Bring back Robbie Gee.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 16 November 2007 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.adrians.co.uk/acatalog/MICKY01CD2.jpg
― Tom D., Friday, 16 November 2007 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
That record was funny.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 16 November 2007 11:50 (sixteen years ago) link
POLL:
Curtis and Ishmael Collette Johnson Llewella Gideon Meera Syal Perry Benson Sanjeev Bhaskar Leo Chester Felix Dexter Robbie Gee Kulvinder Ghir Judith Jacob Rudi Lickwood Eddie Nestor Marcus Powell Junior Simpson Curtis Walker
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 16 November 2007 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link
his last film has a somewhat hopeful title and one solitary review on imdb. guess it was unreleased:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2007/03/12/dont_stop_dreaming_2007_review.shtml
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― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 16 November 2007 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, I wanna see that!
― Tom D., Friday, 16 November 2007 11:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Taz and Michelle Collins, together at last.
"Cowboy Song", that was OK.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 16 November 2007 11:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Going to the taping for S. Lee's no-longer-cancelled pilot, will report back
-- That mong guy that's shit, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:19 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Link
^^^how about some feedback on this?
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 6 December 2007 10:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Assuming the taping was cancelled after he ate the cameras lol he's fat now
Hit and miss, I think it's supposed to be stand-up intercut with taped interviews. The stand-up bit largely consisted of him shouting abuse at the British public for thinking Del Boy falling through the bar is funny.
― That mong guy that's shit, Thursday, 6 December 2007 11:01 (sixteen years ago) link
It is funny though
― Tom D., Thursday, 6 December 2007 11:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Prefer the police inteview scene.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 6 December 2007 11:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Comedy gold... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtboTwW-Jao
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 6 December 2007 11:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Stewart Lee:
TS: Derek Trotter vs. Derek Bailey
― Tom D., Thursday, 6 December 2007 11:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Not the bit when DelBoy rips open a policewoman's jacket thinking she's a stripper then?
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 6 December 2007 11:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Man Stroke Woman is best UK comedy right now.
― blueski, Thursday, 6 December 2007 11:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Gulp
― Tom D., Thursday, 6 December 2007 11:41 (sixteen years ago) link
To pick up on Koogs' comment on Love Soup on the other thread. Yeah, I like this but they've lost Michael Landis as their leading man (got a better offer) and Renwick seems to been forced into a complete rethink on S2 - it's 12 x 30min rather than 6 x 60min. We've got S2 in at work but I haven't seen any of it yet.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 6 December 2007 12:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Shut it. These are OFFICIALLY the best in British comedy right now:
http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2007/12/05/6116/british_comedy_awards%3A_the_results
Gavin & Stacey, Simon Amstell and David Michell were big winners at the 18th annual British Comedy Awards last night.
Gavin & Stacey won best new scripted comedy, while its stars, and co-creators, Ruth Jones and James Cordon won best new actress and actor accordingly.
Amstell won best entertainment personality, while Never Mind The Buzzcocks was named best comedy entertainment show. He thanked 'Mark Lamarr for leaving. I've done really well out of that depression.
Mitchell won best comedy actor, while Peep Show won the big prize of the night, best TV comedy.
As expected, host Jonathan Ross cracked plenty of jokes at the expense of ITV, which decided not to air the show live following inconsistencies in the 2005 phone-in vote.
― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 6 December 2007 12:31 (sixteen years ago) link
The full list of winners at the British Comedy Awards 2007:
Best Television Comedy Actor David Mitchell - Peep Show
Best Television Comedy Actress Liz Smith - The Royle Family: The Queen of Sheba
Best Comedy Entertainment Personality Simon Amstell - Never Mind The Buzzcocks
Best TV Comedy Peep Show
Best Comedy Entertainment Programme Never Mind The Buzzcocks
Best International Comedy Show Curb Your Enthusiasm
Best Male Comedy Newcomer James Corden - Gavin & Stacey
Best Female Comedy Newcomer Ruth Jones - Gavin & Stacey
Best New British Television Comedy Gavin & Stacey
Best Live Stand-Up Alan Carr
Best Comedy Film The Simpsons Movie
The Writers' Guild Ronnie Barker Award Simon Pegg
Lifetime Achievement Award Stephen Fry
― blueski, Thursday, 6 December 2007 12:34 (sixteen years ago) link
yes that's better.
― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 6 December 2007 12:34 (sixteen years ago) link
not sure i ever saw the end of G&S. lol at the fact that the mates both won comedy newcomer but neither gavin nor stacey did.
> Michael Landes
thought i'd seen him in something more recently but his imdb page doesn't show anything. CSI bit parts and Ghost Whisperer but not sure that counts as 'better offer' 8)
best line in Love Soup: 'it's not rocket salad'.
other current fav: Big Train repeats on Dave Tv. mark heap as emperor ming in hosital after slipping on mat. pegg as blue skinned underling visitor.
― koogs, Thursday, 6 December 2007 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link
with julia davis as his nice sister
― blueski, Thursday, 6 December 2007 13:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Lead Balloon ultimately sucks because Dee's character is actually too unpleasant, manipulative and miserable whereas Larry David was mindful to present himself as in the right and the victim enough of the time to remain likeable. Also he made jokes.
