australian, probably best known in the uk for that 3-hander sketch show she did with barunka, Beehive (6 episodes in 2008 but fondly remembered here)
xp
― koogs, Friday, 19 February 2021 09:36 (three years ago) link
i don't know wozniak outside of the character he plays in Man Down
― koogs, Friday, 19 February 2021 09:37 (three years ago) link
Me either, but that's enough to sell me on him.
Sarah Kendall is a fantastic comic. I'm really looking forward to seeing her do her thing.
He's the worst thing about Would I Lie To You (lovely Bob is the best, obviously).
I used to like him on it, but now he just shouts over everyone all the time. I wonder if he's going a bit deaf.
― trishyb, Friday, 19 February 2021 10:49 (three years ago) link
Saw Kendall do stand-up once and became an immediate fan, she's really great. Had a sitcom at one point based on her life which was sadly rubbish, but it feels like these kinds of things usually are.
These days I'm just thankful if a show doesn't have anyone I know to be an asshole from online in it (I say after having grinded my teeth through the Baddiel season of Taskmaster, not that he wasn't funny in it).
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 19 February 2021 10:57 (three years ago) link
These days I'm just thankful if a show doesn't have anyone I know to be an asshole from online in it
Agreed, fucking twitter. Tony Robinson came on C4 News the other day and I booed the screen. My partner asked what I had against Tony Robinson and I just sounded really pathetic and paranoid explaining.
― chap, Friday, 19 February 2021 11:07 (three years ago) link
Yeah, my attempt to explain Baddiel ended in "he's just a dad who needs to log off" and the wife pointed out she knows someone else who might need to log off...
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 19 February 2021 11:43 (three years ago) link
touché
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2021 11:45 (three years ago) link
Lol.
Baddiel and Robinson are both total arseholes though...
― chap, Friday, 19 February 2021 12:14 (three years ago) link
I mean, Toby Young is a total arsehole. I can imagine listening to Baddiel or Robinson talking on a lot of some subjects and being interested in what they say - TY not so.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 19 February 2021 12:31 (three years ago) link
I guess I'd listen to Robinson if he was talking about like, Anglo Saxon burial grounds or what it was like to make Blackadder.
― chap, Friday, 19 February 2021 12:39 (three years ago) link
I can't imagine being interested in anything David Baddiel does or says.
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2021 12:50 (three years ago) link
Nope.
― chap, Friday, 19 February 2021 12:54 (three years ago) link
This was literally the only time the sight of David Baddiel has given me any pleasure:
https://c.files.bbci.co.uk/vivo/live/images/2016/6/7/cafa2d6d-d7e4-416d-b824-2bcbcb793bce.jpg
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2021 12:59 (three years ago) link
I enjoyed his wanking jokes when I was about 12.
― chap, Friday, 19 February 2021 13:01 (three years ago) link
Would point Baddiel-fans to this review of his book from the Jewdas peoplehttps://www.jewdas.org/aging-liberal-confuses-self-blames-left/
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 19 February 2021 13:01 (three years ago) link
Baddiel-fans
Just as a favour, could you fuck off there?
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 19 February 2021 13:08 (three years ago) link
not saying there are any on here, just if you know any
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 19 February 2021 13:14 (three years ago) link
As someone who has no idea about Tony Robinson's likes or dislikes, what's the deal with him? Standard whingeing about women/immigrants/workshy layabouts, or something more sinister?
― trishyb, Friday, 19 February 2021 13:18 (three years ago) link
Tony Robinson campaigned against Corbyn for years from inside the Labour Party, think this is the biggie.
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 19 February 2021 13:20 (three years ago) link
And generally comes across as a smug, superior, out of touch dickhead.
― chap, Friday, 19 February 2021 13:25 (three years ago) link
Okay, fair enough.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 19 February 2021 13:25 (three years ago) link
Toby Young is also a political commentator, so the badness is his reason to exist and I can know to stay away from it. Baddiel and Robinson are entertainers, so the bad takes are an unwelcome interference. Not that I think entertainers should stay away from politics or anything, but it's just a totally different situation imo.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 19 February 2021 13:42 (three years ago) link
Not that I think entertainers should stay away from politics or anything
They absolutely should be able to offer their political perspectives, but everyone else equally has the right to challenge them - which I think is what a number of these Twitter loudmouth celebs take issue with.
― chap, Friday, 19 February 2021 13:51 (three years ago) link
i liked rose matefeo from the moment she curled up in one of the Hypothetical chairs. her stint on taskmaster confirmed this, the ghillie suit, the serenade task. and i thought she got Dead Pixels character pitch perfect.
so Horn Dog (bbc1 yesterday, iplayer) was a bit of a surprise. her standup is a bit full on, talking almost too fast, swearing lots. funny though, and the end was a triumph.
