we have a heap of these china-relations organisations in australia. i've tried to get involved with some but they don't seem to do anything. it's infuriating.
― blink truther (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 29 July 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link
Fuck comedians with 'acts'.
Er, pretty sure every stand up in existence has an 'act'. Maybe your point?
― chap, Monday, 31 July 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
"pls like" on iplayer is better than it really has any right to be
the vloggers themselves are perfect, "james wirm" is perfect. the only not quite firing piston is the protagonist oddly
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 5 August 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
i can't stop watching it even though it's maybe 7/10 at best
so many things going against it
- it's about social media but there's like 1 tiny black speaking role- an episode with a white grime MC named 'bombzy' where his race is never mentioned- shot in cringe-doc style- on bbc three- did i mention it's really white- relentlessly makes fun of teenagers as simple idiots
for some reason though a lot of it really clicks. i can't tell if it's the writing, the editing, the acting or what - so like, it's good? somehow. maybe i just want to watch a show where james wirm svengalis the hell out of his vlogger proteges. no need for the ostensible everyman, he just gets in the way
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 7 August 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link
Teenagers can sometimes be complex idiots it's true
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Monday, 7 August 2017 23:56 (six years ago) link
Maybe I'm too far inside the bubble, but there seems to be considerable backlash against the BBC cancelling Count Arthur Strong (not least them adopting a fairly random screening time and/or broadcasting the shows out of order).
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 07:47 (six years ago) link
Was misled into thinking Ill Behaviour might be decent due to the author's Peep Show pedigree and a Guardian review, but the first episode is basically appalling. The premise has potential, execution very lacklustre.
― chap, Friday, 11 August 2017 10:15 (six years ago) link
First ep probably the worst, it does get better, doesn't really pull it off though
― kinder, Friday, 11 August 2017 11:49 (six years ago) link
I was going to watch it because blokey from You're The Worst is in it, but haven't got round to it yet. Not entirely inspired by above comments.
― ailsa, Friday, 11 August 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
It's unlikely I'll watch episode 2.
― chap, Friday, 11 August 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
Me either, the first was dreadful. (And I watched all of Mountain Goats, The Wright Way, Siblings, Together etc etc et-bleedin'-cetera)
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Friday, 11 August 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
it improves.a bit.there were a couple of proper chuckles, but its more of a drama/comedy as opposed to straight up comedy.and everyone is a complete tw&t (other than the secretary from 'drifters' who steels every scene she is in), therefore making it hard to really connect with the story.
― mark e, Friday, 11 August 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link
The American lady is fit.
― chap, Saturday, 12 August 2017 12:27 (six years ago) link
Terrible character though.
― chap, Saturday, 12 August 2017 12:30 (six years ago) link
Nadia is an awesome character. Cokehead doctor is good territory for jokes
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 13 August 2017 22:04 (six years ago) link
Detectorists seems to have disappeared with an episode left to go. Got bumped for the athletics and now Quacks is on in its place. Or did I miss something?
Oh, it says next Wednesday, 23rd, for the last one of series 2. Two weeks and a day after part 5...
― koogs, Monday, 14 August 2017 00:16 (six years ago) link
It appears that The Daily Mash is now a TV show, only 23 years after The Day Today:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b08yxh4h
― chap, Monday, 21 August 2017 13:23 (six years ago) link
(I'm of the no doubt reviled around these parts opinion that the website is sometimes quite funny, but I don't fancy this at all)
― chap, Monday, 21 August 2017 13:24 (six years ago) link
the daily mash is not funny, tho
― licking the yellow Toad next to the teleporter (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 21 August 2017 13:24 (six years ago) link
xp!
― licking the yellow Toad next to the teleporter (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 21 August 2017 13:25 (six years ago) link
Rolling UK Comedy Thread - "Ricky Don't Lose Larry David's Number
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 21 August 2017 13:55 (six years ago) link
I blundered through all of Quacks via the BBC's new "we don't actually want you to watch broadcast telly so we'll put the entire series up as ep 1 is shown)" strategy and it was at least entertaining enough to keep me going to the end. The main cast were all really good - even if the writing was pretty weak and the series didn't really know what it wanted to be - and the guest stars kept you going "oh, it's him from that show" even when you couldn't quite place them. Would probably watch a S2.
