Russell Brand & Jonathan Ross UNCUT Phone Call. Funny (obscene?) calls to Andrew Sachs

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Russell Brand & Jonathan Ross make obscene calls to Fawlty star Andrew Sachs - ofcom to investigate.




Former BBC chat show host Sir Michael Parkinson has called Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand's lewd calls to actor Andrew Sachs "indefensible".
Speaking on Radio 5 Live he branded the calls "obscene, tasteless and unfunny".
He added that he had no sympathy for Brand, who resigned last week, but claimed Ross would bounce back.
"He's very good at his job but he's given to fits of madness now and again." Ross has been suspended from the BBC for 12 weeks without pay.
"In the end what Brand did, and what Jonathan did, was indefensible."

"Jonathan should have more oil in his lamp frankly, more sense," Sir Michael told Eammon Holmes.
"I don't have an opinion on the other guy," he continued. "He's generously called a comedian.
Sir Michael questioned the decision by Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas, who also resigned this week, to hire Brand.

Echoing the comments made by DJ Paul Gambaccini, he said there was a feeling that "sooner or later it would put them in a very embarrassing situation".
"As for Jonathan, he'll come back, he'll be fine."
"With Jonathan what you see is what you get and he's been a popular member of our broadcasting elite now for 20 years or so, so he's got to be doing something right.
But Ross's fellow Radio 2 colleague, Sir Terry Wogan, said star's three-month suspension diminished "not just him, but also his reputation".
He told the Daily Telegraph: "What the BBC have done to Jonathan by the suspension is terminal.
"It is very damaging to him and I would not be surprised if he did not come back."

Meanwhile, former BBC director general Greg Dyke told the Times the BBC risked losing public support over the huge salaries paid to star presenters like Ross.
Ross, the corporation's highest paid presenter, currently earns £6m a year - as part of a three-year contract.
"There is always a price that is too high for a publicly funded organisation to pay," said Dyke, arguing that the BBC "should have said, very reluctantly, goodbye" during the bidding war for Ross.
However, Mr Dyke, who resigned from the BBC following the publication of the controversial Hutton Report in 2004 , maintained the BBC would survive the scandal.
"Over the years the there have been many weeks like this and the BBC has survived and prospered," he said.




Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand are to be suspended and all their shows taken off air until the BBC has investigated their prank calls made on Radio 2.
The news was announced in a statement by director general Mark Thompson.
Meanwhile, Georgina Baillie has told the Sun that Ross and Brand should be sacked over the calls made to her grandfather, actor Andrew Sachs.
Friday's edition of Ross's chat show, due to feature guests Frank Skinner and Miley Cyrus, has been cancelled.


Ofcom, the broadcasting watchdog, announced today that it was launching an investigation into a succession of lewd phone calls made by BBC presenters Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross to Andrew Sachs, the Fawlty Towers actor.

The regulator said that it would probe the calls, which were made during Brands Radio 2 show one week ago, in which the pair left messages for Sachs claiming that Brand had slept with his granddaughter, Georgina Baillie, 23.

Some MPs and media pressure groups have called for Brand and Ross to be sacked, as the row entered its third day showing no signs of abating. One government minister today raised the temperature further by saying the behaviour was not "in keeping with broadcasting".

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[animalrobotghost]

andrew sachs deserves it for having such a dirty cow as a grand daughter

[mrhoggyhoggy]

i think this is the funniest radio show i have heard lol

[drfaustus1992]

this is fucking hilarious

[TaZ101SAGA]

Why did they get in trouble for this - It should have won a comedy award!

[filmsfandisney77]

How is this obscene?? Partially offensive, yes. But not obscene. But to be fair his granddaughter is hardly a saint, is she? Let's be honest! I just think it was a funny, normal prank call. After all they are meant to be offensive, prank calls aren't they. I mean that's the point really, that they are funny and offensive.

[adrenilenepotato]

they seem to be having a genuinely great time,lol admittedly at andrew sachs expense,but georgina is a guaranteed slut,i would never say no to her just googled her,she would get it.he seems like a boring old cunt,up his own arse but about someones grandaughter,he will never look at her the same again,awkward that christamas or what

[PTFCDAZZPTFC]

@Flaminjo5h who's number is that? lol

[whitbyjet65]

Russell Brand....the most unfunny mammal that has ever roamed the Earth.

[bacala777]

SOWWY!

[Flaminjo5h]

07742615052 ima leave this here if anyone gets in the mood to prank call :D