Brilliant new episode of The Trip. Every episode has surprised me in some way, done something new to make me look forward to the next.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 11:46 (thirteen years ago) link
oh snap
― rip whiney g weingarten 03/11 never forget (history mayne), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 11:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked the limestone guy but this was the first episode that really felt like treading water to me.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link
^ditto
― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 07:31 (thirteen years ago) link
As much as I liked it at first, I can't help but feel they'd exhausted the concept three episodes in.
― unpredictable johnny rodz, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 08:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I dunno if it was treading water. I think the Coogan character is treading water. He faultered so often, it looked like his heart wasn't in the usual impression banter, the comments seemed more barbed, less humorous, more meant. Brydon noticed COggan was on the rocks (do you see aaaaah) and was being nice in the way that competitive blokes are nice ie not being very nice at all but thinking they are. I thought this episode was beautiful.
― I'm being a smartass here, but in a fun way (NotEnough), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 08:58 (thirteen years ago) link
agreed. i don't know if its gripping television or anything, but there's a definite subtle evolution to the characters as the show wears on, and so the repeated format of the shows - their banter, the dinners, the impressions - is different every time: more tense, darker in today's episode. there's a melancholy to the coogan character as well which offers a nice side of pathos, tempered by the fact that he's not entirely a sympathetic character.
i'm really enjoying it. not desperate to watch last night's episode again, unlike the first couple, which had me helpless with laughter again on the second watch.
― it ain't about the sauce it's about the danger (stevie), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 09:47 (thirteen years ago) link
So, did anyone watch Tramadol Nights? We watched it last night, and just kind of sat looking at it going "uh, wtf?" a lot. Sketches were uniformly terrible, about two lols in the stand-up bit, mostly seemed to be based upon the desire for an (unsuccessful) attempt to out-Sadowitz The Pallbearer's Revue just for the hell of it.
― ailsa, Friday, 3 December 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
i did. enjoyed the bit about burning bush etc. then spent the rest of the time just looking at his lack of beard whilst unfunny things happened. audience seemed to like it.
is repeated tonight.
― koogs, Friday, 3 December 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Burning bush bit was one of the lolz, the "in the Village People?!" comeback to the camp fireman the other. Was losing the will to live by the end of the Knight Rider sketch.
― ailsa, Friday, 3 December 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a Knight Rider sketch?! Cutting edge, man.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Friday, 3 December 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
mostly seemed to be based upon the desire for an (unsuccessful) attempt to out-Sadowitz The Pallbearer's Revue just for the hell of it
'Doing' Jerry Sadowitz is Frankie Boyle's entire career surely? I don't pay much attention to him, so maybe I'm wrong
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 December 2010 10:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I suppose. He didn't used to be quite so nihilistic, I'm sure.
― ailsa, Saturday, 4 December 2010 10:19 (thirteen years ago) link
guy's got approx 1hr of good material and he hammers it a lot. wouldn't've called him exackly Sadowitz-esque but I find Jerry more endearing tbh
― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 December 2010 10:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I used to actually find Boyle a wee bit endearing and likeable, whereas now it's all just "fuck you world" with no let-up. Sadowitz is the nearest lazy comparison I could find, and I'd be surprised if he wasn't a clear influence on Boyle.
― ailsa, Saturday, 4 December 2010 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, The Pallbearer's Revue was what came to my mind when I watched TN as well (I didn't think that quite worked either). But the sketches in this were so drawn out and aimless, and, my god, the Green Mile skit... bizarre.
― like an ant to a crumb (DavidM), Saturday, 4 December 2010 10:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Sadowitz is the nearest lazy comparison I could find, and I'd be surprised if he wasn't a clear influence on Boyle
Well I know one person who certainly thinks so. Glaswegian. Big nose. Top hat.
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 December 2010 10:46 (thirteen years ago) link
The Green Mile thing was just eye-widenly toe-curlingly WTF-inducingly fucking batshit. Oh, and not funny.
― ailsa, Saturday, 4 December 2010 10:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Couldn't sit through Tramadol Nights...I find unfunny comedy excruciatingly painful -almost akin to social embarrassment, for some reason.
― Bob Six, Saturday, 4 December 2010 13:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Last episode of The Trip was the best one I reckon.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 02:40 (thirteen years ago) link
The closing intercutting between Lonely Coogan and Fulfilled Brydon was so overegged my television set developed salmonella.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 12:26 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R2dsmggw6E
― specifically, the word talking (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 12:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I presume it was an homage.
― specifically, the word talking (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 12:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Jordan taking her lawyers to Frankie Boyle over a joke he made about her son. Am slightly surprised this is the story and not a really unfunny sketch solely building up to a punchline which involved wanking Jesus on the cross, tbh. Where's all the Jerry Springer The Opera nutters when you need them (to laugh at)? If, as is suspected, this is Frankie Boyle's career suicide by TV, he's completely failed at even outraging people.
