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Gilles Villeneuve was a great driver who's talent was only hampered by occasional erratic moments and a team that gave him poor cars. That's perhaps being a bit kind as the Ferraris during that era varied between shoddy, unsafe and downright shit. Sometimes all three. Not that such minor...

Palmer was an odd one. I think it was his background as a doc, he just sounded robotic. In the flesh he was way more enthusiastic, mabye speaking into a mike just froze him up.

Two more just thought of. Ron Pickering. Hugh Porter.

I've always loved how Coogan made Alan Partridge into such a dreadful Barry Davies wannabe. Walker and Hunt shouldn't have worked and they certainly didn't get on at first. In so many it ways added to the fun of watching F1. A passionate, jumper-over-the-head commentator paired up with a man...

I remember watching Alan Green outside Molineux once, saying he lhow much he liked Wolves and the fans as they epitomised the game. Nice words Alan but you're still an opinionated cock. Trevor Francis is remarkably consistent - always completely wrong or completely bleedin' obvious.

Andy Townsend never, ever, fails to do my head in, while just about the entire lot at Radio WM are a compelling reason for wishing all 3 teams in Birmingham are relegated this season. Away from football, James Allen was responsible for the mute button on my remote wearing out during F1's...

Dixons.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cracks me up every time.

Looks like Bahrain might be rescheduled to after the Abu Dhabi race and Brazil put back a week. On a tangent, I also read that Ecclestone has some whacky idea to introduce water sprinklers to make a track wet at some point during a race to make it 'entertaining'. What fekkin planet is he on if...

Some stunning bits of flying and video work there. On the subject of low flypasts, no matter how many times I see this I still smile:

The central problem is down to a fundamental conflict of views on what an advert should do in the eyes of the people who are behind it. The agency wants to produce something memorable, creatively challenging and interesting because that pulls in more customers for them. The board of the...

"And who's fault is that yer Terrahawk?" You owe me a new, coffee-free keyboard for that Brookerism Templeton. :D

So in your opinion Ken Livingstone's opinions are worthless, irrespective of your political stance, because he has done ads. Err, nope. Why is it suddenly different for someone to do voiceovers rather than appear in person, or for it to be okay if the person is 'unknown'? Surely if someone...

I'm with you on that, it was an awful bit of work. :D Oh, and the Maverick Method is a load of sodding basic common sense that those goat botherers expect people to pay money for. Bolleaux to that.

No, you don't get it. You stuck up an advert that promoted a company marketing it's service to support Bill Hicks' comments. Get the idea now? You missed the point that the crap CGI wasn't a simple diatribe against marketing, it was a marketing piece in itself to promote their company, hence...

Since when did being paid to do a job of work suddenly make people less entitled to having an opinion? Why should people be pigeonholed and restricted to only one narrow facet of life? By your yardstick Bob Geldof's opinion's on the problems of the African continent are now completely...

I don't really see how a particularly piss-poor advert - and those automated CGI efforts really are dreadul and as tired as the Downfall rips - promoting a form of puffed up sales technique reinforces Bill Hicks rant.

I'm slowly plodding through Michael Palin's Python diairies and had to chuckle last night at one of the entries in late 1974. He was offered £4 grand for a day's work doing voice-overs for a Stone's Ginger Wine commercial. As he put it, his hands went very clammy when informed of the fee, and...

Bloody hell, do you sound like a roaring luvvie or what? All those wonderful darlings suddenly prostituting themselves on the televisuuaal. :icon_wink: In Stephen Fry's autobiog he recalls the first ad he got booked up for. £20-odd grand for 3 days work, back in something like 1982. Blimey.

And when you only focus on price you get what you deserve. Shite. 'Reet good idea of theirs is that.

I do like the Introducing Harvey one, but mainly 'cos I like hounds. I still think that an NZ/Aussie style ad campaign in the UK would go down a storm. A simple message, done with the subtlety and charm of a roundhouse kick in the groin. Like the famous kiwi Toyota HiLux 'bugger' ad, still...