New Channel 4 thing on friday, yes? Writers apparently mistakenly believe that the phrase "Duncan from Blue" is inherently hilarious. Extremely punchable lead actor too.
― Number None, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Man, that was fucking awful. I liked that lead in Vera Drake, he's got an interesting face, but the whole thing terrible.
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Interesting vs. Punchable
― Number None, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I've been watching The Adam and Joe Show on 4OD, and it's embarrassing how far in front of the current crop of comedy it is, both in terms of script/dialogue and ideas. It's funny and silly and hasn't been destroyed by familiarity or imitation.
― NotEnough, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Missed the last few, did Ulrika not nominate Terry?
― chap, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Oops, wrong thread.
― chap, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I've been watching The Adam and Joe Show on 4OD, and it's embarrassing how far in front of the current crop of comedy it is
funnily enough i watched the first ever episode last night too and it holds up reasonably well. the 'shaky cam' thing seemed quite prescient (don't remember this in so much use as early as '96).
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Pulling, that's pretty shit.― Dom Passantino, Monday, 21 April 2008 23:22 (8 months ago)
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 21 April 2008 23:22 (8 months ago)
Did I dream this, or did it win some award recently?
Right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Comedy_Awards_Winners#2008
oh: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a137837/horgans-pulling-axed-by-bbc-three.html?imdb
a whole world of wtf. i still think it's been hard to beat t6his last two years.
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link
You'll be delighted to know that all three series of Reggie Perrin (plus the mid-'90s Legacy and a few extras) are getting a DVD release.
You'll be undelighted to know that this is because Simon Nye and David Nobbs have collaborated on a new version of Perrin with Martin Clunes in the lead role.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link
CHALLOP: Rising Damp is better than Reggie Perrin
― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost it might be alright!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd always thought Rising Damp was pretty widely accepted as better than Reggie Perrin.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Ideal was quite good the other night.
― DavidM, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
but Perrin is infinitely more likeable than Rigsby (likeability!=comedy challop very much in character)
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Ach, Rigsby was more one of those people who insults those around him for fun, but underneath it all was moree considerate (ref: the episode where he finds Don Warrington's character isn't an african chief, and the markings were a result of an attack when he was young, Rigsby nods and says he understands and will never refer to it)......
However, saw some recently, and it's like a lot of those 'long running' sitcoms, where they ration out the ideas more sparingly over subsequent series'.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Adam And Joe are remnants from a better age, when Father Ted, Alan Partridge and Brass Eye were the other comedy names on everyone's lips, rather than whatever shite it is nowadays
― Goodnight, Mr. Johnson. (country matters), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ fogeyish but true
― imagine a super-serious, really noir mcgruff (stevie), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Young Fogeys Against BBC3
― Goodnight, Mr. Johnson. (country matters), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Today in an exercise in actually watching BBC1 comedy instead of just assuming it to be awful, we watched Life of Riley and are half way through Green Green Grass. The former was terrible, but compared to Green Green Grass, it's Seinfeld.
Who the holy fuck is watching these things? Presumably there are some of them, because Green Green Grass appears to be on its fourth series. There's only so much OFAH goodwill you can maintain, surely, by appearance of the Driscoll Brothers and references to Peckham, before you notice that it's utterly utterly shit.
― ailsa, Thursday, 15 January 2009 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I quite like Ideal, I just can't recall ever laughing at it.
― William Bloody Swygart, Thursday, 15 January 2009 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow, Sanjeev Bhaskar has just been appointed as our new boss man.
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Sanjeev Bhaskar is the new Chancellor of the University of Sussex
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 13:16 (fifteen years ago) link
cheque please...
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Laughed my arse off at Stewart Lee.
― chap, Monday, 16 March 2009 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2009/03/18/8489/peep_show_gets_7th_serieshttp://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2009/03/17/8484/its_the_end_for_gavin_%26_stacey
― DavidM, Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:03 (fifteen years ago) link
4th series of IT crowd? jaysus the edge.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link
2nd season of Plus One, too.
― fuck all y'all i'm gonna die young w/bubbles in my mouth (stevie), Thursday, 19 March 2009 11:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm a huge Peep Show fan, but seven series is taking the piss a bit.
― chap, Thursday, 19 March 2009 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Stewart Lee reviews his own show in Time Out under a pseudonym
― Mr Raif, Thursday, 19 March 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
he interviewed himself in the guardian too.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/mar/14/comedian-stewart-lee
that said, the top results in google searches point to thishttp://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/17/stewart-lee-comedy-vehicle-tv-ratings
only 1m viewers for his show 8(
― koogs, Thursday, 19 March 2009 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
"‘I mean, he had a suit on and he was speaking into a microphone and walking around, like Michael McIntyre does, but there were no jokes, just long sentences and these silences where he stared at objects and the floor.’"
