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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

oh 'burp', not 'burn'.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 5 February 2007 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

the trumpet-playing 'how to be a lesbian' bit killed.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 5 February 2007 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

> tv burp was again almost flawless.

funniest bit was the 'who do you think you are?' / 'you don't know you're born' comment. i doubt itv bosses were laughing though.

> do they repeat it?

yes. late night, sometime in the week. (midnight, wednesday night)

― Koogy Bloogies (koogs), Monday, 5 February 2007 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link

TV burp is funny

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 5 February 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

the breakthrough

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 5 February 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm loving Harry Hill's riffs on Ray Mears and that nature guy who never finds what he's looking for ("Up in the sky, that's birds... On the ground, that's mostly dogs...")

― chap (chap), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

It almost makes me want to watch those programmes, but I'm afraid that might spoil it.

And when it's finished, all the "normal" problems look as if they are deliberately bad, for laughs or something.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

that nature guy who never finds what he's looking for

The bit the other week with the rules for which snakes are poisonous was comedy gold.

― I don't know whether to play the trumpet, read a book or be a lesbian. (aldo_cow, Monday, 5 February 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Screen Wipe not quite firing on all cylinders there, but Justin Lee Collins presenting The World At War was inspired.

― I don't know whether to play the trumpet, read a book or be a lesbian. (aldo_cow, Monday, 5 February 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, he's starting to repeat himself a bit - how many times has he done psychics? A few chuckles, though.

― chap (chap), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Once, I am going to remember this is on.

Friday sees the return, on BBC Scotland only, of comedy scripted by Jack Doherty and Moray Hunter. A pilot only, mind, but it's a start.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link

That's quite exciting, Ailsa. Do(c)herty looked very rough when I saw him on Wardour Street last week. Probably just got up (it was 2pm). This was two minutes after seeing Victoria Wood hefting a large bag up Newman Street. Flickr friends will know of my latest Britcom celeb encounter. But it's Soho - the place is crawling with people visiting their agents/postprod studios/prod companies/etc. And none of them look like they have to get up (or go to bed) as early as I do. (He says, posting at midnight).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, Docherty. Pete's junkie ways have infested my brane.

It stars Docherty, Hunter, Morwenna Banks and John Gordon Sinclair (who hasn't actually done anything of note since Fraggle Rock, I don't think, but he gets a free pass for life in my world for Gregory's Girl and That Sinking Feeling)

Looks a bit shit, mind.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link

ally saw m hunter on byres rd, a month and a bit ago, and I saw j g sinclair in somerfield on byres rd, about a month ago

no idea what's happened to m banks

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 09:05 (seventeen years ago) link

burp > burn.

brooker needs to make big statements too much.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 09:14 (seventeen years ago) link

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