Peep Show (now with added Mitchell & Webb Look)

"Butter the toast, eat the toast, shit the toast. God, life's relentless."

"This is basically like watching porn, except I can't see anything, I haven't got a hard on, and I want to cry"

Anyone watching Mitchell/Webbs "Back" ?

I didn't know it existed. Would probably be pretty hard to divorce myself from thinking of them as Jez and Mark.

completely agree. The show presents them as fundamentally similar to those characters, but range is overrated anyway. Some good laughs, but not excellent like PS so far

I mentioned it on the Rolling Comedy thread. Felt like a pair of slippers where your toe sticks through and you can't find anywhere fresh to write on the sole with biro.

Made me chortle a couple of times, but yeah most of time I was thinking "What's Mark doing living in some village? Why are he and Jez pretending they've got different names, what are they up to?"

Did you guys have the same reaction to Sir Digby Chicken Caesar and his trusty sidekick Ginger?

Thanks for the heads up. I had no idea they were doing a new thing.

I can't believe ppl upthread were down on the mark's wedding episode. One of the best television episodes of anything ever

https://img.gifglobe.com/grabs/peepshow/S01E01/S01E01-sjoOqtgM-subtitled.jpg

D40- I agree.

I recall some ridiculous "I bet they're fucking tories" talk upthread.

Would probably be pretty hard to divorce myself from thinking of them as Jez and Mark.

OL OTM, it's not like they didn't have thriving, visible careers outside of Peep Show during Peep Show

yeah but everything they've done outside Peep Show has been awful

Counterpoint: you are wrong and what you said is wrong.

i think you'll find he's right.

I forgot to mention that they're also awful people

their careers outside of peep show: that mitchell and webb look and the bobbins film magicians, david mitchell writes for the guardian and appears on panel shows, robert webb wrote for the telegraph, and wrote a memoir, appears on panel shows

Awful people?

their careers outside of peep show: that mitchell and webb look and the bobbins film magicians, david mitchell writes for the guardian and appears on panel shows, robert webb wrote for the telegraph, and wrote a memoir, appears on panel shows

Don't forget their ads for Barclays bank.

I recall some ridiculous "I bet they're fucking tories" talk upthread.

they'd both probably consider themselves sensible centrists; RW a confirmed blue labour blairite sort & I'd guess DM an old school liberal by inclination, but ofc in ilx discourse both of these = tory

"but ofc in ilx discourse both of these = tory"

I'd probably stop clicking on ILX if it didn't have any posters that didn't hate on these odious, unfunny smug-cunts. Yours, a barrel of laughter and self-confessed "comedy lover" and lover of laughing etc...

dm in real life is like mark corrigan minus the charisma

his recent memoir was featured on R4 last week, it sounded like some real trite and dull shit. And this wasn't coloured by my complete dislike of these 2. It was awful writing, honestly!

Whose memoir? I'm sure they've both written memoirs and, if not, will probably have dashed one off for the Christmas market by the end of this month. I suppose reading about their terrible struggles to make any sort of living from performing, acting, writing, journalism, appearing on panel shows etc might be insightful to some any person looking to follow them into the terribly tough dog-eat-dog world of the British media.

It was DM's, and he is dealing with his masculinity issues + his tough upbringing on the mean streets of Lincolnshire. It is very "edgy", well maybe shit is the right word!

You mean RW not DM. Sorry just saw an article about RW and masculinity being retweeted a lot recently.

er.. that'll be the one.

He is a terrible writer, so any plaudits he is getting for tackling "serious issues" in that book are seriously misguided imo.

Again with the "odious"

Thanking u all for coming into a thread dedicated to something you don't like and letting us all know that you don't like it. This is some hot content.

Actually I think the thread is primarily dedicated to something people do like

Yes, I do like Peep Show, I even quite liked That Mitchell and Webb Look, but these two, especially Mitchell, are only what's bleedin' wrong with this bleedin' country.

yeah I think Peep Show is incredible. I don't have much feeling about Webb but Mitchell is a fucking annoying bore.

I definitely find the "tellin' it like it is" rants annoying* but I've found enough of his soapbox videos interesting and funny. Totally disagreed with a few but I don't think they're all to be taken seriously.
Occasionally you find out something that seems uncharacteristic: he thinks people should fart in public without embarrassment and necrophilia doesn't really bother him.

*buy I hate anyone taking that tone regardless of what they're saying. Most people who've been given a weekly platform to rant are going to get on your nerves.

I liked Peep Show but it's depressing as fuck - comedy torture porn, almost.

I'll happily watch it in five-minute YouTube chunks, but I can't handle it as a binge show. The nihilism gets tedious.

To each their own, of course.

But it's interesting that M&W have such a cosy reputation based on this unredemptive and brutally sad show.

As their individual, mediocre BBC-panel-show dickishness, it's not my thing, but they don't really seem worth the energy of hate.

depends on whether you subscribe to a donaldonian view of finite hate energy or whether you find the occasional two minute hate energising

I come away from peep show feeling both indicted and better off--a bit like rubbing the knots out of your back, like I know I'm not as bad as these guys but I think everyone shares some traits w them, esp in the deception of self and others ... there's something so cleansing abt watching peep show, it's like seeing ppl for what they really are for half an hr

I don't know much about them beyond that except that the "are we the baddies?" Nazi skit is a classic and david mitchell's rant on bread on that quiz show made me laugh

Lads

I miss Super Hans.

I recall DM's op-eds being depressingly shit but PS is classic for sure, though it probably went on a series or two too long

overall peep show is uneven but ultra classic. I think david mitchell is watchable and can be funny in a one-note ranty way but there is something offputtingly complacent and defensive about him

dm in real life is like mark corrigan minus the charisma

this is kind of true, I think the writers saw him more clearly than he sees himself so there is strangely more awareness and fragility about mark than DM. equally I think RW doesn't get jez and as the show progressed and their antics got more outlandishly awful the lack of sympathy they both had for their characters made it more of a struggle imo

the idea of Jez being a centrist pundit is hysterical to me

Only met DM once but he was thoroughly likeable

ogmor that sounds extremely plausible re both of them xps

actually my other half worked with them and has only nice things to say about them. but yknow they're Oxbridge so obv the root of all evil.

xp Ogmor I'd agree re Jez. Mark and the vanity publishing didn't ring true either. Other than that I thought they'd drawn quite a clever line wrt his self-awareness/total cluelessness

this show is weak. should be happy it exists but it's meh at best so far

Love Mitchell's crazy laugh in the rare times you hear it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxjXAb9LQlc

Something I'd nearly forgotten from the first times I'd watched Peepshow was how astonished and distracted I was by Mitchell's eyes, how big and black they were. Like Bad Cooper but bigger.

this show is weak. should be happy it exists but it's meh at best so far

Objectively wrong

not sure if it's been mentioned but RW's book is the number 1 selling non fiction hardback book in the Uk.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJWN7jgX0AAoxRp.jpg

well, look at the fucking state of that lot. You can only read a finite amount of books in a lifetime, folks. Choose wisely!