had some kind of stroke whilst watching it initially, and not 'get' it. But no, it really was that bad. Seriously, SERIOUSLY bad from start to end. I do not know how to express my feelings for this programme. Tittybangbang and According To Bex, back-to-back for the rest of time, would be vastly preferable.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, zooo said:
Hee!
I like angry Aaron.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Leevil said:
Quote: Aaron @ April 10 2008, 9:05 PM BSTI honestly have never felt such contempt/hatred/anger towards anything. Not even the French. Or the poor. This show was just so, so bad it's left me almost without words. I actually had to re-watch some of it, just to check if I'd had some kind of stroke whilst watching it initially, and not 'get' it. But no, it really was that bad. Seriously, SERIOUSLY bad from start to end. I do not know how to express my feelings for this programme. Tittybangbang and According To Bex, back-to-back for the rest of time, would be vastly preferable.
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This is how I feel about a David Chapman post.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, graham said:
I can so relate to Aaron's anger. However, it's not just the crapness of these programmes that makes my blood boil. It's also the talentless presenters who work their way up from T4, hoping to be the next Davina McCall.
I now find myself spotting them all over the place and thinking, "Oh, Dammit! They're just shit enough to be the next big thing!"
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, chipolata said:
I think Alexa Chink is quite good.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
She's bloody annoying. The girl needs to eat some fucking burgers.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, zooo said:
Quote: chipolata @ April 16 2008, 10:45 AM BSTAlexa Chink.
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...classy.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Quote: Griff @ April 16 2008, 11:26 AM BSTShe was completely, spectacularly useless on that programme with Ben Elton, which is the only time I've seen her.
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I saw her for the 10 minutes of that show I could watch, and last week's The Wall. Uselss is being generous.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, zooo said:
She is rubbish.
But I quite like her clothes sometimes.
She should be a model instead, stop hurting my telly.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
There was a rather grim photo of a model in this morning's Metro, so thin that her ribs are showing. Ugh.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, EllieJP said:
Watched it last night - by accident. Flippin' hell, that was awful!!!!
I have never cringed so much at such a badly put together programme. It really was quite horrible.
I did have a slight smile on my face when the guy driving around in his car was on. Slightly amusing...but the bum in the wall where we could actually see ball... ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Mark said:
Quote: Griff @ April 16 2008, 11:26 AM BSTShe was completely, spectacularly useless on that programme with Ben Elton, which is the only time I've seen her.
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God that was painful wasn't it!
She doesn't seem to pick her presenting opportunities very carefully - she did an ok job on Pop World but it did just look average because her and Zane followed on from Amstell and Oliver who had made the show theirs years ago (and made the laid-back tounge-in-cheek style look effortless when it actually must have been very hard)
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Quote: Mark @ April 16 2008, 2:41 PM BSTAmstell and Oliver
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Two other top-class entries into the hall of annoyance.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, zooo said:
Amstell is ace, you.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Passable.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, chipolata said:
Quote: zooo @ April 16 2008, 12:16 PM BST...classy.
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I feel suitably chastised... And it should be Alexa Half Chink anyway, since she's not a full one.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
(True.)
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, zooo said:
Quote: chipolata @ April 17 2008, 2:09 PM BSTI feel suitably chastised... And it should be Alexa Half Chink anyway, since she's not a full one.
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Say hi to Adolf in hell!
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
I don't really think that's Hitler's style, zooo.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, zooo said:
Yeah, he was a bit too sophisticated to use the word chinky...
Unless he's talking about marbles.
(anyone remember those?... no?)
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Marbles? Yes.
'Chinky' not in reference to someone or something Chinese? No.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, zooo said:
The white marbles were called chinkies when I was little - I think it was because of the chinking noise they made. And there were oilies. But I don't remember any others.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Oilies? Is that like, Mugabe, who must actually polish his face it shines so much?
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, chipolata said:
Quote: zooo @ April 17 2008, 6:29 PM BSTSay hi to Adolf in hell!
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You knock Hitler, but without him that episode of Fawlty Towers wouldn't have been nearly as funny. As for 'Allo 'Allo! - it wouldn't even exist!
You've had your fun, zooo, but let's nip this dictator bashing in the bud before it gets out of hand. You too Aaron, what's poor shiny black faced Robert Mugabe ever done to you?
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Quote: chipolata @ April 18 2008, 9:44 AM BSTYou've had your fun, zooo, but let's nip this dictator bashing in the bud before it gets out of hand. You too Aaron, what's poor shiny black faced Robert Mugabe ever done to you?
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Annoyed me with his shiny black face.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, chipolata said:
You big racist. I love Robert Mugabes shiny black face and the brave stand he's taken against white farmers.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, zooo said:
Sorry, dictators.
I am shame faced.
(Not shiny faced.)
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Stef said:
Can I just ask, why in hell would a wall speak let alone tell crap jokes??!!
That was a terrible production idea....who actually thought 'hey you know what would be great; if the wall actually spoke'!! This programme just annoyed me.
Edited by Aaron.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Quite. It's fucking poor from start to finish - and I've not tortured myself into watching episode 2 yet.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, David Chapman said:
I've seen bits and it is rubbish.
Who is it that is convinced Alexa Chung (or whatever her name is) is a comedy presenter?
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
She shouldn't even be on TV.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, zooo said:
Who do you hate the most Aaron! Her or Martha?
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Bloody hell. That's a tough question.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Seefacts said:
I caught some of this yesterday.
Alexa Cheung is perhaps the worst presenter in the whole world. Worse than June Sarpong. She looks like an 11 year old boy, and wears crap clothes. She's totally wooden, which in turn accentuates the shit material.
