At least he's not responsible for writing Lesbian Vampire Killers, only for starring in it.
At the moment I seem to end up seeing endless trailers for the Horne & Corden sketch show every time I turn to the BBC; and every time I see one I think: "that's nice, dear, I think you meant to put a joke in though."
― Forest Pines Mk2, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 13:24 (fifteen years ago) link
At least he's not responsible for writing Lesbian Vampire Killers
i dunno if this is better - it looks like they've written him as more inane and uncouth than usual
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 13:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Man, you people can be serious pricks when it comes to overweight people.
Pretty sure ilx loves fattys, [Insert Dom RIP joek here], but not unfunny fatties who are mistaken for funny fatties.
― Twitter Shitter & The Purple Hernias (Upt0eleven), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 13:43 (fifteen years ago) link
i passed up a chance to see 'enetertaining mr sloane' because horne is in it. i r elitist.though he looks remarkably like Malcolm McDowell in the press ad.
still, corden should probably fuck off now.
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow. That was very poor.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Am I the only person who tuned in? I thought this thread would be a cavalcade of derision.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 March 2009 13:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Not even morbid curiosity could tempt me to sit through this. That Ghost-spoofing trailer DOESN'T HAVE ANY JOKES IN.
― chap, Thursday, 12 March 2009 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I watched it and lolled at several points (the bit where JC can't come for example) while trying not to (I was actually trying to do some work at the time but Mrs. T is a sucker for bad BBC3 comedy) but overall is was not very funny. Still don't understand the hatred for them though. Except that this...
Reasons to passionately dislike James Corden:
2. Is fat
...might explain something.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 12 March 2009 13:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Just to be clear, Matt and Blueski are saying that one of the reasons to dislike someone is that they are fat, right? With hilarious insights like that you could get a job on Two Pints.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 12 March 2009 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
With reading comprehension like that you get get a job at the Graun.
― Hreidarsson The Storm (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 March 2009 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link
In case I actually need to spell it out, that post was pretty heavily taking the piss.
― Hreidarsson The Storm (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 March 2009 13:50 (fifteen years ago) link
4. his homophobia
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 March 2009 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Hence words like 'kneejerk'.
(xpost)
― Hreidarsson The Storm (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 March 2009 13:54 (fifteen years ago) link
The only thing that was marginally funny to me was Corden's Gervais impression. Otherwise it is very strange that two guys with a very successful comedy drama have decided to do such a willfully bog-standard sketch show. Doesn't it usually go the other way around?
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 March 2009 13:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Two words: Mitchell, Webb.
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Thursday, 12 March 2009 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw the first few minutes but then went to bed because, well I'd rather go to bed than watch it. But I thought it was a "live in the studio" thing. So were they performing sketches live in front of an audience?
― nate woolls, Thursday, 12 March 2009 13:59 (fifteen years ago) link
According to Corden on Jonathan Ross last week: the studio-filmed ones were, yes.
― Forest Pines Mk2, Thursday, 12 March 2009 14:01 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah what the hell Ned
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 12 March 2009 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Neil didn't Mitchell & Webb have a radio show, then a sketch show, then Peep Show?
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 March 2009 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
And stand-up/live before the radio show?
― Free the Northampton 1 (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 March 2009 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
they did Peep Show before the television sketch show, although of course that was predated by the radio sketch show and stand-up. But the reason for their decline in quality from Peep Show to their shitty sketch show was because they actually wrote the latter while the Armstrong and Bain wrote the former.
― Blackout Crew are the Beatles of donk (jim), Thursday, 12 March 2009 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
altho of course Armstrong and Bain wrote for the sketch show too, maybe they were the 2 good sketches they got in to every few episodes.
― Blackout Crew are the Beatles of donk (jim), Thursday, 12 March 2009 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Sketch show wasn't entirely shitty
― Free the Northampton 1 (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 March 2009 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Fair points everyone. I suppose M&W are arguably an instance of comedians getting ahead of themselves and thinking they are as good at writing as performing, two very different disciplines.
