Peep Show (now with added Mitchell & Webb Look)

Jesse Armstrong has a lot of other stuff going on, including writing for Ianucci's Veep

Damn I just spent all night watching Peep Show... one of the best ways to ride out insomnia IMO. I had been meaning to finally watch it and god its brilliant!

What series were you watching?

In the last couple of weeks I've had two people surreptitiously ask me if I've ever seen Peep Show (I'm a Brit in the US and the conversation usually turns to TV comedy for some reason) and as it's p much my favourite show ever it's a wonderful thing to bond over, and people who like it here seem to really LOVE it. But hardly anyone's seen it!

david mitchell is a koala

series 6 started a little slow but worked itself up into an admirable froth, series 7 was as good as its ever been, from sophie giving birth -> the xmas/new years finale.

so just waiting around for this....

Series 8 (2012)

Series 8 will be filmed in Summer 2012, and broadcast in the Autumn of that year.[84][85][86]

[edit] Series 9

A ninth series has also been commissioned.[84] Series 9 is expected for 2013, the show's 10th anniversary.

There's been an unusually big gap between 7 and 8 no? I guess Mitchell in particular is a bigger, busier celeb than ever at the moment.

i am american; what do these guys do when they're not doing these series? Character work?

They have their own sketch show and appear on many many panel shows. David Mitchell also writes a shit column for the Observer

got a particular bad example of said shit column?

also, very weird to me that y'all have panel shows... just talking celebrity heads basically of the bill maher variety? and is that stuff heavily political?

I'm in the midst of my third or fourth round of watching the complete series at the moment. It holds up so well to repeat viewings. I can't imagine ever growing tired of it (provided none of the forthcoming series are shit).

Panel Shows = supposedly a quiz show, but with celebrities (usually comedians) making up both teams and nobody really caring about the scores or correct answers, just having 'a laugh' at the 'banter'

The ubiquitous David Mitchell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOB-j9Ihfl8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzNJYQXhDUw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OFXL0jIMR4

They also make That Mitchell and Web Look, as the thread title mentions. The fourth (and final?) series was in 2010.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOZtWZ56lc

ayuh, i've gone through the M+W Look and it's okay but nowhere near peep show quality.

Agreed.

Dunno if i can point out a particular example forks (they all kind of blend in to each other) but feel free to peruse at your leisure
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/davidmitchell

Robert Webb also recently did this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJOZ_Jb_Wiw

urgh yeah i just tried three of those guardian columns they're um not very good let's say.

David Mitchell and Victoria Coren are engaged. Too perfect

Peep show star David Mitchell and TV presenter Victoria Coren have announced their engagement in The Times.

Cynicism aside, I think that's nice. I'm happy for them.

I'm sure corrigan will find some way to screw this up

Jez'll probably screw her the night before the wedding.

and Mark will ignore all the vol-au-vants at the reception and 'actually eat the pizza'

Super Hans will have taken some drugs.

This is so perfect! Then they'll be 'over the hump'

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar, people!
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Sir Digby Chicken Caesar is wonderful and everything, but I'm pretty sure it's technically illegal to bump this thread right now if it isn't regarding a start date for Peep Show series 8.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar is not only my least favorite part of the show, but it's a bit I actively hate. Dreadful!

ayuh, i've gone through the M+W Look and it's okay but nowhere near peep show quality.

Is this true, because I just started watching Mitchell and Webb Look and it's the best thing I've seen in ages -- is Peep Show even better?
(my relationship with M+WL = I love Numberwang and hate Digby Chicken Caesar, if that helps pin me down.)

well Mitchell and Webb Look is terrible so it's hard to say what your opinion of Peep Show will be. You're definitely watching them the wrong way round though

peep show is about 6.75 times better than mitchell and webb look

need to move that decimal point right a couple of notches.

david mitchell is the cockfarmer's cockfarmer

I really like M&W Look :(

I had a lot of love for these two when Mitchel and Webb Sound was on R4 a few years back. Overexposure to DM's cockfarmery has made their entire output go down in my estimation. It really did look for a little while that they were gonna turn into a C21 Fry & Laurie.

as a non-UKer I am unfamiliar with the cockfarming aspects of DM.

I think they are being overemphasised here. He's smug and facetious but also quite witty.

he's a smug unfunny Tory, kinda Happy Shopper Stephen Fry vibe

Yeah it worked much better on radio

those soapbox videos were the worst things DM has ever done. that dismal 'old wealthy white male' (or in this case, old before his time) has a <sneerquote>hilarious</sneerquote> rant about something that fails to resonate with anyone ever. even his reading is some dreadful contrived shite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTBBKmBtdEM

love peep show but hate mitchell's carefully crafted young/straight/nerd/pompous take-off of stephen fry

in fact his whole soapbox thing is a combination of all the very worst traits (and lo, there are many) of jeremy clarkson, will self and stephen fry. very very nearly tarnishes the brilliance of mark corrigan but not quite

xxxpost is he tory?

M&W Look season 1 is okay but not great. Just watched season 2 eps 2 and 3 though, and they are quite a leap funnier.

(nowhere near peep show tho)

i just saw a pilot where mitchell & webb are roommates except one of them is a sci-fi writer and they have imaginary sci-fi adventures.
now THAT was terrible.

About half the sketches are good. I watch it on streaming netflix. I like "Get Me Hennomire"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE_Glg85-60

I also really like the Cheesoid robot

i liked the garden centre tribe. and the bit where they read the script and the script reads 'they read the script'.