Hating Bruce Forsythe And Sharing Harry Hill’s Joke
FRESH back from the BAFTAS, TV’s AGM and awards do, we learn that Bruce Forsythe has won a “Fellowship Award”.
“TV veteran Brucie steals gong show,” says the Mirror, with unnecessary cruelty. If the BAFTA members want to give Bruce a long-service medal, then so be it. We would say that he not steal it so much as earned it, although Des O’Connor may disagree.
“It’s impossible not to like Bruce Forsythe,” says the Mirror’s TV watcher Jim Shelley. Impossible? Nothing of it. The trick is to picture Bruce throttling your pet dog, repeatedly running over a dear family member or marrying Anthea Turner. You can learn to hate him.
“If you like TV, you’ve got to like Bruce Forsythe,” says Shelley.
Or like Harry Hill’s TV Burp, the show in which Hill takes the rise out of TV programmes and TV stars and gets a laugh.
That’s officially the best thing on the box, it having won the BAFTA for best entertainment performance.
Like us at Anorak, Hill realises that everything on the telly is a comedy show disguised as something else. You just have to get the joke…
April 21st, 2008 at 11:59 am
Got to like Bruce Forsythe?
NO!
April 21st, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Good on him its about time our “old pro’s” got recognition,instead of all the stupid,new so called celebs,ie big brother idiots,and Karaoke singers from x factor and the like,simon cowel gets enough recognision and he has no talent whatsoever,good old brucie…….50 plus years in showbuisness tha has to be worth something,where are todays so called stars,they are all over the papers /tv, one minute and dissapear the next……
April 21st, 2008 at 12:23 pm
I have Bruce and Harry on my wishlist!
Very sexy men!
April 21st, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Since it was first awarded in 1971 there have been 70 recipients of the ‘Fellowship’
63 of the recipients have since died (64 if you include the Merchant Ivory production team)
Perhaps it’s Bafta’s way of telling him to slow down.
(P.S I made one of these figures up. Can you guess which one?)
April 21st, 2008 at 1:02 pm
1971 ?
April 21st, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Was it the ‘7′ from 1971?
April 21st, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Not even warm.
April 21st, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Bruce sexy? Just can’t see it myself.
He seems to come from the ‘Roy Castle’ school of entertainment. Bit of everything…… Song and dance, jokes, presenting etc. Lots of everything and nothing done particularly well.
I seem to be in the minority and Bruce has become a bit of an institution.
Still can’t see it!