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Thursday, 12 March 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
the mythchild forgives you
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 12 March 2009 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Sir Digby Chicken-Caesar was the best thing about the M&W sketch show IMO.
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Thursday, 12 March 2009 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Football Sketch was the best
― Free the Northampton 1 (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 March 2009 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
The sketch with David Mitchell becoming the Fuhrer right at the end of WWII is the best I think.
― Hreidarsson The Storm (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 March 2009 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
neil s otm
― that sounds so sad but am 18 so suck ma b*ws (stevie), Thursday, 12 March 2009 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
the mitchell and webb situation predated peepshow, no?
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 March 2009 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
MOEBIUS LOOP
― that sounds so sad but am 18 so suck ma b*ws (stevie), Thursday, 12 March 2009 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
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― chap, Thursday, 12 March 2009 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
― chap, Thursday, 12 March 2009 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Taking the piss out of what? Sorry, as someone who has been at the sharp end of abuse due to my, ahem, glandular problems I'm a little touchy on this subject. Just looked like a cheap jibe to me.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 12 March 2009 16:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Reasons why certain posters upthread might have had such an, ahem, visceral reaction to him.
― Hreidarsson The Storm (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 March 2009 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, as far as I can tell, "Look at me, I'm fat" is what he does for laughs, errrrrrrr, largely
― Free the Northampton 1 (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 March 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
This is true.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 12 March 2009 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Just ingore me everyone I'm Having A Bad Day and really should be lying down in a dark room with some fine wine and cake. Carry on.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 12 March 2009 16:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Ingore?
Man, mention of wine and I've come over all Pavlovian
― Free the Northampton 1 (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 March 2009 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Must drink wine. Must drink wine. NOW!
^^^^That could easily be a sketch show character catchphrase.
― chap, Thursday, 12 March 2009 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article5932243.ece
Phil Claydon’s instantly forgettable lad’s mag farce Lesbian Vampire Killers is an appalling waste of a perfectly decent title. James Corden and Mathew Horne are two witless slobs who go for a hike in Norfolk with an industrial quantity of condoms and end up being savaged by a posse of groaning 18-year-olds with plastic teeth, few clothes, pneumatic breasts and three brain cells between the lot of them. It’s profoundly awful.
ILX otm.
― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Friday, 20 March 2009 14:15 (fifteen years ago) link
how the hell would this be profoundly awful?
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Friday, 20 March 2009 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw the sketch show, and I have to say the performances are excellent, but it's not actually that funny.
― Mark G, Friday, 20 March 2009 14:19 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost presumably the fact that it's awful is a given, but considering a low expectation threshhold, it's awful even by that standard?
― Mark G, Friday, 20 March 2009 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
It's a bit like being profoundly deaf.
― CosMc (Raw Patrick), Friday, 20 March 2009 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Vampire movies are ripe for spoof and this doesn't stray far from the path of modesty trodden by Hammer House.Impish Swede MyAnna Buring and Paul McGann as a vampire-hating vicar both play it brilliantly deadpan.Once Horne and Corden are split up, with the vicar teaming up with Fletch and Lotte falling for Jimmy, the laughs start to flow. By the end of the movie your critic had lost control of his funny bone. Other reviewers will say that Lesbian Vampire Killers is another British comic flop, but The Sneak won't be driving that stake into its heart.By the end of the movie your critic had lost control of his funny bone.
Impish Swede MyAnna Buring and Paul McGann as a vampire-hating vicar both play it brilliantly deadpan.
Once Horne and Corden are split up, with the vicar teaming up with Fletch and Lotte falling for Jimmy, the laughs start to flow. By the end of the movie your critic had lost control of his funny bone.
Other reviewers will say that Lesbian Vampire Killers is another British comic flop, but The Sneak won't be driving that stake into its heart.
By the end of the movie your critic had lost control of his funny bone.
― Mark G, Friday, 20 March 2009 15:57 (fifteen years ago) link
funny bones are uncontrollable by definition.
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Friday, 20 March 2009 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
a vampire movie spoof! is no sacred cow safe from horne and corden's rapier wit??
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 20 March 2009 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link