First of the four James Acaster specials that dropped on netflix takes a while to get going but pretty great/moving by the end.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 12:47 (six years ago) link
I really liked them, I thought the second was the weakest but it's very strong overall. I think he's great.
I especially loved his Pythagoras bit "every triangle is a love triangle if you love triangles".
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 6 April 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
He's definitley one of the best around.
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 7 April 2018 11:37 (six years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09yj4rc/limmys-homemade-show
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 7 April 2018 13:28 (six years ago) link
cunk on britain was excellent
― ogmor, Saturday, 7 April 2018 14:39 (six years ago) link
it should be better than it is imo
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 7 April 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
The story of life.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 April 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
don't get me wrong she is a treasure, but it's because of that that i feel she's a bit underserved by the material. the jokes land with slightly too much regularity:slightly off statement- earnest supporting detail 1- earnest supporting detail 2-- bathetic/surreal/filthy conclusionand the squirm-tastic ali g treatment of the experts felt mean-spirited. do we really need to take patient nerdy historians down a peg? when the daily show would blindside people with their ridiculous questions it usually served to highlight the stupidity of the correspondent him or herself, or the inanity of the format. when the writing does this the show is glorious. the whole opening 5 or 10 minutes is a masterclass in format satire
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 7 April 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
Hate it when they try and make a fool of somebody for no reason. Seen that shit on Samantha Bee.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 7 April 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link
the stretch leading up to the romans was amazing, thought this was much better than the other cunk stuff, faster & thicker
― ogmor, Saturday, 7 April 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
At least half those people would've known the setup, surely.
The Peston question was solid gold. and then the follow up...
Does Brooker have a hand on this?
― koogs, Saturday, 7 April 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
yes, not sure the extent though
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 7 April 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
He's a writer on it, probably producer too?
I don't think the segments with historians are mean-spirited: the dynamic of them seems to be that Cunk is a petulant child and they are almost absurdly patient, kindly people, they always come off very well. You could argue that they shouldn't have to waste their time with this nonsense in the first place sure but I mean that's what you get when you don't look into ppl who want to interview you.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 9 April 2018 13:01 (six years ago) link
I got the impression they were probably in on it, I mean, this isn't the 90s
― i know kore-eda (or something), Monday, 9 April 2018 13:15 (six years ago) link
Diane Morgan (on Adam Buxton's podcast) says no, fwiw.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 9 April 2018 14:39 (six years ago) link
you'd need exttremely good actors to pull that off.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 9 April 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
Not really, all you'd have to do is look mildly bemused, exasperated at worst
― i know kore-eda (or something), Monday, 9 April 2018 15:32 (six years ago) link
I loved Robert Preston trying really hard to think about what "the most political thing that's ever happened" was, looked like he genuinely thought he could come up with an answer.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 April 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
Peston, he's not a Preston or he would've been in the poll
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 April 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
I loved Robert Preston trying really hard to think about what "the most political thing that's ever happened" was
Brexit, duh.
― chap, Monday, 9 April 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
Dude she interviewed about Nelson this week was the first expert to seem genuinley angry about the experience.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 12 April 2018 10:10 (six years ago) link
Ladies and Gentlemen, A CONTENDER APPROACHES.
Rob Beckett's Playing For Time is (caveated by the fact I've only watched the first episode so far) genuinely the worst 'comedy' ever commissioned by C4 at least, and maybe anyone.
It's clearly trying to exploit the success on Dave of Go 8 Bit, various "I like August 1983" talking heads shows and, to a lesser extent, Taskmaster and Rob's success on that. But fails at every step of the way.
It starts with an "acted" set-up sequence. Rob, bless him, is quite an engaging character but it not an actor in any way, shape or form. He makes Josh Widdecombe look like Marlon Brando. I would say "eyes and teeth" but thats a cheap gag (although probably not above being the best joke made on this show). And the premise is laid out - a woman (her off Derek) has come back from the future and given him a video game console which will trap him in the past unless he can complete video game challenges from those eras.
What happens next is nearly inexplicable. Rob is transported into a front room/man cave dressed as a parody of the era where he looks at the stuff "oh look, that's a vinyl. I'm learning." and the future woman tells us what was in the news at the time. It's exactly like a children's tv show and filmed as one but edgy with swearing and that, innit. The featured eras are the 80s, the 90s and the present day. But where are the Naughties, I hear you cry? Well they actually ask the same question in the show which is dealt with by "I knew you'd forget that we played games in that era, so here's a flashback montage of what we played" <cut to 3 10 second clips>. I think, giving to the benefit of the doubt, it's supposed to actually be a chat show with the guests, but without much chat.
Episode one features Scarlett Moffatt, who cannot play games at all. The writers clearly haven't played games either, because the 1982 game they pick is PacMan on the Atari 2600 which isn't exactly the easiest thing for people who can't play games. Even then, they only have to complete one level between them which they fail at so they have to do the backup task instead. I can scarcely believe I am typing this but SCARLETT HAS TO THROW CHEESE PUFFS (because they're Pac Dots, DO YOU SEE) INTO ROB'S MOUTH ACROSS A TABLE. The fucking state of entertainment. THIS IS 2018 FFS.
Episode 2 is Asim Chaudry and only marginally better. God help us, episode three has Josh Widdecombe. I feel like I can't look away.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Sunday, 15 April 2018 10:35 (six years ago) link
In better news, I enjoyed Lee and Dean quite a lot. It's not at all what you might think it is.
