Giles Brandreth - not RIP !! On Sunday Brunch this am.
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I've just been watching Giles Brandreth on Sunday Brunch this morning.
I'm of an age that I've always been 'aware' of Giles, but never really got him. But this morning with Tim & Simon chatting to him he has been absolutely hilarious and had me genuinely laughing out aloud at some of his quips, anecdotes and asides in the studio.
His timing and delivery is perfect without any hint of nastiness or being overtly rude or offensive. His stories of Prince Philip's mutterings were superbly done.
This man needs to be on TV, I just can't work out where.
I'm of an age that I've always been 'aware' of Giles, but never really got him. But this morning with Tim & Simon chatting to him he has been absolutely hilarious and had me genuinely laughing out aloud at some of his quips, anecdotes and asides in the studio.
His timing and delivery is perfect without any hint of nastiness or being overtly rude or offensive. His stories of Prince Philip's mutterings were superbly done.
This man needs to be on TV, I just can't work out where.
Fair comment. It does re-read a bit gushy, but he was very funny, and clever with it. Something in short supply on TV these days. Speaking on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Brandreth, now an author and broadcaster, told the presenter Kirsty Young: "It's more than 20 years since I last wore a colourful jumper on breakfast TV, but people do remember them.
"When I turned up at the House of Commons wearing a proper grey suit to look like one of John Major's men, almost the first time I rose to speak in the Commons, John Prescott clocked me, leaned forward and muttered 'woolly jumper, ha ha ha.' I was thrown, and he kept this up.
"Eventually, I had to point out to Mr Prescott that the joy of a woolly jumper is that you can take it off at will, whereas the blight of a woolly mind is that you're lumbered with it for life."
"When I turned up at the House of Commons wearing a proper grey suit to look like one of John Major's men, almost the first time I rose to speak in the Commons, John Prescott clocked me, leaned forward and muttered 'woolly jumper, ha ha ha.' I was thrown, and he kept this up.
"Eventually, I had to point out to Mr Prescott that the joy of a woolly jumper is that you can take it off at will, whereas the blight of a woolly mind is that you're lumbered with it for life."
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