BBC axes Never Mind the Buzzcocks after 20 years

[skyscraper101]

*Insert annoying BBC 'Breaking News' sting for non critical news alerts*

It'd jumped the shark ages ago tbf so I won't miss it, but farewell to a once mildly entertaining show. I'm struggling to think of anything else particularly memorable apart from Preston from the ordinary boys getting a stop on and storming out of the studio mid show, and Huey Morgan doing the same more recently. Were there any others?
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/26/bbc-axes-never-mind-the-buzzcocks-phill-jupitus
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/26/bbc-axes-never-mind-the-buzzcocks-phill-jupitus

 

[DotCommunist]

lamarr years were the glory years

 

[Santino]

lamarr years were the glory years

Yeah, especially when he appeared to be entirely uninterested in it. Whether that was genuine indifference or carefully-rehearsed, I could never tell.

 

[skyscraper101]

I'd like to think even he'd foresaw the demise of almost every attempted spin off of HIGNFY as soon as they were conceived of. Buzzcocks was probably the next best, but they were all fairly gash.

 

[DotCommunist]

what was that woeful political comedy show brooker and lavergne hosted- whatever it was it was poor. Came over well earnest and red nose day comedy.

 

[editor]

I thought Rhod Gilbert was the best thing on the show for many years, so at least it's gone out of something of a high. Some of the stuff between has been toe-curlingly bad.

 

[skyscraper101]

10 O Clock live? I didn't mind that in parts but Jimmy Carr was its weakest link.

 

[skyscraper101]

The worst panel one was the TV themed one with Jonathan Ross and Julian Clary where they tried to copy the buzzcocks guess the tune section by acting out, charade-style, the names of TV shows. It was embarrassingly shit.

 

[DotCommunist]

mock the weeks quite good, dependant on panellists. Dara cracks me up and Frankie Boyle still gets prop for this quip about the cost of a state funeral for thatcher 'At that price we could buy everyone in scotland a shovel so they can dig to hell and hand her over personally'

 

[danny la rouge]

I had no idea it was still going, to be honest. Rhod Gilbert hosts does he? Glad I don't watch it.

 

[Diamond]

It was always a bit rubbish.

Phil Jupitus...

I used to get a bit sad watching him in the later years as he was so cack and seemed to know it at the same time, which gave him a slightly furtive tragic expression.

 

[editor]

I had no idea it was still going, to be honest. Rhod Gilbert hosts does he? Glad I don't watch it.

He was brilliant actually.

 

[danny la rouge]

He was brilliant actually.

I'm going to take your word for it.

 

[starfish]

Sounds fair enough. It had been clinging on for a few years now. Was brilliant in its heyday.

 

[skyscraper101]

I wish they'd get rid of Jools Holland too. If ever a show was past its sell by.

 

[DotCommunist]

I wish they'd get rid of Jools Holland too. If ever a show was past its sell by.

they'd still have to wheel him out annually for his hootenanny bollocks

 

[kittyP]

I recently went back and watched the early series from the beginning on youtube
They were brilliant and my era of music (I was in my teens when it started) so I got most of the questions right

 

[weltweit]

My view is that it had the wrong slot.
If it had as Friday evening slot I would have seen it much more.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

lamarr years were the glory years

I preferred Amstel.

 

[weltweit]

However I am not really a Phil Jupitus fan.
He is a nice enough chap, but I think he thinks he is funnier than he actually is!

 

[Yata]

Amstel was hilarious the Winehouse thing was a bit harsh though in hindsight, more the producers/whoevers fault for putting her on though.

 

[Steel Icarus]

It was always a bit rubbish.

Phil Jupitus...

I used to get a bit sad watching him in the later years as he was so cack and seemed to know it at the same time, which gave him a slightly furtive tragic expression.

I always really loathed when he struck a "funny" pose or expression he held it far longer than he should have, much like Hugh Dennis.

I haven't watched it for years, the sight of that melon-headed drama school cheesepipe Fielding showing off in a succession of his auntie's hats and blouses for half an hour wore me down after about, what, one episode.

 

[billy_bob]

I thought Phil Jupitus actually seemed to up his game a bit in the last series. Maybe he un-gave-up on the show himself for a while.

I agree with editor RG was a massive improvement on the revolving chair, and most of Amstell's turn (and for that matter the bullying and occasionally misogynist later Lamarr ones.)

 

[Fingers]

I went to the filming of NMTB a few years ago and ended up having a piss with Dappy and Dermott after the show. Not many can say that.

 

[8den]

Amstell was genuinely funny, particularly with Donnie from the towers of london. But about a year after he left someone should have gone in and smothered the show with a pillow. Ffs they had michael bolton as host

 

[stavros]

I'd like to think even he'd foresaw the demise of almost every attempted spin off of HIGNFY as soon as they were conceived of. Buzzcocks was probably the next best, but they were all fairly gash.

Not quite all;

 

[T & P]

He was brilliant actually.

Agreed. I thought he'd revived the programme nicely.

 

[UrbaneFox]

I liked Big Baby on the drums, but as I type I realise that was Shooting Stars, not Buzzcocks. Jupitus was crapola, esp when slapping his thighs and pretending to be a drum kit with the git who did a pathetic "It's Garry Shandling's Show" copy.

I am going to put Jools Holland on my celebrity death wishlist this year. He is bound to die of alcoholic poisoning, collapsing and choking on his vomit, which dribbles over the piano keys as he does his boogie woogie routine, whilst sporting his creepy thin-lipped lizard smile. "It's what he would have wanted" said Gilson Lavis.

I could win the Urban Deathspot Memorial Urn for forecasting the first death of 2016 if he carks it during the new year show!

 

[Casually Red]

I haven't watched it for years, the sight of that melon-headed drama school cheesepipe Fielding showing off in a succession of his auntie's hats and blouses for half an hour wore me down after about, what, one episode.

Can't stand that never off the telly cunt . The whole of Camden should be carpet bombed , he's that annoying .

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Not quite all;

I'm afraid that's falling firmly in the 'not aged well at all' category. I'm sure it genuinely amused me no end back in the ninties (presumably whilst I was waiting for Eurotrash to start on the other channel), but looking back, it seemed... flat. The studio design didn't help. A more claustrophobic set - smaller stage, smaller but keener audience, backing monitors as opposed to blue screen (a la Buzzcocks, or Why I Lie to You et al) would have helped, IMHO.