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

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

No, ep 3 bit that slayed me was the riff on Holbeck Gill, the ageing bit-part actor, though the daybreak routine was also terrific.

Didn't get the extras, sadly. Bet they're just a continuation of the show.

I don't watch Masterchef but apparently they bitch about scallops becoming a cliche on that.

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

I think it looks great! It's really well edited.

coz it felt with ep 2 that he was having the same convo with his agent as in ep 1.

Ha!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00c1jj0

"You can't treat your entire life like a Radio 4 panel show."

"Bzzz, yes you can."

ok that was lol

maybe i wasn't in the mood

the daybreak routine was also terrific.

About 43min of that in the extras!

Yeah I'm really enjoying The Trip - can't put my finger on why, but I guess I just like seeing these guys being these guys with that constant one-upmanship and having so many shared frames of reference with each other.

"Oh Joshua, they say you ain't comin' back to the village"
"Pa..."
"I'm not your bloody dad!"

got a HUGE laugh here.

I've been watching Pete Versus Life on 4OD. It's got some good jokes.

said this on the partridge thread (only seen the first ep of trip yet though, might change my mind after watching more. esp interested in seeing ep 3 after what dorian said above):

MMM was great, not perfect but plenty of good smart laughs. i thought the trip was bloody awful though. brydon and coogan just don't work well together. it always descends into a not particularly amusing set piece of coogan snapping at a faux-naif brydon hamming it up. after coogan's universally panned live show last year and his shitty appearance on CYE (interesting how there are very very few fellow comics who coogan can gel with onscreen) i thought he'd completely lost it but i'm pleased that MMM has disproved that.

really? am loving every minute of the trip tbh. mmm is okay, but feels a little like DVD bonus out-takes or summat.

I like Te Trip despite it's self indulgences, but MMM is miles funnier. Miles.

Gonna just carry on enjoying Miranda in unhip silence.

just watched 2nd ep of the trip, liked it a lot more. the ray winstone impressions and the hair/neck things made me laugh. watchable but not great, seems like something they've half thought about and somehow got roped into making a full series. still, nowhere as much of a slog to endure as that damn tristram shandy film

not sure why he gets such a bad rep in certain corners of ilx, but the madonna skit at the end of the new sean lock dvd is fucking brilliant

Gonna just carry on enjoying Miranda in unhip silence.

Me, too. Supporting cast bug me, but she is funny.

Yeah everybody else is mostly terrible - partly deliberately, mostly not I think - but she carries it all by herself.

not sure why he gets such a bad rep in certain corners of ilx, but the madonna skit at the end of the new sean lock dvd is fucking brilliant

Does he get a bad rep? I've always really liked him. His blokey persona is pleasingly at odds with the lateral weirdness of his jokes.