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OMG at Chris Morris. He really has gone wrong recently, and I liked Nathan Barley

― The Wayward Johnny B, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I think you're inferring a bit much from a casting call and a vague outline! Anyway, I'm not going to play this miserable game again - second-guessing the show for the 12 months prior to broadcast based on internet rumour and leaked bits of info. Mind you, if you want some nothingy fluff to promote idle speculation - I saw Fielding hand Morris a copy of John Lurie's "Fishing With John" on DVD in the street a few weeks ago. So expect that whole angling vibe.

I chuckled at Dead Ringers last night. I think it was the Waking The Dead skit. That was it.

― Michael Jones, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I feel almost ashamed to admit this, but I quite like Comedy Cuts - or whatever it is called - the sketch show on ITV2. Simon Munnery turned up on it the other day! If you disregard the terrible presenter, Comedy Shuffle has its moments, too.

― Stevie T, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I laughed at something, but I can't remember what.

I also laughed at some other programme which had Tony Blair pouring water on Gordon Brown's feet under the desk.

― PJ Miller, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link

something about Dead Ringers just turns me right off. Could it finally be this...mythical...'air of smugness' I've heard so much of here there and everywhere?

― blueski, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkYDxW30vS4

this is from a new comedy with Adam Buxton in it. Looks quite funny from this clip.

― the next grozart, Sunday, 11 March 2007 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link

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― blueski, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link

http://commercial-archive.com/136526.php

― blueski, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah that was good. the series seemed to get better over the four eps. perhaps it's an odd format, there's a danger it's just this guy saying stuff at you about stuff.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

it pretty much is that but as long as it's lolsome then fine.

― blueski, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link

BIG TIMES ARF at the adam buxton clip there!

― Alan, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i just can't get past the 'it's on BBC Three' barrier :(

― blueski, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

srsly. it's a live bowdlerisation of "Fuck Tha Police"

― Alan, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

masterful bowdlerisorisering!

― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

No talk regarding "Comic Relief" ?

Two sketches had the subtitle "I have a great deal of power now, I can get people to do my script!"

1) Ricky Gervaise gets Geldof, Bono, Oliver and some blokey he knows to send themselves up / pretend to sell-out their perspective that they are most known for. And Andii Peters.
2) Caroline Tate gets the Prime Minister into her sketch, and gets me for the first time to admire Tony Blair's performance!

Who wins? Who pwned?

Who do you think?

― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2007 09:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't deny i roffled at Andi Peters.

― Frogman Henry, Monday, 19 March 2007 10:43 (seventeen years ago) link

do i look bothered? (didn't see any of it. wasn't there a highlights show though?)

can't find the Peep Show thread but ch4 are advertising series 4. and their 4-on-demand is showing series 1 and 2. plus myspace.

http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/P/peep_show/

― koogs, Monday, 19 March 2007 11:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked the Catherine Tate sketch with Daniel Craig, partly because instead of looking slightly bewildered and looking like he wished he wasn't there, Craig really seemed like he was making an effort to do it properly, which I thought was cute. I like him.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a rumour in the Guardian today about a Brass Eye special on suicide bombers. Too good to be true?

― chap, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

too hyped to be funny, more likely

― blueski, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

...Monkey Dust got there first. And did it BEFORE 7/7, so nobody complained.

― unfished business, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, I've just googled it and it just seems to be the drama thingy that was mentioned upthread, not a new Brass Eye at all.

― chap, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

The Blair sketch is on youtube.

― onimo, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

they should have spliced footage of kids getting there fucking legs blown off in iraq with that.
"aaaahhhh my leg"
"bovered!"
etc

― acrobat, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

PREMISE: UK comedy is a bit rubbish at the moment. 2nd tier stuff like peep show is the best around.
THEORY: comedy has become too centered around "performers" rather than "writers". lots of half decent comic actors coming through, no decent gag writers getting in.
COUNTER ARGUEMENT 1: it's the INDUSTRY dude! capatialism!
COUNTER ARGUEMENT 2: peep show is great, you is mad.

