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

Thanks for the video.

Lex couldn't make it, i'm standing in for him.

Good video, thanks. Carr handled that immensely well, I thought.

he was great. it seems he very quickly decided the audience was only going to get value for its money/time if he took control. most people would have politely fumbled their way through, or just stormed out.

Just finished it, that was a lot of fun.

(are the volume levels of that all over the place?)

Mash Report was ok, but they don't seem to have left space for the laughing - they just kind of keep talking.

I enjoyed Nish's John Oliver schtick, he carried it off well, but I struggled with the rest of it. The news sketches were poor and the social media section was a nice idea which didn't really work for me in practice.

Anyone watching Ill Behaviour, Sam Bain's "comedy drama" on iPlayer? Not hitting the mark for me mainly because main man is pretty much Will from Inbetweeners

Jimmy Carr clip was great

the interviewer is human garbage

The desert island discs episode he mentions was great and should still be available for listening.

oh my god the Q&A is even crazier, starting around 18:40

really surprising (to me) how humane and personable and generous carr is here

Towards the end it turns out they know each other socially but i doubt JC really knew what he was letting himself in for, quality-wise.

The guy is terrible, yes. I have no idea who he is. Or how this relates to China.

The other thing that got me about mash report was how he threw over to the news desk 'one last time' but they were all 'first off...' and ended with 'more later'. There is no later, it's the end of the show.

I have no idea who he is. Or how this relates to China.

― koogs, Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:09 (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's the guy who started shanghai tang. the only thing i can see that's related to china is that tang was born in hong kong. also 中国站 translates to 'china station'. the whole thing's silly.

we have a heap of these china-relations organisations in australia. i've tried to get involved with some but they don't seem to do anything. it's infuriating.

Fuck comedians with 'acts'.

Er, pretty sure every stand up in existence has an 'act'. Maybe your point?

"pls like" on iplayer is better than it really has any right to be

the vloggers themselves are perfect, "james wirm" is perfect. the only not quite firing piston is the protagonist oddly

i can't stop watching it even though it's maybe 7/10 at best

so many things going against it

- it's about social media but there's like 1 tiny black speaking role
- an episode with a white grime MC named 'bombzy' where his race is never mentioned
- shot in cringe-doc style
- on bbc three
- did i mention it's really white
- relentlessly makes fun of teenagers as simple idiots

for some reason though a lot of it really clicks. i can't tell if it's the writing, the editing, the acting or what - so like, it's good? somehow. maybe i just want to watch a show where james wirm svengalis the hell out of his vlogger proteges. no need for the ostensible everyman, he just gets in the way

Teenagers can sometimes be complex idiots it's true

Maybe I'm too far inside the bubble, but there seems to be considerable backlash against the BBC cancelling Count Arthur Strong (not least them adopting a fairly random screening time and/or broadcasting the shows out of order).

Was misled into thinking Ill Behaviour might be decent due to the author's Peep Show pedigree and a Guardian review, but the first episode is basically appalling. The premise has potential, execution very lacklustre.

First ep probably the worst, it does get better, doesn't really pull it off though

I was going to watch it because blokey from You're The Worst is in it, but haven't got round to it yet. Not entirely inspired by above comments.

It's unlikely I'll watch episode 2.

Me either, the first was dreadful. (And I watched all of Mountain Goats, The Wright Way, Siblings, Together etc etc et-bleedin'-cetera)

it improves.
a bit.
there were a couple of proper chuckles, but its more of a drama/comedy as opposed to straight up comedy.
and everyone is a complete tw&t (other than the secretary from 'drifters' who steels every scene she is in), therefore making it hard to really connect with the story.

The American lady is fit.

Terrible character though.

Nadia is an awesome character. Cokehead doctor is good territory for jokes

Detectorists seems to have disappeared with an episode left to go. Got bumped for the athletics and now Quacks is on in its place. Or did I miss something?

Oh, it says next Wednesday, 23rd, for the last one of series 2. Two weeks and a day after part 5...

It appears that The Daily Mash is now a TV show, only 23 years after The Day Today:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b08yxh4h

(I'm of the no doubt reviled around these parts opinion that the website is sometimes quite funny, but I don't fancy this at all)

the daily mash is not funny, tho

xp!

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

I blundered through all of Quacks via the BBC's new "we don't actually want you to watch broadcast telly so we'll put the entire series up as ep 1 is shown)" strategy and it was at least entertaining enough to keep me going to the end. The main cast were all really good - even if the writing was pretty weak and the series didn't really know what it wanted to be - and the guest stars kept you going "oh, it's him from that show" even when you couldn't quite place them. Would probably watch a S2.

Fleabag season 2 formally confirmed.

ill behaviour is such shite upon further review

Dave's advertising a new series of taskmaster. Appears to include Aisling B, B Mortimer, M Watson, the bloke from mash TV and another woman!

(Nish Kumar, Sally Phillips. 12th sept)

They announced that lot at the end of the last series. I love Taskmaster so I'll just rein in my disappointment that we haven't had a new series of Modern Life is Goodish inbetween the last series and this forthcoming one.

Not Peep Show very much like Peep Show shocker.

Good like Peep Show?

Good like Bad Peep Show.

I laughed at bits (many of which were either telegraphed or Peep Show jokes), but pretty much all the cast are full-on comedy stereotypes and Mark & Jez are basically Mark & Jez.

I suspected as much, I will still probably watch it.

wtf @ that Ben Elton thing with David Mitchell as Shakespeare

I absently watched that last night. It... wasn't as bad as I expected. Mark Heap was having fun at least. I didn't actually laugh though.

On its second series, at least.

Yeah, series 2. Several of my friends love it. The involvement of Ben Elton makes me very wary indeed.