Peep Show (now with added Mitchell & Webb Look)

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With a core audience of more than a million viewers and brisk DVD sales, a fourth series is scheduled to start shooting in January.

Hooray. The wife and I have been forcing Peep Show on friends for a year now in an attempt to "grow" the US audience. The first season's a thing of beauty.

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/gig-23352449-details/Brand+New+Heavies+Feat+N%27Dea+Davenport/gigReview.do?reviewId=23366765

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Thursday, 14 September 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

Mitchell and Webb sketch show thingie on BBC2 now. It is, let's be honest, not Peep Show.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

it's not even a Man Stroke Woman. mind you that didn't have the laugh track.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar!

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

God that was awful. I quite liked the radio programme but they really didn't manage to transfer it to television very well.

― theantmustdance (theantmustdance), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yipes. Extras wasn't much good either.

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Really? Jesus, the banana dance nearly made me sick laughing. I really enjoyed the whole thing, in fact. You guys are a tough room.

Extras was okay, but really, selling out your artistic sensibilities in order to become a big star isn't really a life-situation I have much empathy with.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

I thought Extras was superb and M&W was a bit rubbish.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

I actually got confused right at the start (following straight on from Extras) and thought the German uniforms sketch was a paradoy of a bad sketch show.

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Numberwang was basically Quizzlestick without the gags, right?

The blackface reveal was pretty funny.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

You're all mad, funniest thing on tv since Blair at TUC conference. BMX Bandit boy having second thoughts, the irate waiter and his crab ladle, dancing banana all lol, albeit aided by a bottle of wine.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, yeah, I'm being cruel to it. Crab ladle, "June Whitfield" and the Albanian mail order bride, and the "Who'll watch that?" "Freaks". It actually is the best UK sketch show since Fast Show, which is kinda scary really.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar, people!

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

no, it was crap

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

no, it was great. "june whitfield" made me laugh myself stupid. HOWEVER, i'm reserving judgement until i've seen a couple more episodes and worked out whether it'll build upon and advance the characters and situations with different jokes each week, like wot sketch comedy used to do, or just repeat the same sodding thing every single fucking week, like wot it all seems to do now :(

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

no, it was crap

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

It actually is the best UK sketch show since Fast Show, which is kinda scary really.

Since Big Train. Snobby waiter good, black face reveal good, "June Whitfield" good, Numberwang good, Sir Digby Chicken Caesar ok, the rest meh.

Couldn't sit through all of Extras. Gervais' smugness now reaching stratospheric levels.

― Venga (Venga), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Since Big Train

As long as we pretend the second series of BT didn't exist, I stand corrected.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't watch it, but I trust the real DG

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

People always think they can resuscitate an old format. Baddiel, Herring and others have tried it with conventional sitcoms. Mitchell & Webb are trying it with conventional sketch show. In reality this is certainly no worse than Little Britain but it's not much funnier either. I just don't get why they think after bringing something relatively novel and refreshing to the TV table in Peep Show they have to regress like this.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Boring. Oxbridge revue does the Bobby Davro Sketch Pad. Not one laugh. Not one.

― DavidM* (unreal), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

they didn't/don't actually write "peep show", though, do they?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

The sketch show is just an incredibly shit format, isn't it? I can count on one hand the number of programmes that have done it well.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Sketch shows always age a lot quicker than any other format as well. Mary Whitehouse Experience looked old and dated by around 97/98, the Fast Show never gets repeated because it'd get showed up, blah blah Goodies not on TV for 30 years blah blah...

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

my will to defend the BBC from marauding thatcheroids grows weaker everytime i turn the telly on, if someone wants to try and convince me that market forces will diminish my chances of tuning in to BBC2 to see my license fee being pissed away on rubbish attempts to get funny people from channel4 to be funny on teh beeb they can have my soul on a silver platter

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, you're doing a Carmody gimmick, right.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

oh, you're being a prick, right

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

To be fair, Dom can't get past the word 'Thatcher' in a sentence without the big flashing CARMODY sign in his head lighting up. It's a serious affliction.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Marauding thatcheroids? Perhaps a doctor can perscribe a cream.

