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that bloke who wrote Love Actually is SUCH a cunt

His mum just asked me to co-sign that.

Invention Of Lying looks like the worst shit ever

and 10-minute inserts between the episodes

right because most people interested would already have the DVD...GENIUS

anyone see this - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mx9yr - last night? it was FAB

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2009/09/21/9648/storm_over_tiernans_jewish_jokes

Umm, where is the punchline? The article makes it sounds like they just gave a crazy a microphone.

Looks like he was going for the standard mildly bigoted Catholic "lol you killed Jesus you bastards lol!" thing that the likes of Frank Skinner can get away with when one of his best friends are Jews but once he got going it turned out he was a real actual 100% anti-Semitic prick.

Tiernan is a completely unfunny tool who for some inexplicable reason is huge in Ireland. Probably thought he would be extra edgy cos he was playing to the kids at a festival.

Yeah, it seems like he reached for provocotive but ended up all http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Richards#Controversy

demetri martin's show starts on uk tv tonight. e4 23:00.

This School of Comedy show is as bad as it had to be. Kids dressed as adults doing comedy sketches that would be unfunny even with proper actors but the kids are doing swears. Brilliant!

is anyone else watching home time (bbc2 mondays)? its really really good.

(xpost) I haven't seen this, but it's the background pic on C4's website at the moment, and it just has "bad idea" written all over it.

Campus may be the worst comedy I have ever seen. I couldn't even tell what was meant to be funny.

so there's this, which isnt v british but is being shown on british tv first? http://www.comedy.org.uk/guide/tv/poor_todd_margaret/

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not really sure about this.

it wasn't terrible, but it didn't really live up to expectations. it was full of horrible, awful british people. think i'd rather see a sitcom about arnett, jonze, and tobias.

I laughed a lot at Todd Margaret - the physical side was fairly well done. A cert to be picked up for a series, you'd think? Going by the paucity of the competition in that Showcase strand anyway (didn't see them all though).

yeah, was going to say, the physical humour worked best. i just really hated the scrote from 'the history boys', he was just unpleasant and nothing more. it reminded me a little of 'bottom', where the whole outside world is totally hostile all the time.

The bits that relied on scripted gags were weak. The bits that relied on Cross or Arnett going mental were pretty funny.

Good to see Super Hans as the taxi driver too.

I think this is the first time I've ever realised what it was called. It's just been "the one with the people out of Arrested Development" in to me till now.

wld like to see cross do a sitcom as allen ginsberg

^^ that could definitely work. dorm-com, set at columbia in the late 1940s or whenever. neal cassidy is the kramer.

Kristen Schaal walking out of the cafe. Presumably her bit was cut or something?

My "friends" in the UK neglected to tell me about this. What channel was it on? need to find...

THIS WAS TOTAL PISH FFS GET SOME STANDARDS JAYSUS

Kristen Schaal and her comedy partner Kurt Braunohler made a pilot for Channel 4 of their web series "Penelope Princess of Pets" around the same time as Cross was doing his. I'd wager he'll have a similar cameo on their show, if it ever gets aired (it hasn't been that I know of).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/dec/06/stewart-lee-comedy-interview

holy fuck the michael mcintyre idea sounds AWESOME and he should totally DO IT.

No-one would actually go and see it though, would they? It is a way better idea in concept than it actually would ever be in execution.

(as is the counter idea of McIntyre bouncing around telling long-winded, perfectly-set-up jokes about Littlejohn and Hammond)

Kristen Schaal and her comedy partner Kurt Braunohler made a pilot for Channel 4 of their web series "Penelope Princess of Pets" around the same time as Cross was doing his. I'd wager he'll have a similar cameo on their show, if it ever gets aired (it hasn't been that I know of).

Also didn't she support him on tour? A tour I completely missed like the fool I am. Maybe we should have another thread about American comedians who make us Britishes laugh?

Maybe we should have a thread about British comedians who make Americans laugh?

A thread about Ricky Gervais, Benny Hill and "Monny" Python, in other words.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/comedy/2009/12/david-quantick-2009-british-comedy-awards.shtml

This year's Comedy Awards line-up. Are they using last year's list? Looks like it. Anyway, it's great... if you like Outnumbered, Michael McIntyre and little else.

Been watching Outnumbered for the first time tonight. Rather good, I think. Same writers as Drop the Dead Donkey, innit?

and yet it has comparatively few references to john major

so i have noticed that the comedy i have enjoyed most this yr is the thick of it, have i got news for you, you've been framed and tv burp.

iz comedy dead, yo?

looks like Serafinowicz has had a bust-up with Beeb bosses

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how about a Butterfield show available exclusively thru itunes?

(Is this just a Ross-themed joke?)

I hadn't expected another series of his shit show tbh.

ed emeffing reardon is back back back in 45 min. good reason to be unemployed.

I know nothing of this Ed Reardon show but the Wikipedia entry made me laugh, so that's maybe a sign I've missed out on something good.

it's a comedy about an unsuccessful and embittered freelancer -- i'm basically its ideal listener, but it's usually brilliant.

hope this series is up to par.

It's a big fortnight for new comedies - BBC2 Scotland has the first series of Limmy's Show starting tonight (apparently that's Sky Channel 990 or something? It'll be on iPlayer anyway), there's the godawful-looking The Persuasionists on BBC2 everywhere on Wednesday (Adam Buxton's losing streak on telly seems set to continue going by the advance billings), and then next week there's a new series of Rab C Nesbitt followed by Bellamy's People, the TV spin-off of Down the Line.

There may also be stuff on non-BBC2 channels, I can't remember.

it's a comedy about an unsuccessful and embittered freelancer

ha my oldest friend bought me this on cd as a birthday present but have not listened to it yet, i now understand why he chose it tho

Benny Harvey RIP ;_;

gonnae miss you, big man.

there was an irish comedy sketch show last night on rte called 'your bad self'. does that count here?

no

Benny Harvey is deid?

Is there a way I could watch the RTE thing online? I remember their player being a bit unco-operative to non Irish persons, but I am kind of intrigued to see what the rest of their non-Apres Match comedy output is like (though everything I read about that Val Falvey TD thing suggested it was thoroughly awful)

oh fuck don't touch most of it. especially sitcom, irish sitcom doesn't even reach the high standards of 'the thin blue line' or the like.

i don't know of any way to catch it online, but i will be looking for streams of it myself and will let you know. it's almost like an irish 'fast show' done with nearly a fr ted twist, but with more colourful language, example-

politician asked on radio show about the economy- 'it's fucked'

asked to elaborate- 'so fucked it'd turn your shit white'

anyway, will post something when i find it, as i was more than pleasantly surprised

Bellamy's People, the TV spin-off of Down the Line.

Ooooooooooooooooh.

WBS try your chances with t his but no guarantees that it'll work in perfidious albion

http://www.rte.ie/tv/christmas/yourbadself_av.html