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

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)

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:29 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ 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

Umm, where is the punchline? The article makes it sounds like they just gave a crazy a microphone.

Looks like he was going for the standard mildly bigoted Catholic "lol you killed Jesus you bastards lol!" thing that the likes of Frank Skinner can get away with when one of his best friends are Jews but once he got going it turned out he was a real actual 100% anti-Semitic prick.

Tiernan is a completely unfunny tool who for some inexplicable reason is huge in Ireland. Probably thought he would be extra edgy cos he was playing to the kids at a festival.

Yeah, it seems like he reached for provocotive but ended up all http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Richards#Controversy

demetri martin's show starts on uk tv tonight. e4 23:00.

This School of Comedy show is as bad as it had to be. Kids dressed as adults doing comedy sketches that would be unfunny even with proper actors but the kids are doing swears. Brilliant!

is anyone else watching home time (bbc2 mondays)? its really really good.

(xpost) I haven't seen this, but it's the background pic on C4's website at the moment, and it just has "bad idea" written all over it.

Campus may be the worst comedy I have ever seen. I couldn't even tell what was meant to be funny.

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/

― just sayin, Monday, June 22, 2009 10:35 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not really sure about this.

it wasn't terrible, but it didn't really live up to expectations. it was full of horrible, awful british people. think i'd rather see a sitcom about arnett, jonze, and tobias.

I laughed a lot at Todd Margaret - the physical side was fairly well done. A cert to be picked up for a series, you'd think? Going by the paucity of the competition in that Showcase strand anyway (didn't see them all though).

yeah, was going to say, the physical humour worked best. i just really hated the scrote from 'the history boys', he was just unpleasant and nothing more. it reminded me a little of 'bottom', where the whole outside world is totally hostile all the time.

The bits that relied on scripted gags were weak. The bits that relied on Cross or Arnett going mental were pretty funny.

Good to see Super Hans as the taxi driver too.

I think this is the first time I've ever realised what it was called. It's just been "the one with the people out of Arrested Development" in to me till now.

wld like to see cross do a sitcom as allen ginsberg