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

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.

was also co-host of j0s1e lOng's monthly show in camden. is/was doing a show on fubar radio with n1ck h3lm.

(why are we googleprooofing?)

Yeah I am encouraged that I'm encountering him more these days on a bill of something that I might (but probably won't) go to than giving me my order at Gosh Comics.

(why are we googleprooofing?)

s!c doesn't want him to find this thread and see him talking smack about his 90's theme songs knowledge

Shit news

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48935431

Even with the prospect of some decent zings I couldn't face watching the crystal maze given that Anne W was on it.

in other "it's comedy and it's on tv in the uk" news, the second series of Atlanta starts on bbc2 tonight.

> new Ultimate Worrier is bleeped

second episode was not beeped.

I've just put on this week's Crystal Maze and am horrified that Anne Widdecombe is on it. People should stop pretending that that hateful old bat is entertaining or interesting, and get her off of light entertainment shows forever.

(I am watching anyway in case the team go mad, put her in the spinny planets thing, and leave her there forever. Obviously that didn't happen, but I can dream)

Richard obviously wasn't overjoyed to have her on; when doing a shooting challenge he yelled at her "imagine it's someone who wants a living wage."

jennifer saunders and bill nighy are different ppl right i haven't been following

New taskmaster tonight.

Enjoyed Susan calman's Edinburgh chat show things, fringe benefits.

The Aisling Bea vehicle is ok.

Paul sinha's radio show also interesting - caught 5 minutes of the second one the other day and listened to them both this afternoon.

Ooh, cheers for the reminder about Paul Sinha's show, really enjoyed the first one.

your periodical reminder that stath lets flats is the best british sitcom since...idk, i'm alan partridge or something

and that you all need to see it

whoa

i might be biased as a greek cypriot londoner but no fuck it, that show has the best mangled english, best slapstick timing and best characters, you all owe it to yourselves to see it and frankly it astounds me that nobody else has mentioned it yet

I enjoy it but am not nearly so gushing, sometimes the jokes don't land nearly as well as they should and tbh the Katia character makes the mangling feel like a bad joke at times. Dean's building hatred for Julian is a joy though.

Personal highlight of series 2 is the casual way the dad's homosexuality is just dropped in and not made a big thing (in either a positive or negative way).

the trailers for stath lets flats have always put me off.

currently watching the second python documentary of the night, which covers a lot of the same ground as the first python documentary of the night and wondering what the point is.

did anyone else watch the tez o'clock show? seems like it's been canned after 3 episodes, but I liked it

I've had a stinking cold the last few days and binged a good dozen episodes of Travel Man. Perfect.

Fully expect there to be some anti Ayoade edgelords on here but ^ yep.

^ Another thing that never grabbed me.

New taskmaster is a step up from series 8, luckily.

Hmm, taskmaster never grabbed me but two of the three episodes I've seen were from series 8.

It's interesting that if you don't know Ayoade's cohost you learn both whether you think they're funny and also whether they're a good foil for Ayoade, and the two don't seem to be correlated AT ALL.

I've been skipping the ones co-starring people I actively dislike (David Baddiel, Lena Dunham, Jo Brand, Robert Webb, Nish Kumar, Rebel Wilson)

yeesh that is a fucking rogues' gallery

Fuck off, Nish is great.

he's the one I don't know tbf

quite enjoying 'Defending the Guilty' which has a 'Teachers' vibe complete with lots of Belle & Sebastian

You lost me at Belle & Sebastian.

otm

Nish is really good yeah.

lol I anticipated that would be the next post.
ok then er they have *checks ilm* wolf alice? they mentioned Taylor Swift iirc

To be honest my opinion of Nish Kumar is based on watching The Mash Report like twice and thinking it was a bit duff.

ok then er they have *checks ilm* wolf alice? they mentioned Taylor Swift iirc

no and no.

Oh yeah Mash Report was terrible. Really love his stand-up tho.

I only made it 3-4 minutes into Mo Gilligan's Netflix thing. I suppose calling Mum's "dickheads" over and over in the space of a few minutes is not for me.

Motherland returns on Monday

And the tiny thing with Chris o'dowd as the husband going through therapy, State of the Union, was filmed in a local pub.

i really tried with motherland.

It's not believable and it's a bit stressful to watch but it does have Diane Morgan in it.

one of my greatest fears in life is turning into, or even appearing to turn into, Anna M-M's character. I can barely watch it.

some good lines last night. noticed Barunka and holly walsh in the writing credits too. and two Linehans (for a previous series i think)

Charity Shop Sue, anyone?

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— Charity Shop Sue (@CharityShopSue) November 24, 2019

Harry Hill has been good vfm recently. His stint on junior bake off doing dad jokes and the non-reaction of the kids, and his little compare bits on club night.

sam campbell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4KZF_uZM2Q

FP’d you for racism

the long hignfy had 3 or 4 other nazi jokes on top of the Holocaust denial one, all of which fell flat (albeit not as much).

Well done there, Ricky.

Ricky Gervais’ golden globe joke is quickly taken out of context across Chinese social media. He’s now a viral hero among ppl championing “artists should stay out of politics”. (HK & Xinjiang of course is brought up). It’s a joke that Gervais can’t write himself. H/t @xuxibai. pic.twitter.com/8TGYXUdJAY

— Toni (but what’s your *real* name?) (@tony_zy) January 6, 2020

Except even with context it's the same shit.