But if she's set it in the 80s, fair enough
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 June 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
Think council estates has changed quite a bit since Caitlin Moran lived on one
in what ways?
― NI, Thursday, 13 June 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
How many people live in council houses now as opposed to the 70s and 80s?
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 June 2013 16:27 (ten years ago) link
When I was at school I don't think I knew anyone who didn't live in a council house
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 June 2013 16:28 (ten years ago) link
there was always one posh git that had a "boat hoose"
― no man is an islam (onimo), Thursday, 13 June 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
(boat as in bought, if that wasn't clear)
Eh not sure that means the estates themselves have changed that much, except inasmuch as everything has changed since the 70s
― sjuttiosju_u (wins), Thursday, 13 June 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
Well the "aspirational working class" are far less likely to be living on them
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 June 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
I grew up on a council estate in the 90s /smartfunnyintellectual
― sjuttiosju_u (wins), Thursday, 13 June 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
so you'd say modern council estates more disaffected & impoverished than 80s? makes sense, i guess
― NI, Thursday, 13 June 2013 22:27 (ten years ago) link
what are the stats btw?
― NI, Thursday, 13 June 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link
http://i48.tinypic.com/2nbdo28.gif
― Pheeel, Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
Incisive!
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:36 (ten years ago) link
Ws back then but not now tbh. Nowhere nr as incisive.
― So: The Answers (or something), Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:52 (ten years ago) link
I'm joking of course.
― So: The Answers (or something), Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:57 (ten years ago) link
boat as in bought, if that wasn't clear)
Love the idea of everyone hating thon cunt wi' the fuckin' forty foot yacht tho
― sktsh, Friday, 14 June 2013 13:47 (ten years ago) link
If its anything like her columns for The Times I'm all for this...otoh she reviews TV for much of the time...
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 14 June 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jun/30/tv-commissioning-sitcoms
― my eventual wife (stevie), Monday, 1 July 2013 12:44 (ten years ago) link
caitlin moran sitcom description is sub dog latin stuff
― conrad, Monday, 1 July 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link
response from lineham, bain et al: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jul/01/tv-commissioning-graham-linehan-james-corden
they've obv got a vested interest in sucking up to the tv exec world but i suspect the truth lies between the two (orig idea not all that good + tv exec clueless how to fix = shiter)
― NI, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 19:11 (ten years ago) link
dude should've remembered the old adage, if it's on BBC3 it's going to be fucking shit
― for many people a really special folder makes a huge difference (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 19:52 (ten years ago) link
tru nuf. only thing i can think of offhand as being bbc3 and any cop is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00v5jj0/Comedy_Feeds_2012_People_Just_Do_Nothing/
― NI, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
boosh
― koogs, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link
http://www.newstatesman.com/sci-tech/sci-tech/2013/06/caitlin-moran-what-makes-us-human-sorry-snow-monkeys-%E2%80%93-we-win god caitlin moran is awful
― conrad, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 14:17 (ten years ago) link
Caitlin Moran @caitlinmoranIf white America and black America were my children, I would be VERY SHARPLY telling white America to stop winding black America up.
― NI, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
self-appointed voice of the intellectual working class there
― NI, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
(don't want this thread to be a caitlin moran pile-on but seriously, any public figure writing that kind of dipshit childish shit needs calling out)
― NI, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
You could always not vote for her next time.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
shortly afterwards she posted WAR & PEE in all-caps so that made up for it
― NI, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
Move over, Caitlin Moran:http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2013/07/21/18328/geri_halliwell_working_her_own_sitcom?rss
― hewing to the status quo with great zealotry (DavidM), Monday, 22 July 2013 10:47 (ten years ago) link
thinking of starting a "professional comedians who Geri Halliwell is probably funnier than" thread
― what makes a man start polls? (Noodle Vague), Monday, 22 July 2013 10:56 (ten years ago) link
So. Anyone seen Count Arthur Strong? I really don't get what it is and why people are saying it's good. With that and Miranda and the Wright Way I feel a bit like I'm taking crazy pills.
