A thread for 'The Thick Of It' (and 'In The Loop' as well)

I didn't see the first one but the second was one of the funniest things I've seen in years:

"Maybe in the future, there'll be robots knockin' about, Davina McCall will be Pope and you'll be able to download... rice"

Who watched the BBCi 15min opposition-view special straight afterwards? You just can't beat Roger Allam.

i watched the second one again and it grew on me -- though i missed the tories.

"i will fuckin' eviscerate you. now i don't know what that means exactly, i didn't have your education, but i think i'll tear your fuckin' cock off and busk it from there."

now on BBC 2, in half an hour. have not yet seen. this promises to be awes.

"We're not The Independant; we can't put the word "Cruelty" with a picture of a dolphin or a polar bear under it. That's not a front page, that's just cheating"

"I'm irrelevant I'm irrelevant I'm irrelevant... what do you know about Hitler? he had a moustache and lived over there. Fuck it all!"

"He thinks he's been leaking, wait till I've finished with him - he'll look like Mel Gibson's Jesus"

"These are good biscuits and they cost £4"

the "15 shades of grey" bit is poetry.

everyone correct, although my favourite two phrases:

"I'll send a warning shot across his throat"

"You're the heavyweight of hope"

The Ollie-Ben double-act ascended new levels of abject wonder this episode, which felt, in the best way possible, like a never-ending manifestation of hell. With the audience was backing Satan all the way. Whoever doubted that Malcolm would prevail?

*With the audience backing Satan all the way

ayo, americans, is the US version going to air in the US?

i can't find the pilot anywhere.

^^^^

no one on this side of the atlantic has any idea what you're talking about.

there's a US version??? hahaha puhleez

yeah there was a pilot done by mitch hurwitz with oliver platt, so i dunno why you're all puhleez because it sounds good!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903651/

and john michael higgins who is v funny

yeah but like.. no swearing, right?

troo

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1226774/

^^^second film of note to be filmed in Northampton in recent times.

Just behind "Kinky Boots".

Not sure how recent this was but it doesn't mention Coogan as a cast member at all.

Director and writer Armando Iannucci has already satirised the psycho that lurks deep within the political psychology of Whitehall in his TV series ‘The Thick of It’.

article needs retranslation into english.

i'd imagine coogan's in for a cameo or summat.

ok the film is a stone classic

very keen to see it then.

They showed the first season on BBC America a few years back, it was awesome.

psyched
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/fk-off-fairey/

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/loop-485x500.jpg

seconded on the psyched. Is that a UK release as well?

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saw it at the glasgow film festival. i really enjoyed it, though odd how chris addison et al play different characters. not something i noticed after a little bit tho. plus anna chlumsky!

Like Bugsy Malone with real guns.

the poster for this is shit imo.

i can't remember my favourite line but it's basically jamie saying why play classical music when you can just have a badge saying 'i went to public school'?

this was so good. the line about having to try and crack one off to sharks on the discovery channel in his hotel room because if he watched porn it would end up on the register of members' interests got big topical lols.

The funniest line in this film is way too funny to spoiler on this thread but yeah, just fucking hilarious from start to finish.

A new high-water mark for creative swearing though. Even if the UN HQ did look an awful lot like the Royal Festival Hall.

oh my god.

slight qualm with what Matt said, though; it was fucking hilarious from start until about 5-10 minutes from the end, where SORTA SPOILER BUT ONLY SORTA it suddenly became devastatingly bleak, almost tearjerking, which was probably necessary and certainly effective

Difficult Difficult Lemon Difficult

^^^as my facebook status comment already attests, the slight pause before "lemon" (rather than the actual saying of it) is the comedy moment of the decade

although I've already forgotten the best (probably) line, which was spoken by Simon Foster to Toby during his reading of the extracts of the riot act

yeah the ending is massively depressing

I like how it was a sort of logical extension of the Thick of It, ie here's what happens when this kind of petty venal politics is applied to something really life or death, and not a government injoke ministry of no obvious purpose

enjoyed Tucker's climactic swearing suckerpunch at the American guy. Jamie also properly demonic

it was basically subplot, but Capaldi vs Gandolfini was short, sweet and as awesome as any verbal duel I've seen on screen this decade

they really should have just shaken hands at the end or something

and yeah basically so glad they kept on the Jamie character

SHUT IT, LOVE ACTUALLY

my biggest laugh was probably for "on a subconscious level, maybe in some way, I was trying...to stop...the war" tbh

oh yeah and i remember the other one i mentioned above...willy banjo

that's enough spoilers, i've covered most of my massive thigh-slapping lols but nowhere near even a tiny proportion of my medium-to-substantial ones

just saw In The Loop here @ Tribeca fest; we don't know the show over here. Capaldi = genius.

good angry -- one might say enraged -- comedy.

(also one of the best Iraq war films. of course the scenario could be in the future, w/ Obama & Brown invading Pakistan)

well, at least I missed the show on BBC America, along w/ 300 million of my countrymen.

i can't remember my favourite line but it's basically jamie saying why play classical music when you can just have a badge saying 'i went to public school'?

Yeh, bit that got me was "it's just fucking ... vowels"

why do they have a SECOND ranting demonic Scot -- is he on the show too? are there many of them in yr central government?

I honestly don't think 80% of the Yanks who see this are going to get Capaldi's punchline "Don't ever call me English."

Second ranting Scot is the only other character kept verbatim from the TV series, and he's awesome, think the idea is that once you're spared Capaldi you're then faced with a slightly less nuanced but even more visceral barrage of Caledonian abuse...when Capaldi signed off a phone call "I love you" to him, it was in its quiet way one of the more delicious lines of the film

The New York press audience loved the filthiest lines. I nearly lost it when Capaldi called random Washington tourist lady a "vinegar-faced cumbag."

Never suspected that the next actor to match Joe Pesci in passionate comic profanity would be the sweet aide de camp from Local Hero.

so Tom Hollander (who reminds me of Gervais) was not on the show?

I was thinking that about Capaldi! 27 years between his defining roles...and in the other one, aye, he was pretty much diametrically opposed to this

Tom Hollander wasn't on the show, no. Speaking of which, the two-part special (each an hour long, so feature-length in all but name) was a masterpiece, almost on a level with this movie. God, they nailed it on the big screen, though.

my biggest laugh was probably for "on a subconscious level, maybe in some way, I was trying...to stop...the war"

Ditto.

My god, that was Capaldi in Local Hero?

Laffed non-stop all through this, but forgot all about it about 5 minutes after leaving the cinema. Gandalfini was good though.