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Monday, 21 August 2017 14:17 (six years ago) link
Fleabag season 2 formally confirmed.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 August 2017 13:08 (six years ago) link
ill behaviour is such shite upon further review
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 26 August 2017 04:23 (six years ago) link
Dave's advertising a new series of taskmaster. Appears to include Aisling B, B Mortimer, M Watson, the bloke from mash TV and another woman!
(Nish Kumar, Sally Phillips. 12th sept)
― koogs, Sunday, 27 August 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
They announced that lot at the end of the last series. I love Taskmaster so I'll just rein in my disappointment that we haven't had a new series of Modern Life is Goodish inbetween the last series and this forthcoming one.
― ailsa, Sunday, 27 August 2017 22:48 (six years ago) link
Not Peep Show very much like Peep Show shocker.
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Thursday, 7 September 2017 10:23 (six years ago) link
Good like Peep Show?
― chap, Thursday, 7 September 2017 10:43 (six years ago) link
Good like Bad Peep Show.
I laughed at bits (many of which were either telegraphed or Peep Show jokes), but pretty much all the cast are full-on comedy stereotypes and Mark & Jez are basically Mark & Jez.
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Thursday, 7 September 2017 10:47 (six years ago) link
I suspected as much, I will still probably watch it.
― chap, Thursday, 7 September 2017 10:48 (six years ago) link
wtf @ that Ben Elton thing with David Mitchell as Shakespeare
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 14:34 (six years ago) link
I absently watched that last night. It... wasn't as bad as I expected. Mark Heap was having fun at least. I didn't actually laugh though.
― chap, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
On its second series, at least.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
Yeah, series 2. Several of my friends love it. The involvement of Ben Elton makes me very wary indeed.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
I like it. I'm not proud of liking it, but I do.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 19:00 (six years ago) link
it has a great cast. but the script has the stink of elton about it. the trailer was a bad example of this.
― koogs, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
(the way he made it blindingly obvious, the parallels between then and brexit. leave it a bit vaguer, let the audience make the leap, don't treat us like idiots)
― koogs, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
I had one laugh out loud in the ep, which was one more than the whole of S1.
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link
Just found out Josie Long's night in Camden is no more :(
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 15 September 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
i went to the last one. it was scrappy (as usual), good kind of scrappy (robin ince reading poetry, john luc roberts naked...)
apparently her night didn't get enough of an audience (despite being full the last few times i've been) whereas chris coltraine's lolitics does...
it's back in the new year in a new venue (the old mucky pup in islington)
― koogs, Friday, 15 September 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
That's crazy, I was just saying to my partner "well if Josie doesn't draw enough of a crowd, I'm sure lolitics will be done for as well".
Good news in the end though, Islington's closer to where I live #old
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 15 September 2017 22:23 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJxwvs1U8AEESTR?format=jpg&name=large
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 September 2017 23:11 (six years ago) link
I believe that's a US comedian.
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 16 September 2017 10:12 (six years ago) link
whoops
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 16 September 2017 13:55 (six years ago) link
after all that i did, of course, miss the first of the new task masters... (wednesdays on dave). luckily it's repeated tonight.
― koogs, Sunday, 17 September 2017 14:29 (six years ago) link
(M Watson also currently starving himself to near death on celebrity the island with bear grylls)
― koogs, Sunday, 17 September 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
Just seen what Sean Lock looks like now! He's turning into Walter White.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 23 September 2017 14:37 (six years ago) link
That's weird, he's looked exactly the same for about 20 years.
― chap, Sunday, 24 September 2017 12:50 (six years ago) link
another series of last leg? wasn't it only 2 minutes ago that the last series finished?
i watched 'pact' yesterday, starring her from him and her. was probably the most depressing thing i've seen in a while.
W1A is spot on about the meeting room names (floella benjamin, citizen khan) and the fold up bicycles.
― koogs, Friday, 29 September 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
I should really get with W1A at some point. It sort of seems like the kind of show that brings knowing nods rather than the lolz though. I didn't watch 2012 either.
Ben Elton was on the One Show tonight. I turned off after about two minutes. I suspect he was being a massive self-important bell-end though.
― ailsa, Friday, 29 September 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link