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

Rev's one you watch, thinking "hm, this is mildly amusing at a push" but carry on watching anyway.

Yeah, it hasn't much more than made me chuckle. But I think the characters are well-drawn, and the acting's good.

Simon Amstell verdict? Not watched it yet.

I really liked it but the dude cannot act to save his life. 8/10

Just did a quick google to find out what you're on about (no tv) and read this
http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a258605/simon-amstell-i-might-flee-the-country.html
and it doesn't even tell me wtf the show is!

I had to turn it off ten minutes in. Just couldn't take how stilted it was and i love Amstell in Popworld/Buzzcocks guise.

I'm liking it.

Grandma's House that is.

ppl discussing it here

Simon & Miquita - IT IS OVER

Cheers.

What the hell is going on with Phone Shop? It wasn't just failing to make me laugh - I couldn't even see which bits were intended to make people laugh. I didn't know sitcoms this bad were made anymore.

When we watch The Inbetweeners, my housemate always comments on how shit Phone Shop looks and I always comment on how shit School of Comedy looks. It's a tradition. We've watched neither.

we need these BritCom viewing traditions, like being exasperated/baffled/etc every time the Star Stories adverts noted that it was award-winning.

ed reardon on right now, crushing it

Everybody shd see School of Comedy once just so's you can say you've seen the most unbelievable shit of all time.

^ truthbomb

Oh God, who greenlighted The Stephen K Amos Show? Have seen trailer, part of me just died inside.

sorry to be this guy but is thebox uk telly torrent place still any good and if so would anyone have an invite to spare plz?

(i just remembered that old grimy bbc medical show CARDIAC ARREST and felt curious)

can you not just get everything off eztv like everyone else?

rtc, check ur mail.

Is there anything funny on British TV at the moment?

the impressions in 'the trip' were funny. haven't caught up with ep 2.

Oh yeah, had forgotten about that. Ep.2 was good but I can see diminishing returns ahead. Actually Diminishing Returns could be the next comedy on BBC3 - set in the wacky world of a Marks and Spencers returns dept - Ep.1, when a shy woman wants to return some risque underwear much eye rolling hilarity ensues...

They should have a gay character, that would be funny.

And one who talks a bit like a black person who is not actually black.

Maybe a blonde woman who isn't very clever.

Right, I'm off for a pitch meeting.

forgot to watch Getting On but hopefully its as good as the mini-series last year

xp I want a cameo as a Fat Man who complains that everything is too small.

oh wait - that IS what I do...

i enjoyed Getting On but haven't caught any of the new ones. hard to know whether i should be laughing at times, but i like that.

The Trip i have trouble with. but will probably watch all of. and then remember fondly.

The new Partridge web thing>>>>>The Trip.

The Trip is amusing, but only gets laugh out loud when they do impressions.

see, i thought the opposite - all their impressions are cliches and repeating them backwards and forwards like they do is adding insult to injury.

all their impressions are cliches

that's the joke

new partridge was very very fun.

was phoneshop good? friends loved it, i saw none of it, but it has her who wrote/starred in Home Time in it, and that was just brilliant, and also i love her love her love her.

The first episode of Phone Shop made me cringe from start to finish, every character was terrible.

Watched five minutes of Phoneshop and it didn't seem quite as awful as it might've been, but I'm not losing any sleep over having turned it off.

NotEnough you're a ledge! have replied now.

The trip is great.

Yeah, it's kind of surprising me how much i'm enjoying it since the premise seems so boring

ehhh it's ok

second ep p much exactly the same as first but less good

the idea is they're 'going there' and really exposing coogan's insecurities, but really they're indulging them

i think we're meant to think he is good enough to be a big hollywood star, and not only that, but to feel sorry for him about his failure to be one, and share his weird bitterness towards the uk

he could maybe make a british 'greenberg' if he cut the shit and found a director/production team more talented than winterbottom

I disagree. I feel we're meant to take Brydon's point that Coogan should just be happy with making people laugh instead of worrying about Hollywood all the time. (Just watched all six for a DVD review so basing my interpretation on the whole thing)

well, apparently it was shown at festivals as a film, with some stuff cut out, carlos-style. that might work better, if there is plot progression. coz it felt with ep 2 that he was having the same convo with his agent as in ep 1.

The Richard Gere bit was killing me, as was Coogan's performance of "Popcorn" on his throat. Also, the woman from "9 Songs" is really pretty.

who was 9 songs woman playing?

9 songs was yet another terrible winterbottom film, possibly the worst

yeah the gere bit was funny

the bits of the show i don't like are the emo bits, also the pointless bits of food prep

also i just think it isn't 'well made', shot, etc

She's Coogan's American ex-girlfriend isn't she?

There's a back-and-forth in episode three which had me doubled up, crying and shaking with laughter, for the first time in about two years, so I'll defend this pretty strongly.

I quite like the food-prep on the same level as the road shots - adds to the rhythm and atmosphere of the whole thing. Makes an interesting snapshot of a moment in British cuisine as well - enough with the scallops, everyone.

Dd you get to see the extras too, Dorian? The forensic examination of the art of the continuity voiceover that doubles as a riff on Trevor Eve vehicles was a real highlight.

(Was ep 3 the "daybreak" thing?)

"enough with the scallops, everyone"

welp, im half-manx so was glad to have a namecheck for queenies

had not realized they'd become a thing among rich diners tho