Rolling UK Comedy Thread - "Ricky Don't Lose Larry David's Number

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acrobat found it (it's upthread) -- but i want to use it all the time now!

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know if it counts as comedy but omfg is Shameless jumping shark after shark or what. I can't believe I found myself sitting watching an Alsatian dog blowing off a blindfolded security guard. When C4 says "scenes of a sexual nature" in the pre-programme warning they should really mention bestiality at some point.

― onimo (onimo), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

i think the harry pic needs a bit of text to indicate that sound makes to express suprise/confusion/disdain but i'm not sure words can represent it with any accuracy.

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

Why all this outrage @ Gervais clip? Seesm like pretty standard stuff to me, could easily imagine Stiller or Steve Martin doing something similiar.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

with them it'd be acting role. with him, it's actually him.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

the Harry img needs to be animated ideally.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

and repeatedly posted on certain threads

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

it's a bit big tho. i'm a shrink it and re-upload probably.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

with them it'd be acting role. with him, it's actually him.

Would it really? Not that I have any dirt on Stiller or Steve Martin (both of whom I like) specifically, but it's hardly uncommon for comedians with asshole personas to carry that off into their private life (or, well, what is known of it to the public at large, anyway.) Chevy Chase and assorted 70's SNL cokeheads to thread, you know.

Ok, I don't actually live in the UK, so don't have to swallow as much of Gervais's smugness as you guys do (did hear some of his recent radio stuff, pretty painful), but I was really expecting a bit more from that clip.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

I think "Ricky Gervais is the new Chevy Chase" may be the crux of why Gervais is such a fucking stain.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

actually the thing about teh clip is how rote and lazy it is. sure the obnoxious schtick is annoying but now it's just been repeated so much that you can trace his thoughts / words. it's not just the tone it's the lack of effort.

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

also myspace is aming me HATE mitchell and webb with a passion.

"i'm a PC i dominate the home and the office..."

FUCK THE FUCK OFF ARGH!!!

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

My friend made a point last night that it's a strange advert because the role for which Webb's most famous isn't exactly aspirational - Jez is as much of a loser as Mark in his own way.

― chap (chap), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Donny Tourette has just been unknowingly one of the funniest things on Brit TV comedy in a long time on NMTB.

― I don't know whether to play the trumpet, read a book or be a lesbian. (aldo_cow, Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

please explain.

also need more HATE for mitchell and webb apple ads. agrh. unfairly cementing my peep show is overrated pish position. are macs meant to be REALLY UNBEARABLY SMUG?

― acrobat (elwisty), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Al Murray? He gets paid for that?

― Tom D. (Dada), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

He came on and did his patented "I'm a rebellious punk rocker" thing and everyone, including the other musicians, just ripped the piss out of him for the entire show. Possibly the funniest bit was Mr "real punk" not knowing the words to "Anarchy In The UK".

I need to try and find a t0rr3nt of the show his band did for E4, they showed a clip and it looked utterly ridiculous.

― I don't know whether to play the trumpet, read a book or be a lesbian. (aldo_cow, Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t241/T241754A.jsm

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

I always thought macs were unbearably smug, so I guess the ads work just fine in that context. Doesn't make me like them tho.

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.b3tards.com/u/488db8f83c2de2ff324c/macadvertparody.jpg

― acrobat (elwisty), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

and another:

http://www.makestickers.com/images/all_your_base_are_belong_to_us.jpg

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

that is good, acrobat.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

b3ta i think

― acrobat (elwisty), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

i figured

― vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

Is "Change" a BASIC command?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

Don't think so. I'd have used a FOR loop.

― case of the mutual heart friendship (onimo), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://base58.com/ilx/policeman.jpg

"I'm a PC"

http://base58.com/ilx/markmorrison.jpg

"I'm the Mack"

http://base58.com/ilx/policeman.jpg

"Then you're nicke-OWWWWWWW! TASERS!"

― vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 8 February 2007 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, and including the REM comment in the GOTO loop! Idiocy!

