And another thing…

Sick and terrible says the Mail, so here’s the ‘full shocking transcript’. Marvelous

Amazingly I’m rather heartened by the comments section, the majority seem to be of the ilk; ‘move along, nothing to see here’

I was interested to see that while wossy was suspended his production company (that he also owns) was still being paid by the BBC in his absence.

I presume one of the expenses the production company incurred over that period was paying him a salary to cover the salary he lost from the BBC.

Were the BBC were still effectively paying him a salary (as expenses) despite his suspension?

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If there are any Sun journalists reading this blog, possibly worth giving your contact at the beeb a call to find out.

I expect full credit for blowing this story wide open if they were…

Who’s Johnathon Ross?

Is he someone of importance?

Or just another of Lord Hunt’s DEFRA employees and therfore a right …..

I don’t see what the fuss is about. A nonentity interviewing other nonentities and watched by more nonemtities.

I’ll get my hat

General Sir Edward Ponsonby-Sachs (retired) does not need to buy a TV licence at his age.

@Stewart

Indeed. And all thanks to the Labour Government.

A perfect example of how everyone just doesn’t get it.

Jonathan Ross is a talentless [insert your own profanity here] who caters for a niche audience (according to the figures, more people actually watch Heartbeat) of people with limited intelligence and who think that tired and deliberately offensive “humour” is actually quite entertaining. Someone should tell him that that particular brand of humour stopped being either edgy or funny in the 90’s. YAWN.

So it’s safe to say, I don’t watch his “show” or listen to his lame excuse for a Radio broadcast. For that matter I pretty much boycott the BBC altogather. Everything on the BBC is rubbish, and there are far better programs on random Sky channels tbf. Plus the clear partisan nature of their news and other “investigative programs” means that it’s content is worth about as much as a Labour Party press release.

For people that either don’t care or actually quite like Jonathan Ross though, their message is “if you don’t like it, then just don’t watch it”. Yeah, only that doesn’t exactly wash when i’m forced to pay for him now does it?

Due to the quite frankly immoral TV Licence that I have to pay because I like watching Law & Order on the Hallmark channel, I have to contribute to the Jonathan Ross’s criminally exorbitant salary and the budgets of other pointless quango like departments at the BBC.

I.Want.Out.

If you like Jonathan Ross, then YOU pay for him. Take away the Tv Licence and make the BBC fight for ad revenue like the rest and let’s see how much Jonathan Ross gets paid then eh? Or better still, make it a subscription based channel. That way anyone who actually watches the BBC and is SO happy to defend it and Ross can put their money where their mouth is and fund it out of their own pockets, rather than mine and others like me who ignore the existance of the BBC altogether but who still have to pay for it.

I’m not holding my breath though.

So for those who seek to ridicule the anti-Jonathan Ross sentiment, do remember how he and the BBC is funded.

Cheers.

I’m with John. ITV can have this worthless berk. Some insurance company can pay for him. The idea that I contribute a penny to his income disgusts me. Sleep through the Queen’s Speech if you like but shut up about when you are taking money from people who don’t. I’m a republican. But while we have a monarch as our Head of State, especially when her role is largely symbolic, I do not know why she deserves to be mocked in this way. I am offended on behalf of monarchists, but also on behalf of those who stil believe in something like decency in our broadcasters, who, like me, are coerced into paying this scumbag’s salary.

That raises another issue, of course. Must the BBC avoid offending every licence-payer? They realy would have to shut down if so. I think the answer to that is that we could tolerate those who disagreed with us, even those who offended us, when there was much to be valued elsewhere in the BBC’s output. I don’t see that there is now.

Jim, I don’t know how to put this, but… er, I made it all up, including the bit where he slept through the Queen’s Christmas message. It was supposed to be satire. My humour’s a bit hit and miss sometimes, I admit.

Tom, you are a bad man. Fool me once, well, you kent fool me agin, as Dubya would say.

I still hate Wossy.

PMSL @ Tom

I’m perfectly serious though when I say that Ross offers great value for money, lets work it out he gets paid 4.5 Million per year and 5.1 million people (obviously of limited intelligence heh John) watched his show last Friday then that means that for less than a pound per year you can enjoy watching Jonathon Ross every Friday and thats before you take his other output into consideration, I say give him a pay rise

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war. Since this thread is now clearly ridiculous, did you know that Gert Frobe’s voice was dubbed by a voice actor called Michael Collins in Goldfinger?

I didn’t. Maybe it’s just me.

“I’m perfectly serious though when I say that Ross offers great value for money, lets work it out he gets paid 4.5 Million per year and 5.1 million people (obviously of limited intelligence heh John) watched his show last Friday then that means that for less than a pound per year you can enjoy watching Jonathon Ross every Friday and thats before you take his other output into consideration, I say give him a pay rise”

Wind up merchant

…No Mister Bond, I expect you to DIE.

No, it’s no use. It will never be quite the same again.

Ena Sharples (99) does not need to pay for a TV licence either.

Ah, Ena, and Minnie Caldwell.

Blimey. Slow night on the blogs tonight isn’t it? Silence from Dale. Guido scraping the barrel as usual. Even Dr Crippen is struggling. Almost tempted to try that debate with Stewart Cowan after all.

Well, Tom, you might have made it all up but, quite frankly it could quite easily be true.

I’ve written to the BBC to complain about Mr Ross in the strongest possible terms. I’m incensed that, given the extortionalte amount of money he’s paid – by me!! – he has absolutely no taste. His ties are a disgrace and invariably clash with his shirts. I don’t pay my licence fee to have my sense of colour co-ordination offended. I know that his friend, Mr Brand, has suffered criticism but at least he sticks, safely, to black (and avoids the issue of poor tie patterns by not wearing one – thank goodness ‘Wossy’ hasn’t managed to corrupt him to that extent!).

All my life I’ve admired its colour, its brilliance, its divine heaviness…

Hi Gordon, can we have our f****** gold back please?

Tom. First things first. I could see that your blog was a spoof, and it was good because there was a slight delay in realising it was a spoof, which added to it’s amusement.

Secondly. I have been looking for an excuse to leave a comment so that I can congratulate you on the new layout. Also, that up to date picture of you shows me I was right all along, you look like a thoroughly nice bloke, despite being a Labour MP.

Thirdly. It was pretty obvious that our Jonathan was going to be a lamb to the slaughter after his temporary suspension. We all knew that people would sit with their ear to the radio waiting for material to complain about. If he had said that people with old timers disease met new friends everyday, or never saw repeats on the telly, I would have been straight on the phone to the BBC!