agreed. it's aged v well.
what saves The IT Crowd is those typical Linehan/Matthews flourishes here and there.
one other good thing about Morris which I miss in this Gervais-dominated period was his media reticence (which he claimed was thrust upon him i.e. people were too scared to talk to him or just assumed he wouldn't want to).
― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Annually Retentive was frustrating because Rob Brydon seemed to be ruining his own great ideas half the time, even if most of them were based on Sanders, David etc.
― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link
better then peep show say i.
― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
funny how forgotten eddie izzard is. he was a lot more prominent than any of the people we're fellating on this thread at the time.
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
saying 'what am i fuckin noddy', not so much.
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
it is in our house (yes even today i'm afraid).
― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
'it's outrrrAGEOUS'
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=64446617
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/daveinarave/ske.gif
this dude looks like a certain ilx poster.
― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link
*mainly just because i enjoy the accents
― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link
Father Ted, Fawlty Towers and Peep Show is in my book the holy trinity of Britcom.
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link
I haven't heard the CD, just get bit torrent and download the whole thing, it's the only way to hear it.
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link
I've never seen much of Blue Jam. just wasn't that bothered. then i saw the Adam & Joe pisstake and felt validated.
― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
LOL@Adam and Joe. They weren't really piss-takes, I thought they were quite affectionate, myself. Their Jam was superb, it has to be said.
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link
the opening music is an 'triguing montage. sly and the family stone ('time') also appear in it.
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Well, indeed. The actual visuals were always best-left to the imagination, and the television version dropped all the music, which robbed BJ of its soul (if not its content).
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Blue Jam was fantastic, jam less so.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link
otm
but you could say similar about massive attack and their influence on dido.
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap (chap), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link
it's the new Saturday Night With Lee Hurst or whatever that was called.
― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link
You are hinting towards something I myself crave. It's quite a good way of putting it, although perhaps simply 'progressive comedy' might suffice better.
Blue Jam is not comedy of embarrassment, it is comedy of helplessnes and weakness. To claim that it's had any effect on Gervais (who I regard as a charlatan, a funny man but a charlatan) is almost heresy in my eyes.
Nighty Night just didn't have the same vibe. Like Jam, it was dark, but Blue Jam really is something else entirely. Don't base your opinions on the CD, invest some time in the whole thing. Seventeen hour-long comedy concept albums, each one a work of crazed genius.
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link
how does it make helplessness/weakness actually funny? just via surrealism and the inappropriate happening?
― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link
"So Roger, I hear you've got a ten-inch cock..."
― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link