Have spent this afternoon listening to perverted by language, the fall LP. So I particularly enjoyed the jew on a motorcycle reference that Stewart Lee dropped
― koogs, Thursday, 10 March 2016 22:15 (eight years ago) link
Claudia Winkleman on Catsdown was so bad that it almost had me hankering for the halcyon days of Joe Wilkinson.
― ailsa, Friday, 11 March 2016 10:29 (eight years ago) link
Also Isy Suttie. Oh hi, I'm quirky, please love me. Fuck off.
(I haven't watched this week's one yet, but more Winkle and no Sean Lock isn't exactly enticing me in).
Raised with Wolves still bringing multiple lolz.
― ailsa, Friday, 11 March 2016 10:31 (eight years ago) link
Is it really that good? I have an allergy to anything related to Caitlin Moran so it would need to be astonishing for me to get past that.
― Matt DC, Friday, 11 March 2016 10:32 (eight years ago) link
The Caitlin Moran character is my least favourite thing about it. It's very much not for everyone, though I absolutely love the mum and grandad.
― ailsa, Friday, 11 March 2016 10:40 (eight years ago) link
2nd claudia cats adds the guy with the big teeth into the mix for more hilarious japes. it is worth watching for the two glimpses of rachel's dad though.
(i do wonder how many of the regulars would have to be missing before they just cancel it. maybe it's just easier (cheaper) to do than the original cats, less 'research')
(isy is great though. the brain tingles thing on radio 4 was fascinating, and very odd.)
― koogs, Friday, 11 March 2016 12:23 (eight years ago) link
(ilx did it first&better)
new favorite weird shit on the internet: ASMR ROLE PLAY ~ Autonomous sensory meridian response ~
― ogmor, Friday, 11 March 2016 14:27 (eight years ago) link
I've seen Isy Suttie on other things and she was fine, but her dictionary corner stuff there was painful.
― ailsa, Friday, 11 March 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgaPDTgvcPw
― Number None, Thursday, 7 April 2016 21:58 (eight years ago) link
Pity that was released the same day as the Rogue One trailer, isn't it? Would have seen the #BrentsBack hashtag all over Twitter today otherwise .
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Thursday, 7 April 2016 22:14 (eight years ago) link
So, Flowers then.
Really didn't expect a Japanese stereotype straight out of a John Hughes film. There was something a bit try hard about the whole thiing also.
Some funny bits though.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 11:54 (eight years ago) link
Not convinced I want to watch any of the other episodes of Flowers. And apparently tonight is the last funny one.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 12:49 (eight years ago) link
I'm enjoying Flowers but it's not a comedy in any way, shape or form now, is it.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Friday, 29 April 2016 10:30 (eight years ago) link
Er... Yes it is.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 29 April 2016 11:10 (eight years ago) link
Was the laugh in last night's the agents telling Shun 'no' even after he told them the story about his sister dying? Or the bloke fucking his 'daughter' in the sauna?
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Friday, 29 April 2016 11:22 (eight years ago) link
Well I've only watched the first episode which had definite funny bits. I can imagine both things you've described being funny in the context of a pitch-black comedy.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 29 April 2016 11:24 (eight years ago) link
But I should watch it before I comment further.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 29 April 2016 11:25 (eight years ago) link
The first ep has the comedy, the second ep very little and Weds/Thurs none at all really.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Friday, 29 April 2016 11:26 (eight years ago) link
I'm liking it but yes the Japanese guy seems v Mind Your Language and I'm not liking that.
― just her neck. thankig u in advance (stevie), Friday, 29 April 2016 13:10 (eight years ago) link
For what it's worth, Will Sharpe (the actor who plays Shun) is also the writer of Flowers.
― AlanSmithee, Friday, 29 April 2016 13:20 (eight years ago) link
Witness, the BBCIIi vehicle for Russell Howard's sister, is really pretty awful.
Two Doors Down, on the other hand, is the best thing the BBC Scotland Comedy Unit have made in years.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 09:13 (seven years ago) link
Or is it Witless? Either way, only death can save it.
Was I the only one who watched (and liked) Siblings?
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 09:14 (seven years ago) link
No, I saw it a few times, thought it was OK.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 09:17 (seven years ago) link
witless has a great premise but is just shite
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 09:21 (seven years ago) link
The deaf/lesbian bit in the last ep was a new low.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 10:11 (seven years ago) link
gave up on witless after episode 1 - truly awful.
siblings : made me chuckle from time to time.
two doors down : several proper belly laughs - need to catch up on recent episodes.
flowers : very dark, and at times quite upsetting, but in the end wonderful tv.
― mark e, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 10:13 (seven years ago) link
I think the good parts of Siblings were all Charlotte Ritchie - she was genuinely dislikeable and self-centred and from thence the comedy arose. But the brother was frankly pointless; I really don't need to see another boy/child/idiot again.
