[kirklancaster]

I don't find them boring at all, it's the so-called 'Ratpack' who are tedious.

I am totally bored with Bear and Bloor's now predictable, infantile, egotistical, selfish, anti-social antics, and totally bored with seeing all the 'Park Bench', 'Bus Shelter', Back of The Bike Sheds', juvenile, 'face sucking', 'snogging', 'petting' and 'pawing' from them with their vacuous 'girl friends'.

It is like visiting the 'Greta Garbo home for wayward Boys and Girls'.

They remind me of those entertainers who some find entertaining enough when they are appearing on some bigger star's show in a 5 minute 'guest spot' , but who fail miserably when some hapless producer has given them their own one hour series, because they are neither talented enough to fill more than a few minutes, nor is their repertoire comprehensive enough to satisfy the demands of a full series.

A little 'talent' cannot be stretched a long way without the impairment to the quality of a TV show being cruelly exposed, and the audience eventually becoming bored of the same old tired predictable routines.

Some ordinary men can be the most humorous comedians and wagsters when they are out and about in the community or on holiday, and have any strangers whom they may meet briefly in stitches, but their wives will rarely laugh because after living with them 24/7 for years, they have heard every joke and seen the entire repertoire.

Well folks, TV is like that 'wife' - it consumes and exposes many an established comedian's/artist's full repertoire in one 60 minute show - which is why not many 'stars' opt for their own TV shows any more.

The same routine can serve an entertainer well for decades, when he is travelling all over the country appearing at little theatres, performing in front of a few thousands, but one TV series and his material has been seen by millions of viewers.

I'm afraid THIS is exactly why the so-called Ratpack' are the REAL bores.

Whatever, highly questionable, 'entertainment value' their boorish and infantile behaviour holds for some - they are ONE-TRICK little ponies, and even after just two shows, the jokes had worn thin, the same predictable 'routine' became tedious to watch, not to mention, annoying and infuriating.

They are, at best, 5 minute 'GUEST' artists on a bigger star's show, but the CBB producers have - for some unknown, illogical, and unfathomable reason - turned over to them, this hitherto entertaining show, and subjected us to the tedium of watching 4 pathetically desperate, talentless non-entities frantically plumbing the depths for ANYTHING at all with which to shock or surprise us, in order to hog the limelight and secure greater fame and fortune.

I love the - still - anarchic, off-the-wall comedy of The Marx Brothers and The Three Stooges, but who the hell would choose to watch 'Duck Soup' every single night of the week for a month?

But, the 'Ratpack' are well and truly on that treadmill of boorish behaviour, faux 'showmances', 'flesh exposing' and fake humour, because they HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO OFFER US IN THEIR REPERTOIRES.

They are too young to have had many interesting life experiences with which to enthrall us - even if they did opt to sit down and hold sensible and mature conversations - and they have NO talent, and only very short 'Showbiz' careers, so there are no interesting anecdotal stories which they can recount there either.

Yet, all the while that these four morons are allowed to dominate the show with their boring, hooligan antics, they are preventing the 'others' from injecting REAL entertainment into the show, because among those suppressed 'others' are REAL celebrities - like James and Samantha - who are OLD enough to have enjoyed long careers which are PACKED with interesting events and stories, or those who are young but still talented enough and intelligent enough to GENUINELY entertain us -- like Frankie and Aubrey.

No - some of you can call the 'others' 'The Bores', but I KNOW who are the REAL bores because the so-called 'Ratpack' - an insult to Frankie, Deano, Sammy and Peter if ever there was one - could NOT entertain me in a '5 minute guest spot' let alone 60 minutes night after night.