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100 funniest moments? Or not!?

Can you help? I am writing an article on media editing and asking for views on the presentation of ‘funniest moments’ ‘best of’ and similar TV programmes. For example: ‘The 100 greatest funny moments’ broadcast on channel 4 in February. It doesn’t matter if you didn’t see it, because these kinds of programme are similar - they do not run a straight countdown of ‘best of’ moments, but carry interviews and comments from personalities between the clips, giving opinions on what is about to come up.

Here is the question: would you prefer to watch 'best of' programmes with or without opinions and comments from personalities?

In other words, would you like to watch a simple countdown of clips? Let me know what you think. I will post the final article in a couple of weeks on my website www.wizardwordz.com and announce it here.

Many thanks!

Peter Hobday
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Sorry - that's YES for a simple countdown and NO if you want to include opinion and comments.

Peter

I don't like the constant "review" of the countdown in these shows. But often the comments by the "celebrities" can be very humorous.

Not 'the' Peter Hobday surely, from R4's Today prog amongst other things!

No

I don't mind comments from celebs and TV critics but when its the SAME people that appear on EVERY clips show as if its their only job - it gets a bit annoying. The likes of Art of Noise's Paul Morley, David Quantick, z-list comedians and....Jenny Eclair to name a few.

What is annoying is when they get somebody born in the 1980s to talk about something 'they remember' which occured in the 1970s!.

you mean peter hobday from the midlands at westminster, who was replaced by steve le "biggest load of crap in town" fevre?

awww, the good old days.

TVmercia - no that's not me either. But I am launching a new magazine and some of these comments are really good and I'll put them in, unless you done wanna.

"done wanna" ?

Bad grammar like that isn't going in the magazine is it?

Yup - it's all going in. WIth a warning on the front cover: 'May contain sexual language and pictures'.

Because, as my original question indicates: much of what we see, hear and read today is editorily sanitised.

To its detriment, of course. That's why forums, chat rooms and blogs are so popular.

Or dontcha gree?

Nok32uk - actually, I liked your comments further above giving those names of 'personalities' by the way. Care to expand on that??