Paul O'Grady Show

**Will** · 03-27-2006, 04:53 PM

I never found him funny as Lilly Savage, I find him even less funny as 'Just another Gay TV presenter'. Is anyone else bored of the 'they're camp so they must be funny' mindset that seems to dominate TV at the moment?

Nothing against gay people, I just don't see what's so funny about camp people, I find them boring and predictable.

WolfMan · 03-27-2006, 05:29 PM

I just saw that too, what a load of crap! I just couldn't see any point to it, it's trash daytime TV at its worst. Crapity crap crap!

Sid · 03-27-2006, 05:49 PM

My daughter sometimes tries to watch him. If she can manage to hear what's being said above my constant stream of criticism that is. She had it on the other day and the most unfunny scouser on the planet was reading the Three Little Pigs to some children, with the help of a has-been actress. The children looked just as bored as if they were watching- I was going to say Crufts, but that would be infinitely more interesting, so- an interview with Joan Collins, done by Prince Edward. DIRE!!!!

David Courtney · 03-28-2006, 12:41 AM

He's crap, i guess that's why he's on chanel 4 now.

The Relic · 03-28-2006, 09:52 AM

He's on Channel 4 because his ITV show was so successful - three million viewers in the lead in to peak time - that C4 was moved to offer him some untold amount to move.

At the risk of seeming hompohobic (and I think it's safe to say that in my job and with my circle of friends I wouldn't survive too long if I was) I too find the preponderance of camp comics getting plum presenting jobs and heavyweight contracts something of a mystery, especially as they aren't even good camp comics - the best of the good ones are either dead or have been shunted out of the mainstream and onto the panto circuit.

A case could be made for O'Grady with his viewing figures and his appeal to the blue rinse demographic - for some reason many old people find gays vaguely exotic and somehow see them as asexual - but why, as a glaring for-instance, did the Beeb sign Graham Norton at great cost at a time when his late night C4 chat shows were flops? The Beeb's gay Mafia isn't nearly so powerful these days, so they can't be the reason.

**Will** · 03-28-2006, 10:26 AM

The BEEB seem to have gone mad for C4 presenters at the moment, Davina McCall's BBC1 show seems bizzarrly out of context.

It is a good point that O'Grady does seem to appeal to the Blue Rinse brigade, just look at his live audience. I think I just find the change at target audiences rather confusing, I think a lot of Richard and Judy fans (and I include myself in this), will find O'Grady pointless and generally crap.