I saw it once - that was enough. It could've been very funny, but someone chose Westwood to present it, so it's never gonna be any good.
I'm another one who hasn't got any time for Tim Westwood.
Wikipedia has a nice piece about him...
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Criticisms
Westwood is viewed by many as a narcissist and misogynist clown who pretends to be black. His caricature "street" persona has served only to reinforce prejudices about hip-hop music and alienate potential listeners. Some hip hop music fans (especially alternative hip hop fans) argue that he has been an unsuccessful advocate of hip hop and that he has allowed it to be seen as violent, sexist, wealth obsessed, lowest common denominator entertainment with no redeeming social value. Westwood has been accused of neglecting alternative hip hop in favour of popular, commercially successful recordings which can be heard on non-rap radio. Specifically, he has been criticised for playing many Def Jam tracks, even non-rap recordings, when he was signed to a sister record label. Opponents claim that he plays recordings that are of little interest to his target audience for personal financial gain.
Westwood's background is also the object of frequent derision. He speaks with a somewhat America-accented English, which belies his upper middle class Anglo-Saxon origins - his father, William John Westwood was the Anglican Bishop of Peterborough until 1996. Westwood and his ilk are often cited as the basis of the Ali G persona. It has been claimed that he orchestrated the incident in which he was shot in order to increase his street credibility.
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