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Noel Edmonds

Darat said:
I don't think so:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4908952.stm

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/articles/22834933?source=Evening Standard

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/08062006/344/noel-s-signs-deal-cosmic-book.html

Deal or No Deal - still don't think it should be allowed under the current regulations dealing with gambling on TV shows, it is nothing more then a gambling show - there is no skill involved at all.
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I agree with you, it was a shock to find out Noel Edmonds was still alive
 
Azrael 5 said:
Did Noel get scammed on the infamous Brass Eye mockumentary? I seem to recall his smug beardy face praising "CAke" :D
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Yup. I've got the dvd so if I remember I might watch it later and report what he said.
 
[from memory]: "Cake affects a part of the brain called Shatner's Bassoon, which controls the perception of time so that three seconds seems like twenty minutes. [insincere smile] Well, that almost sounds fun, doesn't it? [serious look] Unless you're the Prague schoolgirl who was run over by a juggernaut; she thought she had twenty minutes to cross the road. [concerned look]Take care, and I really do mean...take care!."

I'll be interested to see how much my memory has mangled it.
 
That's one good memory, Thing!

There are a few lines such as "Can we leave out this thing about the slow crushing of his skull?", and the what cake is stuff, but the bit we want here is:

"It stimulates the part of the brain called Shatner's Bassoon. That's the bit of the brain that deals with time perception. So, a second feels like a month. *kind of sigh* Almost sounds like fun unless you're the Prague schoolboy who walked out into the street, straight in front of a tram. He thought he'd got a month to cross the street.
Sounds like a lot of fun doesn't it, if you want to be part of the Summer of death.
Thankyou for listening to me. Take care, and I really do mean, take care"
 
John Jackson said:
For those outside the UK this is (was) Mr. Blobby:

[qimg]http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1993/gallery/340/blobby.jpg[/qimg]

He started as a joke character, but ended up having a number 1 record and was a major feature of a theme park (? IIRC) based on the TV show.
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Yep, it was set up at Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park, near my then-home in Somerset. It was a lovely place before that buffoon got his hands on it. Thankfully some years later the Mr Blobby operation folded and it went back to being "just" a wildlife park.
 
"Now, Noel Edmonds, for instance, is the perfect example of why one should always try to kill Noel Edmonds." - Stephen Fry in a "vox pop" on A Bit of Fry and Laurie

I used to enjoy the radio show Edmonds had on BBC Radio 1 back around 1980 (from 1000 to 1200 on Sunday mornings, preceded by Tony Blackburn and followed by Jimmy Saville, and why I remember this is a complete mystery), but based on both my own observations and comments by others (including the aforementioned Stephen Fry, who in his persona of Professor Donald Trefusis described the content of the Late, Late Breakfast Show as consisting mostly of "puerile, banausic posturing," objectification of women and fawning over the Royal Marines), on television the man was pure poison, and the reason I assiduously avoided BBC 1 from 1990 onwards. And that was without being aware of Edmonds' wooish tendencies.
 
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