Limmy's Show

well he did that to amazing effect in the world of glasgow christmas special podcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rgq_t92jxg

is that youtube showing or just blank? it's not showing for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rgq_t92jxg

people really rate that final ep of WoG but i dunno, felt a bit forced. great example of form but the content felt weak and restrained, just didn't have the lols. but yeah something he can clearly pull off from a 'creation' pov

i liked it a lot. there were a couple of duff characters in WoG but they brought the goods in this.

which did you think were duffs? i ended up loving phil the most, with john-paul close behind. malice for malice's sake, something you don't see much on tv/radio but come across all the time in day to day life. could never really get into tom, vijay or benjamin but i have some mates who properly love the benjamin character

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

I'm not American, but he's lols

American; love it; though I live in the UK. I sometimes have to rewind sketches a couple of times to make sure I understand him in the sketches where he's real slang-y. I think I get about 72% total. Love it, though.

72% !

ok, seems there needs to be some link to the UK for someone to *get* it. shame in a way but i guess it's mostly observation based so it's bound to be kinda parochial.

Ep 3 particularly dark, even more references to mental illness than usual.

Never seen any of this - is there reason why I need to watch the first series first or can I just dive straight into the second?

nah, it's a sketch show. You can pretty much pick it up whenever

I think that might have been my favourite episode overall. It was particularly bleak, even by the show's usual standards, but there was a thrilling kind of tightness to it; it felt like the themes were in even sharper relief than normal.

And Falconhoof. Poor, poor Falconhoof.

i thought this week's was awful and depressing. i only laughed at the "receipt in the bag" sketch.

i loved the bleakness yeah. not far off laughing along with (not at) mental illness some of those sketches

to answer your question upthread,NI, my WoG duds were Phil and Wee Gary. Benjamin and Tom verged on dud but were saved by being played really well and being well observed. Jacqueline, Xander and Vijay were my favourites.

you didn't like directions by phil?! that's one of my go-to 'laugh out loud on buses' just thinking about it things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG2b0BdWLMM

First "building bricks!" was great, last sketch was definitely [sidelong raised eyebrow slightly pained glance at camera limmy-style] but i liked the bit with the gun/sideways gun/gun & torch.

When the woman buying booze froze with that face on, making that noise (and before the gun stuff), I was absolutely delighted that I wasn't stoned. Nightmarish.

i couldn't stop laughing at the final "building bricks"

I didn't really get building bricks

did the phrase "building bricks" bring back some weird childhood toy or playschool memory for everyone else?

limmy christmas fun
http://www.chunkgames.com/snowball/

This was always fun when I worked in an office

http://www.limmy.com/playthings/xylophone/

the xylophone is an all-time classic. love the new series & started to follow him again on twitter after having to give him a rest for a while

Is it wrong to be mildly freaked out by the fact that the receipt-in-the-bag actor guy from the show has the same mouth as the Third Stage Guild Navigator from Lynch's Dune?

placed a pre-order on amazon for this limmy s2 dvd (out on monday) but unless i pay a shedload extra i'm not gona receive it til wednesday or so. where's likely to stock it in a city centre (manchester)? hmv or something? not bought a dvd on day of release ever before, dunno how it all works - will an english shop even stock it? questions questions!

lol u can't wait two whole days?

fopp mb? vague scottish connection might give you marginally better odds

it kills me how iplayer takes a full day to put the latest limmy's shows up so no i can't wait two (actually three) whole days, no. gona try fopp and hmv tomorrow, wish me luck!

purchased. and because i love him so much, i actually bought TWO. the only two copies in the whole of the city. have THAT, manchester

(not actually mental, it was two for £20 at hmv, one alone cost £17. so if anyone in manchester wants a copy give us a shout, a tenner to you. otherwise my girlfriend gets it and she's already promised she'll punch me hard in the face if i give her anything limmy for christmas)

best adventure call yet

first half of the show was hard going i thought

NI i ilxmailed yiz

sorry bud, it's already been passed on to a new owner!

i should have guessed you'd sort it out swiftly

think this series has been his weakest yet but he's my favourite comedian of any description right now.he absolutely kills me.his twitter ramblings are sort of anti-comedy,but can be amazing. coco jambo.

second ep of this run altho a few dud moments is the best complete ep I can remember and most recent adventure call the sketch that has given me the most continuous/mounting lol

This week's episode was the best yet I think... such a devastating combination of bleak and slapstick. Facile comparison, but "Mam, it's the Windy Man agin: call the polis" made me think he's a post-Trainspotting Ivor Cutler.

Dunno about best, but definitely very good. Perhaps the best episode to show someone who'd not seen the series before? It felt a bit easier going than, say, episode 3.

There's a track on the forthcoming Mogwai album (a soundtrack to a French TV show, 'Les Revenants') called "Kill Jester".

Episode 6 was pretty great too... and apparently the last ever. Which is a pity, but given the workload he'd have had making the thing it's probably best he stopped before getting burned out.

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

Saw ep 5, the payoff for the scary puppet sketch was bathos par excellence. i lost my shit.

episode 6 was the best of the series, for me.

series 1 dvd comes HIGHLY recommended

My sister got me it for Christmas, but I did actually see an episode on my last trip to Scotland so it wasn't quite my introduction. Have only watched the 1st DVD but... Googoogagas: Modus Operandi? Looks like I might have to stop my (occasional) Bobby Gillespie skits on ILM in case people think I'm ripping Limmy off :( Dee Dee is an instant classic, the Finnieston Cran + the kitchen. And that sketch about the evil wee ned annoying the guy in the park is so accurate on evil wee neds, down to saying "Yas" instead of "Yes", *steps down to pick up a conker* "Gies that"...

somehow had missed everything by him (one of those where you keep promising yself you'll catch up with it but don't). Watched all of season 6 the other week - Stevie T otm about bleakness of it all. Particularly enjoyed Windy Man and puppet battle. will start from season1.

My son and his school pals do the Dumbbell Dance and shout "your wife is a floozy!" at each other. I like that Limmy's created playground memes without being too catchphrasey.

Fockin' love how every Dee Dee sketch begins "Fockin'..."

... I was thinking the very same thing earlier today!