I Fucking Love Michael Grade

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Well. I do.

― Modal Fugue (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 09:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't.

― ned trifle, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link

That's your loss, son.

― Modal Fugue (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 10:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Has he sacked "Quizzzzzz" yet?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 10:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Those Jews are just likeable people, fact.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 10:04 (seventeen years ago) link

They come from outer space, y'know.

― Modal Fugue (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 10:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't say I didn't like him - I just don't love him...not in...you know...that way.

― ned trifle, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 10:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't fancy his much.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 10:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never seen his much.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 10:13 (seventeen years ago) link

His Dad was fucking A too.

― Modal Fugue (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, I meant his uncle.

"Raise the Titanic? It would've been cheaper to lower the Atlantic."

― Modal Fugue (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 10:15 (seventeen years ago) link

The world needs many more Lew Grades.

One morning in 1966:
GRADE: Good morning, Pat my boy, what can I do for you?
McGOOHAN: I want to do a sequel to Danger Man except it'll be a multilevel allegory about the alienation of the individual within the deceptively cosy facade of society. There will be a mute dwarf butler and psychotic bouncy weather balloons. Haven't quite worked out how to finish it yet but I'll think of something.
GRADE: It's so crazy it might work. Let's shake on it!

All useless "commissioning editors" please take note.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 10:25 (seventeen years ago) link

DAMN STRAIGHT

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 10:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Let us not forget he cancelled Mind Your Language.

― nedtrifle, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Cue Vince Powell telling us it wasn't racist.

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I FEEL SORRY FOR VINCE POWELL.

There, I said it.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Feeling sorry for him is perfectly compatible with his being a twunt.

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Everyone's a winner.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Love Thy Neighbour wasn't racist neither, apparently. He is the ~~mis~~understood Johnny Speight.

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Much appreciated around the world (unless all these people are Vince Powell)
http://www.classictelly.com/programme.php?Programme=Mind%20Your%20Language

― ned trifle, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

108 Ali Amir from Lahore, Pakistan: MYL was probably the best comedy show I have ever seen and will see for year to come. I learnt more, different accents, courtesy of this show.

― ned trifle, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link

As a comedy Pakistani, he would say that.

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link

80 K S. Prabhu from INDIA: Mind your language is a clean & simple universal comedy. I am in a very stressful profession & watching this programme relaxes me very much. I have watched this so many times that I can laugh in anticipation of certain situations!

― ned trifle, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link

There actually was a letter from Vince Powell in the Times the other week saying more or less the same thing (re. new Penguin TV Companion so why he was writing to the Times and not Penguin baffles me).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link

There's still such a thing as a strongly-worded etc.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Did he use the word 'racialist'?

― ned trifle, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link

"Just a bit of fun, let's be coon."

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link

No, and surprisingly he didn't use the term "coloured" either.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Nephew of the one time WORLD CHARLESTON CHAMPION and don't you forget it.

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link

WORLD CHARLESTON CHAMPION (White Division)

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, you meant Lew Grade, not Vince Powell's uncle.

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Um, yeah.

In any case, I don't think they let the black dancers compete in 1926.

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link

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