Butterfield wrote:

It's really easy to sum up or picture stereotypical fashions and fads of the 70s, 80s and 90s but I often wonder as the 2000s get further away (help!) what we or other people will look back at in terms of nostalgia for that decade.

It does seem very colourless. Maybe more time is needed?

Oh my. It's 20 years this month since up-and-coming BBC Three presenter Christopher Price died suddenly, aged 34. He presented a celeb gossip show called Liquid News which I used to watch as I was into that sort of thing in the early 2000s, and I remember the tribute programme on after his death which suggested he was popular with the celebs he interviewed, with some of them in tears.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Price_(broadcaster)

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Celebrities such as singer Kylie Minogue, comic actor Ralf Little, game show host Anne Robinson and BBC newsreader Huw Edwards paid tribute to him. Within a few days of his death, the BBC website had received over 5,000 e-mails paying tribute to him.

5,000 emails was probably quite a lot in 2002.

Late 2009, so squeaking in:

2002 to 2009



Hilarious.

The other day I was watching some stitched together clips of the "Mel B" Bo Selecta scenes and I was laughing almost as much as I did when they were first aired circa 2003.

They're so racist that actual Mel B even championed them/him at the time.

He perhaps should have gone a bit easier on Craig David though - I don't think he was playing along.

The Mel B stuff he did was the funniest stuff he's ever done.

And it's almost definitely going to be the funniest stuff he'll ever do.

He basically combined Scary Spice and Jim Bowen perfectly.

BTW, regarding Mel B's championing of his 'take' of her, she did actually appear in at least one proper skit with him when he was in full 'Scarehh' get up and she was as she was/is.

I seem to remember they did a bit where they were going into shops either in London or New York and Leigh thingy was gooning about and Mel C was w**ing herself laughing.

I know that he's admitted since that he feels ashamed about the blackface stuff he did now, but some of it was actually amusing and didn't, beyond the obviously grotesque make up and prosthetics, address race in any way at all.

The Mel B/Jim Bowen hybrid was a great and rather random creation, and it became a character in its own right.

I always thought, however much Leigh Francis took the... P out of people, it was always in relative good intent and that he actually liked those celebrities, hence why some of them used to hang around with him - Mel B, Davina, Fearne Cotton, Holly Wotsit etc. who he relentlessly "abused", whatever colour, sex, sexuality, disability they had or were.

Funny how people complain about the rubber masks these days rather than the somewhat coarse, vulgar humour. How times change.

Then there's Little Britain. Thank goodness for DVDs.

I noticed that this was being used in an advert the other day...

It seems so recent, but they don't make them like that anymore. I laughed. Please don't arrest me.

Are you types familiar with these special army ration Yorkies?



I used to be friends with a woman whose husband was in the army, and I saw a number of those for real. Except I remember the figure in the red circle having a bowler hat and umbrella, but I might be confabulating that.

I never knew such a thing existed.

Fangirl Three wrote:

Are you types familiar with these special army ration Yorkies?

No of course not, we're Civvies.