We've All Got Exactly The Same Quiff, And It's Ludicrous.

[rionaleonhart]

There are only three episodes of 10 O'Clock Live left! I'm going to miss it when it finishes, even though it doesn't have nearly enough interaction between the presenters. It was very wobbly indeed when it started out, but I think it's really found its feet, and the past few episodes have been great.

The problem with 10 O'Clock Live is that it

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[wolfy_writing]

Do I want to know what's happened to your tongue? Is there a deadly tongue disorder going around?

'On Tuesday [Sienna Miller]'s prancing around in front of a camera; why on Wednesday should she complain about it because she happens to get caught by a pap who's maybe listened in to her messages to see where she's gonna go?' THIS IS A VERBATIM QUOTE. If you're happy being in front of a camera on your own terms, what right do you have to complain when people listen in on your private conversations?

What the fuck is wrong with some people? Seriously? There is a difference between doing things with a person who is a willing participant, and doing things to a person against their will. The first is generally okay, and the second is generally not (with certain narrow exceptions, like shoving someone out of the street so they won't get hit by that oncoming car they didn't know about). That's a basic ethical principle that should really be learned by anyone who's going to interact with other people in any way. It's right up there with

[rionaleonhart]

I want to know what's happened to my tongue. It's not quite as painful as it was yesterday, though, so with any luck I'm over the worst of it.

Every word that came out of that man's mouth was appalling nonsense. The audience ended up making pantomime booing noises. He tried to defend phone hacking by saying that the electorate had a right to know what the people they might be voting into power were up to; Mitchell pointed out that a) politicians' private lives were largely irrelevant, and b) that really wasn't a defence one could use when tapping into the phones of, say, actors.

(A classic News of the World front-page headline, incidentally: F1 BOSS HAS SICK NAZI ORGY WITH 5 HOOKERS. I don't know about you, but I think this sounds exactly the place to go for cracking investigative journalism.)

[wolfy_writing]

Hopefully, it'll blow over. The nurse at work generally goes with "See a doctor if it doesn't seem to be getting better, don't worry about it if it does", and she's the one who keeps worrying about me coming down with hemorrhagic dengue, even though I never have and they don't have that in this country, so she can hardly be accused of being insufficiently cautious.

Yeah, that's an incredibly transparent after-the-fact justification. Digging through the privacy of every famous person just in case some of the ones who are politicians are discussing anything relevant? Ick. I mean if you installed spy cameras in their bathrooms, there's a microscopic chance that you'd learn something relevant, too!

[rhosyndu]

I thought the point of 10 o'clock live being live was so that any politicians coming on the show would be able to feel that what they said would go out unedited, so it wouldn't be a case of them being made to look stupid for comedy purposes -- by anyone other than themselves, of course. Hence they'd be more likely to agree to come on.

Is like Newsnight being live, or Question Time being recorded only so far in advance (couple of hours, I believe, though I do remember nights that's gone out live) so they can take out the swears and any majorly stupid questions.

I'm going to miss 10 o'clock live when it finishes too. Where else will I be able to get Brooker and Mitchell staring at each other and ignoring everyone else in the room?

[rionaleonhart]

Oh, I suppose that makes sense. I do tend to forget that people other than the presenters are a factor in this programme as well. IT'S NOT JUST A COMEDY SHOW, RIONA.

Where else will I be able to get Brooker and Mitchell staring at each other and ignoring everyone else in the room?

I love the moments when it's just Brooker and Mitchell in shot, chatting away. Well done, whoever decided that they should always sit next to each other at the discussiony bits. (You'll get Brooker ignoring everyone but Mitchell when the Wallace-Havers-Wadia-Brooker episode of Would I Lie to You? is broadcast, at least?)

[dracothelizard]

I still suspect 10 O'Clock Live was masterminded by Jimmy Carr so he could finally use all the costumes from his dress-up box.

[ukcalico]

Hee - I have warmed to Carr SO MUCH since getting a weekly dose of his evident dressing-up enthusiasm. :D

[ukcalico]

I'm going to 10 o'clock live again next week - excited, although also slightly dreading being part of the sycophantic wall of noise that is the audience. I will laugh at Lauren though! What with loving her madly, and all.

(In the audience's defence: they are a bit drunk, and the tension of it being live affects them too, and they get coaxed to be louder at every ad break. True fact.)

Completely agree re: Prescott vs NOTWA. And apparently he got props for it afterwards. :)

[faeries_bite]

I gave up on 10 O'Clock Live a long time ago. I watched the first few episodes, and if there's a really interesting interviewee/guest (Campbell, Farage, Hassan), I'll watch that section when it's on youtube. But I can't be bothered.