I didn't know you'd been to any of the recordings! Did the back of your head get on to TV at all? :)
To your comments above, I've been realizing more and more recently just how compressed the final cut of programmes like this are - especially with the rise of 45-minute versions of what used to be half-hour shows (QIXL and Have I Got A Bit More News For You, two equally unwieldy titles for very opposite reasons, for example) - in fact I'm not sure why the half-hour ones are now kept around if there's always a longer follow-up (and tightness for time has changed since the mere four channels that I still remember...!) In this, I never got the impression that people were laughing at the poor souls misguided enough to go through with it - more an uncomfortable sort of laughter at the whole horrific concept that someone actually made it.
I thought Frankie Boyle was needlessly offensive when I first saw him on Mock the Week, but I've grown to really like him now... he's still abrasive sometimes but you have the feeling that... well, that's what he does! And despite all that, you get the impression that he's actually a decent person (especially in the section that was the subject of this post).
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To your comments above, I've been realizing more and more recently just how compressed the final cut of programmes like this are - especially with the rise of 45-minute versions of what used to be half-hour shows (QIXL and Have I Got A Bit More News For You, two equally unwieldy titles for very opposite reasons, for example) - in fact I'm not sure why the half-hour ones are now kept around if there's always a longer follow-up (and tightness for time has changed since the mere four channels that I still remember...!) In this, I never got the impression that people were laughing at the poor souls misguided enough to go through with it - more an uncomfortable sort of laughter at the whole horrific concept that someone actually made it.
I thought Frankie Boyle was needlessly offensive when I first saw him on Mock the Week, but I've grown to really like him now... he's still abrasive sometimes but you have the feeling that... well, that's what he does! And despite all that, you get the impression that he's actually a decent person (especially in the section that was the subject of this post).