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under-rated show (but then so is TMWRNJ)

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link

but then i think TMWRNJ is ultimately better than any Morris-led stuff.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link

ah well yes, TF/SNA.

iannucci has come back from post-TDT mediocrity (imo) to awesomeness. to be fair he's more of a producer than the other stuff but even still.

'TMWRNJ' has never been underrated on this talkboard.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd say it has actually, TMWRNJ, The Adam and Joe Show, and In Bed With Medinner are the holy trinity of 90s comedy. It's impossible to overrate them.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link

but then i think TMWRNJ is ultimately better than any Morris-led stuff.
-- vita susicivus (n...), January 16th, 2007.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40897000/jpg/_40897670_crackpipe203spl.jpg

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link

GOOD ARGUMENT

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link

eight years ago? ha! ok any band / artist (accidently?) living on mystique earned during the 90s then.

― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Oasis

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

2Pac

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

tricky

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Longtime Stylus faves Embrace

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Whatever piece of shit band Perry Farrell is in these days

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

thin blue line

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link

oops

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

chris morris and peter cook made a good radio series together called "why bother?". er, download it from somewhere, its worth it!

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, OK, maybe it wasn't 8 years ago (I associate time spent slapping my forehand in frustration at idiotic SOTCAAishness [and mostly not posting] with goofing off on the Web during my pharma job in Welwyn and that was 8 years ago); perhaps the Radiohead thing was more in the wake of BES. I'm not about to run any searches to try and find out.

Whither Lionel Nimrod?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link

bit i remember from hearing that is peter cook say somethin along the lines of "oh you're going to make me work aren't you."

also surely the true inheritors of brass eye are balls of steel and the friday night project. in a roundabout kinda way. alex zane mocking anne frank writer is speak yr brain fed through the millenial vice mentaility.

― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link

whatever you say chief.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm aiming to get head hunted by comment is free.

― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

"the true inheritors of brass eye are balls of steel and the friday night project"

you made me sick up a little

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

but you can see so much shit where someone has seen brass eye a bit of jackass (maybe some beadle) and said "we could do that only a bit more..." i'm not sure what the next word would be.

― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

"relevant"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd be very surprised if the pitch for Friday Night Project didn't mention Morris at some point, put it that way.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link

"Brass Eye meets Jackass for the Libertines generation ON DRUGS" or summat

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link

have you fellas seen 'brass eye'? it's like a parody of 'panorama'?

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

The question isn't have I seen it, it's has TV funnyman Marc Dolan seen it.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Y'see, you just mention FNP or BoS and straightaway I'm quite keen to get back to Stewart Lee talking about Rape An Ape.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link

What should be on Channel 4 on Friday nights?

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link

all those funny programmes the americans talk about. '30 rock' and whatnot. it couldn't be any worse than the carr/JLC axis.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link

they're not allowed to rely on American imports like that.

when Celeb BB finishes what will they do. show a film?

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

they're not allowed to rely on American imports like that.

rly?

my recollection of the 1990s (which is pretty good!) is that they always showed 'friends' and 'frasier' on fridays.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

They should have snapped up 'Entourage' - Sundays Dorkapalooza ep was sublime, but how many people watch ITV2?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

space 1999 is wasted on ITV4

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

my recollection of the 1990s (which is pretty good!) is that they always showed 'friends' and 'frasier' on fridays.

and now Ugly Betty. my point is they can't show JUST American shows on a Friday night.

is Entourage really as good/bad as people keep suggesting?

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

They should have snapped up 'Entourage' - Sundays Dorkapalooza ep was sublime, but how many people watch ITV2?
-- Jerry the Nipper (jerrythenippe...), January 16th, 2007.

cosign, it should have been a lock.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i rly like 'entourage'.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i saw a bit of 'Whatever' again the other week. shudders.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i tell you what is good. those 'spying on chavs' skits on Paramount between programmes.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

space 1999 has just rolled over back to the beginning. last couple of episodes feature N's dad.

Anne Widdiecomb vs The Hoodies was funny last night. but i don't think that counts as comedy. actually, it did have a brasseye feel about it.

― My Koogy Weighs A Ton (koogs), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i really want to see entourage, i even have a digibox, but because its on itv2 i haven't managed to catch an episode. when is studio 60 coming?

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

"last couple of episodes feature N's dad"

main reason i keep watching.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

i have a terrible ph34r it won't now, and i have given up torrenting it :(

xpost

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

it's a bit sad that american comedy is ruling things. funniest things i saw last year where arrested development and family guy. russell on big brother's big mouth is lolz but is own show was just high grade mediocrity. oh and tv burp and there was peep show which is funny but... i dunno underwhelming at the same time.

― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i rate 'peep show' very highly. what was exciting in the 90s was partly the sense of a comedy gang who contributed to each other's stuff: the day today crowd obviously, but they linked with 'father ted'... thinking about it 'big train' was rly good, the first series. and more mainstream stuff like 'the fast show' was much better than anything similar now. i don't have much love for the old-style sitcom in the death, then or now.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

The thing about Peep Show is that it _is_ the best thing on British TV right now insofar as comedy, and that's so so depressing. It'd be kinda like if The High Life had been the best Britcom of the mid 90s.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

nah. it's mint.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

thinking about it 'big train' was rly good

agreed. it's aged v well.

what saves The IT Crowd is those typical Linehan/Matthews flourishes here and there.

one other good thing about Morris which I miss in this Gervais-dominated period was his media reticence (which he claimed was thrust upon him i.e. people were too scared to talk to him or just assumed he wouldn't want to).

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Still Game being ignored again! Best laugh-track sitcom since Black Books.

Annually Retentive was frustrating because Rob Brydon seemed to be ruining his own great ideas half the time, even if most of them were based on Sanders, David etc.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

the morris radio show (wot i have now downloaded :) a mere 4-odd gb) is odd because it's quite 'public', on at 9-10pm, and probably disorientating, because he was so amazingly hostile to the rest of radio one. especially bruno brookes.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't "get" still game. the gervais / kay / little britain axis did produce great great stuff a few years back. the office, that peter kay thing and rock profiles were all great, great, great.

― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

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