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

"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

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

Teenagers can sometimes be complex idiots it's true

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).

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.

First ep probably the worst, it does get better, doesn't really pull it off though

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.

It's unlikely I'll watch episode 2.

Me either, the first was dreadful. (And I watched all of Mountain Goats, The Wright Way, Siblings, Together etc etc et-bleedin'-cetera)

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.

The American lady is fit.

Terrible character though.

Nadia is an awesome character. Cokehead doctor is good territory for jokes

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...

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

(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)

the daily mash is not funny, tho

xp!

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

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.

Fleabag season 2 formally confirmed.

ill behaviour is such shite upon further review

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)

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.

Not Peep Show very much like Peep Show shocker.

Good like Peep Show?

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.

I suspected as much, I will still probably watch it.

wtf @ that Ben Elton thing with David Mitchell as Shakespeare

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.

On its second series, at least.

Yeah, series 2. Several of my friends love it. The involvement of Ben Elton makes me very wary indeed.

I like it. I'm not proud of liking it, but I do.

it has a great cast. but the script has the stink of elton about it. the trailer was a bad example of this.

(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)

I had one laugh out loud in the ep, which was one more than the whole of S1.

Just found out Josie Long's night in Camden is no more :(

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)

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJxwvs1U8AEESTR?format=jpg&name=large

I believe that's a US comedian.

whoops

after all that i did, of course, miss the first of the new task masters... (wednesdays on dave). luckily it's repeated tonight.

(M Watson also currently starving himself to near death on celebrity the island with bear grylls)

Just seen what Sean Lock looks like now! He's turning into Walter White.

That's weird, he's looked exactly the same for about 20 years.

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.

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.

i watched 'pact' yesterday, starring her from him and her. was probably the most depressing thing i've seen in a while.

gave up after 10 mins. not one laugh.

new season of the detectorists can not come soon enough.

Oh, indeed. Was very late to Detectorists too, but I love it so much.