posted by davidt on Friday August 06 2004, @11:00PM
Ralf writes:

Morrissey was just given the puppet treatment on the British comedy series Bo'Selecta. It wasn't particularly inspired; he was just very miserable. I only caught some of it so could someone else fill in the gaps? By the way, Bo'Selecta is a rather surreal, and occasionally funny, series which features celebrity-mad "Avid Merrion" and a host of parodies of famous people.
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Nick also writes:

"Asexual Morrissey" or a man in a Morrissey mask made a comic appearance on Channel 4's Bo Selecta Friday night in the UK. Amusing.
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JamesR also writes:

Moz made a mainstream popular show tonight when he was represented on Bo Selecta! on Channel 4 after Big Brother. For those who don't know what this is, it's a (slightly tasteless?) comedy in the UK with one guy playing a number of parts with oversized puppet-type features. It's usually quite on the ball with what's popular, and the fact that Moz has made an appearance is good credit to him... It was a quiz-show type sketch with an (I think) sexuality theme, in which he was described as 'Asexual Morrissey'.

This is quite a nod to his popularity at the moment!
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  • Yer complete set o' fookin' Bastads!!!!!
    O'Muirgheasa -- Saturday August 07 2004, @03:50AM (#118234)
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  • The idea of the show is for a guest member of the public to be given a sentence to complete with a word missing from it. The guest has to guess the missing word and if the celebrity panel guess the same word the guest will get more points. The six celebrity panel were all famous gays including Boy George, George Michael, Elton John and some others including Moz, the assumption must be that he is gay?
    Anyway, they all held up a piece of card showing that they had all guessed the same word 'Fudge Packer'.
    I'm a massive fan of the show and it isn't to be deabated or taken seriously. The characters are based only visually on the celebs and the personalities are totally reinvented so that a completely different persona is created, usually working class with loose morals and bad language. Mel B is a closet lesbian who lives with Patsy Kensit, Craig David has a Northern accent and a Kestrel perched permanently on his arm, Jacko appears in Porridge with Ronnie Barker and swears and says chamone and motherfucka constantly, then there is The Bear, a cuddly little creature based on Ronnie Corbett who lives in a tree in Hampstead Heath and interviews celebs, usually talking obscene (piss off you fucking knobjockey, for example) and becoming visually aroused if it's a female guest.
    I love the show and I hope Moz becomes a regular on it. Immitation is the greatest form of flattery.
    chez Kray
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    Reg Kray -- Saturday August 07 2004, @03:55AM (#118235)
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  • It truly is the most unispired and dull excuse for a "comedy" show on British television.

    It's not made better by the moronic scallys who repeat its stupid catchphrases in public in some futile attempt of wit. It's not like they are evn that funny!

    You know the sort of sad old blokes with ponytails who repeat Monty Python quotes ad nauseum? Now I love that show, but it still annoys me. Now just imagine these same saddos repeating unfunny lines from an unfunny show in the first place and you'll understand why they have to be shot.
    Anonymous -- Saturday August 07 2004, @04:27AM (#118239)
  • I find this show neither funny or offensive apart from the Mel B segements which are quite funny. It's basically shite all round. Quite yawnsome. And those people who quote comedic dialogue are wankers!
    Anonymous -- Saturday August 07 2004, @11:17AM (#118257)
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  • That joke really isn't funny anymore. The Mel B send-up was good for a bit but it's really tired now. And the Avid Merrion character is and always was shit. He's a ginger, Michael Jackson-loving cunt. And worse than him are the morons who endlessly quote it. Witless and worthless.
    Anonymous -- Sunday August 08 2004, @03:36PM (#118430)
  • I don't particularly like or dislike Bo' Selecta - it certainly shouldn't be taken seriously. Whether or not it's actually funny is a matter of taste. But that Moz is on it is a huge thumbs up in the popularity stakes - if Avid has parodied someone it's usually because they're worth being mentioned on a show that, let's face it, everyone in Britain knows about, either to love or to hate. There's no point being offended - in a way, it's really quite nice of them to have him on there! And the characters almost never have any resemblance to the real people other than the Spitting Image style masks (with the exception of Jade Goody, who actually does look like a mangled up bit of misshapen latex).

    Only one thing scares me about this show... We remember British comedy in the Seventies by Monty Python and Fawlty Towers; in the Eighties by The Young Ones, in the Nineties by Ab Fab et al... And this decades flagship is Bo' Selecta? Argh...
    charming lass -- Sunday August 08 2004, @05:24PM (#118442)
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  • I've not been watching this series of Bo Selecta as it's been mostly gobshite compared to the first. I'm a bit pissed off I missed this episode though, meh.
    margot tenenbaum -- Monday August 09 2004, @04:31PM (#118624)
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  • Ronnay Barkay,check the monay,muthafucka.
    O'Muirgheasa -- Saturday August 07 2004, @04:17AM (#118238)
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  • Is it idiot night among the moderators tonight?
    Yer shower of bastards, yer!
    Anonymous -- Sunday August 08 2004, @03:58PM (#118434)
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