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

I'm enjoying this series much more than expected when I found out who the contestants were. Guz is such a dude.

And Alan's befuddled schtick is much more endearing in this context than usual.

The David Mitchell-fronted Cub Camp Not-Taskmaster has actually turned out to be quite fun.

I've been avoiding that given the premise and the host but the guests may make it worthwhile

Question Team is ok

but that episode of Goes Wrong Show i said I'd try was 20 minutes of my life i will never get back

It's definitely helped by having almost exclusively Taskmaster MVPs.

I watched the first Question Team and it was ok but Bob was just recycling an Athletico Mince routine.

new Worzel at the weekend.

morgana's "snakes in a can' song slaps

(how does VCM not know how a swannee whistle works?)

david docherty cycles somewhere with someone. same kind of energy as gone fishing or travel man (or ed ventures) i guess. props (or the opposite) to ayoade for doing the whole thing on a brompton.

Yeah I caught the second half of that, a nice gentle wind down after the episode of Succession I had been watching. I vastly prefer Docherty when he's not singing and playing his annoying little keyboard.

I haven't seen DoD yet, but I'd draw a distinction between Ed Ventures and Travel Man - you're dependent on the quality of the guests in the first, whereas interesting things can happen on a Travel Man episode even if the guest is a complete waste like Rob Beckett

The final noise making task was a classic, and I've never in my life laughed nearly as much at Alan Davies.

Not overly enamoured by next year's line-up.

i think my highlight of the series was VCM learning to ride a bike there and then.

VCM, even until the end, said at least one task every week was "impossible" and didn't really engage while we watched everyone else get on with it.

I think I would have been happy with any of the other 4 as series champions to be honest.

Not overwhelmed by the new lineup, although Bridget Christie is fine in other people's things I find her own material a bit hectoring. Don't think I know Sophie Duker at all.

Sophie Duker is great.

oh fuck tho, Ardal O’Hanlon? Worst stand-up I've ever experienced in my life.

Her and the bloke who isn't Father Dougal I don't know.

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Judi Love is pretty annoying.

Sophie Duker is a regular guest on Frankie Boyle's New World Order (and is the only one I predicted in our annual game of "who hasn't done Taskmaster yet that they might get for the next series"). Seems OK. Absolutely unenthused about any of them though.

VCM might be my least favourite contestant ever.

The other bloke is Chris Ramsey (Hebburn, Shagged Married Annoyed podcast, surprisingly decent on Strictly a few years ago). He might be ok.

Judi Love is really annoying, yes.

iirc this thread was tepid at best on at least the last two rosters as well and the show turned out all right anyway

how has this thread managed to have not one post about Stath Lets Flats S3 in it

anyway it was good, episode 4 was completely classic, and there's a moment in episode 5 (the 'long boy' bit) that might be the funniest ten seconds in post-millennial UK comedy

I think I must be in the minority, because I found Stath a bit lacklustre this time round. The jumping in the canal bit positively annoyed me, it was so stupid. Although their Youtube channel is just fantastic.

Idk, that canal-jumping episode felt like the demented all-out antic climax of the entire thing before the last two episodes played it more sentimental

The series as a whole maybe used the slow-motion-with-song effect a bit much but that's nitpicking

Maybe I'm a man of simple tastes, but I pissed myself at the canal jumping.

I go up and down on the show but every episode there's two or three genius turns of phrase that makes me love it

it felt like it was trying harder this season and going heavier toward the conceptual but i enjoyed it even so

DoD biking with grayson

i had to rewind it and watch it again and he really did say 'that's eight pounds' for what looked like 2 ninety-nines.

Question Team. the moment the penny dropped during isy's round was a delight.

manford and mack on the same team on Christmas 8/10 cats. in what way is this a "special"?

Toast, episode 3 and surprise! clem fandango is in LA

except it was in every single trailer for the last two months.

I thought Toast was fine - bit more coherent than other seasons, bit less grotesque. It's the only version of Matt Berry I can tolerate for some reason, odd considering that most versions of Matt Berry are identical

oh wow, I like WWDITS Berry and music Berry a lot

Bingeing Ghosts on iplayer right now, it's very good and less trad sitcom than I'd imagined

Zen Motoring on iPlayer is brilliant. Loved Ogmios's early YouTube versions of the show, and the transfer and ever so slight format change hasn't hurt it a jot. I may be biased as the first couple of eps are largely filmed on my road and surrounding area, but it's great.

Also bingeing Ghosts. It's gentle and quite lovely in places. I am frequently pointing out the moon to people, saying 'moon-ah' and being very pleased with myself.

really enjoyed Zen Motoring ep1, ta for the nudge as it was not listed on my iplayer homepage, and had not heard of it.

Worth catching his YouTube show as well, especially the Purim episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RidKpZEJj4E

this seems like my jam, very much in the How To with John Wilson school

Hah, Ogmios is also in my old area, the St Ann's Road / Seven Sisters junction at the start of his second one was a minute away on the bike.

I'm building up the courage to say hello to him and congratulate him on the series next time I see him in the street.

Hah, Ogmios is also in my old area, the St Ann's Road / Seven Sisters junction at the start of his second one was a minute away on the bike.

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 23:11 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Does this cover the day when the bus I was on was crashed into twice right there?

If it was crashed into by a scooter-boi, almost definitely

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that every UK comedy series' 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

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sad lol at Mike Nesmith on Toast. coincidence? and that DB Cooper documentary was on BBC4 recently

i don't expect another series of Herbert Clunkerdunk, probably a bit too out-there.

that's a new series of Starstruck showing at the moment - i thought it was repeats and missed the first episode 8(

(not entirely sure it needs a second series tbh)

elsewhere (ie ch4) the last in the series of 8/10 cats does countdown had sean lock on it for the first time this season and probably the last time ever.

Didn't want to bring levity into the Ukraine thread (or confuse non-brits) but this made me laugh a lot.

A bare-chested Putin is currently wandering round the Kremlin shouting “they’ve turned Ukraine against us” pic.twitter.com/36ulbMwJsy

— Niall Paterson (@skynewsniall) March 3, 2022

Lol

New Ogmios today, rejoice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMxYm0r8bY8