Parkinson and Russell Brand on Paul O'Grady

I dont actually know why they keep bringing the Andrew Sachs thing up - what do people want - a public execution or time spent in prison for it.
Russell Brand wasnt full of excuses as quoted here, he actually didnt have time to explain as Michael Parkinson interrupted. He actually explained on Newsweek with a rather more polite Jeremy Paxman. He's also said (again and again and again) until he's blue in the face that yes, it was silly. Cant we move on now. IFpeople dont like him,l fine but hasnt ahyone else done anything really stupid and hurtful I know i have. Thank god then I;m not a public figure.
I saw the interview with Meg Ryan and quite honestly thought he was being rude to her, not her with him, she spoke perfectly intelligently about the difference between love and romance and her film The Cut and he was just rude and putting her down.
 
Plan B hardly looks at POG during the interview and kept sniffing - definitely looked like he was on something.

Parky got on my nerves talking about celebrity culture. And the way he started asking RB "How was it funny?" RB has apologised since the incident so I'm not sure what Parky was hoping to gain by asking this. It just felt very uncomfortable between them.

To the poster who mentioned Paul going and pretending to clean whilst Parky and Brand were talking, I don't think he meant it in a rude way, I think he sensed the tension between them and simply tried to diffuse that by adding a bit of humour into the mix - and it kind of worked :)

But what I really want to know is, who was the "friend" POG was talking about when he said she was stopped by a young guy who told her "You're a celebrity!" and who responded with "No dahhling - I'm a STAR!!" Can't believe ANYBODY would say that in real life lol

Cilla anyone?? :D:D
 
But he is actually right.

Back in Parky's days on the BBC interviews were interviews -probing chats about a guest and their background that actually told you something because it lasted more than 5 minutes .
Quite often people appeared on Parky simply because they were in town - they didn't always have to be there to promote something.

Parky could chat to one guest non stop for an hour .
I'd like to see any of todays people do that .

The only one who could do it is Piers Morgan but ITV insist that his interviews must be full of clips too just in case the audience get bored.

We need a show to replace Parkinson - one that is not simply there to fill an hour between ads with guests not allowed to string more than 2 sentences together before they are interrupted by the host.
 
Even though he was full of excuses, I thought RB made some good points. Lets face it, there is a market for vapid "celebrity" which has got totally out of hand.
 
Michael Parkinson might be a national treasure, but he can also be a cantakerous old sod sometimes. Bit awkward to watch last night once he'd made his dig at RB. Kinda like watching Victor Meldrew and Russell Brand on the same sofa. :p
 
Parkinson's show was voyeuristic celebrity rubbish. At least you get a laugh on chat shows today, the only reason to watch Parky was the same reason people read Heat magazine - they were nosey.
 
I went off Parky when i saw his interview with Meg Ryan, i thought he was a digrace the way he was talking to her and it was no wonder she stopped speaking, and for him then to run her down as a terrible guest was i thought appaling.... he is one of the most obnoxious big headed, loves himself people there is on tv...........:(
 
I think Parky was more indepth than that. It wasn't about who's dating who or what the latest fashion is and instead of just giving a soundbite about the latest plug the guests oftened had to talk indepth about the latest projects and how they came about.

One basic format talk show is "Mark Lawson talks to...". Just a small dark studio with a host and a guest.

Craig Ferguson did an experiment where for one episode he ditched the audience and did a full show with just him interviewing Stephen Fry. He was trying to show his viewers how talk shows can be and it's not just whooping and celebs plugging their latest project or gossip etc.
 
Was Paul having a laugh?
Possibly the three most awful people to ever appear on TV.
Parkinson the biggest bore in the history of the World, not a particularly good chat show host, and sycophant extraordinaire, and he's still money-grubbing with his ridiculous adverts etc.
Brand simply not funny
Plan B - less articulate than a three-year old.
 
Think you could be right, Paul does go on holiday with Cilla
She could have said it in jest !!
As for Parky, well my old dad always called him a champagne socialist
One minute he's classing people as common, next he 's banging on about his working class roots
Have read he;s got a butler - yes very working class
 
Clearly you've never seen his BBC shows - and certainly none from the original run.

That's the difference .
Parkinson had interviews.

All todays stuff - and indeed much of Parkys latter years at ITV were irreverant chat.

Parky was originally termed as a chatshow , but the term is now overused and while it applies to O'Grady, Ross ,Norton etc it's not really accurate now to classify Parkys glory days at the BBC as a mere chatshow as the similarities to todays cack are non existent

You are right that the dross that passes for interview shows today (like the O'Grady show) are aimed at the Heat generation but the great days of Parkinson were nothing like the stuff that's on today.

I still have 2 full episodes of Parkinson from the mid 70's .
Both are a full hour with one guest and of course no ads.

David Niven and Fred Astaire could be kept chatting for the whole show by Parkinson as he was able to ask more than just what they had for breakfast.

Most of todays programmes from Carr,Norton etc chat to celebrities .
Parkinson interviewed STARS
 
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