Who is Lucas North?: The grumpiest man on telly.
Even the safest man on telly, Phillip Schofield, was mocking it on Twitter.
Just the other day, on Ground Force, he announced, 'I'll have you know I'm the sexiest man on telly after George Clooney.' He didn't actually explain the basis for this statement because he was too busy toshing up a topiary peacock at the time, but I asked him afterwards, and he said it was from some television survey quoted in The Daily Telegraph.
In terms of its appeal – well, you could say the humour here derives simply from seeing famous men on primetime telly sniggering and saying juvenile things.
She mentions the irrefutably heterosexual Joanna Lumley as one "lesbian icon", based on the fact that a) Lumley had a Purdey haircut, which broke the orthodoxy of the awful curling-tonged style so popular among young women at the time and b) used to kickbox men on the telly.
Try not to pick the better looking guys on the team; your boyfriend will just think you're watching because there are fit men on the telly.
My first idol was Dick Emery, this man on the telly who was a sexpot one minute, then a vicar with dodgy teeth.
iPhone / iPad A gameshow-themed fruit machine starring Roger Mellie: the Man on the Telly?
For a full hour, our man on the telly pumps the former writer for Morecambe and Wise and Tommy Cooper for every drop of his wisdom on why people laugh.
Including classic strips and preparatory sketches for characters such as 'Roger Mellie, the Man on the Telly' and 'The Fat Slags', not to mention the inside deal on the lawsuits such material provoked, the book is an incongruously classy look at the self-styled 'shittest magazine in the country'.
