[Jimmy_Lemon]

Pretty sure this hasn't been mentioned on here, and not heard them mention it on the show.

Happened to be watching "I've Never Seen Star Wars" the other night - never seen it before. Anyway, it had John Humphrys on the show and the basic idea is they give him things to do that he has never done before....and one things was listening to The Chris Moyles Show. Lets just say John wasn't impressed, and the clip they played was a really crap one about Carrie stuffing her bra.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... _Humphrys/ - about 19 minutes in.

[TIAL]

Hmm, they gave a traditionalist BBC oldboy an extreme clip from Chris' show which even made some of the listeners uncomfortable at the time. It's a foregone conclusion really.

[Andy B]

I think it was quite good. I mean it's a clear case of juxtaposition and John agreed that what it does it does well although quite what it does is beyond him. Brigstock seemed quite well informed about the show commenting on Chris' use of pauses and dead air. Of course the show isn't gonna appeal to the likes of John Humphrys but he recognises that it is very popular. 5/10 isn't a bad mark considering. My mum would give it a lower score.

[Johnny 1989]

I think it was quite good. I mean it's a clear case of juxtaposition and John agreed that what it does it does well although quite what it does is beyond him. Brigstock seemed quite well informed about the show commenting on Chris' use of pauses and dead air. Of course the show isn't gonna appeal to the likes of John Humphrys but he recognises that it is very popular. 5/10 isn't a bad mark considering. My mum would give it a lower score.

I agree, if he really hated it he would have said 1/10 or the like, 5/10 isn't bad for someone who wasn't really a fan of it, however what a clip to use to promote the show.

[JonnyYesno]

From their analysis it deserved 0/10 and yet he shrugged and gave it 5/10 based on audience size. What was the whole point of that? ~That's two bashings from the BBC in one week.

[Andy B]

You can recognise something as being popular without appreciating it yourself. I for one can't stand garage music or speed garage, two step, dancehall, bashment, crunkl nor anything that could be described as vibealicious - yet there are certain songs I would give 5/10 to based on creative merit alone.

I think I'm right in saying that the BBC is one of the few broadcasting companies that reports negatively on itself when it has too. There's no mandate that forces seperate parts to kiss each others arse. I think it's part of the beeb's appeal.

[C-Kay]

I think I'm right in saying that the BBC is one of the few broadcasting companies that reports negatively on itself when it has too. .

Yeah, i remember when that whole Pogues thing was going on, and they banned the word faggot, Dom had to read a news story about how the BBC were wrong in doing it, saying he felt uncomfortable having a go at the BBC, but had no choice.

[TIAL]

Yeah, i remember when that whole Pogues thing was going on, and they banned the word faggot, Dom had to read a news story about how the BBC were wrong in doing it, saying he felt uncomfortable having a go at the BBC, but had no choice.

That whole story was such rubbish - they banned the word in the record, but said it many, many times in the news throughout the day.

[C-Kay]

It wasn't one of their brightest ideas was it

[Travis Bickle]

I cant believe that anyone is shocked by Moyles. The most he does is talk about farting, boobs and having a dump. You may think it low brow and you would be right, but it is hardly vulgar or offensive. What Humphreys said was fair enough really. He couldnt see the appeal of the show, but you wouldnt expect him to.

[john-leybourne]

The bosses at Radio 1 would be happy to know that people like John Humphreys don't understand the show, as they are outside the target audience.

[JonnyYesno]

You can recognise something as being popular without appreciating it yourself. I for one can't stand garage music or speed garage, two step, dancehall, bashment, crunkl nor anything that could be described as vibealicious - yet there are certain songs I would give 5/10 to based on creative merit alone.

He was asked to rate something he had heard, not what 8 million others are hearing. That's the point of the programme. He may as well have given it 10/10 because it's more popular than his own show.

That clip was horrendous and I can't believe any target audience would have found the outright bullying acceptable nevermind funny. Bridgestock was being very generous (BBc objectivity there) suggesting the dead air pauses were strategic strokes of broadcasting genius - No, they're all quite slow witted actually and can't respond on the beat most of the time.

[Andy B]

I cant believe that anyone is shocked by Moyles. The most he does is talk about farting, boobs and having a dump. You may think it low brow and you would be right, but it is hardly vulgar or offensive. What Humphreys said was fair enough really. He couldnt see the appeal of the show, but you wouldnt expect him to.

Some people would be offended by that sort of thing. Well my nan would anyway. 'Twas a different age when she was brought up.