Today’s Sitting Tennants: People Like Us, teasing Graham Norton, and at the BAFTAs

15 May 2009 Rob Buckley Sitting Tennant 11 Comments

David Tennant in People Like Us

David Tennant and Graham Norton

David Tennant at the BAFTAs

Time once again to admire acclaimed Scottish actor David Tennant and his amazing ability to avoid standing up. We have three pictures today, now that Ms Jaradel has managed to pick herself up and activate her patented “Pictures of David Tennant sitting down finder”. The first is from People Like Us and appears to show some very unsubtle paparazzi, the second shows David Tennant trying to get Graham Norton’s attention, while the third sees our David mesmerised at the BAFTAs by a particularly exciting group of Lithuanian knife throwers, demonstrating their skills on Fern Britton.

Despite Ms Rullsenberg’s attempt to skew the scores by captioning her own picture, no inspiration points to be awarded this time since both of last week’s pictures were captioned an equal number of times by everyone else. So that means the picture leaderboard now stands as follows:

  1. Rullsenberg: 21.5
  2. Jaradel: 17.5
  3. Sister Chastity: 16.5
  4. Rosby: 2.5
  5. Persephone: 1

Back in witty caption land, Toby got the 10 points award for best usage of the world’s smallest pigs in a caption; witty points went to Marie for picture 1 and Rev for his slightly macabre caption for picture 2. That gives us a points board that looks suspiciously like this:

  1. Toby: 121.5
  2. Marie: 105
  3. Rullsenberg: 69.5
  4. Jane Henry: 62.5
  5. Persephone: 45.5
  6. Jaradel: 38.5
  7. Electric Dragon: 25
  8. Rev/Views 19
  9. Scott: 3
  10. Aaron: 2
  11. almostwitty.com: 1

Ten bonus points will be awarded this week to the person who comes up with the best caption involving Nigerian fraud, beauty queens and/or surfers who rescue kangaroos.

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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