Jonathan Ross- Round 2

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PostRe: Jonathan Ross' comeback show 23/1
by Memento Mori » Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:00 pm

Slight facepalm. I just logged onto facebook and checked out the pro Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand group. Jonathan Ross is now a member of it. :lol:

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PostRe: Jonathan Ross' comeback show 23/1
by Memento Mori » Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:16 am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7849607.stm

A joke by Jonathan Ross on his first Radio 2 show after his three-month suspension had "clearly no intention to offend anyone", the BBC has said.

While talking about an elderly Spanish neighbour of co-presenter Andy Davies, Ross joked he should "give her one last night before the grave".

The comment has increased media scrutiny on the star, appearing in several Sunday newspapers.

The BBC did not receive any complaints over the incident on Saturday.

During the exchange, Davies mentioned an elderly woman who kept kissing him while he was carrying out DIY at his Spanish home when Ross said: "I think you should just, for charity, give her one last night. One last night before the grave."

The BBC said there was no link to any specific individual and that the joke was part of a light-hearted conversation.

A spokesman said: "Regular listeners will be familiar with Jonathan's irreverence and innuendo.

Absolutely no offence to any individual was intended and, if the media wasn't hell bent on stirring up controversy, I'm sure none would be taken
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"This light-hearted exchange contained no offensive language, named no individuals and there was clearly no intention to offend anyone.

"Nothing broadcast by the BBC was linked to a specific individual or would allow the public to link these comments to an individual."

'Comedic purposes'

Ross told the News of the World that "absolutely no offence to any individual was intended".

He said: "It was a spontaneous, light-hearted remark made in response to an anecdote set in Spain, where no-one was named or ever likely to hear the broadcast.

"As far as I was concerned, the story may even have been apocryphal or exaggerated for comedic purposes, as is common practice on radio and comedy shows around the country.

"Absolutely no offence to any individual was intended and, if the media wasn't hell bent on stirring up controversy, I'm sure none would be taken."

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More than 5 million viewers tuned into watch Ross's TV return

Davies issued a statement denying that the joke in the show referred to a real individual and that the story was "poetic licence based on the warm and affectionate behaviour experienced in Spanish village life".

"I did not identify an individual because there isn't one," he added.

Conservative MP David Davies called for Ross to be replaced.

"On Radio 2 you don't expect X-rated references to sex - and especially sex with an 80-year-old - during the day," he said.

"He should have gone ages ago. There's no way this man should be on the air. He needs to be replaced now.

"It's obscene, especially given the amount of money Ross is being paid. It could also be highly offensive to this woman if she's a real person."

More than five million viewers tuned in to watch Ross's return to television on Friday, during which he interviewed actor Tom Cruise.

He was returning after a 12-week suspension for his part in a series of lewd phone messages to Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs


:fp: Ah here it goes.

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PostRe: Jonathan Ross' comeback show 23/1
by It'sNotLupus » Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:23 am

Memento Mori wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7849607.stm

"On Radio 2 you don't expect X-rated references to sex - and especially sex with an 80-year-old - during the day," he said.


:lol:

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PostRe: Jonathan Ross- Round 2
by captain red dog » Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:26 am

Has the entire nation been possessed by Mary Whitehouse or something?

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PostRe: Jonathan Ross- Round 2
by Memento Mori » Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:35 am

The Daily Fail's reaction is balanced as normal.
Jonathan Ross returns to Radio Two with sick jokes about sex with a pensioner

Jonathan Ross risked the wrath of BBC executives on his return to Radio 2 yesterday by making crude remarks about sleeping with an 80-year-old woman.

Ten minutes after the live show began, Ross and his co-presenter Andy Davies talked about how they had spent the past three months, when Ross was suspended from the BBC.

Davies said that he had been doing some DIY at his house in Spain, and referred to an ‘older woman’ who lives nearby who ‘keeps trying to kiss me...she must be about 80, I reckon’.

Ross replied: ‘Oh God. I think you should, just for charity. Give her one last night, will you? One last night before the grave. Would it kill you?’

