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> My favourite recurring radio sketches are the snooker guys

this was the only bit i've seen of this so far (was busy watching Low Winter Sun or whatever it was called) anyway, it reminded me of Dick & Ken the snooker men, something radcliffe used to do his radio shows.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

Couldn't be bothered with Low Winter Sun, since it looked like a ripoff of what I do much better in Rebus...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

I found it odd that the snooker sketch took a booze theme when on the radio it isn't like that at all, there's a whole story arc involving being gay and stuff which is much better.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

I still think Monkey Dust was rather harshly dicked upon. Sure the conclusions to most sketches were inevitable, but with MD it's all about the getting there, not the end result. As a bleak, despairing portrait of British society and its wrongs it had to be this way, with clever narrative tricks traded in for stark, terrifyingly real images and a sense of complete narrative logic that bashes its message into your skull with the same urgency of a man in a nightgown running bell in hand down Charing Cross Road with tales of apocalypse on his tongue. You know exactly what's going to happen, yet in the case of satire often this knowledge is empowering, and adds to your enjoyment of the cruel, ritualistic procedure.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

a bleak, despairing portrait of British society and its wrongs

Oh how we laughed!

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

Some of Monkey Dust really got to me; it actually made me cry in places. The knowledge that it was partly written by a dying man makes it all the more poignant, but not in a sentimental way.

About the Mitchell and Webb prog...ah well, never mind...it'll be comedy heaven tonight, with the third edition of the Charlotte Church Show!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

I think one of the points I was drunkenly thrashing after was that MD strikes me as part of the landscape of shite it's trying to satirize. I don't get a sense of moral indignation, just "lol modern life". And not many lols, neither.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

the suicide bomber gags were spot on, not that they'll ever be repeated now

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Monkey Dust really was depressing unpleasant pap for the most part. Where was the heart/humanity? I didn't see much actual satire in it either. I did like the 'it's actually an old lady making those dial-up modem sounds' and 'quiz shoq host talks like that to his wife as well' things tho.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

About the Mitchell and Webb prog...ah well, never mind...

"Oh dear. How sad. Never mind."

http://www.stuart.cann.freeuk.com/images/windsor_davies.jpg

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I miss It Ain't Half Racist Mum.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

why is cruelty enjoyable? (obv. i enjoy cruelty in other shows, to an extent - never more than in mid 90s Simpsons episodes) but the way it was handled in MD left me colder than cold (ice cold).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

yeah they should have done gags about james bond instead

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

Are you 'avin' a laff?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

You 'avin' a laff?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

he's 'avin' a laaaaaaaaaaaaf!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/imagedump/4897.jpg

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/imagedump/4897.jpg

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

so, is this thread broken or something?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

no. louis, WTF are you on about?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

x-post to DG: "LAAAAANDAAAAN!"

― grimly fiendish, pp louis (qv "is the 9/11 conspiracy thread broken?" for explan, Friday, 15 September 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

ESSSSSSSEXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN-DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

― grimly fiendish (doing it for himself this time) (grimlord), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

ESSSSSSSEXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

LLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNN!

(hey, I can post now!)

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

ok, MD defence:

Of course MD had heart and humanity! The moment when Geoff finally finds his perfect partner and they agree to 'have a cuddle' rather than wastefully cottage away in the park! The bit when Divorced Dad decides not to kill himself but have a kickabout with Timmy (having just found out that he isn't his real father)! THE END OF SERIES ONE when Dobsky escapes, in the most perfect meshing of tv and song (Pulp's Sunrise) I have ever seen! Those are just the ones I can remember; throughout there's marked a contrast between little idylls such as these and the cruel realities some would choose to partake of.

Actually, the best example would be the suicide bombers and their innocent, sweet home-life with their charmingly down-to-earth mother, contrasted with their terrorist campaign. The rich one who eggs them on...in one crossfade, even he is seen enjoying life with them, larking about on a seesaw and putting suicide missions behind him for once. MD is saying 'it doesn't have to be this way', and THAT is what completes its brilliance, for me.

