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

Think council estates has changed quite a bit since Caitlin Moran lived on one

in what ways?

How many people live in council houses now as opposed to the 70s and 80s?

When I was at school I don't think I knew anyone who didn't live in a council house

there was always one posh git that had a "boat hoose"

(boat as in bought, if that wasn't clear)

Eh not sure that means the estates themselves have changed that much, except inasmuch as everything has changed since the 70s

Well the "aspirational working class" are far less likely to be living on them

I grew up on a council estate in the 90s /smartfunnyintellectual

so you'd say modern council estates more disaffected & impoverished than 80s? makes sense, i guess

what are the stats btw?

http://i48.tinypic.com/2nbdo28.gif

Incisive!

Ws back then but not now tbh. Nowhere nr as incisive.

I'm joking of course.

boat as in bought, if that wasn't clear)

Love the idea of everyone hating thon cunt wi' the fuckin' forty foot yacht tho

If its anything like her columns for The Times I'm all for this...otoh she reviews TV for much of the time...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jun/30/tv-commissioning-sitcoms

caitlin moran sitcom description is sub dog latin stuff

response from lineham, bain et al: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jul/01/tv-commissioning-graham-linehan-james-corden

they've obv got a vested interest in sucking up to the tv exec world but i suspect the truth lies between the two (orig idea not all that good + tv exec clueless how to fix = shiter)

dude should've remembered the old adage, if it's on BBC3 it's going to be fucking shit

tru nuf. only thing i can think of offhand as being bbc3 and any cop is:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00v5jj0/Comedy_Feeds_2012_People_Just_Do_Nothing/

boosh

http://www.newstatesman.com/sci-tech/sci-tech/2013/06/caitlin-moran-what-makes-us-human-sorry-snow-monkeys-%E2%80%93-we-win god caitlin moran is awful

Caitlin Moran ‏@caitlinmoran
If white America and black America were my children, I would be VERY SHARPLY telling white America to stop winding black America up.

self-appointed voice of the intellectual working class there

(don't want this thread to be a caitlin moran pile-on but seriously, any public figure writing that kind of dipshit childish shit needs calling out)

You could always not vote for her next time.

shortly afterwards she posted WAR & PEE in all-caps so that made up for it

Move over, Caitlin Moran:
http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2013/07/21/18328/geri_halliwell_working_her_own_sitcom?rss

thinking of starting a "professional comedians who Geri Halliwell is probably funnier than" thread

So. Anyone seen Count Arthur Strong? I really don't get what it is and why people are saying it's good. With that and Miranda and the Wright Way I feel a bit like I'm taking crazy pills.

I can't hear anything in a certain type of Scottish accent without thinking it's Limmy on some level - and that includes the guy in the Geri clip above. That could be gold.

I've been watching Count Arthur Strong too and there is at least one huge laugh in each episode (last week was the Ripper tour bit), but the rest is awful filler imo. It's mainly being praised blindly by people who blindly praised It's Kevin on my Twitter feed, which was similarly hit and miss.

I'm sorry I was so down on Count Arthur Strong, I've pretty much loved every second since I posted that. The end of last week's cut me up.

it's odd because the whole premise is that the bloke is dreadful so we're there willingly watching someone be deliberately bad. doctor montage last week, ending with 'er' title punch was funny. and then it turned on a sixpence into something entirely different...

bit of a headfuck watching rory kinear in this AND southcliff...

I quite like Man Down. Which surprises me cos I'm not really into Greg Davis' stand up.

i tried, i really tried

although parts of (at least) the first episode were done really nicely

Second two episodes much better than the first IMO. Don't like Rik Mayall's character though.

His mate with the moustache is a good actor.

Did we cover The Wrong Mans anywhere? Not strictly comedy, but was pretty watchable, if just ever so slightly beholden to Wright/Pegg.

Can't watch it, allergic to James Corden.

^ exactly the response I was expecting tbh

I would have said the same thing, but it was actually pretty good in a Wright/Pegg/Frost way. I wanted to stay with it to the end, put it that way.

Weirdly, Corden does his exact same schtick (which drives me nuts) but it totally works in The Wrong Mans. They do a really good job of focusing on the moments before and after the cliched action trope scenes - it's pretty clever. And I think Mathew Baynton is going to be a huge, huge star. He was already the breakout dude on Horrible Histories - I think he'll be a big movie star within a few years.

I laughed a few times in the Man Down pilot but I struggled with some of the actual plot logistics. I couldn't figure out the relationship between Davies and Roisin Conaty (blonde lady) and Mike Wozniak (moustachioed accountant). Was she his daughter? Sister? Ex-girlfriend? How did they know the accountant? And the idea that we were asked to buy is that the woman who dumps him at the beginning had been with him for 6 years leading up to that, right? All that said, though - I laughed a few times.

I'm also laughing a bit at Toast of London. I sort of automatically laugh at Matt Berry talking, no matter what it is, but there are some good jokes in there.

I couldn't figure out the relationship between Davies and Roisin Conaty (blonde lady) and Mike Wozniak (moustachioed accountant).

They're all just old school friends, as is made clear in later episodes.

I tried watching Toast of London but the sub-par Mighty Boosh-style lol random humour just wore me out.

What about Citizen Khan then, folks?

anyone see Drifters on E4?

i don't have anything sensible or sensitive to say about my brief glimpses of Citizen Khan so i'll just say it's probably not as bad as The Wright Way