Limmy's Show

"dessert" is painfully otm, could do a follow up with "a glass of wine please" " would that be a *large* glass of wine ooh ooh smirk wink?"

this thread is making me realise how much stuff he has, i'd say there are 30/40 i love and i hadn't seen a lot of the ones posted here.

jed otm too, the stuff has a way of getting into conversation.

the one i drop the most is "and that means YOU".

I also think it's really clear from a lot of the sketches that he has been a major raver at some point

I used to know him, when he but was wee laddie (aye), so I can confirm this as true

A friend's three-year old son asked her for a "muffit of tea" the other day.

love "a muffit of tea".

I've still never seen his show!

The "Nightmare" sketch had me in hysterics first time I watched it.

So many good Limmy's sketches. I bought series 1 on DVD but when it came to watching it my flatmate was just unimpressed and I had to admit that series lacked a lot of the best of his work.

YERRA LIAR

I once did a telephone interview with him and I genuinely was laughing for the full thirty minutes we were speaking.

This is my personal favourite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ysnjjvcAmk

I forgot about "a muffit of tea"! I often read problem as ploblem to myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYVdrwLEx1I

both parts of this sketch kill me

omg muffit of tea

the way the "new characters" sketches - drunk lassie, soaking guy etc. - built to their final realisation was masterful.

-i'm not numb hen, these are great these wee things...
-whit wee things?
-ECCIES!!!

Looking forward to the new series. S2 was brilliant. Easily the best British sketch show (not that there's much competition) since The Fast Show and arguably more inventive.

Each to their own, but I find it surprising that people say Limmy is hit and miss compared to Burnistoun. There are a few great Burnistoun sketches (2 Litre Bottle of Ginger, The Lift, the single issue MP, er that's about it) but it's always been seriously patchy. The latest series was piss poor; lazy writing, a lack of imagination. With stuff like Jolly Boy John it's as if they're trying to go for the weirdness of Limmy, but it totally falls flat and just comes across as the sort of 'random' wacky shit Limmy takes the piss out of so well (youtube the Limmy 'random' sketch from the pilot - one of my favourites).

There are endless Limmy sketches imo.

SHES TURNED THE WAINS AGAINST US!

I love the delivery of "you're a wee fanny" here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKEOwkkmQ68

"I'll fock'n kill ye, ye wank!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zwxIMMGZro

tom d, did you know him well? was he always funny?

i'm hands down obsessed with the guy, greatest comedian of all time for me. certainly the most *now* in tone - as in it seems a product of internet age, cf: his previous career in webdesign and rise to fame through youtube

never seen burniston - is it similar stuff?

true about his stuff bleeding into everyday conversation, i'm always referencing the 'back on top' sketch after any minor/major mishap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH9ajekHNKM

agree slightly about s2 being better than the first, but i can watch both over and over, soaking it up like whale noise. can't do this with any other tv show at all ever, there's something almost songlike and rhythmic about his stuff

vague mutterings online about a beef between him and his older brother, saying limmy jr robbed a lot of material from his bro. apparently elder limmy did 'requiem' for real in the 80s which is kinda horrifying if still a bit amusing

worth checking him out too, his twitter stuff is mostly football rants but there are gems like this on soundcloud and youtube:
http://soundcloud.com/davidlimond/me-calling-danny-dyer

as my mate phil put it, "like limmy but just dead rough and not honed at all"

(warning: bit of racism in that soundcloud link)

and if you've not heard limmy's 'world of glasgow' podcasts then you're in for a treat. should be out there to download but if not let me know and i'll upload a zip somewhere. mental image of jacqueline mcafferty dancing to 'call on me' is forever burned onto my psyche

can easily imagine him not being to many peoples taste, a lot of his material is just a torrent of grim with only a sliver of a pay-off (often just him pulling a disgusted face to camera). then again there are things that make me explode like "they all just wanna RRRRIDE me"

disappointingly his wife did the stage layout for frankie boyle's tour. boyle just seems like a thick nasty limmy, completely missing the point, hitting way below the mark

world of glasgow is on itunes for free i think

disappointingly his wife did the stage layout for frankie boyle's tour.

No, his girlfriend did the art on the DVD cover! (x-post)

He sometimes mentions his father, who is a regional "comedy hypnotist" that performs at local pubs. He's clearly got an interesting family history. Jesus - half the press for S3 is him talking about alcoholism and suicide.

It's amazing to me (as someone who didn't grow up in the UK, so his accent is sometimes REALLY hard for me to understand, like on the Dee Dee sketches or the amazing "Get away from the motor" one) how he can also have such broadly-appealing ones. The Mr. Mulvaney sketches are incredible!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9KmdBEFisQ&playnext=1&list=PLCA06AD4FAB1EAC48&feature=results_video

I didn't quite finish that thought - I just mean the range of his sketches is impressive. Total surreal non-sequitor stuff all the way to something that could have been a Mr. Show bit or whatever.

Part of it is that he's a genuinely great actor, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggEUx-wS0ms

Burnistoun is kind of the flip side of the coin to Limmy's Show - an unashamedly big, dumb, noisy sketch show. There's usually one or two decent sketches per series, and the rest is sort of "hmm". It's disappointing cos the stuff Rab Florence used to do on his old shows(eg Consolevania & Videogaiden) wasn't like that at all, I get the sense he's playing things deliberately low-brow for a more mainstream audience.

