Twitter suffering chronic banality, diagnoses Dr House
'I don't understand the purpose of it', admits Hugh Laurie
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Brit thesp and House star Hugh Laurie has told the BBC he's not that impressed with microblogging Web 0.2 phenomenon Twitter, even though he maintains a profile there.
Speaking to Radio 4's Front Row programme, Laurie described himself as "bothered by the social cost of every tweet", explaining: "As I look around my friends' tweets I see banality on all sides. I don't understand the purpose of it."
He added: "I think if people were able to take these 140 characters and develop a poetic Western form - a haiku of our own in which all human existence could be compressed into those 140 characters - that would be a satisfying thing, but that's not what I see when I read them."
Laurie did, though, reserve some praise for his chum and former comedy partner Stephen Fry's tweets, describing them as "the absolute best - the cream of the crop".
Asked if he and Fry, who shared TV screen space in A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster, might hook up again, Laurie concluded: "We love to do things together, but we're just hopeless planners."
You can enjoy the full interview on Front Row tomorrow at 19:15 BST. ®
COMMENTS
Talking of Stephen Fry...
I recently read a very astute quote about the king twatter: "Stephen Fry is a stupid person's idea of what a clever person is like"
Exactly! There is a difference between, on the one hand, a ready wit and a pub-quiz-like ability to remember trivia and, on the other, genuine cleverness and erudition.
The thing that really gave Fry away (apart from his incomprehensible lust for the assinine and plug-ugly Alan Davies) was his moronic and gushing encomium to Saint Jade when Britain's favourite slut-chav-bitch shuffled off the coil in a blaze of toe-curlingly tacky hysteria. Christ, even Ol' Mother Kray's funeral had more style and dignity!
Let me summarise my thesis in just 82 characters:
Twatter away, you smug posh fat twat - and may your tweets come back to haunt you.
@elderlybloke
> Can't see any point in it, except of a way to fill in time when you can not think of anything useful to do.
Isn't that El Reg?
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