a mass grave for victims of the Black Death
― Number None, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
'Plague', not 'plaque'. A plauqe pit is where dentist toss removed rotten teeth.
― chap, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
Rashomon ep is 204, but probably more enjoyable if you know the characters a bit. I'd just start at the beginning.
― chap, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p08vxrgx
I worked on this, so be gentle
Artwork by the guy who does Scarfolk
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 October 2020 11:49 (three years ago) link
okay, watched the first two episodes of Ghosts. It's okay! Worth sticking with, I think.
I was halfway through the second when i had the very clear thought this was gonna be bought by a premium cable channel to screen and then remade by another premium cable channel for a US audience. Found out this morning it's new to HBO stateside, so halfway there.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 31 October 2020 00:58 (three years ago) link
And I listened to the Sink and enjoyed it. Reminded me of Blue Jam, but gentler, which is good given these times. Also, Alice Lowe.
― koogs, Saturday, 31 October 2020 07:05 (three years ago) link
nobody watching sara pascoe's thing on tuesday's? i'm not sure i blame you, i'm not sure what she's trying to do is working. (it's half like her books and half traditional sitcom, but it's curdling rather then mixing smoothly, i think)
favourite other thing recently, and not strictly comedy but is comedian, is susan calman's Secret Scotland thing on channel 5 on fridays. it's the same every week (Susan stands next to some oversize thing, Susan does something slightly John Noakes, Susan feeds some kind of animal / gets close to huge raptor, someone tells Susan that the public aren't normally allowed to sit on this chair / bed but as it's her...) but she does a good job of being impressed / enjoying said thing and it's infective.
― koogs, Sunday, 8 November 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
(frankie boyle did something similar for bbc which was a bit grittier and i enjoyed that too. this goes out at 8 and is perfect family fodder)
― koogs, Sunday, 8 November 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
I'm completely indifferent to Sara Pascoe.
― chap, Sunday, 8 November 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
it feels like she’s been coasting for a long time.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 8 November 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link
i mean, i would too, tbf
can ukers help me please. youtube algo has given me a tranche of QI, and i'm completely addicted, and it's terrible. worse than the jokey quiz shows on NPR.
the women are generally funnier than the men, i guess, sara pascoe et al. phil jupitus is not funny. alan davis is crushingly unfunny. the sex jokes are skin crawling. they think foreign accents are just the height. what is the draw of this show? is there something better i can watch? must stop. tia
― goole, Monday, 9 November 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
i'm a uker and everything you've said is true and i don't get it either
― big man on scampus (Noodle Vague), Monday, 9 November 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
i mean it's watchable because of interesting facts (don't google the facts, they're not all as true as the show makes them out to be) but it's not comedy in the sense of you wouldn't watch it if you just wanted a laugh
― big man on scampus (Noodle Vague), Monday, 9 November 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
Idgi either and it has the worst fucking theme tune of any tv program, ever.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 9 November 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
idk i sort of like chintzy airport reggae
the relief you feel when sandi toksvig just steps on whatever bit they're beating to death to say yes actually there was a doctor in 1804 who experimented on etc etc, exquisite
― goole, Monday, 9 November 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
Nobody should have to be discovering how insufferable qi is in 2020 I’m sorry
― Gab B. Nebsit (wins), Monday, 9 November 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
Not sure I've ever watched a whole ep.Is it all Sandi or have you got Stephen Fry too?
― kinder, Monday, 9 November 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
there's some Fry clips but no full eps that i've seen
strangest introduction in the bunch was one Gyles Brandreth, one of those "ah he's charming, you should have killed more of these people 300 years ago" kind of things
― goole, Monday, 9 November 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
phil jupitus is not funny. alan davis is crushingly unfunny.
The Special Relationship is back on.
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Monday, 9 November 2020 19:23 (three years ago) link
Now the fact that British comedians are the worst in the Western World is out there, I feel this is a good thing.
