Limmy's Show

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

I thought they looked huge as well.

Park dude was amazing.

Also Deedee ("fucken Alan Titchmarsh").

Deedee's one of the greatest comedy characters of all time. It could have been handled so much worse - point and laugh at the burnout scally, but you're always on his side. I get the impression, just form the decor of his room and the people he knows that he actually used to be a pretty stable guy who just happened to have hit a serious rut.

agree there is sympathy there but it seriously bums me out, such a senseless waste of human life. finniestoun crane was the worst, his poor parents ;_;

the crane one was amazing, and then it turns out it's all a hallucination based on the fact he skinned up on a book about Glasgow landmarks.

"Bastard widnae gie us a straight answer"

read this somewhere else:

"One of the funniest things I saw him do was a webcam where he was waving a big knife about, acting as if he'd snuck it into a nightclub and was threatening to stab people with it. It was both hilarious and genuinely disturbing."

would love to see that

on the webcam one night he pretended to masturbate to savage's "don't cry tonight" for the duration. while softly groaning "don't let me gooo", "don't cry tonight" and sobbing heavily. he kept restarting it, went on for about 20 minutes.

don't think this has been linked on here yet, another of my alltime favourite sketches:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD8qjOjBk-8

similar to napkin one in tone - daft music, expressions, unpleasant payoff. probably my favourite style of the sketches he does (slapstick stuff, influenced by keaton/chaplin?)

xp, ha his webcam stuff was intense. sometimes hilarious, sometimes uncomfortable. always with a great soundtrack though - endlessly pleased that the greatest comic mind of our generation is all about synths and gay club dance music and not lumpen indie

that one was absolutely superb from start to finish

fucking brilliant, right enough.

the 'seamus' pay off had me in tears but they nailed p much everything in that, right down to the face on the guy he sees everywhere.

what's your "hing"

You do realise, like 'hing', a lot of this stuff is just Glaswegian?

yeah it wasn't really that that made it funny

Ah, 'hing' for 'thing' is funny peculiar though

great ep

it is quite funny how you're often not sure when a sketch begins whether it is a new one or a continuation of an earlier one because it's usually the same people usually looking pretty much the same

it is quite funny I realised watching this ep but in eps back to the first series that he often uses liminal spaces for the outdoor sketches or maybe that isn't quite funny

The magic door on the waste ground was perfect.

superb episode that, way beyond last weeks

PARTY
CHAT

Almost too close for comfort that one.

Great episode. My wife pretty much hates it and was on laptop throughout, so I remarked that watching Limmy's Show might have to become my 'hing'; her considered response "Good, at least you'll do it when I'm not around then". Played right into her hands, etc.

got a pavlovian retch from the party chat stuff

ha, my gf hates limmy too. showed her a couple of my favourite limmy clips the other day while sat there stony-faced and disgusted. "i don't get it, i honestly don't see what's funny about it all"

got a package in post the other day, come running upstairs dead excited like a kid at christmas. she looks at me and goes "what's that?" i open it and pull out this: http://cdn-2.cinemaparadiso.co.uk/110415085005_l.jpg

still laughing now at the noise she made, like when you think you've stepped in dogshit and you check bottom of your shoe and find out it's true

it's often the little details that make it so good, imo: the "enchanted forest" type music that comes in as various men describe their 'hing' delighted me almost as much as the premise itself.

Mrs A has shown v occasional amusement at some of his work (Yoker, the "two spoons" dessert sketch), but mostly tolerates it at best. Nothing worse than sitting there unimpressed whilst yr husband/lifepartner/other is braying with misplaced laughter across the room though, I imagine.

the series 1 dvd comes HIGHLY recommended btw. each episode has video commentaries explaining each sketch, motivations, little details, etc. fascinating stuff. (dunno if ilx has a beef with cookdandbombd or what, but i ordered it via the amazon link on the top of the forum page to give the guy a few pennies, neighbourly like)

right, that's Wishlisted for christmas then. Spread a little festive cheer and good humour for 50% of the household at least.

yeah, it's the details and limmy's mannerisms that make it. the larry forsyth thing is kinda just a one-joke premise but limmy's performance had me in stitches, the way he sneaked that "stop larrying me" line in there. so realistic, like a genuine aggro drunk

credit due to the supporting cast too. tall skinny guy is terrifyingly funny and i almost wet myself when other guy said about (SPOILER) spending all weekend in that wardrobe laughing his head off. so much better than the 3 from s1 it's untrue

the s2 dvd with more of the same coming out in a few weeks too!

tall skinny guy's finest moment is either last week's napkin sketch or I KNEW IT

currently changing my ringtone to dee dee's HAA as he watches the newsreader trip up

and if anyone hasn't heard the world of glasgow podcasts yet, here they are:
http://www.mediafire.com/?tcudyh7ih453i1j
http://www.mediafire.com/?loivtrivxiql8kj

(i don't think they're on sale anywhere but mods: feel free to take the links down if they are)

hehe my missus just stormed out of the room within milliseconds of his voice coming out of the Iplayer

I liked Raymond Mearns a bit for the ECCIES gurn and the bit with him being on the phone to Dee Dee all depressed at what his son had become but yeah the new guys are better

The guy that's the younger of the two has something about him (I think around his mouth?) that I can't get past. Do think the three of them are really good though.

do any american ilxors like his stuff? interested in if it translates

Yes but I lived in Glasgow for a while.

i really like the younger guy. he's really good at that "whit ye talkin aboot?"/"couldn't give a fuck" kind of shrug or brush-off thing that's required in a lot of limmy's sketches. like the sketch this week with him pouring the big head on the pint followed by limmy's rant about a guy at a foam party which escalated when the guy wouldn't look at him doing the impression. brilliant sketch. "whit's yer hing?" and the chest-touching sketches were great too. it's not all gold though - that PARASIDE sketch is crap as was the scratch-card thing.

Yeah Paraside is pretty weak. Started watching this with flatmate, after Paraside and PARTY CHAT she said "ok I'm going to do the washing up". Not the best start to the show then but I was pissing myself through all of Larry Forsyth's Experiments.

i quite liked paraside. scratch card was shit though, i agree. the script in the corner shop "whit's yer hing" is so perfect. "i tell the wife i'm stocktaking..." followed by the conspiratorial "but you're not"

"Stop Larrying me!" and "something beginning with allpaper" had me in tears. Loads of meh scattered elsewhere though.

The "reaction" sketch tied it all together (perfect deployment of the yelled "fanny" n'all), specifically justifying the scratch card sketch where the subverted expectation was resubverted by it having exactly the punchline you would expect have expected it to, had it not been a Limmy sketch.

Loved the fact that PARTY CHAT guy was always in the process of skinning up, even though it felt like the whole thing took place over a couple of hours.

Some banter on 'em on all man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PtwbY7fP6VQ