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[Brig Bother]

Can I just ask who hosts this?

The UK version was hosted by current US television comedy sensation Jimmy Carr and June Sarpong, who you won't know.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Brig Bother\' date=\'Sep 1 2004, 07:20 AM\'] The UK version was hosted by current US television comedy sensation Jimmy Carr [/quote]
 THAT is a name I need to throw in my Tivo, in case he shows up on any of the late-night talk shows in the near future. He is a FUNNY, funny man.

[Brig Bother]

That's interesting. I suspect he's waaaay more popular over there than he is over here.

He can do a good joke, but I find him a bit mediawhore so I can't warm to him.

You might be interested to note that he first found fame on rubbish nightly "satirical" Channel 4 programme "The 11 O Clock Show", which also launched the careers of Ricky Gervais offof The Office and Sacha Baron-Cohen AKA Ali G. It's impressive and baffling that they've gone on to better things (other than Ali G, who was always "the good one off of The 11 O Clock Show").

[tommycharles]

I don't know... I saw Carr on Question Time while I was in the UK recently, and again on Sports Relief... he seems to be a funny guy, but there's nothing that seems to be *his*, you know? It's one of those situations where his jokes are funny but there's nothing I've heard out of him that I haven't heard better out of Paul Merton.

[tvwxman]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Sep 1 2004, 10:45 AM\']
THAT is a name I need to throw in my Tivo, in case he shows up on any of the late-night talk shows in the near future. He is a FUNNY, funny man. [/quote]
 Is this not the guy hosting "distraction" for comedy central?

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'Sep 1 2004, 01:56 PM\'] [quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Sep 1 2004, 10:45 AM\']
THAT is a name I need to throw in my Tivo, in case he shows up on any of the late-night talk shows in the near future. He is a FUNNY, funny man. [/quote]
Is this not the guy hosting "distraction" for comedy central? [/quote]
 The very same, I do believe.

Tommy, my guess is that Carr's style of comedy might not be original in the UK, but we don't see much of that here aside from stuff like Steven Wright, who is also a funny man, but the difference between him and Carr is that you don't want to slit your wrists after seeing Carr.

[tvwxman]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Sep 1 2004, 04:05 PM\'] but the difference between him and Carr is that you don't want to slit your wrists after seeing Carr. [/quote]
 Please don't give the producers any ideas for "distraction"s.

[Brig Bother]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Sep 1 2004, 09:05 PM\'] [quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'Sep 1 2004, 01:56 PM\'] [quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Sep 1 2004, 10:45 AM\']
Is this not the guy hosting "distraction" for comedy central? [/QUOTE]
The very same, I do believe.

Tommy, my guess is that Carr's style of comedy might not be original in the UK, but we don't see much of that here aside from stuff like Steven Wright, who is also a funny man, but the difference between him and Carr is that you don't want to slit your wrists after seeing Carr. [/quote]
 Yes, and he hosted our version as well (which I'm gathering is rather harsher than what they're going to put contestants through on the US show).

I think he'd be more likable if he picked his vehicles a bit better. He should, of course, use a bike.

I wonder how much of his popularity over there is down to his quaint plummy accent?

[tvwxman]

[quote name=\'Brig Bother\' date=\'Sep 2 2004, 03:59 AM\']
Yes, and he hosted our version as well (which I'm gathering is rather harsher than what they're going to put contestants through on the US show).

I think he'd be more likable if he picked his vehicles a bit better. He should, of course, use a bike.

I wonder how much of his popularity over there is down to his quaint plummy accent? [/quote]
 I'd bet money that Jimmy Carr is hosting Distraction because no one in their right mind here would want to be associated with it...

I'm fairly serious here. One of the reasons the Weakest Link took so dang long to find a syndie host, was because many celebs were concerned that being a 'mean, insulting' host would hurt their careers in the long runs... Local affils were none too happy that they had bought a show that had no host until a mere 2 months before the premiere!

Did Comedy Central have difficulty linking a host to Distraction cause of it's sadistic nature?

Jimmy may be perfect for Distraction...by default!

[Brig Bother]

[quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'Sep 2 2004, 10:11 AM\']
I'd bet money that Jimmy Carr is hosting Distraction because no one in their right mind here would want to be associated with it...

Did Comedy Central have difficulty linking a host to Distraction cause of it's sadistic nature?

Jimmy may be perfect for Distraction...by default! [/quote]
 Thats quite interesting. I suspect in truth it's much simpler than that. Carr is flavour of the month at the moment and he wants to break America. Comedy Central offer him the role he already does anyway so they can be associated with him... everyone's a winner really.