[SiaSiaSia]

I'm not in the UK until Thursday but after reading DM for days this years BB seems SO much more intriguing! What's Liz like? I've been reading a few of your friends saying she's a bit of a weirdo - how so? I have read her columns for years and am really intruiged about her!

[Z]

She's just been really quiet so far, I honestly don't have much of an opinion of her yet - same with Sam and Ollie

[SiaSiaSia]

Originally Posted by Zee

She's just been really quiet so far, I honestly don't have much of an opinion of her yet - same with Sam and Ollie

I thought Ollie would have a massive personality, but Sam has always seemed a bit pretty and dull in magazines!

[parmnion]

If you can remember scary mary the whitwe witch from an earlier normal bb..

[SiaSiaSia]

Originally Posted by parmnion

If you can remember scary mary the whitwe witch from an earlier normal bb..

Mary? Yeah she was only in it like a week though weren't she?! I'm kinda disappointed because I regularly read Liz's columns on the Mailonline and she seemed like quite a controversial (and, obvs, anxiety-ridden) character. She's a bit clueless in her columns, always advocating spending about £600 on a coat though

[parmnion]

Originally Posted by SiaSiaSia

Mary? Yeah she was only in it like a week though weren't she?! I'm kinda disappointed because I regularly read Liz's columns on the Mailonline and she seemed like quite a controversial (and, obvs, anxiety-ridden) character. She's a bit clueless in her columns, always advocating spending about £600 on a coat though

she's nothing like her column really. she is like scary mary though both in looks and reserved in personality, with what seems like a cheeky sense of humour.

[Chuck]

LIZ JONES: Did you hear the one about the unfunny, smug, male comedians?
By LIZ JONES COLUMN

My favourite comedians used to be men. Groucho Marx. Bob Hope. Tony Hancock. John Cleese. One of the funniest books I’ve ever read is Stars And Bars, by William Boyd. I like Nick Hornby.
So, you see, I think men are capable of being funny. But I think in order to be funny, you have to be either depressed, or self-deprecating.
The sort of pompous, showy-offy male humour imposed on us over Christmas – by the likes of Jimmy Carr, Jonathan Ross and Jack Whitehall – is about as funny as the jokes inside my luxurious crackers from Toast.


Best sample gag from The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year on Boxing Night, which featured the three of them: ‘If you want to play along at home, presumably you don’t have the new Xbox. Unlucky.’ How many millions are these people paid?

There was a sweetness to Morecambe and Wise, wasn’t there?
Whereas these interchangeable white men seem to belong to an intolerable, exclusive, snooty group who all indulge in bromances with one another. I don’t know how Jimmy Carr has been forgiven so rapidly for avoiding tax, when his day job is satire.
And while I do find Russell Brand funny because he is not remotely pompous, and is a bit mad, I have to wonder whether Alan Carr really talks in that strange, gay voice when he’s at home in his kitchen.
I think you can only really be funny if you are damaged and not wearing a sharp suit. And why are John Bishop, Rob Brydon and Micky Flanagan on every chat show going, when they have nothing to say?
Am I the only person not to laugh when Mrs Brown’s Boys comes on – or when David Walliams dresses up as a post-menopausal woman?
Why is a man in drag (bar Jack Lemmon, in Some Like It Hot, a film that was always about female beauty and male desire) supposed to be humorous?
Yet some of these men make millions in stadia tours, spewing lame one-liners with no insight.
I hate to come across as bah humbug, but I don’t find Miranda Hart funny, either. Her humour is mostly slapstick.
Sarah Millican surely doesn’t speak in that silly little voice at home when the recycling men have, yet again, left a few tins and a piece of cardboard at the bottom of a wet bin.
Sue Perkins once made a horrible fuss when I worked on the London Evening Standard and we wrote about her lesbianism.


But now that she is ‘out’, she thinks nothing of using Sapphic innuendo when commenting on the cakes in The Great British Bake Off.
It is all on their own terms, you see. No vulnerability, or truthfulness – just raking in the money.
Tickets for Millican’s next tour start at £25 and on her website she writes that she is determined to put down roots, and has a cat, which she calls a ‘furry baby’ – an epithet she surely stole from me.
The joke’s on us, don’t you think?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...comedians.html

Her best column IMO.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

random. saw this and thought of Liz

[Chuck]

LIZ JONES FASHION THERAPY
Forget those New Year sales. Here are the bargains to snap up NOW!

Crowd-pleaser: J Crew's big, circular skirt in French Navy, down from £258 to £248