Context, Kirsty Young, you are better than this. The case is overstated, for comic effect. But the way the diarrhoea line was presented to him, shorn of set and setting, does make it read rather differently.
Doubtless someone with a search engine will turn up something horrible, but when I am asked about McIntyre in interviews, as all us comedians are now, I have learned to complement him on having converted a nation to the idea of stand-up as a viable entertainment option, and usually find a way to leaven any negative comments with positive ones, though these are often edited out , even to the extent of expressing the genuine desire to be allowed to tour all his most famous routines myself, word for word, to see if their very familiarity would lend them to a tonal reinterpretation.
Could the endless noticing of everyday quirks be delivered in such a way as to suggest they were the work of a vengeful and malevolent God, for example? The on-stage Stewart Lee however, a more bitter man 20 minutes into a failed routine about coffee shops, thinks McIntyre is a purveyor of warm diarrhoea.
As well he might. McIntyre went on, on Desert Island Discs, to say how his attendance at the British Comedy Awards was ruined by comedians making fun of him, and how sad it was because his wife had bought a new dress, and he had won after all, beating me and Frankie Boyle for some spuriously defined gong. I saw it on TV once and there was a big, frightened, unhappy snake writhing around on stage, and loads of drunk TV twats were laughing at it as it flailed miserably towards their coke-flecked tables.
Is there no-one who was actually there who could be named instead? For the record, I have met Michael McIntyre four times. In the Spring of he was hosting a show at the Tattershall Castle where I went to near silence, as I often did at circuit gigs, and he seemed keen and confident. Posted 11 years ago. Mister-P Free Member. Kevevs Free Member.
I think he is funny. Each to their own eh! Blazin-saddles Free Member. CharlieMungus Free Member. I do not like him but I did not know he is a cyclist.
I hate his voice and his stupid face and hair Posted 11 years ago. BontyBuns Free Member. It is this cheerfulness, he ventures, that irritates his comedy peers and did so even before he became famous. I think there was one time when I was actually in the loo in the dressing room and they all started bitching about me. Criticisms levelled at the bubbly McIntyre by fellow comics range from the hostile to the more affectionate see box, right and it is true that his brand of inoffensive, light observational humour — not controversial or edgy but usually very funny — has its detractors and it has been branded safe or comedy beige.
His topics revolve around family life with his wife and children, Lucas and Oscar, or a whole host of social etiquettes including ordering wine from a restaurant. We have paid good money. Have a smell? Since then his boys 'who still won't put their coats on, even when I point out that my routine about that has had five million hits on YouTube' have provided him with 'hours of material, so much so I worry they'll want payment'.
Ditto his wife Kitty, who's most famous for being the butt of a routine about her night-time wind. I always do. Michael is tickled by the idea that we think of him when we're rooting around our herb and spice collection after his gag about poor paprika languishing in the cupboard while 'arrogant' salt and pepper have a permanent place at the table.
I first met Michael, who's 43 now, in when success was new and shiny. He'd just taken out his first mortgage and his fretting levels about his finances were off the scale. Fast forward ten years, a decade in which he's not only consolidated his comedy success but become Mr Saturday Night TV. Tonight sees the start of the fifth series of BBC1's Michael McIntyre's Big Show — a cocktail of pranks, stand-up comedy and celebrity guests that's become a staple — and the cherry on the cake is a primetime slot on Christmas Day.
So how is he with money these days? He admits that when it did suddenly start flowing in it was 'like being a lottery winner. It's the only thing I can liken it to. Suddenly you can buy a new car, go on holiday. But when the dust settles it calms down, just with that security there. And firmly there. He shrieks at the idea he has high-risk investments. He's more of a Bond Man, it seems. Premium Bond Man. His critics have always said Michael McIntyre is too safe. More cutting-edge comedians like Vic Reeves have sneered at his brand of observational comedy as being too easy, yet his routines — about how we Hoover, get dressed, get in the bath — have worked their way into the national psyche.
He's tickled by the idea that we think of him when we're rooting around our herb and spice collection after his gag about poor paprika languishing in the cupboard while 'arrogant' salt and pepper have a permanent place at the table. The women of Britain even think of Michael in their bedrooms after his 'yanking-the-gusset' routine, it seems. Michael and his camera crew burst in on Andy Murray pictured in the wee small hours to film a Midnight Gameshow segment — in which unsuspecting sleepers are awoken in the middle of the night to take part in a televised quiz — for his new series.
He was in an unlikely bedroom the night before we meet. He and his camera crew burst in on Craig Revel Horwood, the Strictly judge, in the wee small hours to film a Midnight Gameshow segment — in which unsuspecting sleepers are awoken in the middle of the night to take part in a televised quiz — for his new series.
The targets used to be members of the public but now the focus is on celebrity victims. With celebrities, that's eradicated. There's a showbiz instinct with them that won't kick in with a member of the public. So far famous victims have included chef Gino D'Acampo and tennis champion Andy Murray, but there haven't been any famous female victims yet, presumably because not even Michael is brave enough to attempt to film Joan Collins or Victoria Beckham sans make-up at 2am.
She had her hairnet on. One of the winning segments of Michael's show is called Send To All, pictured, where a star allows him to send a text message to all the other celebs in their phone contacts. Craig doesn't sleep in rollers, we can reveal.
He went from slumber to sparkle in record time. The segment will air on Christmas Day, so it was a wake-up call with bells on. And Christopher Biggins in panto gear. Anton Du Beke was there, wrapped as a gift. When I left at 3. Being handed the coveted Christmas Day slot is, of course, the telly equivalent of a knighthood.
He's landed it before — back in he gamely played Little Drummer Boy for a Weekend photoshoot to mark the occasion — but this time he says he's really gone to town with the tinsel. One of the winning segments of Michael's show is called Send To All, where a star allows him to send a text message to all the other celebs in their phone contacts.
When we sent a message to all Ed Balls's contacts inviting them to his for a hot tub party, a couple of people turned up with their towels. That happened to me too. James Corden and I did a version once. We swapped phones and he sent a message to all my contacts inviting them to a strip club. My pest control guy drove down from Wiltshire!
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