I've still never seen his show!
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 November 2012 10:12 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Thursday, 8 November 2012 10:13 (eleven years ago) link
YERRA LIAR
― jed_, Thursday, 8 November 2012 10:16 (eleven years ago) link
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
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 8 November 2012 10:32 (eleven years ago) link
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
― squozen turnip (onimo), Thursday, 8 November 2012 12:20 (eleven years ago) link
omg muffit of tea
― itt: 'splaining men (ledge), Thursday, 8 November 2012 12:44 (eleven years ago) link
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!!!
― jed_, Thursday, 8 November 2012 13:00 (eleven years ago) link
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).
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Thursday, 8 November 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
There are endless Limmy sketches imo.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 8 November 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
SHES TURNED THE WAINS AGAINST US!
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Thursday, 8 November 2012 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
I love the delivery of "you're a wee fanny" here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKEOwkkmQ68
― squozen turnip (onimo), Thursday, 8 November 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
"I'll fock'n kill ye, ye wank!"
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Thursday, 8 November 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zwxIMMGZro
― Dog the Puffin Hunter (ledge), Thursday, 8 November 2012 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
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
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 02:38 (eleven years ago) link
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
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 02:39 (eleven years ago) link
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
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
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"
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 02:43 (eleven years ago) link
(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
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
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"
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
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
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
world of glasgow is on itunes for free i think
― Number None, Friday, 9 November 2012 02:57 (eleven years ago) link
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
― She Got the Shakes, Friday, 9 November 2012 07:57 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― She Got the Shakes, Friday, 9 November 2012 07:58 (eleven years ago) link
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".
― Pheeel, Friday, 9 November 2012 11:09 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 9 November 2012 11:25 (eleven years ago) link
Jesus - half the press for S3 is him talking about alcoholism and suicide.
That's Glasgow for you!
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 9 November 2012 11:26 (eleven years ago) link
Got tae laugh int ye? Else ye'd walk till yer bunnet floated.
― squozen turnip (onimo), Friday, 9 November 2012 11:32 (eleven years ago) link
Aye, ye never knwo the minute
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 9 November 2012 11:38 (eleven years ago) link
forgot mulvaney and up t' bloody tree. both amazing.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Friday, 9 November 2012 12:14 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Number None, Friday, 9 November 2012 12:17 (eleven years ago) link
Is it really not on nationwide? I've only seen the sketches on YouTube through mates and assumed it was.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 9 November 2012 13:01 (eleven years ago) link
the anti-thatcher/queen stuff probably doesn't help
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 9 November 2012 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
He's playing up to a stereotype with the "fuck yer England" stuff but maybe some Englishers at the BBC only see the angry Jock.
― squozen turnip (onimo), Friday, 9 November 2012 13:21 (eleven years ago) link
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/louisemensch/100116958/why-is-the-bbc-using-licence-fee-money-to-pay-a-man-who-wishes-margaret-thatcher-dead/
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 9 November 2012 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
good work for hosting this on the telegraph website....
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2011/11/margaret-thatcher.jpg
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 9 November 2012 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
woman of eighty-six, now mentally frail, vulnerable and unable to answer him back or defend herself
Ah the old senile defensia
― Dog the Puffin Hunter (ledge), Friday, 9 November 2012 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
half the press for S3 is him talking about alcoholism and suicide
do you have any links to these? he's spoke previously about quitting drinking after waking up one morning feeling suicidal, be interesting if he's gone into more detail
and woops re: stage layout/dvd cover thing!
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
more from limmy sr:
https://twitter.com/GlasgowLimmy/status/266698584576118785/photo/1
wept laughing at 'up t'bloody tree' when i first saw it
something so brilliant and small about the GBM past of this 'doppleganger' sketch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLlLb4n8ZtY
that brilliant thing of something minor happening that you might raise an eyebrow for a split second before forgetting and moving on, but limmy grabs it and rinses it to death
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know, it's much more variable than the other Scottish comedy shows on the block - for every "Wrong way down a one way street" there's a "Lloyds pharMAcy"
see, i wouldn't pick out either of those sketches as being brilliant or poor, they're just his middling stuff to me. as you can see on this thread people have their own fairly obscure skits that hit a chord with them, that's his genius
and I have real doubts it'll ever get to the heights of the Falconhoof "Kill Jester" again
super disagree. that 'guy in the park' clip from s3 preview is as good as that for me. fascinated by what he'll do next, clearly has ideas and creativity by the ton so as much as i want him to go on making sketch shows forever i think he'll move onto bigger things. he's already mentioned writing a script for a horror film/tv series - bit gutted as i've no interest in non-lol-horror
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
one of my favourites, mostly down to the sheer menace at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9_kpc7zjZMagain, "ya WANK" has filtered its way into my day to day conversation
(he reused this in his series, something a bit harder hitting about the bare room backdrop of this)
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
re: that last clip, what does 'topper' mean? i take it as something like "got one over on you", that right?
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
also what's limmy's comedy hypnotist dad called? seriously thinking of making a trip up from manchester to check his show
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
Five minutes of twitter & soundcloud has convinced me Limmy Snr's an unfunny bawbag.
I suppose I might think the same of his wee brother if twitter was my first impression.
― squozen turnip (onimo), Friday, 9 November 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
I think this is hypnolimmy
http://lordofthetrance1.webs.com/
http://lordofthetrance1.webs.com/limond.jpg
― squozen turnip (onimo), Friday, 9 November 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
His article on 'trolling' in the Guardian today is something else. I laughed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/nov/09/confessions-of-an-internet-troll
― Walter Galt, Friday, 9 November 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
onimo, you didn't find the danny dyer phonecall funny?
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
Would love to see him work the best of his streaming raw material into proper sketches someday because I miss them.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 7 January 2023 18:55 (one year ago) link
Realize he has lots of unresolved challenges but anyway, he has wasted his talents.
― everything, Saturday, 7 January 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
Limmy's Show = "The Stone Roses"Handmade Show & books = Second ComingSocial media stuff = The Seahorses"Stream me playing Animal Crossing" = Ian Brown's anti-lockdown song
― everything, Saturday, 7 January 2023 19:28 (one year ago) link
Idk, some of his social media stuff is arguably the pinnacle. Those Vines!
― imago, Saturday, 7 January 2023 19:33 (one year ago) link
Imo he is best when working with straight actors which gives a reasonable context to his whole thing.
― everything, Saturday, 7 January 2023 19:36 (one year ago) link
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.
― everything, Saturday, 7 January 2023 19:45 (one year ago) link
he was unhappy with the pressure of making TV shows, he's much happier doing this
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 7 January 2023 19:48 (one year ago) link
i love that he’s stretching the boundaries of comedy, so glad that he’s embracing streaming and new tech.
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 7 January 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
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?
― everything, Saturday, 7 January 2023 20:03 (one year ago) link
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.
― Aw naw, no' an Antonioni wan oan noo an' aw (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 January 2023 20:06 (one year ago) link
His autobiography had barely a moment of happiness in it.
― everything, Saturday, 7 January 2023 20:06 (one year ago) link
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
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 7 January 2023 20:07 (one year ago) link
(xp) That's just who he is. Let's just say as happy as can be expected.
― Aw naw, no' an Antonioni wan oan noo an' aw (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 January 2023 20:07 (one year ago) link
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
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 7 January 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
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!
― everything, Saturday, 7 January 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Ofv70RC.png
― butch wig (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 15:25 (three months ago) link
"see? nae cunt knows what it means"
whoops should've seen the last revive
― butch wig (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 15:28 (three months ago) link