Rolling UK Comedy Thread - "Ricky Don't Lose Larry David's Number

member when limmy ws funny

Something is wrong when ilx is slagging Limmy and SOTCAA is praising The Persuasionists.

I was at the taping of that persuasionists ep in the clip upthread btw. Don't even remember the Sydney Opera House joke. Sitcom taping = most soul and humour destroying experience ever.

trying and failing to find a torrent of marc wooton's two shows, 'my new best friend' and 'high spirits with shirley ghostman' ;_;

Wait a minute, you're up at three, are you some kind of stoner...?

no! i'm a shift worker. I think it was made funnier for me by the fact that i see the Finnieston Crane every time i go to work.

I liked "the bastard wouldnae gie us a straight answer" line at the end of that sketch. Not sure how much mileage is in the ex-junkie character or Mulvaney the japing office boss.

I like Limmy and I hope the show is a success. I think he's still finding his feet a wee bit and having to self-censor to an extent to remain BBC friendly.

i've never been particularly keen on the jacqueline mccafferty character but seems to be popular with friends of mine.

SOTCAA is praising The Persuasionists

refuse to belive this without any evidence. atm it just sounds like 'we didnt go to the moon'

The funniest UK comedy programme on right now is Sorry I've Got No Head.

a thousand pounds?

SOTCAA is praising The Persuasionists

refuse to belive this without any evidence. atm it just sounds like 'we didnt go to the moon'

― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Friday, January 15, 2010 1:00 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

haha. i daren't watch the show, and i daren't read sotcaa.

The one off 'Pulling' made me laugh more and harder than any bbc tv show i can remember. I'd actually forgotten that you can laugh that much at a bbc show.
I never saw the series but i must.

Thought Bellamy's People was very funny!

Yeah I love Down The Line and wasn't sure how it would translate to the screen but it worked.

I was worried but it was good. I think it might get funnier as it goes on too.

I think the 'community leader' was my favourite segment.

Yeah I love Down The Line and wasn't sure how it would translate to the screen but it worked.

I want to feel huge relief but I'm still scared!

fear:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_&_Chips

Probably be as terrible as Only Fools and Horses ended up, which is a shame because I really like that James Buckley in the Inbetweeners.

Paul Putner's in it = everything will be OK.

it's the paucity of ideas it represents that depresses me.

Phil Daniels as Granddad? This is making me laff already.

it's the paucity of ideas it represents that depresses me

yes, see also revived reggie perrin (and new rab c nesbitt even).

Will they bring back First of the Summer Wine next?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_of_the_Summer_Wine

Zeroth of the Winter Grapes - Foggy, Clegg, Compo, Gizzard, Slebbsy and Nasher during their nursery school days. Recreation of bath-on-wheels scene especially harrowing.

it's the paucity of ideas it represents that depresses me

yes, see also revived reggie perrin (and new rab c nesbitt even).

― mdskltr (blueski), Friday, January 22, 2010 11:56 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

and survivors and -- im going there -- DOCTOR WHO.

sci-fi doesn't count

haaaa had never heard down the line before, just listening to the first ever ep on the iplayer. it's hilarious

need to hunt down the rest

vicar of dibley: the dark reboot

really wish bellamy's people didn't have anyone from the fast show in it

Paul Whitehouse was the least funny thing about it.

yeah, he is so terrible

I think he's good. Felix Dexter gave the best performance, though.

really wish bellamy's people didn't have anyone from the fast show in it

― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Friday, January 22, 2010 12:56 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark

but so does DTL

fast show is hilar anyway

don't need to look at them on DTL, this is a big+

really wish bellamy's people didn't have anyone from the fast show in it

― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Friday, 22 January 2010 12:56 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Paul Whitehouse was the least funny thing about it.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Friday, 22 January 2010 13:02 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

they make DTL funny as fuck tho xps

I didn't think much of the two characters based on the Mitford Sisters, nor Felix Dexter, nor the business with the luggage. And the only Whitehouse character I'm not really feeling atm is the "had you there" guy. Otherwise BP was great stuff.

Yeah, the old sisters were a bit OTT. But the Lion of Harlesden was wonderfully observed.

New Rab C was utterly shite. (Royle Family also v good example of law of diminishing returns, this Rab C Nesbitt was to old Rab C as new Royle Family is to old Royle Family)

Am not looking forward to OFAH thing, but obv will watch anyway.

New Rab C was utterly shite.

Yeah, sadly. I used to like this, and I did wonder if it was me or it that had changed. But, god, it was bad. Really, really boring.

What is OFAH?

only fools and horses?

Of course.

Loved ep.2 of Limmy's show, btw.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/i/512xn/3ced3507f70960a8e79ea1409789d7df5cc0339f.jpg

l-r: Ted/Granddad, Del Boy, Dad/Reg Trotter, Mum/Joan Trotter.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/i/512xn/99a2e0b21320709b52a50190d1bf5ab1cf5d6b33.jpg

l-r: Boycie, Del Boy, Denzil, Trigger, Jumbo Mills.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0062ct8

Couple of decent lines in Rab C (zinging at Peaches for being a fatface, the "hands across the hepatitis C" one) but I found the disparity between smart-arse/can't talk to his son/doesn't understand anything because he is stupid DO YOU SEE various aspects of Rab to be totally at odds with what I remember about it of old (which is basically street-smart philosopher with wisdom that makes the viewer think he could have been something if he hadn't been content to stay where he was basically happy, whereas now he's some kind of hybrid idiot/zinger/socially inept sitcom character. And I know he *is* a sitcom character, but I like my sitcom characters to be the kind of people who might conceivably exist in real life as well.

btw, if you're going to reinvent Gash's character, and recast the actor, why not just invent a whole new character and storyline like what they did after the Wee Burnie/Eric Cullen thing.

Or else, y'know, write an entirely new sitcom where no-one at all gives a shite about what came before these episodes.

The Jamesie/Hungarian widow/dude who lived in his lift, I am pretending didn't happen.

Basically, this is going to be what happens to OFAH as well. Sullivan was on the radio the other day saying he wanted a full series out of this, saying that proper OFAH fans know what happens to the characters, so they know how much mileage how they can get out them. This sounds good, and then you remember he greenlighted The Green Green Grass.

Not a bad cast in the OFAH prequel, I've liked all the actors I recognise in other things. Really doubt I'll bother watching it though.

Clothes are all wrong for 1960, aren't they? (Plus OFAH says Rodney was conceived in 1959, so they've got their years wrong)

Ah, Del and Rodney's mother is the kid from The Upper Hand, was trying to work out where I'd seen her before. She's only ten years older than James Buckley. Good work, casting dudes.