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

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.

Breitbart and Ben Shapiro both think Ricky did an excellent job last night

Taskmaster is moving to ch4.

went looking for news of a new series only to find that they've skipped channel and they are quoting late 2020 for the next series. part of me thinks that they are running out of contestants after 9 series and maybe this will attract a different kind of participant and part of me thinks this will be bad, anne wiidicombe on celeb crystal maze bad.

there's a never-ending supply of young comedians just bubbling under - surely they can keep on like that?

the russells

My guess at a Channel 4 lineup -
Tom Allen
Suzi Ruffell
Big Narstie
Adam Hills
Alex Brooker

Though I'm still holding out for Adam Buxton and/or Richard Ayoade to give it a go.

Joey Essex. Boris' dad. A random goggleboxer...

(fave contestants off top of head have been tarbuck, mortimer and mafeo)

Tim Key, Katy Wix, Rhod Gilbert my top three of the top of my head.

Joey Essex would kill the show stone dead.

Bob Mortimer the best contestant that's been on, nobody else comes close.

Rhod Gilbert, Tim Key, Paul Chowdhry, Joe Lycett, Asim Chaudry and Katy Wix all great. Special *entertainment* points for Ian Stirling for being the most horribly competitive.

Series 9 probably had the best all-round casting?

Rhod Gilbert in the wardrobe...

God, yeah, Ian Stirling was really watchable, see also Ed Gamble and James Acaster.