Nathan Barley comes to TV

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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)

user "Kfairy"

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

i'm psyched

― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

ARGH Nathan Barley, you cannot return quickly enough

― unfished business, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

god those look shit!

― the next grozart, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

i'm glad if it has developed a cult following on the interweb 2.0. out of its target audience of twentysomethings only sadsacks like me stay in for friday night television, so tbh 700k viewers is not too shabby.

― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

More Dan Ashcroft? Oh joy.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost: those look like excerpts from that 'make your own sitcom plot' thread, except less funny.

― unfished business, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

re-watched the entire series last week and it's more brilliant than ever

― cutty, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Much as I love Barley, I don't know if a second series needs to be made really. Series one said everything it had to, and the story arc reached a perfect end. 'Six episode cult classic' has quite a nice ring to it.

― chap, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

"Technically a Polanski"

― Tom D., Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― cutty, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

ARGH Nathan Barley, you cannot return quickly enough

unfished business on Thursday, March 15, 2007 10:09 AM (1 week ago)
god those look shit!

the next grozart on Thursday, March 15, 2007 10:13 AM (1 week ago)

Green was actually brilliant, surprisingly.

― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Are we going to see a second series of Nathan Barley?
"Yeah, I'd never write it off completely. We worked out a whole set of stuff to happen. A slightly different setting and a few years later. We were going to jettison the [media industry backdrop]. Basically [Nathan's] money had run out and he'd have to move in with his brother, who you have never seen. The same characters, but different setting was the idea. We did workshops with the cast and we haven't said we're not going to do it. Dead Set got in the way and Chris's Jihadi comedy got in the way. I dare say we'll meet up and do something else."

― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2008 15:49 (seventeen years ago)

probably not watching tonight

― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, 27 October 2008 15:50 (seventeen years ago)

Are we going to see a second series of Celebrity Love Island?
"Yeah, I'd never write it off completely. We worked out a whole set of stuff to happen. A slightly different setting and a few years later. We were going to jettison the [island of fucking backdrop]. Basically [Paul Dannan's] money had run out and he'd have to move in with his brother, who you have never seen. The same characters, but different setting was the idea. We did workshops with the cast and we haven't said we're not going to do it. Orange Playlists: With Jayne Middlemiss got in the way and Bianca's father's alcoholism got in the way. I dare say we'll meet up and do something else."

― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 27 October 2008 15:52 (seventeen years ago)

what is tonight?

― cutty, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:32 (seventeen years ago)

dead set

― conrad, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:37 (seventeen years ago)

it was pretty decent i thought.

― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 27 October 2008 23:05 (seventeen years ago)

yeah pretty good!

― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2008 23:07 (seventeen years ago)

and i actually exclaimed out loud "NO WAI" when Pippa was called as the person to be evicted lol

― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 27 October 2008 23:09 (seventeen years ago)

also

"WHAT ARE YOU FOR"

― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 27 October 2008 23:09 (seventeen years ago)

Haha, yes, I was sort of rooting for Pippa! Quite liked it, even though there was too much "look! I understand cliched Big Brother behaviour" and not enough zomblies for the most part.

― ailsa, Monday, 27 October 2008 23:20 (seventeen years ago)

Er, zombies. Though zomblies is a good word too.

― ailsa, Monday, 27 October 2008 23:21 (seventeen years ago)

zombles

it was the first episode so you don't want that many

― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2008 23:25 (seventeen years ago)

haha i like zomblies

― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 27 October 2008 23:41 (seventeen years ago)

Wouldn't a media-savvy Channel 4 lackey at least have seen Shaun of the Dead? My least favourite thing about zomblie films is how no-one ever knows what they are, like they are always the first ones ever.

― ailsa, Monday, 27 October 2008 23:43 (seventeen years ago)

no worse than multiple alien 'first contact' scenarios tho is it

― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2008 23:46 (seventeen years ago)

That's also my least favourite thing about alien films as well, as it happens (see Dr Who threads passim)

― ailsa, Monday, 27 October 2008 23:54 (seventeen years ago)

c'mon it would be rubbish if the zombies/aliens turned up and people immediately knew what to do

― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 00:05 (seventeen years ago)

Knowing what something is doesn't automatically mean that you have the knowledge/wherewithal/tools at your disposal to deal with them and any weird mutation they might have from the other zombies you've seen on the telly.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 00:12 (seventeen years ago)

i'm gonna treat it as 'happening at the same time and in the same reality as Shaun Of The Dead' until it becomes clear this can't be the case

― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 00:16 (seventeen years ago)

c'mon, would you know what to do if you saw an alien or zombie?

ffs

― stone cold all time hall of fame classics (internet person), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 00:16 (seventeen years ago)

Aye, that's my point. It's the whole "i don't know, it's like they're dead, but they're walking about and chasing and killing people" thing without just going "for fuck's sake it's fucking ZOMBIES!"

― ailsa, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 00:19 (seventeen years ago)

I wouldn't know what to do if a lion turned up in my living room, but I wouldn't be going "it's like a big hairy cat thing and it's snarling at me!"

― ailsa, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 00:20 (seventeen years ago)

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