Peep Show (now with added Mitchell & Webb Look)

series 8 appears to be on hulu as well

God bless you hulu.

"Demanded the Ramsgate blowjob?"

"Mumford & Sons"

Just re-watched that episode before ep 4. Both classic.

Yeah, episode four is really excellent.

the pizza line ahahahsahaahaa

Episode 5 is up on 4OD, by the way.

dead gerard

haunting me from beyond the grave, like a boring dracula.

That Freecycle gag was excellent. Total callback with the Barchester Chronicles too

Episodes 3 and 4 have been great.

5 is a cracker as well.

Was Episode 4 not the one just shown on Sunday?

Yes, but episode 5 is available on 4OD already.

Ooh, that I did not notice, thanks!

Gone now, I think. Or maybe I'm just too stupid to find it.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/peep-show/4od#3457579

Looks like you have to go through the Peep Show FB page.

Got it. Ta.

Ep 6 is on Monday, the day after Ep 5 I believe.

Enjoyed e6, especially Mark's presentation on fast forward. I think this series may have pulled off the trick of making each episode better than the last. It helped that the first one was so bad.

E5, I mean, not e6.

david mitchell, professional conservatory seller, thinks the 'little people' should remain quiet and humble, no matter what:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/07/sainsburys-jo-clarke-david-mitchell

david mitchell, inevitably to be divorced from that poker lady, thinks the working classes should know their place

Huh, I don't know how things work over there, but over here I see "no cellphone use" signs at checkouts all the time. It's massively rude to the person helping you that they are not even worth eye-contact, and that what you're talking about is more important than what you're doing (it almost never is).

surprised people have time to be on the phone - over here the customer is increasingly called upon to do all of the packing and payment card handling work and the assistant now just passes things over the scanner. and don't get me started on self-service machines.

kind of a bummer that dude is his character on the show

i listen to this low-ranking digital radio station, smooth 70s, and in every advert breaks mitchell always pops up doing a totally straight ad for conservatories and each time i hear it i hate him a little bit more. how much money does one in-denial right winger actually need

It's interesting that the incident Mitchell wrote his article about is considered news

i work in two shops and wish I was brave enough to refuse to serve customers who're on the phone/have headphones in. I just ramp up the really sarcastic politeness instead in an attempt to shame them.

motherfuckers will check in at concerts to see if they're on the list while they're on the goddamn phone and will ignore me until they're ready; that shit, i do not play

as a friend says, 'reads very much like the view of a man who's never had a job serving customers'

When I worked as a cashier for a retail bank, some of my colleagues had a similar attitude.

However, my feeling is that in a customer service role you are being paid to provide the best possible customer service. If it's clear the customer would like to be served while they are on the phone, then what's wrong with serving them?

Sure, they may be being a little rude, but just be professional and get on with it.

I agree that good customer service means letting wankers treat you like shit. No snark.

Can't stand anyone in British comedy at the moment. Veep wipes the floor with The Thick of It.

Many years ago I was a betting shop manager in a pretty tasty area and got countless death threats, but still had a good relationship with the customers. Some of the people who threatened to kill me would also fetch me sandwiches and lagers during night-racing. The worst customers were the Mitchells of this world. I can handle crackheads, degenerates and bums but not supercilious m/c arsewipes who think they are still living in Victorian times.

the thing with Mitchell and his ilk is that there's this double layer to the fogeyism - if he was a genuinely odd dude with some interesting take on the ills of modern society you'd forgive him the occasional bum opinion because eccentrics are fun - but he's not eccentric or old-fashioned, he's a very modern take on a faux nostalgia for an era when white middle class dudes ran the country and there was no public challenge to their values - he fits neatly into the same niche as fans of 1940s chic and language pedants, a niche of self-consciousness about your values that refuses to criticize them and instead plays them as irony in the hope that other people will think you're joking about being a cunt

Nailed it.

Veep wipes the floor with The Thick of It

This is straight-up challops 101, right?

and language pedants

careful now

No. Some of the labyrinth, overdone zinging in TTOI goes on for far too long and becomes repetitive and ineffective. It gets to the point where every character is spitting out complex witticisms, every fucking scene and it stops working as a comedy. That is just my humble opinion.

mitchell is one of the worst flag-wavers for everything shit about the guardian.

Even as a non-UKer it seems to me quite clear that TTOI >>>>> Veep, just so much more vicious and wonderfully black-hearted. And funny.

I really wish David Mitchell would never ever talk as Peep Show is awesome.

Yep, the fact he's a less charismatic Mark IRL kinda damages the show's legacy.

i need to watch ttoi like now.

Is Webb similarly a chill dude like Jeremy?

oh yeah, the reason i haven't watched the thick of it is that hulu puts an ad on every six minutes.

Veep wipes the floor with The Thick of It.

absolutely. banged on about this at length elsewhere on here but TTOI is flawed in so many badly-written and depressing backslappy ways (esp later series) that Veep completely isn't. (and sorry to sound like a dick, ailsa, that kneejerk "you ARE joking right? i mean guys guys, this guy is CRAZY, right? everyone agrees with me on this right?! right?!" response is just one of them).

but yeah this is about mitchell and

a niche of self-consciousness about your values that refuses to criticize them and instead plays them as irony in the hope that other people will think you're joking about being a cunt

fucking nails it.

I braved ttoi, ads and all
This is brilliant, vile and very very funny

No, that's fair enough. I found the first series of Veep (haven't seen the second) to be too slapsticky vs the bitterness of TTOI, but my initial reaction was a bit overboard though, it's true, and it did improve as the season went on.

Is Webb similarly a chill dude like Jeremy?

Pretty sure he's a Tory so idk.

he's probly made a small fortune from no discernible talent, i'd be pretty chill in those circs