There's some streams Limmy did that are up on youtube which are him broadcasting old episodes of a quiz show called 3, 2, 1 and analyzing them in the most granular detail, also getting very angry whenever there's some perceived slight against Scottland. Enough hours of that and I got a much better grasp of the accent.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 3 June 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link
I'm a Limmy agnostic, but yes his 3-2-1 analyses are absurdly brilliant.
― chap, Thursday, 3 June 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
it's low-res but Home Time appears to be on YouTube. Got to love a sitcom that has Hometown Unicorn as its theme tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VcoWPj6j3U
― burnt hombre (stevie), Thursday, 3 June 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
Which reminds me to recommend Toast of London as well.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Thursday, 3 June 2021 17:36 (two years ago) link
I'm subscribed to this YouTube channel where an American couple mostly watch / comment on British comedy, might be an interesting place to start (though their tastes are pretty mainstream)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfterWorkRe
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 3 June 2021 17:43 (two years ago) link
well apparently anything with YouTube in the url gets mangled, let's try again.this is the link
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 3 June 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
House Of Fools! only two seasons, criminally
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 June 2021 22:27 (two years ago) link
i think i like emma fryer a lot
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 June 2021 22:47 (two years ago) link
Limmy's Show
― Number None, Thursday, June 3, 2021 12:11 AM (twenty-two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Aye. It's all on YouTube too
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 4 June 2021 05:28 (two years ago) link
Oh I see you've already covered this haha. I have translated many sketches for Canadian friends
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 4 June 2021 05:29 (two years ago) link
No love for Gareth Marengi's Darkplace?
― ailsa, Friday, 4 June 2021 10:53 (two years ago) link
* Garth
― ailsa, Friday, 4 June 2021 10:54 (two years ago) link
Oh yes.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Friday, 4 June 2021 11:18 (two years ago) link
Lots and lots of love. Foundational.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 June 2021 11:28 (two years ago) link
There's stuff (possibly including Darkplace) where I wonder whether the referents are too English for it to really hit - Green Wing and A Touch of Cloth might count as both (but are brilliant - the latter is Tough Northern Detective Police Squad)
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 4 June 2021 12:28 (two years ago) link
I could never get into Green Wing - always seemed like smug whimsy and the episodes were an hour long!
― chap, Friday, 4 June 2021 12:36 (two years ago) link
I quite like Boosh though, so I'm obviously OK with some smug whimsy.
― chap, Friday, 4 June 2021 12:37 (two years ago) link
I think the corny 80's horror paperbacks Darkplace draws on are internationally known; transplanting those to TV might be a slightly more British thing (thinking of sci-fi more than horror here really).
Also it's funny how often stuff that feels super insider-y to ppl from the place it came from ends up being super popular outside it - ppl are drawn to geographical specificity even if they don't get all the jokes, I think.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 4 June 2021 12:38 (two years ago) link
It's like when I used to watch the Simpsons and they'd reference a US celeb I'd never heard of, but I didn't mind because I could generally guess what that person was meant to signify in the context of the joke.
― chap, Friday, 4 June 2021 12:41 (two years ago) link
OTOH I think some styles of humour have difficulty crossing international boundaries - for example I've watched several reaction vids of Americans utterly bemused by Reeves & Mortimer.
― chap, Friday, 4 June 2021 12:44 (two years ago) link
Just like an average day on ILX in other words. Daniel_Rf OTM btw.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Friday, 4 June 2021 12:53 (two years ago) link
If we're mentioning Darkplace we should probably also call up Doctor Terrible's House of Horrible for horror films 10-20 years older.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Friday, 4 June 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
darkplace got usa play on adult swim, never clicked for me.
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 June 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
Thanks for the Doctor Terrible shout aldo, catnip for fans of 60's Brit horror. The titles alone!
I watched the Witchfinder General parody and it's interesting how despite being a loving reconstruction of 70's visions of Ruritania it also feels totally like a 90's Xena/Hercules type set. Also weird to hear Coogan's witch locator use these inflections that we now associate so deeply with Partridge.
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 5 June 2021 09:43 (two years ago) link
I've never been sure how it'd play to someone familiar with the original films - especially since some of them lift actual dialogue and have the original cast in them - but for those of us that way inclined they're tremendous. I particularly love the one based on Vault of Horror, and also the Karnstein trilogy version.
Watch out for the cameo by Pete Walker regular Sheila Keith in the first of those, her final performance.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Saturday, 5 June 2021 09:55 (two years ago) link
One of my other massively unpopular things that play 100% into my wheelhouse is Cruise of the Gods.
