Limmy's Show

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

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.

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/

good work for hosting this on the telegraph website....

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2011/11/margaret-thatcher.jpg

woman of eighty-six, now mentally frail, vulnerable and unable to answer him back or defend herself

Ah the old senile defensia

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!

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

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

one of my favourites, mostly down to the sheer menace at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9_kpc7zjZM
again, "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)

re: that last clip, what does 'topper' mean? i take it as something like "got one over on you", that right?

also what's limmy's comedy hypnotist dad called? seriously thinking of making a trip up from manchester to check his show

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.

I think this is hypnolimmy

http://lordofthetrance1.webs.com/

http://lordofthetrance1.webs.com/limond.jpg

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

onimo, you didn't find the danny dyer phonecall funny?

Bog standard crank call imo. Rab Corbett's were funnier, dunno if they're still online somewhere.

Dyer name dropping Jimmy Boyle was funny

ah, im a big fan of the bog standard crank call. dunno who rab corbett is, mind

He's from Paisley, I think. His stuff used to get passed around on tapes years ago then it surfaced on the web 1.0. Probably not as good as I remember it.

limmy's dad's hypnotist show looks mental: http://youtu.be/J0xX3oxa1hk

skip to second half, 3.45 onwards. watch from 3.45 onwards. bunch of people sat in a row, raging at each other while limmy's dad - who has hypnotised them into thinking he's invisible - walks past slapping and nipping and pulling their hair. goes on for 5 relentlessly unpleasant minutes. no jokes or humour, just anger and rage and pain, increasing in intensity til it looks they're gona smash each others faces in.

at one point he grabs the old lady's boobs and she think it's this scally kid who did it. grim.

apparently his show is self-contained and he's willing to travel the uk so 100% booking him for a show in manchester. who's in?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwfxvo34fRY

ahm actually turnin intae a wuwlf

the electronics shop guy is really annoying

damn thing isn't on iplayer yet. though spotted this interesting nugget:

BBC1 12:00 AM, Sunday 18th November 2012

so it IS being shown nationwide after all. weird as a lot of the press leading up to it says how it's scotland only, criminally

there have been a lot of big shake-ups at the BBC this week.

the US Grand Prix appears to be on BBC1 at that time

Turns out I had BBC Scotland hidden away in the other channels bit on my TV though. I've missed out on so much

ah yeah, says bbc1 (scotland only) on a related page. wish this fucker would turn up on iplayer or box.bz soon. im refusing to sleep until it does.

as good as expected. some properly brilliant bits, some that don't quite make it, but it's definitely of a piece with s1&2. big relief he's not dropped off.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01p085w/Limmys_Show_Series_3_Episode_1/

really hope the guy in the hardware shop isn't going to be an ongoing thing.

favourite bits were the old man with the hats and Dee Dee. Wasn't even a vintage Dee Dee sketch but i just find him hilarious every time

i liked the guy in the electronics shop, tho by the end it wasn't so good.

think my biggest laugh was the "i've never said this to anyone before.... " one. but the dude in the park was just brilliant. reminds me of some IRL twats.

adventure call was pretty good. i liked the bit with the guy drawing the picture on the napkin too. that actor is amazing.

paraside and jac mccaff good and a good mix of others I realise what I enjoy is just limmy's v funny acting plus some v funny moments and ideas than payoffs/punchlines

picture on napkin guy was superb. limmy's face as it went on that bit too long, turning from matey laughing to something uncomfortable, just wonderful. (though needed a few seconds shaving off the end of the sketch)

i did think that there's a small risk some of his stuff could descend into pastiche, a bit catchphrasey. (though as catchphrases go, a disgusted look to camera is up there with the best of them.) don't think he's there yet but it could go like that if he's not careful

INT:DAY: MAN: DUCK

JOHN: WHATS THAT DUCK

JOHN: WHATS THAT DUCK

cat walks in with a bird

JOHN:

JOHN:

DUCK: QUACK

EXT:DAY; EYES LOOK AROUND :INT:WOMANS BOOBS

Was a bit disturbed by the giant doors in one of the lampshade sketch scenes. Is this a Glasgow tenement thing? Made the people look like children.

haha