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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

"You're using words there that children use to describe witches"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radioassets/photos/2007/1/31/13755_2.jpg

Discuss.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

"i'm gonna have you naked by the end of this song"

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Man, those Sunn O))) dudes have turned into cunts.

― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Ralph and Ted, that's the one. Excellent.

I wonder what an AV lounge is.

I watched some of The Mighty Boosh live last night and reflected that perhaps it was not worth six quid after all.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 1 February 2007 09:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Down the Line is, indeed, the funniest comedy show on any of the broadcast media for a long time. I could listen to Simon Day talking bollocks in a South London accent for hours on end.

― b ham (b ham), Thursday, 1 February 2007 09:16 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radioassets/photos/2007/1/31/13755_2.jpg

Obi-Wan and Luke have let themselves go.

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Thursday, 1 February 2007 09:51 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPu4YX0KfFA&eurl= now that's some satires

― acrobat (elwisty), Thursday, 1 February 2007 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link

this probably deserves a thread of its own on ILM and it's not even really comedy BUT it is the offical comic relief single 2007

Girls Aloud vs Sugababes - Walk This Way

not very "good"

― acrobat (elwisty), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

screen wipe/burn is back back back tonight.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 5 February 2007 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

i have been watching things mentioned here, for research purposes.

i saw e01 of 'jam'. i now think that this was the only ep i saw of it first time round (in full at any rate). it's mostly utter shit, and the appalling rape 'joke' towards the end is just... shit. i will persevere, but it's drastically worse than...

'nathan barley'. rewatched first two episodes, and it's great.

'spaced' is still good.

'the day today' is too familiar now' so is 'kmkywap', but in a good way.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 5 February 2007 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Spaced is waaaaaay too familiar for me now. Every time I watch it (not often nowadays) it's just too boring. I think I need to not watch it for 10 years like I'm doing with Star Wars.

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Monday, 5 February 2007 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link

tv burp was again almost flawless. after the jade goody doll i couldn't stop laughing. i seriously doubt its "timeless" or "progressive" but imo funniest tv program in years.

― acrobat (elwisty), Monday, 5 February 2007 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link

do they repeat it?

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 5 February 2007 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

it's on tonight. didn't know it had already gone out.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 5 February 2007 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

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