Rolling UK Comedy Thread - "Ricky Don't Lose Larry David's Number

Lenny Henry "funnier than Lucas n Walliams and Pegg n Frost" shock.

yes, that was odd, him on his own with the camera crew laughing along.

he still chose a lot of stuff that i remember whereas i'd've imagined him as the generation before - he's a good 8 years older than me.

LOTS of dawn french clips as well as clips of his own (were they down to do it together perhaps?).

good choice of Love Thy Neighbour clip. "the joke's on EVERYONE" etc.

The "no cohost, no audience, laughs from the production crew" aesthetic I took as a deliberate reference to Kenny Everett?

That Dying Rooms documentary they showed a bit of looked shocking. I missed it at the time. I'd like to see it in its entirety, though I don't know if I could handle it. Shame about the "only Brits can make good documentaries" nonsense that accompanied it.

i watched and kinda enjoyed HIGNFY this week. i skipped out the opening round, which i think is the worst bit and enjoyed ian hislop's sniping at chris tarrant. not exactly satire but good mean fun.

The "no cohost, no audience, laughs from the production crew" aesthetic I took as a deliberate reference to Kenny Everett?

I always associate that kind of thing with Phillip Schofield's broom cupboard.

Gordon the Gopher not a cohost now?

watched and kinda enjoyed HIGNFY this week. i skipped out the opening round, which i think is the worst bit and enjoyed ian hislop's sniping at chris tarrant. not exactly satire but good mean fun.

See, I watched this too and didn't enjoy it much at all and wondered exactly why people prefer the "continually take the piss out of the host/guest" thing to people being witty and scathing about the actual news. Because wasn't it precisely the fear of HIGNFY becoming the former rather than the latter that led to the removal of Deayton?

(also fuck off whoever in the team thinks that crap grainy vids nicked off of YouTube/emailed to them by their mums are the height of humour)

no, deayton was removed 'cos the main producer had dropped the drink 'n drugs and was told to remove any negative influences from his social sphere, this was also why rory mcgrath lost his place on TTIAO... OR SO I HEARD. also see my post from two weeks ago being nasty to minor celebs has always been part of HIGNFY. it was funny cos it made me laugh, the more i think about it the mopre i realize it's not so much the "satire" that used to make me laff but paul merton going on about tigers giving birth to tigers out of their mouths.

no, deayton was removed 'cos the main producer had dropped the drink 'n drugs and was told to remove any negative influences from his social sphere, this was also why rory mcgrath lost his place on TTIAO... OR SO I HEARD

O RLY?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2373711.stm

thats what they want you to think! i like the conspiracy theory i read on another board.

remember that dude who used to spam ILE with the government done 9/11 stuff? i'm like him but with british comedy.

Well, it would excuse them from having "lol, our guest host's been a naughty boy" hypocritical ridiculousness every other week, I s'pose.

xpost, obv

There's a big article about it in today's Daily Mail.

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"Not Going Out"

crummy situation comedy as per the seventies, lame scenarios but oh it's actually got funny lines and stuff! What were the chances?

British comedy 'is bigoted'
Racism 'as rife as in the Seventies'
British comedy 'is bigoted'
BBC

British comedy is as bigoted and racist today as it was in the Seventies, academics have claimed.

Experts at a comedy conference yesterday said that after a wave of political correctness in the days of alternative comedy, jokes are again targeting minority groups.

And they dismissed arguments that postmodern irony makes the gags acceptable.

‘Pleasure is derived from the expression of aggression against a target,’ Guy Redden of Lincoln University told the seminar in Salford.

He said that Britain had moved from a ‘stereotype comedy with unflattering gags about social types where the white nation was working through the meaning of immigration’ to a new era of ‘post-PC comedy’ where the targets may have changed, but the sentiment is the same.

The cruel humour of Little Britain came under attack; in particular the character of mail order Thai bride Ting Tong was considered an example of the insidious racism.

Presenting a joint paper, Susan Becker of the University of Teeside and Lloyd Peters of Salford University argued that stereotypes are perpetuated and compounded by comedy.

‘Comedy is utilising stigma,’ they said. ‘A sign or mark which designates the bearer as less than normal people lies at the heart of the joke.’

Redden accepted that ‘unlike the discriminatory humour of the Seventies, today’s performers are aware of the power and meaning of the taboos they choose to break’, but argued that did not make the humour acceptable

However, Nigel Mather of the University of Kent suggested that when Ting Tong turns her husband Dudley’s flat into a Thai restaurant at the end of the series, it could be seen as empowering. ‘It could be seen as positive in terms of her characterisation,’ he said.

The conference continues at Salford University today.

However, Nigel Mather of the University of Kent suggested that when Ting Tong turns her husband Dudley’s flat into a Thai restaurant at the end of the series, it could be seen as empowering. ‘It could be seen as positive in terms of her characterisation,’ he said.

wah??

anyone catch the dreadful documentary on Hitler on telly on more4 last night? moronic, pointless, offensive, straight-facedly calls 'allo allo' genius, with a narration by some gormless bloke who sounded like he was trying to be one of the peep show characters.

er, no...

that was jacques peretti wasn't it

it was horrendous.

Has anyone caught Pulling yet?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/programmes/pulling/

I keep bumping into it by accident and I think it's got real potential in a "loser girls version of Peep Show" sort of way.