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
i don't have anything sensible or sensitive to say about my brief glimpses of Citizen Khan so i'll just say it's probably not as bad as The Wright Way
― Can swimming get any worse than Hero & Leander? (Noodle Vague), Monday, 4 November 2013 11:26 (ten years ago) link
but i think everything on here is fucken shit so
― Can swimming get any worse than Hero & Leander? (Noodle Vague), Monday, 4 November 2013 11:27 (ten years ago) link
my pal was v insistent I watch Toast Of London, will try and find half an hour this evening. we were both quite big Snuff Box stans, which presumably puts us in a fairly exclusive club
― too much Michu, not enough meta (DJ Mencap), Monday, 4 November 2013 11:57 (ten years ago) link
Drifters is sub-sub Inbetweeners (two of the girls were in the Movie, and one of those was in the sub-Inbetweeners Roman thing, Plebs). It's almost watchable, but then I don't mind Some Girls so what do I know.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Monday, 4 November 2013 13:00 (ten years ago) link
For example, the plot of episode 2 saw one of them catch scabies and pass it on to one of the others, and the three of them accidentally crashing a wake thinking it was a private party. The one that was passed scabies then goes home with the brother of the dead bloke and sucks him off, only for him to realise his mistake in the morning when he wakes up sober and sneaks her out the house past his "housemate", who I assume is actually his wife. She is sick in a bin in front of a guy who chatted her up at the beginning of the episode, and went on a disastrous dinner date with (where she tries to eat oysters and spits them out, as seen on the trailer).
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Monday, 4 November 2013 13:04 (ten years ago) link
I think it's approaching it though
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Monday, 4 November 2013 14:01 (ten years ago) link
The episode I watched peaked with a scene wherein, via a convoluted set of circumstances, Mr Khan's future son in law had to fondle Mr. Khan's testicles.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 4 November 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link
Bangladeshi guy I work with loves it
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Monday, 4 November 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
I liked Mr Khan when he was on Bellamy's People.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 4 November 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
Just to add a bit of unreserved praise to this thread, I'm finally catching up with series 2 of Pete Vs Life and it's excellent.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 4 November 2013 19:16 (ten years ago) link
Toast of London is making me lol but it's purely down to Matt Berry. Watched them in the wrong order, thought the first one was best maybe.
― kinder, Monday, 4 November 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link
Anyone watched Ambassadors? Worth bothering with?
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 8 November 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link
Passable, can't say I'd recommend
― kinder, Friday, 8 November 2013 22:53 (ten years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/comedy/10437964/Why-I-walked-out-of-a-Stewart-Lee-gig.html
― NI, Monday, 11 November 2013 00:53 (ten years ago) link
I've watched the first episode of Ambassadors now. Enjoyable, not strictly a comedy though.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 11 November 2013 01:07 (ten years ago) link
3 episodes in and it's great
― anky, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 16:35 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I like it as well, the second episode was a big improvement on the first. As far as I can tell though, there are only three episodes in the series and that was the last one! Which is ludicrous seeing as it ended on a cliffhanger. Pity, it seems there is a lot of story left to tell.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link
Didn't laugh once during The Ambassadors. Deathly.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link