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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)

watched it again this morning. i had forgotten the biscuit telekenesis and pugwash in the pub.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Saturday, 23 September 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

This is getting better.

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

Agreed.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Consistently hit and miss, anyway. Wonderful lines like "if there's one thing we've learned from the last thousand miles of retreat, it's that the Russian agricultural system is in dire need of mechanisation" is what they should be concentrating on rather than pratfalls and the Holmes/Watson rubbish.

The Scooby Doo sketch tonight was perhaps an illustration of why I warm to them - an obvious and too-oft repeated reference point for jokes is a bad starting point, yet they managed to make it very funny with great lines and force of personality.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

ally C! good to see you round these parts again. shame you're WRONG about the holmes/watson thing :)

i posted on the extras thread about this tonight ... the "fish and cushion" sketch was one of the most inspired pieces of extended surrealism i've seen since the glory days of, er, that paul merton sketch show that nobody else watched. (except mrs fiendish.) and yes, the scooby-doo thing was a triumph of personality: it was obvious from the off where the sketch would go, but it got there in such a fantastic way ...

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

I laughed most of the time tonight - in particular, the Chip & Pin nonsense reduced me to teary-eyed roffles, and the too-brief Sir Digby stuff was very welcome. Thought that even the snooker commentators were much funnier.

Blast you grimly, you got in there just before me with the Fish & Cushion...New Messages Alert indeed...

― Bill A (Bill A), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot about Fish & Cushion! Very good.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

I missed the start tonight, so I'll have to see Fish & Cushion some other time. I like the bit's when they're being 'themselves', effortlessly funny. I wonder if they share a bed, with Webb smoking a pipe.

Shame it's on after Extras, it's like having to eat a rather stodgy, unpleasant dinner before you can get to the pudding.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

joeks about scooby doo and crap daytime tv *are* a bit studenty, it must be admitted.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 29 September 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

i spent a good bit of the last show anticipating what would be on the other side of the Numberwangk carousal. and just what fate would befall susan(?) this time. it's a bit 'man with the stick' but hey...

does billy dods' tv not have an off switch or channel changer? 8)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

You mean there's channels other than bbc2? Blimey.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

Holmes/Watson wasn't rubbish, it was the slimmest of ideas beautifully realised. They're just about getting away with a lot of stuff through sheer verve, as Ally says; I mean, could you imagine someone riffing on Scooby Doo in the pub? You'd be squirming with embarrassment - 1970s kids' telly just seems like one of the most bone-dry and lunk-headed areas for comic mining - and yet, by not going the wry observational route and just throttling the absurdity, they wring something out of it.

It wasn't the best thing in the show but, in some ways, it was the most interesting and perplexing. It was almost like they were doing it for a dare. "Make something funny out of stuff everyone knows and remembers about Scooby Doo and which every bad stand-up has already built routines around - now, in 2006."

Or perhaps I'm giving them too much credit.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

I missed whatever was wrung out of the Scooby Doo thing.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

yeeaaaah... "rofl".

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

why would they do it tho, if not that?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

to fill space?

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

maybe whatshisname's hair is done in curtains to give it an 'early 90s studenty' vibe?

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

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I know what you mean, Michael - they even managed to resist the obligatory Scrappy Doo bashing, choosing instead to remark on his "perfectly good english" (or words to that effect). Admirable restraint.

Bits of the show keep coming back to me eg. "We've got all the makings of crystal meth here, sir!" during Sir Digby.

― Bill A (Bill A), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

numberwang was one of the funniest things I've seen on TV in a long time. Some of the subsequent sketches were poor, the BBC one was really boring and unfunny. I quite liked the one with the magic clarinet, tho they could have ended it after the woman in the supermarket "I secretly harbour racist views..."

Sir Digby didn't make me laugh that much but is a good character, could be funny in future.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

"I think it's cruel to feed that to a dog" was one of my favourite lines. I also love the incredibly uppitty and cruel English men who are still unaccountably waiters or vicars. I just really like this show. It's just funny.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

Scooby Doo, Fish & Cushion, green clarinet = good

Digby chicken caeser = half-good

Numberwang = bad

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

i wd say the exact opposite way round.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

Numberwang was at its best last week with the imaginary numbers. Although when they rotated the board to show the nativity scene, that was pretty good.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

once was enough for numberwang (though it > the snooker guys) but the scooby doo/james bond dudes are really weak.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

"A shark a policeman or a pebble". I lolled.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 5 October 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

i came home drunk and programmed the video to tape the repeat.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 5 October 2006 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

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