Russethouse Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13710011 In all the reports they talk most about Strictly and the Generation Game, but I remember the happy times we had watching Sunday Night at the London Palladium, all the family gathered round a small, black and white TV... happy days [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 Truth is I don't care. I'm not sure if doing a job, entertainment or sport that one loves deserves such an honour. Not just for Brucie but for anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickP Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 Honoured at last? He should be prosecuted under the trade descriptions act for impersonating a comedian. [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 Insult to the honours system! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 I've found him excrutiatingly embarrassing for years now.Get him off before he becomes another Norman Wisdom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 I haven't seen him for years (nope didn't see the dancing show) but in his hey day he was certainly a master of his craft. I was talked into going to his one man show at the Palladium in the late 70's (or early 80's) and came out in awe of his command of the stage. People like him deserve recognition of their skills and talent more than civil servants who automatically get one. However, I do think teh best ones are the ordinary people who are just brilliant in their community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 OBE max! (Order of Blair's Empire, being a long gone East End music hall!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 Oh heavens, I used to groan whenever he came on.However, in recent years, when I think how old he is and how he carries on, tinkling a few notes on the piano, singing a phrase or two, dancing a little shuffle, shuffle, kick, kick, I think, whyever not?His jokes are always clean and he is versatile and works hard.I'd rather give him a gong than that killjoy, Mervyn King..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 He wasn't 'clean' on Have I Got News for You. In fact I liked him far better for his using raunchier language. I never quite trust people who are too squeaky clean and prim and proper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbie Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 [quote user="idun"]Truth is I don't care. I'm not sure if doing a job, entertainment or sport that one loves deserves such an honour. Not just for Brucie but for anyone.[/quote]I take your point in general but Brucie's knighthood is partially for his contributions to Charity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubbles Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 Yes, I thought he was very much on the ball on Have I Got News For You. Impressive even.Before that I had been afraid that he was getting a bit past it and didn't know when to call it a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 Rabbie, a lot do work for charity. I do work for charity, have done all my life really one way or another. It is a way of giving back and goodness help any of us if we do it to be rewarded in any way at all. I think that all countries should have some system for acknowledging certain people. It is the who that I have a problem with a lot of the time. And rich, famous and powerful people already appear to have 'so much' already. Just IMO ofcourse[Www] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Théière Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 [quote user="idun"]He wasn't 'clean' on Have I Got News for You. In fact I liked him far better for his using raunchier language. I never quite trust people who are too squeaky clean and prim and proper.[/quote]Lend us a tenner then [;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 Do you really need a tenner? that really is the question. If you really are desparate, I would see what I could do to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbie Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 Idun, I know that. I do my bit as well. I was merely quoting from the official reason for Brucie's knighthood. I agree with you that it is the who that is important. It seems this year they have given quite a lot of honours to 'ordinary' people who have done a lot for their community. I always feel that giving honours to sports people just becaue they have won olympic medals is a bit daft. The Olympic Medal should be its own reward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 OK, ordinary people will 'do' for me too.[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Zoff Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 He's certainly a fit old so and so. I'm struggling to find anything else to say in his favour but we all have different tastes and clearly a lot of people have found something to like about him for a very long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val_2 Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 He deserves it for giving us such a laugh over the years wearing that syrup of his. Other than that, he has stayed the course when many have retired before 60. I was very touched when they did his family tree on that BBC programme last year and discovered he had a raunchy old relative who bred family in the USA he never knew existed and he went to meet them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thibault Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Hopefully, now having achieved the honour he and others have been banging on about for years, he will retire from all TV appearances. I found his performance on Strictly so embarrassing, I started recording it so I could fast-forward his bits........then I stopped watching altogether [:D] He is well past his sell-by date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachapapa Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Never watched him!But from the Sky News coverage he appears to be geriatric with a faithful geriatric following. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 I find it very harsh for people to be labled as "past their sell-by date" purely on the basis of their age.If you are lucky you, too, might get to be "geriatric".And, of course, taste is a completely different and individual thing altogether. For example, I can't stand these young up-and-coming (or whatever they call them) celebrities, pop singers, soap stars but I don't presume to say they are "embarrassing", though they are every bit that, because they clearly have their following or they wouldn't be in their position.Fair enough, say you don't like his stuff, you find it boring, you don't share his humour; but that says as much about you as about him.Don't get me wrong, I am not a Brucie fan and games shows are not something I watch on TV (or indeed dancing shows) but I do have a sneaking admiration for such a trooper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thibault Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 [quote user="sweet 17"]I find it very harsh for people to be labled as "past their sell-by date" purely on the basis of their age.[/quote]If your comment is aimed at me, I do not disregard people purely on the basis of their age. After all, the Queen at 85 and the Duke at 90 still appear to be coherent and capable. However, "Brucie" is beginning to find "performing" quite difficult. He misreads the autocue, gets his timing wrong and generally gives the impression that he IS "past his sell-by date". I am sure, when he was younger, he was a good performer and he has been in the business for a long time, but he should begin to think about retiring. His is not a job for life and it is much better to accept retirement than to go on and on, finding things more and more difficult.Andy Williams was a guest on Strictly some time ago and his performance was extremely embarrassing - another performer who should know when it is time to stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted June 12, 2011 Author Share Posted June 12, 2011 I don't think there are many people of his age who can still sing a song, play the piano and do a soft shoe shuffle all in a 5 minute or shorter routine - Like him or loath him I think most people would agree that his TV shows have been good family entertainment, just as I have happy memories of watching Sunday Night at the London Palladium with my family, lots of families watch Strictly today.Another thing I admire him for (although I suspect his curret wife gets a lot of the credit) is the way that despite three marriages the whole family, including ex wives, seem close and he remains on good terms with his ex's and his 6 children appear to all get on too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pommier Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 I thought he was cringingly embarrassingly awful 40 years ago (and ever since!).I don't understand people getting honours for doing their (very well paid) job. I know they said his was partly for charity work, but also for services to entertainment.Jennie Murray was also honoured for presenting Woman's Hour!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 [quote user="Thibault"][quote user="sweet 17"] I find it very harsh for people to be labled as "past their sell-by date" purely on the basis of their age.[/quote]If your comment is aimed at me, I do not disregard people purely on the basis of their age. After all, the Queen at 85 and the Duke at 90 still appear to be coherent and capable. However, "Brucie" is beginning to find "performing" quite difficult. He misreads the autocue, gets his timing wrong and generally gives the impression that he IS "past his sell-by date". I am sure, when he was younger, he was a good performer and he has been in the business for a long time, but he should begin to think about retiring. His is not a job for life and it is much better to accept retirement than to go on and on, finding things more and more difficult.Andy Williams was a guest on Strictly some time ago and his performance was extremely embarrassing - another performer who should know when it is time to stop.[/quote]Thibault, please be assured that my comment was not aimed at you. In fact, it was not aimed at anybody in particular. It is the sort of thing that one picks up, when reading stuff from various sources.However, if he IS "past his sell-by date", then his employers would be the first to tell him it's time to go. No one would employ anybody just on the basis of "for-old-times-sake".When people stopped watching Strictly or whatever show he's on, they'd soon let him know.As for his finding things difficult to do....well, that's another thing altogether! Don't we all find things "difficult" that we used to do with ease when we were younger and more agile?However, I believe that there is merit in doing a thing badly than not doing it at all. At least, that's what I tell myself when I try to play the piano and, especially, when I attempt to learn some new tricky bit of music![:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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