― blueski, Thursday, 6 December 2007 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't understand how Ruth Jones can win Best Comedy Newcomer. She was in Human Remains 7 years ago!
― nate woolls, Thursday, 6 December 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
HIGNFY has been good lately. Charlie Brooker did well the other week and Lauren Laverne was excellent last week - forgot how funny she could be.
― blueski, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Russell Brand was shit tho
― Tom D., Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Lauren Laverne said funny stuff but came across as unlikeable
― Tom D., Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
only to you, WEIRDO
― blueski, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know, something a bit unpleasant and sneery about her
― Tom D., Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
But I suppose that's what the kids want these days
― Tom D., Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
see what you want to
― blueski, Thursday, 20 December 2007 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i didn't see her on HIGNFY, but my fondness for la laverne has diminished these past ten years. she is a bit superior, in a guardian guide sort of way, on the culture show, and, in a guardian guide sort of way, without having much to be superior about.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 20 December 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Right. Supercilious, middlebrow and proud of it.
― Tom D., Thursday, 20 December 2007 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
examples?
― blueski, Thursday, 20 December 2007 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
'the culture show' is EXACTLY THE SAME as, say, the housewife/dolie/oap-oriented lunchtime show 'loose women': some fucker plugging their new book/record/film. that's it, that's all they do, there is no chance of criticism or perspective; just the inevitability that not one choice will take you by surprise. it's all incredibly safe -- tate modern, arcade fire, ang lee, that kind of shit. only it's presented as if you the viewer should be proud for having discovered something. and you don't need any of this shit.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 20 December 2007 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
don't think that's right. Kermode and to a lesser extent Graham-Dixon do offer the criticism/perspective on things but if you want more of that watch Newsnight Review anyway. TCS mandate as a light general arts guide is fine (under the circumstances and if this is how much time the BBC want to spend on this). I mean middlebrow is the POINT and there's no shame in that at 7.30pm on a BBC2 Saturday night. Laverne is kinda wasted as a presenter tho despite being competent and 'bubbly' enough to front it. Verity Sharp was doing a good enough job before her.
― blueski, Thursday, 20 December 2007 18:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Kermode and to a lesser extent Graham-Dixon do offer the criticism/perspective on things but if you want more of that watch Newsnight Review anyway
Newsnight Review's worse! Unless you actually believe that what Julie Myerson thinks about anything is of any interest to anyone in the universe
― Tom D., Thursday, 20 December 2007 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't even dislike middlebrow stuff exactly... probably more like i'm bored with the same old stuff. in the summer TCS did a "british movies spesh" and it was... 'wicker man', 'clockwork orange', fucking 'notting hill'. whereas last night channel five included 'taking of the pelham 123' in a clip show (i guess for some people *that's* played, but not as badly).
i don't dislike kermode but he does reinforce received opinion -- by dint of being everywhere he kind of *is* received opinion. TCS will never kick something unless its down -- recently 'southland tales', giving the impression of occasionally being badass.
think forward or back to the meltdown festival -- would TCS ever, ever say "lol this curator is a twazz"? and yet they usually are.
aye, i can't even watch newsnight review now.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 20 December 2007 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
On tonight's show: the latest Ian Rankin; the newest offering from Dreamworks; some other shit and, right at the end of the show, 15 seconds of footage to commemorate the death of Karlheinz Stockhausen, but, don't worry, we won't actually talk about Karlheinz Stockhausen because we know fuck all about him or about almost anything to do with music
― Tom D., Thursday, 20 December 2007 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
the point is you will still get a bit of argument on that show even it is just Morley vs Harris on Shrek 3 (fun fun!). whether TCS should try and do this or not is another issue. i do know that Laverne should leave it in order to be more roffley tho.
― blueski, Thursday, 20 December 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
she does other shows, i think -- corporate indie at 11.40 on channel 4 kind of stuff? live from koko.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 20 December 2007 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
'tonight on the culture show laverne talks to dizzee rascal / next week on transmission laverne talks to dizzee rascal' was my zingy cos it's true earlier this year
― blueski, Thursday, 20 December 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
tcs made me have some respect for sting. thus i hate it.
― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 20 December 2007 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link
laverne was interviewing him about his dowland record, and said "so, it's not just for chinstroking beardy weirdos, then?" he answered bemusedly and then performed live, pretty good i thought. havnae bought it or anything.
― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 20 December 2007 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
"so, it's not just for chinstroking beardy weirdos, then?"
she said this to dizzee too, or should have.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 20 December 2007 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Is it common knowledge that Peter Cook was originally going to play Alf Garnett?
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 09:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Peter Cook as Alf Garnett vs Les Dawson as Victor Meldrew.
(I don't think it's common knowledge, no. I didn't know about it.)
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 09:29 (sixteen years ago) link
New series of "Little Miss Jocelyn" folks, put it in yer diaries
― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 January 2008 10:03 (sixteen years ago) link
[scrit ... scrit] ... right, it's in. "new series of little miss jocelyn starts thursday night. so go to the pub."
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link