Peep Show (now with added Mitchell & Webb Look)

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'.

*prefers mitchell and webb look to peep show*

and of course Angel Summonor and bmx boy

xp No he's not a Tory afaik but he's small-c conservative in a very smug, condescending way.

in concordance, is webb a small-w wastrel in real life?

he seems like s nice man

New series looks like it's starting next Sunday:
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/peep-show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_2nFeYxLUI

From the Jonathan Ross show apparently

Sunday's not a bad day for it actually.

So, what did anyone think? I did laugh, but it was no great shakes.

It was pretty good but not great, Jeremy in front of the therapist was probably the best bit. There's a bit too much clunky quipping in Mark's inner monologue now, I'm sure it wasn't always like that.

Still don't actually believe that Gerard is dead.

Johnson's speech at the funeral was terrible. I didn't really enjoy the episode much at all, and can't think of a single good line, though one thing did make me giggle (not a very good return from 20+ minutes, really)

It doesn't really help that they become increasingly pathetic as they get older and the writers are aware of that. What works when the characters are in their mid-20s becomes increasingly desperate when they're in their mid-30s.

i only do robotic food, i can't do analog

I like Peep Show, although this was the first time I'd seen it in a very long time and yeah, not great - seemed to be harking back to the dark days of series 4 when situations would get so far-fetched they no longer seemed to have any grounding in real-life, which for me is part of the point and spirit of the show. But y'know, breaking the microwave, confronting the therapist; there was no "ah, we've all done that" acknowledgement, it just seemed zany for the sake of it.

What works when the characters are in their mid-20s becomes increasingly desperate when they're in their mid-30s

Hey now

It was average. The first episode of any given series of Peep Show is often a bit sub-par though.

Yeah it was a bit business as usual. The whole prolonged curry bit had me laughing irl though.

Oh yeah that was funny. Always good when Mark gets properly spiteful.

yeah the curry bit was good actually, and jez not being sure whether his cover had been blown or not for a bit.

i don't really expect hilarity from Peep Show anymore. It sort of trundles along as a comedy institution now. I quite enjoyed that episode though

Oh I don't know, season 7 had its hilarious moments.

Sorry, SERIES 7. Must avoid Americanisms in a Peep Show thread.

p excited to see this (i am an americans so I guess it will have to be by illicit means). But chap OTM that the season openers of Peep Show are almost always subpar.

Series 8 is bound to be tons better than that frickin' magicians movie which I failed to endure on Netflix a couple of months ago...

Also no one is mentioning Dobby PLEASE CONFIRM S8 HAS DOBBY

s8 has dobby

Dobby, 1x Johnson, no Sophie

Still hoping for the return of Toni.

she's the beautiful poison, my friend

Rewengeh!

True to form, second episode a lot better.

"this must be the greatest quantity of squeezable mustard ever present at a literary lunch"

the velvet spoon routine...