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

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/23/frankie-boyle-tramadol-nights
Pretty 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.

This cutting edge comedy...

I mean, come on C4, even you must know that this is a lie.

dude just wants to use 'racial epithets' on telly, seriously doubt his humanitarian concerns

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.

how are skits based on The A Team cutting edge in any way?

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

Anyway, so it was just me for desperate fishwives then? Buff Hardie's son is one of them apparently.

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)

ian mcculloch on tramadol nights? wtf?

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

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.

Rab Florence is in tramadol nights,eg the da in the knight rider sketch.

That One Ronnie sketch is not quite as funny as Corbett putting forward the hypothesis on Radio 4 last week that 'Sorry', at seven series, was cancelled too early.

Come Fly with Me is really really fantastic.

is that supposed to be funny

Saw the picture of Walliams and Lucas as Japanese schoolgirls and just couldn't bear to watch.

Turned it on to some hilarious black up then turned it off.

Benidorm xmas special was really really shithouse.

saw about a minute of 'come fly with me'

nvr liked 'little britain', but this was so much worse

ugly obvious and boring but ugly most of all

Trailers were more than enough for me, I'm afraid. Letting Little Britain go on as long as it did was bad enough, creating a whole new set of horrific stereotypes is a step too far for me.

yeah only saw the trailers

I forced myself to sit through it as I'm sure it'll be as famous as Curry And Chips one day. Really, really horrendous racist nonsense. I don't think the Japanese schoolgirl characters were in the trailers, for example.

Xmas specials 2010: Peep Show > Royle Family > Miranda > One Ronnie > Benidorm >>>>>>>>> Come Fly With Me.

Bit disappointed that some of the negative reviews itt are of the 'I didn't see it' variety but eh wygd.

Starting to spot catchphrases. Disappointed.

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2011/01/06/12513/little_britain_could_return

And Walliams admitted that Little Britain had fallen out of fashion, but would one day become a ‘classic’ that people would want resurrected.

‘We’re waiting for it to become classic,’ he told ITV’s This Morning. ‘There’s a bit where the recent past is naff. Look at Take That. Just after they finished, the thought of seeing them back together wasn't that exciting. Ten years later and suddenly we all want to see it.’

Once you get past the sheer arrogance of that quote, clearly the lads are openly engineering their own revival. I mean.

Add to that Walliams's dismal performance in that shit-awful clip show he's doing and he's well on track to be the next crusty old has-been of British television.

Not really British TV (it's on Showtime in the US but downloadable), but anyone seen the first two episodes of, er, Episodes? Steven Mangan & Tamsin Grieg are successful sitcom writers, lured over to LA and their show ends up changing beyond all recognition and stars Matt LeBlanc, everything goes wrong etc. Was surprisingly un-sitcommy.

Mangan and Greig as a married couple is megalolz after their Green Wing relationship. Can't wait.

It wasn't laugh-out-loud by all means but promising. I'm aware it's probably because I am a Britisher in CA (no hueg mansion in LA tho)

btw this is absolutely British TV, it's produced by Hat trick and goes out on BBC2 next week.

Ah cool. It has Daisy Haggard in too who I can't really believe as an LA media type but that's because I've been re-watching Psychoville where she's a total ditz.

Produced by Hat Trick; paid for by Showtime - it's pretty genuinely co-pro'd.

Yeah but it counts in this thread is what I mean.

Come Fly With Me officially racist

Jim Davidson has come out in support of Matt Lucas and David Walliams' new comedy Come Fly With Me.

Right, no one watch Episodes. Abysmal.

Yes, fairly poor really.

Every scene was so laboured.

Richard Griffiths looks very fucking strange these days doesn't he?

Aye, seemed like it was the first 5 minutes of a normal comedy show stretched to 30.

I think I might stick with it for another week to see if it gets better, but I basically appreciated the idea of it rather than actually liked it. The running gags were awful.

Also, Tamsin Greig playing it as Emma Thompson was really annoying.

I am rapidly becoming the Geir of this thread.

Episode 1 is slow but ep 2 picks up the pace. Really enjoying it so far.

it did spin up towards the end, but a bit laboured and cliched. Worth another week at least.

ping as lindy-hopper on ed reardon = perfect

i don't know what enter of those thing are

not 'in the loop' of uk lol industry

enter=any

God, Episodes really was abysmal. In the absence of any laffs seemed to rely on the same weird failed UStv production values as the terrible BBBC4 adaptation of Money. Not even Daisy Haggard could save it.

Yep, I agree, I thought Episodes 1 was a bit slow-but-kinda-interesting and then it really picks up the pace. It's not thigh-slappingly hilarious, but succeeds in being a good mix between Extras, 30 Rock and Curb.

actually, I don't agree at all.

hey, how is Richard Griffiths younger than my dad??!

I'm not seeing the pace ramp up at all with Episodes. Studio boss is still an ignorant dick, uptight bickering English people are still uptight and bickering.

New development! Joey has a big cock! Let's have some of that social awkwardness that really seems to amuse people ten years ago.