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I've never found Rising Damp to be that great.

Rumour has it big changes are under way at ITV although I doubt these will involve increased comedy output, let alone anything of the more leftfield variety.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

ok that wasn't monkey dust - what was the thing with vic and bob on it plus old timey comedians?

xxxp

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

Monkey Trousers, Jed.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

are those comments for the Mind Your Language clips on youtube sincere?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

Mortimer's Steve Irwin pisstake in MT was funny.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

I is too busy listening to the Cocktail Twins to listen to hilarious UHUtubes.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

It's nearly the right time of year for them, I guess.

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

Mind Your Language fun fact:

The Swedish girl was played by the daughter of Ingmar Bergman

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

Is that why they all killed themselves in that one episode?

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

It was when the stern headmistress got raped by a goatherd that his influence really became obvious.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

Except for Farhan Mahboob, who nobbed her against her will in a comedy Pakistani voice?

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

"Why is it you is not appreciating my non-consensual intercourse yes please?"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

If you ever see Vince Twuntfocker or whatever the writer's name is (also wrote Love Thy Neighbour, racism fans) being interviewed on a We Love the Past show, his explanation of how he wasn't a racist cunt but was in fact an equal opps visionary is fucking hilarious.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

Vince Foster, yeah. You see, the black guys gave as good as they got. I think if you asked the average black person what three things have most helped them in their life, the top three answers would be Dr King, Jessica Hopper, and Love Thy Neighbour.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

Vince Powell, actually. Vince Foster is something to do with America.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

T/S: Vince Powell vs. Enoch Powell

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

Well, nobody walks around wearing "VINCE WAS RIGHT" badges, do they?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Vince Powell.

Anyway I think we can all agree that an extended excruciating death would be too good for the cunt.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

if it wasn't for the plots and shit family guy would be a sketch show. that's a funny cartoon. popular with young people.
if it wasn't for the plots and shit the mighty boosh would be a sketch show. that's a television program. popular with young people.
you guys all like richard ayoade right?

― acrobat (elwisty), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

this was great you mentalists!

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 07:21 (nineteen years ago)

jerry hated it but i'm pretty sure he bigged up 'the mighty boosh'...

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 07:30 (nineteen years ago)

Louis I think you're a good bloke but Harry Thompson makes the dogshit on the soul of a heirophant look tasty.

his autobiography of peter cook is brilliant

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Friday, 15 September 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

ITV has always sucked at comedy.

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/itvyorkshire/progs/selwynfroggitt.jpg

― Oh No It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 15 September 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

his autobiography of peter cook is brilliant

LOL!

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 15 September 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

I have a seventies porn mag w/the daughter of Ingmar Bergman in. I never knew she was in Mind Your Language.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 15 September 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

i loved monkey dust when i first saw it, but fucking hell: it was the prime offender - more so than little britain! - in just repeating the same fucking joke sketch in, sketch out. some of the ideas there were brilliant - the gambling father was genius - but you did end up watching it and knowing EXACTLY what was going to happen.

and so up to a point i agree with noodle vague: if "satire" has become a process whereby smug graduates with digital telly sit and smirk because they know that in 30 seconds they'll watch amusingly drawn middle-class dinner-party guests being dismembered horribly, something has gone badly wrong. it's the same reason HIGNFY should have been taken off the air years ago: once comedy becomes part of the establishment it seeks to attack, it's no longer satire. this is a no-brainer, but seems lost on most producers.

as for sketch shows: while recognition/anticipation of the shared joke has always been a big part of such comedy - why else would comedians create characters? - we seem to have reached some kind of reductio ad absurdum where the very appearance of the character is, er, the joke itself. this is probably the fault of "the fast show"; or, rather, the fault of knob-end writers who watched it and didn't quite work out that its genius lay in the depth of the characters and the tiny observations therein, not just in the fact it repeated "ooh, suits you" a lot.

looking at next week's TV listings in h**t magazine, i see mitchell and webb are promising "a night at the pub with captain pugwash, two highly competitive actors playing holmes and watson, and a call-centre worker who has telekinetic powers ... over biscuits". so: three new characters/setups in the second week! my god, this is like a return to the golden age of fucking comedy. whenever that was.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 15 September 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I read an interview somewhere where they said they're not going to do too many (or any?) recurring sketches. Good thing.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 15 September 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

i hope the bring back the homeless guys though.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

I would be surprised if they don't have any recurring sketches given that three or four in the first programme were lifted directly from recurring sketches on That Mitchell and Webb Sound.

My favourite recurring radio sketches are the snooker guys and Big Talk, and neither of these were as good in visual versions, I thought. But the things they couldn't have done on radio were pretty good ie. the banana dance, How What Not to Look Like (actually come to think of it they COULD have done the latter on radio but the blacking up gag wouldn't have worked as well obviously).

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 15 September 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

yeah the snooker thing fell flat on tv.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

The joke just doesn't work anyway, are they saying snooker commentators are all boozers? I didn't see the point of it.

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but the thing is, even in those sketches that don't really have a 'point', (like the snooker commentators), I just think watching Mitchell and Webb is funny. This is probably why I'm pretty forgiving--I'm very fond of them as performers and sort of think they're intrinsically funny.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

I agree, I like them but they are supposed to be making us laugh here

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

the whole show was like the BBC had just discovered this hot new thing they call "alternative comedy", welcome to 1979

in teh snooker sketch that webb fellow looked an awful lot like the non-bald prick from little britain

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

big talk was a parody of a chris morris parody of something else though, right?

antyway. i liked the show, certainly enough to watch it again. and i loved the james bond-baiting guys!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

the whole show was like the BBC had just discovered this hot new thing they call "alternative comedy"

no it wasn't.

it was a sketch show. it didn't set out to change comedy forever. it never claimed to be new in that way. in the same way most television programmes don't involve a total revolution of the medium. it set out to entertain, and it did so.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

in addition to my 'autobiography' snafu up there, i actually meant monkey trousers when i was talking about monkey dust.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

it didn't set out to change comedy forever.

that's not what i meant

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

Too slow, all characters done better by others previously, smug.

The best TV sketch show this year has been Modern Toss and even that was uneven.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

and just hammered the same (admittedly very funny) jokes again and again.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

all characters done better by others previously

eg?

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

in teh snooker sketch that webb fellow looked an awful lot like the non-bald prick from little britain

Ha! I was just gonna ask if anyone noticed that Mitchell, when dressed in certain costumes (like in the snooker sketch), looked strangely like the bald guy from little britain.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

i thought the 'how not what to wear' rug-pull was good -- shaping up to be a soft-target 'lol reality tv failure' thing, then it's a bit 'wtf serious misjudgment', and then, and then...

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

...it wasn't funny

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

well, ok. i laughed.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

I thought they would do more of that thing where they're just being themselves, like when Morecambe and Wise did the bits at their "flat", and Fry and Laurie used to a similar thing too, I think... but not like French and Saunders of course! (Bleccccccccchhhhh)

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Modern Toss was just 'lol swearing' for the most part wasn't it?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

the bits i saw were shit.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

Did Joel Veitch have a whole series to himself on C4 a while back or not? When in doubt, reach for the deranged kittens in flatcaps.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

Rather Good TV? Didn't watch it myself...

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

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