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Monday, 9 November 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
No Such Thing as a Fish > QI
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Monday, 9 November 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link
― Maresn3st, Monday, 9 November 2020 18:58 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
Seriously
― or something, Monday, 9 November 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
I can't manage more than 10 minutes of No Such Thing as a Fish - it has the same smug bones as QI. '
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 9 November 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
How do we feel about 'Only Connect'?
― Maresn3st, Monday, 9 November 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
It's a good game show, it's not a comedy at all.
― chap, Monday, 9 November 2020 21:54 (three years ago) link
this is all very otm
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 November 2020 22:02 (three years ago) link
I'd still rather watch qi than not watch it.
The two they recently filmed without an audience were fascinating - there was no audience to pander to or try and impress and the little bits of chat got deeper and more personal. Had a different feel to it.
Fewer knob gags now Sandy's doing it. More women. One week was 60% female and 80% gay.
― koogs, Monday, 9 November 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
Would I Lie to You is my panel show guilty pleasure, particularly when Bob Mortimer's on it.
― chap, Monday, 9 November 2020 22:46 (three years ago) link
this is true, these had more of a homey feel, and it seemed like they were trying to make each other laugh and cheer each other up. the best ones i've seen.
― goole, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 04:15 (three years ago) link
Scroobius Pip turned up on Sara Pascoe's show tonight
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
Tears during the cocktail task on taskmaster last night, first time in a while.
― koogs, Friday, 20 November 2020 02:39 (three years ago) link
(it also revealed that DaisyMae's shouting out 'I LOVE THIS' in the trailer wasn't her enjoying herself but was part of what seemed like a trauma-inducing task)
― koogs, Friday, 20 November 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
― Maresn3st, Monday, 9 November 2020 21:07 (three weeks ago) link
― chap, Monday, 9 November 2020 21:54 (three weeks ago) link
this show rules, ty
― goole, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
Since I moved to NZ I miss Only Connect more than any other British TV show
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link
Only Connect gets put on youtube p consistently
― huge rant (sic), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
Shit you're right, I just found a channel with all the latest series on. Thanks!
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
Enjoy!
― huge rant (sic), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
Dunno if anyone else does it, but there's a guy (and it is a guy) called wheelsongenius who puts all of Only Connect up after broadcast, so that's the guy to subscribe to.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 09:16 (three years ago) link
Yeah that's the channel I found
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 10:52 (three years ago) link
Ayo, thanks for turning me on to Only Connect. I'm terrible at it but it's great fun without all the whoopdeediddlyay bullshit of QI
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
You get better at it the more you watch it. I hadn't the first clue the first few times I watched it, but you pick up the rhythm before long.
― trishyb, Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
lol my partner HATES it, she has no idea what's going on and has a hard time with that.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
only connect : possibly the lowest budget for a tv show ever.despite having never got a question right, i still really enjoy it whenever i happen to end up watching it.
― mark e, Thursday, 3 December 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
The entire budget is blown on the giant Winnebago in the studio car park that David Mitchell hangs out in during filming for him and Victoria to go and have lunch in so they don't have to hang out with filthy civilians.
― ailsa, Thursday, 3 December 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
decent eating options are limited in Cardiff to be fair
― nate woolls, Thursday, 3 December 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link
My partner loves Only Connect but I find it so so so very hard, except for the missing vowels round and the music rounds.
Unrelated, but we watched Daniel Kitson's streamed live show from the Union Chapel on Tuesday, and it was wonderful, moving and very very funny. I'd never seen his stuff before, but he was excellent.
― Change Display Name: (stevie), Friday, 4 December 2020 08:46 (three years ago) link
Only Connect does belong on the UK comedy thread for that weird moment at the end of every ep where Coren-Mitchell tells a shite joke into the void, prime anti-comedy imo.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 4 December 2020 10:41 (three years ago) link
heavily redolent of those video gags at the end of hignify
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 4 December 2020 10:52 (three years ago) link
yeah, OC talk seems slightly offtopic here when we all know it should be offtopic in the university challenge thread 8)
classic taskmaster stitch-up last night on richard herring which backfired when he nailed it. nice to see Histor as well.
― koogs, Friday, 4 December 2020 11:01 (three years ago) link