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

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What's This Country saying? Seen a clip or two which suggest it might be a bit above standard BBC 3 fodder.

I enjoyed it a lot, managed to rise above "let's laugh at rural people" which it could have fallen into.

Good enough, I'll watch it.

Actually, found the last episode Detectorists-level moving.

Speaking of which, this hasn't exactly been shouted from the rooftops.

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-03-31/mackenzie-crook-comedy-detectorists-is-returning-for-third-and-final-series

I also watched the first episode of Loaded, a C4 attempt at Silicon Valley with none of the writing chops and little of the writing skills. Stars Danny Out Of Doctor Who, Gerrard Out Of Peep Show, Him Out Of Uncle and Him Out Of Together (you know, the dreadful BBC romcom starring Him, Her Out Of Downton Abbey And Crazyhead and Her That Played 'Drunk Girl' In Fleabag). Missed ep 2 and no desire to catch up.

Great to watch old people vote for their own destruction. Its like a Thomas Bernhard novel come to life.

LOL wrong thread but its a great idea for a comedy

That threw me for a moment there.

Ever Decreasing Merkels.

Nothing to do with Tory social care policy but I can flesh out the details later.

The Darling Cunts of May.

outstanding

*applause*

Him out of Uncle is fucking loathsome. Here's hoping he isn't the next few years of UK comedy, despite Ch4 depressingly pushing him as such.

Can't stand him. I can't even watch when he's in Dictionary Corner on Cars down, the only time I ever really encounter him.

Catsdown, even. Stupid phone not recognising my made-up contractions.

Who are we talking about?

Edgy, i.e unfunny, comedian whose entire schtick is hoarsely shouting at people.

Name?

Nick Helm

He looks hilarious based on a cursory image search.

https://www.comedy.co.uk/images/library/fringe/2012/250x250/nick_helm.jpg

the first time i saw him i thought he was fabulous, then i discovered that hoarse shouting thing is all

he

does

bbc1 preannounced hignfy as "with frankie boyle and strong language", which seems redundant

Can't believe I've never seen Black Books until now - this show rules

life's too short to watch detectorists repeats, so i almost didn't bother. but i did and i loved it (again). it's pretty perfect, all the little touches. the tr7 in yellow. the bit in episode 5 with the two 'did you see university challenge last night?' conversations. sophie's face painting...

series 2 starts next monday. i guess series 3 will follow.

elsewhere, Go 8 Bit: DLC was funny this week. it's scrappy, in a good way. and the guest was good this week (steve hill?)

> The Darling Cunts of May.

John Oliver coined 'Thatcher in the Rye' on his show last week, after playing the clip of the, gosh, wheat field revelations.

Anyone been watching Live From The BBC standup series? Enjoyed Liam Williams, had never seen him before. Pretty gloomy guy.

Good looking too.

So the gloomy thing is an act. LOL Footlights.

this jimmy carr interview by david tang is the most entertaining train wreck i've seen in a long time. tang (1) decided research and preparation are unnecessary and (2) evidently saw two minutes of a jimmy carr standup and decided being a shit to him would be funny. it's funny all right, but not for the reasons he thought it would be.

if you don't want to sit through the whole hour you can get the gist in the first three minutes. just incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRTMnJ6y14Y

Jimmy Carr is shit is a shit and, so being a shit to him is the only acceptable approach.

So the gloomy thing is an act. LOL Footlights.

― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 01:10

Dunno. He seems quite sad to me. Not that it matters too much.

Sad and not funny. Still, I'm sure he will do well, Footlights an' that.

Jimmy Carr is shit is a shit and, so being a shit to him is the only acceptable approach.

― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 10:25 (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you can hate him if you like but he's a generous and insightful interview subject, so wasting his potential by being a dick for a full hour is not a good use of anyone's time

Playing at 'Being a dick' is how Jimmy Carr earns his money surely?

that's his act, not how he conducts himself professionally (outside gigs, at least)

Fuck comedians with 'acts'. It's a pity his generosity doesn't extend to paying his taxes.

which comes back to my point that david tang apparently thought jimmy carr's act = jimmmy carr, without bothering to do any further research whatsoever

xp yes i get he's done dickish things, doesn't mean he's not worth listening to as an interview subject

Well that's one way of looking at it, but who is really interested in some boring little bourgeois businessman who is 'Jimmy Carr' for a living?

thanks for your input

Thanks for the video.

Lex couldn't make it, i'm standing in for him.

Good video, thanks. Carr handled that immensely well, I thought.

he was great. it seems he very quickly decided the audience was only going to get value for its money/time if he took control. most people would have politely fumbled their way through, or just stormed out.

Just finished it, that was a lot of fun.

(are the volume levels of that all over the place?)

Mash Report was ok, but they don't seem to have left space for the laughing - they just kind of keep talking.

I enjoyed Nish's John Oliver schtick, he carried it off well, but I struggled with the rest of it. The news sketches were poor and the social media section was a nice idea which didn't really work for me in practice.

Anyone watching Ill Behaviour, Sam Bain's "comedy drama" on iPlayer? Not hitting the mark for me mainly because main man is pretty much Will from Inbetweeners

Jimmy Carr clip was great

the interviewer is human garbage