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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

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― 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

Dean Learner is barely a character. It's a "funny" voice and some "funny" mannerisms. the tv show didn't work because it didn't make sense, he was somehow meant to be incredibly naive and incredibly ruthless. really all of it was just set up for lame pastiches. i mena Kevin the Teenager was a far better character even if he was a sterotype 'cos you could understand it. if a character doesn't ring true then it's hard to accept the jokes they are delivering.

― acrobat, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:31 (sixteen years ago) link

i do like the eastern european cafe girls

It's not funny tho, is it?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:31 (sixteen years ago) link

Neither was Ted and Ralph, tbh.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link

oh jeez HIGNFY, how more reactionary can that show get?

― acrobat, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link

I mean, it sounds dumb, but in a sketch show you have to have some stuff that isn't "funny", and is clever or touching or whatever. Rowley Birkin's dead girlfriend, that kinda stuff.

xp

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link

nelson mandela hawking alcopops

explain me where is the humour... comedy blackface? A famous paragon of virtue promoting illegal and harmful products?

the art boutique

yeah that's good.

― ledge, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:33 (sixteen years ago) link

HIGNFY seems to have really lost it now. axe it. come back in a year with a similar yet different show.

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:34 (sixteen years ago) link

mock the week, then?

hmmm.

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

Andy Millman to thread!

― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:49 (sixteen years ago) link

Mock The Week seems better than HIGNFY at the mo. I get the impression the choice of presenter for MOW is a bugbear.

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link

Never watched Mock the Week, has it got crap comics on it? Like that Scottish guy?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:54 (sixteen years ago) link

mock the week is excruciating

― Alan, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:54 (sixteen years ago) link

I refuse to watch any show with the word "Mock" in the title

― Tom D., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:54 (sixteen years ago) link

> A famous paragon of virtue promoting illegal and harmful products?

pretty much. i also find it's quite a fond portrayal of him.

only funny thing about the U2 sketch (which is only 20 years after R&M did the same thing with slade) is the doctored Joshua Tree(?) poster in the kitchen.

they do seem to be hammering things into the ground though. barbican man for instance. same thing 6 times.

still some good lines on HIGNFY. ferne was bad though.

― koogs, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link

that Scottish guy can make me laugh. probably the voice.

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link

mock the week, dead ringers and HIGNFY = AXIS OF FAKE SATIRE

― acrobat, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:02 (sixteen years ago) link

john prescott... HE'S FAT!

― acrobat, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link

gordon brown... HE'S SCOTTISH!

― acrobat, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link

barbican man for instance. same thing 6 times

I think the one about the independent was meant to be the master punchline. It did make me smirk.

The serth efrican character seems to be entirely predicated on the fact that enfield can do a very good serth efrican eccent.

I only recently got the pun in "mock the week".

― ledge, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link

david blunket... HE'S BLIND!

― acrobat, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link

david cameron... WE'RE ALL GOING TO VOTE FOR HIM

― Tom D., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:07 (sixteen years ago) link

hmmm i wonder if a cameron government would spawn some better "angry" comedy. i doubt it.

― acrobat, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link

Who is angry?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link

I suspect Cam's quite an oldschool Tory at heart and the Blairification of the Conservative Party is a cosmetic thing that won't last long after the next election. So, yes, it might do.

― chap, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link

well no one at the moment Tom D. that was my point about FAKE SATIRE.

also Dom's sketch shows need pathos theory only fits with the one example he gave. possibly.

― acrobat, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link

Nothing, NOTHING, is as bad as Get A Grip.

The Scottish bloke on Mock the Week (Frankie Boyle) makes me laugh too, but mostly because he gets better lines and a lot of it is in the delivery. Also Dara O'Briain >>>> 90% of the guest hosts on HIGNFY. Hislop and Merton are just going through the motions, and it only works when they get someone they can react to/interact with, and who has the brains to keep it going rather than just reading off autocues. Scrap the "lolz, it's Boris/Joan Collins/Charlotte Church, this'll be a laugh" hosts and keep it to whichever Armstrong/Miller it is that's good, Hugh Dennis and (probably) Clarkson, and you're probably just about OK.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link

My mum says the Lee Mack thing is funny.

― chap, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link

"Mock the Mack"?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link

Ha, so does my husband. It sort of is, when you're drunk and don't expect very much from a comedy show other than a couple of cheap belly laughs. Assuming you mean "Not Going Out".

― ailsa, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link

Not Going Out, that's the one. I haven't seen it, but she told me a joke from it:
"They say no man is an island."
"What about the Isle of Man?"

Moderately witty I guess.

― chap, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link

It's pretty much a ton of one-liners (it's co-written by Tim Vine) with a ridiculous "plot" contrived as a showcase for the one-liners, rather than the sensible way round.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh, it's not co-written by Tim Vine at all, he's just in it. It's Lee Mack and Andrew Collins. Oh well.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link

i rly liked Not Going Out.

― Alan, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:53 (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, May 1, 2007 4:01 PM (Yesterday)

... no. if you're going to single out one comedy performer for coming up via oxbridge networking, you're going to have to single out basically all of them. the dean learner chat show was sort of bad for the reasons acrobat gave, but it wasn't terrible.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:37 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, I really like Not Going Out too. It did try a bit too much to be American styled (loft apartment, er, having an American in it) but its gag per second ration was massive which is the major let down of British sitcoms. I think given a chance to get really confy (and not fit all the wacky plots into a six episode run) it could be really, really good.

― Pete, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:11 (sixteen years ago) link

Way too harsh on Ayoade; Lerner started very well, dropped off sharply thereafter. No, it didn't make sense.

But I'm always going to blindly defend people I see in my local shops - they're part of the community, y'know? See also Mark Steel.

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:20 (sixteen years ago) link

'not going out' was better than the current 'peep show'.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:22 (sixteen years ago) link

"But I'm always going to blindly defend people I see in my local shops - they're part of the community, y'know?"

that bloke off crimewatch last night might be a vicious thug, but he's
our vicious thug.

― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:25 (sixteen years ago) link

I only recently got the pun in "mock the week".

oh dear, i'm about to make a fool of myself. there's a pun?

i don't get the hignfy hate - it doesn't seem any weaker now than it was say five years ago, and i never thought it was weak then anyway. is the rotating presenter thing putting paid to its punch?

also, what is this not going out thing? i suspect i'll like it.

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link

Because they spent 5 minutes laughing WITH Jeremy Clarkson about how global warming does not exist. It's more right-wing than South Park.

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:51 (sixteen years ago) link

oh right, i just got the pun. d'oh.

xpost acrobat, have you read private eye?

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link

private eye has a vicious tory streak a mile wide. HIGNFY has been going bad for ages. was it joan collins? jackie? whatever, i kind of stopped watching after that.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:20 (sixteen years ago) link

yeh i've read private eye. it's kinda like popbitch if 1965 had never happened.

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link

sub-carmody

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:42 (sixteen years ago) link

there are many, many things of value in 'private eye', but perhaps it's better under a tory government than under labour.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:42 (sixteen years ago) link

otm

― stevie, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link

actually comparing HIGNFY and Private Eye is really misleading. it's not like a panal show can get away with the kind of journalistic stuff they have in PE. the things i like in PE tend not to be the "comedy".

― acrobat, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link

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