The Hall of the Vastly Overrated

Shakespeare!

Paul McCartney - he gets wheeled out every time there is some national musical event or celebration, but his talent was as part of the Beatles and song-writing with John Lennon, not as a geriatric rock singer.

nanachrissy wash your mouth out.

Annobel I am unrepentant!!

Hmmm.....I do think that Paul McCartney has real talent. His song-writing skills and ability to create atmosphere in his songs and arrangements are quite extraordinary. But he is indeed getting on now and I guess his performance skills (in every direction!?) will be suffering. But, for my money, they can keep on wheeling him out!

Leonard Cohen is the VOR of my choice - how I hate and detest that man with his pseudo-poetry and absence of musical skills!

I agree with Leonard Cohen and Paul McCartney and would like to add

Nicole Kidman (bland)

Graham Norton (waspish)

Jonathan Ross (ego maniac)

Fiona Bruce (nice but go back to newsreading and stop pouting at the camera)

there are more, many many more!!!!

Oh mishap I love him, I used to enjoy getting thoroughly miserable along with him in my youth. My vote for Vastly Overrated goes to Stephen Sondheim, I can't understand why a lot of my friends will go million miles to see one of his shows.

Is there anyone out there we do like?!

of course but perhaps we should have another thread for praise of our favourites and leave this one as a place to unload our dislike and I will add in

Michael Parkinson (hugely overrated and doesn't let his interviewees get a word in always banging on about Barnsley and Cricket and as for the lovely Mary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, Mick Jagger - I have loved him since I was 15 years old!

I now stand up and confess I love Nicholas Parsons. There I've said it out loud, I will go and hide now.

Sorry, missed the last post - yes, perhaps another thread!

Les Miserables -everybody raves about it, but I don't think it has any tunes worth whistling. Also most American so-called "romantic" comedies, anything in 3D, Agatha Christie, Alfred Hitchcock, Jacques Tati, most comedians.

All the "soaps" (sorry Jings)

This is turning into a list of people and things we just don't like, not necessarily what we consider to be overrated!

I love Jaques Tati and looked forward to see M Hulot's holiday or Mon Oncle each christmas. I recently got the holiday DVD so I can watch it when I want. I always associate it with Wimbledon and the sounds of tennis racquets hitting balls on a summer afternoon.

I don't think so Anagram

That's guilt speaking - about the lovely Mary Susie.

Andy Warhol - is it just me who finds his appeal unfathomable?

PS Not sure why I should be feeling guilty about Mary Parkinson

Not you Susie! Parkinson himself! He had an affair, didn't he?

Tracey E of "unmade bed" fame!

Fiona Bruce looks good, sounds good, knows a good deal about most things...and drives me at break-neck speed round the proverbial bend...

Damien Hirst

Did he, jingl? Or are you thinking of Jeffrey Archer? Maybe they're both philanderers....woudn't surprise me!