19.2.17 S-Factor: Smugness

The contenders for S-Factor are all desperate to win the title, and if you want to vote for your favourite, then the numbers will come up at the end of the review.

Slick or Oily?

Alastair Stewart manages to squint and deliver a smug, patronising commentary on things, whether related to 'Police, Camera, Action' or his more recent gig, 'Unbelievable Moments Caught On Camera'.  His precious, laboured manner and mincing style of delivering tripe is worthy of a place on the leader board.  In his most recent TV offering, he relayed details of an accident on the mountain, and a rescue that followed.  Avalanche was pronounced more than once - as "Avalonshsh".  What a cuntish fucking offensive utterance.

Superior or Condescending?

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz show Only Connect.  The format of the quiz is interesting, and challenging.  The budget for this programme is obviously miniscule, and apart from VCM's wages, the expenses amount to covering the research and paying a cameraman.  Her annoying tone when posing questions, and uttering prepared claptrap combines to display smugness at an excruciating level.  This is enhanced by a real inability to be 'clever' with smart comments; her wittering is proof to any listener that whatever she thinks of herself, she is simply not entertaining, and NOT funny in the least.  If there is a scriptwriter in the budget, then he/she should be shot.

Cocky or Conceited?

Kevin McCloud must without question be included in anyone's top five, with a smugness level that blows the roof off.  His manner is outrageous at times. and he feels entitled to create monologues that are nauseating.  Someone needs to tell him that he is not Shakespeare, and that his pompous preaching is out of order.  Get over yourself, Kevin.

Precious or Pointless?

Giles Coren, sibling, of Victoria, was equally annoying when he fronted the quiz show 500 Questions.  The prissy way he posed the questions and generally delivered his lines was irritating int he extreme.  Whenever he appears, I find myself grating my teeth.  I have no idea why he is indulged at all, and as is the case with all of the contenders on S-Factor, there is an air of entitlement.


To vote for your favourite, phone the emergency services and plead for his/her instant removal from the world of television.

Call 999 and choose - 01 for Alastair, 02 for Victoria, 03 for Kevin, 04 for Giles,

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