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

yeah i enjoyed it more this week too, although not a fan of some of the inbetween sketches.

I really liked yesterday's, all the financial crisis, anti-estate agent, anal passage stuff was great.

the nostalgia for mfi/woolworths/zavvi bit was great.

I thought he was killing that joke by overextending it, in the same way as the rappers one, but then he brought up Zavvi and it was A+++.

overextending the joke is his "thing" though, right? but yeah the zavvi bit (which sort of used "i was 28" again!) took it to the next.

it's the repetition he finds amusing

confused as to whether he feels Woolworths was a retail analogue to channel 5 which did a bit of everything badly or a shop that sold nothing but sweets and 7"

Best episode yet I thought.

sketches were a bit better than the previous ones; think Kevin Eldon is genuinely quite scary

I absolutely love Kevin Eldon. The Estate Agent sketch was top.

I only saw the first episode which was horrible and full of shitty Charlie Brooker jokes about easy targets, but I am losing my shit at this economy one. V. funny.

i don't like the inserted sketches, they interrupt the flow (not in a family guy way DOM).

but i mean three hours of stand-up takes years of work so

He's a big Ted Chippington fan, I think? I pick up a big Ted Chippington vibe in a lot of his delivery.

was good tonight, sketches quite crap as usual.

nah, monty python appleshop parody was gleefully done and pretty brill.

i like that, but it went on too long.

liked even

I find the constant repitition thing a bit wearing, but the use of it in the Dyl Spinks mouse/rat skit caused actual lols. It was the only time I did laugh though.

the end of the apple shop sketch was loool.

loled at Jesus Lizard reference, but then I am a London hipster apparently.

was the religious episode the last one? i hope not, loving it.

yeah, it was the last one.

zoe williams is better than robert webb, although admittedly pitting guardian columnists against bbc sketch comedians is a bit like making a slug fight to the death with an earthworm

favorite thing: apparently robert webb thinks this is grammatically sound —

"As usual, the logic of her argument is impossible to follow because it's irrational, cretinous and seems to be written by a child."

and this isn't —

'This false sense of security buoys up all kinds of ill-fated formats and combinations.'

well, he drunkenly thought it was grammatically sound and then said he felt embarrassed by it the next morning, yeah

yeah, i guess the grammatical error isn't really the thing making him look like a twat there

er and a) he twatted it b) it makes sense

iirc he just says it's a shitty, meaningless sentence, not gramatically unsound.

Anyone see the one hour Pulling final episode last night? Pretty funny IMO.

Yeah, I thought it was pretty good too. I really liked both series as well - the opening scene of episode 1 is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

Good that it didn't really tie up any loose ends, and that there was absolutely no learning of life lessons.

Here's Down The Line - spoof talk radio phone-in on Radio 4 has some classic lols. Impeccably timed Gaunty reference as well.

I saw a trailer for a new Michael McIntyre standup show yesterday. OMG GO AWAY YOU UNFUNNY LITTLE MAN.

there is a copy of Time Out in the loo at work with a giant MM on the cover striding over London and the caption 'King Of Comedy'.

ethelred the unfunny perhaps. or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great (who, oddly, was absent from school history lessons)

down the line is stone cold classic, true next-level ish.

Yeah the "you'd be well within your rights to do that" guy is the icing on the cake.

"Ed Reardon's Week" is as funny as Black Books and Love Soup and sometimes quite a bit funnier. Peng is maybe my favorite British comedy character.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/edreardon.shtml

(hint: try a torrent)

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^^ amazingly the only ref to ERW on ilx! rep it to the death.

Humph-less 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' starts tonight. Thoughts anyone? Personally going with 'glad its back on' mixed with hesitation.

I trust Stephen Fry not to fuck it up. ISIHAC + Saturday Night Fry might well be awesome. Rob Brydon - not so much.

Just watched the first episode of Psychoville and thought it was entirely excellent.

so there's this, which isnt v british but is being shown on british tv first? http://www.comedy.org.uk/guide/tv/poor_todd_margaret/

Won't be broadcast until December, says Cross? Bring on December.

New trailer for The Invention of Lying, written and directed by Ricky Gervais. At least he doesn't look as terribly pasty-faced in this as he did in Ghost Town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ThtN7qoWgM

Just because I'm clearly obsessed with Ricky Gervais...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP7Lxqbkf-c

^I actually like The Office but this makes me want to smash something. Anyway...

BBC2 will dedicate an entire evening to airing the first series of The Office later this month, including new footage of Ricky Gervais and the team talking about its impact alongside comedy stars such as Friends’ Matthew Perry and Spinal Tap’s Christopher Guest.

The tribute night, scheduled for 30 August, will feature the full 6 x 30-minute run with an introduction and 10-minute inserts between the episodes.

that bloke who wrote Love Actually is SUCH a cunt

His mum just asked me to co-sign that.

Invention Of Lying looks like the worst shit ever

and 10-minute inserts between the episodes

right because most people interested would already have the DVD...GENIUS

anyone see this - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mx9yr - last night? it was FAB

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2009/09/21/9648/storm_over_tiernans_jewish_jokes