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

(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.

James Acaster and his three-month hula-hoop odyssey was a real highlight.

that Goes Wrong show looks like some kind of shite

This Country back next week

I like the characters and actors in This Country but the writing's somewhat patchy.

i thought they'd wrapped that up forever? still, no complaints here.

frankie boyle's tour of scotland has a bunch of great throwaway lines. and nice scenery.

i think susan calman's doing something similar on ch5

Erika Ehler is fiiiiiiiiiiire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=437&v=fWwTVMkNN7I

'my mom's pussy should be nicknamed Cambridge for the number of white men it's accepted'

How have I slept on Stath Lets Flats for so long? It walks a precarious tightrope between pure silliness and quite shrewdly observed character stuff and does it wonderfully. Can't think of anything else with quite the same tone.

Just discovering likewise now!

its a lot better than i ever expected from the idents.

New series of hignfy. Wonder how they are going to do this given the regs. Or is it as simple as having new, longer desks?

Hislop surely in a demographic that should #staythefuckhome?

https://cosmicshambles.com/stayathome/upcoming-schedule

cosmic shambles are doing daily broadcasts featuring a lot of the usual suspects (robin ince and josie long hosting, natalie haynes, sara pascoe, ben norris as guests this morning).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gtp2

Geoff Norcott: Hates Being Told What To Do

"The return of the award-winning comedian Geoff Norcott - this time to explain the origins of his right-leaning political ideology.

Geoff hates being told what to do - especially when he considers it's the state interfering with his and everyone else's lifestyle."

Of course he fucking does.

The Spencer Jones series that started this week was pretty old-school but also pretty dreadful.

(xp) Good timing. One hopes, no doubt in vain, that the current crisis would kill off the pointless careers of unfunny cunts like Geoff Norcott.

liked this pilot about an all female muslim band lot

Lady Parts

*a lot

in a "Old time actors and directors that you were surprised to find out were married to each other once upon a time" style, this pandemic has thrown up a couple of things i didn't know about. the Comedians At Home thing on BBC2 last night had marcus brigstock and rachel parris doing a piece together. show wasn't life-changing in terms of comedy, but their bit was impressive for what it was (lip syncing).

(the other one being non-comedians, lara lewington and martin-money-saving-expert are both doing their shows from the same building)

New Diane Morgan thing, Mandy, was ok last week. I liked the one with the spiders in the banana factory. Odd format though, like 15 minutes long, each.

(On again tonight)

Paul Sinha's radio show is the epitome of fun fact.

I like the 15-minute format! Russian one was lol

Good guest stars as well.

new frankie boyle series started tonight, in before the left-wing comedy ban...

I don't know, if there's anyone I can see pivoting to a post-woke landscape...

the socially-distanced roundtable version of frankie boyle was funnier, i thought - the other comedians chipping in more and making each other laugh (especially useful due to lack of audience)

Yesterday is also showing dinnerladies on a sunday afternoon, something i actively disliked when it was originally on, but it's sharp and dense and full of language.

The first series of Dinnerladies is superb, but it falls off very badly in the second series, I think. I watched it again just last year.

Our household thought Frankie Boyle was very funny, but not as funny as Harry Hill talking about medical dramas, which made me cry laughing at one point. (Although I may have had a drink.)

Oddly HH was the other thing I meant to mention. Just the right blend of silly and good clips.

"thank you for joining us"

New Diane Morgan thing, Mandy, was ok last week. I

She's got a hell of a lot of credit in my household, but 'Mandy' was dogshit. Painfully unfunny.

HH has always been great at spotting TV stuff. It's gone a bit Look Around You, which I approve of. It's genuinely my ~TV highlight of the week~ rn

xp Noo! I thought Mandy got better. A bit '15 Storeys High'. Just daft. The 'Bulger boys' line had me laughing a bit too hard.

Really?! I bowed out after two episodes. I'll give you the Bulger boys line, that was funny :) But the whole 'I need to wee, let's piss in our wine bottle when my date's in the loo, empty it in his aquarium causing his fish to die, put it back on the table to have a sip of... wait for it... wee not wine!1!' was eyeroll for me. But I can see the slapstick element is funny for other people.

Hm yeah, that was a bit tedious. I think I just like the oddness of it, spider hammering, Shaun Ryder, Sonia - maybe it's the A-list cameos that pull me in.

b-but the whole spiders in the bananas thing...

it was interesting that they were 15 minute things, which felt about right. but then they showed them two at a time which undermined that.

Taskmaster starting soon on ch4

Daisy May Cooper
Johnny Vegas
Katherine Parkinson
Mawaan Rizwan
Richard Herring

(could've sworn KR had been on before)

Are people never on more than one series?

i don't think there's been a repeat so far, discounting the champion of champions season

ah, Katherine Parkinson is not the same person as Katherine Ryan (series 2)

Parkinson is the IT Crowd lady I think.

(i even used KR's initials in the same post as c'n'p-ing KP's name)

I am very surprised Richard Herring hasn't been on before now.

New series of Ghosts starts on bbc1 tonight (opposite university challenge). It's 8:30 on bbc1 so it's never going to be challenging but it's the horrible histories people iirc so is quite fun.

Oh yeah Ghosts is very enjoyable. I ended up canvassing a little with the lead actress on election day, funnily enough.

Atlanta is on bbc2 all this week. I think they are showing all 20 episodes of both series, 3 a night. It's not UK and not comedy, really, but I enjoyed it.

Watch it alongside community on 4 music for extra lols.