― koogs, Friday, 26 February 2021 04:10 (three years ago) link
I found Jessica Knappert very charming on Taskmaster, is Drifters any good?
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 5 March 2021 14:03 (three years ago) link
maybe geoff norcott can get his own show now?
― koogs, Friday, 12 March 2021 11:48 (three years ago) link
Taskmaster returns on thursday.
fave thing at the moment though, the thing i find myself laughing at most, is Teen First Dates, because the kids are naturally funny (and mostly charming. think there's only been one car crash so far, the chicken guy)
― koogs, Monday, 15 March 2021 13:26 (three years ago) link
I've been loving Teen First Dates too, particularly the kiddy who kept on thinking calling his very short date a hobbit was very good flirting.
Chicken guy was excruciating.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Monday, 15 March 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link
and, of course, the episode after i mention it was the worst yet. I'd never watch the adult version because i imagine it to be full of players and people seemingly set up to be laughed at and the kids version has been nicely devoid of that, until last night.
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 04:12 (three years ago) link
The only time I ever saw the adult one they had a Tory couple with one whose claim to fame was trolling a guy on lbc and one who thought she was the most attractive woman to ever work in Westminster. It was nauseating, and also a bit like a fast show sketch, and it felt like they weren’t real people. I didn’t watch another episode.
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 14:02 (three years ago) link
At its best, the adult one can be genuinely quite sweet and heartwarming. But yeah there are plenty of pricks on it too.
― chap, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link
Just caught up with Crashing on Netflix - overall quite patchy and obviously Waller-Bridge finding her feet, but the curry night episode is flat out hilarious.
― chap, Thursday, 25 March 2021 09:13 (three years ago) link
Comic Strip repeats on London live are now beyond the ones i ever saw at the time. this one, Les Dogs, has Kate Bush in it.
(last couple have been a mess though)
― koogs, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
This one wasn't exactly very coherent, as well as not being even remotely funny but I suspect it wasn't really designed to be.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
i do love the vindictive single-person tasks on taskmaster but tonight's was especially classic: "Fart. Fastest wins."
― koogs, Thursday, 22 April 2021 20:24 (three years ago) link
(except that ended up quite disturbing)
― koogs, Friday, 23 April 2021 10:03 (three years ago) link
I haven't laughed as much in ages as I did at the unexpected ending to that task.
― ailsa, Friday, 23 April 2021 13:16 (three years ago) link
anyone watched Frank of Ireland?
Quite astoundingly shite based on the first episode (and any other clips I've seen)
Like we all know TV is a cesspool of nepotism but you think someone would have stepped in at some point
― Number None, Friday, 23 April 2021 14:16 (three years ago) link
i managed five minutes.
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 April 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link
I watched the whole thing because you never know when you're going to see someone you know, but yeah, it wasn't good.
― trishyb, Friday, 23 April 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link
Only saw the end but that wasn't very good.Partridge is back next Friday though!
― kinder, Friday, 23 April 2021 21:57 (three years ago) link
Counterpoint: Frank of Ireland isn't total shit, merely very mediocre. C4 hyping it like the new Father Ted, though.
― chap, Friday, 23 April 2021 22:57 (three years ago) link
Scots seem to love it based on an informal survey of my Facebook feed.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 23 April 2021 23:06 (three years ago) link
Frank Of Ireland absolute embarrassing joke drought. What has Domhnal Gleeson done to deserve this?
The fart Taskmaster was hilarious. "It's like a casserole down there."
― Fine ham abounds, mom (stevie), Monday, 26 April 2021 09:05 (two years ago) link
Mike Wozniak very good all round on Taskmaster. I feel sorry for Charlotte, hope she wins a show at least.
― chap, Monday, 26 April 2021 10:09 (two years ago) link
Isn't his brother the show's creator? xp
― groovypanda, Monday, 26 April 2021 10:31 (two years ago) link
he's got previous with greg on Man Down, which i keep forgetting. but yes, from about 5 seconds into episode 1, he was obviously going to be good value.
― koogs, Monday, 26 April 2021 10:33 (two years ago) link
My very first exposure to After Life was the scene with the plastic surgery casualty, and I was howling. Things got really sentimental after that, I wonder what the ilx consensus is on this one. I tried a Google search to no avail
― cerebral halsey (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 04:16 (two years ago) link
i am enjoying Starstruck after the first two episodes. nice casting, fun acting, decent script, clearly a fantasy but a fairly compassionate and enjoyable one with about two genuine laughs per half hour. Matafeo is a new face for me and is welcome.
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
her series of Taskmaster was good
― koogs, Thursday, 29 April 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link