tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post2542922959890744040..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Babies, black holes, Bonnie Greer, Nelson Mandela (inevitably) and bloody Marcus BrigstockeCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-37088781002195397732013-12-09T21:31:52.804+00:002013-12-09T21:31:52.804+00:00I try not to be sweary these days, so apologies fo...I try not to be sweary these days, so apologies for what follows...<br /><br />...but I think this is a good place to re-post a very rude comment I put on 'Biased BBC' some four years ago. (I can remember writing it. I'd had a couple of glasses of wine!)<br /><br />It was prompted by another commenter who'd just posted a link to Marcus Brigstocke's 'Wikipedia' entry at the time. <br /><br />So brace yourselves for a self-regarding, sweary trip down Memory Lane:<br /><br /><br />Brigstocke's Wikipedia article features a photo of the idiot smiling smugly and sticking two fingers up, "amusingly". That sums up the prick. I last stuck two fingers up at the world (or at passing motorists) when I was about 9 years old – and then only once. I've moved on. Not so Brigstocke.<br /><br />We learn that Marcus, who is now 36 years old, is a keen snowboarder. Brigstocke, you're 36 for Christ's sake, grow up!<br /><br />"Very few of the conventions and institutions of the bourgeoisie have escaped his ire", Wikipedia tells us. Brigstocke is a member of the bourgeoisie, despite his phoney accent. And anyhow, anyone who uses the word "bourgeoisie" is either a lifelong student or a prick, or both.<br /><br />We learn that "Brigstocke's favourite joke is to impersonate DJ Tim Westwood". Oooh, dangerous satire Marcus! And "The Now Show also provided an outlet for his fierce dislike of David Blaine". Oooh, dangerous satire Marcus!<br /><br />Next: "He hosts his satirical programme on BBC4, The Late Edition, which has been described as "Newsnight with jokes"." I've heard it. 'Newsnight' is way funnier.<br /><br />This is Marcus's most famous joke:<br /><br />“ If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. "<br /><br />******************************<br /><br />Sorry for the pause in this post, but I've just had to go to hospital because my sides literally split open while reading that joke.<br /><br />Marcus himself loves it too. "Ah! Bloody Pacman….It is my joke. I wrote it, then I took the rest of the day off as I was so chuffed with it." Chuffed with himself. That's Brigstocke all over. What a self-regarding prick!<br /><br />Thanks to Wikipedia again for letting us know that "during his early adulthood, he was a goth." Of course he was. He's a self-regarding prick.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-7544447917862944682013-12-09T11:57:54.659+00:002013-12-09T11:57:54.659+00:00I think Ms Greer and Brigstocke are amongst the mo...I think Ms Greer and Brigstocke are amongst the most obnoxious characters in the BBC menagerie. Ms Greer, do you know anyone who's seen one of her "plays" (no me neither), specialises in sneering, arrogant criticism of the post colonial failings of a society that has unaccountably elevated her to the status formerly occupied by aristocrats: trustee of the BM etc; and Brigestock is a sinister creep who delivers rants about global warming whilst jetting to Mexico for holidays, and moral homilies whilst betraying his own family.<br /><br />Yuck.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com