― kinder, Monday, 22 July 2013 19:07 (ten years ago) link
I can't hear anything in a certain type of Scottish accent without thinking it's Limmy on some level - and that includes the guy in the Geri clip above. That could be gold.
― kinder, Monday, 22 July 2013 19:09 (ten years ago) link
I've been watching Count Arthur Strong too and there is at least one huge laugh in each episode (last week was the Ripper tour bit), but the rest is awful filler imo. It's mainly being praised blindly by people who blindly praised It's Kevin on my Twitter feed, which was similarly hit and miss.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Monday, 22 July 2013 19:15 (ten years ago) link
I'm sorry I was so down on Count Arthur Strong, I've pretty much loved every second since I posted that. The end of last week's cut me up.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:05 (ten years ago) link
it's odd because the whole premise is that the bloke is dreadful so we're there willingly watching someone be deliberately bad. doctor montage last week, ending with 'er' title punch was funny. and then it turned on a sixpence into something entirely different...
bit of a headfuck watching rory kinear in this AND southcliff...
― koogs, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:55 (ten years ago) link
I quite like Man Down. Which surprises me cos I'm not really into Greg Davis' stand up.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 3 November 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
i tried, i really tried
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 3 November 2013 20:02 (ten years ago) link
although parts of (at least) the first episode were done really nicely
Second two episodes much better than the first IMO. Don't like Rik Mayall's character though.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 3 November 2013 20:09 (ten years ago) link
His mate with the moustache is a good actor.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 3 November 2013 20:10 (ten years ago) link
Did we cover The Wrong Mans anywhere? Not strictly comedy, but was pretty watchable, if just ever so slightly beholden to Wright/Pegg.
― ailsa, Sunday, 3 November 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
Can't watch it, allergic to James Corden.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 3 November 2013 20:25 (ten years ago) link
^ exactly the response I was expecting tbh
― ailsa, Sunday, 3 November 2013 20:45 (ten years ago) link
I would have said the same thing, but it was actually pretty good in a Wright/Pegg/Frost way. I wanted to stay with it to the end, put it that way.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Sunday, 3 November 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link
Weirdly, Corden does his exact same schtick (which drives me nuts) but it totally works in The Wrong Mans. They do a really good job of focusing on the moments before and after the cliched action trope scenes - it's pretty clever. And I think Mathew Baynton is going to be a huge, huge star. He was already the breakout dude on Horrible Histories - I think he'll be a big movie star within a few years.
I laughed a few times in the Man Down pilot but I struggled with some of the actual plot logistics. I couldn't figure out the relationship between Davies and Roisin Conaty (blonde lady) and Mike Wozniak (moustachioed accountant). Was she his daughter? Sister? Ex-girlfriend? How did they know the accountant? And the idea that we were asked to buy is that the woman who dumps him at the beginning had been with him for 6 years leading up to that, right? All that said, though - I laughed a few times.
I'm also laughing a bit at Toast of London. I sort of automatically laugh at Matt Berry talking, no matter what it is, but there are some good jokes in there.
― Walter Galt, Monday, 4 November 2013 00:24 (ten years ago) link
I couldn't figure out the relationship between Davies and Roisin Conaty (blonde lady) and Mike Wozniak (moustachioed accountant).
They're all just old school friends, as is made clear in later episodes.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 4 November 2013 00:47 (ten years ago) link
I tried watching Toast of London but the sub-par Mighty Boosh-style lol random humour just wore me out.
― hewing to the status quo with great zealotry (DavidM), Monday, 4 November 2013 10:45 (ten years ago) link
What about Citizen Khan then, folks?
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Monday, 4 November 2013 10:49 (ten years ago) link
anyone see Drifters on E4?
― piscesx, Monday, 4 November 2013 11:04 (ten years ago) link