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He came on and did his patented "I'm a rebellious punk rocker" thing and everyone, including the other musicians, just ripped the piss out of him for the entire show. Possibly the funniest bit was Mr "real punk" not knowing the words to "Anarchy In The UK".

I need to try and find a t0rr3nt of the show his band did for E4, they showed a clip and it looked utterly ridiculous.

― I don't know whether to play the trumpet, read a book or be a lesbian. (aldo_cow, Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link

http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t241/T241754A.jsm

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I always thought macs were unbearably smug, so I guess the ads work just fine in that context. Doesn't make me like them tho.

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.b3tards.com/u/488db8f83c2de2ff324c/macadvertparody.jpg

― acrobat (elwisty), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link

and another:

http://www.makestickers.com/images/all_your_base_are_belong_to_us.jpg

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:29 (seventeen years ago) link

that is good, acrobat.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link

b3ta i think

― acrobat (elwisty), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i figured

― vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Is "Change" a BASIC command?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't think so. I'd have used a FOR loop.

― case of the mutual heart friendship (onimo), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link

http://base58.com/ilx/policeman.jpg

"I'm a PC"

http://base58.com/ilx/markmorrison.jpg

"I'm the Mack"

http://base58.com/ilx/policeman.jpg

"Then you're nicke-OWWWWWWW! TASERS!"

― vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 8 February 2007 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, and including the REM comment in the GOTO loop! Idiocy!

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 8 February 2007 13:06 (seventeen years ago) link

That's what David Walliams would do tho.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 8 February 2007 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Bump for nu-ILX era

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 22 February 2007 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Watching Screen Wipe this week, I was struck by Charlie Brooker's ersemblance to the bucket-owning seal:

http://www.arbitary.i12.com/stupidman.jpg http://www.arbitary.i12.com/charlie.jpg

Bucket-owning seal

http://www.flickr.com/photos/discoweasel/376246577/

Brooker

― aldo, Friday, 23 February 2007 10:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Lots of great new comedies starting on BBC2 last night:
Peter Davison's new sitcom about a middle-class family - he's a deadbeat-ish, stay-at-home, struggling-writer dad who is always getting it wrong, and is relentlessly admonished by his perma-peeved, go-getting wife. And his two teenage daughters are, well, just so much like teenagers!
The return of Dead Ringers an their uncannily accurate impersonations of TV presenters you can't quite recognise.
Graham Norton's new chat show, like the one he used to do on Channel 4. Surprised it took the Beeb so long.

― DavidM, Friday, 23 February 2007 10:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Not to go all Bushell on you, but you watch that, and then you watch those three hour spots on FX where they have two episodes of Family Guy, two of Lucky Louie, and two of Chappelle's Show, and then you think "Wow, British comedy really fucking sucks"

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Family Guy is rubbish

― Alan, Friday, 23 February 2007 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link

gtfo

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Alan is right

― RJG, Friday, 23 February 2007 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link

You people are dead to me.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm cutting FG a little more slack lately, but that 'Cartoon Wars' episode of South Park is still OTM.

― blueski, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

"Cartoon Wars" is the kind of reactionary regressive bullshit that Parker and Stone trade in these days. When South Park goes back to episodes like "Casa Bonita" or "Woodland Critter Christmas", then we can talk.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link

cartoon wars wasn't LOL (a Bart Simpson cameo OMGZZZzzzz) but the FG crit was bang OTM

― Alan, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I LOVED the animated thing in Screen Wipe tho. more of that please:

"they don't care for it do they?"

― blueski, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, explaining why something "is" funny is a lot harder than explaining why something isn't. Family Guy has basically ascended to my favourite TV show currently running now because it's pretty much the perfect TV show for those of us born 1976-1986, raised on TV and easy access to video rental stores. High pop culture saturation and Seth McFarlane is kinda blessed with knowing what _is_ funny and what _isn't_ (qf the Petergeist episode, which is near perfect as 30 minutes of television).

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

American Dad blows, however.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

cartoon wars wasn't LOL

i laughed out loud at Cartman's general hatred for the show, the actual FG pisstake bits themselves, Cartman and Kyle's fight ("NO HITTING IN THE BALLS"), the manatees and more.

― blueski, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

that Peter Davison thing looked awful.

― Alan, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

because it's pretty much the perfect TV show for those of us born 1976-1986, raised on TV and easy access to video rental stores. High pop culture saturation and Seth McFarlane is kinda blessed with knowing what _is_ funny and what _isn't

you could argue this about South Park just as easily.

― blueski, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Needs more Alison Redman.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link

xp, or maybe not.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link

you could argue this about South Park just as easily.

No, you couldn't, because at centre the best episodes of South Park are the ones that have heart, when Parker and Stone obviously have some affection for Stan and Kyle (and, to a lesser extent, Kenny and Butters), and when Cartman is the asshole villain who has his little moment in the sun then gets taken down. The worst episodes of South Park are when the characters are just faceless ciphers for whatever OMG ISSUE THAT WE MUST TACKLE THIS WEEK that Parker and Stone have going on.

