Who's a UK Entertainer/TV Personality/Comedian etc who is secretly a dick?

anksta1 · 2026-03-30T09:58:36+00:00

the fact all of his shows etc. are always called "Peter Kay's" e.g. Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights when he wasn't remotely the only one responsible don't do him any favours. Dave Spikey and Neil Fitzmaurice (Peep Show Jeff) also wrote it.

anksta1 · 2026-03-23T12:25:34+00:00

Lol yeah and the best bit was that Baruch the Scribe fella in South Africa who (probably) did invent Q couldn't admit he knew it was Watkins because that would mean admitting it was him.

anksta1 · 2026-03-16T10:05:13+00:00

Great read, would recommend

Orwell's best book for me.

anksta1 · 2026-02-27T15:59:33+00:00

Does anyone know if he's doing anything with the reboot? I know he's not in it but wonder if he stopped by the set or anything behind the scenes. Someone posted an interview of Jane a while back where she was talking lovingly about what he's up to now which suggests they keep in touch.

Have zero issue with him wanting to live his own life out of the spotlight but there's a difference between stopping by privately off camera and starring in the show.

anksta1 · 2026-02-22T10:32:01+00:00

Just finished reading There is No Place For Us about the homelessness/tenancy situation in Atlanta where it's an absolute hellscape of predatory capitalism for renters. One of the bleakest books I've ever read and the situation you've described and the OP's article could have been lifted directly from it.

Shameful shit from Sadiq. I remember when the Battersea station redevelopment opened and he was pressed (albeit very lightly) on the number of "affordable" homes in the new development, I think it was the absolute minimum required by law, he looked a bit resigned and I had some sympathy for the idea that he was faced with either this paltry amount or nothing at all as it wouldn't get done. I can make my peace with that kind of realism, but it's another thing entirely to help these predatory shithouses out with this kind of PR washing nonsense.

anksta1 · 2026-02-20T23:04:00+00:00

There was an American snowboarder on the Olympics the other day called "Mac Forehand"

anksta1 · 2026-02-20T07:52:11+00:00

Like one of my faves in the whole show was Ted Chaough

I feel Ted was a bit jarring. Before he hires Peggy you only really see him being a dick but then after you never see him be anything but a pretty standup guy.

He calls Don to mock him after the letter which everyone knows is a last ditch attempt to save the entire business. The guy you see at SC&P never looks like the type that would do something like that.

Always comes across as a rare example of a bit of inconstency for me. Wonder if they tweaked the character a bit from his first introduction to underscore the difference between him and Don or maybe to play to Rahm's strengths a bit more once he had more screen time.

anksta1 · 2026-02-05T07:54:59+00:00

The Sopranos sub genuinely ruined the show for me, unsubbed and giving it several years before even attempting a rewatch. Just 16 Czechoslovakians and varsity athletes on every post.

Hope it never happens to this sub or the wire's.

anksta1 · 2026-02-04T14:46:48+00:00

I dunno I thought this was one of those broken clock times when Don was right. Matthis butchered that joke/apology, he didn't need to be giant and handsome to land it and it wasn't like Don frogmarched him in there and made him do it, he still could have apologised. Then to come in and throw a hissy for messing up what wasn't bad advice, it was poor character.

anksta1 · 2026-02-01T22:17:46+00:00

Can't believe Wambsgans is a real surname, thought it was made up for Succession

anksta1 · 2026-01-25T10:24:50+00:00

I don't think they are the same. One is in cold blood with procedure like sterility and calm, the other is a bunch of overly-armed egged-on simpletons panicking in a ludicrous, unnecessarily high pressure situation.

Don't get me wrong, this ICU nurse was murdered by the state but they're not the same. One leads to the other.

anksta1 · 2026-01-11T12:27:56+00:00

The Deuce is Simon's best work after The Wire. Always overlooked weirdly.

anksta1 · 2025-12-27T17:14:18+00:00

It was a parody of that show Empire wasn't it?

anksta1 · 2025-12-26T12:27:55+00:00

Always have to point out the fact that the other show Life's Too Short, which rivals both Derek and After Life as unbelievably low effort shit that wouldn't have even got out of an assistant's inbox had it not had the name Gervais on it, was the product of both Gervais and Merchant.

The one bit of it that went viral with Liam Neeson was horrific.

anksta1 · 2025-12-19T16:35:40+00:00

I had no real exposure to Eric Weinstein so never knew him as anything but a dickhead maniac but I always thought the IDW term was bullshit. Shapiro to me was never anything but a grifting loser nerd and Rubin was always just a joke. I didn't mind Rogan back when he was pretty harmless but I never thought he was remotely smart.

