Also Deedee ("fucken Alan Titchmarsh").
― calumerio, Thursday, 15 November 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
Deedee's one of the greatest comedy characters of all time. It could have been handled so much worse - point and laugh at the burnout scally, but you're always on his side. I get the impression, just form the decor of his room and the people he knows that he actually used to be a pretty stable guy who just happened to have hit a serious rut.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Friday, 16 November 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
agree there is sympathy there but it seriously bums me out, such a senseless waste of human life. finniestoun crane was the worst, his poor parents ;_;
― Dog the Puffin Hunter (ledge), Friday, 16 November 2012 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
the crane one was amazing, and then it turns out it's all a hallucination based on the fact he skinned up on a book about Glasgow landmarks.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Friday, 16 November 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
"Bastard widnae gie us a straight answer"
― studge_siren.gif (onimo), Friday, 16 November 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
read this somewhere else:
"One of the funniest things I saw him do was a webcam where he was waving a big knife about, acting as if he'd snuck it into a nightclub and was threatening to stab people with it. It was both hilarious and genuinely disturbing."
would love to see that
― NI, Friday, 16 November 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
on the webcam one night he pretended to masturbate to savage's "don't cry tonight" for the duration. while softly groaning "don't let me gooo", "don't cry tonight" and sobbing heavily. he kept restarting it, went on for about 20 minutes.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Friday, 16 November 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
don't think this has been linked on here yet, another of my alltime favourite sketches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD8qjOjBk-8
similar to napkin one in tone - daft music, expressions, unpleasant payoff. probably my favourite style of the sketches he does (slapstick stuff, influenced by keaton/chaplin?)
― NI, Friday, 16 November 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
xp, ha his webcam stuff was intense. sometimes hilarious, sometimes uncomfortable. always with a great soundtrack though - endlessly pleased that the greatest comic mind of our generation is all about synths and gay club dance music and not lumpen indie
― NI, Friday, 16 November 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
that one was absolutely superb from start to finish
― Number None, Monday, 19 November 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
fucking brilliant, right enough.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 11:05 (eleven years ago) link
the 'seamus' pay off had me in tears but they nailed p much everything in that, right down to the face on the guy he sees everywhere.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 11:17 (eleven years ago) link
what's your "hing"
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
You do realise, like 'hing', a lot of this stuff is just Glaswegian?
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 13:21 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it wasn't really that that made it funny
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
Ah, 'hing' for 'thing' is funny peculiar though
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
great ep
― conrad, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
it is quite funny how you're often not sure when a sketch begins whether it is a new one or a continuation of an earlier one because it's usually the same people usually looking pretty much the same
it is quite funny I realised watching this ep but in eps back to the first series that he often uses liminal spaces for the outdoor sketches or maybe that isn't quite funny
― conrad, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
The magic door on the waste ground was perfect.
― calumerio, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
superb episode that, way beyond last weeks
― NI, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
PARTYCHAT
Almost too close for comfort that one.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
Great episode. My wife pretty much hates it and was on laptop throughout, so I remarked that watching Limmy's Show might have to become my 'hing'; her considered response "Good, at least you'll do it when I'm not around then". Played right into her hands, etc.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
got a pavlovian retch from the party chat stuff
― NI, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
ha, my gf hates limmy too. showed her a couple of my favourite limmy clips the other day while sat there stony-faced and disgusted. "i don't get it, i honestly don't see what's funny about it all"
― NI, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
got a package in post the other day, come running upstairs dead excited like a kid at christmas. she looks at me and goes "what's that?" i open it and pull out this: http://cdn-2.cinemaparadiso.co.uk/110415085005_l.jpg
still laughing now at the noise she made, like when you think you've stepped in dogshit and you check bottom of your shoe and find out it's true
― NI, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
it's often the little details that make it so good, imo: the "enchanted forest" type music that comes in as various men describe their 'hing' delighted me almost as much as the premise itself.
Mrs A has shown v occasional amusement at some of his work (Yoker, the "two spoons" dessert sketch), but mostly tolerates it at best. Nothing worse than sitting there unimpressed whilst yr husband/lifepartner/other is braying with misplaced laughter across the room though, I imagine.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
the series 1 dvd comes HIGHLY recommended btw. each episode has video commentaries explaining each sketch, motivations, little details, etc. fascinating stuff. (dunno if ilx has a beef with cookdandbombd or what, but i ordered it via the amazon link on the top of the forum page to give the guy a few pennies, neighbourly like)
― NI, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
right, that's Wishlisted for christmas then. Spread a little festive cheer and good humour for 50% of the household at least.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, it's the details and limmy's mannerisms that make it. the larry forsyth thing is kinda just a one-joke premise but limmy's performance had me in stitches, the way he sneaked that "stop larrying me" line in there. so realistic, like a genuine aggro drunk
― NI, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
credit due to the supporting cast too. tall skinny guy is terrifyingly funny and i almost wet myself when other guy said about (SPOILER) spending all weekend in that wardrobe laughing his head off. so much better than the 3 from s1 it's untrue
the s2 dvd with more of the same coming out in a few weeks too!
