Limmy's Show

I really like him, despite the PAIN his work causes me in the office. He's clearly a fan of Tim & Eric - says as much on the commentaries for the new DVD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcqzrNOG2TA

this one always gets me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tt5DE4hbYY

My dad frequently tells me how much he loves the sketch with the magic picture frame and his dad in it. Limmy's humour is at its best when it reflects that particular Scottish sense of neither being derogatory /laughing at somebody's expense nor self deprecating - just funny because it is.

YERRA LIAR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AryQPWvlvU

Burnistoun (although equally prone to misfires) stomps all over it with Jolly Boy John.

Much as I love Burnistoun and agree that both are hit and miss, I think Limmy's highs are higher.

I once spent half an hour suppressing giggles on a train after my brother texted "d'ye want this mushroom" to me.

I've followed and unfollowed Limmy several times on twitter. He's hard work sometimes. I used to occasionally watch his webcam stuff too.

the webcam stuff is definitely a little too weird for me

Limmy is a twitter savant. I've actually read this whole thing twice

http://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/Brian_Limond_%28daftlimmy%29_TheLose1000.htm#TheLose1000

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wee bits of that are cracking me up - I think he just riffs away and some things eventually become sketch ideas

I once spent half an hour suppressing giggles on a train after my brother texted "d'ye want this mushroom" to me.

yes. it's not so much that he sketches are hilarious (although the best ones are) but that so many of them have taken on a life of their own between my friends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbShY2hE_c
"heavy duty"

"dessert" is painfully otm, could do a follow up with "a glass of wine please" " would that be a *large* glass of wine ooh ooh smirk wink?"

this thread is making me realise how much stuff he has, i'd say there are 30/40 i love and i hadn't seen a lot of the ones posted here.

jed otm too, the stuff has a way of getting into conversation.

the one i drop the most is "and that means YOU".

I also think it's really clear from a lot of the sketches that he has been a major raver at some point

I used to know him, when he but was wee laddie (aye), so I can confirm this as true

A friend's three-year old son asked her for a "muffit of tea" the other day.

love "a muffit of tea".

I've still never seen his show!

The "Nightmare" sketch had me in hysterics first time I watched it.

So many good Limmy's sketches. I bought series 1 on DVD but when it came to watching it my flatmate was just unimpressed and I had to admit that series lacked a lot of the best of his work.

YERRA LIAR

I once did a telephone interview with him and I genuinely was laughing for the full thirty minutes we were speaking.

This is my personal favourite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ysnjjvcAmk

I forgot about "a muffit of tea"! I often read problem as ploblem to myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYVdrwLEx1I

both parts of this sketch kill me

omg muffit of tea

the way the "new characters" sketches - drunk lassie, soaking guy etc. - built to their final realisation was masterful.

-i'm not numb hen, these are great these wee things...
-whit wee things?
-ECCIES!!!

Looking forward to the new series. S2 was brilliant. Easily the best British sketch show (not that there's much competition) since The Fast Show and arguably more inventive.

Each to their own, but I find it surprising that people say Limmy is hit and miss compared to Burnistoun. There are a few great Burnistoun sketches (2 Litre Bottle of Ginger, The Lift, the single issue MP, er that's about it) but it's always been seriously patchy. The latest series was piss poor; lazy writing, a lack of imagination. With stuff like Jolly Boy John it's as if they're trying to go for the weirdness of Limmy, but it totally falls flat and just comes across as the sort of 'random' wacky shit Limmy takes the piss out of so well (youtube the Limmy 'random' sketch from the pilot - one of my favourites).

There are endless Limmy sketches imo.

SHES TURNED THE WAINS AGAINST US!

I love the delivery of "you're a wee fanny" here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKEOwkkmQ68

"I'll fock'n kill ye, ye wank!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zwxIMMGZro

tom d, did you know him well? was he always funny?

i'm hands down obsessed with the guy, greatest comedian of all time for me. certainly the most *now* in tone - as in it seems a product of internet age, cf: his previous career in webdesign and rise to fame through youtube

never seen burniston - is it similar stuff?

true about his stuff bleeding into everyday conversation, i'm always referencing the 'back on top' sketch after any minor/major mishap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH9ajekHNKM

agree slightly about s2 being better than the first, but i can watch both over and over, soaking it up like whale noise. can't do this with any other tv show at all ever, there's something almost songlike and rhythmic about his stuff

vague mutterings online about a beef between him and his older brother, saying limmy jr robbed a lot of material from his bro. apparently elder limmy did 'requiem' for real in the 80s which is kinda horrifying if still a bit amusing

worth checking him out too, his twitter stuff is mostly football rants but there are gems like this on soundcloud and youtube:
http://soundcloud.com/davidlimond/me-calling-danny-dyer

as my mate phil put it, "like limmy but just dead rough and not honed at all"

(warning: bit of racism in that soundcloud link)

and if you've not heard limmy's 'world of glasgow' podcasts then you're in for a treat. should be out there to download but if not let me know and i'll upload a zip somewhere. mental image of jacqueline mcafferty dancing to 'call on me' is forever burned onto my psyche

can easily imagine him not being to many peoples taste, a lot of his material is just a torrent of grim with only a sliver of a pay-off (often just him pulling a disgusted face to camera). then again there are things that make me explode like "they all just wanna RRRRIDE me"

disappointingly his wife did the stage layout for frankie boyle's tour. boyle just seems like a thick nasty limmy, completely missing the point, hitting way below the mark

world of glasgow is on itunes for free i think

disappointingly his wife did the stage layout for frankie boyle's tour.

