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

Testicular cancer: not as bad as Little Miss Jocelyn.

Should totally be its slogan

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.

well played.

Bring back Robbie Gee.

http://www.adrians.co.uk/acatalog/MICKY01CD2.jpg

That record was funny.

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

his last film has a somewhat hopeful title and one solitary review on imdb. guess it was unreleased:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2007/03/12/dont_stop_dreaming_2007_review.shtml

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Oh, I wanna see that!

Taz and Michelle Collins, together at last.

"Cowboy Song", that was OK.

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 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

^^^how about some feedback on this?

Assuming the taping was cancelled after he ate the cameras lol he's fat now

Hit and miss, I think it's supposed to be stand-up intercut with taped interviews. The stand-up bit largely consisted of him shouting abuse at the British public for thinking Del Boy falling through the bar is funny.

It is funny though

Prefer the police inteview scene.

Comedy gold...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtboTwW-Jao

Stewart Lee:

TS: Derek Trotter vs. Derek Bailey

Prefer the police inteview scene.

Not the bit when DelBoy rips open a policewoman's jacket thinking she's a stripper then?

Man Stroke Woman is best UK comedy right now.

Gulp

To pick up on Koogs' comment on Love Soup on the other thread. Yeah, I like this but they've lost Michael Landis as their leading man (got a better offer) and Renwick seems to been forced into a complete rethink on S2 - it's 12 x 30min rather than 6 x 60min. We've got S2 in at work but I haven't seen any of it yet.

Shut it. These are OFFICIALLY the best in British comedy right now:

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2007/12/05/6116/british_comedy_awards%3A_the_results

Gavin & Stacey, Simon Amstell and David Michell were big winners at the 18th annual British Comedy Awards last night.

Gavin & Stacey won best new scripted comedy, while its stars, and co-creators, Ruth Jones and James Cordon won best new actress and actor accordingly.

Amstell won best entertainment personality, while Never Mind The Buzzcocks was named best comedy entertainment show. He thanked 'Mark Lamarr for leaving. I've done really well out of that depression.

Mitchell won best comedy actor, while Peep Show won the big prize of the night, best TV comedy.

As expected, host Jonathan Ross cracked plenty of jokes at the expense of ITV, which decided not to air the show live following inconsistencies in the 2005 phone-in vote.

The full list of winners at the British Comedy Awards 2007:

Best Television Comedy Actor
David Mitchell - Peep Show

Best Television Comedy Actress
Liz Smith - The Royle Family: The Queen of Sheba

Best Comedy Entertainment Personality
Simon Amstell - Never Mind The Buzzcocks

Best TV Comedy
Peep Show

Best Comedy Entertainment Programme
Never Mind The Buzzcocks

Best International Comedy Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm

Best Male Comedy Newcomer
James Corden - Gavin & Stacey

Best Female Comedy Newcomer
Ruth Jones - Gavin & Stacey

Best New British Television Comedy
Gavin & Stacey

Best Live Stand-Up
Alan Carr

Best Comedy Film
The Simpsons Movie

The Writers' Guild Ronnie Barker Award
Simon Pegg

Lifetime Achievement Award
Stephen Fry

yes that's better.

not sure i ever saw the end of G&S. lol at the fact that the mates both won comedy newcomer but neither gavin nor stacey did.

> Michael Landes

thought i'd seen him in something more recently but his imdb page doesn't show anything. CSI bit parts and Ghost Whisperer but not sure that counts as 'better offer' 8)

best line in Love Soup: 'it's not rocket salad'.

other current fav: Big Train repeats on Dave Tv. mark heap as emperor ming in hosital after slipping on mat. pegg as blue skinned underling visitor.

with julia davis as his nice sister

Lead Balloon ultimately sucks because Dee's character is actually too unpleasant, manipulative and miserable whereas Larry David was mindful to present himself as in the right and the victim enough of the time to remain likeable. Also he made jokes.

I don't understand how Ruth Jones can win Best Comedy Newcomer. She was in Human Remains 7 years ago!

HIGNFY has been good lately. Charlie Brooker did well the other week and Lauren Laverne was excellent last week - forgot how funny she could be.

Russell Brand was shit tho

Lauren Laverne said funny stuff but came across as unlikeable

only to you, WEIRDO

I don't know, something a bit unpleasant and sneery about her

But I suppose that's what the kids want these days

see what you want to

i didn't see her on HIGNFY, but my fondness for la laverne has diminished these past ten years. she is a bit superior, in a guardian guide sort of way, on the culture show, and, in a guardian guide sort of way, without having much to be superior about.

Right. Supercilious, middlebrow and proud of it.

examples?

'the culture show' is EXACTLY THE SAME as, say, the housewife/dolie/oap-oriented lunchtime show 'loose women': some fucker plugging their new book/record/film. that's it, that's all they do, there is no chance of criticism or perspective; just the inevitability that not one choice will take you by surprise. it's all incredibly safe -- tate modern, arcade fire, ang lee, that kind of shit. only it's presented as if you the viewer should be proud for having discovered something. and you don't need any of this shit.

don't think that's right. Kermode and to a lesser extent Graham-Dixon do offer the criticism/perspective on things but if you want more of that watch Newsnight Review anyway. TCS mandate as a light general arts guide is fine (under the circumstances and if this is how much time the BBC want to spend on this). I mean middlebrow is the POINT and there's no shame in that at 7.30pm on a BBC2 Saturday night. Laverne is kinda wasted as a presenter tho despite being competent and 'bubbly' enough to front it. Verity Sharp was doing a good enough job before her.

Kermode and to a lesser extent Graham-Dixon do offer the criticism/perspective on things but if you want more of that watch Newsnight Review anyway

Newsnight Review's worse! Unless you actually believe that what Julie Myerson thinks about anything is of any interest to anyone in the universe

i don't even dislike middlebrow stuff exactly... probably more like i'm bored with the same old stuff. in the summer TCS did a "british movies spesh" and it was... 'wicker man', 'clockwork orange', fucking 'notting hill'. whereas last night channel five included 'taking of the pelham 123' in a clip show (i guess for some people *that's* played, but not as badly).

i don't dislike kermode but he does reinforce received opinion -- by dint of being everywhere he kind of *is* received opinion. TCS will never kick something unless its down -- recently 'southland tales', giving the impression of occasionally being badass.

think forward or back to the meltdown festival -- would TCS ever, ever say "lol this curator is a twazz"? and yet they usually are.

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aye, i can't even watch newsnight review now.

On tonight's show: the latest Ian Rankin; the newest offering from Dreamworks; some other shit and, right at the end of the show, 15 seconds of footage to commemorate the death of Karlheinz Stockhausen, but, don't worry, we won't actually talk about Karlheinz Stockhausen because we know fuck all about him or about almost anything to do with music

the point is you will still get a bit of argument on that show even it is just Morley vs Harris on Shrek 3 (fun fun!). whether TCS should try and do this or not is another issue. i do know that Laverne should leave it in order to be more roffley tho.

she does other shows, i think -- corporate indie at 11.40 on channel 4 kind of stuff? live from koko.

'tonight on the culture show laverne talks to dizzee rascal / next week on transmission laverne talks to dizzee rascal' was my zingy cos it's true earlier this year

tcs made me have some respect for sting. thus i hate it.

laverne was interviewing him about his dowland record, and said "so, it's not just for chinstroking beardy weirdos, then?"
he answered bemusedly and then performed live, pretty good i thought.
havnae bought it or anything.

"so, it's not just for chinstroking beardy weirdos, then?"

she said this to dizzee too, or should have.

Is it common knowledge that Peter Cook was originally going to play Alf Garnett?