Nominations for retirement in 2013

Yes to Jeremy Clarkson, obnoxious (bad word)

But accurate.......

Well I didn't know it PHOENIX!

Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks Keith Richards is the coolest man on the planet crimson one of those who is cooler now than when he was young. Must put in a word for Chris Packham though

Jeremy Clarkson is just awful. Can't stand him. Let's retire him.

I am so glad to see I am not alone in my absolute dislike (and more) of Clarkson. Only one word comes to mind, twit, but with a vowel change .

The Stones still have it all - yes, older and behaving like kids, but somehow it works. A friend of mine recently met Keith Richard and says he is absolutely delightful.

Come to think of it, now you mention Steven Fry, and thinking about BBC panel games... lets retire Paul Murton, Ian Hislop, Alan Davies etc. It is such a blooming boys club and they seem to have lost their edge. Saw HIGNFY a couple of times recently and the only bright thing was Charlotte Church in the chair, who was brilliant.
More Charlotte fewer Groucho club members please.
Oh and the horrible Jonathan Ross, while I am laying into boys club on TV. Way past. Really.

Agree Jeremy Clarkson and would add another Jeremy .....Vine. What a pompous ass! Sorry JessM I like Ian Hislop and Paul Merton, but will allow Alan Davies. I thought 'oh no' when I saw Charlotte Church was in the chair, but she really surprised me. She was a delight.

Retire the BBC itself ...the Corporation is so tatty and out-of -date and irresponsible that all top-flight directors and ex-govenors should be indicted for abuse of contract...we, afterall,are their paymasters and the programmes,editors and especially GOVERNORS are not fit for purpose

Perhaps 2013 will be the year that Bruce Forsyth sees the light and decides to call it a day. He is an embarrassment to watch on Strictly Come Dancing-come on Bruce, stand aside and let a younger and more attractive man take over. We have all heard his jokes a hundred times before and are no longer remotely funny (even when he gets them right-which is not very often) Lets see Anton take over the reins!!!!!

NO, I need to see Anton dancing!

Another panel dominated by men, with the women being changed several times...

Please, please, please get Stephen Fry to opt for early retirement, I will even make a donation to his redundancy/retirement pay off. He used to be such a witty clever man he is now a pompous,self-satisfied bore. David Attenborough from a different start point has also reached the same state as Stephen Fry.

How about Joan Rivers and her annual facelifts, never looks the same two days running.

Bruce Forsythe has to go. He was so rude to the contestants after the final of SCD, telling them all to 'back off', several times and the show was much better the week he wasn't in it. Also all singers, mostly male it seems, who imagine they have the same voice and appeal that they had about 40 or more years ago. Paul McCartney, Elton John and Cliff Richards were really dire at Jubilee / Olympic celebrations. John Humphrys has to stay, mornings just wouldn't be the same.

And someone please retire Billy Connolly (as a comedian). He can carry on as an actor for a while longer. He was just embarrassing on the Graham Norton show a week or so ago. Room 101.

I agree with Bruce Forsyth, he passed his best years ago, sorry to say I think Paul Mc.Cartney should bow out too, he was very good but the last few times he has performed oh dear, he should give up now before he becomes a laughing stock, & did anyone see Petula Clark on New Years Eve, with Jules Holland, it was painful, got to admire their belief in themselves tho. I couldn't get out their and perform., so your ears are safe from that, O.H. reckons I sing like a scalded cat, lol.

Never mind the age. Can we just not have some people on all the time - Matt Baker and Julia Bradbury spring to mind. On the other hand Alan Titchmarsh can stay.

Happy New Year, everyone! Yes please, let's retire Jeremy Clarkson, preferably from an aeroplane at 20,000 feet. And Billy Connelly (I agree, just as a "comedian" - never found him funny, largely because he laughs at his own jokes, which can destroy the funniest ones).

I still laugh at the very first joke I heard Billy Connolly tell on Michael Parkinson. And he deserves a medal for putting up with Pamela Stevenson.

I always thought it was the other way round! Yes, you're right, some of his jokes are funny, but he shouldn't laugh at them himself - it drives me nuts!!

That's what I can't stand about him. But he was ground breaking when he first started and, supposedly, when he goes to the fishing tackle shop at Alnwick everyone just stops and listens and laughs themselves stupid for the duration. I prefer deadpan humour myself [Paul Merton, Jack Dee for example]. Although Tommy Cooper was pretty good thinking about it.

kittylester what was the joke? [memory gap emoticon]

It was about a man who killed his wife because she nagged so much. He buried her with her bum in the air so he had somewhere to park his bike! He told it better than I ever could.

One for the Leicester folks - Engelbert Humperdinck - I think he's got the message though .

Reminder : don't forget to watch David Attenborough's new series, Africa at 9pm tonight.

Just a word in support of Engelbert, though I agree he needs to retire now. When I was a student I had a summer job in one of the big hotels in a seaside resort. We used to get all the stars staying as they were performing locally. Engelbert was the nicest, politest of them all. A real 'gentleman'. The rudest and most arrogant was Tom Jones, a thoroughly nasty little man.