Where Family Guy stands alone from pretty much every other animated comedy (maybe every other sitcom) is that none of the characters are particularly good people. Homer hitting Lisa in the face with a baseball bat wouldn't be funny. Hank hitting Bobby with a baseball bat wouldn't be funny. Peter hitting Meg is, tho.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link

american dad is incredible

so terrible that it would taint anything that was good about family guy if there were anything good about family guy which there isn't

I wish we had underline formatting

― RJG, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link

family guy doesn't seem to have characters

however, it definitely does have a talking dog as well as a talking baby

― RJG, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:24 (seventeen years ago) link

It's very weird to claim that Family Guy doesn't have characters, all of its lead have very very strongly defined personalities, moreso than, say, The Simpsons.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link

when Parker and Stone obviously have some affection for Stan and Kyle (and, to a lesser extent, Kenny and Butters), and when Cartman is the asshole villain who has his little moment in the sun then gets taken down. The worst episodes of South Park are when the characters are just faceless ciphers for whatever OMG ISSUE THAT WE MUST TACKLE THIS WEEK that Parker and Stone have going on. [/]i]

except all of that is every episode ever pretty much. i know substance (rather than 'heart') isn't necessarily as important as roffles but the average SP has more of both than an average FG or Simpsons, for me - with KOTH probably one rung higher still altho the humour is obv. far more subtle and complex.

[i]is that none of the characters are particularly good people. Homer hitting Lisa in the face with a baseball bat wouldn't be funny. Hank hitting Bobby with a baseball bat wouldn't be funny. Peter hitting Meg is, tho.

this i ALMOST get. i mean not en episode of FG seems to go by without Lois or Meg getting punched in the face, but i don't find it funny and i don't really get it. it's not even slapstick violence and i find that bad enough now generally (see that terrible Simpsons trailer). i can see that Family Guy may be trying to question and break conventions re violence on women but....why...again? funny that South Park would never have Stan's Mom getting punched in the face - but then they don't have to do that, and I much prefer it that way.

― blueski, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Family Guy as misogynistic is a point that has been raised before many times, and you may be onto something with a point, but... violence against Meg is part of the problem that a lot of comedy writers have which is that they can write adult males (they are one), young males (they used to be one), and adult females (they fuck them). Teenage girls have always been problematic. Early on in FG Meg was kind of a faceless character, she just did bland "thank you daddy" schtick whenever she was called for, indeed, Chris was the lead child. Chris is a backseat character now because Meg has this personality of the character who everyone hates for no reason at all, she's an all purpose fall character. There's a history of characters like this in both literature and television (and, fantastically, I can't think of any at the moment), the characters who are despised despite doing nothing wrong... whether you're meant to feel sympathy for Meg (which I suppose is a mitigating factor) or just laugh at her (which is perhaps not) is up for you to decide. [Removed Illegal Link]

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Illegal link?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRXm8vY9mU4

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link

they don't seem, to me, to be "strongly defined personalities"

more like someone has written down:

character #1 - dog. talks. is sensible. smokes. very funny.
character #2 - baby. talks. makes gadgets to try to kill or escape from parents and take over world. very funny.
character #3 - son. stupid. stupid voice. very funny.

and so on

yes, I haven't watched many episodes of family guy but I have, probably, watched too many

― RJG, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link

yeh i do see that with Meg. i find it rather disturbing tho, and indicative of the writers inadequacies. plus, they're still beating up poor Lois just as much. at least Lois has not become as annoying as Marge yet.

i just don't know why they bother centering things around the family unit at all. Brian and Stewie are better just on their own. Chris is pretty much a waste of space unless it's an evil monkey gag. Just write Meg out if you can't do anything good with her.

― blueski, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link

character #4 - daughter. everyone hates for no reason at all. very funny.

― RJG, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link

here's the thing from Screen Wipe i mentioned:

http://www.fat-pie.com/tv3.htm (or go to fat-pie.com and click 'tv3' link)

― blueski, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link

plus, they're still beating up poor Lois just as much.

Lois has beaten up Peter as many, if not more times, than vice versa. Including that "laying carpet at three in the morning" gag.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link

well i don't care for that either

― blueski, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Peter deserves it tho, the fucker.

― blueski, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

i liked that thing on screen wipe too. looking fwd to hearing 90s comedian Stew Lee on 70s teen drama "you were mostly worried about being brainwashed by a thousand-year-old mystical cult or how to cope with being separated from your family while society collapsed back to a pre-industrial era"

― Alan, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I keep going back for more Man Stroke Woman even though I really only laugh once or twice per episode (each seem to contain about 50 sketches), because I find all of the leads so appealing. I like Nick Frost, and Nathan Barley Dude, and Blonde Lady, and Woman with Mysterious Possibly American Accent.

― Ben Boyerrr, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Man Stroke Woman: poorly written, well performed.

― chap, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Man Stroke Women is badly written, badly performed, badly everything. It may have been mildly amuding when I was twlve, but it really is a shockingly bad show.

I LOVED the animated thing in Screen Wipe tho

Check out David Firth's website, www.fat-pie.com All his cartoons are on there. The guys a certified genius - The Pulch is beautiful, and the Salad Fingers cartoons are sometimes cool, although not quite to my taste. And check out the Jerry Jackson cartoons (one of Firth's pseudynms, accessible from the main page) for some of the funniest short cartoons you will ever watch.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

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