Peter Kay is a cunt.
There was an ITV programme called ‘Goodbye Granadaland’ about Granada Television and the closure of The Granada Building on Quay Street in Manchester. As a long time viewer and fan of Granada, I settled down to watch it.
Alarm bells immediately rang when I saw that Peter Kay was presenting it and in charge of it, and how right I was. Instead of a serious programme about Granada and how innovative it was, we got a load of vacuous and superficial shite. The sort of cheesy crap that is synonymous with both Kay and ITV.
The great Tony Wilson (RIP), his long time at Granada and his hugely influential programmes were skirted over in about one minute. The seismic Pistols episode of So It Goes got just a few seconds. While shite like Take That and Lisa Stansfield were on for (it seems like) ages. And Simon and Garfunkel’s legendary appearance at Granada was hardly mentioned. I expected a documentary on all the great shows Granada did. Like 7 Up, World In Action, What the Papers Say, So It Goes, The Dustbinmen, and, of course, Coronation Street. But it was mostly empty headed shite, with that cliched overdone ‘northerness’ that I find both insulting and annoying (Paddy McGuinness, you cunt). Other Granada presenters like Charlie Foster, Jim Pope, Colin Weston, Bob Greaves and Graham James weren’t even mentioned. Other people worked there apart from Michael Parkinson and Richard and fucking Judy.
Coronation Street was covered, but badly. Apart from a couple of soundbites from true Street legend, Julie Goodyear, it was just one of Kevin Webster’s daughters talking shit. And any other decent archive clips were interrupted by Kay’s babbling.
All in all, Granada (which now exists in name only) deserved a better send off than this light entertainment shallow shite that ITV is now (in)famous for.
Nominated by: Norman
I believe that I once laughed slightly a joke told by this cunt, but I think it likely that my memory’s playing tricks on me.
Morning all.
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It must have been the one about garlic bread….in Brum!
The very thought of it.
Morning Ron.
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I’ve only seen a short clip of highlights but it left me stone cold. If that was his best then I can live without him.
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I would rather have Peter Kay presenting any bollocks. Rather than some annoying lefty woke socialist pilchard.
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There’s something to be said for this.
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I quite agree John.
I’m not Peter Kay’s biggest fan by any means (although I enjoyed Phoenix Nights) but rather listen to him than some cunt such as Russell Howard.
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when I saw him at one of his Q&A shows a few years ago he had a rant and ripped into pie key scum about all their thieving and general cuntery. He’s OK by me.
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What do all the leftist woke comedians have in common with each other. Apart from being patronising arrogant bourgeoisie prats. THEY ARE NOT FUCKING FUNNY. None of them. Has anyone ever laughed at Frank Skinner or David Baddiel. Seriously, What a pair of unfunny whelk’s. I’ve had wet farts more entertaining than those two. Give me Kenneth Williams, Ricky Grover, Bernard Manning and any old school comedian.
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Or Brand.
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Funny cunt (not) About as amusing as a terminal illness notification.
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Phoenix nights was funny.
And this, his ice cream man made me roar with laughter.
https://youtu.be/snp4RTvMr8I
No, I don’t mind him.
All I can say against him is he’s responsible for helping that utter twat Paddy McGuiness crawl into the limelight.
That fucker is disgraceful.
But I like Peter Kay.
The fat cunt.
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Also he’s right about garlic bread.
It’s a abomination.
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Culture peaked in Stockport with Country Cream gates.
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I agree about Paddy. Glad he were bald. Also his northern accent is laughably too broad.
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Paddy McGuiness must thank his lucky stars, every morning, that he went to school with Peter Kay and was mates with him!
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A ‘national treasure’ that should have remained undiscovered, as in buried in a field somewhere. Unfunny cunt.
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Norman, just look at ITV’s weekday morning schedule and that will tell you the audience your programme was probably intended for. When a broadcaster is funded almost entirely by advertising you tend to get television for the hard-of-thinking.
Selected episodes of World in Action are currently available on ITVX, by the way.
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Granada’s crowning glory was Brideshead Revisited in my view, still the best period drama ever produced for British television. Did Lardarse even mention it?
