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

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

Hit and miss, I think it's supposed to be stand-up intercut with taped interviews. The stand-up bit largely consisted of him shouting abuse at the British public for thinking Del Boy falling through the bar is funny.

It is funny though

Prefer the police inteview scene.

Comedy gold...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtboTwW-Jao

Stewart Lee:

TS: Derek Trotter vs. Derek Bailey

Prefer the police inteview scene.

Not the bit when DelBoy rips open a policewoman's jacket thinking she's a stripper then?

Man Stroke Woman is best UK comedy right now.

Gulp

To pick up on Koogs' comment on Love Soup on the other thread. Yeah, I like this but they've lost Michael Landis as their leading man (got a better offer) and Renwick seems to been forced into a complete rethink on S2 - it's 12 x 30min rather than 6 x 60min. We've got S2 in at work but I haven't seen any of it yet.

Shut it. These are OFFICIALLY the best in British comedy right now:

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2007/12/05/6116/british_comedy_awards%3A_the_results

Gavin & Stacey, Simon Amstell and David Michell were big winners at the 18th annual British Comedy Awards last night.

Gavin & Stacey won best new scripted comedy, while its stars, and co-creators, Ruth Jones and James Cordon won best new actress and actor accordingly.

Amstell won best entertainment personality, while Never Mind The Buzzcocks was named best comedy entertainment show. He thanked 'Mark Lamarr for leaving. I've done really well out of that depression.

Mitchell won best comedy actor, while Peep Show won the big prize of the night, best TV comedy.

As expected, host Jonathan Ross cracked plenty of jokes at the expense of ITV, which decided not to air the show live following inconsistencies in the 2005 phone-in vote.

The full list of winners at the British Comedy Awards 2007:

Best Television Comedy Actor
David Mitchell - Peep Show

Best Television Comedy Actress
Liz Smith - The Royle Family: The Queen of Sheba

Best Comedy Entertainment Personality
Simon Amstell - Never Mind The Buzzcocks

Best TV Comedy
Peep Show

Best Comedy Entertainment Programme
Never Mind The Buzzcocks

Best International Comedy Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm

Best Male Comedy Newcomer
James Corden - Gavin & Stacey

Best Female Comedy Newcomer
Ruth Jones - Gavin & Stacey

Best New British Television Comedy
Gavin & Stacey

Best Live Stand-Up
Alan Carr

Best Comedy Film
The Simpsons Movie

The Writers' Guild Ronnie Barker Award
Simon Pegg

Lifetime Achievement Award
Stephen Fry

yes that's better.