that awful new Jimmy Nail thing
Am glad to say was unaware of such a thing till now
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 13:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Joonus Bruvuzz
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 13:47 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^that's my Geordie accent
Yey but Marcello, you don't like ANYTHING.
― NotEnough, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link
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.)
― DavidM, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link
remake of Sorry! with Jimmy Carr
― GSOHSHIT (blueski), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link
i figured Outnumbered would just be Lead Balloon with added (annoying?) kids so didn't watch
― Teahouse Foxtrot (blueski), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 21:21 (fifteen years ago) link
It's boring, smug and deeply unfunny.
Just because Mike Leigh can do it doesn't mean anyone else can.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 08:08 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― NotEnough, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 10:01 (fifteen years ago) link
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."
― chap, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 13:43 (fifteen years ago) link
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...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 10:43 (fifteen years ago) link
The Benny Hill Show?
― DavidM, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 10:46 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Number None, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Man, that was fucking awful. I liked that lead in Vera Drake, he's got an interesting face, but the whole thing terrible.
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Interesting vs. Punchable
― Number None, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:38 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― NotEnough, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Missed the last few, did Ulrika not nominate Terry?
― chap, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Oops, wrong thread.
― chap, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link
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).
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Pulling, that's pretty shit.― Dom Passantino, Monday, 21 April 2008 23:22 (8 months ago)
― 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.
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link
CHALLOP: Rising Damp is better than Reggie Perrin
― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost it might be alright!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd always thought Rising Damp was pretty widely accepted as better than Reggie Perrin.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Ideal was quite good the other night.
― DavidM, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
but Perrin is infinitely more likeable than Rigsby (likeability!=comedy challop very much in character)
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link
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'.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Goodnight, Mr. Johnson. (country matters), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ fogeyish but true
― imagine a super-serious, really noir mcgruff (stevie), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Young Fogeys Against BBC3
― Goodnight, Mr. Johnson. (country matters), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― ailsa, Thursday, 15 January 2009 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I quite like Ideal, I just can't recall ever laughing at it.
― William Bloody Swygart, Thursday, 15 January 2009 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow, Sanjeev Bhaskar has just been appointed as our new boss man.
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Sanjeev Bhaskar is the new Chancellor of the University of Sussex
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 13:16 (fifteen years ago) link
cheque please...
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Laughed my arse off at Stewart Lee.
― chap, Monday, 16 March 2009 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2009/03/18/8489/peep_show_gets_7th_serieshttp://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2009/03/17/8484/its_the_end_for_gavin_%26_stacey
― DavidM, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:03 (fifteen years ago) link
4th series of IT crowd? jaysus the edge.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link
2nd season of Plus One, too.
― fuck all y'all i'm gonna die young w/bubbles in my mouth (stevie), Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm a huge Peep Show fan, but seven series is taking the piss a bit.
― chap, Thursday, 19 March 2009 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Stewart Lee reviews his own show in Time Out under a pseudonym
― Mr Raif, Thursday, 19 March 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
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 thishttp://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/17/stewart-lee-comedy-vehicle-tv-ratings
only 1m viewers for his show 8(
― koogs, Thursday, 19 March 2009 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
"‘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.’"
― koogs, Thursday, 19 March 2009 15:59 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― Matt DC, Monday, 23 March 2009 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually given that he was still doing the routine about Princess Di's memorial ET in 2005 this is maybe not a surprise.
― Matt DC, Monday, 23 March 2009 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 23 March 2009 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
you could always just pretend it's from 2002 and you missed it at the time.
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 23 March 2009 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link