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

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Terry and June is one of the funniest programmes in the history of television, that is unalterable fact. Therefore, who can it possibly alienate? Possibly, it alienates stuck-up prudish The Sex readers (the stereotype most certainly applies here), who can't abide by its content, or the manner in which it skewers their complacent, bigoted view of the world.

Dude I haven't seen Terry and June, but if I did, I probably wouldn't feel 'alienated'! I'd like to know how it skewers my view of the world. Enlighten me.

there's an episode in which terry scott is reading "the daily mail" before his chair breaks

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"JYOOOOON!"

> there's an episode in which terry scott is reading "the daily mail" before his chair breaks

isn't that the title sequence?

the only thing i remember about t&j being how topical it was, hence the cb radio episode, etc.

there's a fair bit of morris stuff that's just nasty. i know the peedo special is bestsatiresinceswift but so much of it is just bad taste lols. i think at some point there's a realization, or one i had, that as much as you try and justify it sometimes yr laughing cos it's naughty. it's a cheap thrill. but we're all popists here and "cheap thrill" is no denegration. it's just something to be aware of when you stop patting your back.

wikipedia says;

"Satirical television shows such as Have I Got News For You and They Think It's All Over are also popular on British television."

Wait a minute, Louis Jag is pulling a; "If You Don't Like Peep Show You Are Probably Not Worth Knowing" but with Brass Eye. Comedy = divisive.

The Nicholas Craig thing on "How to be C18th" was pretty funny for a clip show - much riffing on Biggins, Brian Blessed's "keynote performance there as Lord Shoutyface Cholesterol". Haven't seen the others. Who'd have thunk it 25 years ago that the only member of the Young Ones/Comic Strip clan to still be making reasonably good TV comedy into his 40s/50s would be Planer? To be fair, some of the others have moved into other areas, but they've all been hopeless on the telly since '93 or so.

(Lou1s J@gger is 19 or something, isn't he? I was a daft sod at that age too.)

Ooh, automagical googproofin'.

however 'i'm alan partridge' is kind of sneering and loathsome

Who is being sneered at?

There's a difference between not liking/being unsettled by Brass Eye, which I can fully accept, and being 'alienated' by it. I'm sure plenty of my friends don't much like Brass Eye, but I doubt any of them are completely, vocally opposed to its principles.

principles?

Louis thinks everyone has many principles has he has

i did see the 'how to be science fiction' which was actually 'how to be 70s science fiction' as it took most of it's cues from gareth edwards. was very much a 'lol, actors were bad back then' type affair.

brass eye argumenting now in it's 5th great year.

surely 10th?

principles of expression and humour xxxpost

Only 5 of them were great.

xpost

That many?

Brass Eye - is that what all the fuss was about?
-- tarden, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (6 years ago)

BRASS EYE - 8/8/01
-- dave q, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (6 years ago)

Brass Eye / Chris Morris...
-- Nick Southall, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (5 years ago)

The Office and Extras star/writer/director, Ricky Gervais, has signed to direct and star in This Side Of The Truth!

Gervais, 46, will play the leading role in the comedy and co-direct
with Matt Robinson. This will be Gervais' directing feature debut.

This Side Of The Truth is about a contemporary world where no one has
ever lied. A performer (Gervais) tells the first lie and harnesses its
power for personal gain.

according to guardian peter serafinowicz has his own series starting in september (that's this month).

Trailer for The Peter Serafinowicz Show.

Jimmy Carr is being lined up to front a new clip show for the BBC.
He last night recorded a pilot episode of What Are You Looking At? with plans for a full series.

The show, made by Have I Got News For You producers Hat Trick, promises to take a ‘comedic look’ at the week's television

However, the show has already been criticised for being a carbon copy of Harry Hill's TV Burp, which has proved a ratings hit for ITV.

BBC director general Mark Thompson has previously been dismissive of copycat programmes, and the corporation says their show will be ‘more spiky’*.

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Dogface officially not too bad.

Who'd have thunk it 25 years ago that the only member of the Young Ones/Comic Strip clan to still be making reasonably good TV comedy into his 40s/50s would be Planer?

"Mike" was on SAXONDALE last night.

the only thing i remember about t&j being how topical it was, hence the cb radio episode, etc.

I don't remember ever having seen this episode, but it sounds fucking fantastic.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7028033.stm

"Other winners included David Gest, who picked up the prize for funniest reality TV person."

i still can't believe he's bangin Malandra Burrows

BBC2 launches it's Comedy Night (again) tonight:

The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle - Jennifer Saunders giving Oprah-type confessional talk shows the Larry Sanders treatment.

The Peter Serafinowicz show - impersonates The Beatles, Michael Caine, and other hip'n'happenin stuff.

That Mitchell and Web Look - (rpt)

Newsnight - Tories lol.

Serafinowicz won't be funny

i like PS, find him v watchable so expect at least 2 chuckles

in other news i think there should be a Mighty Boosh comic

Ban Peter Serafinowicz, this is dreadful

Between the old Futarama gags, the old French and Saunders gags and the old Simpsons gags, my most entertainment was from going "Look, it's the guy who played The Curious Orange" when the guy who played The Curious Orange was onscreen

/\ ban, obv.

i thought PS was fine, better than expected, several good lols. i also cheered Paul Putner tho. better than Dogface (which features the same doe-eyed lass).

BBC scheduling methodology troubles me now as it seems that you can't get a new comedy on BBC2 unless you're already a name, you can't get on BBC Four unless you're aloof (i think FOTC counts as aloof altho i still haven't seen an ep), and you can't get on BBC3 unless you're incredibly stupid and crap. Doesn't bode well for actual fresh funny talent at all.

didn't see it

think you'd be somewhere between me and dom if you had

I was disappointed by Serafinozowicz. I loved Look Around You, but this wasn't half as clever. Seemed like he was taking cheap shots at things that have already had the mick taken out of them a thousand times before (Big Brother, Michael Caine, QVC). I don't get the Mitchell and Webb sketch with the snooker commentators at all.

Can anyone remind me what the bit of music Seraphimowitz played on the lady's fingers? I can't work it out, even though it's very famous.

In other news, I've been really enjoying Snuffbox (about a year too late I know). Especially "Rapper With A Baby".

The '70s man getting married' thing felt a bit Look Around You S2 but in a good way.

Can anyone remind me what the bit of music Seraphimowitz played on the lady's fingers? I can't work it out, even though it's very famous.

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

PS's alan alda was great. rest of it middling. but passed the time.

vivyan vyle was bbc1 fodder, i thought, ab fab watered down.

best of the three was mitchell and webb, yes. unfortunately the last one. still graham norton next week.

i liked the chiropractor sketch on mitchell and webb

I liked the cavepeople sketch and the nazi sketch on Mitchell and Webb. the rest was disappointing.

Dogface officially not too bad.

It's total cack

i'm sticking with my first answer

thursdays now officially less funny now norton has replaced mitchell and webb. v vyle still dreadful. BUT 30 rock is on ch5 later and is quite good.

serafinowicz good bits = none of the recurring characters (although i did like butterfield's(?) disguises). dickens' jammy corners, poison sockets good. beatles very poor.