Is It Now Time That This Talented Entertainer Made A Welcomed Come Back To Our Screens?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3876892/Michael-Barrymore-set-win-long-legal-battle-police.html

[naomi24]

aog, //Can I detect a little homophobia here//

If you can, I can't see where you're detecting it.

[youngmafbog]

Not for me, i have never liked him.

[Baldric]

I think the problem is that even before his troubles became public knowledge he was a 'Marmite Character' you either loved him or hated him.

[Mamyalynne]

At one point in his career he did gentle ribbing of the contestants well then it changed to rather cruel ridicule - I went off him then.

[Islay]

I never found him funny and I don't consider him to be talented.

If he came back on TV I would do what I do with other people I don't like - turn over!

[hc4361]

This disgraceful, egotistical behaviour is not entertaining

[anotheoldgit]

hc4361

/// This disgraceful, egotistical behaviour is not entertaining ///

It made the audience laugh.

[naomi24]

hc4361, that has to have been planned.

[Baldric]

Who had the last laugh though, I'll bet he'd like her bank balance nowadays?

[andy-hughes]

AOG - //hc4361

/// This disgraceful, egotistical behaviour is not entertaining ///

It made the audience laugh. //

It did, but that is not a guarantee that what is being watched is entertaining, or that the audience is actually amused.

Don't let's forget, shock and embarrassment are often covered up by reflex laughing.

[aelmpvw]

i remember him manhandling a female guest on the sofa as he interviewed her. The shocked look on her face suggested it wasn't at all planned.

[jno]

plus you do get prompters holding up signs saying "laugh now"

[andy-hughes]

I'm a bit confused, the Op refers to 'This Talented Entertainer', but the link is to Michael Barrymore!

Seriously though, I am inclined to the points made by jack and divebuddy - Barrymore was of his time, and his time has passed.

I would welcome Mr Barrymore's chance to clear his name if he has been mistreated by the authorities, but that does not come with a free pass back onto prime time television.

[andy-hughes]

aelmpvw - //i remember him manhandling a female guest on the sofa as he interviewed her. The shocked look on her face suggested it wasn't at all planned. //

I saw MB in a theatre years before he was on TV, and he did his 'Get out ... get out now... NOW!' routine on a gentleman in the front row.

This was well before 'edgy' comedy was the norm. The man did leave, but he looked utterly confused, not amused in the slightest, and frankly browbeaten by the force of Barrymore's yelling down the microphone.

The audience looked nonplussed, and giggled, and as I pointed out previously, I don't think they were amused, just shocked and embarrassed and unsure how to react.

[naomi24]

Come on! No one can seriously believe that wasn’t rehearsed!!

[andy-hughes]

Naomi - are you referring to the Susan Boyle audition?

Ms. Boyle's social difficulties - possibly Asperger's related - are well documented, I doubt you could have got her to rehearse something like that to be honest.

[naomi24]

andy-hughes at 13:02, yes, I am referring to Susan Boyles audition. I’m not quite sure what you mean with the rest of your post. Why would you be unable to get her to rehearse something like that due to a possibly Asperger's related condition?

It's ridiculous to suggest that wasn't rehearsed. Apart from the huge 'snog' at the end, he was pretending to look up her skirt, for goodness sake - and she didn't flinch!

[andy-hughes]

Naomi - My limited experience of Asberger's - our neighbour's daughter suffers from it, and my wife has taught many children with it - is that sufferers are acutely aware of interaction that confuses them. It looks to be as though Ms. Boyle was not aware of Mr Barrymore trying to see up her skirt until the last minute, when she moved away.

The kiss appeared to be consensual.

I think we simply see this differently - which is fair enough.

But I would wonder why anyone would think that looking up a woman's skirt on film, and in public, albeit for 'entertainment purposes' - was something you would want to do at all, much less rehearse in advance!

[anotheoldgit]

He was a funny interviewer, he could also 'work' an audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qpQMiWaSRo