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

People Do Nothing went quite sharply downhill in its second series. In retrospect the first probably wasn't all that funny, it was just the novelty of seeing that world depicted with any kind of accuracy.

Steves is still classic though.

yeah, people do nothing went downhill after the pilot, really. so disappointing how much it lost what made it great

Guys, there's a BBC Scotland show called Mountain Goats that is a genuine contender for worst BBC sitcom of all time. Shows levels of sophistication that makes Miranda look like Stewart Lee. Seriously, you've got to iPlayer it.

The trailer alone was the worst thing I have seen on TV this year.

In episode one, the token daft woman says "sucked off" repeatedly for nearly five minutes while the rest of the cast fall bout and the laugh track goes into overdrive.

Oh Christ I think I had that on in the background last night while on my laptop and I had to turn it off which is saying something

I have managed to get through all four and it never rises above execrable.

I'll be charitable - in the third episode when she lies on the car bonnet talking about Gourmet Night it could possibly be an homage to Fawlty Towers, which by even associating with it would be the nearest it gets to comedy.

There's a Brentford Nylons parody in ep 4 ffs.

Please can you and Autumn Almanac liveblog it like with The Wright Way?

i have been enjoying TaskMaster over on dave. yeah, it's 7 people on the brink of televisual overexposure acting like idiots but...

Yeah, have been laughing myself silly at this, sad it's ended. It's also the first time I think I've ever really found Greg Davis funny. New series of Modern Life is Good-ish replacing it next week.

seeing Doon Mackichan reduced to appearing in this was depressing in a 'Jack Docherty in Badults' sort of way

I'd forgotten about Jack rocking a Guy Fieri look for a period in the 90s

http://v015o.popscreen.com/eHMzYWFvMTI=_o_hignfy-s12e08---jack-docherty-austin-mitchell.jpg

I liked Badults, and think it was misunderstood (at least in so far as I believe they know how dumb it all is)

mock the week had fun with the whole hog-knobbing thing. i guess it's an open goal and they've had a few days to read twitter and get the jokes ready.

Anyone else watching Boy Meets Girl? I had high hopes for it on first viewing, but it's now basically Gavin and Stacey with less jokes.

In Case You Missed It was 30 minutes of my life that i will never get back.

absolutely loving cradle to grave. only minor thing is kaye's ropey accent but he's great regardless

qi bloke was on the radio yesterday and is always an interesting listen.

it's just a pity that the tv show is now mostly dick jokes...

Bob Mortimer has had a triple heart bypass.

Catastrophe back last night and still bringing the goods.

and second series of Detectorists starts tomorrow. first season of this was probably my favourite thing on the telly at the time.

:((( hope he's okay. he was HILARIOUS on would i lie to you a few weeks back (ps that is pretty much my favourite UK comedy show at the moment) but he didn't look very well

WILTY often way funnier than it should be, yes.

i don't even know if its funnier than it should be - the format is strong, and the guests are often great.

I guess what I meant is that in these days of panel show over-saturation, it's surprising to come across one that's decent.

oh yes, definitely.

it took me ages to work out wtf was going on in Catastrophe. Probably because waters breaking doesn't actually mean you're having the baby straight away, in real life.

Yeah, it took me a while to work out it was over a year later on (in fact, it didn't happen until the kid was stood in the doorway).

I really liked that twist. And I really liked the whole episode, too.

Detectorists was perfect last night.

I didn't quite get the fuss about The Detectorists, the first series rarely rose above just OK for me. I'll give the new one a bash though.

It's a vibe thing man

london people can catch Love Soup series 1 at 9 tonight on London Live. i remember it being great and innovative at the time, but that time was 10 years ago now.

detectorists still very good, happily.

subtle gag in the first scene of catastrophe ep 2, more lols than in the first ep.

just watched it but wait what was it

when she says she's sure other people have it worse than her... but she can't think of any right now, i don't know, greek people. then it cuts to the very unambiguously african doctor.

I liked in the first ep when Rob still had Sharon's number in his phone as Sharon London Sex.

ha yep.

My favourite bit of last night's was near the end when she told him all about her day and he said "between work and other things they consume all my 'care' during the day so I really haven't got anything to give you".

Passed a load of these (giant) posters on the way to work today,

http://underthebridge.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/dapper-laughs-poster-small-.jpg

Notice that he ducked playing Glasgow on his tour.

I've just realized the dates are in October, so why the posters have appeared in November I have no idea.

Notice that he ducked playing Glasgow on his tour.

There was a poster for a Glasgow gig on Argyll Street on which someone had written CUNT right across his forehead. I think the gig was cancelled after protests/poor sales.

Josh is utterly fucking dreadful. And just when you thought it couldn't get worse, Jennifer Saunders' (who turns up herself in Ep 2) daughter is in this and is arguably not even as good as in The Wright Way. She should really consider another career.

Yeah, it's awful. Sat through the opening two episodes the other night and didn't laugh once.

JW has been on the cusp of over-exposure for about a year now, imo, so this was probably a bad idea. that said, bbc3, so i reckon you're the only two watching it 8)

Think, may be wrong, I watched it on BBC2 late the other night. I won't be sticking with it (and I'm mostly pro-JW in other guises)

I watched the first on iPlayer out of curiosity, and the second on iPlayer out of voyeurism. I won't make the mistake again.

And unlike The Wright Way or Mountain Goats, it's not so unremittingly awful that I still have to watch it.

But then what do I know, I watched all of Together; a less funny Boy Meets Girl. It also did the 'posh girl gets deliberately bad boyfriend to annoy her dad' sub-plot that Josh did, although without the benefit of Martin Brown Off KYTV.

Because I'm a bad person who hates things, I did a search for D*pper L****s live reviews, but it looks like there was some kind of media blackout on the entire tour. Still, there will be a DVD so I look forward to see what Amazon punters make of that.

I like reading about shit sitcoms on ILX.