― koogs, Thursday, 19 March 2009 15:59 (fifteen years ago) link
The first episode is cringeworthingly unfunny and full of stupidly obvious targets. Dan Brown? So Solid Crew? Harry Potter? Has he engaged with any culture post-2002?
― Matt DC, Monday, 23 March 2009 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually given that he was still doing the routine about Princess Di's memorial ET in 2005 this is maybe not a surprise.
― Matt DC, Monday, 23 March 2009 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
you're only saying this because i told you it was good.
i enjoyed it a lot - apart from the 'rap singers' thing going on far too long.
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 23 March 2009 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
you could always just pretend it's from 2002 and you missed it at the time.
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 23 March 2009 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
When did you tell me it was good? I don't remember that.
― Matt DC, Monday, 23 March 2009 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
saturday night
highlights imo: the grange hill sausage at the traffic lights; his Pliny voice during the Harry Potter bit
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 23 March 2009 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah except for the rap singers bit i thought this was good. Also first thing I ever watched on bbc iplayer.
― Blackout Crew are the Beatles of donk (jim), Monday, 23 March 2009 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
First almost-showing of 'is it the businessman in his suit and tie' joke on BBC2 for over ten years?
― carson dial, Monday, 23 March 2009 22:37 (fifteen years ago) link
dont forget 'i was 28', another goldenoldie
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Monday, 23 March 2009 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Only lol = Del Boy falling through bar.
he showed he was still with it with that Disposable Heroes of Hip-Hoprasy ref tho', eh.
― CosMc (Raw Patrick), Monday, 23 March 2009 22:40 (fifteen years ago) link
the whole Del Boy thing was pretty great.
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Monday, 23 March 2009 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link
No, just the archive clip from OFAH was really.
― CosMc (Raw Patrick), Monday, 23 March 2009 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought this was better than the first one which I also liked a lot - just thought the phrasing, timing etc was better, don't ultimately give a shit if the jokes are 'dated' or not
― some dude's gizmo (DJ Mencap), Monday, 23 March 2009 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe dude would be better off not wondering if “pitch and rhythm are considered acceptable substitutes for content and wit” when he isn't bringing the last two.
― CosMc (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 09:03 (fifteen years ago) link
The Asher D autobio bit was originally part of a set where he just took the piss out of a bunch of random charity shop shit he'd bought, alongside a comedy album by Franklin Ajaye. In the Iannucci interview he acknowledges that SSC aren't a timely reference and goes off on a semi-convincing thing about them being an important force in British hip hop
I was at the Del Boy one and was amazed that they actually kept in the "I am begging for applause" bit at the end; aside from the A+ sucker punch at the end of 90s Comedian he's always seemed unable to come up with a good killer joke to end his sets with and ends up just floundering and repeating the reasonably funny concept he's introduced over and over with no payoff.
The sketches have seemed a bit pointless and not much more than "and here's what that last joke would look if it was acted out by the Curious Orange/Simon Munnery/Kevin Eldon". That said "the rappers, you've seen them" etc is basically the funniest thing of all time to me and I can't countenance how it's splitting opinion so much
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 09:38 (fifteen years ago) link
― Matt DC, Monday, March 23, 2009 10:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
they are obvious targets (though apart from SSC still "relevant" post-2002) but it was still funny. second ep: less funny, except for the del boy bit and the final bit which was transcendent.
won't go as far as dom in his stanning because it *is* often just G.O.M. material, but im also not *that* bothered that he isn't doing jokes on lady gaga or chris brown or whatever.
the iannucci bits are funnier than the chopped in sketches.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 09:46 (fifteen years ago) link
The Radio Four bit was the best part of the first programme I thought, the bits about Harry Potter were the worst. I'll watch the second one tonight, mostly because I like Stewart Lee and want this to turn into something good, but the first one kind of confirmed my long-held opinion that he's occasionally brilliant and often just lazy.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 10:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I laughed repeatedly at the Channel 4 shit cannon, but felt guilty about it.
― Shannon Whirry & the Bad Brains, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 10:03 (fifteen years ago) link
> i enjoyed it a lot - apart from the 'rap singers' thing going on far too long.
was actually funnier the second time i watched it
― koogs, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 10:30 (fifteen years ago) link