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Clive55



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:08 pm    Post subject: Russell Brand is an Idiot Reply with quote

It is apalling that Russell Brands rubbish show is still on Radio 2. Not only is it tedious waffle, but Russell is guilty of wasting police time & obstructing police investigation into a serial rapist
Idiot Brand used the case of a serial rapist for his stand up show, makling a call to the police line set up for information about a serial rapist
He kept an officer on the line for considerable time giving false "eyewitness" evidence for the "amusement" of his audience
This caused hours of wasted police time- talking to him, typing out the notes, following up his false "
Russell Brand thinks this is hillarious
The guy is pathetic. I'd like to see him the victim of some rough police brutality
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:26 pm    Post subject: Branded! Reply with quote

He might enjoy that sort of thing, Clive! Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

He is guilty of wasting 2 hours of radio time every saturday Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

nod wrote:
He is guilty of wasting 2 hours of radio time every saturday Rolling Eyes


Very true. And liscence Fee money
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:02 pm    Post subject: Re: Branded! Reply with quote

Briant wrote:
He might enjoy that sort of thing, Clive! Laughing

What, a bit of police brutality?
Probably. Maybe that's what he was hoping for!
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes Clive that's what I meant. I think he's a bit of a Gene Hunt...fan! Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was waiting for someone to post something about this disgraceful matter this week. He apparently apologised saying he didn't know he would upset someone.

Even if he's only on for two hours a week he's hasn't got anything too contribute to Radio 2?
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mark occomore wrote:
I was waiting for someone to post something about this disgraceful matter this week. He apparently apologised saying he didn't know he would upset someone.

Even if he's only on for two hours a week he's hasn't got anything too contribute to Radio 2?


I don't know what his show is supposed to be for. Silly guy with a silly voice going on & on for two hours
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Clive55 wrote:
mark occomore wrote:
I was waiting for someone to post something about this disgraceful matter this week. He apparently apologised saying he didn't know he would upset someone.

Even if he's only on for two hours a week he's hasn't got anything too contribute to Radio 2?


I don't know what his show is supposed to be for. Silly guy with a silly voice going on & on for two hours



Entertainment and standing up shouting away down the mic. If you call that entertainment? Shocked I heard him for about a minute the other week and he was swearing and I switched off. We don't need that on Radio 2 or any station.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thankfully, it's on at a time when I don't listen to the radio, but I'm still appalled that this monster is being paid for by us. There are no words to describe him.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Even if the content of the show is explained at the beginning which could contain explicit material, and is after the 9pm watershed it shouldn't really be allowed. I can't see how a 9pm watershed can operate especially on a Saturday night? These days youngsters have radios in their rooms and do read entertainment websites etc which Russell Brand gets his picture in. So I conclude this appalling piece of Radio, if you call it Radio entertainment?

Thank god he's not hired for anything else on Radio 2.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mark occomore wrote:
I can't see how a 9pm watershed can operate especially on a Saturday night?


Radio doesnt have a set time watershed. The rules are that programmes should respect when children are likely to be listening, which is usually taken to mean school run morning & evenings, Saturday & Sunday late mornings and during school holidays in the late morning.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In the second programme of Zoe Ball's history of dance music, broadcast early Saturday evenings, there was a quotation of the reaction of one of the DJs in a southern club to the introduction of a little Northern Soul - "What the fu**king poo is that?". I couldn't believe my ears and had to Listen Again carefully, twice, before being able to make out that the word had an n, rather than a c in it. It was a very close-run thing Laughing

But of course few people, let alone children, would have been listening anyway.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 1:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am fed up with people demanding sackings of presenters that they don't happen to like. Do us all a favour and leave these presenters to those who do like them. Nobody says that you have to listen to the Russell Brand show.

The show pulls in 1.4 million listeners and that is quite a good achievement for a Saturday night, the one night of the week when the vast majority of people are out and about enjoying themselves or watching TV.

Just because you dislike Russell Brand/Chris Evans/Jonathan Ross/whoever, that does not mean that these presenters (as well as others i.e. Sarah Kennedy, Elaine Paige, Desmond Carrington, David Jacobs) aren't popular or are unwanted trash on the network.

