Limmy's Show

lol

oh hmm, seems the fire was pretty bad

maybe he's being serious

he's ruined my sense of propriety

Bit of both going on tbh. Gallows humour is a Glaswegian speciality after all.

that's what I thought. it's amazing gallows humour if so

a sincere/insincere binary is inadequate for life in general and limmy in particular

Been listening to the That's Your Lot audiobook lately and it's a LOT better than DWS, although that wasn't bad by any means. He seems to have nailed the craft of story-telling a lot better, less of the ta-da! punchlines or over-extended endings of DWS. Plus the final Benidorm story is fantastic - a total throwback to his World Of Glasgow podcasts but with all the skills he's learned and honed in the years since. Few duffs in there, particularly in the final third, but overall a lot better than I expected.

Two stories really stuck with me, for totally different reasons. New Life is this brilliantly understated, non-grim, non-shock, genuinely moving short story, which ends in the exact right place for ultimate spine-tingling effect. Getting a shudder thinking about it now, in a perfect world, where Limmy got his own series of Black Mirror, this would be his San Junipero.

And Moustache, which is classic dark Limmy, but it's a tone I've never come across anywhere, no other comedian, no writer. Totally unique, and again, stuck with me long after reading, but for nastier laugh-out-loud reasons.

I hope you die on Halloween.

— Limmy: TIX ON SALE NOW (@DaftLimmy) October 30, 2018

so limmy twitch streams regularly now. some of him playing games but also regular storytelling streams. stories are generally available on his youtube

https://www.twitch.tv/brianlimond

Would very much like him to do some more TV with other actors etc. That was the best stuff he's done.

I once found myself watching him play GTA for a couple of hours, it was entertaining but I promised to myself to never do that again

I ridicule youtubers playing Minecraft etc so I can't imagine the hell my children would put me through if they caught me watching Limmy doing the same thing.

i watched him play a truck driving simulator for 2 hours one day

loved him playing that

I watched him do the 350 dabs in a row thing the other day after idly clicking the link on twitter. I have little idea what twitch is or how it tends to work/be used and missed the set-up of why he was excessively dabbing in the bushes in the park in the snow, which all added to the watching experience in the end.

It was a reward he posted that he would do if he got 3500 subscribers

... and what a reward it was.

he's fair cranking out the content right now.

doing his improvisational storytelling streams every day or two, ranging in time from 10 minutes to half an hour.

recent ones that have had me creasing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0Shf6qXYdA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87XD_O8fklo

the autobiography is also out

it any good ?

Not got it yet

he did a long stream where he read some selections from the autobiography

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKYt7qulo00

quite candid

also revealing some elements not touched on in his online presence before

https://www.thenational.scot/news/17505619.limmy-10-things-that-changed-my-life/

I went from doing wee daft animations to being an invaluable member of a team of 30 people. I’d only started at the company a few months previously as a wee ned from Carnwadric – that’s how I felt.

I was one of those 30 people btw.

did you think he was a wee ned from carnwadric

that place name makes you sound like you've got a speech impediment.

(xp) Pretty much, that's was the desired effect I think.

Turns out that Limmy was asked to star in Bandersnatch as the more experienced developer who leapt off the balcony after taking acid. But he turned it down as it clashed with the Bristol tour date.

Crazy that he turned it down - Black Mirror is a worldwide phenomenon and could have exposed him to a massive new audience and new acting roles. I mean, massive respect for not letting down his Bristol fans but he could have rescheduled that date, surely?

that's wild.

although i would say that he's never going to become a worldwide draw due to his accent and he probably wouldn't fancy a big acting career as he's a huge homebody

Both true yeah, but it'd be a big boost to his career either way. He is fansfirst4eva though but man, I'd have moved heaven and earth to do that role, it's the most 'him' tv character probably ever

Simultaneous. pic.twitter.com/tbo7Iq8oLh

— Graeme (@spacecadet0697) March 25, 2019

Haha! It's the way his smile drops at the end but he keeps baring his teeth, all manic. Absolute master of those tiny subtle moments like that

Similarly, at his Manchester show the other night he was talking about his penultimate pill in Ibiza, aged 35, stood in the middle of the dancefloor going YESSS, the other, younger clubbers backing away. Acting out their fears about him lashing out wildly with huge sweeping punches then gripping someone in a headlock leering down on them going ME AND YOU ALL NIGHT SON, ALL FUCKING NIGHT, eyes bulging, same terrifying grimace. Hands down one of the funniest things I've ever seen

I was trying to think what he'd do next. Hopefully more tv like his homemade show or vines, probably for Sky, or maybe ch4. I haven't delved into his twitch much, some of the improv stuff falls flat for me, same with the gaming, doesn't reach the heights of his earlier webcam party shows, but I hope he returns to that in some form. Having said that, apparently he earns decent money just from donations on twitch, like some kind of through the looking glass YouTuber, and he's said he loves doing that more than anything at the moment

His autobiography ends on a weirdly dark note, makes the reader hark back to the uncomfortable implication of the title. Whole book is full of astonishingly candid stories, like how not long before finishing the book he was on the verge of leaving Lynn, looking for a new flat. Brutally honest, but not in the usual way that term is used, in a smaller, more intense way

i don't envisage him doing more tv as it seems he can't get a series on the BBC. sitcom ideas patched by execs without even getting to do a pilot or anything, and then the homemade show commissioned but just a one off, no series commissioned. just can't be commercially successful to the extent of making it worth the BBC's while, which is a crying shame.

he twitch streams a lot. he goes on about how that's what he wants to do from then on quite often. he also occasionally mentions writing, what i assume is another book. think this will be him for a while

He said at his (other) Manchester show the other night that he should be starting to film a full series of Homemade Show soon.

^^^^^who's this guy

by that i mean to say, long time no see

I'm listening to his autob on Audible and yes it is surprisingly down to earth but surprisingly not funny, but also a great listen.

hello imago!

getting the lbzc back together brick by brick

He said at his (other) Manchester show the other night that he should be starting to film a full series of Homemade Show soon.

― Animal Bitrate (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, March 26, 2019 6:58 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol I am wrong once again

in fairness to me the homemade show pilot thing was broadcast 11 months ago and there's been no word since

Did Limmy do the internet video where the dad character won't stop dad dancing and the son is like "stop him, he's got a heart condition!" while the dad goes "I miss her so much son!"?

hah, okay, yes now I found it. I wasn't sure if that's what you all were talking about, or if it was just uncannily like the one I was remembering

eckied dad

originated on his webcam as an improv bit, and was in the second season of the show https://www.facebook.com/LimmyDotCom/posts/eckied-da-one-of-the-best-nights-of-my-fucking-life-and-hell-be-appearing-somewh/131497513584692/

if that’s an illuminating reminiscence by Limmy about Eckied Dad, could you post it here?

that link no work? it's just a Facebook update from limmy from the time linking to the original clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTOiXWXeqVo

no worries then! no, it doesn’t work without facebook

Hi Patrick