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i work with POD PEOPLE.

they are discussing favourite comedy scenes.

can you guess at it -- the one where del boy FALLS THROUGH THE THING is winning. also the chandelier bit.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

"Little Britain was starting to look a bit tired. But because they've taken the characters and put them in different settings and different countries, it actually gives it a new lease of life."

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, I lolled at Worst Week of My Life the other night, so shoot me.

Only other comedy I am looking forward to over Christmas = Still Game.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

DON'T MENTION THE WAR DON'T TELL HIM PIKE OOH BETTY ON ROLLER SKATES COMPO BATHTUB

nuclear holocaust in nine seconds

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Blunder is possibly the worst thing I have seen in a long time, worse than either Tittybangbang (which I still can't believe Bob Mortimer writes) or Live!Girls!Present Dogtown!

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

officedancerbasilhitscarwithtreeblackaddergoesoverthetop

― piscesboy (piscesboy), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Only other comedy I am looking forward to over Christmas = Still Game.

paedo-free 'thick of it'!!!!

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

also 'screen burn' 2nite.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

There are no CONVICTED paedophiles associated with The Thick Of It.

In Scotland we'll have Only An Excuse? to "look forward to" on Hogmanay.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

that chandelier thing was funny

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

not as funny as the bit on chewing the fat when these two kids said "show us your minge" to the icecream van lady and she did. and scenes of them looking traumatised and in shock, standing at the spot with melting ice creams in hand, at various points later in the show.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

this will be good:

Harry Hill's TV Burp - a clips programme which won two British Comedy Awards last week - is also one of his recommendations.

He calls it "a hugely funny, inventive, mad, absurd show" which "completely undercuts all of television's pomp and grandeur".

And Mr Tough concedes that while he was not a fan of the comic at first, the show is "one of the funniest on TV".

"I can't wait to see his take on the festive TV offerings," he adds.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

For full "comedy" Scottish effect, I believe the phrase was "Gie's a swatch o' yer fanny".

Still Game >>>>>>>>>>>>> Chewing The Fat

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

haha "gie's a swatch o' yer fanny" was the one! brings back memories.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

There is literally nothing on current first run comedy that I'd go out of my way to watch on British TV.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I just want to keep watching my Garth Marenghi's Darkplace DVD all Christmas long. (If this has been mentioned on a previous thread and is some kind of sore spot, forgive me... but it's new to me and it's fucking killing me)

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Tiki Theater Xymposium), Thursday, 21 December 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I've seen 3 episodes of Marenghi and it's pretty decent, about the level of Black Books, i.e. watchable, funny, but not particularly lasting. When the cat goes 'LEAVE NOW', that was the best bit and it happens about 2 minutes into the first episode.

When does Chris Morris return? Gnarrrgh...

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Thursday, 21 December 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

i really am looking fwd to TV Burp and fuck everything else (except maybe Still Game altho i never did see all of either of the previous two series)

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 21 December 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

That Blunder thing really is shit.

Pulling's had some okay reviews, anyone seen it?

― Chap (chap), Thursday, 21 December 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

yes. lol/minutes ratio = 1.5/30

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 21 December 2006 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Still Game = five or six series now. (I think the first UK-wide series was compiled from the best bits of the first few Scotland-only ones)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 21 December 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

"nyeeeeeh, it's christmas"

'screen burn' was fucking aces.

i really am looking fwd to TV Burp and fuck everything else

y'all didn't see that 'the thick of it' is on?

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 22 December 2006 08:51 (seventeen years ago) link

there was an Xmas special Screen Burn? SHIT

― sede vacante (blueski), Friday, 22 December 2006 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link

also 'screen burn' 2nite.
-- temporary enrique (miltonpinsk...), December 21st, 2006.

probably get repeated. also there are TWO!

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 22 December 2006 10:05 (seventeen years ago) link

ok fuck a nye:

Saturday 23 December
10:10pm - 10:40pm
BBC4 Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe: Xmas Special

Sunday 31 December
11:50pm - 12:20am
BBC4 Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe: Review

Monday 01 January
1:35am - 2:05am
BBC4 Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe: Review

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 22 December 2006 10:06 (seventeen years ago) link

is there a mainstream 'little britain' backlash anywhere? i've decided that the consensus love for the show is one of those real marker, like james blunt, of how fucked this country is. see also: ricky gervais's Serious Expression on the cover of his 'extras' scripts book. oh fuck and also: the fact that a 'catherine tate show' scripts book exists. how the fuck? who the fuck?

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 22 December 2006 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Mention of Catherine Tate makes this as good a place as any to voice my concern over the Christmas Doctor Who trailer, wherein Ms Tate utters the phrase "Am I Safe?" in a manner not unlike that of the deeply fucking irritating Lauren character. My hope that she was just cast as a well-known actress playing a part and not as "Catherine Tate" is fading.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 22 December 2006 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link

she was already acting quite like Lauren at the end of the last episode tho the way she was saying "where AM I?" etc.

i think it will be rubbish (but i loved last year's)

― sede vacante (blueski), Friday, 22 December 2006 10:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Chasing cars down the motorway in the TARDIS seems a bit wrong too. But I bet it's great anyway. At least it'll be better than Torchwood.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 22 December 2006 10:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i bet it'll be wank.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 22 December 2006 10:36 (seventeen years ago) link

But you hate everything (except The Thick Of It, apparently)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 22 December 2006 10:41 (seventeen years ago) link

that's basically true.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 22 December 2006 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Pulling's not bad, what I've seen of it.

