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

As should the writers who put the stupid dialogue in their mouths.

that awful new Jimmy Nail thing

Am glad to say was unaware of such a thing till now

The Kids are in a Rock Band (as only a middle-class 45-year-old BBC writer could imagine a Rock Band) and dad Nail plays their long suffering manager with hilarious wry scrapes &c.

Joonus Bruvuzz

^^^that's my Geordie accent

Yey but Marcello, you don't like ANYTHING.

Old news, but I've just discovered the BBC are remaking The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, with Martin Clunes being the obvious replacement for Leonard Rossiter.

Other sitcom remake casting ideas they might consider:

Porridge: Peter Kay is Norman Stanley Fletcher, with Ralph Little as Godbar. John Gaunt stars as Mr MacKay.

Rising Damp: Robert Lindsay is Rupert Rigsby, with Ralph Little as Alan and Stephen K Amos as Phillip. Catherine Tate stars as Miss Jones.

Fawlty Towers: Manuel Actor Andrew Sachs is, er, Manuel. This time the lovable racist caricature is running the hotel, and now gets to slap around and abuse a hapless English porter, Malcolm (played by Lee Evans)! John Gaunt stars as The Major.

Dad's Army: James Cordon is Mr Mainwaring, with Lee Mellor as Sgt Wilson... (yeah, alright, that'll do.)

remake of Sorry! with Jimmy Carr

oh marcello :-( the kids on outnumbered are great.

that poll was by smile of its customers - sad to say the online version of the coop bank.

herring's blog about the same list

http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=2221

according to the writers, the kids in outnumbered are not shown scripts, but told what happens, and a lot of improvisation is filmed. the adults are scripted, but obv improvise around things

i figured Outnumbered would just be Lead Balloon with added (annoying?) kids so didn't watch

It's boring, smug and deeply unfunny.

Just because Mike Leigh can do it doesn't mean anyone else can.

It certainly isn't boring or unfunny, but it is smug, I'll give you that. Although I can't think of any comedy that isn't smug to some degree - maybe Porridge, I dunno.

Watched C4 sixth form comedy The Inbetweeners the other night. The first half had me going "This isn't all that bad", and the second "Oh wait yes it is."

Good old "Edgy British Comedy"

where the final scene is a crowd shouting "come back here you pervert" after someone they are wrongly convinced is a paedophile...

The Benny Hill Show?

New Channel 4 thing on friday, yes? Writers apparently mistakenly believe that the phrase "Duncan from Blue" is inherently hilarious. Extremely punchable lead actor too.

Man, that was fucking awful. I liked that lead in Vera Drake, he's got an interesting face, but the whole thing terrible.

Interesting vs. Punchable

I've been watching The Adam and Joe Show on 4OD, and it's embarrassing how far in front of the current crop of comedy it is, both in terms of script/dialogue and ideas. It's funny and silly and hasn't been destroyed by familiarity or imitation.

Missed the last few, did Ulrika not nominate Terry?

Oops, wrong thread.

I've been watching The Adam and Joe Show on 4OD, and it's embarrassing how far in front of the current crop of comedy it is

funnily enough i watched the first ever episode last night too and it holds up reasonably well. the 'shaky cam' thing seemed quite prescient (don't remember this in so much use as early as '96).

Pulling, that's pretty shit.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 21 April 2008 23:22 (8 months ago)

Did I dream this, or did it win some award recently?

Right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Comedy_Awards_Winners#2008

oh: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a137837/horgans-pulling-axed-by-bbc-three.html?imdb

a whole world of wtf. i still think it's been hard to beat t6his last two years.

You'll be delighted to know that all three series of Reggie Perrin (plus the mid-'90s Legacy and a few extras) are getting a DVD release.

You'll be undelighted to know that this is because Simon Nye and David Nobbs have collaborated on a new version of Perrin with Martin Clunes in the lead role.

CHALLOP: Rising Damp is better than Reggie Perrin

xpost it might be alright!

I'd always thought Rising Damp was pretty widely accepted as better than Reggie Perrin.

Ideal was quite good the other night.

but Perrin is infinitely more likeable than Rigsby (likeability!=comedy challop very much in character)

Ach, Rigsby was more one of those people who insults those around him for fun, but underneath it all was moree considerate (ref: the episode where he finds Don Warrington's character isn't an african chief, and the markings were a result of an attack when he was young, Rigsby nods and says he understands and will never refer to it)......

However, saw some recently, and it's like a lot of those 'long running' sitcoms, where they ration out the ideas more sparingly over subsequent series'.

Adam And Joe are remnants from a better age, when Father Ted, Alan Partridge and Brass Eye were the other comedy names on everyone's lips, rather than whatever shite it is nowadays

^^^ fogeyish but true

Young Fogeys Against BBC3

Today in an exercise in actually watching BBC1 comedy instead of just assuming it to be awful, we watched Life of Riley and are half way through Green Green Grass. The former was terrible, but compared to Green Green Grass, it's Seinfeld.

Who the holy fuck is watching these things? Presumably there are some of them, because Green Green Grass appears to be on its fourth series. There's only so much OFAH goodwill you can maintain, surely, by appearance of the Driscoll Brothers and references to Peckham, before you notice that it's utterly utterly shit.

I quite like Ideal, I just can't recall ever laughing at it.

Wow, Sanjeev Bhaskar has just been appointed as our new boss man.

Sanjeev Bhaskar is the new Chancellor of the University of Sussex

cheque please...

Laughed my arse off at Stewart Lee.

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2009/03/18/8489/peep_show_gets_7th_series
http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2009/03/17/8484/its_the_end_for_gavin_%26_stacey

4th series of IT crowd? jaysus the edge.

2nd season of Plus One, too.

I'm a huge Peep Show fan, but seven series is taking the piss a bit.

Stewart Lee reviews his own show in Time Out under a pseudonym

he interviewed himself in the guardian too.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/mar/14/comedian-stewart-lee

that said, the top results in google searches point to this
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/17/stewart-lee-comedy-vehicle-tv-ratings

only 1m viewers for his show 8(

"‘I mean, he had a suit on and he was speaking into a microphone and walking around, like Michael McIntyre does, but there were no jokes, just long sentences and these silences where he stared at objects and the floor.’"

The first episode is cringeworthingly unfunny and full of stupidly obvious targets. Dan Brown? So Solid Crew? Harry Potter? Has he engaged with any culture post-2002?

Actually given that he was still doing the routine about Princess Di's memorial ET in 2005 this is maybe not a surprise.

you're only saying this because i told you it was good.

i enjoyed it a lot - apart from the 'rap singers' thing going on far too long.