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Thank you Howard. You would be a great contender for our Facebook group. You could start a thread called Who is Dom Joly? If you are a member of facebook simply search 'dom joly, mettle, weston' and it will come up.
I re-read the article in The Independant and someone called Matt Stone had replied with:
*Being a resident of Weston who from a brief time escaped the town, only to be dragged back to finish my sentence, I'm now glad to see that I'm not the only person that see's this place for what it is! Someone has even started a facebook group and its now made the headlines of the local paper!
Keep telling it like it is!
Posted by Matt Stone*
I WROTE THE LETTER BELOW - LETS SEE IF THEY FEATURE IT.
Re Dom Joly's comments on Weston Super Mare and the Reply by Matt Stone.
I would be interested to know how Matt Stone was 'dragged back' to Weston-Super-Mare.
It would appear he has the same talent for lame fantasy that Dom Joly does.
Only a fool would be hoodwinked by Mr Joly's tales. His comment that he drank himself into a stupor is most telling of his whole article.
Our facebook group shows videos of the parkour jumpers in Weston, and frankly, the young of Weston, instead of vandalising the town, or just wandering about slating it, have found a sport to engage in without much need for equipment.
Parkour is a physical skill, cardiovascular workout, you need to be sober and free of drugs to execute the skillful moves. Mr Joly on the other hand is clearly a middle aged, overweight, unfit man. He shuffles round the golf course with his sycophantic mates who think he is a genius - then they all retire for the evening to get incredibly drunk.
Mr Joly's work is continually interspersed with alcohol related events. We the non-naive of Weston can see that he dressed up people in animal costumes; shouted "Hello, no its rubbish, Ciao" into a large telephone in various locations; and put up a sign to cut hair and ignored the people who queued. That was repeated twelve times, chopped up in the editing room and branded a series called Trigger Happy.
Take away the music and costumes - what have you got? Boring nothing.
Since then he has been in a reality television programme where he: Went and took photos of his celeb friends in the pub.
A weak impression of Mark Thomas. A weak impression of Candid Camera. A weak impression of Michael Palin. A weak impression of The Landlord/Pub. A weak impression of Timewaster Letters with his Letters To My Golf Club book.
Mr Joly was briefly entertaining in the first episode of Trigger Happy, after that, it was more of the same.
He is now bringing out a Golf DVD to flog to the hapless fools of Britain to buy for eachother for christmas.
While the middle aged, middle spreaded people are fawning over Mr Joly, we the vibrant people of Weston will be dancing at T4 on the beach with great bands, doing parkour, running around the beach, raising families, and having a great time. We welcome the people of england and the world to our sunny resort town and to our hearts.
We have had visits by the Annes this month. Ann Widdecombe who holidayed here as a girl, came and enjoyed Weston sunshine. Princess Anne was here to visit also.
Dom Joly may convince himself that there was something lacking in Weston, but it is probably because he was filming something unexciting in a street at the end of the day, and he got upset because he didn't attract anyone interesting to worship him.
Maybe he should have worn a teddy bear outfit and someone might have given him a hug.
Weston-Super-Mare has a great comedian who hailed from our happy town. His name: John Cleese. Sorry Dom, you just don't compare. That man is a genius.
Or search 'Dom Joly, mettle, weston' - it is fun, come join.
Joanna.
p.s. Please post this on your website Independant - we dare you!
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