There are presenters and programmes on Radio 2 that I don't particularly enjoy, so I don't listen to them. I suggest you people do the same. It's as simple as that really.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 2:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, it's not that simple at all.

I believe things have generally moved on since the "sack her" or "get rid" Cool days, I think posters tend to say more as to why they think the presenter or show isn't to their liking.
If we all just said how wonderful him or her is, it would be a very boring message board woudn't it Wireless 2.
I think SOTS and Steve Wright are excellent but I couldn't keep going on about it.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 2:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm sorry, but it's the same old regurgitated nonsense being posted about Russell Brand, Chris Evans, Steve Wright, Jonathan Ross (as well as others) on various internet forums. This forum is no exception.

Some people feel that Russell Brand is unsuitable for Radio 2. That's their opinion to which they are entitled, but what they need to accept is that Brand, Evans, Wright and Ross are popular and also pull in healthy audiences.

Radio 2 management feel that Brand and co are suitable for the network and their judgement has been proven right.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 2:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I'm sorry, but it's the same old regurgitated nonsense being posted about Russell Brand, Chris Evans, Steve Wright, Jonathan Ross (as well as others) on various internet forums. This forum is no exception.


You think it's nonsense, others don't so they're entitled to their say. You are now continuing the regurgitated nonsense, and if this forum is no exception, then there must be a point to it all.

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Some people feel that Russell Brand is unsuitable for Radio 2. That's their opinion to which they are entitled, but what they need to accept is that Brand, Evans, Wright and Ross are popular and also pull in healthy audiences.


Why do they need to accept it? I'd bet you'd find that in a referendum, most listeners wouldn't accept Russell Brand should be on R2.
Steve Wright is an exception, he's proved his popularity for many years but newcomers Brand and Ross and their ludicrous salaries have ruffled people's feathers imo are overrated.
Evans remains a mystery to me as I still don't know of anybody who actually likes him.

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Radio 2 management feel that Brand and co are suitable for the network and their judgement has been proven right.


Gordon Brown thinks he's the man for the job too...
I'm not sure any judgement has be been proven right, certainly in the case of Ross and Brand as most people will leave the radio on 2 anyway and probably don't give a hoot who's on in any case. Steve Wright has proved himself over the years.

Actually I don't mind Russell Brand but don't tell me some of the language or subject matter is really suitable for Radio 2?
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 2:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="SantaFefan"]
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I'm sorry, but it's the same old regurgitated nonsense being posted about Russell Brand, Chris Evans, Steve Wright, Jonathan Ross (as well as others) on various internet forums. This forum is no exception.


Actually, I am defending Russell Brand et al against the repetitive criticisms and nonsense posted about them. Repetitive criticisms is spam and do not prove worthy to debate.

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You think it's nonsense, others don't so they're entitled to their say. You are now continuing the regurgitated nonsense, and if this forum is no exception, then there must be a point to it all.


But must every thread be filled with anti Brand/Evans/Wright/Ross/Kennedy postings? Even the Desmond Carrington thread has been turned into a 'Richard Allinson is God' topic.

Why do they need to accept it? I'd bet you'd find that in a referendum, most listeners wouldn't accept Russell Brand should be on R2.
Steve Wright is an exception, he's proved his popularity for many years but newcomers Brand and Ross and their ludicrous salaries have ruffled people's feathers imo are overrated.
Evans remains a mystery to me as I still don't know of anybody who actually likes him.

Their audience figures prove just how popular they are. 5.5 million people tune into Chris Evans - he now pulls in more listeners to what Johnnie Walker did. Evans has not been the failure some people on these forums predicted.

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Gordon Brown thinks he's the man for the job too...
I'm not sure any judgement has be been proven right, certainly in the case of Ross and Brand as most people will leave the radio on 2 anyway and probably don't give a hoot who's on in any case. Steve Wright has proved himself over the years.

Actually I don't mind Russell Brand but don't tell me some of the language or subject matter is really suitable for Radio 2?


