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

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.

"so, it's not just for chinstroking beardy weirdos, then?"

she said this to dizzee too, or should have.

Is it common knowledge that Peter Cook was originally going to play Alf Garnett?

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.)

New series of "Little Miss Jocelyn" folks, put it in yer diaries

[scrit ... scrit] ... right, it's in. "new series of little miss jocelyn starts thursday night. so go to the pub."

oh noes it clashes with Echo Beach

:)

Right, so, in a rare moment of curiosity and having nothing better to do, I thought I would watch the "live" episode of Two Pints of Lager that was on BBC3 tonight. Dear fucking GOD. They were killing off Ralf Little's character, and to do this they sent his character off as a competition winner to go to America to, get this, JUMP A SHARK. The scriptwriters's backs must be black and blue from all the mutual slapping that must have gone on when someone came up with that one.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/downtheline.shtml

Radio 4's Down the Line with Gary Bellamy

a) Fuck me this is brilliant
b) Why was Felix Dexter never a true star, he had a window of opportunity in about 95/96 to make it as a comedy A-liner
c) Wow, Rhys Thomas and Lucy Montgomery in something that isn't complete shit
d) Paul Whitehouse is, pound for pound, the best comedy performer of his generation, six lengths ahead of yr Morrises and Ianuccis
e) "Do you know if Foxton's is owned by Bruce Foxton of The Jam?"

-- Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 13:35 (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

Series 3 is still amazing.

"She used to look at me like my taste in music was bad. I don't wanna get a look. I like KPak, TJ, Mooseboy, this goth at the counter look like she into terrible music like Kasabia or something. What about them what like Girls Aloud?"

^^^ILM summed up

So what are me most looking forward to then? The Mighty Boosh movie, or the Russell Brand biopic?

The Alan Partridge movie.

The Mighty Boosh movie

say it ain't so

A movie version of TV show The Mighty Boosh is in the works.

Stars Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt have signed a deal with BBC Films to bring the cult series to the big screen.

The show focuses on friends Vince Noir (Fielding) and Howard Moon (Barratt), who embark on a series of magical adventures.

BBC Films editor Christine Langan told Variety: "Noel and Julian are phenomenally talented, there's an existing, very loyal fan base, and the project has huge potential."

The pair are currently working on a script for the movie, which is likely to begin filming early next year.

Holy Hail on the soundtrack, I hear.

i'm going to review this, to do my bit in their hardsonning. sight unseen.

Somebody should really launch a film mag called Sight Unseen, full of reviews of films the reviewers haven't seen

they could go on

-press release
-trailers
-internets "buzz"

i doubt anyone could spot the difference.

I think y'all sleeping on the fact that Russell Brand is to write and star in a film adaptation of his own life. It's be like Private Parts.... ON DRUGS!!!!!

My Filmy Wilm?

I'm a moderate fan of the Boosh, but there's no way a film's not going to be shit (for reference - League of Gentlemen: Apocalypse).

Is LoG:A really as appaling as everyone says? I never really fucked with the show, but that movie seems to get the gasface from everyone.

A repost from another board

Absolutely DVD Box Set Get's Release Date
Dear All,

I am pleased to announce that we will be releasing the box set of Absolutely on DVD on the 21st of April 2008.

This is in no small part due to all of you for getting in touch and reminding us that there were people out there who loved the show and we should do something about it. Well it has been a bit of a marathon but it is happening soon, so thank you, all of you, for getting in touch.

If you go to the web site http://www.absolutely.biz you will see a request for material to put on the web site and if we can on the extras DVD. If you can help with this thank you again.

Thanks again and speak to you soon.

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Best wishes

Gordon Kennedy

STONEYBRIDGE!

I didn't mind it at all, but it's not as clever as it thinks it is. xpost to Dom

I watched about twenty minutes of LoG:A and found it really predictable and tired.

Big Train is being repeated on Dave at the moment, and it's still very funny. Didn't realise Catherine Tate was in it though.

Such a breeding ground for the current generation of UK comedy, that show.

Mark Heap should make a movie.

And by "make a movie" I mean "fuck off".

I like Mark Heap! What's wrong with Mark Heap?

I don't like Mark Heap.

So I gather.

http://www.lovefilm.com/lovefilm/images/products/9/3189-large.jpg

DVD Rom game!

Last night's Mitchell and Webb was an improvment on the first series, I thought. Still a fair amount of lameness (how fucking long did they eke out that Da Vinci Code spoof?) but some genuine laughs as well. Liked the racist war reinacters and the bronze age orientation particularly.

LoG:A is genuinely awful - ten minutes of playing-to-the-crowd half-arsed sketches and then an hour and a half of 'OMG wouldn't it be really innovative if WE turned up in the story?' when really they should've just made a really dark gothic horror or murder mystery or something.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7264321.stm

lame

Thick of It entry needed that "you ever take the piss outta Jolson again...." rant

"I have here a copy of your book, Origins of the Crimean War. It smells of poo." "That's because it's been inside your mum's bra."

ha

the Dr Cox one is bad - he's got better ones

most of those are rright show, wrong quote.

lol @ Rimmer

why didn't they include animated comedies? because they would dominate i guess

Father Jack Hackett - Father Ted. "Drink! Feck! Arse! Girls!"

morons who think this is a "put down". i can't think of an alternative right now tho. maybe "how did that gobshite get on TV?" re Dougal.

Inspector Monkfish is the only one that raised a smile with me.

good and very english put-down in fawlty towers: "do i detect the smell of burning martyr?". said with real acid.

Alf Garnett - Till Death Us Do Part. "You Scouse git!"

incredibly lame choice, but i guess they couldn't go with the racist stuff

Percy (re his new ruff): "The fashion these days is towards the tiny, my Lord"
Edmund: "Well in that case you must have the most fashionable brain in London"

blackadder 2-4 are all zings, all the time. blackadder himself is the og zingmaster.

"to you, the renaissance was just something that happened to other people"

^^^I used this one on Perpetua once

Sorry, not the Renaissance. Fitness First.