Room 101

[hermes2007]

Based on the room of the same name in Orwell's 1984, Room 101 began in 1992 on Radio 4, before vaulting to TV two years later, whilst the radio series ceased.

Hosted on Radio 4 and BBC TWO by Nick Hancock, and from 1999 by Paul Merton, Room 101 has a simple premise.

Celebrity guests come on and consign to Room 101 anything they particularly loathe and despise, arguing with the host as to the merits of chucking Football, France or Novelty Underpants to oblivion.

At its best Room 101 is deliciously biting about institutions that we hate - and fantastic argument fodder when someone rubbishes something you love.

None could forget the shock that Michael Grade instigated by putting Doctor Who in the Room, the glory that was Bill Bailey's destruction of Chris De Burgh's Lady in Red. And the rambling confessional prose poem that was Johnny Vegas' bemoaning his addiction to online chatrooms will live forever.

My offers

Any DIY tv show
people with big dogs who think it funny to chase my cat
people who think I'm too slow at supermarkets (yes it is me, I'm that slow bugger who can't remember his pin number)
drivers who acelerate on Bratton Road as I'm trying to cross it
shop assistants who thing there conversation is more important than my shopping

[Yokel1]

Agree with the shop assistants one
Any telly prog about moving house
Simply Red, 
Stereophonics, 
Rihanna's decline to diva'ism
Adverts on commercial radio
On travellators at airports the people who stand there and block your way through, thereby removing the benefit of it
Estate agents - I even hate the ones I like
The stress of fear when the car goes in for its MOT
I can handle X factor as funny and amusing - BUT all the roll-off programmes afterwards (xtra factor etc) are in Room 101, and "extras" included on dvds
Toilets in most pubs
Needing a wee when stuck in a traffic jam
Anyone going on about how great the music was in the 1980s so much so they haven't bought anything (except compilations and Michael Buble) since then
Pink!  (the singer)


and....my biggest......
Everything about Bristol airport in particular PASSPORT CONTROL.  I travel a lot and Bristol airport is the pits.

[Yokel1]

Frankie Boyle.   Comedy for morons.

[Yokel1]

Texas/anything by Sharleen Spiteri

[Yokel1]

Emails/facebooks that say "Forward this if you are a true friend as true friends are fluffy and cuddly and loyal for life xxxxxx LOL!!"

[Yokel1]

Dylan Moran. He's about my age and a million times more talented.

[Yokel1]

Products aimed at men using overtly manly things on the ads  - fast cars, rock climbing, base jumping, surfing, etc, to selll armpit spray and razor blades.

(with the exception of the Top Gun Lynx sensitive ad that puts a spin on the genre)

[Yokel1]

Call centres - "Press 1 if you have mouldy cheese, Press 2 if you need mouldy cheese, Press 3 if you are mouldy cheese"

then you press 1 and get "Press 1 if your cheese is cheddar, Press 2 if your cheese is brie, Press 3 if your cheese is Edam"

then you press 2 and get "Press 1 if your cheese is French Brie, Press 2 if your cheese is Somerset Brie"

so you press 2 and it says "Please hold - we do appreciate and value your call - you are number TWO-OH-SIX in the queue"

[hermes2007]

BT is probably the worst.

I hate callers that ring me up, and then ask me to prove who I am. I usually put the phone down after pointing out they rung me up.

[Alg]

Frankie Boyle.   Comedy for morons.

I expect a "point proven" from Yokel1.
I've just read his book "My s**t life so far.

Some bits I found amusing:
"Early this year the Pope met vicims of sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic Priests. If I'd been fingered by a Priest the last person I'd like to meet is the ultra-Priest-9000. It'd be like fighting the end-of-level boss in a video game."

"My brother and I got a Spectrum computer one Christmas and it totally took over our lives for a couple of years. There were loads of addictive games which to a modern child must seem like playing with a jobbie(poop) on a stick."

"The nativity, the only part of the story that's about life, is just a temporary thing they throw up for a few weeks, It's generally focussed around a £5.99 Tiny Tears doll. One year our church had a rocking horse for the donkey. It had "I am a cowboy" written on it."

"Our school playground; at one end were railings surrounding a steep staircase into the basement. This was the "Grog Pit." If someone's bag could be got off them it would be hurled down these steps. When they went down to fetch it, an animal howl of "GROG PIT" would go up and the whole school would crowd up onto the railings and spit on them. I saw a tiny first year emerge to jeers, wet and slippery like a newborn calf."

The second half of the book is just an angry man's rant at everything so that can go in Room 101. The first half can't.

[Yokel1]

Kind of ties in with his career - on early Mock The Weeks he was genuinely funny in a way, then, it changed - maybe it was simply easier and less effort to be offensive.

[Jimkerr]

X Factor can't stand it
anti wrinkle cream adverts god grow old gracefully your getting wrinkles
itv2 chavs t.v ie (peter and Jordan/ Katie what happen next/
modern day music including Michael what ever his name is.
next doors cats that poop in my garden when my dog is not patrolling it little b***ards
next doors kids who thinks sitting/leaning on my car on our shared drive is fine.
anyone who doesn't think music and the fashion that went with it 70's/80's wasn't the best ever
man utd supporters
oh yes my big one those idiots that text talk on forums/facebook like they do on mobiles lazy stupid idiots.

[Alg]

i dnt no wht u meen. I h8 ppl like u

[Clevercat]

People who do not treat their children who have head lice, so that then all kids in their class have to catch the damn things.

Put the people and the lice in to Room 101.

[Yokel1]

Optomists.