James Corden should fuck off

Hence words like 'kneejerk'.

(xpost)

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?

Two words: Mitchell, Webb.

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?

According to Corden on Jonathan Ross last week: the studio-filmed ones were, yes.

In case I actually need to spell it out, that post was pretty heavily taking the piss.

yeah what the hell Ned

Neil didn't Mitchell & Webb have a radio show, then a sketch show, then Peep Show?

And stand-up/live before the radio show?

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.

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.

Sketch show wasn't entirely shitty

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.

the mythchild forgives you

Sir Digby Chicken-Caesar was the best thing about the M&W sketch show IMO.

Football Sketch was the best

The sketch with David Mitchell becoming the Fuhrer right at the end of WWII is the best I think.

neil s otm

the mitchell and webb situation predated peepshow, no?

MOEBIUS LOOP

Football Sketch was the best

― Free the Northampton 1 (Tom D.), Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:33 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

In case I actually need to spell it out, that post was pretty heavily taking the piss.

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.

Reasons why certain posters upthread might have had such an, ahem, visceral reaction to him.

Also, as far as I can tell, "Look at me, I'm fat" is what he does for laughs, errrrrrrr, largely

This is true.

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.

Ingore?

Man, mention of wine and I've come over all Pavlovian

Must drink wine. Must drink wine. NOW!

^^^^
That could easily be a sketch show character catchphrase.

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.

how the hell would this be profoundly awful?

I saw the sketch show, and I have to say the performances are excellent, but it's not actually that funny.

xpost presumably the fact that it's awful is a given, but considering a low expectation threshhold, it's awful even by that standard?

It's a bit like being profoundly deaf.

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.

funny bones are uncontrollable by definition.

a vampire movie spoof! is no sacred cow safe from horne and corden's rapier wit??

this week's time out has the two of them bowling, with the strapline "comedy with balls"

i'm confused about exactly how much cojones it takes to air sketches about a flamboyantly homosexual war reporter who is scared of violence

another article has a picture of them fencing, with the strapline "comedy with weird masks and long thin sharp rods"

it's become this kneejerk assumption that all comedy is "edgy" or "courageous" - so you get guys like horne and corden who are about as unedgy as it gets - they practically revel in their inoffensive normality - but headline writers just can't help themselves, it's hardwired in

Apparently Corden is doing a cover of "World in Motion" with the England football team for next year's world cup. This has the potential to be the single worst piece of recorded music of all time.

did he really have to have a piece of paper to hand for every joke on buzzcocks?

Any point watching that episode on iPlayer?

None whatsoever. What could have been a passable episode of Buzzcocks was ruined by his table slapping guffaws at every single thing Phill Jupitus said.

Garofalo didn't even get an opportunity to speak other than to take part in yet another joke about Blue, jeez, you'd think they could find someone else to rip on in 2009, dispite her obviously being the funniest one there.

Ok, I'll watch Godfather Part II instead.

just discovered this cunt's existence thanks to the speech debelle thread.

Mercury winner Speech Debelle was booed by Take That fans as she tried to rap one of their songs at a London event in honour of the group.

Debelle chose to rap her way through the 1993 hit single Pray, leading to boos from some of the 500-strong crowd.

She was also criticised by host James Corden, who said "anyone can rap", before launching into a rap of his own.

not to defend debelle, but what the actual fuck, this james corden dude is intolerable and needs a fucking punch in the face. how the hell does he have a career?

dude, michael mcintyre is the bbc's big money comedy act- obv. comedy is dead, james corden ate it.

Still, it's clear Ruth Jones is obviously the genius behind "Gavin and Stacey", thanks to these interventions.