"thank you for joining us"
― or something, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 09:06 (three years ago) link
New Diane Morgan thing, Mandy, was ok last week. I
She's got a hell of a lot of credit in my household, but 'Mandy' was dogshit. Painfully unfunny.
― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 09:16 (three years ago) link
HH has always been great at spotting TV stuff. It's gone a bit Look Around You, which I approve of. It's genuinely my ~TV highlight of the week~ rn
― kinder, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 09:16 (three years ago) link
xp Noo! I thought Mandy got better. A bit '15 Storeys High'. Just daft. The 'Bulger boys' line had me laughing a bit too hard.
― kinder, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 09:17 (three years ago) link
Really?! I bowed out after two episodes. I'll give you the Bulger boys line, that was funny :) But the whole 'I need to wee, let's piss in our wine bottle when my date's in the loo, empty it in his aquarium causing his fish to die, put it back on the table to have a sip of... wait for it... wee not wine!1!' was eyeroll for me. But I can see the slapstick element is funny for other people.
― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 09:19 (three years ago) link
Hm yeah, that was a bit tedious. I think I just like the oddness of it, spider hammering, Shaun Ryder, Sonia - maybe it's the A-list cameos that pull me in.
― kinder, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 09:26 (three years ago) link
b-but the whole spiders in the bananas thing...
― koogs, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 09:42 (three years ago) link
it was interesting that they were 15 minute things, which felt about right. but then they showed them two at a time which undermined that.
― koogs, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 09:43 (three years ago) link
Taskmaster starting soon on ch4
Daisy May CooperJohnny VegasKatherine ParkinsonMawaan RizwanRichard Herring
(could've sworn KR had been on before)
― koogs, Friday, 18 September 2020 12:15 (three years ago) link
Are people never on more than one series?
― chap, Friday, 18 September 2020 12:33 (three years ago) link
i don't think there's been a repeat so far, discounting the champion of champions season
― koogs, Friday, 18 September 2020 12:51 (three years ago) link
ah, Katherine Parkinson is not the same person as Katherine Ryan (series 2)
― koogs, Friday, 18 September 2020 12:53 (three years ago) link
Parkinson is the IT Crowd lady I think.
― chap, Friday, 18 September 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
(i even used KR's initials in the same post as c'n'p-ing KP's name)
― koogs, Friday, 18 September 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
I am very surprised Richard Herring hasn't been on before now.
― ailsa, Saturday, 19 September 2020 13:23 (three years ago) link
New series of Ghosts starts on bbc1 tonight (opposite university challenge). It's 8:30 on bbc1 so it's never going to be challenging but it's the horrible histories people iirc so is quite fun.
― koogs, Monday, 21 September 2020 08:00 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah Ghosts is very enjoyable. I ended up canvassing a little with the lead actress on election day, funnily enough.
― chap, Monday, 21 September 2020 08:48 (three years ago) link
Atlanta is on bbc2 all this week. I think they are showing all 20 episodes of both series, 3 a night. It's not UK and not comedy, really, but I enjoyed it.
Watch it alongside community on 4 music for extra lols.
― koogs, Saturday, 26 September 2020 08:47 (three years ago) link
I think it's a comedy. The barber episode is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
― chap, Saturday, 26 September 2020 11:42 (three years ago) link
It's funny but it also has something to say.
Last week's Frankie Boyle was good like this too. (Although sometimes on that I don't understand why they have 3 permanent guests and one they switch out halfway through. Mostly it's an expert but sometimes it's just romesh)
― koogs, Saturday, 26 September 2020 14:25 (three years ago) link
I found the BLM episode of Frankie Boyle's show a bit weird. Like, I wasn't sure what I was supposed to be getting from it. It wasn't funny, and the people on it weren't any better informed than I was. So... what was the point of it? I haven't even watched this week's yet.
― trishyb, Saturday, 26 September 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
Atlanta is so great. We used to watch it as a double bill with the also sublime Better Things.