And there was a James Bond sketch, in series 3 (I think), so there.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

yeah the snooker thing fell flat on tv.

Well, except for the excellent drinking game they introduced.

I used to like Monkey Dust, but that doesn't mean I want everything on telly to be like that.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

nor me. although sometimes I wish everything on TV was like Arrested Development.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

what, american?

(nb: i never watched AD. all i know is that it was, er, american.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, American, pulled from Fox prematurely owing to dismal ratings, hence minor outcry amongst those who'd actually seen it, series 2 has over 100 user reviews on Metacritic, all but 2 of which give it 10 (the other 2 give it 9), and quite simply the funniest, cleverest, sweetest, truest, greatest sitcom I think I've ever seen.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

This 'Star Stories' (written by bain and armstrong) is fucking awful.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Except for Super Hans as Venables.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

o. i thought it was funny as fuck. hey ho. didn't realise it was by the peep show dudes either.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

i keep missing all these new tv programmes. i've clearly lost my faith in the idiot-box :(

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

wait till you're old and can't be arsed going out. then you'll watch a lot more telly.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry to hear this wasn't any good - I think I caught the last 17 minutes on tape but my new video doesn't allow me to see which channel I'm taping (family were watching something on More4 or something).

I was hoping for a Fry & Laurie for the mid-to-late '00s.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 16 September 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

'm sorry to hear this wasn't any good

quite a lot of us liked it, you know.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 16 September 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I'm sorry to hear (from certain people who I know in real life and whose comments my eye is inevitably drawn towards) that it isn't any good. Point taken, it's hardly unanimous.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 16 September 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

it's not great, though. i mean, i wouldn't want to get your hopes up :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 16 September 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

so. episode two? i'm beginning to really, really like this. a lot. the sherlock holmes thing, the daytime TV and the heroin in particular.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't see all of last night but Sherlock Holmes excepted it didn't seem as memorable as the first one. However even when it runs a bit flat it coasts through thanks to the charm of the two leads, unlike other sketch shows where the performers come across as arrogant, smug arseholes.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

okay the snooker thing is SHIT cos these guys, for all their talent, cannot do accents. plus they rely on their 'peep show' personas (OK these are probably drawn from life a little) bit too much, feels somewhat like an odds-and-sods thing.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:27 (nineteen years ago)

enjoyed this. can't remember any of it now i come to sit down and write this (um, bad sign) but remember enjoying it at the time. was hoping for more funny nazis but hey... ah, yes, heroin for christmas.

> but my new video doesn't allow me to see which channel I'm taping

what fresh hell is this?

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

the homeless guy wd be funnier recurring character than snookermen.

numberwang feel somehow familiar but i roffed anyway.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

Heroin for Christmas was great. And Watergategate. I quite like the bits where they are being 'themselves' - a bit Mighty Boosh-esque. But the snooker guys have really suffered in the transition from radio, going on these first two eps.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

Saw the first ep in the BBC3 repeat and caught the 2nd "as live" last night, in a genuine "let's sit down and watch the telly with Sainsbury's-branded fake Cornetto(e)s" moment.

I think it's really rather good. For a couple of clever fellas they do the physical comedy thing very well (banana dance, Holmes-Watson violence). And, yes, the "and this is us" moments are the best.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

holmes/watson was a great conceit and one i don't think has been done before.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

There was something a bit Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town about it.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't get any further than the first imaginary number in Numberwang before I started crying with laughter. I didn't think there was anything else quite as good as Angel Summoner and the BMX Bandit, but I do still love this programme. I just like this style of terribly British "look, I'm sorry, but if you want me to murder him, can't you please just say that?" comedy.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 23 September 2006 07:42 (nineteen years ago)

Its a grower, not a shower.

― Pete (Pete), Saturday, 23 September 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

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