Russell Brand's vocabulary might offend some people, but a warning does go out prior to his broadcast. The show is broadcast on a Saturday night at 9pm. It's ideal there, however if Brand was broadcast in the middle of the day effing and Jeffing on the air then I would have a problem. Mind you, Jonathan Ross gets away with it.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

'Repetitive criticisms is spam and do not prove worthy to debate.'

Laughing Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wireless 2 does have a point, constant whingeing is tiresome - that's why we have a Gripes Board (maybe Clive should have posted this thread there).

Yeah, on other threads, it might stifle 'discussion' but repetitive 'don't like him, so I don't listen to him' kind of messages are not a very mature reponse on a thread where someone is praising their favourite presenter.

There is a Gripes Board - use it!

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 5:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I made my post because I was appalled that he was obstructing police investigation into a serial rapist & trying to make "comedy" out of it
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 6:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

But that's exactly what Russell Brand is all about: controversial comedy! Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 6:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wireless 2,

Comedy? It wasn't comedy. That's like saying 'your son has been in a car crash, no he hasn't ha ha' is funny, Jeremy Beadle cheap thrills taken beyond common decency
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 10:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

John,

The whole thing is Russell Brand's style of controversial comedy and humour. If you have ever seen him live (like I have), on the TV or tuned into his Radio 2 show then you will know where I am coming from.

Russell Brand sails close to the wind and knows that some of the things he says will cause offence - but he has done the right thing and apologised about what happened.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Russell Brand hasn't ruled out doing more phone pranks:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/a116452/brand-wont-rule-out-more-phone-pranks.html
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wireless 2 wrote:
I'm sorry, but it's the same old regurgitated nonsense being posted about Russell Brand, Chris Evans, Steve Wright, Jonathan Ross (as well as others) on various internet forums. This forum is no exception.

Some people feel that Russell Brand is unsuitable for Radio 2. That's their opinion to which they are entitled, but what they need to accept is that Brand, Evans, Wright and Ross are popular and also pull in healthy audiences.

Radio 2 management feel that Brand and co are suitable for the network and their judgement has been proven right.


I disagree. Should we now put a line under this and many other online forums that, generally, offer constructive criticism? Sure, this world wide blogosphere can prove dangerous sometimes, but the opportunities it has presented should be applauded, and the fact we can sit here and discuss issues compared to say 10-15 years ago is a great freedom.

Back to this forum, I pop in and out, and have found things have improved greatly again the last few months (since certain posters left! Cool )
You appear to be a new member/poster (welcome!) and I believe you're exaggerating greatly with your argument on repetitive criticisms. I've seen some repetitive criticisms on here, and they can be tiresome, but I've also seen constructive repetitive criticisms (there is such a thing!) which equate to arguments or points quite well made.

SantaFefan is right - things have moved on from basic good/bad arguments (I urge you to look back through previous long threads) and there are much more constructive comments.

As for certain presenters, namely Evans and Brand, yes you can throw your ratings at this board, but that's not to say these people aren't alienating previous and/or regular listeners whilst (perhaps equally) enticing new listeners. This is most likely Brand's case (Evans is more likely to be the case Santafefan talks of where the radio is left on anyway, particularly for drivetime). Besides which, I can't think of 2 other presenters who have been more heavily marketed,trailed or whatever you want to call it, on radio 2 over the last 2 years. Yes, even more than Steve Wright! These aren't excuses, they're constructive comments - remember that! Very Happy

I'll leave my concerns about R2's tough future direction for another day, perhaps on the gripes section as John indicated!
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

John W wrote:
Wireless 2 does have a point, constant whingeing is tiresome - that's why we have a Gripes Board (maybe Clive should have posted this thread there).

Yeah, on other threads, it might stifle 'discussion' but repetitive 'don't like him, so I don't listen to him' kind of messages are not a very mature reponse on a thread where someone is praising their favourite presenter.

There is a Gripes Board - use it!

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John

Sorry John
I posted it in the wrong section

As to "pranks", when it interfewres with a serious police investigation, that is beyond the pale
A bit of roughing up by some burly officers may make Mr Brand think twice next time
Unless, of course, as Briant suggested, that may be what russell was hoping for
He must get his kicks some way
Clearly, no female would be interested in him
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