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sebzilla posted:The first couple of series were sort of alright. Maybe. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeyKojNj19c&feature=related#t=10m55s
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TheVertigoOfBliss posted:James Blunt is pretty great on buzzcocks tonight. One of the better hosts this series. For all the crap he gets, Blunt always seems genuinely funny and a really good sport when I see him on TV.
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incredible bear posted:If for some reason you're a failure of a human being and haven't seen it before, The Incredibles is on iPlayer. Man, it feels the The Incredibles is on iPlayer every 10 months.
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Szmitten posted:Man, it feels the The Incredibles is on iPlayer every 10 months. I have actually watched it on iPlayer before so yeah
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:One of the better hosts this series. For all the crap he gets, Blunt always seems genuinely funny and a really good sport when I see him on TV. Adam Buxton was the best by miles.
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Nov 22, 2011 13:31
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:One of the better hosts this series. For all the crap he gets, Blunt always seems genuinely funny and a really good sport when I see him on TV. The thing about Blunt is that he never disputes any of the frequent knocks against him (he's a toff, he's set out with at least half an eye on Having A Career rather than just making music, he was way overpromoted with You're Beautiful, he uses songwriters and session players rather than mates "because I didn't have any mates in bands, I was a toff!", sometimes he doesn't write his songs himself, he has a very high voice), he refuses to buy into Being A Celebrity any more than is necessary to sell records, and he absolutely doesn't take himself seriously.
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Nov 22, 2011 14:42
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sebzilla posted:Adam Buxton was the best by miles. He an alien or sutin!
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BizarroAzrael posted:He an alien or sutin! You are just jealous because he is the only peopl on planet made from gods sperm whereas you are made from poo poo sperm
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Nov 22, 2011 15:07
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James Blunt is definitely up there with Buckulese, though it felt like half of the time the camera was on Millican, they were just getting her to say things, like some kind of accent zoo.
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OrthoTrot posted:I'll keep watching it though, I just think that song was really, really, disappointing. I have to agree, though I have to think it was just piss-poor execution, since the rest of the immigrant sub-plot didn't really match the tone of the song at all. This week's song was one of the highlights of the episode for me. Weird.
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Nov 22, 2011 23:11
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TwoDogs1Cup posted:Can someone name me a worse British sitcom than All About Me? I'm curious to see if such a thing exists Captain Butler. Anyone remember that peice of poo poo? I watched a bit of the first episode on 4oD just to reassure myself that it wasn't just some bad dream I had as a child.
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Nov 22, 2011 23:39
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"He's ruined the birthday of a human being." Him & Her is amazing tonight.
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Nov 22, 2011 23:44
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Dan is the best character. 'He's visiting a horse...'
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Nov 22, 2011 23:53
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Phoneshop is quite funny this series some quality lines 'she's got 3 kids bruv...I ain't being no spunkle to them" "what you saying? You want to take a trip to glitter town?"
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Leyburn posted:Captain Butler. Anyone remember that peice of poo poo? I watched a bit of the first episode on 4oD just to reassure myself that it wasn't just some bad dream I had as a child. Yeah, Captain Butler is depressingly unfunny. I've really got to stop eating when watching Him And Her. Ick. SeanBeansShako fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Nov 23, 2011 |
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Is it me, or is the Benedict Cumberbacht HIGNFY repeated disproportionatly often? Not complaining, it's probably one of the best episodes of recent years, but I think I'm seeing it for the fifth time or so.
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This Ian hislop bankers doc is great, id recommend it. It'll be on iplayer.
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Makes you wonder where all the rich people who were good with money and had the will to do good and charity for the country went Instead of the heartless smug tossers now. Not that they are anything new though, they sadly now seem to be the majority.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Makes you wonder where all the rich people who were good with money and had the will to do good and charity for the country went It makes me wonder where all the unicorns went
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SeanBeansShako posted:Makes you wonder where all the rich people who were good with money and had the will to do good and charity for the country went They only ever existed in the imagination of Julian Fellowes. (I remain convinced that Downton Abbey is the Tory party's greatest PR tool since Nick Clegg)
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Down here in Cornwall, quite a lot of our town and village facilities were funded and open by a handful of rich philanthropists during the 19th and early 20th centuries. They seemed to be the only people really who cared. Everyone else seems to picture Cornwall as the Shire and doesn't want anything down to ruin the magical trees and Hobbit people to this day. I'm just bitter lately as the council binned any hope of work ever for the current future of my town and it looks like London for my future then.
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Nov 24, 2011 21:16
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Shut up and get back down the tin mines.
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No Eastenders thread? Shame. Tonight was a cracking episode.
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goatface posted:Shut up and get back down the tin mines. Tories closed them in the eighties. Thats just cruel.
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SeanBeansShako posted:I'm just bitter lately as the council binned any hope of work ever for the current future of my town and it looks like London for my future then. Don't do it, unless you like living in a shoebox which you have to share with a bunch of cunts.
