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

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 £££.

watched a couple of episodes of Camping off the back of Dear Joan and Jericha and it's really not good, is it? it's like the worst bits of the worst Mike Leigh films turned up to 11 (and I like Mike Leigh mostly).

I was going to watch that - maybe I won't!

I saw an episode of Friday Night Dinner. I won't be watching another.

i liked individual bits of camping but it's so relentlessly bleak and awful that it's hard to take.

This Is America, anyone? it seems slightly superfluous but the one i watched this morning (episode 3) was quite ballsy, the mexican party...

Stewart Lee's Content Provider was on on bbc2 on saturday and was... long... but generally funny

I've been watching content provider in half hour chunks. He's cruising a bit now, but at a very high level.

Romesh Ranganathan is on TV a lot, isn't he?

He is. I really enjoyed his short series of travel to unpopular destinations. As a result I was looking forward to the Judge Romesh show but I barely made it to the end of the first episode of that, it came off too blokey for my taste.

recently i saw a show that didn’t have romesh in it, i think it was a documentary about whales

I've always quite liked him in stuff, but he's definitely over-exposed.

His hip hop podcast is good.

Watched half of the Greg Davis special in Netflix. It was alright. He's got that 'I'm finding this as funny as you are' schtick which i really like on panel shows but over a stand up show, quickly starts to look disingenuous.

I watched Romesh's guide to Haiti and found it incredibly frustrating. going around going 'wow this is so intense' but it was all really superficial. could've asked some basic questions of that guy's mum who was living in a tiny concrete hut but they were too busy with the kerazy rap antics