Nathan Barley comes to TV

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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)

it amazes me that the people who dislike this show want to talk about it as much as the people who love it

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

it amazes me that the people ~~who dis~~like this show ~~want to talk about it as much as the people who love it~~

Fixed.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

they aren't all loathsome. as in reality, people can be a bit loathsome without being totally irredeemable. it's not like you'd want to spend time with the characters in other sitcoms overmuch. but then this isn't much like any other sitcom. the show's weakest link as performer is nathan barley, who is very little like his original. maybe people would like it more if chris morris hadn't been involved.

xpost

the morris element led people to overinvest in it.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

are they making any more of the mighty boosh?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

there's bound to be a season 3 of the boosh, right?

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

I looked on wikipedia

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

it amazes me that the people who dislike this show want to talk about it as much as the people who love it

well personally i am really interested in why i dislike it or what about i dislike and why, if that makes sense. and often it tends to be that criticising is more interesting than just enthusing.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

i just find it amusing that the same people who hated on it the first time around continue to visit this thread and poke their head in

these same people will watch it when it airs just so they can remind us what they don't like about it

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

apparently series three of the mighty boosh is going to be called series four for a laugh

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

i just find it amusing that the same people who hated on it the first time around continue to visit this thread and poke their head in

this is ilx if not human nature

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

usually if i dislike something, i avoid it

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

rjg i don't remember if you like the boosh or not? i thought no?

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

rjg doesn't like anything.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

"rubbish"

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

i discussed Spaced with Stevem and why I disliked it rather epically, in fact so much so that I eventually started warming to it quite a lot.

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

Not sure what you're asking here. But really the concept of NB is that it's a mudslinging match. The writers are so nihilistic about the media industry that they've even started turning on themselves and their own audiences. As far as they're concerned, if you like the show then you're an idiot, if you don't like it you're also an idiot. We are all idiots QED.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't know it had sucking off.

I wouldn't mind watching this series if I saw it for £3 in a charity shop or something.

Not just beacuse of the sucking off.

I mean it is quite odd how seeing something being slagged off can make you want to watch it just to see whether it is as bad as people say.

RJG, there is a Boosh live DVD in the shops. I supopose you know this though, having looked at Wikipedia.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

the boosh live dvd is very good but AMAZINGLY LONG! I went to see it live and it took like, three hours (of which about 2:55 hours I was in hysterics, but then things are always better live). i still haven't watched the whole of the dvd though.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

they're going to call series three series four

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

NIHILISTIC? ABOUT AS NIHILISTIC AS LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE! and with far worse jokes. i mean LOTSW has Burt Kwouk and Peter Sallis. those old boys know about the timing.

― acrobat (elwisty), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Louis, if Chris Morris turned up on your doorstep, dropped his trousers, and proceded to dump 0.75 pounds worth of faecal matter all over your welcome mat, would you dub it "A dangerous and inventive challenge to those who are shocked by the mere notion of hallway crapping, a shit that dares you to find it an affront to basic matters of decency and actually reveals something about your own flaws"?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

As far as they're concerned, if you like the show then you're an idiot, if you don't like it you're also an idiot. We are all idiots QED.

If that's really the case then fuck them and what a waste of time watching it.

(I don't really believe this - as I said for me the show is a 50/50 love/hate affair)

As well as likeability I had a big problem with the show's poor grasp on reality which I know will sound ridiculous but hey deal (see also the last series of Extras).

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

dom, that's a weary argument. firstly, nathan barley's affinity to shit is purely subjective, secondly, such an action would not amuse me in any way, and thirdly, i choose to watch nathan barley, i do not choose to have my doormat crapped upon. morris has never done something so crude and lacking in wit as your analogy suggests. a shit wouldn't dare anything, it would be repulsive. NB is a portrayal of cyclical idiocy, a balanced ecosystem which we can actually relate to, which questions our own idiocy via subtleties and humour, not via gross bodily functions. scissors in cat's head excepted.

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

what if joe pasquale and alison graham had made nathan barley aye?

― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

Jonathan Swift would've shat on somebody's doorstep for lolz. And it would've been funny.

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

'A Modest Disposal'

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

There was a scene in Deuce Bigalow European Gigalow in which an American backpacker was doing a shit on the streets of Amsterdam which I thought was funny.

― badg (badg), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

swift as jackass

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

but faster

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

which is as good as anything morris has written.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

keep it chopped out

― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 15 March 2007 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

I love NB but I fear a second series and I'm not entirely sure I trust CM not to fuck it up.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Thursday, 15 March 2007 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

predictably, i am delighted

― unfished business, Thursday, 15 March 2007 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

It'll be ace. I know it.

― the next grozart, Thursday, 15 March 2007 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

who were you in the previous life, tng?

― unfished business, Thursday, 15 March 2007 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, it's all on youtube @ the moment.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

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