When Faldo first started doing golf play by play I found him refreshing and interesting - maybe to a large degree because it turned out his personality was so different from what many of us who only watched him during his playing career would have guessed. I never much liked Paul Azinger, but he worked well with Faldo at ABC. Since Faldo has been at CBS and Golf Channel though he has become increasingly obnoxious and hard to take.
Like many Americans I still can not accurately place and catalog various British accents, so I am not sure of Faldo's original background and social class. I know he now is very wealthy and politically conservative. What I am wondering is the context in which to place his on-air personality. He seems almost unable to listen to what the people around him are saying and even briefly inhibit what he wants to say. He talks over other commentators, and consistently refuses to take or follow informal cues and leads about the direction the other guy wants to take things in. I have never taken an improv class, but he seems like one of the worst possible kinds of improv partners. So, my question is, is this a function of some British upper class cultural pattern, some kind of upper class eccentricity and fuzziness, or is he just an asshole? He has some characteristics in common with that old cliche of the British Imperial class - kind of like the Commander McBragg character in those shorts during Underdog cartoons. But then it seems sometimes like his accent is more lower class. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