Mind you, my opinion might be slightly coloured by the desire to hump the arse off Diana Quick.
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World in Action was brilliant.
My dad used to watch it.
The intro was genius!
https://youtu.be/5uLPDhCgS8M
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You probably won’t be surprised to learn that Shawn Phillips (who wrote and performed the theme tune) got ripped off by his manager who stole all the royalties.
https://shawnphillips.wordpress.com/music/soundtrack/world-in-action-main-theme-1977/
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Was that the same Shawn Phillips of ‘I’m a Drifter’? Texan?
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I believe so.
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Very cool tune,almost proggish,akin to Weekend Worlds ‘Nantucket-Sleighride’ by Mountain before one hell of a boring show began.Up there with Winstanley’s-‘This is your right’ in the tedium stakes.
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ITV can fall into a sinkhole for constantly giving contracts to ant and dick, pip schofield and Simon Cowell.
So peter kay gets a pass from me..
Phoenix nights was superb.
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Probably not Kay’s fault for the coverage, choosing him was a sign they weren’t going to be too bothered.
There were some good programmes from the regional ITV companies, and some shockers. Here in ATV land we had Crossroads!
And Anglia ( remember the silver ornament spinning around before each programme?) managed Sale Of The Century.
Now ITV has nothing I want to watch. Same as woke bbc.
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Wasn’t Anglia responsible for ‘Tales of the Bleedin Obvious’ too?
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Don’t remind me of ATV and Crossroads SoLong! The depressing thing is that when the imminent launch of Crossroads was announced in 1964 me and my mates at the age of thirteen knew it would be shit. It’s the only programme I know of which was so irredeemably bad that the regulator threatened that if it wasn’t sorted out they would close it down. When I was first travelling regularly outside the West Midlands in the seventies I always felt I had to apologise for the steaming pile of shit.
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Granada however did some stunning stuff as did Thames and London Weekend. All gone now. What does that tell you?
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https://youtu.be/v5zav2yrC7M
Always thought Granada should use this as a theme for regional news.
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That’s modern telly for you. Generally aimed at wimminz and the hard of thinking.
Most productions relating to history and past events simply go for the lowest common denominator and are loaded with superlatives along with talking heads who claim to have been there when they aren’t even old enough.
I don’t mind Kay, although don’t find him as uproariously funny as he’s cracked up to be.
Having said that, he’s cunt on this occasion for the fact he should know better.
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I hate this fat prick. He should change his name to Peter Kunt.
Didn’t he cry on stage recently after a hiatus of a few year not touring. Probably ran out of pie money so had to make a comeback.
This guy is as funny as the hair on my left bollock.
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Utter cunt Peter Kay & not funny 👎👎
Anyone else think he looks like Alf Roberts son from the corner shop in Coronation Street?
Paddy McGuinness another talentless cunt who should never be on the telly presenting anything totally wooden in everything he does 👎👎
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I will probably be slapped down for saying this but I find Micky Flanagan a right old hoot – even watched some of his stuff more than once.
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Norman, what the fuck dude!
Peter Kaye has been a funny cunt at times and I don’t recall anything he’s done that made me think he was a cunt. I’m open to having my mind changed though.
Problem is you included “ Coronation Street was covered, but badly. Apart from a couple of soundbites from true Street legend, Julie Goodyear.”
Any self respecting man doesn’t give two fucks about soap operas let alone utter phrases such as “true street legend.”
You are actually Graham Norton?
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Fuck all wrong with Kay. Watch Pascoe, Lycett and co (as infinitum) to see real shite.
By the way, I see Jimmy Carter has just come under Shawns care. Pillow at the ready.
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Sorry Norman,
Peter Kay makes me laugh with nostalgia, due it being a weakness of mine.
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Speaking of nostalgia, Sly are back with their promotions.
No ? Room for racism !
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Sorry, Norm, Phoenix Nights and Car Share were absolute quality.
I cannot recommend this Cunting to The House.
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Did you just want to diddle Sian Gibson, Gene?
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That may or may not have some bearing on my liking of the show😉 I believe that the majority of it was ad-libbed? Very clever, like ‘The Royle Family’.
