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

I'm almost annoyed that the new Dead Pixels was shown two at a time because after 4 weeks there are no more to watch. and i thought Rose Matefeo was pretty much perfect in her role (first time I've seen her act)

next taskmaster contestants are up on Wikipedia but i can't remember a single name after having looked last week.

> Panellists for this series will be Charlotte Ritchie, Jamali Maddix, Lee Mack, Mike Wozniak and Sarah Kendall.

um, seems promising but i think Mack might be a bit overbearing.

He's the worst thing about Would I Lie To You (lovely Bob is the best, obviously).

Charlotte Ritchie is lovely - she was campaigning for Labour in the same spot as me on the day of the election. That and Ghosts has secured a place in my heart for her.

Mike Wozniak made me laugh in Man Down, and I've enjoyed some of the videos Maddix has made for Vice. Lee Mack can be overbearing yes, but I admit he makes me laugh sometimes. No idea who Sarah Kendall is.

(a standup from the Newcastle that's north of Sydney, but moved to the UK a year or two after starting comedy, over two decades ago)

australian, probably best known in the uk for that 3-hander sketch show she did with barunka, Beehive (6 episodes in 2008 but fondly remembered here)

xp

i don't know wozniak outside of the character he plays in Man Down

Me either, but that's enough to sell me on him.

Sarah Kendall is a fantastic comic. I'm really looking forward to seeing her do her thing.

He's the worst thing about Would I Lie To You (lovely Bob is the best, obviously).

I used to like him on it, but now he just shouts over everyone all the time. I wonder if he's going a bit deaf.

Saw Kendall do stand-up once and became an immediate fan, she's really great. Had a sitcom at one point based on her life which was sadly rubbish, but it feels like these kinds of things usually are.

These days I'm just thankful if a show doesn't have anyone I know to be an asshole from online in it (I say after having grinded my teeth through the Baddiel season of Taskmaster, not that he wasn't funny in it).

These days I'm just thankful if a show doesn't have anyone I know to be an asshole from online in it

Agreed, fucking twitter. Tony Robinson came on C4 News the other day and I booed the screen. My partner asked what I had against Tony Robinson and I just sounded really pathetic and paranoid explaining.

Yeah, my attempt to explain Baddiel ended in "he's just a dad who needs to log off" and the wife pointed out she knows someone else who might need to log off...

touché

Lol.

Baddiel and Robinson are both total arseholes though...

I mean, Toby Young is a total arsehole. I can imagine listening to Baddiel or Robinson talking on a lot of some subjects and being interested in what they say - TY not so.

I guess I'd listen to Robinson if he was talking about like, Anglo Saxon burial grounds or what it was like to make Blackadder.

I can't imagine being interested in anything David Baddiel does or says.

Nope.

This was literally the only time the sight of David Baddiel has given me any pleasure:

https://c.files.bbci.co.uk/vivo/live/images/2016/6/7/cafa2d6d-d7e4-416d-b824-2bcbcb793bce.jpg

I enjoyed his wanking jokes when I was about 12.

Would point Baddiel-fans to this review of his book from the Jewdas people

https://www.jewdas.org/aging-liberal-confuses-self-blames-left/

Baddiel-fans

Just as a favour, could you fuck off there?

not saying there are any on here, just if you know any

As someone who has no idea about Tony Robinson's likes or dislikes, what's the deal with him? Standard whingeing about women/immigrants/workshy layabouts, or something more sinister?

Tony Robinson campaigned against Corbyn for years from inside the Labour Party, think this is the biggie.

And generally comes across as a smug, superior, out of touch dickhead.

not saying there are any on here, just if you know any

Okay, fair enough.

Toby Young is also a political commentator, so the badness is his reason to exist and I can know to stay away from it. Baddiel and Robinson are entertainers, so the bad takes are an unwelcome interference. Not that I think entertainers should stay away from politics or anything, but it's just a totally different situation imo.

Not that I think entertainers should stay away from politics or anything

They absolutely should be able to offer their political perspectives, but everyone else equally has the right to challenge them - which I think is what a number of these Twitter loudmouth celebs take issue with.

i liked rose matefeo from the moment she curled up in one of the Hypothetical chairs. her stint on taskmaster confirmed this, the ghillie suit, the serenade task. and i thought she got Dead Pixels character pitch perfect.

so Horn Dog (bbc1 yesterday, iplayer) was a bit of a surprise. her standup is a bit full on, talking almost too fast, swearing lots. funny though, and the end was a triumph.

I found Jessica Knappert very charming on Taskmaster, is Drifters any good?

maybe geoff norcott can get his own show now?

Taskmaster returns on thursday.

fave thing at the moment though, the thing i find myself laughing at most, is Teen First Dates, because the kids are naturally funny (and mostly charming. think there's only been one car crash so far, the chicken guy)

I've been loving Teen First Dates too, particularly the kiddy who kept on thinking calling his very short date a hobbit was very good flirting.

Chicken guy was excruciating.

and, of course, the episode after i mention it was the worst yet. I'd never watch the adult version because i imagine it to be full of players and people seemingly set up to be laughed at and the kids version has been nicely devoid of that, until last night.

The only time I ever saw the adult one they had a Tory couple with one whose claim to fame was trolling a guy on lbc and one who thought she was the most attractive woman to ever work in Westminster. It was nauseating, and also a bit like a fast show sketch, and it felt like they weren’t real people. I didn’t watch another episode.

At its best, the adult one can be genuinely quite sweet and heartwarming. But yeah there are plenty of pricks on it too.

Just caught up with Crashing on Netflix - overall quite patchy and obviously Waller-Bridge finding her feet, but the curry night episode is flat out hilarious.

Comic Strip repeats on London live are now beyond the ones i ever saw at the time. this one, Les Dogs, has Kate Bush in it.

(last couple have been a mess though)

This one wasn't exactly very coherent, as well as not being even remotely funny but I suspect it wasn't really designed to be.

i do love the vindictive single-person tasks on taskmaster but tonight's was especially classic: "Fart. Fastest wins."

(except that ended up quite disturbing)

I haven't laughed as much in ages as I did at the unexpected ending to that task.

anyone watched Frank of Ireland?

Quite astoundingly shite based on the first episode (and any other clips I've seen)

Like we all know TV is a cesspool of nepotism but you think someone would have stepped in at some point

i managed five minutes.

I watched the whole thing because you never know when you're going to see someone you know, but yeah, it wasn't good.

Only saw the end but that wasn't very good.
Partridge is back next Friday though!

Counterpoint: Frank of Ireland isn't total shit, merely very mediocre. C4 hyping it like the new Father Ted, though.

Scots seem to love it based on an informal survey of my Facebook feed.

Frank Of Ireland absolute embarrassing joke drought. What has Domhnal Gleeson done to deserve this?

The fart Taskmaster was hilarious. "It's like a casserole down there."

Mike Wozniak very good all round on Taskmaster. I feel sorry for Charlotte, hope she wins a show at least.

Isn't his brother the show's creator? xp