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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)

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.

"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)

Is it me or did the author character look a lot like Ned?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 6 October 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

this was better than the last few.

― the classic sounds of the seventh of january 1998 (Enrique), Friday, 6 October 2006 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

"Now we know."

That was the first - and so far only - sketch to make me laugh in this show.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 6 October 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

i like the 'ride attendant' character Mitchell plays.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 6 October 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

My favourite joke from the radio version of Big Talk ('I can think of at least two yes or no answers off the top of my head!') made an appearance. But otherwise I think it's getting weaker.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 6 October 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

Nümberwang.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

Nümberwang = classic. Still not convinced by the rest of it tho.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

Weakest so far - the "and this is us" sections weren't any good this week. And we didn't need two consecutive shows with implied gags about bumming! I can do that at home.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 13 October 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

You lucky sod.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 13 October 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

As long as we pretend the second series of BT didn't exist, I stand corrected.

ha, so true.

this was a bit rub tho, saw it for the first time last night. all seemed a bit 'by the numbers' for me. i may as well have just stuck repeats of BT or Fast Show on

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 13 October 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

I meant make implied gags, you saucy bandit!

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 13 October 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

I loved the toothbrush joke last night, it surprised me with being both OBVIOUS and FUNNY (and a good payoff).

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 13 October 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

didn't really enjoy last night's. it's very patchy.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

"two consecutive shows with implied gags about bumming"

both mentioned "Deliverance" as well.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

the garden centre savages were great too. teaching the new abductee how to find water and nuts in the 'wild'...

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

i'm seeing them live on thursday not to sure if its rehashed sketches or not

― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

is a constant surprise to me that the Extras thread always gets bumped yet this one never does despite being a zillion times better. yes, a zillion.

i imagine the meta 'and this is us' section raising a laugh in the jones household especially.

(and last night i also remembered the 'Gute Luck', 'Thanks very much' bit of Nümberwang.)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

I loved last night's meta-section.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:03 (nineteen years ago)

Donitz & "double-edged sword" were highlights last night. "Oh, and that's a bad miss" makes me laugh every single time. I can't help it. Don't feel bad for me.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

is a constant surprise to me that the Extras thread always gets bumped yet this one never does despite being a zillion times better. yes, a zillion.

Indeed. Last night picked up after a weakish couple of episodes, the wacky historian was a particular treat. Never warmed to the snooker men, but their rendition of Lady in Red was priceless.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

Bingo!

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

I had to tape it last night (we rep the director) and I watched the first couple of sketches - it really is a treat.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 20 October 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

Saw this for the first time yesterday evening and I was actually pretty impressed. Extras (which I watched, conversely, for the last time yesterday evening) does indeed pale by comparison.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

It's terribly patchy. Numberwang and Digby Chicken Ceasar are great, the snooker commentators are piss poor, especially as their prominance in the show implies that M&W consider them their flagship characters.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

saw the live show, little different to the tv series a usual sketch best of but holds up reasonably well to knowing what the punch lines are

― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

New on E4 next week (24th November) and a week later on CH4 Proper.

22:00 Blunder
[subtitles]
An ensemble sketch show written and performed by six of the UK's brightest young comedy writers and performers: David Mitchell (Peep Show), Simon Farnaby (Spoons), Rhys Thomas (The Fast Show), Nina Conti (Bromwell High), Tom Meeten (Mighty Boosh) and Tony Way (Extras).

(oh, thought it was both of them, appears not to be)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

david mitchell's kind of selling himself short there. who the fuck are the others?

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

I've gone off Mitchell because of that TV license/talking sofa thing.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Nina Conti = daughter of Tom. She's a ventroloquist, but she's also funny (something I thought mutually exclusive until I saw her).

No idea about the rest, but I might recognise them on seeing them.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

"ventriloquist", that should be.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Nina Conti = daughter of Tom. She's a ventroloquist, but she's also funny

Ooh, I think I know who you mean - yes, very good.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

yes: can't remember where i saw her, but she was great.

i saw a trailer for "blunder" and it looked weak. however, i am a miserable tit and often proved wrong, so ...

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

She has a monkey puppet and she makes it swear at her and it rogers pint glasses and stuff. This is a lot funnier than it sounds on paper, really.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

She's gets away with this by having her being a very shy, giggly, nervous little girl, while this monkey's rude and brash - I can't remember seeing such a gap between the puppet's personality and the operator's before.

Who's Tom Meeten? Says Mighty Boosh, but GIS shows me someone who I've never seen before in my life.

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure the trailer features Noel Fielding in a wig.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds very funny on paper, Ailsa. It can't possibly live up to it.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

imdb says Tom Meeten was Peppo in the Fountain Of Youth Episode of Boosh. um, i think that makes him slightly less famous than the locksmith with the whistle in series 1.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ailsa is right. Nina Conti is very funny. I like not just the contrast between her lovely poshness and the monkey's rampant badassedness, but also the fact that she finds the monkey funny too and often laughs, and the monkey just looks funny. Most enjoyable.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Rhys Thomas played Swiss Toni's protege Paul in The Fast Show and was in Nathan Barley too.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Heh, they're doing the Mac ads now
http://www.apple.com/uk/getamac/ads/

― stet (stet), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

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