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

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.

'30 rock' is great. by episode four or five it's genius.

Serafinowicz has a sort of gentle silliness that is quite likeable but, generally, the material is shandy weak. Poison sockets, Christmas Man, Limpy's Got Cancer the only highlights this week.

Funny that, for all his voice talent and acting chops, the best thing he's ever been involved in (Look Around You S1) hardly featured him as a performer at all.

the best thing he's ever been involved in

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UDONGdCjkNw

Yeah, that was good too.

Serafinowicz has a sort of gentle silliness that is quite likeable but, generally, the material is shandy weak.

i agree, forgot to watch last night (thought it was on friday for some reason, in your face BBC branding-obsessives).

Paramount Comedy has a kinda "stand-up" compilation show featuring biggish name stand-ups of today's routines that they can get cheap, ie: from 1997. It's fucking weird to watch. Stewart Lee as a punchline machine comedian, Sean Lock doing a kinda "Gas as hosted by Lee Mack" surrealism piece, Dave Gorman telling actually jokes...

Also, on the topic of S.Lee, apparently he's got the BBC nod to produce his own pilot, based heavily on the old Dave Allan stand-up shows. Except with an extra half-a-finger, I assume.

I'm glad he found work so soon after being sacked by Bolton.

OK, "It's Adam and Shelley", it's the last straw really. Why? How? Why again?

did anyone see Learners? her from spaced, him from doctor who. i taped it but am not sure i can summon up the will to actually watch it given the BBC1 9 o'clock timeslot

Going to the taping for S. Lee's no-longer-cancelled pilot, will report back

I saw most of Learners. It was not worth the time although I had to keep watching because I was intrigued by the building they used for drving school HQ and wondered whether they were using the actual interior or a set.

Also, on the topic of S.Lee, apparently he's got the BBC nod to produce his own pilot, based heavily on the old Dave Allan stand-up shows.

What is with Dave Allen? This from the bbc's blurb about Amid Djalili's new show...

Omid Djalili invokes the spirit of Dave Allen in his new self-penned, self-titled stand-up and sketch show.

I imagine a lot of comedians are fans of his

Dave Allen was funny, died within the past five years, didn't have a massive fall-off in funniness towards the end of his career, plus there's something endearingly "old school" about his approach that's gonna suit guys like Djalili and Lee: stand-up with brief character sketches

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Plus Lee and Djalili are both "lightly political" comedians, like Allen.

Dave Allen was great! His comedy was gentler, slower, and yet more piercing and devastatingly-observed than most modern wannabes'.

I'd forgotten that Dave Allen used to do sketches. I only rember him sitting on that stool telling jokes (and drinking and smoking iirc).

Pour one out...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/content/images/2007/08/20/daveallen_2_396x222.jpg

Allen became very rude towards the end or, perhaps, that material was always part of his stand-up and '90s TV allowed him to broadcast it. I just remember my parents (big fans in the '70s) being appalled by the explicit sex jokes; like a hero of theirs had revealed his true colours. I doubt my Dad had been so disappointed in anyone since Dave Hickson joined Liverpool in 1959.

He used the f-word, I was shocked by that

Yes, perhaps it was more the language. Poor old Mum just can't get past swearing; she nearly made my Dad turn off One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest when it was first shown on TV in about 1988 cos of the cussing. It became one of my Dad's favourite films!

Welcome to the Jonesy Nostalgia Thread.

PUT YOUR HANDS UP FOR A THIRD SERIES OF TITTYBANGBANG, THEY LOVE NOT PRODUCING ONE SINGLE LAUGH EVER AND YET STILL BEING RECOMMISSIONED

Double thread attack on Tittybang!

Some bits of Tittybang have actually made me snigger.

Also lol at weird "Megan's Law" looking dude who reviews TV in The Lite London Paper going "Some may say that Lead Balloon is "steals" from Curb Your Enthusiasm, but there's one difference: it's funnier"

Some bits of Tittybang have actually made me snigger.

-- Noodle Vague, Friday, 16 November 2007 11:33 (5 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

"Snigger" isn't an acceptable euphemism for "jack off"

It's almost as good as "Katy Brand's Big Ass Show"

Hey I was surprised too but God knows most of C4s comedy output is worse.

Katy Brand's Big Ass Face, morelike amirite?

I'm assuming after Jan Ravens and Ronni Ancona female impressionists don't need to be either funny or actually sound like the people they're impersonating, and just have large breasts?

You forgot Karen Taylor

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Works for me.

Tittybangbang: not as bad as Little Miss Jocelyn.

Should totally be its slogan.

Testicular cancer: not as bad as Little Miss Jocelyn.

Should totally be its slogan

I feel like such a racist for hating Little Miss Jocelyn, but it really is fucking awful and was obviously commissioned so the BBC could go "See! We DO give black comedy a chance!"

Remember that comedy drama about the family with the dude who played Geoffrey in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air? That was OK. And I laughed at least twice after watching three episodes of The Nathan Caton Show, so, again, I'm not a racist.

well played.

Bring back Robbie Gee.

http://www.adrians.co.uk/acatalog/MICKY01CD2.jpg

That record was funny.

POLL:

Curtis and Ishmael
Collette Johnson
Llewella Gideon
Meera Syal
Perry Benson
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Leo Chester
Felix Dexter
Robbie Gee
Kulvinder Ghir
Judith Jacob
Rudi Lickwood
Eddie Nestor
Marcus Powell
Junior Simpson
Curtis Walker

his last film has a somewhat hopeful title and one solitary review on imdb. guess it was unreleased:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2007/03/12/dont_stop_dreaming_2007_review.shtml

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Oh, I wanna see that!

Taz and Michelle Collins, together at last.

"Cowboy Song", that was OK.

Going to the taping for S. Lee's no-longer-cancelled pilot, will report back

-- That mong guy that's shit, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:19 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

^^^how about some feedback on this?

Assuming the taping was cancelled after he ate the cameras lol he's fat now