can ukers help me please. youtube algo has given me a tranche of QI, and i'm completely addicted, and it's terrible. worse than the jokey quiz shows on NPR.
the women are generally funnier than the men, i guess, sara pascoe et al. phil jupitus is not funny. alan davis is crushingly unfunny. the sex jokes are skin crawling. they think foreign accents are just the height. what is the draw of this show? is there something better i can watch? must stop. tia
― goole, Monday, 9 November 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
i'm a uker and everything you've said is true and i don't get it either
― big man on scampus (Noodle Vague), Monday, 9 November 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
i mean it's watchable because of interesting facts (don't google the facts, they're not all as true as the show makes them out to be) but it's not comedy in the sense of you wouldn't watch it if you just wanted a laugh
― big man on scampus (Noodle Vague), Monday, 9 November 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
Idgi either and it has the worst fucking theme tune of any tv program, ever.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 9 November 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
idk i sort of like chintzy airport reggae
the relief you feel when sandi toksvig just steps on whatever bit they're beating to death to say yes actually there was a doctor in 1804 who experimented on etc etc, exquisite
― goole, Monday, 9 November 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
Nobody should have to be discovering how insufferable qi is in 2020 I’m sorry
― Gab B. Nebsit (wins), Monday, 9 November 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
Not sure I've ever watched a whole ep.Is it all Sandi or have you got Stephen Fry too?
― kinder, Monday, 9 November 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
there's some Fry clips but no full eps that i've seen
strangest introduction in the bunch was one Gyles Brandreth, one of those "ah he's charming, you should have killed more of these people 300 years ago" kind of things
― goole, Monday, 9 November 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
phil jupitus is not funny. alan davis is crushingly unfunny.
The Special Relationship is back on.
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Monday, 9 November 2020 19:23 (three years ago) link
Now the fact that British comedians are the worst in the Western World is out there, I feel this is a good thing.
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Monday, 9 November 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
No Such Thing as a Fish > QI
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Monday, 9 November 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link
― Maresn3st, Monday, 9 November 2020 18:58 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
Seriously
― or something, Monday, 9 November 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
I can't manage more than 10 minutes of No Such Thing as a Fish - it has the same smug bones as QI. '
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 9 November 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
How do we feel about 'Only Connect'?
― Maresn3st, Monday, 9 November 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
It's a good game show, it's not a comedy at all.
― chap, Monday, 9 November 2020 21:54 (three years ago) link
this is all very otm
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 November 2020 22:02 (three years ago) link
I'd still rather watch qi than not watch it.
The two they recently filmed without an audience were fascinating - there was no audience to pander to or try and impress and the little bits of chat got deeper and more personal. Had a different feel to it.
Fewer knob gags now Sandy's doing it. More women. One week was 60% female and 80% gay.
― koogs, Monday, 9 November 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
Would I Lie to You is my panel show guilty pleasure, particularly when Bob Mortimer's on it.
― chap, Monday, 9 November 2020 22:46 (three years ago) link
this is true, these had more of a homey feel, and it seemed like they were trying to make each other laugh and cheer each other up. the best ones i've seen.
― goole, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 04:15 (three years ago) link
Scroobius Pip turned up on Sara Pascoe's show tonight
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
Tears during the cocktail task on taskmaster last night, first time in a while.
― koogs, Friday, 20 November 2020 02:39 (three years ago) link
(it also revealed that DaisyMae's shouting out 'I LOVE THIS' in the trailer wasn't her enjoying herself but was part of what seemed like a trauma-inducing task)
― koogs, Friday, 20 November 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
― Maresn3st, Monday, 9 November 2020 21:07 (three weeks ago) link
― chap, Monday, 9 November 2020 21:54 (three weeks ago) link
this show rules, ty
― goole, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
Since I moved to NZ I miss Only Connect more than any other British TV show
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link
Only Connect gets put on youtube p consistently
― huge rant (sic), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
Shit you're right, I just found a channel with all the latest series on. Thanks!
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
Enjoy!
― huge rant (sic), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
Dunno if anyone else does it, but there's a guy (and it is a guy) called wheelsongenius who puts all of Only Connect up after broadcast, so that's the guy to subscribe to.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 09:16 (three years ago) link
Yeah that's the channel I found
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 10:52 (three years ago) link
Ayo, thanks for turning me on to Only Connect. I'm terrible at it but it's great fun without all the whoopdeediddlyay bullshit of QI
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
You get better at it the more you watch it. I hadn't the first clue the first few times I watched it, but you pick up the rhythm before long.
