Yes he did act silly, but so did everybody else.
You have to look beyond just the immediate reactions to see why people act the way they do. If you judge people like that then you really are the same as them.
First of all, his family were there. You could see that he had a sort of contained excitement, which was demonstrated by his returning to the pass on many times. This was also mixed with the annoyance and disappointment because perhaps he thought that Marco thought that he was only good for the mashed potatoes.
Everyone seemed to be on edge tonight as they believed that the sacking was going to happen. I can see why Jodi wanted to feed people on table 4, but perhaps he should have discussed it with the team first of all. Maybe it would of been wiser for Jodi to have just dealt with the anger/frustration/funny mood he was in by just getting on with peeling the potatoes. I can only say this with hindsight after watching them program, because we are all prone, everyone of us, to acting silly and being blind to what we should do. I'm not sure how I would have dealt with it.
I do strongly feel, as a Christian, that they perhaps behaved, subtly in a similar fashion. It wasn't just Jodi who was banding around the insults was it? There was no one to stand up, take Jodi outside, talk with him (not 'to' him otherwise that denotes they are putting themselves on a peddarstool above Jodi and talking down 'to' him) and just cooling the situation down. The others could have stopped heaping their own insults, no matter how they felt, to allow Jodi the time to cool off - not adding fire to fire.
It reminds me of a little example in the Bible.
John 8
1But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" 6They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7When
they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If
any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at
her." 8Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9At
this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones
first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
11"No one, sir," she said.
"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."
To summarise this relevance to my arguement. Yes Jodi was guilty of causing trouble and acting out of order. This is true. But, however, the others acted as hypocrites, so they are just to blame, just as much as Jodi.
I'm just putting my opinion across, seeing that people do not jump to conclusions. I also say that they should bring back Angus Deayton.
Adam