it's not for you
― Alan, Monday, 12 May 2008 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
2pints fascinates me for reasons i can't quite explain - the only thing even remotely like it is the old US tv show, "saved by the bell"
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 12 May 2008 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
That's remote in astrophysics terms - as in light years away from being as good as even "Saved By the Bell"
― Tom D., Monday, 12 May 2008 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
i like love soup
Saw one episode and it's totally for girls.
― chap, Monday, 12 May 2008 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Admin: this is an awful sitcom.
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 12 May 2008 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I liked Love Soup up to the episodes with Mark Heap. He play a weird combination of creepy and soppy which I did not enjoy. But those outfits they wear in the shop are hot, definitely.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 07:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Teenage Kicks turned out all right, apart from the weird Asian jokes.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 07:31 (sixteen years ago) link
"Ed Reardon's Week" is as funny as Black Books and Love Soup and sometimes quite a bit funnier. Peng is maybe my favorite British comedy character.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/edreardon.shtml
(hint: try a torrent)
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link
"people who feel they deserve better in life but don't get too worked up about it" seems to come up again and again in british comedy
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:39 (sixteen years ago) link
"people who feel they deserve better in life but don't get too worked up about it" seems to come up again and again in british comedy life.
― Raw Patrick, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 11:30 (sixteen years ago) link
i suspected
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 11:31 (sixteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7410393.stm
Sitcom Moving Wallpaper will return to ITV1 next year, the commercial channel has confirmed - but without Echo Beach, its accompanying soap opera.
The shows - the brainchild of former EastEnders writer Tony Jordan - were launched in tandem earlier this year, to a mixed critical reception.
When Moving Wallpaper returns for a second series, though, scenes from Echo Beach will be incorporated within it.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 02:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Against all odds, ITV2 superhero sitcom No Heroics is pretty good.
New BBC2 comedy Beautiful People is not.
― chap, Thursday, 2 October 2008 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link
DID THEY IMPLEMENTED YOUR SUGGESTIONS?
http://www.funnyordie.co.uk/videos/cd2462fae2
― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:36 (fifteen years ago) link
didn't make 50. tut.
― Shacknasty (Frogman Henry), Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
heh, that's ace.
― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
nathan barley and peep show are the closest we have to genius, peep show actually attains genius at times.
-- Just got offed, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 15:54 (6 months ago) Bookmark Link
*sigh*
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 14:38 (7 months ago) Bookmark
:-/
Actually, they're probably (The Thick Of It notwithstanding) still the best two of recent years. Definitely of the ones I've seen. Which says something.
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I was most impressed to find out from Would I Lie To You that Peter Serafinowicz was the voice of impotent Pele in the Viagra adverts.
(the level at which I attain impressedness with Britishc comedy peeps has gone way down)
― ailsa, Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Is there anything funny on British TV at all these days? I haven't bothered to look.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
fonejacker
― nate woolls, Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
― Matt DC, Thursday, 23 October 2008 14:52 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
No, basically.
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I did laugh at something in Fonejacker last night, can't remember what, but it's almost unwatchable (xp)
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Still great stuff online, though:
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I should've clarified. Terry Tibbs is really funny, the rest of it not so much.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:56 (fifteen years ago) link
what happened to our N.Barley no 2 series, I thought they were all for it.
same here, i'm still living in the world of Cheers/Frasier/Seinfeld repeats.
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think Frasier has ever made me laugh
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 October 2008 14:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I generally get most lolz from TV Burp and the occasional Amstell putdown on Buzzcocks. Sitcoms invariably pish, or else haven't even made me want to watch them.
― ailsa, Thursday, 23 October 2008 14:01 (fifteen years ago) link
UK'S FAVOURITE COMEDIANS1. Peter Kay2. Lee Evans3. Alan Carr4. Catherine Tate5. Dawn French6. Rowan Atkinson7. Al Murray8. Jack Dee9. Eddie Izzard10. Frankie Boyle
UK'S LEAST FAVOURITE COMEDIANS1. Jo Brand2. Jonathan Ross3. Victoria Wood4. Ricky Gervais5. Harry Hill6. Jimmy Carr7. Paul Merton8. Russell Brand9. Spike Milligan10. Alan Bennett
3000 mentalists polled
― GSOHSHIT (blueski), Sunday, 30 November 2008 12:47 (fifteen years ago) link
that poll makes me want to cry.
― a hoy hoy, Sunday, 30 November 2008 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Gina Yashere will be pleased
― GSOHSHIT (blueski), Sunday, 30 November 2008 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, I saw Lee Evans at the O2 last month. The place stank of Tangy Cheese Doritos and was a shitty venue for comedy: basically a cavenous, empty hole. No atmosphere, and Evans was boring and bored.
― DavidM, Sunday, 30 November 2008 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
"The place stank of Tangy Cheese Doritos"
that'll be evans' sweat
― Shacknasty (Frogman Henry), Sunday, 30 November 2008 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
9. Spike Milligan10. Alan Bennett
what
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 30 November 2008 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
ITV's Al Murray appearing on the favourite list, while ITV's Harry Hill appears on the least favourite list strikes me as odd for some reason.
― DavidM, Monday, 1 December 2008 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Al Murray was good when he was Harry Hill's sidekick on C4. Getting above his station now.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 1 December 2008 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
DISGRACED ROSSY ALMOST AS HATED AS FAT FEMALE
― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Monday, 1 December 2008 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
SHAME OF POLL SNUB TO NATIONAL HERO MACONIE
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 1 December 2008 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
To be fair Jo Brand isn't actually funny xpost
― chap, Monday, 1 December 2008 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Was going to start a poll for this, but may as well shove it here:
"Who is your favourite of the two black stand-up comedians that are allowed on TV these days?"
a) the one who swears a lot for no real reasonb) the gay one
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 09:44 (fifteen years ago) link
c) either, because even at their worst they are better than Gina Yashere, the third black stand-up allowed on TV these days
― ailsa, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 09:53 (fifteen years ago) link
i dunno if hes a stand up or not but i choose american one on have i got news for you every other week who rarely has joeks but his voice makes up for it.
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 11:03 (fifteen years ago) link
The one who's only joke is I'm Black LOL needs to fuck right off. I bet he was the wacky one in the office.
― NotEnough, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 11:08 (fifteen years ago) link
― ailsa, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 09:53 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Gina Yashere does raise a good point though: what is up with that?
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link
can we name any of these blacks, please?
― Shacknasty (Frogman Henry), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 11:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Stephen K AmosReginald D Hunter
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 11:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Stephen K Amos, that's the one.Annoying twat.
Hunter's fun tho. His stand-up is coming round these parts soon, I may go.
― NotEnough, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 11:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Stephen K Amos brings the lols for me.
― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 11:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Where is that poll from?
― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I went to see Steve Coogan last week. Odd experience all round but I laughed quite a lot. And a lot more than this drunken bloke staggering out next to me trying to apologise to his gf about bringing her to "this shit" and she was saying "no, really, I laughed, it was funny" and him going "now, it was shit, total shit" and me thinking that she had a look on her face like "the only thing shit is you saying the word 'shit' over and over again."
― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 11:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Reginald D Hunter is gay?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 11:25 (fifteen years ago) link