― trishyb, Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
lol my partner HATES it, she has no idea what's going on and has a hard time with that.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
only connect : possibly the lowest budget for a tv show ever.despite having never got a question right, i still really enjoy it whenever i happen to end up watching it.
― mark e, Thursday, 3 December 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
The entire budget is blown on the giant Winnebago in the studio car park that David Mitchell hangs out in during filming for him and Victoria to go and have lunch in so they don't have to hang out with filthy civilians.
― ailsa, Thursday, 3 December 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
decent eating options are limited in Cardiff to be fair
― nate woolls, Thursday, 3 December 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link
My partner loves Only Connect but I find it so so so very hard, except for the missing vowels round and the music rounds.
Unrelated, but we watched Daniel Kitson's streamed live show from the Union Chapel on Tuesday, and it was wonderful, moving and very very funny. I'd never seen his stuff before, but he was excellent.
― Change Display Name: (stevie), Friday, 4 December 2020 08:46 (three years ago) link
Only Connect does belong on the UK comedy thread for that weird moment at the end of every ep where Coren-Mitchell tells a shite joke into the void, prime anti-comedy imo.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 4 December 2020 10:41 (three years ago) link
heavily redolent of those video gags at the end of hignify
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 4 December 2020 10:52 (three years ago) link
yeah, OC talk seems slightly offtopic here when we all know it should be offtopic in the university challenge thread 8)
classic taskmaster stitch-up last night on richard herring which backfired when he nailed it. nice to see Histor as well.
― koogs, Friday, 4 December 2020 11:01 (three years ago) link
Have never seen Taskmaster but keep meaning to watch it based on talk here. Is it ok to jump straight in to the current season or would it be best to start at the beginning?
― groovypanda, Friday, 4 December 2020 11:05 (three years ago) link
current season is 80% through now. i'd start at the start of a season, but the season doesn't really matter, although people do have favourites (all4 has them all apparently)
bob mortimer was good, i liked lisa tarbuck and rose matefeo and sally phillips. can't think of a bad series tbh.
― koogs, Friday, 4 December 2020 11:09 (three years ago) link
I agree with Koogs. If pushed I'd probably start with the series that had James Acaster on. We watched one show at random from somewhere late-on (might have even been the season before last) and thought it was good enough to start from the very beginning.
― Tim, Friday, 4 December 2020 11:17 (three years ago) link
Thanks - and yeah, when I said jump in I meant from the first episode of the current season
― groovypanda, Friday, 4 December 2020 11:22 (three years ago) link
Yeah, it was exactly what we needed - when did you buy the ticket? We tried to buy two and by the time I realised that it's one per purchase the queue for Jen to get a second was quite long - and then we realised that we could make do with one.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 4 December 2020 11:23 (three years ago) link
the Acaster / Knappett / Wang / Godliman / Gilbert series might just edge it as my favourite. Gilbert in the cupboard was o_O
― koogs, Friday, 4 December 2020 11:26 (three years ago) link
Yes - I think the in-show discussions in that series were often hilarious: the bit when Wang brought in the wooden box puzzle sticks in the mind.
― Tim, Friday, 4 December 2020 11:48 (three years ago) link
Watched the Gregory Church (Daniel Kitson) recording earlier in lockdown. Not seen Kitson for years but he was always a good bet.
― kinder, Friday, 4 December 2020 13:27 (three years ago) link
Speaking of which, forks, do you watch? easily available on YouTube and obligatory viewing, if only to shout at nerdy students failing to recognize pop songs. Plus there's a celebrity xmas version where Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden gets really sad over failing to identify Fine Young Cannibals.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 4 December 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
James Acaster, Lou Sanders and others playing D&D online for Comic Relief tonight at 19:30 btw.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 4 December 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
The first season of Taskmaster is a good place to start, but the Acaster/Gilbert and Mortimer/Phillips ones are gold.
Incidentally, Rosalind (of "fucking nightmare" fame) was a contestant on The Chase the other day. Darragh didn't know who she was.
― ailsa, Friday, 4 December 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link