Hating Bruce Forsythe And Sharing Harry Hill’s Joke
FRESH back from the BAFTAS, TV’s AGM and awards do, we learn that Bruce Forsythe has won a “Fellowship Award”.
“TV veteran Brucie steals gong show,” says the Mirror, with unnecessary cruelty. If the BAFTA members want to give Bruce a long-service medal, then so be it. We would say that he not steal it so much as earned it, although Des O’Connor may disagree.
“It’s impossible not to like Bruce Forsythe,” says the Mirror’s TV watcher Jim Shelley. Impossible? Nothing of it. The trick is to picture Bruce throttling your pet dog, repeatedly running over a dear family member or marrying Anthea Turner. You can learn to hate him.
“If you like TV, you’ve got to like Bruce Forsythe,” says Shelley.
Or like Harry Hill’s TV Burp, the show in which Hill takes the rise out of TV programmes and TV stars and gets a laugh.
That’s officially the best thing on the box, it having won the BAFTA for best entertainment performance.
Like us at Anorak, Hill realises that everything on the telly is a comedy show disguised as something else. You just have to get the joke…
Posted: 21st, April 2008 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids, TV & Radio Comments (8) | TrackBack | Permalink
