Who's the most annoying person on TV?

Posted by: Kevin-W on 30 July 2004

I have to nominate Simon "I've got a really smug, punchable face just like Matt Damon" Amstell, the talentless host of Popworld.

Well, he used to be, but the other night I had to misfortune to stumble across Big Brother's Eforum, a programme of such staggeringlypoor quality that my jaw hit the floor. Anyway, having endured about 10 minutes of this teeth-clenchingly piss-poor drivel, I was forced to conclude that the most "fingers down the blackboard" person was the hopeless long-haired, buck-toothed buttwipe who hosts this programme.

The most irritating person on radio is of course old 60s liberal turned psychotic right-wing Zionist Melanie Philips, and her goonish stooge, former Times man (and soon to be Tory MP), Michael Gove. Both these shits can be found on BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze.

On the big screen, Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, Tom Hanks and Matt damon are all very, very annoying, but the most irritating person of all is that flabby misogynist prick Jack Nicholson. A lot of people think he's cool, apparently. He's not, he's a smug old ham who's way past his best.

Grrr!!!

Kevin (Earth: Earth 2)

Posted on: 02 August 2004 by Rasher

He's a celebrity newsreader, and is well known for his amateur novelist style of presentation by leaving the name until at least the second sentence. Earlier today, Trevor McDonald was nominated by Rasher as being the most annoying person on TV, and is now up against such names as Davina McCall and Jamie Oliver for this much coveted title. Early forcasts suggest that he may not eventually win as the best nominations are yet to come.

Posted on: 02 August 2004 by Trevor Newall

thanks for the clarification on EForum.
I rarely watch tv these days, especially the satellite channels.
most of it is bollocks.
and if this 'EForum' is similar to brain dead nonsense like big brother, then I'm very glad I've missed it!
how do they get away with showing such utter nonsense?
I'd put these reality shows up there on a tear-your-hair-out-at the-sheer-boredom-of-it-all level along with the likes of live televised events such as 'trooping of the colour', royal weddings, and cricket.
for tv to slit your wrists to, however, check out the live parliament channel.
does anyone actually watch that?
as for alan hansen, as a liverpool supporter, let's just say I preferred it when he did his talking on the pitch.

TN

Posted on: 02 August 2004 by Tarquin Maynard - Portly

Tarrant.

"Are you really really really really really sure?"

etc

Regards

Mike

Spending money I don't have on things I don't need.

Posted on: 02 August 2004 by Kevin-W

This is what the great Charle Brooker had to say about Matthew's mate Vernon Kay in the Grorniad last Saturday:

"Kay is a one-man walking blight on our culture, a dog-haired toby jug, a self-satisfied banality engine, a git, a twit, a ttwat and an oaf. He dribbles tedious, repeated references to down-home life back in Bolton, presumably to uunderline what a Pheonix Nights-style man of the people he is, although from where I'm sitting he looks and sounds more like an unjustly elevated simpleton than a likeable everyman. He shouldn't be on television - he should be sitting on a country stile wearing a peasant's smock and chewing on a hayseed, sometime during the Dark Ages (and preferably at the height of the Black Death)."

Funniest thing I've read since he (very accurately) compared Gail off Coronation Street to a cod.

Kevin (John Logie Baird's memoirs on BBC Radio 4 - the Baird Thermal Sock was hhis first success, apparently)

Posted on: 03 August 2004 by reductionist

quote:
Originally posted by Kevin-W:
"Kay is a one-man walking blight on our culture, a dog-haired toby jug, a self-satisfied banality engine, a git, a twit, a ttwat and an oaf. He dribbles tedious, repeated references to down-home life back in Bolton, presumably to uunderline what a Pheonix Nights-style man of the people he is, although from where I'm sitting he looks and sounds more like an unjustly elevated simpleton than a likeable everyman. He shouldn't be on television - he should be sitting on a country stile wearing a peasant's smock and chewing on a hayseed, sometime during the Dark Ages (and preferably at the height of the Black Death)."

Find him quite humorous personally, but then I rarely try to claim the intellectual high ground.

Posted on: 03 August 2004 by Berlin Fritz

David Letterman, closely followed by Conan Thingy ? Horrific, both of them.

Fritz Von Waslarryafloater ?

Float on

Posted on: 04 August 2004 by MarkEJ

Ainsley Harriot. Forget TV, simply the most annoying person ever born. So much so, I once seriously wondered if he was a member of this forum (horses for courses)...

Best;

Mark

Posted on: 04 August 2004 by Simon Perry

M Parkinson (so past it)
J Vaughan (had it, lost it)
J Theakston (never had it)
T McDonald (never will have it, and let's face it time is getting on)

Posted on: 04 August 2004 by Roy T

Naomi Cleaver

Posted on: 04 August 2004 by Berlin Fritz

All of those present at Prime Minsters Questions (Live) except 2 Jags Prescott, because he really gives me hope.

Fritz Von Losingtheplot³

Posted on: 04 August 2004 by bhazen

C'mon, people...George W. Bush!!!!!

Posted on: 06 August 2004 by Kevin-W

Just to warn you all - that noxious git from Big Brother's EForum is called Russell Brand. Now that his TV career is at an end, he has taken to appearing on the radio. Even when you can't see him, he is still an utter shit.

Now some idiot has given him a stand-up slot at tthe Edinburgh Festival. You have been warned.

Kevin (James Booker: Junco Partner)

Posted on: 06 August 2004 by Berlin Fritz

Send the boys roond, intit Jim :

Posted on: 06 August 2004 by Martin Clark

Er, I find they are all equally annoying. So I ditched the box some years ago, and haven't looked back.

Not only do I not miss the unsolicited content (ads, studio idents, assumption of 3minute attention span, etc), I found there are much better news sources available on demand - that's my demand, not theirs - and invest the licence fee in attending live music gigs instead.

Happier, healthier, and no bloody boob-tube between the speakers

Posted on: 07 August 2004 by David Stewart

For me, Griff Rhys Jones is rapidly rising in the irritation stakes for his presentation of the Restoration Programme (as well as the ghastly mad professor haircut!) - but no, on balance Davina McCall would still have to take it.

David

Posted on: 12 August 2004 by BLT

My least favourite TV presenters are Anne Robinson and Johnny Vaughn.
Not often on TV but more irritating than prolapsed piles sprinkled with itching powder is Chris Moyles. Who the f**k told him that he was funny?

Posted on: 12 August 2004 by Berlin Fritz

I've always admired Chris Evans's quiet modest charm, a bit like me really !

Fritz Von Telletubbies