― Just a few slices of apple, Servant. Thank you. How delicious. (stevie), Sunday, 27 September 2020 06:29 (three years ago) link
watched the BLM episode again and, dunno. was comedians talking politics but they were intelligent and probably had first hand experience of the stuff under discussion (ok, maybe Sara Pascoe not so much) and it was worth hearing. i hope it reached an audience that wouldn't see that stuff normally because they watch comedy and not, say, Newsnight.
it also reminded me of Larry Wilmore's Nightly Show thing that span off the Daily Show briefly and which was also interesting (but slightly weird in a similar way).
― koogs, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
can't half-watch* Atlanta so i'm saving it up to binge some other time.
(* most tv watched during the day is listened to rather than watched because i'm 'at work'. a lot of shows don't really suffer when doing this, but some things are more complex or more involving or simply require me to look in order to follow it)
― koogs, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
lovely bit on Ghosts on monday when robin's recounting his memory of thomas' death and they are all talking using his cadence.
tory mp on hignfy, why do they bother?
― koogs, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
Ghosts is my favourite thing on telly right now.
New Taskmaster starts tonight.
― ailsa, Thursday, 15 October 2020 12:49 (three years ago) link
is series 10 too late to start a taskmaster thread?
nothing wrong with last night's apart from the covid-inspired seating arrangements. oh, wait, he was too harsh on the 'no drop spilled' rule. there's a lot of rule bending i wish he'd come down harder on, but that wasn't one of them.
― koogs, Friday, 16 October 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
(they are all on All4 as well now, apparently (and still on Dave))
― koogs, Friday, 16 October 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
Daisy May Cooper laughing is already my new favourite thing on telly. The big reveal of the egg task was a bit Joe Wilkinson potato-gate, but the rest of the show was great fun, and Mawaan is going to be excellent value.
― ailsa, Saturday, 17 October 2020 10:28 (three years ago) link
just want to congratulate Lee Mack for making me laugh for the first time in his career
― Notes on "Scamp" (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
Ghosts love thirded or fourthed.
Stath definitely getting S3 per Jamie Demetriou's Twitter.
― chap, Saturday, 24 October 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
That post from NV had me googling whether Lee Mack had died.
― oscar bravo, Saturday, 24 October 2020 22:59 (three years ago) link
In a way
― Notes on "Scamp" (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 October 2020 23:07 (three years ago) link
i'm trying ghosts based on you guys so let's see.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 05:23 (three years ago) link
I lasted 2 eps then quit. Maybe it gets better.
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 09:23 (three years ago) link
If you don't like it from the start, you probably just don't like it.
― chap, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 09:26 (three years ago) link
yeah, it doesn't change much, all the one-joke characters continue with their jokes so it all depends on if you like said jokes.
that said, the rashomon-esque episode from a couple of weeks ago did something different and i've enjoyed the odd glimpse of their origin stories. and robin, generally.
― koogs, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 12:19 (three years ago) link
the rashomon-esque episode from a couple of weeks ago did something different
Yes this was hilarious, and quite clever.
― chap, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 12:29 (three years ago) link
How does it hold up compared to, say, what we do in the shadows
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 13:12 (three years ago) link
it's 8:30 bbc 1 rather than 11:00 on bbc 2, which pretty much tells you everything.
i'm fond of it but don't expect dark or sophisticated (there is a plaque pit in the cellar...). it's all the horrible histories writers.
― koogs, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 13:44 (three years ago) link
I'm a murrican, so I don't understand any of that!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
It's much cosier and more family friendly basically - for me it's good natured-ness is part of the appeal. It's not completely without bite, though.
― chap, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link
An innuendo about being sucked off is about as risque as it gets.
― chap, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
horrible histories is a book and tv series aimed at kids. educational sketches. there's a bunch on youtube (in the uk anyway).
― koogs, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
okay. i'll test drive ghosts and see; which one is the rashomon episode?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
also what is a "plaque pit"
a mass grave for victims of the Black Death
― Number None, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
'Plague', not 'plaque'. A plauqe pit is where dentist toss removed rotten teeth.
― chap, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
Rashomon ep is 204, but probably more enjoyable if you know the characters a bit. I'd just start at the beginning.
― chap, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p08vxrgx
I worked on this, so be gentle
Artwork by the guy who does Scarfolk
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 October 2020 11:49 (three years ago) link