It also became clear yesterday that in the 35 hours between Ross’s Friday-night BBC1 chat show being recorded and broadcast, executives carefully edited the content to ensure the controversial host put across an appropriate balance of contrition and wit.

Ross was suspended without his £6million-a-year salary after he and comedian Russell Brand left obscene messages on the answerphone of
78-year-old actor Andrew Sachs during Brand’s Radio 2 show in October.

Last night Conservative MP Philip Davies, who sits on the Commons Culture Select Committee, said of his remarks about the elderly woman: ‘Everyone knows what Jonathan Ross is like, particularly now.
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Jonathan Ross arriving at the BBC's Western House Studios to present his first Radio 2 show since returning from a three-month suspension

'Certainly the BBC are well aware. If you employ Ross, this is what you can expect from him and this is what you’ll always get from him. My view is that he should have been sacked three months ago.’

John Beyer, director of pressure group Mediawatch UK, said: ‘It’s ultimately for BBC director-general Mark Thompson to say whether this sort of innuendo and suggestion is what he had in mind when he gave Jonathan Ross his last chance back in October. The BBC has to establish boundaries of acceptability.’

Ross arrived at the Radio 2 studios in Central London yesterday wearing sunglasses and a dark three-piece suit with brown leather cuffs. He carried a messenger bag by designer label Prada, costing about £210.

During his three-hour programme, he appeared to make light of the controversial subject of teenage girls – including his daughter – watching men kiss each other.
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Jonathan Ross with Russell Brand:The prank calls made to Andrew Sachs by the pair were "an act of broadcasting madness", said Director of BBC Vision Jana Bennett

As he interviewed fellow BBC presenter Graham Norton, who is starring in a West End adaptation of gay comedy La Cage Aux Folles, Ross said that his daughter, who is 16, was ‘very much into gay culture generally’.

He added: ‘I think, like lots of young girls, she likes seeing boys kissing, for some reason. They love seeing boys kissing.’

Sounding surprised, Norton asked: ‘Really?’

Ross said: ‘Yeah. It’s the big thing, Graham.’

A BBC spokesman said it had received 18 complaints about the show. And a further 166 people have protested to the BBC about Ross being chosen to present the Bafta awards next month.

In a statement, the BBC said: ‘Some viewers are unhappy that Jonathan Ross will be presenting this year’s Baftas. This will be his third year presenting the awards, and the decision to use him as the host was taken long before his suspension.’

BBC1 executives cut several crude remarks from his Friday-night chat show before it was broadcast.

The studio audience heard Ross tell his guest Tom Cruise, in response to the actor’s admission of a hectic schedule: ‘You should get yourself suspended. Russell Brand is in town tonight. Let’s go out in town and get suspended.’

Ross made several other references to Brand during the recording, and images of Brand appeared on screens, but his name or face were not deemed fit to appear in the version that was broadcast.

One audience member said: ‘I was amazed when I walked into the studio to see a huge screen suspended above the stage showing Jonathan Ross interviewing Russell Brand.’

Take away the 'daring' and it's just an old-fashioned showbiz plug show

So he’s back, the flop-haired popinjay – emerging on to his brothel-tinted set with a Sixties showbiz lope, blow-dried and trim in a maroon suit and nervous smirk.

You had to feel sorry for him. Well, a bit. Jonathan Ross’s trademark is – to quote Robert Robinson’s wonderful phrase about DJs – ‘behaving like a universal favourite on mere assumption’. Every move, every tic, every grin says: ‘Aw, c’mon, you have to love me.’

He must have been shaken in recent months by the revelation that a lot of people don’t. He has a gift: a quick brain and a talent for prattling cheek which forces guests to laugh or look stupid.

So they laugh, and everyone likes to see A-listers laughing. It makes up for the fact that they’re not telling you anything new.

But Ross’s problem has been a growing genital obsession normally found in under-sevens. So the love ebbed, to be replaced by irritation at his crazy salary and at the BBC for not reining him in.

On that strange night in October, the sound of a middle-aged married man egging on his oversexed younger colleague to cruelty was his downfall. Auntie BBC finally showed her teeth. Oh, and her scissors.

