Peep Show (now with added Mitchell & Webb Look)

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

Pretty sure he's not.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7599102/General-Election-2010-Who-are-these-floating-voters-Most-people-decided-how-to-vote-years-ago.html

I think one problem with Mitchell's schtick is that he's not actually old enough to remember the things – culture, atmosphere, social conventions - that he's supposed to be nostalgic about.

The 'David Mitchell' type, which David Mitchell plays, hasn't felt at home in Britain since at least the 60s. People actually living through the 1960s, whether they're for or against the changes they see around them, at least have a perspective informed by direct experience of social change.

But for the DM type, the good old days are always something that should have happened long enough ago to be dimly remembered, but recently enough to have a reality, so that it's like a longing for something you knew, rather than an idiosyncratic attachment to historical artefacts. But the actual, historical watershed moment - the 60s - is a long, long time ago. So it becomes deeply suspicious to see people like DM going around 'remembering the good old days'.

Xp, thanks for correcting me. I could have sworn I remembered an interview in which he was saying he was voting for Boris Johnson but maybe I'm mixing him up with someone else.

Final series starts 11th of November.

!!! That snuck up out of nowhere!

so looking forward to this. Last series was the first one where I thought p much the whole series was a bit off the boil, but it's still better than most other current stuff.

Looking forward immensely. Will be weird when it's finished though, it's been on tv for over a third of my life.

Yeah, last series just kind of...stopped in a really awkward way. Peep Show gets a lot of slack from me, though, for being overall one of the best shows of all time.

My first Christmas in the US, I watched the Peep Show Christmas ep and all was right again

I take it back about s8, the paintballing one was ace

Yayyyyyy

don't ever watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yredc3ayOE&feature=youtu.be

Ouch. That Big Bang Theory dude and Seth Myers' brother? INSPIIIIRED CASTING.

First episode was a riot.