― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link
To put things into context: Harry Hill aside, all British TV Comedy right now is total shit.
-- Ruairi Wirewool (horseproduction...), January 15th, 2007. (Ruairi Wirewool) (later)
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what were the chances of that happening? -- mark grout (mark.grou...), January 15th, 2007. (mark grout) (later)
If you can put CT and Green Wing on a par, you truly show a lack of discernment IMO. Frankly, now that GW has been and gone, I'm inclined to agree with Ruairi, minus the bit about Harry Hill.
-- You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (papiermachealamphibia...), January 15th, 2007. (Haberdager) (later)
If you can put CT and Green Wing on a par, you truly show a lack of discernment IMO.no it's just a 'higher' (or rather 'stricter') level of discernment.
-- vita susicivus (n...), January 15th, 2007. (blueski) (later)
'the thick of it' will be back, later in the year, and so will 'peep show'. -- the original hauntology blogging crew (miltonpinsk...), January 15th, 2007. (Enrique) (later)
but in a another more accurate sense... -- mark s (mar...), January 15th, 2007. (mark s) (later)
but then i do like Harry Hill so it's apples and roundabouts. -- vita susicivus (n...), January 15th, 2007. (blueski) (later)
rubbish -- RJG (RJ...), January 15th, 2007. (RJG) (later)
so you keep saying -- vita susicivus (n...), January 15th, 2007. (blueski) (later)
RJG's TV Burp -- Dom Passantino (juror...), January 15th, 2007. (Dom Passantino) (later)
Hmm. I was only talking about currently-running comedy shows. If Peep Show returns for a fourth bite at the cherry (and TTOI for a second), I will only be too delighted. Of course, the one I'm really looking out for is Nathan Barley II. -- You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (papiermachealamphibia...), January 15th, 2007. (Haberdager) (later)
i think it would be a big ask for there to be a 'great' uk comedy series to be running all 52 weeks of the year. i have low standards perhaps; but i don't ask for a 'great' film each month either. -- the original hauntology blogging crew (miltonpinsk...), January 15th, 2007. (Enrique) (later)
of course i too want 'nathan barley' back. -- the original hauntology blogging crew (miltonpinsk...), January 15th, 2007. (Enrique) (later)
They could drop scissors on a dog's head this time. -- Dom Passantino (juror...), January 15th, 2007. (Dom Passantino) (later)
uh, rose-tinted view there i reckon - but at least it was generating interesting discussion.one episode of Screen Wipe a month would be good. ditto TV Burp.
ha ha Dom OTM -- vita susicivus (n...), January 15th, 2007. (blueski) (later)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Unread Messages as with 'green wing', take away the hype and the expectation it'll live up to 'the day today' and 'nathan barley' was 23 minutes well-spent. i lolled anyway. -- the original hauntology blogging crew (miltonpinsk...), January 15th, 2007. (Enrique) (later)
i didn't laugh more than i did laugh etc. -- vita susicivus (n...), January 15th, 2007. (blueski) (later)
― acrobat (elwisty), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link
And Screen Wipe rocks.
― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link
it was good, but not 300 times better than 'nathan barley'.
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost
steve otm
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link
this happened in the show except he thought she turned out not be under-age (at which point NB thinking it now okay to pretend she WAS under-age was actually quite a clever little point about...something or other).
i did hate NB but yes no less than anyone else around him.
― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Actually, scratch that, that's not the idea at all. It's funny caricatures falling into situations and scrambling to return to the status quo whilst simultaneously being trapped; a very old-fashioned sitcom thread. I certainly didn't feel that is was trying to make a big insightful statement about something, at least, nothing larger than "it's better to like something than to dislike something."
― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link
'THIR-FUCKING-TEEN'.
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link
In fairness, I guess originally Barley wasn't really a character, just a cipher, and in making him human Morriss and Brooker made him more, er, human. I just don't think that made for great comedy. It wasn't sharp enough to be genuine satire and it wasn't silly enough to be knockabout comedy. It was just 'dark'.
― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
I doubt whether Channel 4 enforced any 'nicening'. You know, maybe Barley always looked like that in Brooker's head, and if you boil the actions in any of the episodes down to the kind of 3-sentence description that you would find in TV Go Home, it wouldn't be that different. But TVGH gave the impression that Barley was a cartoonishly horrible amoral grotesque, and that's not what we got in the TV show. We got 'idiots'. I hoped it would be either venemous or ridiculous and it was neither.
― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
pt. I
pt. II
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 09:51 (seventeen years ago) link
i lolled?
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 09:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 09:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh okay, I didn't read the website so I didn't know what was supposed to happen, I only saw (and liked) what did.
― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 10:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 10:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 10:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 10:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't think I've ever seen Steve Pemberton be himself before, but he's my instant favourite, he just seems naturally amusing.
I like him a fair bit in his other endeavours, but in this he's a bit Dara O'Brien style 'I'm probably going to win' smug for me.
Nick is very likeable, but hardly hilarious.
― chap, Saturday, 6 April 2024 00:21 (one week ago) link
Lucy Beaumont absolutely does my head in. I can't fathom how someone can be that ditzy and yet get herself together enough to fashion a career out of her ditziness. Career weirdos just baffle me (see also Sam Campbell and Mike Wozniak, for example).
Absolutely *loved* Susan Wokoma, up there with Katy Wix in terms of people I only knew through acting roles before Taskmaster and now absolutely adore.
― ailsa, Saturday, 6 April 2024 00:26 (one week ago) link
And yeah, my previous encounters with Nick have been in his magician persona on Catsdown, and acting roles which don't count. Based on the former I thought I'd hate him, but he's ok. Amiable and silly are good Taskmaster traits, but the series needs someone to root for, and I can't summon much enthusiasm for any of them.
― ailsa, Saturday, 6 April 2024 00:29 (one week ago) link
i just find it odd that Steve P isn't sat in the traditional old man seat.
and the fact i can't remember the woman's name two episodes in probably doesn't bode well.
― koogs, Saturday, 6 April 2024 05:37 (one week ago) link
Lucy Beaumont absolutely does my head in. I can't fathom how someone can be that ditzy and yet get herself together enough to fashion a career out of her ditzinessit's an act, right?
― ledge, Saturday, 6 April 2024 06:40 (one week ago) link
if it is an act it's brilliant. if it isn't, you're right it's mystifying.
― ledge, Saturday, 6 April 2024 06:42 (one week ago) link
For me it's Joanne McNally this year, for absolute comedy snob reasons. She's just not for me. I don't rate her one bit.
I absolutely love John Robins (fellow Queen enthusiast that he is), and his attempts to stick a chopping board to a whiteboard really made us laugh this week. Otherwise it's all a bit meh so far. I love Nick's vampire costume, though.
Jamali was a terrible contestant, I remember, but that must have been a stressful season to be on. Total social distancing, whole country on edge, etc. But yeah, it's not a show to try to maintain your cool persona on. If being in control is your thing, you should not answer the call.
― trishyb, Saturday, 6 April 2024 09:27 (one week ago) link
They sit in alphabetical order of first names, always have. They must have forgotten to get younger people with names later in the alphabet.
― ailsa, Saturday, 6 April 2024 09:32 (one week ago) link
Joanne would probably be a laugh to hang out with, but hardly a comic genius.
― chap, Saturday, 6 April 2024 09:43 (one week ago) link
> They sit in alphabetical order of first names, always have.
mind blown.
i kinda wish they'd have some of the Dave-era people back onto the bigger budget show
― koogs, Saturday, 6 April 2024 10:15 (one week ago) link
5, 7 and 9 are the best series imo. Don't think 8 was that bad either.
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 6 April 2024 11:32 (one week ago) link
I’ve seen Sam Campbell live and his energy is off the charts nuts
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 13 April 2024 01:50 (five days ago) link