Russell Howard's sister was also in his awful Bristolian Christmas thing, she really does get given for nepotistic reasons pick the shit jobs.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 10:17 (seven years ago) link
the premise is pretty similar to Simon Day's 2003 sitcom Grass, which was great but seems to be totally forgotten (also The Green Green Grass)
― soref, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 13:33 (seven years ago) link
Upstart Crow?
took about 15 minutes before the ben elton-ness of it started annoying me.
― koogs, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link
Ben Elton thread
― glandular lansbury (sic), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 17:16 (seven years ago) link
is the windsors as terrible as it looks?
― (main prostitute from Game Of Thrones) (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
elevenish any good? chewing gum?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 17:37 (seven years ago) link
> Ben Elton thread
yeah, but then i might see / hear / read more of his work
Cunk On Shakespeare, BBC2 tonight @ 22:00
― koogs, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link
Chewing Gum is great, Eleven-ish needs some time to grow but has some inspired bits, and please watch Julia Davis' CAMPING
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 23:15 (seven years ago) link
> Cunk On Shakespeare
was great.
written by brooker and the two blokes who did those adult ladybird books that were everywhere at christmas.
― koogs, Thursday, 12 May 2016 08:52 (seven years ago) link
Are they donating their fee to Miriam Elia?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 12 May 2016 10:13 (seven years ago) link
Just finished Flowers. Not really a comedy, but really really wonderful.
― Elvis Santana (stevie), Thursday, 12 May 2016 10:17 (seven years ago) link
Phil Wang did a good job of HIGNIFY for an unknown too.
the ladybird books thing is odd. ladybird's first impulse was to sue the original author, the one with the idea, but then they did 6 or 8 themselves a year later. the guys were on the radio saying that ladybord couldn't've been more helpful, gave them access to the entire picture catalogue and all and applied very little editorial pressure (iirc). i guess ladybird realised it was profitable. and they did a good job of the one i read (hangover)
― koogs, Thursday, 12 May 2016 15:25 (seven years ago) link
nu-ladybird guys are two of the framley examiner team fwiw
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Thursday, 12 May 2016 15:30 (seven years ago) link
I get that the success of Miriam Elia's thing is likely what gave Penguin the notion that a serious of nu-ladybird could be profitable, but the idea of re-doing old children's books with coarse/knowing/"subversive" captions is hardly an original one anyway? I don't really get the "they should give their fee to Elia" argument
― soref, Thursday, 12 May 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
Been watching Richard Herring's interview show on YouTube a lot. I actually find it funnier and more satisfying than most comedy shows. Quite a lot of interesting stuff comes up too. Sarah Kendall and Limmy interviews were great. Recently listened to the Greg Davies, Cariad Lloyd, Josie Long and Sara Pascoe interviews and all were really enjoyable. Josie Long's story about the car crash she was in is incredible. Cariad Lloyd's talk about tv channels and audiences not willing to give new comedy a chance anymore was also interesting.
Not a lot of Davies love on this forum but I think he's really funny on interviews (on Graham Norton recently) and panel shows (haven't seen much of his actual scripted shows) and I thought his routine about the taxi driver was fantastic.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 30 May 2016 21:17 (seven years ago) link
Is this 'RHLSTP'? I watched a bunch of old ones when I was on mat leave, they were great (Ben Goldacre, Victoria Mitchell etc, spring to mind, they're given the space to just shoot the shit and it really works). Haven't caught up on any in the past year or so though.
― kinder, Monday, 30 May 2016 21:24 (seven years ago) link
Yeah it's RHLSTP
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 30 May 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
Just finished Flowers - as above it's lovely and pitch black, but I'm not in favour of any definition of comedy that excludes it. It'd be unbearable if you didn't know Shun was the writer, I accept. Reminds me a bit of The Lobster, the film earlier this year with Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 4 June 2016 22:33 (seven years ago) link
Oh, I was reading about that just now, The Lobster sounds amazing
― it's getting ott in here / so take off all your clothes (stevie), Sunday, 5 June 2016 12:40 (seven years ago) link
new As Yet Untitled starts this saturday and a second series of TaskMaster in a couple of weeks (entirely new team)
― koogs, Monday, 6 June 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
Yay and yay. Is this new Taskmaster the one with Dave Gorman on it? (I could look this up, I know...)
― ailsa, Monday, 6 June 2016 23:57 (seven years ago) link
They did list all they new contestants but i want really paying attention. Will rewind the PVR later and have another look. Actually, I think Richard Osman was one of them.
The list of people on untitled did sound star-studded but often it's the unexpected people that are the best value.
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 04:12 (seven years ago) link
Jon RichardsonJoe WilkinsonCatherine RyanDoc BrownRichard Osman
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 06:49 (seven years ago) link
That could be good. Not a fan of Brown or Wilkinson, but you never know. Tim Key was unexpectedly hilarious on the last outing. Jon Richardson's meltdowns will be gold/really irritating.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 10:12 (seven years ago) link