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ShortLeroy posted:No Eastenders thread? Shame. Tonight was a cracking episode. You're right, it WAS a cracking episode I'd probably post in a thread if there was one (it'd most likely just be you and me but oh well)
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Fatkraken posted:You're right, it WAS a cracking episode Is this is a pun, is Phil Mitchell back on crack?
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I thought tonight's Life's Too Short was absolutely brilliant. Best thing Ricky Gervais has ever done imo. Warwick Davis owns, the results of the youtube comments and the extras bit were awful (in a good way). I like how this show is just Extras but centred around the complete humiliation of the Warwick Davis character. It's nasty as hell but I like it.
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Daius posted:Is this is a pun, is Phil Mitchell back on crack? Unfortunately not. There is a new character called Derek who is way too cartoonishly menacing not to stick around. Also lots of cancer angst.
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Wafflecop posted:I thought tonight's Life's Too Short was absolutely brilliant. Best thing Ricky Gervais has ever done imo. Warwick Davis owns, the results of the youtube comments and the extras bit were awful (in a good way). I like how this show is just Extras but centred around the complete humiliation of the Warwick Davis character. It's nasty as hell but I like it. I think it's pretty bad to be honest. I've got the same problem with it that I've got with the US version of The Office - it's supposed to be a fake/parody documentary style, but all pretence is lost straight away because the scenarios are so outrageous. It's like they've thrown together The Office and Extras (with Davis straight up playing David Brent), and watched a lot of Curb Your Enthusiasm at the same time, and disregarded that they're different types of comedy, and what made The Office work is different to what makes something like Curb Your Enthusiasm work. Also, let's be honest, it seems like a lot of it is lifted straight out of Extras and The Office.
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Davis isn't even a remotely sympathetic or interesting character. I get the central joke; hes a small man with a gigantic ego, but beyond that theres no complexity to him. And apparently either everyone in the world hates him or doesn't have a clue who he is, so you wonder where on earth he gets his self-importance from, because theres nothing in his every day life that appears to be fueling it. What I'm trying to say is that at the moment, "Life's Too Short" isn't working and I think the biggest reason why is how they've utterly dropped the ball on the central character. That said, the guest stars have been fantastic. But its not enough when everything else on the show is just poo poo.
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Fatkraken posted:You're right, it WAS a cracking episode And me. I love Eastenders. I have to get my parents and brother watching again late November so they know what's going on when we watch all the Christmassy episodes. Otherwise I'm stuck explaining, "No no no, that's his granddaughter and she slept with that boy to see if he was gay but he's totally gay because he implied that that guy touched him but she's not going to school anymore and oh his partner left him and y'know." Tonight was great though. The actress playing Tanya is totally going to the awards this year.
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Gorn Myson posted:Davis isn't even a remotely sympathetic or interesting character. I get the central joke; hes a small man with a gigantic ego, but beyond that theres no complexity to him. And apparently either everyone in the world hates him or doesn't have a clue who he is, so you wonder where on earth he gets his self-importance from, because theres nothing in his every day life that appears to be fueling it. Hoops fucked around with this message at 06:56 on Nov 25, 2011 |
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That was a really great episode of Eastenders, it had a pregnancy scare, euthanasia, cancer, shoplifting, and alcohol abuse all in one family. Derek could be a great character, although he was a bit cartoonishly meanacing with Pat.
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Just chiming in to say I thought the latest episode of Frozen Planet was one of the most incredible documentaries I've ever seen. It amazes me how their teams seem to find the most amazing scenes, like the Bison being hunted by the wolves, and that ice which freezes the sea floor from the surface and decimates those echinoderms. I was just in awe at all of it. Every David Attenborough documentary I see solidifies my decision to be an Ecologist.
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Frozen Planet was really good. I don't have a HD tv as my eyesight is poo poo, but I couldn't really imagine how much clearer the penguins jumping out of the water could really be. There's a series on bbc4 at the moment called Old Jews Telling Jokes, which is just old jews telling jokes for half an hour. It's good.
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Hoops posted:I'm just watching the second episode now, and it's so tired. The awkward wedding speech, crowd in silence, Warwick digging himself deeper. Seen it all before a million times. The Office mastered that stuff, but that was ten years ago and it's like they haven't noticed that everyone else in British comedy has been expanding on it and moving past it since then. Johnny Depp was pretty good, got into the spirit, but the whole thing falls so flat when the novelty of Ricky Gervais' Hollywood mates aren't there. I think tired is the best word for it yeah. It just gets boring real quick when the punchline of a scene is inevitably gonna be "hurr hurr he's disabled, geddit? ooooh isn't that awkward?" Even the cameos get tired really quick, when all the guest starts essentially play the same character of "Fame's gone to my head. I have no self awareness."
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justcola posted:There's a series on bbc4 at the moment called Old Jews Telling Jokes, which is just old jews telling jokes for half an hour. It's good. At first I was unconvinced, but then somebody laughed for five straight minutes at her own joke. Give this show a BAFTA.
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