Important opinion poll on high-brow television entertainment

[donnaimmaculata]

A few weeks ago, I have started watching QI (because I got my hands on the pilot episode with Eddie Izzard, and I like Eddie Izzard), and it kinda snowballed. Now I'm through with the complete series 1-5 and watching series 6, and have branched out towards Have I Got News For You. I wonder: What do you think of any of the QI and HIGNFY participants? Alan Davies? Bill Bailey? Jo Brand? Dara O'Briain? Rob Brydon? Ian Hislop? Paul Merton's wit? The Angus Deayton scandal? David Mitchell? Andy Hamilton? Sean Lock? Jeremy Clarkson?

I went looking for, ah, in-depth information on both shows and the more regular participants, but so far, all that I could ascertain has been that Stephen Fry and Alan Davies are Totally Doing It, as are Ian Hislop and Paul Merton. And whilst I'm not entirely opposed to this idea, I'm more interested in casual chat, personal opinions (Alan Davies' hair - yes or no?), warnings ("Whatever you do, stay away from all Jimmy Carr material; he's fine on QI, but he's horrible in anything else."), recommendations and squeeing.

(Personally, I have become rather taken with Andy Hamilton - not in a crush way, I hasten to add. And went from finding Alan Davies an annoying twerp to "Hey, he's actually quite witty and squishable!")

Comments

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm such an anglophile that my sense of judgement is seriously skewed when it comes to English performers, even when they're...not English *g* (like Dara Ó Briain, who...you can check out on youtube here) In fact, there are clips from almost all the QI participants on youtube)

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have checked out Alan Davies', um, body of work! I even bought the "Bob and Rose" DVD after I had already downloaded the show, because I needed to get my hands on the commentary with him and Russel T. Davies.

And I actually got into QI, because I liked Bill Bailey in the pilot so much that I had to see more of him being witty. Dara O'Briain is fabulous, too, but I didn't really like "Mock the Week" (the two episodes I've checked out so far). He seems so genuinely nice and adorable.

I'm such an anglophile that my sense of judgement is seriously skewed when it comes to English performers

Being analytical and all, I forced myself to watch a German comedian's stand-up routine yesterday and tried to determine why I didn't find him funny, whilst Alan Davies' cats bit from "Urban Trauma" had me in stiches. Obviously, I'm quite the anglophile myself.