No, his girlfriend did the art on the DVD cover! (x-post)

He sometimes mentions his father, who is a regional "comedy hypnotist" that performs at local pubs. He's clearly got an interesting family history. Jesus - half the press for S3 is him talking about alcoholism and suicide.

It's amazing to me (as someone who didn't grow up in the UK, so his accent is sometimes REALLY hard for me to understand, like on the Dee Dee sketches or the amazing "Get away from the motor" one) how he can also have such broadly-appealing ones. The Mr. Mulvaney sketches are incredible!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9KmdBEFisQ&playnext=1&list=PLCA06AD4FAB1EAC48&feature=results_video

I didn't quite finish that thought - I just mean the range of his sketches is impressive. Total surreal non-sequitor stuff all the way to something that could have been a Mr. Show bit or whatever.

Part of it is that he's a genuinely great actor, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggEUx-wS0ms

Burnistoun is kind of the flip side of the coin to Limmy's Show - an unashamedly big, dumb, noisy sketch show. There's usually one or two decent sketches per series, and the rest is sort of "hmm". It's disappointing cos the stuff Rab Florence used to do on his old shows(eg Consolevania & Videogaiden) wasn't like that at all, I get the sense he's playing things deliberately low-brow for a more mainstream audience.

Limmy's stuff is in a different league, which is odd as initially they were coming very much from the same place, humour-wise - both very Tim & Eric influenced. Not to mention Limmy was a regular in Videogaiden as "Zak Eastman".

tom d, did you know him well? was he always funny?

Pretty well. Yes, and the humour was exactly the same, but I would never have thought he'd end up a "comedian" with his own TV show!

Jesus - half the press for S3 is him talking about alcoholism and suicide.

That's Glasgow for you!

Got tae laugh int ye? Else ye'd walk till yer bunnet floated.

Aye, ye never knwo the minute

forgot mulvaney and up t' bloody tree. both amazing.

Seriously though, why is is still not on one of the main BBC channels? Considering the shite they have on. It's not an accent thing is it? Cos that's a bit fucked

Is it really not on nationwide? I've only seen the sketches on YouTube through mates and assumed it was.

the anti-thatcher/queen stuff probably doesn't help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQqMBma6H4c
I mean, this is what his hing is, and it's vital shit

hi Limmy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu0cJ593qfg

not sure if that's starting at the right place - 1:09:42

looool

"No cunt knows" = new board description

the look of bafflement

Amazing

Sorry to sound like Lloyd Cole up there, but do people really watch 4+ hours of Limmy looking at shit on the internet and talking about it?

Haha, I don‘t get it, but my brother often does when he is working.

Shit on the internet so much, but I could watch him watching old UK variety and game shows for 420 hours.

* not so much

I can watch his stream for ages but it's an on-in-the-background sort of thing usually. There is a yt channel which compiles short (like 1-2 minutes or less) clips too.

I enjoy sticking on the old TV 'analysis' or some of the video games he plays for twenty minutes here and there, but there does seem to be a lot of people who hunker down for a focused four-hour stream, which yeah is behaviour that's very alien to me.

I pretty much watch any time it’s on if I’m not in the office, can’t get enough tbh

job wouldn't allow me to watch regularly anyway but likewise did get hooked on putting the 80s tv streams on while doing housework over xmas

Yeah, I put it on in the background sometimes. Like NPR but y’know Limmy playing Rust instead of Here and Now.

Would love to see him work the best of his streaming raw material into proper sketches someday because I miss them.

Realize he has lots of unresolved challenges but anyway, he has wasted his talents.

Limmy's Show = "The Stone Roses"
Handmade Show & books = Second Coming
Social media stuff = The Seahorses
"Stream me playing Animal Crossing" = Ian Brown's anti-lockdown song

Idk, some of his social media stuff is arguably the pinnacle. Those Vines!

Imo he is best when working with straight actors which gives a reasonable context to his whole thing.

He had the promise of a young Steve Martin or Rowan Atkinson. Someone who is just naturally funny with unique body language to express it. He could be making movies by now instead of retreating into a corner.

he was unhappy with the pressure of making TV shows, he's much happier doing this

i love that he’s stretching the boundaries of comedy, so glad that he’s embracing streaming and new tech.

That is a very crowded field and he is a very minor participant. He is making a living perhaps but where's the evidence that he is happy?

As long as he's happy and making a living out of whatever he's doing then that's a good thing. I don't think we really need a Glaswegian Mr. Bean tbh.

His autobiography had barely a moment of happiness in it.

i mean, he says so, but if you watch the stream or just the clips channel you'll see how he's in a better place than a few years ago

(xp) That's just who he is. Let's just say as happy as can be expected.

I suppose there might've been a world where he could've gotten famous enough to make auteurist films, but really "he could be making movies" just makes me think of a scenario where he gets wasted in bit parts in Hollywood comedies, so I'll take the streams

He would probably agree with you. His book has a strong vien of a particularly Scottish fear of failure and ridicule. Keep your expectations limited and know your place!

https://i.imgur.com/Ofv70RC.png

"see? nae cunt knows what it means"

whoops should've seen the last revive