Today’s Sitting Tennant (from Rullsenberg, Sister Chastity and Jaradel): Comic Relief

20 March 2009 Rob Buckley Sitting Tennant, UK TV 33 Comments

Ms Rullsenberg's entry

David Tennant on Comic Relief

David Tennant on Comic Relief

Gosh. It seems that nothing can excite fans of David Tennant in a sedentary position more than him in a white suit, pulling faces for charity. Within a matter of minutes of Comic Relief last Friday (although, in some cases, the number of minutes was as high as 8,000), Mesdames Rullsenberg and Jaradel as well as Sister Chastity were seeking to wow the world and dominate Sitting Tennant with pictures of one of its hosts – clue, not Davina McCall.

In fact, we have so many Comic Relief pics, I’ve had to ration our submitters to one each per Sitting Tennant, so we might have to have a mid-week Sitting Tennant next week. Would that be popular? Let me know.

Anyway, with topicality bonuses, that gives us the following picture leaderboard:

  1. Rullsenberg: 12.5
  2. Jaradel: 8.5
  3. Sister Chastity: 4.5
  4. Rosby: 2.5

Alas, it seems not even David Tennant’s ‘o’ face is enough to wake Rosby from her coma. Oh well.

Back at the cut and thrust of the captioning competition, Marie got bonus points for wittiest (and maybe very slightly scary) caption for picture 1 while Electric Dragon came through against stiff competition for picture 2. Toby nearly lost marks for a groan-inducing pun, but I felt merciful and stayed his execution at the last minute.

That means we’ve had a couple of position reversals, with Electric Dragon charging (ho ho. Oh crap. A pun. What have I become?) past Rev “still huddled round a candle at his new house” Views and Ms Rullsenberg leaving Persephone behind in the underworld without so much as a glance behind her to see if she’s okay.

  1. Marie: 39.5
  2. Toby: 36
  3. Jane Henry: 32.5
  4. Rullsenberg: 26
  5. Persephone: 24.5
  6. Jaradel: 19
  7. Electric Dragon: 11
  8. Rev/Views 10
  9. Scott: 3
  10. Aaron: 2

As always, captions and new submissions for the gallery, please. Remember, you can submit as many (witty) captions as you like for each and every picture, with topical captions (and pictures of David Tennant in current productions) getting extra marks. The wittiest caption for each picture will get double points. And there’s a bonus point for using Gary Numan lyrics appropriately.

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. You can also enter the witting and amusing captions league table by commenting on existing photos in the gallery.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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