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

Oh, wait, Future Woman on Rob Beckett is called Peggy which I have only just realised is supposed to be a joke.

jesus

Ep 3: hold my beer.

The 80s is represented by Rob dressed as MC Hammer and Josh as Darryl McDaniels. Could only have been worse with blackface which sadly is not in evidence. Rob looks like a drunk Auntie wearing a baseball hat backwards in a YouTube clip.

that Rob Beckett thing sounds like what all comedy panel shows look like to me

I never learned from any comedy panel show that Pavement were a famous band from the 70s (ep 3).

I saw the last 15 minutes of the Josh Widdecombe episode of that Rob Beckett show and while it wasn't great it was about a million times better than Go 8 Bit which just doesn't work at all as a format imo.

It's exactly like a children's tv show and filmed as one but edgy with swearing and that, innit.

like, retro children's tv show is a much better format for a show where comedians play computer games than Go 8 Bit's half a dozen ppl riffing in front of an audience panel show thing, lack of studio audience means they can go for gently amusing chat rather than a zingerthon. Watching other people play video games is inherently quite dull but the Rob Beckett thing kind of makes a virtue of it by being relaxing (related to this - the other virtue of only having two ppl appear is that you can actually sort of follow the game as opposed to Go 8 Bit's 'four ppl play the same one player game on four different screens while two other ppl commentate and everything is incomprehensible' approach

cunt referee just stood 5 yards in front of a clothesline on Costa and didn't even blow for a foul

lol wrong thread

xpost

Just to be clear, you watched Rob and Josh wearing bow ties and frame-only glasses (representing 2009, "the year of geek chic") make jokes about how they weren't gay while playing a wii canoeing game ("the wii was the first console that did the physical thing, which was why it didn't take off"); then do a backup task featuring Rob trying to talk with a grill in ("no, not with sausages, with jewels like what rappers wore") complete with gang signs and pass on well known 2009 phrases like "bling-bling" only "wasn't great".

I'm no Go 8 Bit stan, and God knows it crashes and burns when the guests are dreadful like Natasia Demetriu the other week, but at least it actually seems to care about video games.

I wasn't aware of either of these comedians or their true crime podcast but this was fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUsFsPje6BA

Go 8 Bit is appaling but I can believe that Beckett thing's worse.

cunt referee just stood 5 yards in front of a clothesline on Costa and didn't even blow for a foul

Strangely appropriate post for a UK comedy thread.

ikr?

new Taskmaster on wednesday

with
Alice Levine
Asim Chaudhry
Liza Tarbuck
Russell Howard
Tim Vine

JON RICHARDSON: ULTIMATE WORRIER, on Dave after taskmaster, is a good title in search of a format.

and also in search of a good host, one must assume

324th time I rush to defend him then realise I'm confusing him with Joe Wilkinson

My take on that show is the ads on the tube say "I'm worried this ad will be stuck between something something and ads for vitamins", and invariably there is a vitamins ad next to them, and I wonder if they paid for that.

it's also one of those shows that seems to depend on showing youtube clips to pad things out. and the short video insert done by someone else was about as successful as romesh's bit on 'you've been fired' (ie not very)

this podcast is totally o_O but definitely worth your time. Julia Davis and Vicki Pepperdine as agony aunts Joan and Jericha. The first episode is, frankly, astonishing and shocking. I was crying with laughter.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/dear-joan-and-jericha-julia-davis-and-vicki-pepperdine/id1376577916?mt=2

awesome

too many good podcasts jfc

i’ve been working my way through beef & dairy, which is phenomenally good but also an enormous time suck when there’s another 29gb of podcasts in my queue somehow

dear Joan and Jericha is really v v good

reminds me of "Posh Nosh"

Flowers, on the other hand, continues to mystify.

j & j honestly my favourite podcast now

where did you hear about it, _jed?

it was mentioned on front row last week, by that woman from QI with the welsh name, cariad lloyd, something like that.

yes. and her podcast, has good reviews - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cariad_Lloyd#Podcast

A friend was talking about it in Facebook, Tracer.

i'm annoyed there's seemingly no way to watch this (Camping, 2016, Sky):
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5603098/

With both of them involved

Quite a lot of Sky comedy looks worthwhile but they're very bad at making it available and it seems to either avoid the streamers/cappers or is impossible to find because it has a crap unfindable name like Camping. The Partridge specials have been pretty much the only things that could be reliably predicted to have appeared.

I enjoyed Flowers but not really sure what it was doing. Will discuss more if everyone has got to the end and we're doing spoilers.

www.tvchaosuk.com is your friend here.

This series of Taskmaster has been very average, mainly because I don't actually like any of the contenders and actively dislike Alice Levine.

This series of Friday Night Dinner has its high points but they've pushed some of the characters too far now. (Jim especially, who is now clearly mentally ill, but also Jonny who is indefensible levels of dick.)

Ooh ta jed. xpost

This is also my least favourite series of Taskmaster so far.

I've been enjoying it, especially Lisa. But the PVR picked up the repeats of the winners specials during the week and that kind of eclipsed it.

Frankie Boyle still quite good but the funniest thing I've heard this week is ayoade's response to Katie price's "this looks like somewhere I could get married" on the crystal maze.

hey jed_ apparently one needs an "invite code"

i have a few invites. send me a message on here with your email address, if possible.

that goes for anyone here.

I enjoyed Flowers but not really sure what it was doing. Will discuss more if everyone has got to the end and we're doing spoilers.

i loved it. barely comedy, really tragic, esp last two episodes. brilliantly acted throughout, some characters v well written.

last episode was a strange(ly pleasant) change of pace

Definitely strange, but given the end of episode 5 it still felt really sad. The shape of it was very strange, and I think it worked.

I couldn't see where they were going to go in ep6 after Shun went off to shoot himself at the end of ep5. A flashback to happier times was probably all they could do.

The whole thing was a very well written look at mental illness, especially when Donald was probably the most ill of everyone but went unnoticed because he internalised it all. I suspected by the way they were leaning on Shun's drinking that it wouldn't end well for him.

I mean, from episode 1 people have been saying that it's not best judged as a comedy.

(of season 1)

The whole thing was a very well written look at mental illness

definitely this.

after calling it quits during ep4 due to it just going off the rails I decided to finish the series today.
very glad I did.
a wonderful way to end the story.

in other news :
I hope I am not alone in really enjoying bob mortimer and paul whitehouse talking crap while trying to catch some fish that's currently on bbc2/iplayer.
such a simple idea that so far works brilliantly.
easy summary : the detectorists vs fish.
involves a lot of discussions re mortality.

(oops, first part of post related to 'flowers')

Was The Trip on BBC? The Mortimer thing feels like a response to that.

(only better. I never really like the trip)

the bob Mortimer thing is as far as i can tell is proper improv.
and nowhere near as staged and a lot more natural.
i much prefer it to any of the trip.

and yes, 'the trip', was on the bbc for a while before it got nicked by £££.