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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)

Ag, they're ruining it.

Just started watching Series 3 on DVD - still a delight.

― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

I quite like shenanigans and japes in the Pie Chart one.

― stet (stet), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

taking sides: mitchell and web mac ads vs those guys from 'green wing' barclaycard ads.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

The Barclaycard ones aren't nearly as annoying as the radio ones - most of the national radio ads in the UK are voiced by people who've been in Green Wing, I think.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

adverts are great, for adverts. have seen the american ones with him off of daily show on youtube.

― Koogy Bloogies (koogs), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, the ads won't play on my iBook. Perhaps they detect that I already have an apple computer, so I don't need another one?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

No, I can't get any video either - even downloading it and playing it in QT Pro 6.5.2 which I* paid for. Well done, Apple!

(* - my work)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

they're on youtube, bros!!!!!!

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

Also I've just realised mine won't play because of my, er, adblocker. I R BRANE.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear, I like M&W, but those adds are really punchable. LOL at "Macs don't need restarts!"

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

And the background music sounds like Salad Fingers. Which is bad.

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

I think they're pretty decent. They're ads!

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

The ass-suckingness of Quicktime is just astonishing. Why do Quicktime movies just create a question mark in your browser sometimes? Who knows? Why doesn't the spacebar start and stop a Quicktime movie when it's in your browser, the way it used to? Who knows? Why do some big Quicktime movies not load up completely in the standalone app, so that only like the first 5 minutes are available? Etc. etc.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

What would be cool is if they now did an ad for Dell or someone.

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

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