Limmy's stuff is in a different league, which is odd as initially they were coming very much from the same place, humour-wise - both very Tim & Eric influenced. Not to mention Limmy was a regular in Videogaiden as "Zak Eastman".

tom d, did you know him well? was he always funny?

Pretty well. Yes, and the humour was exactly the same, but I would never have thought he'd end up a "comedian" with his own TV show!

Jesus - half the press for S3 is him talking about alcoholism and suicide.

That's Glasgow for you!

Got tae laugh int ye? Else ye'd walk till yer bunnet floated.

Aye, ye never knwo the minute

forgot mulvaney and up t' bloody tree. both amazing.

Seriously though, why is is still not on one of the main BBC channels? Considering the shite they have on. It's not an accent thing is it? Cos that's a bit fucked

Is it really not on nationwide? I've only seen the sketches on YouTube through mates and assumed it was.

the anti-thatcher/queen stuff probably doesn't help

He's playing up to a stereotype with the "fuck yer England" stuff but maybe some Englishers at the BBC only see the angry Jock.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/louisemensch/100116958/why-is-the-bbc-using-licence-fee-money-to-pay-a-man-who-wishes-margaret-thatcher-dead/

good work for hosting this on the telegraph website....

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2011/11/margaret-thatcher.jpg

woman of eighty-six, now mentally frail, vulnerable and unable to answer him back or defend herself

Ah the old senile defensia

half the press for S3 is him talking about alcoholism and suicide

do you have any links to these? he's spoke previously about quitting drinking after waking up one morning feeling suicidal, be interesting if he's gone into more detail

and woops re: stage layout/dvd cover thing!

more from limmy sr:

https://twitter.com/GlasgowLimmy/status/266698584576118785/photo/1

wept laughing at 'up t'bloody tree' when i first saw it

something so brilliant and small about the GBM past of this 'doppleganger' sketch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLlLb4n8ZtY

that brilliant thing of something minor happening that you might raise an eyebrow for a split second before forgetting and moving on, but limmy grabs it and rinses it to death

I don't know, it's much more variable than the other Scottish comedy shows on the block - for every "Wrong way down a one way street" there's a "Lloyds pharMAcy"

see, i wouldn't pick out either of those sketches as being brilliant or poor, they're just his middling stuff to me. as you can see on this thread people have their own fairly obscure skits that hit a chord with them, that's his genius

and I have real doubts it'll ever get to the heights of the Falconhoof "Kill Jester" again

super disagree. that 'guy in the park' clip from s3 preview is as good as that for me. fascinated by what he'll do next, clearly has ideas and creativity by the ton so as much as i want him to go on making sketch shows forever i think he'll move onto bigger things. he's already mentioned writing a script for a horror film/tv series - bit gutted as i've no interest in non-lol-horror

one of my favourites, mostly down to the sheer menace at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9_kpc7zjZM
again, "ya WANK" has filtered its way into my day to day conversation

(he reused this in his series, something a bit harder hitting about the bare room backdrop of this)

he was unhappy with the pressure of making TV shows, he's much happier doing this

i love that he’s stretching the boundaries of comedy, so glad that he’s embracing streaming and new tech.

That is a very crowded field and he is a very minor participant. He is making a living perhaps but where's the evidence that he is happy?

As long as he's happy and making a living out of whatever he's doing then that's a good thing. I don't think we really need a Glaswegian Mr. Bean tbh.

His autobiography had barely a moment of happiness in it.

i mean, he says so, but if you watch the stream or just the clips channel you'll see how he's in a better place than a few years ago

(xp) That's just who he is. Let's just say as happy as can be expected.

I suppose there might've been a world where he could've gotten famous enough to make auteurist films, but really "he could be making movies" just makes me think of a scenario where he gets wasted in bit parts in Hollywood comedies, so I'll take the streams

He would probably agree with you. His book has a strong vien of a particularly Scottish fear of failure and ridicule. Keep your expectations limited and know your place!

https://i.imgur.com/Ofv70RC.png

"see? nae cunt knows what it means"

whoops should've seen the last revive

That's New Yoker not New Yorker btw.

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/25152397.am-no-fae-here-new-yoker-mural-glasgow-comedian-limmy/

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJZrq-FoHT3/?utm_source=ig_embed

Once again baffled at the part of this thread where someone laments Limmy's failure to live up to his potential of having the career of Rowan Atkinson.

What kind of career did Limmy want? He's not dead yet.

Limmy has the career he wants, just not the one poster everything wanted for him.

I do think he's not really made the most of his talents but his choice.

I would like to see him make sketches again someday, some of those improvised scenes he did on twitch could be reworked really well.

i'd like to see him host a 3-2-1 reboot

I love his sketches but listening to his autobiography audiobook it sounds like someone with an amazing imagination, an urge to have fun and create things, but also finds the pressures of working in the public domain, and delivering to expectation extremely tough to deal with. It's not something that gets discussed enough about creative people I guess: We often just assume that creative minds are also extroverted minds, possibly because those are the ones that find it easiest to succeed

Craig's Wee Sweet Shop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AawNTL5hB-A

not sure why that's so funny, but it is

limmy manages to hone-in on the noise i try very hard to tune out of my head. it's like, sometimes the jokes are only funny because he's had this idle, ephemeral half-thought and just run with it