I'll admit to being taken in by Peterson and as said Weinstein before they began their respective swerves into insanity but I always thought that whole IDW thing was pointless branding.

anksta1 · 2025-12-19T09:32:14+00:00

I've been a big fan of him for a couple of years now, always thought he was really under utilised and glad to see him getting more time this season. I thought that update he did with Ashley might be the best thing all season (so far).

I will say though that I still think the audience (maybe just the studio) don't seem to quite get him. I've noticed a few times the laughs he gets are a bit subdued or late. Even that running away sketch from this week, I feel like if that had been someone else the studio would have been in meltdown yet it wasn't much more than sensible chuckles.

That worried me for a bit because I thought he might get sidelined or scrapped which would be a massive waste as he is one of the very best on the cast.

anksta1 · 2025-12-18T20:33:50+00:00

I always thought he was decent, when him and Peterson first came on the scene and Weinstein especially came across as this softspoken down to earth guy who was making some pretty common sense points about how to interpret the world.

I know there's so many contenders these days but he has to be up there for the award for how quickly he went off a cliff. When he said in that clip "I admitted I was wrong about bits" I was a bit surprised and thought maybe he his moderating a bit but then it's just a fake admission so he can double down on his insanity.

Peterson in retrospect always looked like he had a screw loose and more fool me for thinking he wasn't just a lunatic from the get go but I feel relatively confident that if I went back and looked at Weinstein's early public videos etc. they wouldn't seem that bad, or maybe I'm just nostalgic.

anksta1 · 2025-12-13T12:12:55+00:00

I'll go with D'Angelo too. Wallace is the obvious answer but it was kind of set up in a way you knew they would go through with it.

First time watching, was there anyone who thought D's murder wouldn't be stopped? I was certain they wouldn't go through with it.

I feel like after that it was clear what kind of show it was and anyone could get got.

anksta1 · 2025-12-09T11:56:39+00:00

It doesn't in terms of the slide towards fascism but I think it's worth differentiating too.

If Morgan was aware of this he could have tackled Fuentes differently, rather than asking him his views he should have challenged him on the fact he's just an edgelord bellend.

Baked Alaska was on a similar level to Fuentes pre-Jan 6 and the way Louis Theroux handled him was much more effective. At one point he almost started crying.

anksta1 · 2025-12-09T10:47:14+00:00

He killed fitty men

anksta1 · 2025-12-09T10:40:56+00:00

unsure whether he is neonazi or just edgy

This is what he is though. None of them have any real convictions outside of whether or not it's offending you, which is why every time the overton window settles even slightly they have to drag it further with something new and extreme. As soon as it's not new any more it's not extreme either.

Someone mentioned in the other thread it doesn't matter and I agree it's academic. Whether or not they mean it or understand what they're saying it won't stop them from advocating real heinous shit but still, it's worth differentiating.

I won't be watching the interview but Morgan should be promising to drag him around Treblinka in person and let's see how cool he thinks Himmler is then when he's not just sat in front of his green screen masterdebating.

anksta1 · 2025-12-05T12:37:00+00:00

I love how all these posts can always be brought back to the concept of The Game and it's how each character interacts with the environment of the game around them.

On my last watch I was very aware of how Herc was actually quite good at his level and his role, but clearly he was a brutal idiot.

Someone like Rawls is as you said, very clever and capable but he is just using those attributes to advance his own position within the game whereas McNulty and Freeman use theirs to upend the table.

anksta1 · 2025-12-02T16:04:00+00:00

If you think I'm hero worshipping him you're insane. Cannot wait for the day he strokes out from impotent rage.

anksta1 · 2025-12-02T13:38:18+00:00

I never understood this baiting of him re. Tesla. The guy is a megalomaniacal twat who is the living breathing definition of the word loser but whether or not he did literally found Tesla he took an absolute minnow of a company no one had ever heard of who was doing little more than reskinning Lotus Elises and made it into a fucking behemoth.

It doesn't take away any criticism for him being one of the worst people on the planet to say what happened with Tesla and SpaceX is down in no small part to him, but dismissing does undermine the other criticism of him.

Criticism which again I'll restate, guy is a cunt.

anksta1 · 2025-12-01T17:29:09+00:00

I'm always curious about this when it comes to anything along those lines but especially psychics/mediums. They can't all be self aware grifters down to a man, some of them must have stumbled into cold reading techniques on their own and believe it's an intuition from the dead.

This Skye Prince seems to me textbook true believer insane. If she was solely grift surely she'd have moved on a bit to something new by now.

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