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- $ffeDaniel Thornton AKA Toffee Boy Presents...
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- $ffb|1-An analysis of
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- $fb9|1-TV presenters
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- $ffdFirstly, an admission: This article is based around another article
- that I did once, and it appeared in TW17. It shouldn`t really matter
- though, because while the other article was my own idea for an awards
- ceremony (the Mediocrity Awards), this is just simply my own categories
- for TV presenters.
-
- $fffDisclaimer:
- $effThis article is not meant to offend anyone, it is merely a brilliant
- spoof created by a great mind. It is not meant to be an exhaustive
- account of all the types of presenters, and many presenters may fit into
- different categories. If anyone wants to update or add to this article,
- then they are welcome to, as long as they keep my logo in the top left
- corner. But why would they want to change genius?
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- $fb8|1-Type one:
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- $bf0|1-The Presenter For
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- $af0|1-All Occasions
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- $ff0The Presenter For All Occasions (TPFAO) is a strange breed. Their
- presenting style doesn`t really lend itself to any particular genre,
- which means that they are perfect fodder for TV executives who need a
- famous, yet ultimately bland presenter for their new, bland show. TPFAO
- usually spends its formative years in the doldrums of GMTV or daytime TV
- before being promoted to the dizzying heights of a low budget, low
- ratings special somewhere after the News At Ten. If they are succesful
- in this late-night spot, the TV company will remember their name and
- wheel them out as the emergency presenter for their latest crap show.
- However little knowledge they have of the subject of the show they will
- be presenting is, TPFAO will gladly accept the challenge and
- subsequently muddle through the show by grinning inanely into the camera
- or glowing a strange shade of orange after they have used too much sun
- tan cream to make themselves look bronzed.
-
- Notable entries:
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- $affEammon Holmes - GMTV, Oddballs, How Do They Do That? etc. Genial
- Eammon is ITV`s top choice for their worst schedule fillers. After
- cutting his teeth in the cutthroat world of breakfast television, he has
- graduated to a number of grannies favourite shows.
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- Carol Smillie - The National Lottery Midweek, everything else Carol
- graduated from daytime TV to become the presenter of the midweek lottery
- draw. Her strangely white teeth and huge grinning mouth have scared so
- many small children with their unnatural features that more children now
- hide behind the sofa when this show comes on than even in Doctor Who`s
- scariest episodes.
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- Carol Vordermann - Countdown, Every BBC show Another Carol, but sshe
- took a different route to fame... from humble beginnings as the human
- calculator on Countdown, she soon started taking every presenting job
- going on the BBC. She was sacked from Tomorrows World. Unpertubed, she
- went on to present numerous shows on the paranormal and computers.
- Currently lurking around the midweek lottery show with the Smillie
- woman.
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- $9f0|1-Type two:
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- $faf|1-Smug Git
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- $ff9Smug Git is usually aged between 25 and about 50. Smug Git is also
- usually greasy, fat or short. He usually will have been in other highly
- skilled jobs before becoming a presenter, but he will have been crap at
- it. The strangest thing about Smug Git is that they have very little to
- be smug about. This makes us watch their shows to see the pathetic ones
- squirming their way through it. This of course does not apply to all
- Smug Gits, some can present quite well. Most can't.
-
- Notable entries:
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- $affClive Anderson - Whose line is it anyway?, All Talk, Talks Back etc.
- Clive Anderson is the most famous Smug Git. A failed lawyer, he went on
- to present a good improvisation show and a chat show on Channel Four.
- He later transferred his chat show to BBC1, and it's format did not
- change at all. Most recently, the BeeGees saw that they were dealing
- with a Smug Git and walked off his show
-
- Noel Edmonds - Noel's House Party, Swap Shop, Christmas Presents...
- Noel Edmonds, ex Radio One DJ and kids TV show now owns a TV production
- company to allow him to inflict his awful brand of humour upon us. The
- fact that his main show is no longer funny does not occur to him, and he
- continues to present it in the way that he has done since 1990. He
- cancelled his own show 24 hours before it was due to go out last week.
- It was replaced with a 50 minute `best of` show...irony anyone?
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- $eff|1-Type Three:
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- $bff|1-Childrens BBC presenter
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-
- $af0When Zoe Ball was on TFI Friday a while back, Chris Evans asked the
- question we all wanted to know...Why do all CBBC presenters look camp?
- Don`t believe me...Name one of them who doesn`t look like one of Dale
- Winton`s `special` friends. This category doesn`t really need any
- notable entries, as every single one of them falls into the category,
- and I`m not about to write about every presenter. Unless I get really
- bored. Then you`d be in trouble...
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-
-
- $effOK, I think that`s quite enough for now. If anyone wants to add some,
- do so. I know that there are lots more out there, it`s just I`ve got
- some more articles to edit, and it`s late at night.
-
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- T0ffee B0y
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- $fffend
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