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Not sure about this cunting, peter kay can be funny and mostly is, however i think he has a hidden agenda, or maybe its just me. That geraldine thing was a bit cringe like he was enjoying it too much and yes i know it was a piss take. Paddy mcguiness stand up is dire as is the itv output, golden handcuffs for hill and folly, ant man and dec pet, all the soaps etc etc just a load of cunt. Long gone are the days of gritty itv with the likes of weekend world with the late great brian walden and world in action.
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“The late great Brian Walden.” Absolutely DC. A regular on Radio4, Sundays, 8:45am. Still one or two good ones in that slot but plenty of weirdos and arse holes. Also miss Alistair Cooke’s Letter from America. History now both.
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I already told them to “decant” the pair of bastards in acid to make it stronger.
All new channels started off with intellectual clever material. However, with the majority of people being thick, television had to go down the wrong road to meet their demands.
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Walden was brilliant. And so was the theme tune. ‘Nantucket Sleighride’ by Mountain and the great Leslie West.
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I liked Peter Kay in Pheonix nights. But since then he’s turned to corporate tv shite. The same as Harry Hill , he was mildly amusing when he first started. Then he did the voice over for that awful pile of shite “ you’ve been framed “ Where ghastly fat chavs send in their home movies of a moron stepping on a garden fork and the handle hits him in the face and we’re all supposed to fall about laughing.
This is what TV entertainment has sunk to
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I agree, Fenton. Hill was charmingly surreal on his first Channel 4 series. With Barry Gosney, the orphan boy, Nana Hill and Little Alan. But all that TV Burp stuff is crap and old rope. Now Hill is just an ITV puppet and part of their soulless entertainment machine.
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I’ve never been a fan, due mainly to an unhealthy obsession he seems to have with cross dressing. I reckon he’s a closet gay-lord.
It wouldn’t surprise me to find out that he’s the next star to ‘discover’ a male corpse in his swimming pool with it’s arsehole bummed out after a wild night out on the drink and drugs………..
Fucking fat deviant cunt………..
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Peter Kay is as funny as having my bell-end boiled in oil.
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BBC 2 of all people did a ‘Granada Night’ in the early 90s. It was very good and it had some real gems and rarities on it, including part of the Simon and Garfunkel performance. But now everything is superficial and full of airhead knobhead celebrity talking heads. Just because he’s from the north, the cunts at ITV chose Kay to do that programme. And Kay’s ‘professional northenness’ is a nauseating caricature that is far removed from the real Granada and what it stood for. And Take That at their worst (their early years) and Lisa Stansfield as a kid getting more time than the Beatles, Stones, Pistols and so on sums up the vacuous soulless circus ITV has become. And the great Joy Division weren’t even mentioned.
The full Simon and Garfunkel Granada concert here. Get it before it gets taken down…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgtH9_dcxs4
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Nice one for the Simon and Garfunkel clip i never realised existed.I consider Paul Simon as the greatest musician who ever drew breath.The stars sure aligned when these two fellas joined forces.
Caught them in concert a couple of times but sadly not in their prime years.
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And now, Bob and Tony introduce Joy Division….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIZW6dwgZsk
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Wow,Bob Greaves brings back cozy memories from juvenile days.Everything good of old Mancunia about Bob.Lucy meacock,Mick Middles on the Manchester Evening News music critic page.Good folks of yore,pre-corporatey,smarmfest aka Richard Maddley’s arrival and that other Granada Reports drone,Phil Sayer who’s recorded voiceovers’ tortured my lugs for years on rail station announcements.
Never a fan of Tony Wilson but i guess he was a cultural mover and shaker to a degree.
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I started to go cross-eyed after the first line or two of this nomination.
It just came across as a load of old Mancunian/Salfordian whining bollocks.
No one cares. Fuck off.
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Fuck off yourself, you miserable bastard.
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Never thought this bell was funny. Phoenix Nights was great, but despite Kay’s best efforts to make us think otherwise, it wasn’t written by the fat mug. Garlic bread? Fuck off cunt.
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