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 8 February 2007 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

That's what David Walliams would do tho.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 8 February 2007 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Bump for nu-ILX era

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 22 February 2007 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Watching Screen Wipe this week, I was struck by Charlie Brooker's ersemblance to the bucket-owning seal:

http://www.arbitary.i12.com/stupidman.jpg http://www.arbitary.i12.com/charlie.jpg

Bucket-owning seal

http://www.flickr.com/photos/discoweasel/376246577/

Brooker

― aldo, Friday, 23 February 2007 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

Lots of great new comedies starting on BBC2 last night:
Peter Davison's new sitcom about a middle-class family - he's a deadbeat-ish, stay-at-home, struggling-writer dad who is always getting it wrong, and is relentlessly admonished by his perma-peeved, go-getting wife. And his two teenage daughters are, well, just so much like teenagers!
The return of Dead Ringers an their uncannily accurate impersonations of TV presenters you can't quite recognise.
Graham Norton's new chat show, like the one he used to do on Channel 4. Surprised it took the Beeb so long.

― DavidM, Friday, 23 February 2007 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

Not to go all Bushell on you, but you watch that, and then you watch those three hour spots on FX where they have two episodes of Family Guy, two of Lucky Louie, and two of Chappelle's Show, and then you think "Wow, British comedy really fucking sucks"

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

Family Guy is rubbish

― Alan, Friday, 23 February 2007 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

gtfo

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

Alan is right

― RJG, Friday, 23 February 2007 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

You people are dead to me.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

I'm cutting FG a little more slack lately, but that 'Cartoon Wars' episode of South Park is still OTM.

― blueski, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

"Cartoon Wars" is the kind of reactionary regressive bullshit that Parker and Stone trade in these days. When South Park goes back to episodes like "Casa Bonita" or "Woodland Critter Christmas", then we can talk.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

cartoon wars wasn't LOL (a Bart Simpson cameo OMGZZZzzzz) but the FG crit was bang OTM

― Alan, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

I LOVED the animated thing in Screen Wipe tho. more of that please:

"they don't care for it do they?"

― blueski, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, explaining why something "is" funny is a lot harder than explaining why something isn't. Family Guy has basically ascended to my favourite TV show currently running now because it's pretty much the perfect TV show for those of us born 1976-1986, raised on TV and easy access to video rental stores. High pop culture saturation and Seth McFarlane is kinda blessed with knowing what _is_ funny and what _isn't_ (qf the Petergeist episode, which is near perfect as 30 minutes of television).

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

American Dad blows, however.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

cartoon wars wasn't LOL

i laughed out loud at Cartman's general hatred for the show, the actual FG pisstake bits themselves, Cartman and Kyle's fight ("NO HITTING IN THE BALLS"), the manatees and more.

― blueski, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

that Peter Davison thing looked awful.

― Alan, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

because it's pretty much the perfect TV show for those of us born 1976-1986, raised on TV and easy access to video rental stores. High pop culture saturation and Seth McFarlane is kinda blessed with knowing what _is_ funny and what _isn't

you could argue this about South Park just as easily.

― blueski, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

Needs more Alison Redman.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

xp, or maybe not.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

you could argue this about South Park just as easily.

No, you couldn't, because at centre the best episodes of South Park are the ones that have heart, when Parker and Stone obviously have some affection for Stan and Kyle (and, to a lesser extent, Kenny and Butters), and when Cartman is the asshole villain who has his little moment in the sun then gets taken down. The worst episodes of South Park are when the characters are just faceless ciphers for whatever OMG ISSUE THAT WE MUST TACKLE THIS WEEK that Parker and Stone have going on.

Where Family Guy stands alone from pretty much every other animated comedy (maybe every other sitcom) is that none of the characters are particularly good people. Homer hitting Lisa in the face with a baseball bat wouldn't be funny. Hank hitting Bobby with a baseball bat wouldn't be funny. Peter hitting Meg is, tho.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

american dad is incredible

so terrible that it would taint anything that was good about family guy if there were anything good about family guy which there isn't

I wish we had underline formatting

― RJG, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

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