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I think he's got worse as he's branched out, he's become so full of himself that I can barely watch him anymore (xpost)

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

My favourite bit in Help, due to obvious reasons, was the Italian immigrant character trying to come to terms with living in a different country. It's a tie between him offering baccala as a present and "I-a johst give 'er-a lil slap"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Did not like "Help" at all

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Because of Whitehouse, Langham, a third reason?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

saying whitehouse is the best comedian of the last decade is like saying peep show is the best current tv comedy...

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i.e.?

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

i.e. there's a fair enough arguement behind it but it feels kind of dispiriting.

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

there is nothing dispiriting about peep show being the best current comedy; it's up there with Fawlty Towers and Father Ted in my top 3 all-time UK sitcoms.

what's dispiriting is the competition.

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

It's fun but it's not that good

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i like it a lot. but then i like 'scrubs'.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I can understand why a posho like you Louis wouldn't have Porridge, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads, or Steptoe and Son in your top three, but what about Yes, Minister?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I've not really seen any of those four for more than five minutes at a go.

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

replace 'posho' with '19 year old' there

Is Whitehouse really 'full of it' or is this just another projection?

I guess if Johnny Depp calls you the greatest comic actor of the modern age then you'll have trouble keeping it together.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i've never really seen Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads, or Steptoe and Son, and i'm 26. porridge is okay if you like that 70s sitcom format thing, and i'm meh on it.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess if Johnny Depp calls you the greatest comic actor of the modern age then you'll have trouble keeping it together.

I think you've hit the nail on the head there. I actually quite liked "Happiness" but "Help" was just, "Oh look at me, look at all these accents I can do, amn't I great?" - well, no, because your Scottish accent was shite for one. Plus crap serious bits. Not funny enough.

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

but peep show is nowhere near as good as fifteen stories high!

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

No, Paul Whitehouse is great. Help and Happiness are both terrific, and Help is a thing of absolute beauty. I thought the serious bits were fantastic, haterz.

I was gonna start a thread on how great Chris Langham's body of work is as well, but I thought better of it. for. obvious. reasons.

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

anything involving sean lock must be shit.

xpost

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

no it's really, really great! i was rewatching it on allfg and it's far more engaging than peep show ever is / was. does blackmailed by teenage bullies plot better than peep show.

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

15 Storeys High was very good.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

ha @ my spelling

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I like that Ted thing where he's a gamekeepr or something, if that is Whitehouse, and the other bloke is his rich employer and wants to take him to see Tina Turner. That is good, that is.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

you're 26??

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

i think so. yes, definitely.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Happiness was very good - but I do rather like Pearce Quigley - as, indeed, was 15 Stories High

Obscure comedy that I personally wish was better-known: My Life In Film

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

yes My Life In Film was, on the whole, better than many think.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

It was possibly better than I think.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

It was just another of those ones that make you smile more than they make you bellow with laughter, this not always being a sign of inferiority in a comedy.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

It was just another of those ones that make you smile more than they make you bellow with laughter

like peep show and ted & ralph and down the line!

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

"Peep Show" has made me bellow a few times

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

The Pearly King extending the hand of friendship to Muslims on the last Down the Line gave me proper "I need to pause this I'm laughing too much" moments.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

why shouldn't i be 26?

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

you should--you are

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

you're 26??
-- RJG (RJ...), January 31st, 2007.

why shouldn't i be 26?
-- the original hauntology blogging crew (miltonpinsk...), January 31st, 2007.

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you should--you are
-- RJG (RJ...), January 31st, 2007

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Down The Line = big lols

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

i think so. yes, definitely.

-- the original hauntology blogging crew (miltonpinsk...), January 31st, 2007

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

although they're both often really lolzy there's something about both Peep Show and Spaced that feels small and mean and easy

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Felix Dexter's work on the first series of Down The Line was fucking hilarious. I haven't heard anything of Season 2 yet unfortunately.
I also prefer 15 Storeys High to Peep Show.
And Dom does make a strong case re: Whitehouse. I never saw anything nore than 10 minutes of 'Happiness' though, does anyone rate it that highly?

― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't LOL at Down The Line, but it was pretty good. Perhaps the inexhaustible patience of the Higson/Whitehouse axis with young Rhys Thomas has finally paid dividends; he's fine in this.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

i am listening to my first episode of down the line now. it is insanely good. is there any way of hearing all the others?

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

ahem, http://chilled.cream.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11269&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=180

― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

MUCH OBLIGED
the pearly queen was the funniest thing i have heard in such a long time!!!

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

enrique seems so jaded for 26yr old.

Tracer, what do you mean by small?
Mean yes (altho I wouldn't say Spaced was particularly mean in any way).
Easy? Maybe...they both seem very thoughtfully written and intricate tho.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

"Spaced" is one of the least mean British comedies of the last ten years! "The Vicar of Dibley" is meaner!

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Errol's driving lessons in 15 Storeys High were amazing.

Favourite Down the Line moment might be from the first series when Whitehouse's Scouse character comes on, says something like 'Alright Gary, I'm a Socialist...' and gets immediately cut off. 'What is the biggest house in France?' runs it close though.

― Rob O'Brien (igotmadskills), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

'Swings an' roundabahts, though, innit Gary? Swings and roundabahts...
'I'm not actually sure what that means'
'.....swings and roundabahts, innit? Swings and roundabahts.'

― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

"The Vicar of Dibley" is meaner!

I wouldn't go that far. Spaced is a bit mean about...Aswad.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

"Let's not knock The Jam - they was there for a lot of people"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

'You DO sound black though..'
'I'm not sure I'd agree with you. Battybwoy may say....'

― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Vhat is point?

― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

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