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I mostly don't get Limmy.

Episodes finally got funny with the fight scene that briefly seemed like it could be a gay makeout session. It did take its time to get into its stride.

10 o'clock live on the other hand bugs me enormously that they think they could compete against Question Time. I foolishly watch both.

funniest bits on Limmy

his intro

"kill jester"

the" man-ia twain" thing esp. the third one

still not seen the first series tho :o

limmy needs a thread of his own and when i get the time im gonna do it. new series is fucking amazing

what's the verdict on this friday night dinner series on ch4? haven't heard anything of it until just now checking robert popper's twitter - apparently he co-wrote it. worth a watch?

I kind of feel the 30-min sketch show isn't the right format for Limmy - stretches him a bit thin, though there is usually one clearly genius moment per episode. So much of his comedy is in his expressions: actually wouldn't mind seeing him in a conventional sit-com.

Limmy walking into a messy room with happy hardcore blasting out of the stereo and just staring at the camera in total contempt made me laugh more than anything else in ep4

limmy quite patchy but find the bad patches easy to ignore as they are usually unresolved wee ideas that come to nothing or are otherwise slightly disappointing rather than offensively unfunny like most sketch shows and the good patches are fantastic unlike most sketch shows. happy to sit down for 30 mins and through the less good bits for the few really good bits without having to imagine him a revolutionary format. he was in an ep of the I.T. crowd.

friday night dinner not bad - repetitive but deliberately and amusingly, good acting despite the guy from the inbetweeners being the guy from the inbetweeners. fairly gentle humour with some good moments. feels limited and brief in good ways and as though that's what it's aiming for.

I'm willing to forgive Limmy a lot just cos he's likable unlike the majority of tv comedians these days. I think this series is a definite step up i quality too.

Episode 4 was pretty great imo.clowning and the beast bit especially. Polises' 1st day pretty pish tho.

Gonna give him another go, just hope I don't get bummed out with another "party on the Finnieston Crane" sketch.

Limmy's face cracks me up totally.

I quite like Friday Night Dinner, for the reasons conrad has already said. The Mark Heap character is pretty bad though.

aye, he just has an amusing and really expressive face. can elevate some stuff which, as a concept, isn't particularly funny into a belly-laugh.

I usually start laughing as soon as one of the Dee Dee sketches kicks off with "Fockin..."

it's scarily accurate.

weaker than usual limmy

The girlfriend was roaring with laughter @ Friday Night Dinner. Me, not so much. It's a bit too farcical, maybe too slapstick and most of the laughs are groans rather than funny-bone tickles. Strange because Popper's usually one of the people I can guarantee to make me laugh.

dump her

that limmy show was gid i thought. eccie'd da!

A nation mourns

In a recent interview Lindsay said he was "amazed by the public's love for the series".

I noticed the Beeb edited out the "fucking"

I can't work out where: fucking amazed, fucking public or fucking series? Or "public's love fucking for the series"?

"fucking amazed". the word between "public's" and "love" was "inexfuckingplicable"

Kris Marshall was pretty good in it tbh

He would never have got the part in those phone commercials without it

was gonna say, as good as he is in them phone ads?

and that awful fucking sitcom based on movie plots that bombed harder than a B52 over Hanoi?

Y'wha?

was on BBC2, something about some film nerd and each episode was based on the plot of a movie or something. they forgot to put anything funny in it.

it was amazing

do you mean "amazing that it got made"?

The sketch where Deedee goes to Yoker is absolutely incredible.

Man, I missed that! (xp)

It was called My Life In Film. I've seen worse things on telly.

^the faintest of praises

That's what I was going for, aye :-)

Seeing Norm MacD tonight. Should be rad.

Thought the final Limmy was a bit weak but i lol'd at "chocolate choux" and the Dee Dee fakeout.

It was bit weak, but I agree with dog latin, the Dee Dee bus trip to Yorker sketch from a couple of weeks back was excellent. I like the unhurried nature of his sketches in general.

Anyone watching Burnistoun (s2)? It's still hit and miss but seemed to be more hits than misses and the hits made me actually lol.

feel burnistoun almost entirely pish

Did you watch it though?

WEE CHOCOLATE BANANA

watched yes

oh not the most recent one I see

LICKING JK ROWLING

could be hilarious for all I know but I bet it fucking isn't

I'm Licking JK Rowling song was hilarious. FOR REAL.

Also "wait in here with my dad and all my mad uncles", "I can't hear the movie because of all the squeaking" and the characters who ran the van...it's definitely an improvement on S1.

I watched a couple of episodes of Campus last night. It made me laugh out loud. I thought it was going to be greenwing at uni but the tone is different. It's like a peepshow, greenwing mesh. I'm waiting for the characters to gain a bit more depth before I decide if I am a fan. It did feel a bit cheesy and calculated at times, like "look at all these fabulous stereo types we've invented". Be interested to hear what other people think.

I tried, got nine minutes in. Will try again when I have the patience..

Managed 2 episodes. The sleazy English teacher is quite good, a bit like Guy the Anaesthetist in Green Wing. The other characters aren't rounded enough and too few of them. The episodes drag a bit.