David Walliams Chitty Chitty Bang Bang build
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Red9zero said:
I didn't watch it purely because of him presenting it. I'm sure someone like Edd China or Ant Anstead would have made a much better job, although probably not the headline name they wanted.
Guy Martin was unavailable, as he was still facing his biggest challenge yet.Going to the shops to buy milk for his tea.
Gameface said:
He's a snide t
t. My sister works for C4 and has met loads of big names. She says he's the most arrogant 'celeb' she's come across.
Guy Martin or David Walliams ? GM has Aspergers which explains some of his "arrogance", but my sister and ex-brother in law used to race at the TT and were never impressed by his behaviour.t. My sister works for C4 and has met loads of big names. She says he's the most arrogant 'celeb' she's come across.
oddball1313 said:
Just watched 5 minutes of this and he comes across as the most unfunny, sarcastic & odious bellend imaginable. If we’re lucky they’ll test the ‘will it fly’ part by pushing it off Beachy head with him in it, with any luck they’ll have got their sums wrong.
Just watching this on +1, I'm finding it a difficult watch. Other than "little Britain" I've not really seen anything in which he's appeared. He really is coming across very poorly indeed. Seems unpleasant, very snide, arrogant, condescending & sarcastic whilst contributing very little. It wasn't the best set up of having David Walliams commissioning a bloke who didn't really know what he was doing to build a flying car. Whilst Walliams came across as a prize tt, he did have a point about the builder's ability (albeit I'm sure it was edited to look worse).
Still, had some nice footage of Alan Mann Racing.
t, he did have a point about the builder's ability (albeit I'm sure it was edited to look worse).Still, had some nice footage of Alan Mann Racing.
KR158 said:
oddball1313 said:
Just watched 5 minutes of this and he comes across as the most unfunny, sarcastic & odious bellend imaginable. If we’re lucky they’ll test the ‘will it fly’ part by pushing it off Beachy head with him in it, with any luck they’ll have got their sums wrong.
Just watching this on +1, I'm finding it a difficult watch. Other than "little Britain" I've not really seen anything in which he's appeared. He really is coming across very poorly indeed. Seems unpleasant, very snide, arrogant, condescending & sarcastic whilst contributing very little. It would have been the perfect project for James May.
pquinn said:
oddball1313 said:
Just watched 5 minutes of this and he comes across as the most unfunny, sarcastic & odious bellend imaginable.
And that's the nice 'TV' version. The real version is worse. I never really got into little Britain.
I view him a bit like clarkson or James May where I maybe don’t like their core work - little Britain/top gear/grand tour etc but enjoy some of their other work much more.
Interesting that so many people that have met him on here don’t like him though.
El stovey said:
I assumed it was all part of the act and his tv persona.
Why choose a persona that makes you look like a complete ahole in front of the whole country? Especially on a childrens programme... He's a smug w
ker who's nowhere near as clever as he thinks he is.Matt Lucas was the brains and driving force behind Little Britain.
Looks like he insisted on being chauffeur driven throughout the programme too.
Gameface said:
El stovey said:
I assumed it was all part of the act and his tv persona.
Why choose a persona that makes you look like a complete ahole in front of the whole country? Especially on a childrens programme... He's a smug w
ker who's nowhere near as clever as he thinks he is.Matt Lucas was the brains and driving force behind Little Britain.
Looks like he insisted on being chauffeur driven throughout the programme too.
I thought he was just pretending to be a bit disapproving of the car as it was being built as a laugh, which the engineers etc all seemed to be in on and not upset at all.
I actually thought he came across OK and shared enthusiasm for the original movie and connected well with the kids etc. Everyone’s different obviously.
I thought his style was totally at odds with what should have been some harmless and enjoyable family entertainment.
Personally think it was all staged in terms of the “car” being overweight and changing the design radically mid-build. Even with my limited understanding of flight it was pretty obvious the original design with inboard propellors underneath the car would have been ridiculously unstable. Maybe Walliams was playing along with that but he still came across like a tt,
Personally think it was all staged in terms of the “car” being overweight and changing the design radically mid-build. Even with my limited understanding of flight it was pretty obvious the original design with inboard propellors underneath the car would have been ridiculously unstable. Maybe Walliams was playing along with that but he still came across like a t
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