Oh, wait, Future Woman on Rob Beckett is called Peggy which I have only just realised is supposed to be a joke.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Sunday, 15 April 2018 10:39 (six years ago) link
jesus
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 15 April 2018 10:41 (six years ago) link
Ep 3: hold my beer.
The 80s is represented by Rob dressed as MC Hammer and Josh as Darryl McDaniels. Could only have been worse with blackface which sadly is not in evidence. Rob looks like a drunk Auntie wearing a baseball hat backwards in a YouTube clip.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Sunday, 15 April 2018 10:45 (six years ago) link
that Rob Beckett thing sounds like what all comedy panel shows look like to me
― you're my luger not my rifle (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 15 April 2018 10:53 (six years ago) link
I never learned from any comedy panel show that Pavement were a famous band from the 70s (ep 3).
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Sunday, 15 April 2018 11:04 (six years ago) link
I saw the last 15 minutes of the Josh Widdecombe episode of that Rob Beckett show and while it wasn't great it was about a million times better than Go 8 Bit which just doesn't work at all as a format imo.
It's exactly like a children's tv show and filmed as one but edgy with swearing and that, innit.
like, retro children's tv show is a much better format for a show where comedians play computer games than Go 8 Bit's half a dozen ppl riffing in front of an audience panel show thing, lack of studio audience means they can go for gently amusing chat rather than a zingerthon. Watching other people play video games is inherently quite dull but the Rob Beckett thing kind of makes a virtue of it by being relaxing (related to this - the other virtue of only having two ppl appear is that you can actually sort of follow the game as opposed to Go 8 Bit's 'four ppl play the same one player game on four different screens while two other ppl commentate and everything is incomprehensible' approach
― soref, Sunday, 15 April 2018 11:38 (six years ago) link
cunt referee just stood 5 yards in front of a clothesline on Costa and didn't even blow for a foul
― you're my luger not my rifle (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 15 April 2018 11:48 (six years ago) link
lol wrong thread
― you're my luger not my rifle (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 15 April 2018 11:53 (six years ago) link
xpost
Just to be clear, you watched Rob and Josh wearing bow ties and frame-only glasses (representing 2009, "the year of geek chic") make jokes about how they weren't gay while playing a wii canoeing game ("the wii was the first console that did the physical thing, which was why it didn't take off"); then do a backup task featuring Rob trying to talk with a grill in ("no, not with sausages, with jewels like what rappers wore") complete with gang signs and pass on well known 2009 phrases like "bling-bling" only "wasn't great".
I'm no Go 8 Bit stan, and God knows it crashes and burns when the guests are dreadful like Natasia Demetriu the other week, but at least it actually seems to care about video games.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Sunday, 15 April 2018 12:07 (six years ago) link
I wasn't aware of either of these comedians or their true crime podcast but this was fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUsFsPje6BA
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 15 April 2018 12:19 (six years ago) link
Go 8 Bit is appaling but I can believe that Beckett thing's worse.
Strangely appropriate post for a UK comedy thread.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 15 April 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
ikr?
― you're my luger not my rifle (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 15 April 2018 21:55 (six years ago) link
new Taskmaster on wednesday
withAlice LevineAsim ChaudhryLiza TarbuckRussell HowardTim Vine
― koogs, Sunday, 29 April 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
JON RICHARDSON: ULTIMATE WORRIER, on Dave after taskmaster, is a good title in search of a format.
― koogs, Thursday, 17 May 2018 11:57 (five years ago) link
and also in search of a good host, one must assume
― martin short's interiors (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 May 2018 12:03 (five years ago) link
324th time I rush to defend him then realise I'm confusing him with Joe Wilkinson
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 17 May 2018 12:07 (five years ago) link
My take on that show is the ads on the tube say "I'm worried this ad will be stuck between something something and ads for vitamins", and invariably there is a vitamins ad next to them, and I wonder if they paid for that.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 18 May 2018 09:32 (five years ago) link
it's also one of those shows that seems to depend on showing youtube clips to pad things out. and the short video insert done by someone else was about as successful as romesh's bit on 'you've been fired' (ie not very)
― koogs, Friday, 18 May 2018 10:55 (five years ago) link
this podcast is totally o_O but definitely worth your time. Julia Davis and Vicki Pepperdine as agony aunts Joan and Jericha. The first episode is, frankly, astonishing and shocking. I was crying with laughter.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/dear-joan-and-jericha-julia-davis-and-vicki-pepperdine/id1376577916?mt=2
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 14 June 2018 23:18 (five years ago) link
awesome
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 June 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
too many good podcasts jfc
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 15 June 2018 00:53 (five years ago) link
i’ve been working my way through beef & dairy, which is phenomenally good but also an enormous time suck when there’s another 29gb of podcasts in my queue somehow
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 15 June 2018 00:54 (five years ago) link
dear Joan and Jericha is really v v goodreminds me of "Posh Nosh"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 June 2018 08:42 (five years ago) link
Flowers, on the other hand, continues to mystify.
― koogs, Friday, 15 June 2018 09:35 (five years ago) link
j & j honestly my favourite podcast nowwhere did you hear about it, _jed?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 June 2018 13:37 (five years ago) link
it was mentioned on front row last week, by that woman from QI with the welsh name, cariad lloyd, something like that.
yes. and her podcast, has good reviews - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cariad_Lloyd#Podcast
― koogs, Friday, 15 June 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link
A friend was talking about it in Facebook, Tracer.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 15 June 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link