It's the ur-version of the Coogan/Brydon model later used in Tristram Shandy and The Trip, with them as ex-teen stars of a post-apocalypse ITV-style kids show set in the New Romantic era. It's set on a fan cruise and looks hard at fandom, writing TV sci-fi and cult celebrity.
In further Pete Walker connections, it also stars his one-time lead actor Jack Jones.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Saturday, 5 June 2021 10:10 (two years ago) link
Warning for the above, contains both David Walliams and James Corden but just push past it.
I've never been sure how it'd play to someone familiar with the original films
Close to unwatchable I'd guess, assuming you meant unfamiliar and judging by the ep I saw - a lot of it is mockery of Hammer's horniness, which I think w/o the context of what they're parodying would just scan as terrible 70's sex jokes.
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 5 June 2021 10:16 (two years ago) link
Haha yes, I meant unfamiliar.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Saturday, 5 June 2021 10:19 (two years ago) link
One of my other massively unpopular things that play 100% into my wheelhouse is Cruise of the Gods.It's the ur-version of the Coogan/Brydon model later used in Tristram Shandy and The Trip, with them as ex-teen stars of a post-apocalypse ITV-style kids show set in the New Romantic era. It's set on a fan cruise and looks hard at fandom, writing TV sci-fi and cult celebrity.
WTF, how have I not heard of this?!
― kinder, Saturday, 5 June 2021 10:58 (two years ago) link
So I started watching it on YouTube thinking it was a sitcom but it's a movie. A weirdly paced kind of downbeat one, bit reminiscent of Mindhorn. You're spending most of the first half waiting for Coogan to show up. Also Russell Brand pops up for 20 seconds.
― kinder, Saturday, 5 June 2021 21:53 (two years ago) link
Yeah, it was during this that Brand had his drugs and strippers meltdown that put him in rehab, so his part got rewritten on the fly.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Saturday, 5 June 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
enjoyed Cruise Of The Gods at the time, can imagine it playing like a horror film now that the most immature and entitled type of childrens'-SF-fan portrayed in it has been elevated to the core of mainstream culture, both pop and political
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 5 June 2021 23:55 (two years ago) link
I remember liking it at the time
― The 💨 that shook the barlow (wins), Saturday, 5 June 2021 23:57 (two years ago) link
Best 3 tv shows not mentioned so far: This Country, Grandma’s House and (ok it’s Irish) The Young Offenders
― a hoy hoy, Sunday, 6 June 2021 06:37 (two years ago) link
It's probs my favourite Coogan outside of Partridge, the Video Diaries and The Trip.
― burnt hombre (stevie), Sunday, 6 June 2021 07:43 (two years ago) link
okay, grabbed all four of those.
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Monday, 7 June 2021 02:32 (two years ago) link
watching the start of the euros yesterday made me instinctively say 'a pound in the Nessun Dorma box'. odd how throw away lines from 1996 stick in your mind
― koogs, Saturday, 12 June 2021 09:05 (two years ago) link
oh, italia 90, obviously
― koogs, Saturday, 12 June 2021 09:07 (two years ago) link
apparently there's a season two of Starstruck on the way, i'm down if the plotting gets ironed outhttps://www.thecut.com/2021/06/starstrucks-nikesh-patel-would-maybe-date-you.html
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 03:32 (two years ago) link
Act 4… pic.twitter.com/5CgVF7p15F— Matt Berry (@porksmith) July 6, 2021
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 12:52 (two years ago) link
new As Yet Untitled on dave last night. feels like it's been over 2 years since the last one. featured both the irish robot wars presenters
― koogs, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 12:36 (two years ago) link
(also slightly weird in the it was filmed in the roundhouse in london, an old, enormous railway building. covid regs, i guess)
― koogs, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 12:37 (two years ago) link
episode 3 of This Way Up made me think they should bring back Mind Your Language.
― koogs, Thursday, 29 July 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
(splash screen at the end of that was interesting too, HM treasury and DCMS bigging up themselves and their media restart scheme, complete with union flag...)
― koogs, Thursday, 29 July 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
new Ghosts tonight
― koogs, Monday, 9 August 2021 12:54 (two years ago) link
Thanks for the reminder! Thought it was next week.
― kinder, Monday, 9 August 2021 13:28 (two years ago) link
Ghosts maintaining its quality. Slightly upset that I recently recommended it to a friend, who reported back to me describing it as 'bilge'.
― chap, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 11:13 (two years ago) link
I watched the first 5 minutes of an episode on the plane and it was like kryptonite to me despite liking a lot of the actors
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 11:58 (two years ago) link
I watched the first episode (series one) lst night and 'gentle fun' would be the kindest thing i could say about it, maybe it gets better...
― Believe me, grow a lemon tree. (ledge), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 15:37 (two years ago) link