― NI, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
tall skinny guy's finest moment is either last week's napkin sketch or I KNEW IT
currently changing my ringtone to dee dee's HAA as he watches the newsreader trip up
― NI, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
and if anyone hasn't heard the world of glasgow podcasts yet, here they are: http://www.mediafire.com/?tcudyh7ih453i1jhttp://www.mediafire.com/?loivtrivxiql8kj
(i don't think they're on sale anywhere but mods: feel free to take the links down if they are)
― NI, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
hehe my missus just stormed out of the room within milliseconds of his voice coming out of the Iplayer
I liked Raymond Mearns a bit for the ECCIES gurn and the bit with him being on the phone to Dee Dee all depressed at what his son had become but yeah the new guys are better
― Sgt. Biscuits, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
The guy that's the younger of the two has something about him (I think around his mouth?) that I can't get past. Do think the three of them are really good though.
― sktsh, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
do any american ilxors like his stuff? interested in if it translates
― NI, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
Yes but I lived in Glasgow for a while.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
i really like the younger guy. he's really good at that "whit ye talkin aboot?"/"couldn't give a fuck" kind of shrug or brush-off thing that's required in a lot of limmy's sketches. like the sketch this week with him pouring the big head on the pint followed by limmy's rant about a guy at a foam party which escalated when the guy wouldn't look at him doing the impression. brilliant sketch. "whit's yer hing?" and the chest-touching sketches were great too. it's not all gold though - that PARASIDE sketch is crap as was the scratch-card thing.
― jed_, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah Paraside is pretty weak. Started watching this with flatmate, after Paraside and PARTY CHAT she said "ok I'm going to do the washing up". Not the best start to the show then but I was pissing myself through all of Larry Forsyth's Experiments.
― ledge, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 09:16 (eleven years ago) link
i quite liked paraside. scratch card was shit though, i agree. the script in the corner shop "whit's yer hing" is so perfect. "i tell the wife i'm stocktaking..." followed by the conspiratorial "but you're not"
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
"Stop Larrying me!" and "something beginning with allpaper" had me in tears. Loads of meh scattered elsewhere though.
― studge_siren.gif (onimo), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 11:59 (eleven years ago) link
The "reaction" sketch tied it all together (perfect deployment of the yelled "fanny" n'all), specifically justifying the scratch card sketch where the subverted expectation was resubverted by it having exactly the punchline you would expect have expected it to, had it not been a Limmy sketch.
Loved the fact that PARTY CHAT guy was always in the process of skinning up, even though it felt like the whole thing took place over a couple of hours.
― calumerio, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 12:03 (eleven years ago) link
Some banter on 'em on all man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PtwbY7fP6VQ
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 22 November 2012 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
t is quite funny I realised watching this ep but in eps back to the first series that he often uses liminal spaces for the outdoor sketches or maybe that isn't quite funny― conrad, Tuesday, November 20, 2012 2:06 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
― conrad, Tuesday, November 20, 2012 2:06 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
limny
― jed_, Thursday, 22 November 2012 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
3 of his best here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yy8pz/clips
― NI, Saturday, 24 November 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
Went to a friend's engagement party last night and ended up staying quite late then getting a taxi home on my own - was severely tempted to lean in to the driver and go 'So mate, what's your hing?'. Managed to restrain myself, but only just.
― Ain't Too Proud To Neg (Mr Andy M), Sunday, 25 November 2012 13:04 (eleven years ago) link
Think my all-time favorite sketch from this though is the 'Winged Sandals' installment of Adventure Call.
― Ain't Too Proud To Neg (Mr Andy M), Sunday, 25 November 2012 13:07 (eleven years ago) link
There was talk of an Adventure Call spin off. Don't see it myself.
― stet, Sunday, 25 November 2012 13:47 (eleven years ago) link
I love when he forgets himself in that one and is "naw ye didnae... em... no you did not."
― studge_siren.gif (onimo), Sunday, 25 November 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
^Yeah it's just spot-on. The guy calling in on that one is pitch-perfect as well.
― Ain't Too Proud To Neg (Mr Andy M), Sunday, 25 November 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link