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HIGNFY seems to have really lost it now. axe it. come back in a year with a similar yet different show.

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

mock the week, then?

hmmm.

Surely Ayoade's "performance" consists entirely of wearing a funny wig and talking in a funny voice?

Andy Millman to thread!

― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Mock The Week seems better than HIGNFY at the mo. I get the impression the choice of presenter for MOW is a bugbear.

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

Never watched Mock the Week, has it got crap comics on it? Like that Scottish guy?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

mock the week is excruciating

― Alan, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

I refuse to watch any show with the word "Mock" in the title

― Tom D., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

> A famous paragon of virtue promoting illegal and harmful products?

pretty much. i also find it's quite a fond portrayal of him.

only funny thing about the U2 sketch (which is only 20 years after R&M did the same thing with slade) is the doctored Joshua Tree(?) poster in the kitchen.

they do seem to be hammering things into the ground though. barbican man for instance. same thing 6 times.

still some good lines on HIGNFY. ferne was bad though.

― koogs, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

that Scottish guy can make me laugh. probably the voice.

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

mock the week, dead ringers and HIGNFY = AXIS OF FAKE SATIRE

― acrobat, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

john prescott... HE'S FAT!

― acrobat, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

gordon brown... HE'S SCOTTISH!

― acrobat, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

barbican man for instance. same thing 6 times

I think the one about the independent was meant to be the master punchline. It did make me smirk.

The serth efrican character seems to be entirely predicated on the fact that enfield can do a very good serth efrican eccent.

I only recently got the pun in "mock the week".

― ledge, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

david blunket... HE'S BLIND!

― acrobat, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

david cameron... WE'RE ALL GOING TO VOTE FOR HIM

― Tom D., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

hmmm i wonder if a cameron government would spawn some better "angry" comedy. i doubt it.

― acrobat, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Who is angry?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

I suspect Cam's quite an oldschool Tory at heart and the Blairification of the Conservative Party is a cosmetic thing that won't last long after the next election. So, yes, it might do.

― chap, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

well no one at the moment Tom D. that was my point about FAKE SATIRE.

also Dom's sketch shows need pathos theory only fits with the one example he gave. possibly.

― acrobat, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing, NOTHING, is as bad as Get A Grip.

The Scottish bloke on Mock the Week (Frankie Boyle) makes me laugh too, but mostly because he gets better lines and a lot of it is in the delivery. Also Dara O'Briain >>>> 90% of the guest hosts on HIGNFY. Hislop and Merton are just going through the motions, and it only works when they get someone they can react to/interact with, and who has the brains to keep it going rather than just reading off autocues. Scrap the "lolz, it's Boris/Joan Collins/Charlotte Church, this'll be a laugh" hosts and keep it to whichever Armstrong/Miller it is that's good, Hugh Dennis and (probably) Clarkson, and you're probably just about OK.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

My mum says the Lee Mack thing is funny.

― chap, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

"Mock the Mack"?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, so does my husband. It sort of is, when you're drunk and don't expect very much from a comedy show other than a couple of cheap belly laughs. Assuming you mean "Not Going Out".

― ailsa, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Not Going Out, that's the one. I haven't seen it, but she told me a joke from it:
"They say no man is an island."
"What about the Isle of Man?"

Moderately witty I guess.

― chap, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

It's pretty much a ton of one-liners (it's co-written by Tim Vine) with a ridiculous "plot" contrived as a showcase for the one-liners, rather than the sensible way round.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, it's not co-written by Tim Vine at all, he's just in it. It's Lee Mack and Andrew Collins. Oh well.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

i rly liked Not Going Out.

― Alan, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Ayoade is a modern day nadir, obviously, but then he's just yr common-or-garden "he ran Footlights, we have to give him a career" douchebag, right?

-- Dom Passantino, Tuesday, May 1, 2007 4:01 PM (Yesterday)

... no. if you're going to single out one comedy performer for coming up via oxbridge networking, you're going to have to single out basically all of them. the dean learner chat show was sort of bad for the reasons acrobat gave, but it wasn't terrible.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I really like Not Going Out too. It did try a bit too much to be American styled (loft apartment, er, having an American in it) but its gag per second ration was massive which is the major let down of British sitcoms. I think given a chance to get really confy (and not fit all the wacky plots into a six episode run) it could be really, really good.

― Pete, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

Way too harsh on Ayoade; Lerner started very well, dropped off sharply thereafter. No, it didn't make sense.

But I'm always going to blindly defend people I see in my local shops - they're part of the community, y'know? See also Mark Steel.

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

'not going out' was better than the current 'peep show'.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

"But I'm always going to blindly defend people I see in my local shops - they're part of the community, y'know?"

that bloke off crimewatch last night might be a vicious thug, but he's
our vicious thug.

― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

I only recently got the pun in "mock the week".

oh dear, i'm about to make a fool of myself. there's a pun?

i don't get the hignfy hate - it doesn't seem any weaker now than it was say five years ago, and i never thought it was weak then anyway. is the rotating presenter thing putting paid to its punch?

also, what is this not going out thing? i suspect i'll like it.

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Because they spent 5 minutes laughing WITH Jeremy Clarkson about how global warming does not exist. It's more right-wing than South Park.

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

oh right, i just got the pun. d'oh.

xpost acrobat, have you read private eye?

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

private eye has a vicious tory streak a mile wide. HIGNFY has been going bad for ages. was it joan collins? jackie? whatever, i kind of stopped watching after that.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

yeh i've read private eye. it's kinda like popbitch if 1965 had never happened.

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

sub-carmody

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

there are many, many things of value in 'private eye', but perhaps it's better under a tory government than under labour.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

otm

― stevie, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

actually comparing HIGNFY and Private Eye is really misleading. it's not like a panal show can get away with the kind of journalistic stuff they have in PE. the things i like in PE tend not to be the "comedy".

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

The cartoons in Private Eye are never, ever funny

The middle-aged satirical whimsy stuff is OK sometimes

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

at least private eye chooses its targets for more than being fat or blind, generally.

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

"Because they spent 5 minutes laughing WITH Jeremy Clarkson about how global warming does not exist. It's more right-wing than South Park."

you know i don't rate HIGNFY but.. that's a pretty dense reaction.

― Alan, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

well that's why i don't enjoy it. i can't relate to where most of the humour is coming from and yes that Clarkson episode really pissed me off. i mean i know Richard Litttlejohn or Ann Coulter want to get a rise out of "liberals" but that doesn't stop me finding them loathsome. surely ian or paul could have made like one joke about him being completely wrong? but no they laugh it up. the bbc's most watched satirical program should not be playing so obviously to the daily mail crowd. maybe i should lighten up.

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

thinking about it, HIGNFY was better under the tories.

"vote cameron for better satire."

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

but perhaps it's better under a tory government than under labour.

i feel a list thread coming on...

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

a pun?
mock...the...week?
where's the pun there?

― pisces, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

do people seriously think if cameron gets in we'll be back in 1983 again with legions of ben elton's appearing? i dunno the daily show suggests it's possible but the comedy culture in britain at the moment, well it's pretty similar to the culture in (british) indie music.

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

also the tories for most younger people are hardly the BIG EVIL THREAT they once were.

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

mock the week pun = based on Wok The Meek, a short-lived early Sky TV cookery show for East Asian Christians.

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

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