Alas

Just watching an advert for some crappy TV show coming soon obviously with Norton as host. Ad consists of him strutting as per John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever, down various streets. What I would have given for someone to step out from behind a wall with a baseball bat and just melt him one into his smug coupon.
Would make me pay the licence fee in advance anyway

Rant over (well winding down)

Apparition

OR.................. stick their foot out and trip him up ............

scoobynutta555

He's worth every penny of the £5,000,000 he's trousered from the BBC (our money)

Franx

might make a good new series for him....
Repeated every night in a different location

unclebuck

The new Wogan

TelBoy

Makes me chuckle, but a bit of a one trick pony.

OllyK

But "camping it up" is hardly an original concept is it?

PG

I am sick of all these gay boy presenters !

Bartop

Used to like him - just gets on my nerves now..

TelBoy

No, it isn't. Don't think i said it was, did i?

Vette_76

I agree....there definitely aren't enough gay *girl* presenters!!

OllyK

No, you said
As far as I can tell, his "one trick" is "camping things up". That's rather old hat so I was wondering why you found it amusing still, that's all.

Leslie

Wogan is class, this prat never will be.

Makes me wonder a bit about relationships in the higher echelons of the Beeb.

Les

TelBoy

Because of the way he personally does it perhaps? Not rocket science, Olly.

OllyK

Camp is camp if you ask me, I don't see that GN brings anything special to the party, but if you get off on him, fill yer boots!

D70

'Gayam' Norton was great as the annoying priest, Father Noel Furlong in Father Ted.
Riverdance in a 2 man caravan FPMSL.

I can forgive him everything else for that, I just don't watch any of his crappy shows. Some homophobes on here perchance?

OllyK

Not really, just think others have done camp better. Camp was great in the 60's and 70's with Carry On and so on, but the Carry On films just don't seem funny any more. GN re-hashing the same old same old just isn't funny IMO, comdey has moved on.

PG

phobia....irrational fear of.
Not a fear of them, just cant stand them.

Re. Father Noel Furlong. Yes that was ammusing however he was playing a role there that somone had written. It is when he is being himself he is a ****.

paul-s

yea theres no need to flaunt campness like its a good thing to be proud of. nonce

D70

Contrary to popular opinion I'm not actually looking for a fight on this one. However I wonder if you'd care to explain why you called him a nonce?
Flaunting campness is no more a crime than say flaunting one's ignorance eh Paul?

Likewise PG "I am sick of all these gay boy presenters !", well I'm sure they're sick of ignorant folk characterising them by their sexuality.

Think what we need here is to focus on his crapness as a TV presenter and all round lack of funiness rather than the fact he's a *** (before anyone starts on use of the word '***' it's now acceptable within the pink triangle brigade so no problems there!)

OllyK

IMO camp is neither good nor bad, just something that has been used (exaggerated) to good comedic effect in the past. It's had it's day, it's time to move on. You can only the tell the same joke so many times before people get bored of it.

Jap2Scrap

I love the way this post comes across all PC and then ends with "the fact he's a ***."

ozzy

I doubt he's being himself completely when on the telly. Julian Clarey was another "camp" entertainer, but that whole act is very tiresome thesedays.

I'm sure if you're gay them campness maybe a thing to be proud of. If you don't like it, I'd switch it off. If they don't get the viewers it'll soon put an end to the series.

So, just how many "gay" presenters are out there?

Graham Norton
Dale Winton
Julian Clarey

I'm struggling to think of any more .........

OllyK

Sure, but if you don't want to be characterised as "that camp presenter" then you better have another string to your bow. GN doesn't.

OllyK

Lilly Savage, forgotten the guy's name
The Late Kenny Everret
Larry Grayson

There are no doubt many others who are where they are through tallent rather than making the exaggeration of a sterotypical gay man the main focus of their act.

D70

In the quote you picked PG was referring to "all these gay boy presenters" rather than just 'Gayam' Norton.
Good point but I fail to understand why their being gay seems to be more of a problem than them being crap.

ozzy

I was meaning more recently since those last two people are dead. The Lilly Savage bloke has kids, but I guess he must swing both ways.

Spring Heeled Jack

Well there are those two who did that million pound house project on the BBC, and can still be found in the depths of Channel 5 hawking their brawn on some 'how to decorate the gay way' type programme.

They were scarey.

Jack

D70

PMSL@ "how to decorate the gay way"

Anyone seen "Queer eye for the straight guy" ?

In Private Eye's 'Yobs' cartoon the two knucklheads were discussing it and thought they'd prefer to see

"Black eye for the queer guy"

Sort of reminds me of the prevailing attitude on scoobynet.