Nathan Barley comes to TV

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how good is 'screenwipe'?

quantick's bit about clip shows made me laugh more than anything else this year.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 31 July 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

Brooker's best TV work yet by far. Probably the funniest new show on UK TV at the moment (not saying much I know but still).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 31 July 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

quantick is a very busy guy. i've hearted his stuff since like the 90s.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 31 July 2006 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

He's a very tall man.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 31 July 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

I keep seeing him around Soho (no surprise - I think I've seen every comic talent of the last 20 years round here at some point...Sad0witz wearing ill-advised shorts, M4y4ll looking bleary-eyed, Rich Hall dealing politely with a clingy fan, etc); he had one hell of a tan last summer.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

ah apparently he wrote 'tv burp' too.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

walked past within ten minutes of each other in Soho a few months ago: Sean Locke and Jimmy Motherfucking Paige, who is rather short.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

. Probably the funniest new show on UK TV at the moment

this is the second series.

i love his show, it's almost as funny as Harry Hill's TV Burp, but i missed this week's episode.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

i meant new as in not a repeat. but it was called Screen Burn before wasn't it? and not as good somehow.

TV Burp should be on all year round really.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

nah it was called screenwipe but i get what you mean. i hope this week's is on again but bbc4 tend only to endlessly repeat the boring stuff.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Jimmy Paige buying horse chestnuts in Soho a few years ago. The seller asked him if he was in a band, and he said, "Yeah, I was in Queen."

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

there will be a series two.

Internet debates would be far more efficient if everyone just sat at their keyboards hitting the "harrumph" key over and over again.

http://chilled.cream.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13231&sid=b841d74308711a47858a1364c366e1b6

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 22 January 2007 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if they will have Pingi back, after his starring role in Perfume film?

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 22 January 2007 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

Good to hear it. The first series semed more miss than hit on first viewing but has definitely improved over time.

My god, what did Chris Morris do to deserve such miserable sods as fans?

― DavidM* (unreal), Monday, 22 January 2007 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

definitely, repeat viewing improved the first series. But am sceptical about a second series, hope I'm wrong though. Oh sod it I'll look forward to this.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 22 January 2007 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

I only made it through about half of that cooked and bombed first post before I closed the browser. How a CM fan could miss the point of so much so easily is beyond me.

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Monday, 22 January 2007 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

they've been hatin' for about a half decade now but at the same time they provide 'mazin downloads and so on. it's at once the best resource for chris morris stuff and home of his most curmudgeonly critics. and the main dude seems to prefer victor lewis smith now! very strange place.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 22 January 2007 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

Nathan Barley was complete shit, tho.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 22 January 2007 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

list of complete shit comedies that got more than one series...

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 22 January 2007 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

srsly tho didn't it get even less viewers than Captain Butler?

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 22 January 2007 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Yep. Second least watched show in Channel 4 prime time history.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 22 January 2007 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

It's the Celebrity Wrestling of dated and innacurate Vice Magazine parodies.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 22 January 2007 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

oh great viewing figures, always a surefire measure of quality.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 22 January 2007 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

it's not even about vice magazine really. it's a dated sleazenation parody.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 22 January 2007 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

I think in Charlie Brooker's mind it was a Vice parody. One of the Sugarape covers hilariously read "The Vice Issue". DYS etc

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 22 January 2007 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

possibly it covered both bases.

anyway i just made a reference to lee and herring's 'ironic review' elsewhere. that was a parody of 'the modern review' five years late. so 'doing' 'sleazenation' in 2005 = acceptable basis for lols.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 22 January 2007 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

yer avin a larf aintcha?

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 22 January 2007 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Welcome back to 1999.

― King Boy Pato (patog27), Monday, 22 January 2007 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

In L&H's defence they first did The Ironic Review back in 1995.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 22 January 2007 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

comedy thread pwnage right there.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 22 January 2007 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

i even knew that they had, but put up the argument anyway.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 22 January 2007 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

Well I liked S1 a lot, so a new series is good news. Dunno where they'll go with it, mind.

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Monday, 22 January 2007 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

where did 'dad's army' or 'father ted' "go" in s02?

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 22 January 2007 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

Christ knows with Dad's Army as most of those episodes haven't been seen since the 60s.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 22 January 2007 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

the one where Pike builds a robot is hilarious. sadly the D3 fell into a cauldron of acid.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 22 January 2007 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

ok you are comedy's dj martian for all time; but you know what i fucken mean.

xpost

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 22 January 2007 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.davecovcomedy.co.uk/whispersfromwalmington/website_images/walkerhead.jpg

"'ere, Pike, this drill parade is well plankton"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 22 January 2007 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

Nathan Barley series 2 will feature heavy crossover with Skins, like those episodes of Murder She Wrote/Magnum PI

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 22 January 2007 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

I can't wait for this. The hate totally flummoxes me. This show was mindblowingly funny.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 22 January 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

like those episodes of Murder She Wrote/Magnum PI

I think I have subtitled one of those, or have they just all merged into one? I remember a lengthy discussion about the differences between Magnum's vocieover self (calm, thoughful) and his "real" output (aggressive, violent, cocksure).

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

it's a dated sleazenation parody.

dated but extremely accurate. the set looked so much like their offices that it would give me anxiety-laden flashbacks to the three months i unwisely spent as their music ed.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

not only was the show brilliantly funny but it was also a brazen act of self-satire. as i've said before, it dared the viewer to describe it as shit whilst insidiously creeping under his/her radar and effecting some often quite subtle mirth, revealing the viewer's shortcomings as it does so. the characterisation belied its external obviousness with some baffling, touching little details, as sympathies are perhaps switched from Dan to NB as the series passes on. the nature of true idiocy receives one of its greatest exigeses in NB, and i can't wait for the sequel.

oh, and the 'place' intro is just flat-out hilarious. on any level. as is the look given to NB by the hirsute 'finger slave' when he tells Clare to "override the finger" (best moment of series).

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oh come ON

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

come on and express something that isn't my opinion?

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

It's great, and yeah I didn't get it the first (or even the second) time I watched it, but the more you watch it the better it gets until you realise it's one of the cleverest bits of TV this decade.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

i want a new series just so the argument can get out of rut it's in (basically 'it was good' vs 'it was shit').

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

can't wait

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

bottom line for me: i dislike sitcoms wherein none of the characters are likeable. but really for me NB was as flawed as it was inspired, as dumb as it was clever and as funny as it was not. 50peter50 more like etc.

so yeah it certainly revealed my 'shortcomings' in that respect!

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't his sister or whoever it was quite likeable?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

No, she turned out to be a media whore as well.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

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