I was disappointed by Serafinozowicz. I loved Look Around You, but this wasn't half as clever. Seemed like he was taking cheap shots at things that have already had the mick taken out of them a thousand times before (Big Brother, Michael Caine, QVC). I don't get the Mitchell and Webb sketch with the snooker commentators at all.
Can anyone remind me what the bit of music Seraphimowitz played on the lady's fingers? I can't work it out, even though it's very famous.
In other news, I've been really enjoying Snuffbox (about a year too late I know). Especially "Rapper With A Baby".
― the next grozart, Friday, 5 October 2007 00:18 (sixteen years ago) link
The '70s man getting married' thing felt a bit Look Around You S2 but in a good way.
― blueski, Friday, 5 October 2007 00:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.
― Venga, Friday, 5 October 2007 08:19 (sixteen years ago) link
PS's alan alda was great. rest of it middling. but passed the time.
vivyan vyle was bbc1 fodder, i thought, ab fab watered down.
best of the three was mitchell and webb, yes. unfortunately the last one. still graham norton next week.
― koogs, Friday, 5 October 2007 08:52 (sixteen years ago) link
i liked the chiropractor sketch on mitchell and webb
― the next grozart, Friday, 5 October 2007 12:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I liked the cavepeople sketch and the nazi sketch on Mitchell and Webb. the rest was disappointing.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 5 October 2007 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Dogface officially not too bad.
It's total cack
― Tom D., Friday, 5 October 2007 12:43 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm sticking with my first answer
― blueski, Friday, 5 October 2007 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link
thursdays now officially less funny now norton has replaced mitchell and webb. v vyle still dreadful. BUT 30 rock is on ch5 later and is quite good.
serafinowicz good bits = none of the recurring characters (although i did like butterfield's(?) disguises). dickens' jammy corners, poison sockets good. beatles very poor.
― koogs, Friday, 12 October 2007 08:51 (sixteen years ago) link
'30 rock' is great. by episode four or five it's genius.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 12 October 2007 08:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Serafinowicz has a sort of gentle silliness that is quite likeable but, generally, the material is shandy weak. Poison sockets, Christmas Man, Limpy's Got Cancer the only highlights this week.
Funny that, for all his voice talent and acting chops, the best thing he's ever been involved in (Look Around You S1) hardly featured him as a performer at all.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 12 October 2007 09:01 (sixteen years ago) link
the best thing he's ever been involved in
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UDONGdCjkNw
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 12 October 2007 09:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, that was good too.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 12 October 2007 09:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Serafinowicz has a sort of gentle silliness that is quite likeable but, generally, the material is shandy weak.
i agree, forgot to watch last night (thought it was on friday for some reason, in your face BBC branding-obsessives).
― blueski, Friday, 12 October 2007 10:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Paramount Comedy has a kinda "stand-up" compilation show featuring biggish name stand-ups of today's routines that they can get cheap, ie: from 1997. It's fucking weird to watch. Stewart Lee as a punchline machine comedian, Sean Lock doing a kinda "Gas as hosted by Lee Mack" surrealism piece, Dave Gorman telling actually jokes...
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 19 October 2007 08:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, on the topic of S.Lee, apparently he's got the BBC nod to produce his own pilot, based heavily on the old Dave Allan stand-up shows. Except with an extra half-a-finger, I assume.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 19 October 2007 08:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm glad he found work so soon after being sacked by Bolton.
― Mark C, Friday, 19 October 2007 13:01 (sixteen years ago) link
OK, "It's Adam and Shelley", it's the last straw really. Why? How? Why again?
― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:06 (sixteen years ago) link
did anyone see Learners? her from spaced, him from doctor who. i taped it but am not sure i can summon up the will to actually watch it given the BBC1 9 o'clock timeslot
― koogs, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Going to the taping for S. Lee's no-longer-cancelled pilot, will report back
― That mong guy that's shit, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw most of Learners. It was not worth the time although I had to keep watching because I was intrigued by the building they used for drving school HQ and wondered whether they were using the actual interior or a set.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, on the topic of S.Lee, apparently he's got the BBC nod to produce his own pilot, based heavily on the old Dave Allan stand-up shows.
What is with Dave Allen? This from the bbc's blurb about Amid Djalili's new show...