The Polish guy on it last week had me in stitches.

They're having a meal at the girls' house and the bloke who used to be the doctor in 'enders is making polite conversation about how the Pole shares a tiny room with his brother and his cousins and "hot beds" with his cousin as they work alternate shifts.

"It must be nice having all your family around you..."
"You think I like living like a FUCKING CHICKEN?"

Perfectly delivered.

'Enders guy then tries to worm his way out of it resulting in the Pole going "Oh that's okay then, I thought for a second you were being a FUCKING PRICK!"

― Onimo has his finger in the stink (nu_onimo), Friday, 22 December 2006 10:46 (seventeen years ago) link

(it was the polite dinner table setting that made it, and you had to be there, etc)

― Onimo has his finger in the stink (nu_onimo), Friday, 22 December 2006 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link

father ted repeat last nite was piss funny

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 22 December 2006 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link

You think? I thought it was one of the poorest eps, though I did like the "oh good, mass is on the telly..." bit where all the priests feel obliged to watch it.

― Onimo has his finger in the stink (nu_onimo), Friday, 22 December 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I got my brother the 3 series box set for Christmas. I'm looking forward to stealing it back :)

― Onimo has his finger in the stink (nu_onimo), Friday, 22 December 2006 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link

i may have been too beaten down by attempting to watch dean learner and blunder to have opinions about decent comedy. i mean the weakest father ted is gonna be at the least funny.

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 22 December 2006 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link

'dean lerner' wasn't baaaaad, but i stopped watching cos it was a bit repetitive.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 22 December 2006 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Lerner started well and, yes, drifted into missability (fell asleep during one, mis-set the VCR for another, missed half of a third).

Not (intentional or full-on) comedy, but will those of you disappointed with Torchwood be tuning into Prim3v4l on ITV in the new year? Just got it in at work; first scene appears to involve dinosaur on rampage outside a branch of Asda. Cor!

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 22 December 2006 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I am not disliking Torchwood, it's just not as good as I thought it would be, but I will be watching Primeval because Douglas Henshall is in it and he was in two of my favouritest telly programmes ever and therefore he is great (Psychos, and The Kid In The Corner)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 22 December 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i found if you gegan to think about lerner it really stopped working. i mean he's meant to be this naif but then he's also homicidal, lecherous and devious in ways which completely negate his other traits. it's like they jus made him say funny stuff without actually inventing a character...

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 22 December 2006 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link

father ted repeat last nite was piss funny

agreed. i love the fact that its not one 30 minute plot stretched out over 90 minutes, but around four or five 30 minute plots squeezed into 90 minutes. it keeps giving. was this the last father ted before his heart attack?

― stevie (stevie2), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Nah, it was recorded between the second and third series. The last episode recorded before he died was the last episode of series three, which originally ended with Father Ted killing himself. The ending was changed out of tribute.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

that last episode of father ted is still fucking heartbreaking thou, when it's made absolutely clear he will never ever escape craggy island.

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Sitcom #101: the best sitcoms are about people who are trapped in situations they can't get out of: Porridge, Steptoe and Son, Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads, I'm Alan Patridge...

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

doesn't work in the USA

― sede vacante (blueski), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

MASH, Phil Silvers Show, Cheers?

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

My Name Is Earl

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

fraiser. exception the simpsons but family guy does follow the rule... if you take brian and stewie as the principal characters.

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

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Now, are you guys being shocking or "shocking"?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

anyway thing about gervais i find the most baffling is the way he pays lipservice to some righteous idea of comedy. how he seems to pour vitriol on the idea of "catchphrase comedy", how he seems to have a geunuine enough reverence for certain american comedians (though does rather lack humilty when meeting them), how he seems to have all these ideas about "great comedy"... yet so often he just can't fuffil them. i dunno if he thinks these things cos it's the right thing to do or something or if he just hasn't got the skills to pull of some of these things.

― acrobat (acrobat), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Gervais catchphrase:

"urrr..... s' a bit depressin' innnit?"

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

screen burn was better last night than last week.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link

no, it was shit. "90% of "high-brow" fiction is crap..." , oh it is, that's right cos you've read all of it haven't you.

― Frogm@n henry (Frogm@n henry), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm sure you're both right.

― resumo impetus (blueski), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:26 (seventeen years ago) link

fun fact learned from cookd and bombd: charlie brooker is directly responsible for the production of 8 OUT OF TEN CATS, THE LAW OF THE PLAYGROUND, SPOONS, and SPACE CADETS.

i have never seen screen burn. it can't be better than tv burp.

