I am not a massive fan of George Lamb. I do not enjoy his presenting style or his sense of humour or his over-confidence in himself. But what really put me off him was his horrendous interview with Ray Davies,
which you can listen to here. He had one of the most talented song writers of all time on the phone and chose to use his time with him to play loads of pathetically stupid games, and then when Davies tried to bow out of the whole thing with some grace by pretending it was a bad phone line, Lamb and his crew decided to mock him, demonstrating their own arrogance and over estimation of their own genius in the process.
I am not the only one who feels this way, it seems, and yet for some reason the powers that be seem determined to promote his career. Perhaps the fact that some people don't like him gives him the aura of being controversial. Or perhaps I (and the other Lamb-haters) have just got it wrong. And maybe it is wrong to keep judging someone harshly because you didn't like them initially. I had written off Ricky Gervais for a long time, because I had disliked what he had done on Channel 4, and it took me some time to realise that the Office was a good show as a result. And now the American Office is one of my all time favourite shows. Perhaps Lamb's over promotion (which is directly his fault) is what annoyed me and the other people who didn't like him. We all make mistakes after all.
Having said that I accidentally caught a bit of Lamb on TV this afternoon, where he was inexpertly hosting Big Brother's Little Brother (or some such show). Things were going wrong. There was a brilliant bit where someone knocked something over out of shot making a massive crash and for a second Lamb lost his veneer of detached cool and looked terrified and moved away from the sound like he thought he was about to be assassinated.
The show was a bit of an embarrassing mess and Lamb's main guests were the phenomenon know as Jedward, who were running a bit wild, both in the camera runs of the Big Brother house and in the studio. They were off in their own little world, seemingly trying to amuse each other, but showing off, talking over each other, misbehaving like some out of control Gremlins or insane leprechauns. They prattled onwards and behaved like two three year olds who had been left loose in a TV studio, posing and gurning and seemingly having no idea what they were supposed to be doing. They certainly wouldn't do anything they were meant to and Lamb struggled to keep control. I almost felt sorry for him.
Almost.
I never thought I would see George Lamb outcunted. But Jedward managed it.
That was what I posted on twitter. And people seemed impressed with my use of the word outcunt. It was something that had just occurred to me, because I had never seen a cunt be trumped by another cunt before as far as I knew and wondered if accidentally I had coined a new phrase.
But checking google
it seems the phrase has been in use since at least 2008. I have been outoutcunted.
But the question remains, are Jedward the kings of the cunts or can they in turn be outcunted.
There is only one challenger as far as I can see.
Georgia.
How I miss her.