Omid Djalili invokes the spirit of Dave Allen in his new self-penned, self-titled stand-up and sketch show.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I imagine a lot of comedians are fans of his
― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Dave Allen was funny, died within the past five years, didn't have a massive fall-off in funniness towards the end of his career, plus there's something endearingly "old school" about his approach that's gonna suit guys like Djalili and Lee: stand-up with brief character sketches
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― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Plus Lee and Djalili are both "lightly political" comedians, like Allen.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Dave Allen was great! His comedy was gentler, slower, and yet more piercing and devastatingly-observed than most modern wannabes'.
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd forgotten that Dave Allen used to do sketches. I only rember him sitting on that stool telling jokes (and drinking and smoking iirc).
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Pour one out... http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/content/images/2007/08/20/daveallen_2_396x222.jpg
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Allen became very rude towards the end or, perhaps, that material was always part of his stand-up and '90s TV allowed him to broadcast it. I just remember my parents (big fans in the '70s) being appalled by the explicit sex jokes; like a hero of theirs had revealed his true colours. I doubt my Dad had been so disappointed in anyone since Dave Hickson joined Liverpool in 1959.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
He used the f-word, I was shocked by that
― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 November 2007 12:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, perhaps it was more the language. Poor old Mum just can't get past swearing; she nearly made my Dad turn off One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest when it was first shown on TV in about 1988 cos of the cussing. It became one of my Dad's favourite films!
Welcome to the Jonesy Nostalgia Thread.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 12:56 (sixteen years ago) link
PUT YOUR HANDS UP FOR A THIRD SERIES OF TITTYBANGBANG, THEY LOVE NOT PRODUCING ONE SINGLE LAUGH EVER AND YET STILL BEING RECOMMISSIONED
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 16 November 2007 11:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Double thread attack on Tittybang!
― Tom D., Friday, 16 November 2007 11:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Some bits of Tittybang have actually made me snigger.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 16 November 2007 11:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Also lol at weird "Megan's Law" looking dude who reviews TV in The Lite London Paper going "Some may say that Lead Balloon is "steals" from Curb Your Enthusiasm, but there's one difference: it's funnier"
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 16 November 2007 11:33 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Noodle Vague, Friday, 16 November 2007 11:33 (5 seconds ago) Bookmark Link
"Snigger" isn't an acceptable euphemism for "jack off"
It's almost as good as "Katy Brand's Big Ass Show"
― Tom D., Friday, 16 November 2007 11:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey I was surprised too but God knows most of C4s comedy output is worse.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 16 November 2007 11:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Katy Brand's Big Ass Face, morelike amirite?
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 16 November 2007 11:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm assuming after Jan Ravens and Ronni Ancona female impressionists don't need to be either funny or actually sound like the people they're impersonating, and just have large breasts?
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 16 November 2007 11:41 (sixteen years ago) link
You forgot Karen Taylor
― Tom D., Friday, 16 November 2007 11:41 (sixteen years ago) link
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Works for me.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 16 November 2007 11:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Tittybangbang: not as bad as Little Miss Jocelyn.
Should totally be its slogan.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 16 November 2007 11:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Testicular cancer: not as bad as Little Miss Jocelyn.
Should totally be its slogan
― Tom D., Friday, 16 November 2007 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I feel like such a racist for hating Little Miss Jocelyn, but it really is fucking awful and was obviously commissioned so the BBC could go "See! We DO give black comedy a chance!"
Remember that comedy drama about the family with the dude who played Geoffrey in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air? That was OK. And I laughed at least twice after watching three episodes of The Nathan Caton Show, so, again, I'm not a racist.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 16 November 2007 11:46 (sixteen years ago) link
well played.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 16 November 2007 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Bring back Robbie Gee.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 16 November 2007 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.adrians.co.uk/acatalog/MICKY01CD2.jpg
― Tom D., Friday, 16 November 2007 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
That record was funny.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 16 November 2007 11:50 (sixteen years ago) link
POLL:
Curtis and Ishmael Collette Johnson Llewella Gideon Meera Syal Perry Benson Sanjeev Bhaskar Leo Chester Felix Dexter Robbie Gee Kulvinder Ghir Judith Jacob Rudi Lickwood Eddie Nestor Marcus Powell Junior Simpson Curtis Walker
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 16 November 2007 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link