Awfully Good Clips?

It's Friday night, and I'm at home.  That fact alone is sad enough (though really I don't much care about being "sad" as long as I'm spending my time the way I want to), but on the TV in the background is 'David Walliams: Awfully Good Ads'.  Why?  Well, there's nothing else on unless you count 'Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps' or a documentary on Benny Hill, and I don't.  But 'David Walliams: Awfully Good Ads' is actually just plain awful.  Just strange shark-eyed David Walliams presenting a series of 'awfully good ads' from yesteryear, including Barbra Streisand making a 1970's appeal for "retarded people" and that more recent weird Orangina ad featuring lapdancing zebras.

And as it plays on in the background I'm reminded of just how much I hate clip shows where the presenter talks all over the clips in a silly voice, as if they consider the audience so stupid that we have to be told what was so funny about each particular clip.  It's like watching telly with the smuggest person you know sat right next to you and bleating in your ear every five seconds.  David comes close, but the most annoying offender is Harry Hill on 'You've Been Framed!', with that grating stuttery hiccupy voice that always makes me feel like punching him in the face (but I'm sure he's lovely really!).  Not that I really watch 'You've Been Framed!", though I did in the 90s when it first started (my excuse then was that it was new, and I was a kid).  But my husband still likes to watch it now, and I swear that whenever I catch a glimpse of it they're still using the same clips they did when the show was being presented by Jeremy Beadle.  What's happened?  Surely there's been a steady plethora of wedding mishaps, kids covering themselves in their dinner and fathers getting whacked between the legs with a cricket bat since 1992?  Why are we still watching people in A-ha T-shirts and shell suits hilariously tripping themselves up and falling into the nearest stream?

But back to David Walliams and his 'Awfully Good Ads', which I assume (and hope) is an ironic title.  So far I haven't seen my current 'worst' ads featured on the programme, which are that stupid Harvester one where they try to make the staff sound like they're rapping about the salad bar, and the Confused.com one with the cartoon singer who inexplicably only has about five strands of hair whilst her cartoon audience are all blessed with full sets of tresses.  Very confusing (.com).

(God, I really should get out more).