Someone's already done that - it's called "Ice Ice Baby", by Vanilla Ice...
― snoball, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I would still like to know what the Pinefox has against the History Boys.
― David Bentley: Rhythm Ace (Matt DC), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 14:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I must have missed this Vanilla Ice chap's series on BBC 3
― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 14:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Anybody seen Horne in Entertaining Mr Sloane? I was keen but tickets appear to be £45, so maybe not.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link
was thinking the same thing
― f f murray abraham (G00blar), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Horne and Corden, the 21st century Little & Large, except not as funny.
― snoball, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
me too. also what, specifically, makes Corden "vile and disgusting" - if not just that he is porky and often unfunny (esp. when not in character).
my Mum likes him because "it's nice that he laughs at other people like Sean Locke's jokes so much"
i like Horne too - esp. recent appearance on Buzzcocks where he and Martin Freeman did the 'look of haplessness and despair' thing together
Brits hosts have performed terribly since relatively acceptable Chris Evans in '95
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
But they made such a mess of the Brits, not just presenting it incompetently, but peppering their between-act links with unfunny jokes which presumably they scripted themselves. "Craig David hasn't had a hit single for a while!" oh hahahahaha...
― snoball, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Funny because it's true. Oh wait...
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
you get the Brit awards presenters you deserve for watching that shit
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Precisely.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link
yeaeh, if you don't watch it, you get better presenters!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
For some unknown reason I was watching a "making of" Gavin & Stacey show, which directly followed an episode which I also had inexplicably watched.
For my money Stacey is one of the most saccharine actresses I've ever seen. Nothing she says is memorable. I have no doubt that lots of people like her because she seems "sweet", but she brings a whole lot of nothing to the part. Even the guy who plays Gavin is better. You get the feeling that in private he's a bit of a cunt but at least you've got that to hold onto. As for their on-screen chemistry - I know these things are subjective, but I actually thought they were supposed to be brother and sister for the first 3/4 of the show.
So what does James Corden say to the interviewer, while the lighting guys are lining up another shot? "It was like really important for us to have their relationship be really believable - the entire show is built around that - if you don't believe their relationship the whole thing falls apart." Too right.
(Later, Gavin says that he is incomparably thrilled to get to work with the actress who plays Stacey - he says he learns from her, that he's so lucky to play opposite someone of her talent. I think he may have even convinced himself of this.)
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe the people who like THE HISTORY BOYS and WHITE TEETH would also like a lengthy essay outlining reasons why OCEAN COLOUR SCENE were not very good.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
btw, dreadful as White Teeth is for the first 300pp or so, it actually does get worse in the last 200, which is a difficult thing to imagine until you witness it happening
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
you are talking about the History Boys film and not the book right? so are you also talking about the White Teeth TV series as opposed to the book - or both?
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I'm gonna use this thread as another excuse to plug Limmy's Show, aren't I? Yes I am. On iPlayer till tomorrow night, one-off pilot (at present), only shown on BBC Scotland, best British sketch show I've seen since The Armando Iannucci Shows, can confidently predict will be better than whatever Corden and Horne come up with.
― William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Corden always makes me think of Andy Richter (and the comparison doesn't flatter Corden):
http://remote.lohudblogs.com/files/2007/12/30-rock-andy-richter.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Tracer re Stacey she's an entirely believable character which presumably serves as some kind of counter-balance to Nessa's general absurdity - at least I think that's the intention. But the believability of Stacey doesn't make her a waste of time imo.
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
HB film (didn't see play)WT book (didn't see all of TV series)OCS band
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Gavin and Stacey, despite its flaws, is quite funny I think. The older generation of actors are the best part (Gavin's parents, Rob Bryden, Stacey's mom).
― f f murray abraham (G00blar), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I'm gonna use this thread as another excuse to plug Limmy's Show, aren't I?
Not to namedrop or anything, but me and Limmy go waaaaaaaaaay back
― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh sure steve - I think Stacey's very believable - as an empty-headed sparklepixie who I wouldn't want to spend more than five minutes in conversation with. In that sense she's very realistic.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
well, that's the role you know...
HB - not seen it in any form so still curious as to why it seems to touch a nerveWT - TV show seemed okay, nothing that objectionable - what's the book's problem? poor writing?OCS - i'm sure we can all agree that they were bad
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Brydon fell off so hard.
xxxp
― Britpoppage (The stickman from the hilarious xkcd comics), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I dunno if it's that I'm missing something with G&S, but every time I try and watch it just feels like the same things are happening, and they're not really happening in a very interesting manner. Someone's trying to get some people in a vaaan, 'ow are they gonna get that many people in a vaaan, oh don'choo worry we'll sort it all aaaht, and it all gets sorted out and Ruth Jones says something like "Same thing 'appened when I was doing my pole-dancing for John Major". It's the same feeling I get off Entourage, really, this sort of air of slightly forced likeability that's, y'know, bearable and such, but never actually funny or anything.
― William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh I didn't realize Stacey was supposed to be contemptible. From the sound of the "making of" the actress who plays her doesn't either.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I think she's alright. Leave her alone you brute.
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link
It's funny, I usually love that accent.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
her voice does grate yes
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I think the underlying premise is that the couple are the 'normals' and each step away from them towards the periphery is populated by characters that are more and more strange.
Or, it might just be on the 'Welsh' side.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I can tell you some day in person, blueski, if you like. Typing too much at once hurts me.
WT is beyond 'poor writing' - it's a kind of poor writing, but it's worse and deeper than that. I expect it's better as a TV programme.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I think the underlying premise is that the couple are the 'normals'
Yes, as if there's something inherently laudable about being boring.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link
they're a cutesy but ordinary couple who met on the internet - i can see why people would find this bad
and i thought you liked writing
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
laudable?
Actually, it's not about them anyway. It's about the two characters who coincidentally are the ones who are the writers, who get the interesting storylines and the funniest lines in it. Funny that.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I didn't realise they'd met online.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah they mention it in the first episode but never again since, as if they're ASHAMED
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
They worked for different branches of the same company, and flirted over the phone when they were ordering stuff or whatever from each other.
Blimey this is quite a busy thread. Didn't realise how much this guy winds people up. He hasn't made much of an impression on me either way. As for G&S, it's amiable and watchable but no more than that.
― chap, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:28 (fifteen years ago) link
no more than watchable?
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
well, you don't get involved 'physically', you know...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
o_0
― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I noticed that as well
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Brydon's character's easily the best, though I suspect that's as much down to the performance as the writing.
― chap, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I couldn't stand him actually. In the making-of his says he winces when he sees himself on TV, says "It just looks like ME, but pulling funny faces!" And I'm like hmm that's a very accurate self-assessment for an actor.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link
was going to say "bet he's really like that, mostly"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I like writing, yes. But as I said: typing hurts me.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 00:06 (fifteen years ago) link
haha, I liked this, particularly that it inexplicably ended with a man in a scarf crying because his ma had had her heid kicked in
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 00:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I especially liked the monologues about signs and guys and mirrors and swings, esp. the swings, which ties into my whole love of silly/serious tightrope walking. I can definitely see the Armando Iannucci influence. Hope it gets picked up for a series proper.
― NotEnough, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 07:27 (fifteen years ago) link
none of the trailers are funny the skinny one is a smug twat and the fat one is fat.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 12:29 (fifteen years ago) link
so apparently Lesbian Vampire Killers is an actual unfunny movie and not just an unfunny fake movie promo for the Horne and Corden show.
― f f murray abraham (G00blar), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 12:33 (fifteen years ago) link