(do you think if I sent that to M&W they'd use it?)

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

i LOVED that...

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar!!!!!

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

It was very poor.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you, Stevie!

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

best ever sketch show (by enormous margin): Monkey Dust

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

monkey dust was good for the first episode, but every episode was like a xerox of the first (loved the animal hunter tho)

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

The creators of Monkey Dust and Monkey Trousers are now working together on a new show. They're struggling to come up with a name for it though.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

Konal,that had better be a joke. And in fact it is, because Harry Thompson, the co-creator of MD, died last year. :(

And the first episode was one of the weaker ones. And the third series was the best. And the whole thing, although hit-and-miss, when it hit, stayed hit.

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

We sit here amongst the plant-pots of acceptance. I love you guys up to the point where y'all defend sub-Footlights stupidity on account of it's broadcast across the Pubic Service Chanels. But in all honesty: stop defending Shite, peeples. Comedy is a long way past funny now, and the Commissioning Editors on 2 et 4 are the major causeway.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

Louis I think you're a good bloke but Harry Thompson makes the dogshit on the soul of a heirophant look tasty.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

:( what did he do wrong? Was HIGNFY such a crime?

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

He cutesified/commodified weak satire of monolithic forces of evil?

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

Is there really some sort of comedy crisis in the UK? Or is it merely a case of quantity exceeding quality (probably more comedy shows made in the 00s than any previous decade because of the increase of channels). The last six years have seen some shows emerge that are just as good as anything that has come before, and it's always been the case that some of the most popular comedy shows on TV are not to the taste of...whatever kind of people we are (cynical elitist nerds?).

ITV's comedy output has been considered poor for some time. How many sketch shows have they produced this decade - is it just the two in The Sketch Show and Monkey Trousers (both actually quite watchable if not riotously funny)? C4 gave up on it long ago unless I'm forgetting something and Sky, Paramount and so on have not really gone for it although they have made their own comedy shows in recent years (tho with no real success - Time Gentlemen Please probably being Sky's most successful sitcom, but often so crude and poor) Anyone seen the one on Paramount that's set in a brothel? This leaves BBC and their reliable radio foundation with no real competition. Consequently the complacency seems to have reached new heights (lows?).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

"Not Riotously Funny" = The Enemy = "I'll watch any old shoit if it makes monkey noises at the government of the day without suggesting that the society we live in that produces pleasant ickle lite-satire shows is twisted to the extent that it and every member of it needs to die in horrendous pain right now."

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

Konal, when compared to Arrested Development, most contemporary British comedy seems cringeworthy (Peep Show, I'll grant, an honourable and brilliant exception). Man, I cannot get over quite how truly the Yanks nailed that one.

xxpost: NV, what weak satire? And what forces of evil? Are you talking about the stronger-than-any-other-satire-I've-seen-on-TV-except-perhaps-Brass-Eye Monkey Dust here?

actually, on that last point, NV is utterly OTM. Just OK is not good enough, not good enough at all. although I feel a Little Britain rant coming on, so I'll zip it before it all comes gushing out.

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

Are you saying if it doesn't make you laugh until you're sick then it's rubbish? (xpost)

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

C4 gave up on it long ago unless I'm forgetting something

smack the pony! not too recent but i watch the recent reruns and thought they were still mostly very good.

ITV has always sucked at comedy. BBC has always sucked at drama.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

Any old stupid shit that makes you laugh is great. The genre of "OHHH WE SO CUTTING EDGE CRAZY WATCH US LAFF IN THE FACE OF BOORJWARRR CONVENTION LOVE US OR LEAVE US COCKSUCKER" is what needs to die, bloodily, alongside its fans.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

ITV suck at everything really. The only drama I've liked on the channel ever is Cracker, I think.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

And yeah, Monkey Dust is fucking shit.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

ITV suck at everything really

OTM, although probably not the most original thought you've had all day. ;-)

NV, I will grow out of Monkey Dust, of that I am sure, but plz let me be an impressionable teenager for now? pleeeease? i mean, it is sometimes shit, but I adore the bits that work so much that I'm prepared to forgive it virtually anything.

― Really Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

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