Brendon Burns bloody rocks! With what he was given to work with on that I'm A Celebrity show – he did fucking brilliantly! It just shows how TV heads can fuck up when trying to restrain a comedian and artist such as he. It would have been better to let him do his thing, interview guests in his own way and do what comes naturally to him and not try and force him into the mould of every other boring ‘Yawn’ television host! Good for Brendon for going, being true to himself and not setting aside what makes him so great in order to stay and do a show like that - where high energy, individualism, intelligence and extreme wit were obviously ruled by the TV heads as ‘ skills we don’t like in a host’ By choosing to try and turn said host into a fuckwit (and good for Brendon for not letting them succeed) they lost out on what could have been a fantastic show. \r\n\r\nAnd anyone that would rather see the cabbage that they put on last night, or anyone else of the same type, does not deserve to criticise Brendon, nor in fact to speak his name – because they are clearly have the intelligence and humour of a semolina pudding!\r\n\r\nBrendon you are still a favourite of mine and many! Keep up what you do best and stay fucking brilliant
SammyD, November 2006
Really not surprised he got fired from I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here Now, it was the worst TV I\ve ever seen. Dont think he is going to get any more work in a hurry.
Jackie Fenwick, November 2006
I saw Monday night's I'm A Celebrity... thing and was so funny!\ You could see that he had been told to keep it tame. I just wished they'd let him go for it.
Rattydave, November 2006
Saw him on I'm a Celeb Now last night, never seen such car crash telly in my life! The audience werent laughing, he can't read autocue, it was painful to watch - dont think his TV career is going to go far!
Luke Byrnes, November 2006
I just saw him at the garrick, he was funny in the way your mate is when he's descibing a good night out,but this wore thin. By the end, when he seemed to be proclaiming himself to be the greatest comedian of his generation, it was simply embarrassing.He needs to pull his head out of his arse and write some good material. I've heard some people comparing him to Bill Hicks, Thats like comparing Rolf Harris toLeonardo Da Vinci. No matter how personal or preachy Hicks got, he always had killer jokes to go with it,and it was this that made him the comedian of his generation. If anybody wants to see a great comedian go see Kitson or buy a Chris Rock DVD.
ian, October 2006
This guy opened the Cape Town International Comedy festival "Danger Zone" Fresh out of drug rehab, (London's upper class overpriced Priory). He misreads his audience, and portrays an even more arrogant and ignorant attitude and he exhudes all the pretentiousness of a wannabe comedian who has never hit the big time- and certainly never will. His overbearing, condescending and agonizing stage presence succeeded in only one thing...It took away the limelight from the other truly brilliant comedians and ruined the momentum of the show. Sure he might gain a few laughs, but he will never have an audience in hysterics- which was the whole advertised point of the venue. Bottom line is I cannot believe that the general public were conned into paying lots of money to hear him at the expense of other performer...T ime for him to hang up the mike and find a real job.
Peter O., September 2006
He just gets better and better. A complete legend. His show is so funny I think I peed a little bit. Unbelievably clever and on the mark at all times. Seriously intelligent, quick thinking and expressive. His abuse ranges from the crude and the rude to deeply involved diatribes - even if you are too slow to understand the astuteness underneath, you can still laugh at the surface rants. The mans brain must be like an information soaked spongy vortex that absorbs everything and throws it back out in the form of a hilarious observation wrapped up in a comedy genius bow. Funny as fuck
Cat, September 2006
Anyone looking for pointers as to the quality of Burns' comedy should refer to his little addendum to Ben Stevens' comment (below)
