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

Is there anything funny on British TV at all these days? I haven't bothered to look.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 23 October 2008 14:52 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

No, basically.

I did laugh at something in Fonejacker last night, can't remember what, but it's almost unwatchable (xp)

Still great stuff online, though:

Yeah, I should've clarified. Terry Tibbs is really funny, the rest of it not so much.

what happened to our N.Barley no 2 series, I thought they were all for it.

Is there anything funny on British TV at all these days? I haven't bothered to look.

same here, i'm still living in the world of Cheers/Frasier/Seinfeld repeats.

I don't think Frasier has ever made me laugh

I generally get most lolz from TV Burp and the occasional Amstell putdown on Buzzcocks. Sitcoms invariably pish, or else haven't even made me want to watch them.

UK'S FAVOURITE COMEDIANS
1. Peter Kay
2. Lee Evans
3. Alan Carr
4. Catherine Tate
5. Dawn French
6. Rowan Atkinson
7. Al Murray
8. Jack Dee
9. Eddie Izzard
10. Frankie Boyle

UK'S LEAST FAVOURITE COMEDIANS
1. Jo Brand
2. Jonathan Ross
3. Victoria Wood
4. Ricky Gervais
5. Harry Hill
6. Jimmy Carr
7. Paul Merton
8. Russell Brand
9. Spike Milligan
10. Alan Bennett

3000 mentalists polled

that poll makes me want to cry.

Gina Yashere will be pleased

Oh yeah, I saw Lee Evans at the O2 last month. The place stank of Tangy Cheese Doritos and was a shitty venue for comedy: basically a cavenous, empty hole. No atmosphere, and Evans was boring and bored.

"The place stank of Tangy Cheese Doritos"

that'll be evans' sweat

9. Spike Milligan
10. Alan Bennett

what

ITV's Al Murray appearing on the favourite list, while ITV's Harry Hill appears on the least favourite list strikes me as odd for some reason.

Al Murray was good when he was Harry Hill's sidekick on C4. Getting above his station now.

DISGRACED ROSSY ALMOST AS HATED AS FAT FEMALE

SHAME OF POLL SNUB TO NATIONAL HERO MACONIE

To be fair Jo Brand isn't actually funny xpost

Was going to start a poll for this, but may as well shove it here:

"Who is your favourite of the two black stand-up comedians that are allowed on TV these days?"

a) the one who swears a lot for no real reason
b) the gay one

c) either, because even at their worst they are better than Gina Yashere, the third black stand-up allowed on TV these days

i dunno if hes a stand up or not but i choose american one on have i got news for you every other week who rarely has joeks but his voice makes up for it.

The one who's only joke is I'm Black LOL needs to fuck right off. I bet he was the wacky one in the office.

c) either, because even at their worst they are better than Gina Yashere, the third black stand-up allowed on TV these days

― ailsa, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 09:53 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Gina Yashere does raise a good point though: what is up with that?

can we name any of these blacks, please?

Stephen K Amos
Reginald D Hunter

Stephen K Amos, that's the one.Annoying twat.

Hunter's fun tho. His stand-up is coming round these parts soon, I may go.

Stephen K Amos brings the lols for me.

Where is that poll from?

I went to see Steve Coogan last week. Odd experience all round but I laughed quite a lot. And a lot more than this drunken bloke staggering out next to me trying to apologise to his gf about bringing her to "this shit" and she was saying "no, really, I laughed, it was funny" and him going "now, it was shit, total shit" and me thinking that she had a look on her face like "the only thing shit is you saying the word 'shit' over and over again."

Reginald D Hunter is gay?

No, Stephen K Amos is gay. Reginald D Hunter has stupid hair and always token black guy on HIGNFY on the weeks when they need a black guy to explain black guy stuff. And presumably is the one that Dom thinks swears a lot.

c) either, because even at their worst they are better than Gina Yashere, the third black stand-up allowed on TV these days

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Haha, Mrs T loves that - she has NO sense of humour. Which is presumably why she got us Coogan tix also.

And why she married me, of course.

Has anyone seen Outnumbered? It's hardly groundbreaking, but the kids in it crack me up - how they got that kind of performance out of a gang of 6 yr olds I don't know.

The smug stage school kids on Outnumbered (and that awful new Jimmy Nail thing) ought to be cracked up with the aid of a sledgehammer.

As should the writers who put the stupid dialogue in their mouths.

that awful new Jimmy Nail thing

Am glad to say was unaware of such a thing till now

The Kids are in a Rock Band (as only a middle-class 45-year-old BBC writer could imagine a Rock Band) and dad Nail plays their long suffering manager with hilarious wry scrapes &c.

Joonus Bruvuzz

^^^that's my Geordie accent

Yey but Marcello, you don't like ANYTHING.

Old news, but I've just discovered the BBC are remaking The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, with Martin Clunes being the obvious replacement for Leonard Rossiter.

Other sitcom remake casting ideas they might consider:

Porridge: Peter Kay is Norman Stanley Fletcher, with Ralph Little as Godbar. John Gaunt stars as Mr MacKay.

Rising Damp: Robert Lindsay is Rupert Rigsby, with Ralph Little as Alan and Stephen K Amos as Phillip. Catherine Tate stars as Miss Jones.

Fawlty Towers: Manuel Actor Andrew Sachs is, er, Manuel. This time the lovable racist caricature is running the hotel, and now gets to slap around and abuse a hapless English porter, Malcolm (played by Lee Evans)! John Gaunt stars as The Major.

Dad's Army: James Cordon is Mr Mainwaring, with Lee Mellor as Sgt Wilson... (yeah, alright, that'll do.)

remake of Sorry! with Jimmy Carr

oh marcello :-( the kids on outnumbered are great.

that poll was by smile of its customers - sad to say the online version of the coop bank.

herring's blog about the same list

http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=2221

according to the writers, the kids in outnumbered are not shown scripts, but told what happens, and a lot of improvisation is filmed. the adults are scripted, but obv improvise around things

i figured Outnumbered would just be Lead Balloon with added (annoying?) kids so didn't watch

It's boring, smug and deeply unfunny.

Just because Mike Leigh can do it doesn't mean anyone else can.

It certainly isn't boring or unfunny, but it is smug, I'll give you that. Although I can't think of any comedy that isn't smug to some degree - maybe Porridge, I dunno.

Watched C4 sixth form comedy The Inbetweeners the other night. The first half had me going "This isn't all that bad", and the second "Oh wait yes it is."