― acrobat (acrobat), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:26 (seventeen years ago) link

it isn't. but it is funny.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link

screen burn was better last night than last week.

There was one line I laughed out loud at, can't remember what it was. Never watched TV Burp (Harry Hill, innit?)

― Tom D. (Dada), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:28 (seventeen years ago) link

they're about the same in lolcount i find

― resumo impetus (blueski), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link

the first ep was enjoyable, but last night's stank. srsly fuck computer games, they don't need any more exposure or praise. who was he tryng to convince, bbc four viewers? "get orff your lazy arses and play computer games you nerds!"

also, too many absurd generalisations. he gets going on a subject and it's verbal diarrhea, incorrect statement after nonesical assertion.

― Frogm@n henry (Frogm@n henry), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link

but only cos TV Burp has dipped a bit lately imo

― resumo impetus (blueski), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link

nonsensical

― Frogm@n henry (Frogm@n henry), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link

listening to last week's Down The Line (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/downtheline.shtml) laughing at the face transplant woman to the point where people are looking at me.

funny bit in ScreenWipe = Micro Live and the 'i've just bought a Z80 processor and i could be a russian spy'.

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:35 (seventeen years ago) link

i remember when he did the 'wai to haet comptuer games' bit in the graun, people here were like lol every1 plays computer games now charlie. but not in my world!

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link

wow. funniest programs on tv are about tv. anyway who is looking forward to russell brands sitcom debut this wednesday in the abbey... straight after he presents the brit awards! god those bear trap ads are annoying and i kinda liked brand over the summer. cbb big mouth he seemed to lose it a bit but i'm not sure that was his fault as such.

― acrobat (acrobat), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I think of Brooker as the attack dog of the militant nerd tendency. He's like a little ZX81 spod trying to be Steven Wells.

― Piedie Gimbel (Piedie Gimbel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Steven Wells is shit tho

― Tom D. (Dada), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Exzachly.

― Piedie Gimbel (Piedie Gimbel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link

swells is godlike!

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh get a grip. We've had this discussion before.

― Tom D. (Dada), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link

http://davno.ru/img/posters/collections/stalin/poster-06.jpg

― Frogm@n henry (Frogm@n henry), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link

there is a range of ilx opinions on swells. the same can't be said of any current nme staffers.

― acrobat (acrobat), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

We've had this discussion before.

enjoy your stay in ilx

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link

There's some coals I don't mind raking over

― Tom D. (Dada), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Steven Wells is shit.

― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

WHERE ARE THOSE DOWNLOADABLE DOWN THE LINES THAT SOMEONE LINKED TO LAST WEEK OR THE WEEK BEFORE? SORRY CAPS LOCK.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

They're on C+B, I've not had enough coffee to brave that forum today.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Balls of Steel has a Myspace!

http://www.myspace.com/ballsofsteeldvd

Let's all join up to celebrate how one TV show can bring together the greatest comic minds of a generation.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyone still watching Shameless? The new series has settled into an amiable enough groove, though has yet to come close the manic peaks of previous series. Still better than Skins though. Frank driving the ice cream van e'd out of his face was pretty good.

― Chap (chap), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I watched a bit of episode 1 of this series of Shameless. There was the unlikely situation of two grown women fighting for the affections of Frank in the annoying, loud prat-falling manner of Ab Fab at it's most desperate and shrill. I gave up after that.

― DavidM (DavidM), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 00:29 (seventeen years ago) link

We have not yet discussed BENIDORM.

I thought the opening scene on Skins last night (orchestra practice) was very funny, but I was too tired to watch the rest of it.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 08:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i saw preston on NMTB. i'd forgotten he walked out until he walked out. very good.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i watched about 10 minutes of the abbey. abysmal. how does stuff like that even get onto telly?

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:05 (seventeen years ago) link

he has some problems

crosspost

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:08 (seventeen years ago) link

preston? he does. his brother is a fucking twaz too.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I forgot about NMTB :-(

Brits was v. unfunny, what I saw.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Preston may actually be insane, he did some interview around the time of Celeb BB this year saying something to the effect that he wouldn't be watching it, as it was just people trying to launch dead careers, as opposed to when he was on it.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link

it wasn't like he was defending her honour/making a statement, even--more like he just couldn't handle it & didn't know what to do

crossposts

he has a weird face, too

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link

or is cheating on her and needed a publicity stunt.

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:16 (seventeen years ago) link

no, he definitely has a weird face, too

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:18 (seventeen years ago) link

can't he have both?

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link

He looks like a men's magazine model, which has always been the most disconcerting thing about him. He should be brooding over a selection of watches, not making music.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link

only if you swap "and" for "or"

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link

his face is sort of concaved

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Is this repeated? Was watching fussball on Beeb 1.

― Venga1 (Venga1), Thursday, 15 February 2007 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link

youtube is failing me

― stevie (stevie2), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,2013787,00.html?gusrc=ticker-103704

i blame alanis

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

four years pass...

so SBCohen's Freddy Mercury biopic is going to happen?

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 December 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link

http://twitter.com/#!/hellobuglers/status/146922611862011904

― James, Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link

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