Tramadol Nights is really really painfully unfunny. Two episodes in and I'm not sure I can even watch it out of morbid curiosity now.
― ailsa, Thursday, 9 December 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
sadly yes - ruined it a bit for me, but this felt like the least eventful episode also
― modrić in paradise (blueski), Thursday, 9 December 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
biggest lol probably coogan's tom jones
― modrić in paradise (blueski), Thursday, 9 December 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
http://m.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a292045/frankie-boyle-comedy-slips-below-1m.html
― like an ant to a crumb (DavidM), Thursday, 9 December 2010 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
980,000 for a Channel 4 show at 10pm is a triumph tbh
― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 December 2010 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
unless there's a Hollyoaks Tits Oot special, obv.
i saw 2nd tramadol. that was NOT JESUS on the cross, it said on the sign above him. but yes, stuck for something funny? throw in some wanking. (george michael sketch in week one, time travel sketch week two)
also"Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights averaged 980k (4.7%) for Channel 4 from 10pm, down 380k week-on-week. A further 159k (1.4%) watched the show an hour later."
can the people writing the "below 1m" headline not add up?
― koogs, Thursday, 9 December 2010 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Why is Dirk Gently now a TV adaptation?
― Defecate on Myspace (Schlafsack), Thursday, 16 December 2010 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.radiotimes.com/ListingsServlet?event=20&channelId=47&programmeName=Dirk%20Gently&startTime=16/12/2010%2021:00&jspLocation=/jsp/prog_details_fullpage.jsp&jspError=/jsp/error.jsp
― Defecate on Myspace (Schlafsack), Thursday, December 16, 2010 1:07 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
Because it might be good? Or at least sell some DVDs.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Thursday, 16 December 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
It could definitely be good but my expectations are not high.
― I mean Emma Watson Premier League fit (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 16 December 2010 01:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Did anyone else watch Desperate Fishwives or was it just me? Probably no more hit and miss than Limmy or Burnistoun, but somehow funnier.
Talking of which, is it Burnistoun bloke that's in the sketches on Tramadol Nights?
― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Thursday, 23 December 2010 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Never seen Burnistoun, but Tramadol Nights guy is the guy who does (bad) standup as the Reverend Obadiah Steppenwolf.
― ailsa, Thursday, 23 December 2010 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
bring back craig hill
― conrad, Thursday, 23 December 2010 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
ok don't just get rid of all this shite an aw
― conrad, Thursday, 23 December 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/23/frankie-boyle-tramadol-nightsPretty much had enough of this fellow now. I can see what he was trying to do but it was such a hamfisted and unfunny way of making a point which is frankly already very old.
― specifically, the word talking (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 23 December 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
This cutting edge comedy...
I mean, come on C4, even you must know that this is a lie.
― specifically, the word talking (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 23 December 2010 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
dude just wants to use 'racial epithets' on telly, seriously doubt his humanitarian concerns
― Jefferson Mansplain (DG), Thursday, 23 December 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Looked up his picture and naw, Burnistoun bloke is Robert Florence.
I watched a bit of ep 2 of TN when nothing else was on and I was too lazy to change channels, and it was a bag of shite.
― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Thursday, 23 December 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
how are skits based on The A Team cutting edge in any way?
― koogs, Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
reminds me of the bo selecta sketch in which bo selecta was dressed up like dennis norden and the joke was that dennis norden is old - think bo selecta even had a drip like old people do. I flicked past this and was so offended by how unfunny it was that I wrote an email of complaint to ofcom and eventually got a response that said thanks we didn't get any other complaints
haven't seen tramadol nights thing but it is obviously completely rubbish and I can't be bothered complaining to ofcom about things being unfunny nowadays so I just keep the telly on bbc news 24 24 hours a day
― conrad, Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyway, so it was just me for desperate fishwives then? Buff Hardie's son is one of them apparently.
― progspeed you! black metallers (aldo), Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I did mean to watch it, but forgot. Is not on iPlayer any more (if it was on in the first place).
I can get nostalgic about a lot of over-rated and just not-that-good-in-the-first-place stuff, but I draw the line at Scotland the What? tbh. (I somehow suspect that me and aldo might be the only people on here who know who Buff Hardie is)
― ailsa, Friday, 24 December 2010 08:52 (thirteen years ago) link
ian mcculloch on tramadol nights? wtf?
― koogs, Friday, 24 December 2010 09:46 (thirteen years ago) link
My Twitter and Facebook feeds have exploded with this; a sample for a Xmas day one-off with Ronnie Corbett and guests. A nice cosy antidote to Fr*nkie Boyle and co that's had one and a half million You Tube views in 2 days.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI
― piscesx, Friday, 24 December 2010 13:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I've seen the trailer for this a couple of times - I suspect the Eggsbox £3.60 joke will be the best one in it, but we'll be watching anyway.
― ailsa, Friday, 24 December 2010 13:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Rab Florence is in tramadol nights,eg the da in the knight rider sketch.
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Friday, 24 December 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link