― acrobat, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:38 (sixteen years ago) link

holy shitters just seen the blair/tate thing. the man's got some balls. maybe he should be an actor. oh, wait...

― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:41 (sixteen years ago) link

People do seem to "get into" comedy writing these days because they can't get a job in international finance or whatever.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link

names?

― acrobat, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:45 (sixteen years ago) link

"Blunder" (2006)

Series Writing credits
Steven Burge (unknown episodes)
Simon Farnaby (unknown episodes)
Tom Meeten (unknown episodes)
David Mitchell (unknown episodes)
Rhys Thomas (unknown episodes)
Tony Way (unknown episodes)
Glynne Wiley (unknown episodes)

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link

i've managed to avoid Hary & Paul all too easily so far.

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:50 (sixteen years ago) link

x post

most of them started of as performers thou i thought? well certainly Mitchell and Thomas.

i dunno i was thinking that some of the best gagsters around are ex music journos, well swells and qunatick anyway.

i reckon "performers" rather than "writers" is why there is so much bad character based comedy about. i believe mark wooton is being given a third chance by the bbc, apprently he's a decent comic actor but fuck me the matriel isn't there.

― acrobat, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:51 (sixteen years ago) link

didn't most of the pythons start in the industry as writers for established performers?

― acrobat, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:52 (sixteen years ago) link

Cleese and Chapman started off writing sketches for Dick Emery, I know that much.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:56 (sixteen years ago) link

i am thinking of a very definite style. lots of mugging, lots of "the voice". think ayoade, think star stories.

― acrobat, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link

Ayoade is a modern day nadir, obviously, but then he's just yr common-or-garden "he ran Footlights, we have to give him a career" douchebag, right?

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:01 (sixteen years ago) link

Harry and Paul is v bizarre. I just can't quite work out what they're trying to do (unlike the rash of other new sketch shows where it's really easy to work out what they're trying to do, and it's not funny).

― ledge, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link

yeh i guess but it's the same thing. it's the performer attempting to create his own material and coming up with, well, mugging rather than jokes.

― acrobat, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:05 (sixteen years ago) link

Harry and Paul is kinda... you know when old bands play low key gigs to work out "if the magic's still there"? It's kinda clear that with them two it isn't.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:05 (sixteen years ago) link

john oliver been nicked by the mericans innit

― Alan, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:06 (sixteen years ago) link

i like ayoade as a performer. he's got comedy timing. i don't know how much as a writer.

― Alan, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:07 (sixteen years ago) link

Surely Ayoade's "performance" consists entirely of wearing a funny wig and talking in a funny voice?

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link

Ten years ago, he could have been a pretty good regular guest on Noel House Party, he could have been Sammy the Shammy's comedy nerd sidekick.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link

did you see his Dean Learner show? painful. i din't mind him in the IT Crowd but i wish he'd drop that voice he does.

sorta xpost

― acrobat, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:10 (sixteen years ago) link

i saw a trailer, and it looked rub, so didn't bother. if that's his writing or improv skeez, then stuff it. but i do like the dean lerner character. not so much the 'i'm being a bad actor' bits in darkplace, but the insert talking heads bits.

― Alan, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:12 (sixteen years ago) link

Coogan begat Pegg begat Ayoade

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link

It's like a half-life of comedy talent.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link

Too many actors, and too many "comedians" who want to be actors eventually

― Tom D., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:26 (sixteen years ago) link

lesdawsonasnona.jpg

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:29 (sixteen years ago) link

even Jamie Theakston got to be in a sitcom.

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:29 (sixteen years ago) link

> i've managed to avoid Hary & Paul all too easily so far.

i have been watching it (fills the gap between HIGNFY and Derren Brown / Peep Show on ch4 without needing to turn over. i r lazy). i do like the eastern european cafe girls, nelson mandela hawking alcopops and the posh surgeons. and the art boutique. the rest of it feels a lot like H&P doing Little Britain (in fact, some of the above feels like H&P doing LB). oh, what Dom said.

― koogs, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link

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