That Lee Nelson - played by Simon Brodkin, christ what other genius characters can he come with? - was terrible. He's a Loadsamoney for 2008. Everyone cheering getting stopped by the police etc.
This epitomises everything that is wrong about BBC3 and the demographic they're aiming at. The kind of demographic that probably watch it for 5 minutes and get bored.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, EllieJP said:
It's still rubbish isn't it?
Who the hell are these "comedy" people they've got on to perform? It's quite scary how bad it is...
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, chipolata said:
On a more general point. How did they select the people to be on it? I know it looks like they just popped over to the nearest Serious Head Injuries ward, but they must have had some kind of professional selection process?
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Quote: Seefacts @ April 24 2008, 10:36 AM BSTAlexa Cheung is perhaps the worst presenter in the whole world. ... She looks like an 11 year old boy
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I agree.
Quote: chipolata @ April 24 2008, 11:34 AM BSTOn a more general point. How did they select the people to be on it? I know it looks like they just popped over to the nearest Serious Head Injuries ward...
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LOL.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, David Chapman said:
She must know the producers, be related to them or being shagged by them.
In comparison Martha is brilliant - actually I think she's OK anyway.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Quote: David Chapman @ April 24 2008, 8:01 PM BSTShe must know the producers, be related to them or being shagged by them.
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Or more likely, all three.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, catskillz said:
Quote: Mark @ April 16 2008, 2:41 PM BSTGod that was painful wasn't it!
She doesn't seem to pick her presenting opportunities very carefully - she did an ok job on Pop World but it did just look average because her and Zane followed on from Amstell and Oliver who had made the show theirs years ago (and made the laid-back tounge-in-cheek style look effortless when it actually must have been very hard)
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I bet Oliver hates having to present next to Chung, as she (Chung) makes her (Oliver) arse look HUGE.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Chung makes a slightly overgrown grape look huge.
The woman needs a few burgers.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Badge said:
Quote: Aaron @ April 24 2008, 11:57 PM BST
The woman needs a few burgers.
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Your inner self is saying you want to put meat inside her.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
One would be scared of snapping her.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Godot Taxis said:
'We are Klang' were on the other day - I rate them.
Fucking Alexa Cheung would be like fucking a desk tidy full of biros.
Bring back Terry Christian!
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, chipolata said:
Alexa has a genuinely beautiful face.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Quote: Godot Taxis @ April 25 2008, 1:59 AM BSTFucking Alexa Cheung would be like fucking a desk tidy full of biros.
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On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Seefacts said:
Quote: chipolata @ April 25 2008, 10:00 AM BSTAlexa has a genuinely beautiful face.
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If you're a gay man or a straight women, yeah.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
LOL.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Oliver said:
Quote: zooo @ April 9 2008, 12:31 PM BSTI love Rhys Thomas, so I'll watch it for him. I find him extreeeemely funny.
The rest looks a bit rubbish so far though.
Noel Fielding was supposed to be the presenter of this. I guess he dropped out...
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Yeah, he said it was because it was gonna be shit
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, catskillz said:
Fuck me, this is fucking shit. What's going on in this country???!!
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Badge said:
I love The Wall. It's very good.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
I really, really hope you're trying to be provocative with that statement, Badge!
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Badge said:
Quote: Aaron @ May 7 2008, 12:41 AM BSTI really, really hope you're trying to be provocative with that statement, Badge!
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Guilty, M'Lud. Transparent as ever. I haven't watched it.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
In more ways than one, The Wall is no joking matter.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, EllieJP said:
I don't know why I'm still watching it... I think it's because I want to see American Dad/ Family guy straight after. But anyway - The Frog is SHITE... not funny at all. We are Klang are slightly amusing...but Alexa is terrible!!!
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, zooo said:
I watched it yesterday. But only to see Rhys. I still find him funny, even when the rest is crap.
And he makes me think of Swiss Toni and Donald Cox the Sweaty Fox. Which is good.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, EllieJP said:
Rhys is cute - that is all I have to say about that.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, zooo said:
Aw.
And he's so little next to Alexa and her insistence on wearing heels to demasculinise him.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
I've not watched since episode one. Haven't purposely stayed away from it, just keep forgetting. I'm intrigued to see if it improved any, but I somehow suspect not.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, catskillz said:
Quote: zooo @ May 7 2008, 1:27 PM BSTAw.
And he's so little next to Alexa and her insistence on wearing heels to demasculinise him.
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I'm sure most people think he's a lot younger than his 31/32 years, and probably don't realise he's been on our screens since about '95, when he started appearing on The Fast Show.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, chipolata said:
Rhys is brilliant in Radio 4's Down The Line. As for Alexa, I still think she's quite hot despite what anybody says on here. I'm not saying I'd want her as the next Mrs Chipolata, but with a long wig and some cakes inside her, she'd scrub up nicely.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
Most of today's "famous" women would do themselves a service by scoffing a few cakes and burgers.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, manchester's trendy chorlton said:
Dear God, Trendy agrees with Aaron.
Also, a friend of mine pranged Chung. He wasn't that fussed.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
It's 'cos I talk unadulterated sense.
Sometimes.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, David Chapman said:
There's no doubt she's attractive - not in the Charley class though - thank goodness!
But I still can't understand how anyone thinks she makes a TV presenter - comedy or otherwise.
On Wednesday 31st December 1969 GMT at 7:00 PM GMT, Aaron said:
There's immense doubt. In fact, every sane person knows she's quite the opposite.