Rolling UK Comedy Thread - "Ricky Don't Lose Larry David's Number

The American lady is fit.

Terrible character though.

Nadia is an awesome character. Cokehead doctor is good territory for jokes

Detectorists seems to have disappeared with an episode left to go. Got bumped for the athletics and now Quacks is on in its place. Or did I miss something?

Oh, it says next Wednesday, 23rd, for the last one of series 2. Two weeks and a day after part 5...

It appears that The Daily Mash is now a TV show, only 23 years after The Day Today:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b08yxh4h

(I'm of the no doubt reviled around these parts opinion that the website is sometimes quite funny, but I don't fancy this at all)

the daily mash is not funny, tho

xp!

Rolling UK Comedy Thread - "Ricky Don't Lose Larry David's Number

I blundered through all of Quacks via the BBC's new "we don't actually want you to watch broadcast telly so we'll put the entire series up as ep 1 is shown)" strategy and it was at least entertaining enough to keep me going to the end. The main cast were all really good - even if the writing was pretty weak and the series didn't really know what it wanted to be - and the guest stars kept you going "oh, it's him from that show" even when you couldn't quite place them. Would probably watch a S2.

Fleabag season 2 formally confirmed.

ill behaviour is such shite upon further review

Dave's advertising a new series of taskmaster. Appears to include Aisling B, B Mortimer, M Watson, the bloke from mash TV and another woman!

(Nish Kumar, Sally Phillips. 12th sept)

They announced that lot at the end of the last series. I love Taskmaster so I'll just rein in my disappointment that we haven't had a new series of Modern Life is Goodish inbetween the last series and this forthcoming one.

Not Peep Show very much like Peep Show shocker.

Good like Peep Show?

Good like Bad Peep Show.

I laughed at bits (many of which were either telegraphed or Peep Show jokes), but pretty much all the cast are full-on comedy stereotypes and Mark & Jez are basically Mark & Jez.

I suspected as much, I will still probably watch it.

wtf @ that Ben Elton thing with David Mitchell as Shakespeare

I absently watched that last night. It... wasn't as bad as I expected. Mark Heap was having fun at least. I didn't actually laugh though.

On its second series, at least.

Yeah, series 2. Several of my friends love it. The involvement of Ben Elton makes me very wary indeed.

I like it. I'm not proud of liking it, but I do.

it has a great cast. but the script has the stink of elton about it. the trailer was a bad example of this.

(the way he made it blindingly obvious, the parallels between then and brexit. leave it a bit vaguer, let the audience make the leap, don't treat us like idiots)

I had one laugh out loud in the ep, which was one more than the whole of S1.

Just found out Josie Long's night in Camden is no more :(

i went to the last one. it was scrappy (as usual), good kind of scrappy (robin ince reading poetry, john luc roberts naked...)

apparently her night didn't get enough of an audience (despite being full the last few times i've been) whereas chris coltraine's lolitics does...

it's back in the new year in a new venue (the old mucky pup in islington)

That's crazy, I was just saying to my partner "well if Josie doesn't draw enough of a crowd, I'm sure lolitics will be done for as well".

Good news in the end though, Islington's closer to where I live #old

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJxwvs1U8AEESTR?format=jpg&name=large

I believe that's a US comedian.

whoops

after all that i did, of course, miss the first of the new task masters... (wednesdays on dave). luckily it's repeated tonight.

(M Watson also currently starving himself to near death on celebrity the island with bear grylls)

Just seen what Sean Lock looks like now! He's turning into Walter White.

That's weird, he's looked exactly the same for about 20 years.

another series of last leg? wasn't it only 2 minutes ago that the last series finished?

i watched 'pact' yesterday, starring her from him and her. was probably the most depressing thing i've seen in a while.

W1A is spot on about the meeting room names (floella benjamin, citizen khan) and the fold up bicycles.

I should really get with W1A at some point. It sort of seems like the kind of show that brings knowing nods rather than the lolz though. I didn't watch 2012 either.

Ben Elton was on the One Show tonight. I turned off after about two minutes. I suspect he was being a massive self-important bell-end though.

i watched 'pact' yesterday, starring her from him and her. was probably the most depressing thing i've seen in a while.

gave up after 10 mins. not one laugh.

new season of the detectorists can not come soon enough.

Oh, indeed. Was very late to Detectorists too, but I love it so much.

Sara Pascoe was on Richard Herring's show and I was laughing a lot at her saying she met Brian Blessed, but he might have been just an old Christmas tree constantly interrupting her.

Upstart Crow got progressively worse through S2 and featured an Elizabeth version of yer ACTUAL double seat routine near the end.

I might watch Upstart Crow if they got Miranda Richardson to reprise her QE1.

Detectorists is back on the 8th of November

looking forward to Motherland. I'm a bit in love with Diane Morgan.

Detectorists is back on the 8th of November

S3:Ep1 : Excellent.
loved the village hall scene, and the flashback was wonderfully done.

the 'bit of scaffolding' was classic detectorists, i think.

(they were on Front Row on tuesday night talking about the new series and apparently mackenzie has his detector on all the time whilst filming, toby doesn't)

elsewhere, Man Down continues to provide at least a LOL every episode. last week with the 'where's bob gone', 'he's got a part in the new Star Wars' bit and last night's Odessa Steps nod.

the 'bit of scaffolding' was classic detectorists, i think.

absolutely.

Man Down is very hit and miss for me, but when it hits, it really hits.

i have enjoyed 'Gameface' as well on ch4 recently, last episode tonight.

Man Down is a bit broad, yes. some good farcy bits, but i miss the drama lessons.

yes, and both greg and roisin were good guests on Last Leg last week.

matt lucas was on the radio a LOT recently talking about how he wouldn't do Little Britain again because times have changed and a lot of the things they did even that recently would be impossible now. all of which i was thinking about whilst watching League Of Gentlemen S01E01 repeat on bbc4 last night...

Oh I didn't kow Man Down was back, always good fun.