Limmy's Show

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

Here we go: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09yj4rc

this is really something. it feels like a window into genuine mental illness and into thinking about your own mental state. i'm glad there aren't six episodes of this. it was very overwhelming/depressing.

the depressing element of it seemed greater than the comic element of it.

His best stuff yet I reckon.

Amazing how he was the only person in it, all filmed himself round his house and local park, but it felt so rich and layered. So much more intense than his sketch show stuff, largely because it was all him, not having to reign it in or dilute it at all, no (or v few) clunky punchlines. Credit to the BBC that they'd put out something like that, but minus credit that it's online-only.

I didn't find it depressing though, more like he's pushing things further than most, saying unsayable, etc. Your mileage etc etc though.

Loved it. Agree with how intense it felt, very well crafted.

it's all gonna kick aff again

Currently don't own a computer and live in Canada so fuck knows when I'll get to see this. Murder.

Xpost to NI : it was shown on tv, on BBC 1 Scotland. Just not UK-wide.

Also loved this, seems like it's surely cost effective enough for the BBC to pay for more. Didn't find it anymore depressing than Limmy's Show or the Vines though. The mental illness has always been there, like the Millport sketch is just brutal.

I watched it on youtube last night. A search there currently turns up the full episode (uploaded by Darren Rigby-O'Neill) for those without BBC access, though I guess it may get taken down before too long.

one-off special

― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 16:28 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but at whit cost?

― DJ U OK Hun? (jed_), Thursday, 22 March 2018 00:29 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lool

this was incredible

with this, and still game, bbc scotland are putting out stuff that's funnier than anything else on iplayer

the depressing element of it seemed greater than the comic element of it.

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, April 6, 2018 2:00 AM

With this and Limmy saying he was drifting away from the comedic approach, I wasn't expecting to laugh so much. This is as funny as he's ever been, I was laughing at this more than any comedy show since... maybe since Limmy's Show? I'm sad there's only one episode.

Did anyone else search for this on iplayer and find his Funny Valentines short video? That's good too. It's about a guy making a dating profile advert, who has no clue how fucked up he is.

yes

& i should have seid: whit with this and still game, bbc scotland have got tv comedy.. on loch

oh dear, oh dear

cheers for the link, krakow. got it watched last night, thought it was cracking, not sure it will be commissioned for a series as it seems a little darker and even more sui generis than his earlier tv stuff. limmy tweeted that he will make a series whether it is commissioned or not, id imagine he'll probably going down the patreon route if it isn't

wonderful. but imagine how wonderful if that bear had been there instead of the odd shoes

a second viewing of this confirmed that i was wildly wrong about this. it is excellent.

i absolutely love that sketch where the hard-man shouts to ask if his wife is in then starts filing his nails and bitching "Ivy, whit is she wearin'?"

"call yersel' a man? I says "man?' - wi that thing?"

exactly. I loved the minimal nature of this - everything pared down to a facial expression or tone of voice (radiator harpist) or repetition (ouija board)

The bit about how to tell the guy to pick up the litter was perfect.

that might have been my favourite

imago's idea about the bear is good!

The bit about how to tell the guy to pick up the litter was perfect.

― nashwan, Friday, April 27, 2018 2:25 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aye

Love it when he kicks out the handyman and starts saying crazy shit like "I'm legally entitled to stab you"

"A big fat hen!" is probably the winner though.

"hey there guys, on today's show we'll be looking at call out culture an online spaces and we'll be asking the question 'what does it mean to be a good ally?'"

...

"whit?"

Limmy's Show

gah, not that, this: twitter.com/MartyMcMullan/status/982946927233982465?s=19

(getting annoying poxy fule error when trying to post full link, is this a known bug?)

comedy + music almost never ever works, but limmy nailed it

You need to take the ?s=19 bit off the end for the embed to work.

@DaftLimmy nice to hear your tribute this morning pic.twitter.com/nbrO5hEYBl

— Arun (@le_murt) June 7, 2018

incredible

his tweets today are the funniest thing I've seen

I went and looked and he seems genuinely concerned about the fire, people in the area, and whatever institutional malpractice could let it happen again. I don't see why one would take it as a joke (nor make one)

lol

oh hmm, seems the fire was pretty bad

maybe he's being serious

he's ruined my sense of propriety

Bit of both going on tbh. Gallows humour is a Glaswegian speciality after all.

that's what I thought. it's amazing gallows humour if so

a sincere/insincere binary is inadequate for life in general and limmy in particular

Been listening to the That's Your Lot audiobook lately and it's a LOT better than DWS, although that wasn't bad by any means. He seems to have nailed the craft of story-telling a lot better, less of the ta-da! punchlines or over-extended endings of DWS. Plus the final Benidorm story is fantastic - a total throwback to his World Of Glasgow podcasts but with all the skills he's learned and honed in the years since. Few duffs in there, particularly in the final third, but overall a lot better than I expected.

Two stories really stuck with me, for totally different reasons. New Life is this brilliantly understated, non-grim, non-shock, genuinely moving short story, which ends in the exact right place for ultimate spine-tingling effect. Getting a shudder thinking about it now, in a perfect world, where Limmy got his own series of Black Mirror, this would be his San Junipero.

And Moustache, which is classic dark Limmy, but it's a tone I've never come across anywhere, no other comedian, no writer. Totally unique, and again, stuck with me long after reading, but for nastier laugh-out-loud reasons.

I hope you die on Halloween.

— Limmy: TIX ON SALE NOW (@DaftLimmy) October 30, 2018

so limmy twitch streams regularly now. some of him playing games but also regular storytelling streams. stories are generally available on his youtube

https://www.twitch.tv/brianlimond

Would very much like him to do some more TV with other actors etc. That was the best stuff he's done.

I once found myself watching him play GTA for a couple of hours, it was entertaining but I promised to myself to never do that again

I ridicule youtubers playing Minecraft etc so I can't imagine the hell my children would put me through if they caught me watching Limmy doing the same thing.

i watched him play a truck driving simulator for 2 hours one day

loved him playing that

I watched him do the 350 dabs in a row thing the other day after idly clicking the link on twitter. I have little idea what twitch is or how it tends to work/be used and missed the set-up of why he was excessively dabbing in the bushes in the park in the snow, which all added to the watching experience in the end.

It was a reward he posted that he would do if he got 3500 subscribers

... and what a reward it was.