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

I (half) watched an episode of Warren. It was far too bland to warrant recapping to be honest. Essentially Warren's family were being (mildly) annoying on a car journey and he ended up yelling at them.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/british-comedy-social-media-complaints-bbc-shane-allen-political-correctness-a8867146.html

We want racist jokes from a more diverse background

Paul Chowdhry has some news for you then!

I burned through all of Back To Life after seeing ep1 and think it's better than Fleabag. There, I said it.

Ghosts is tremendous fun, but would struggle to go wrong with the cast.

new taskmaster starts on wednesday

Iain Stirling, Joe Thomas, Lou Sanders, Paul Sinha and Sian Gibson

(could put a face to two of those names, two others i recognise when i look, the other is a mystery)

((but it's not always the big names that provide the lols))

Ian Stirling used to appear with that puppet dog on CBBC. Joe Thomas is Inbetweeners bloke. Paul Sinha is the quizzy standup and would be my first guess at the Phil Wang/Nish Kumar (gets it wrong because he concentrates more on comedy) type. Sian Gibson is a mate of Peter Kaye's. I recognise Lou Sanders' name, because Herring goes on about her quite a bit, but I'm blind.

Lou has been on a couple of things just recently. er, Hypothetical and 8/10 cats (Millennial reboot). but she was already familiar to me, somehow.

lou sanders is amazing on the late great "why is your bottom so dirty" podcast

has been on the old 8/10 cats a dozen times apparently, and was on the new one last week.

i enjoyed Don't Forget The Driver. it wasn't Detectorists, but there was something i liked about it.

Ghosts was unassuming. it passed the time. i liked the basement / plague pit ghosts and the caveman.

Ghosts is great! Everything about it is so likable. I binged it in two days.

Back to Life is even better.

https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/worzel_gummidge_2019/

hard shoes to fill but "Mackenzie Crook writes, directs and stars in this new family comedy series about a scarecrow who comes to life" sounds promising.

Haha wow. If anybody could do that project...

Pirates of the Runner Beans

into that authentic turnip head tbh

ghosts was so so excellent. loving Back To Life as well, it's like Home Time, but darker.

london fog! tuppence a jar!

I thought it was mostly bollocks. Poor gags.

Year of the Rabbit, that is.

yup lazily written, matt berry being matt berry. i laughed a lot.

Ah, I didn't really. Unlike when watching Toast.

I watched episode 3 of Chernobyl immediately beforehand so perhaps wasn't in an overly jocular mood.

It's not just you, I thought it was very average as well. Young girl selling stuff was the highlight.

Atlanta, the Donald Glover thing. not really an out and out comedy but i've enjoyed it (BBC2 just showed all 10 episodes over 3 nights)

am enjoying the period drama aspect of Rabbit, but not much else.

(hadn't realised it was so lauded at the time, it won a bunch of awards, both it and DG himself. he is pretty great in it)

Atlanta not really UK either - but it has it's own thread Donald Glover's FX dramedy ATLANTA

I appreciate the pre-internet attitude of talking about US shows when they're on UK telly here.

really enjoyed james acaster's current show (cold lasagne hate myself 1999), esp the intense hostility of it. none of the stewart lee-style dividing the audience, just came out laying into the entire audience v strongly from the start quite comprehensively, then following it up with a refreshingly undiplomatic brexit bit

Thanks to whoever it was upthread that recommended Back To Life.

Superb tv.

Are brexit bits usually diplomatic?

James Acaster is generally great tho yeah. Proud to say I've been collateral damage when he was taking down hecklers.

new Ultimate Worrier is bleeped, despite going out at 10. (best thing about this is still the title but i live in hope)

Taskmaster. the inbetweener guy looks like he's spaced out on something half the time. and paul sinha doesn't come across as all there either at times, like he doesn't know how simple things work.

And Greg Davies is bored.

i wonder how the US version is doing?

https://www.reddit.com/r/panelshow/comments/abpmo8/us_taskmaster_not_picked_up_for_second_season/

ah...

Paul Sinha announced on Twitter a few weeks ago that he'd been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease so maybe that's something to do with how he was on Taskmaster

Actually I've just found this tweet from later the same day

I ought to clarify for Taskmaster fans. I'm an absolute dolt when it comes to common sense, lateral thinking and visual creativity. The illness was only a tiny aspect of why I floundered.

— Paul Sinha (@paulsinha) June 14, 2019

He's also said at various times this series he had shoulder surgery which didn't help his mobility (like in the task with sand coming out of the bottom of the bucket).

Highlight of the series has been the various ways Ian Stirling's pride has come before a fall.

really enjoyed james acaster's current show (cold lasagne hate myself 1999)

What is this on? His shows on Netflix are brilliant, so well conceived

stage!

It sounds like it's based in part on one I saw nearly exactly a year ago (as in, the comedy festival is on over this weekend) - I'm glad if he's brought it together, I was honestly a little worried about him.

he's definitely a lot angrier than he was but... I love it?

Actually fuck it - here's where we'll be for the next two days - any recommendations from the thread welcome: https://argcomfest.com/schedule.html

i was a bit mean-sounding about sinha up there, but he's still my favourite of this batch.

(and frozen shoulder is a bitch. for a year i couldn't move my left arm any more than horizontal and trying to reach behind me was shout-inducingly painful)

I really like Sofie Hagen, Nish Kumar and Lou Sanders from that list.

"why is your bottom so dirty" w Lou Sanders was my favourite podcast for awhile

Catherine Bohart and Larry Dean are both very good comedians who don't come across as well on TV as they do in their standup. Will Adamsdale won the Perrier a few years ago (in fact, it was fifteen years ago, which is what "a few" looks like to my brain now). He does character comedy. If he's doing stuff again, it could be interesting, I guess. Obviously if it's terrible then on your own head be it.

seconding Larry Dean being very good.

Laura Davis is good, does long personal-story stuff. Millennial-young-woman and childhood-reminiscence material, in a style that you can see her carrying on into middle-aged TV success. Fern Brady I've only seen doing TV spots, but enjoyed those. N4t M3tcalfe I've not seen live, but have been on holiday with: he's funny in the back of a car BUT is not familiar with the theme to The Nanny for drunken singalong purposes, if that affects your decision.

Thirded on Larry Dean - seen him a few times over the years and he's always great. Fern Brady also very good.

M3tcalfe also used to work at my local comics shop.

And runs the Folk Horror movie club! Dunno if it's still active but I got to see Valerie & Her Week Of Wonders cause of that.