Saturday, 1 January 2011

Most Annoying People 2010- BBC3- 4 out of 10

Dictionairy.com defines irony as “a manner of organizing a work so as to give full expression to contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes, etc., esp. as a means of indicating detachment from a subject, theme, or emotion.

Or, if you prefer 150 minutes of a visual description, check out BBC3’s ‘Most Annoying People 2010’ in which the most annoying people of 2010 are counted down with inputs from, and here’s the irony, a range of talking heads who are MORE annoying than the people they are having a go at.

From Big Brother contestants, to no name comedians, to Jedward, to countless vapid, air-headed celebrity ‘journalists’ from magazines called Heat and Star and Now and Hello and Toilet Paper and Arse Gravy, it’s a sea of the untalented expressing their anger at the talented and the small things they do that annoy them. It’s even narrated by Richard Bacon, a man so devoid of personality and charm he can only just about get a show on ITV4 on a frigging weekday.

One celebrity journo says “Peaches Geldof has done nothing with her life.” This coming from a person whose job pretty much solely involves writing about how one idiot may be going out with another moron and then snap them falling out of a club together with their clothes torn and vomit down their fronts. Stones and glass houses my friend?

You have to wonder what kind of universe these people live in, where their biggest concerns in the whole world are Lady Gaga’s dress sense, Tiger Woods’ infidelity and Kristen Stewart being a depressive star. Still, keeps everyone’s mind off our impending doom I guess. Heat magazine, the opiate of the masses.
Thankfully, some of the talking heads are funny or insightful such as the hilariously insane Rich Fulcher, the underrated (and owner of the biggest nose in the world) David Schneider, the Irish named but not-Irish born Mickey Flanagan and the surprisingly intelligent Maggot and Eggsy from Goldie Lookin’ Chain.

It’s all a lovely recap of 2010 but in a soft news kind of way, like looking at the news through a Daily Star kaleidoscope (patent pending) where bankers and politicians that royally screwed us all over are slowly airbrushed out of our collective memories to be replaced with anger at people that don’t really matter.  Jedward and Lindsay Lohan are more annoying than Tony Hayward, what?!

Oh, and one of the other irritating things about ‘Most Annoying People’ is its length. Weighing in at a mammoth 150 minutes long and appearing on the BBC causes many problems, as do any programmes that last longer than 90 minutes on the BBC, lack of breaks for natural, bodily functions. Every 45 minutes or so, a three minute blank screen should be broadcast to allow one to go for a whizz or make a cup of tea or have an extreme quickie or whatever. Just a thought.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks, you have settled the matter, I will not be downloading this programme. I needed a little encouragement to do the right thing and your lovely review here came up in the search results.

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