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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 :(

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― 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

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tqiFRyk1LY0

better then peep show say i.

― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i have never 'got' peter kay.

funny how forgotten eddie izzard is. he was a lot more prominent than any of the people we're fellating on this thread at the time.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

never did tv did he? apart from "cows". i think, never saw it.

― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Cows was four years in development, but it was so bad Channel 4 buried it at, like, 11:30 on a Wednesday or something.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, never made a big show, but he was on tv all the time, far more than morris. iirc it was only with the third season of 'father ted' that that got any love, too.

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― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

didn't he replace merton on "have i got news for you" for a series? i know people in late teens early twenties who like the izzard but he hasn't got morris' hip cachet has he? he's kind of cuddly. all my female english teachers loved him.

― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

actually one of them spoke like him. you know that voice he does. that was really annoying.

― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I hated Rock Profiles myself. Lucas will never top George Dawes which seems a shame.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

that's right (i just imdb'd it). he was massive, anyway -- and vic and bob, still, with 'shooting stars'. i knew like one other person who listened to 'blue jam'. but yeah the izzard voice was quite the thing.

saying 'what am i fuckin noddy', not so much.

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― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

flippin' knees round me ears...

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

saying 'what am i fuckin noddy', not so much.

it is in our house (yes even today i'm afraid).

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

that's a good thing!

'it's outrrrAGEOUS'

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

top google result for 'what am i fuckin noddy'

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=64446617

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/daveinarave/ske.gif

this dude looks like a certain ilx poster.

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

a new Vic & Bob equivalent might be good actually. Northern* surrealist revival minus the pretensions of London scene. went to bog-standard schools and colleges but still well-read and clever enough to refer to things as much as Vic & Bob. keep the slapstick and knob gags to a minimum tho.

*mainly just because i enjoy the accents

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

father ted got much love by the 2nd season for sure.

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

for reals? ok.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Enrique showing a great deal of OTM-ness throughout this thread. Just thought I'd drop in and say that I have every single episode of Blue Jam, I listen to them with great regularity, and that it is by far my favourite (and most-quoted) show of all-time, TV or radio. It genuinely is next-level stuff, with the sort of ambition, comedic brilliance, emotion, and interest-value no other show on earth could have dreamed of.

Father Ted, Fawlty Towers and Peep Show is in my book the holy trinity of Britcom.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

'blue jam' also has flat-out awesome music, it's no way as ambient-warpy as the cd (as you might imagine, what with it being on warp).

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, exactly. The near-abstract combination of incredible, chilled-out if emotionally stirring music and pitch-black, unsettling sketch humour is done perfectly. I actually bought the best of Dubstar purely on having heard a couple of their songs on Blue Jam. There's one song called 'Let Your Light Shine On Me' whose author I cannot for the life of me trace, which is starting to irritate me a bit.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

probably Sting

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Blue Jam was full of "chart weird" music, right? Aphex Twin, Bjork, Eels, Portishead, etc?

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

yeah but also random things like 'body talk' by imagination (kind of 80s funk i think), beach boys 'surf's up', best of all this looping of 'ray of light'.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

No Aphex Twin (I don't think), but the other three definitely make an appearance. He loops the opening of 'Isobel' over one of his sketches, which works an absolute treat!

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

'windowlicker' appeared in the third series iirc but as i say, the cd is more ambient/homogenous (PUN) than the radio show.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

probably my first exposure to parliament/funkadelic was on chris morris's radio show.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG when 'Ray Of Light' kicks in (after its middle-eight has been obliviously looped for a while) at the end of Rothko...OMG. Has to be heard. By everyone.

I haven't heard the CD, just get bit torrent and download the whole thing, it's the only way to hear it.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

On the CD there are at least two excerpts from SAW2.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

MTV for me. xpost

I've never seen much of Blue Jam. just wasn't that bothered. then i saw the Adam & Joe pisstake and felt validated.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Each episode starts and ends with a surreal if vaudevillian monologue, spoken over DJ Shadow's 'Stem-Long Stem', which kicks major-league ass.

LOL@Adam and Joe. They weren't really piss-takes, I thought they were quite affectionate, myself. Their Jam was superb, it has to be said.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

it didn't work so well on tv. a&j were otm. but again an hour long radio show late at night just has more scope for long stretches of music, kind of adds to the experience.

the opening music is an 'triguing montage. sly and the family stone ('time') also appear in it.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

oh shit i am a geek.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

making that creepy wisp of a noise and expecting people to dance? come on

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

it didn't work so well on tv. a&j were otm

Well, indeed. The actual visuals were always best-left to the imagination, and the television version dropped all the music, which robbed BJ of its soul (if not its content).

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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