Nathan Barley comes to TV

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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)

no she was awful and they painted her as manipulative herself in the end re losing interest in the girl who sucked off Dan once she found out she wasn't underage after all. (xpost)

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

i mean Nathan obv, not Dan!

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

no she was a money-grubbing careerist slag who was ready to jump into bed with anyone who could wave enough money in her face for her to get her rubbish film made.

Pingu is the only one who isn't a complete tosser, if only because he's probably too shy and effete to say anything.

Maybe the receptionist at Sugarape is the only one who isn't a moron?

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Stevem, the whole point of the show is that everyone's as bad as each other though - without that factor it wouldn't work.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

I repeat: NB himself was the most likeable character on the show. His idiocy had a certain innocence and charm, unlike the others, who were continually compromising whatever integrity they thought they had.

Pingu's idiocy was an inability to interact. He played 'Labour Party Conference' horror games ffs!

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

dog latin is wrong, btw.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

so is louis.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

this thread was quoted in the guardian first time round wasn't it?

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

c'mon then enrique, show us truth!

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

no enrique made that up

Stevem, the whole point of the show is that everyone's as bad as each other though - without that factor it wouldn't work.

why wouldn't it work unless they're ALL loathsome?

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

His idiocy had a certain innocence and charm

innocence no. ignorance yes.

charm? sort of. he was odious yet somehow charismatic (persuasive). this was interesting or would've been if he'd been able to work it on people who weren't also idiots like him or just didn't care either way (e.g. Jonotton).

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

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