Frank Skinner interviews Helen Mirren and Matthew Kelly. Recorded early 2003.

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When he slips and says "I wish I didn't have anything to hide".

Very weird guy, Mathew

"Talk like people do at the office".... That has sure changed!

Over the last few weeks and months (it's currently Nov 2022) David Baddiel has been on a charm offensive because he, and Frank Skinner, made racist jokes on their 1990s show about footballer Jason Lee. Baddiel recently wrote a book and made a documentary criticising anti-semitic behaviour, however, people have rightly pointed out he's said things that were just as bad making him a hypocrite. This year Skinner admitted in a Guardian interview that he's ashamed of what they did, however, when I look at his Matthew Kelly interview I see him defending the same sort of behaviour. The idea that a comedian can say anything they like because it's only a joke / it's topical is abhorrent particularly when it's the sort of thing that can destroy someone's life. I'm pleased that Matthew Kelly took him to task, however,Skinner had no regrets. Maybe today he'd have a different opinion.

does anyone know where i can watch the gene wilder interview with frank ? ... its not meant to go very well .

He doesn't have a computer, and he doesn't know how they work!
Oh! he's the one!
I believe him!
Yeah right!

Frank is a shit here. And I think he would admit it now.

Why would Kelly be offended if he allegedly didn’t know / hadn’t seen the the joke?

"He shaved his head and beard because he's got nothing to hide. And I would love that to be true......" Oops, Freudian slip there from Matthew.

People make light of all situations, especially bad ones, sometimes it takes the edge of things, but we all know how serious things can get.

Big star, mr Saturday night. Just stopped being on TV one day

Frank went out drinking 🍺 later that evening with Phillip Schofield and Jimmy Savile…..

Is it just me or was the whole show about school boys in some form of another. School boys with hard ons, school boys with toffees, school boys with mobile phones. School boys being abused by Guests.
Matthew Kelly must of known the set up.

Finally, a version of the Kelly showdown that is not too bad quality

A woman who used her sexuality to get by... that's a switch - such fake, false modesty - shes knows she was and is hot

They are just jokes... said the school bully

OOPS!!! (Dame Helen is just what she is... A CLASS ACT and a gifted actress...) HOWEVER, Matthew Kelly really puts Frank Skinner on the spot... (Skinner DID INDEED make jokes about Kelly's arrest, though no charges followed and Kelly was totally exhonerated...) Skinner SHOULD HAVE admitted that that he got it wrong, made an 'off the cuff' bad joke that suggested Kelly's guilt when he wasn't... Look, it's the way 'Live Comedy' works, I don't think Skinner (a very intelligent and natural entertainer) was being malicious or hateful... (But he COULD HAVE owned up...) "It was a bad call, I went for the cheap laugh, if that hurt you, and it obviously did, I unreservedly apologise..." But he didn't say that.

Kelly (1) - Skinner (0)...


xx SF

Always thought frank handled this well, didnt back down and offer a grovelling apology like they would these days, kelly was in the news and skinner being a comedian told a good joke....Kelly comes across as a bit of knob (imo).

Frank says,it's behind you when they re talking about him in Panto

This news is older than the person that Kelly... nevermind

What a beauty Helen is ❤

Frank should have apologised,as they were personal insults ,not jokes .

You have to hope that whoever made that false accusation, paid the price for it. They ruined MK’s career.

Skinner was totally in the wrong here. Fine to joke about everyday celebrity scandals, but this was Matthew Kelly falsely investigated for child sex abuse. Skinner and Baddiel assumed him to be guilty and spent a lot of the show projecting Kelly as a creepy child molester. It was plain wrong and disgusting and Skinner should have apologised. Skinner and Baddiel have form in this bullying, google Jason Lee.

The jokes, and I use the term "jokes" loosely, by Baddiel and Skinner about Matthew Kelly were low shots to get cheap laughs out of the sixth formers, Sun readers and chavs at their shows. You'd think Frank and David would've had the decency to see how the police investigation over the false allegation panned out before making crap jokes about it that only appeals to the lowest common denominator, their audience, about Matthew. As we all know a month after Matthews arrest he was cleared of all charges. There was media fallout and public criticism over Matthews treatment which was actually raised as a motion in parliament to consider ways to protect the anonymity of those investigated until formally charged with an offence. But Frank and David make a couple of crap jokes over it that in hindsight were infamously shit.