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Funny story: Peter Andre's Plans For The Future

Peter Andre's Plans For The Future

Peter Andre is to be a presenter on Channel 4's new teatime programme, The 5 O'Clock Show. Andre had a stint on flagship daytime programme This Morning as a showbusiness reporter last year following the break up of his marriage to model Katie Price. Andre and Price divorced last September, four-and-a-half years after meeting on reality TV show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! Andre...

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Funny story: Why should we be putting up with all this TV crap? We buy bigger televisions only to see SMALLER pictures!

Why should we be putting up with all this TV crap? We buy bigger televisions only to see SMALLER pictures!

Why are we ALL putting up with this CRAP? Here I am trying to watch an MI5 show on my TV in Canada. We have a fairly large sized TV screen. Or so we bloody well thought. BUT the actual viewing area is about a quarter of our screen coz there are two side-bars advertizing WQLN running down the left and right sides of the freaking screen. Also...there are thick black lines at the top and...

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Funny story: Waterford Falls Off The Map - Crap Journalism Horror

Waterford Falls Off The Map - Crap Journalism Horror

Four years after a Waterford man successfully campaigned to get his home town included on a TV station's weather map, it has disappeared again and a news organisation has failed to find out why. Cian Foley was annoyed that TV3 weather bulletin map...

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Funny story: Midsomer Murders: Barnaby Farewell Blighted by Family Row

Midsomer Murders: Barnaby Farewell Blighted by Family Row

Millions of viewers will tune in to tonight's Midsomer Murders to watch Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby's final case unaware that a family row has almost wrecked the farewell celebrations. Barnaby is retiring from Causton CID after umpteen years inves...

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Funny story: Don't Cry For Me Chicagoland: Rahm The Mon's Mayoral Bandwagon Leaves The Building, And Heads For The Farther Sun and Way Out There West Coast

Don't Cry For Me Chicagoland: Rahm The Mon's Mayoral Bandwagon Leaves The Building, And Heads For The Farther Sun and Way Out There West Coast

HOLLYWOOD - Have no fear Mr. and Mrs. Concerned Chicagoland Citizen, and greater Cook County lost ships at sea. Even though, your erstwhile, almost, but not quite, fearless leader, Rahm Emanuel's bid for the top dog, Chi-Town mayoral prize has apparently met with a major it-can bump in the road, due to his untimely failure to satisfy certain have to be there residency requirements, the longti...

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Funny story: Miranda's Comedy Awards Baffle Producers

Miranda's Comedy Awards Baffle Producers

Miranda Hart's success at the British Comedy Awards at the weekend has left producers completely baffled. Hart picked up three awards for her show Miranda - Best Comedy Actress, Best New TV Comedy and The People's Choice Award. The show, which...

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Funny story: MTV's New Teen Show "Skins" Has Already Lost Nine of Its Ten Sponsors

MTV's New Teen Show "Skins" Has Already Lost Nine of Its Ten Sponsors

NEW YORK CITY - The Big Apple Globe Gazette, a New York City based entertainment publication has stated that the new MTV show Skins may soon be cancelled. The show which recently premiered has already managed to offend the decency advocate group A...

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Funny story: Parents Television Council Shows its True Skin

Parents Television Council Shows its True Skin

Los Angeles, January 23, 2011. On Thursday, the Parents Television Council issued a warning about the Viacom/MTV series Skins. It concluded: "Skins may well be the most dangerous television show for children that we have ever seen." I rushed right over to the PTC office to interview two of its Board members, Neon J. Vile, Chairman, and Wanky H. Borker, Token Female. When I was shown in, both we...

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Funny story: Piers Morgan On Oprah? "Hey, I'll Screw Anybody Who's Willing to Come on the Show!"

Piers Morgan On Oprah? "Hey, I'll Screw Anybody Who's Willing to Come on the Show!"

Journalistic Whore Piers Morgan, recently expelled from his home country, made his debut on US television replacing Larry King, and promptly showed why even his mates were sick of him! His debut featured TV diva Oprah Winfrey, the incredible sha...

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Funny story: The Television Arrives in Slubal

The Television Arrives in Slubal

Many sheep were sacrificed in honour of the opening of the countries first the television station in Slubal earlier today. Mayor of Slubal, Papa Benadu, made a speech in which he welcomed Slubal into the 20th century. As electricity has not yet...

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Funny story: Utah Man Bowled Over by Reception

Utah Man Bowled Over by Reception

Special to INS - Eighty-seven-year-old Dummer Bergsteiger, a resident of La Sal, a tiny town in the mountains of southeast Utah, was surprised to find that "super bowl" referred to the football spectacular of that name: "I thought it meant that overs...

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Funny story: Up The Buses!

Up The Buses!

(Or - some TV shows should never be rehashed - because they were so dire in the first place.) UP THE BUSES! Cast: Mum Butler - an old bid who is as daft as a brush. Stan Butler - an ageing lothario who most women wouldn't give a second glance. Hair loaded with Brylcreem. Obsessed with 'crumpet,' A bus driver. Olive - Stan's sister. A bit of a growler who's obviously desperate for a...

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Funny story: QVSee+1 is launched on Freeview

QVSee+1 is launched on Freeview

Popular Shopping channel, QVSee is to launch a +1 (pronounced Plus One) channel that repeats the main QVSee channel, but an hour delayed. "We think that this will be something our viewers would make full use of," said QVSee owner Quentin Victor Se...

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Funny story: Even MORE causes for premature death and heart disease - experts claim

Even MORE causes for premature death and heart disease - experts claim

The risk of heart disease and premature death from any cause doubled for those spending more than fours hours a day glued to a screen, it was claimed. This is very troublesome as the readers of this article will most likely have to put themselves into that risk factor group. All the fun is being taken away from life. One wonders why we should bother living at all. We can't EAT what we wan...

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Funny story: 3DTV Viewers warned to sit back from the screen

3DTV Viewers warned to sit back from the screen

After a series of accidents while watching Dancing on Ice in 3D viewers are being warned to sit back from the TV. "Some of the pirouttes and leg raises can be quite dangerous," said show producer Demi Glissade. "Viewers sat too close could be whip...

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Funny story: 'Have you seen my career?' Wins Ratings War

'Have you seen my career?' Wins Ratings War

Gillian McKeith, Keith Duffy, Dane Bowers, Lofty from Eastenders, Adrian Chiles, and Lorraine Chase are the latest high profile celebrities to feature in the rating busting show "Have you seen my career?". Playing like a mixture of Win, Lose or Dr...

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Funny story: Cable TV

Cable TV

Following his outspoken comments, Liberal Democrat Whipping Boy Vince Cable is to be offered his own Television Channel. Vince's Voice will include features about Politics, the Liberal Democrats, and Ball Room Dancing, as well as his favourite bo...

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