Since three national newspapers went to the trouble of infiltrating reporters into last week’s recording, we have a pleasing insight into what was cut.

We didn’t get to see him saying ‘f***’ to Tom Cruise, nor claiming that his right bicep is better toned thanks to what he does with that hand.

Nor did they leave in references to Russell Brand and the suspension, the suggestive sausage question to Stephen Fry, or a joke about Ross’s wife and a condom.

Fair enough. Studio audiences queue in the rain. You can’t really blame the BBC for putting on a smuttier show for a few dozen faithful than for the living-room.

But what we can judge, after this break, is how good it actually is. Take away the ‘daring’ and it is an old-fashioned showbiz plug show.

Ross is, beneath the cheekie-chappie veneer, a very sycophantic interviewer. His technique is to pour a quart of Oscarish treacle over his guests and then suddenly ask them about bodily functions and make amusing faces.

There has been a lot of absurd speculation about A-listers refusing to come on after the scandal. Oh, get real – it’s a mainstream showcase, all appearance fees and pre-agreed clips. This is showbiz. They’ll come.

And they’ll laugh, to prove they are sports. The smuttiest moment that escaped the censor was Ross laboriously working the subject round to farting, and asking Cruise whether he does it in bed with his wife. Cruise coped fine.

He does his own stunts – he can handle some weird Brit with a faecal obsession.

So far Ross has not been trusted near a female lest he proposition one, as he did Gwyneth Paltrow. But this week he has Glenn Close and Lily Allen.

Both of them, unlike Paltrow, have probably got enough bottle to slap him. Now that would be great telly.

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PostRe: Jonathan Ross- Round 2
by Eighthours » Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:50 am

FFS. The Beeb should tell everyone to strawberry float off. In fact, Mark Thompson basically did just that when the papers tried to contact him. :lol:

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PostRe: Jonathan Ross- Round 2
by Fatal Exception » Sun Jan 25, 2009 1:22 pm

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PostManuelgate
by Memento Mori » Sun Apr 19, 2009 2:24 pm

Everything is back to normal then.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8006913.stm

Comedian Russell Brand has launched his first radio show since his resignation from the BBC - with a telephone call to broadcaster Jonathan Ross.

Brand made the call during a two-hour football special, co-hosted with Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher, to be aired on Talksport radio at 2100 BST.

"You're not back on the radio, are you?" listeners will hear Ross say.

Ross and Brand were heavily censured last year for leaving lewd messages on actor Andrew Sachs' answering machine.

Brand quit his Radio 2 show as a result, while Ross was suspended from the BBC for three months.

Earlier this month the BBC was fined £150,000 by media watchdog Ofcom for their "offensive, humiliating and demeaning" conduct.

'Cutting-edge comedy'

In the show, recorded in London on Saturday, listeners will hear Gallagher accuse Ross and Brand of failing to learn their lessons.

Ross will then be heard telling Gallagher: "We'll listen to it very carefully before it goes out.

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Ross was suspended for three months for his part in the affair

"Noel, you can sit back and be the grown-up one."

In another part of the programme, Brand can be heard leaving a message for Barack Obama in a bid to find out if the US president is a West Ham United fan.

The one-off show could become a regular fixture if it proves successful with Talksport listeners.

When it launched the programme, the station said it would contain "a heavy dose of cutting-edge comedy, controversial commentary and the odd eye-opening anecdote".

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PostRe: Manuelgate
by Oh Teh Noes » Sun Apr 19, 2009 2:42 pm

Memento Mori wrote:
"You're not back on the radio, are you?" listeners will hear Ross say.

In the show, recorded in London on Saturday, listeners will hear Gallagher accuse Ross and Brand of failing to learn their lessons.

Ross will then be heard telling Gallagher: "We'll listen to it very carefully before it goes out.

"Noel, you can sit back and be the grown-up one."

In another part of the programme, Brand can be heard leaving a message for Barack Obama in a bid to find out if the US president is a West Ham United fan.

Don't need to listen to it now.

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