Limmy's Show

Xpost if "odd fish" = arsehole, then yes.

lol at one of the top replies on that ‘yoker’ tweet being from thandie newton of all people

limmy has always struck me as being someone whose work i love but i’d probably go out of my way to avoid meeting irl

He doesnt seem like an arsehole to me. In the autobio he talks about not really having friends in primary school, and how his mother never told him that she loved him or cuddled him or anything (and obviously same with his da) and he is completely disinterested and unmoved when she suddenly gets ill and dies when hes in his late teens. He also just generally has difficulties forming relationships with people and is a fairly, to his own admission, bad father (though his love for his son is about the only strong emotion towards a person that he seems to have).

I mean that sounds like a bit of an arsehole? But he talks about feeling like he has something missing, that's kind of more the vibe.

he’s mentioned about wondering whether he’s on the autism spectrum before iirc

He's certainly not an arsehole ime, though I knew when he had nothing - well, not much anyway. Not a saint either and not as out there as he likes to portray, he functioned pretty well

He's very intelligent and talented and I'm trying not to do the "There's a lot of funny people in Glasgow" bit, but he is a very Glasgow/ West of Scotland kind of guy.

was gonna say, this

how his mother never told him that she loved him or cuddled him or anything (and obviously same with his da) and he is completely disinterested and unmoved when she suddenly gets ill and dies when hes in his late teens. He also just generally has difficulties forming relationships with people and is a fairly, to his own admission, bad father

is very typical West of Scotland stuff

lol, yes

lol

sad lol

otm, alas

No fucking way. Big time! https://t.co/QOjkHuO8dY

— twitch.tv/Limmy (@DaftLimmy) November 1, 2019

lol ‘frankie boyle’

That's me finished with the Surprisingly Down to Earth patter. Old as fuck noo. Deid.

— twitch.tv/Limmy (@DaftLimmy) January 22, 2020

end of an era

Full series of Limmy's Homemade Show starts this Sunday.

https://youtu.be/RfT7q0CynA8

Making the first episode of this the episode that was already on was a terrible idea. I get it (sort of) but just list it as a repeat of the pilot, followed by a new series if, in fact, it is a new series.

oh that's a bit silly.

oh well, an extra week to wait for something new

I'm enjoying this, in these unprecedented times

aye, ive been enjoying, shame there's only 3 eps

ah boo

This series plays out like a terrible anxiety dream to me and a pretty good example of why you need to work with other people to make a TV show. The other players on his previous shows were so good and necessary. The effect here is so suffocating it makes me hyperventilate to even watch it. I'm a fan but I'd say this is about 10% funny and about 60% horrifying and about 30% thankfully, helpfully, "don't care".

If you think it's good then that's great, of course, it's just extremely not for me and definitely did not help me out rn. I had to stop the 3rd episode.

I liked the way that some of the bits eventually pay off into something like a conventional punchline and some of them just leave you hanging. I agree about the anxiety dream thing, it's easy to imagine a sketch like the one with the guy's mate not liking the film he recommended being done with the shorter guy from Limmy's Show as the mate, but it feels so much more claustrophobic without them

It does feel weirdly appropriate for the moment, that claustrophobia, though. Lot of people rattling about alone indoors with their thoughts rn. Watched e3 last night and had tears running down my face.

Frankly I think Limmy's enough of a good weirdo that I could imagine him doing this show even w/o quarantine, so it's not been too bad on that front for me.

it was purely coincidental that this came out now, it was all conceived, commissioned, filmed and scheduled before COVID.

It's unnervingly apt

He's basically been doing this solo shut-in stuff ever since limmy's show finished in 2013 so it's hardly some spooky coincidence, just the world has lined up with his neuroses now

limmy was on Tim heidecker's "Office Hours" today which is, for me at least, a real world's collide moment of two of my favourite comedians of the 21st century. haven't watched it yet

Uncanny.

https://youtu.be/ws-slxSyvAk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X24Wr9N5fRs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bltQ07N6HxQ

gosh why am I not surprised that Lloyd Cole is a tedious and snobbish fucking bell end

Why on earth would you read an autobiography by someone you've never heard of before?
Why would you read a book by a comic if you don't understand humour?
Or empathy for that matter?

it's a shitty program (lol, that I frequently listen to!) that wasn't ever likely to be warm towards a Limmy biog. But they seem to be questioning the validity of an oik like that even writing one.

I imagine he was given the book to review? The funniest thing was fat wanker Cole mentioning that he learned Flash too nyah-nyah-nyah, what a tool.

Yeah it sounds like something from the early 80s and extremely snobby

below in the comments someone is quoting Jerry Sadowitz: "I used to hate Bryan Ferry until I discovered Lloyd Cole"

The perception of Limmy's book I'd picked up elsewhere is that he does come across as a vaguely disquieting empathy void and his partner is quite long-suffering, but those lot come across as such raging wankers on that bit

all sounds quite relatable!

Limmy's gf tweeted "Lloyd Cole was right" shortly after this was aired

lol!

A mate who is a fan, after reading the book, described him to me as a 'creepy wee gadge' and say it's written poorly.

it's a shitty program (lol, that I frequently listen to!) that wasn't ever likely to be warm towards a Limmy biog.

Isn't this A Good Read? So they're reading it because one of the guests - or the host - liked it and picked it.

doesn't she just do general book reviews sometimes? or I might be mixing it up with her other program on WS.

"Francis Macdonald's pick is the autobiography of the Scottish comedian Limmy"

that Harriet Gilbert has terrible taste in books and some of the featured authors she has on are so tedious, but the show is just background noise to me while I'm cooking usually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQqMBma6H4c
I mean, this is what his hing is, and it's vital shit