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

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didn't really get this limmy thing at first but those last 3 clips are just brilliant

I still don't really get him. Kind of interesting but I don't find it actually funny.

Requiem is the kind of thing where you watch it and think "yeah that's...that's pretty funny I guess, but it's going on a bit long and nothing else is really happening", and then you think about it in bed hours later and start cracking up

dee dee's voice is scarily spot-on

Love the way he always starts with "fuckeeyynn..." even though that annoys the shit out of me irl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWfyyUkPCdc&feature=player_embedded

New BBC3 comedy, This is Jinsy. E4 have The Inbetweeners, Misfits and Skins, while the Beeb's youth channel keep on giving the green light to dismal, violently unfunny wank. Just like this student revue, sub-Boosh/LoG-at-best absurdist load of tut.

http://www.thisisjinsy.com/ <-- the horror, the horror.

for real when is the BBC going to start actually competing with C4 on the yoof comedy tip.

managed to get my hands on the first series of down the line. so funny

Bellamy's People got much better last night, btw. They seemed to have actually sorted out the issues of structure and focus and it really worked far better than in the previous two episodes.

It definitley helped that they didn't explain what the show was about between pretty much every sketch and just had a procession of gags instead.

E4 have The Inbetweeners, Misfits and Skins, while the Beeb's youth channel keep on giving the green light to dismal, violently unfunny wank

Struggling with the "while" here.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/feb/08/alan-partridge-film-steve-coogan

thought limmy's show on monday was actually good.

he's uncanny at John Paul.

Have you guys got hold of 'Your Bad Self' yet. Best thing to roll out of our green shores since Fr Ted (if Fr Ted counts tbh?)

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

― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 17 January 2010 16:49 (1 month ago)

I saw this for the first time yesterday, and it bears repeating.

Interesting information on Fast Show writer Jane Bussmann's wiki entry:

" A rotten vendor: Jane's guide to selling dodgy property in W9," 2001
" I think I can stiff a purchaser and run to LA...What goes around comes around." 2009

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

Had the misfortune to catch a snatch of BBC3's This Is Jinsy the other day, and dere god, it's like what people who don't like Boosh think Boosh is like.

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

Yes, but is that because it's a children's show and therefore you're surprised it's funny?

it gets very samey after the first couple of episodes (although the two series are different enough). but the cast is rather good - brigstock, giedroyc, magda from that thing. gnorton does some of the voiceover. it's a cut above rentaghost (say)

Limmy's webcam is some bizarre shit.

This afternoon he's dancing in his seat to "Chance to desire" by Radiorama.

I watched 10 minutes the other day of him sitting in a chair hating everyone who'd bothered to tune in and say anything to him. Not really comedy in any way, shape or form.

he played it three times, dance to it in his chair, stood up and danced at the chorus and then that was it.

aye it's not comedy, i had it on in the background a couple of weeks ago and he had a wee rant about homophobia that lasted about half an hour.

I watched 10 minutes the other day of him sitting in a chair hating everyone who'd bothered to tune in and say anything to him. Not really comedy in any way, shape or form.

Jerry Sadowitz might disagree with you on that one

he does lots of spelling nazi stuff as well, and going off his head whenever someone uses an americanism. which is fairly funny. It's just a strange thing. I like having it on in the background if i'm browsing the web when he's on.

Jerry Sadowitz might disagree with you on that one

At least he cracked the odd gag.

sadowitz more 'important' than funny, tbf

I actually know both Sadowitz and Limmy! Haven't spoken to Limmy in years though, I knew him when he had nuthin', by the way

now he's got a webcam

And Jerry doesn't even have that

i smeelll a sitcom!

The Old Git and the Not-So-Old Git

what's the deeeeaallll with buying a webcam? you cunts.

Anyone see Lizzie & Sarah, new pilot with/written by Julia Davis and Jessica Hynes?
Kind of hideous as you'd expect from Davis, but not bad.

burnistoun how unfunny

watched the first episode and there was one really funny sketch and the rest was shite to fairly shite.

hearing mutterings about la la land bringing the chuckles, is it worth watching?

I watched the first episode and found that I have entirely lost my ability to stomach set ups where innocent people are thrust into painfully awkward situations with comedians playing characters. Each cringe just feels dirtier than the last. That said, I think Marc Wooton is definitely a really talented dude.

sounds interesting. i admit to being a big fan of the 'just for laughs'/beadle style pranks but balk at the more modern snide ones so it might be my bag. on a related note, facejacker is 60% appalling shit - such a desperate bid to make terry tibbs into the new ali g or whatever the fuck the plan is. fairly funny in fonejacker, dreadful in this. they hit an instant nadir with terry tibbs appearing on some lowrent qvc channel who were clearly in on the joke, laughing along with his every risque statement "oh terry what are you like!" and cutting in footage of production staff looking bored in a bid to make it seem HA LOOK AT HOW FREAKED OUT THESE GUYS ARE (cue clip of production manager stifling a yawn, saying "not sure what to do here...")

having ranted that, i'd love to know the legalities behind this whole fuck-with-the-public-then-stick-it-on-tv/film seam that facejacker/borat etc engage in. i recently read the chris morris biography 'disgusting bliss' which detailed the complex legal battles ch4 went through to put brass eye on air, wonder if it's still as difficult or what. do most people just sign waivers so not to be seen as humourless, or is it more convoluted than this? if there are any detailed articles out there please link!

I read a piece a few years ago in the wake of the endless Borat lawsuits that basically said as much as the producers put plainly-worded release forms in front of people (that say things like "you agree to us using your image however we want") and every single person signs them. And once somebody signs the release form, there's literally nothing they can do legally. Of course, a few of these people later said things like "of course I signed it without reading the whole thing - there was an impatient production assistant standing over me telling me the big movie crew needed to get their shot." It's all deeply questionable, of course - but my god, some of those Borat bits remain amazingly funny.

you know what the deal is here just by the img below but still lols

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n10ZUoNA_zA

liking la la land quite a lot. not such a fan of the scenes with nice normal people being made to look foolish but psychics and twatty rock climbing guys were fair game and very amusing

Anyone been watching Rev? I'm quite enjoying it so far.

Rev's one you watch, thinking "hm, this is mildly amusing at a push" but carry on watching anyway.

Yeah, it hasn't much more than made me chuckle. But I think the characters are well-drawn, and the acting's good.

Simon Amstell verdict? Not watched it yet.

I really liked it but the dude cannot act to save his life. 8/10

Just did a quick google to find out what you're on about (no tv) and read this
http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a258605/simon-amstell-i-might-flee-the-country.html
and it doesn't even tell me wtf the show is!