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SeanBeansShako posted:I watch Spaced and feel a little sad that Simon Pegg and Edgar are off making movies now. Channel 4 could really do with them coming back and doing a few more TV projects. I rewatched Big Train a while ago and it's still amazing. There's very few comedians that can make the transition to movies, I feel. It's usually the thing that kills off a career or severely hinders it. I think Pegg is the only one that's managed it successfuly so far. e: British movies, that is. When a British comedian goes to America to make movies it's a pretty sure sign that their career is dead here. Ddraig fucked around with this message at Sep 24, 2010 around 12:49 |
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I really don't think Karl is an act. I've genuinely met people like him, and despite that I do think he's a bit aware and plays it up slightly. If you've ever listened to the old XFM shows him, Ricky and Steve did then he's much more laid back than the podcasts and things he's done since, but he's still the same old Karl. Plus he'd really have to be the best character actor alive to be able to keep it up for this long without a single slipup.
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Fat Turkey posted:Someone tell the BBC I would happily pay a subscription fee for it. Me too. I'd gladly pay just to have access to the BBC archives.
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| # ¿ Sep 26, 2010 15:39 |
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I was on my way home on the bus and on the little TVs in there BBC news was reporting on a hard-hitting expose of the corrupt car wash industry. Apparantly some car washes don't put waste water where it should go, and some even employ  illegal immigrants There was a guy on there who I can only assume was a Mr. C. W. Regulation as the only caption he had was "Car Wash Regulation" (perhaps one of the greatest examples of nominative determinism ever). He was talking about how automatic carwashes are infinitely preferable as not only "Do you know what you're getting, but also where you're getting it from" It might be potentially worth ensuring nobody has a job rather than the possibility that an immigrant might take one that was on offer, apparantly. I would say it was a slow news day but on the ticker there was a breaking story about Israel storming yet another activist boat. The expose wasn't interrupted, though.
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| # ¿ Sep 28, 2010 10:15 |
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Why did nobody mention that QI was back on? Gyles Brandreth the Sex Pest was on it aswell.
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| # ¿ Oct 1, 2010 19:01 |
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Peep Show really is great. They really did a 180 with Sophie. She was a likeable character, but she eventually turned up as an incredibly vindictive, spiteful bitch. The great thing is that i'm not entirely sure that she wasn't like that before, but because you only get the internal monologues of Jez and Mark you probably didn't realize it. I remember Olivia Coleman did an interview with Jonathan Ross and she said that the entire cast pretty much show up one day to the recording and they've already got the script there that they have to do. Apparantly the first time they see it is when they're there to perform it.
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| # ¿ Oct 14, 2010 10:15 |
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Dell_Zincht posted:Ok, which goon was it on The Secret Millionaire last night? I like Secret Millionaire but I can't help but feel that Adam and Joe were right and it's creating a huge amount of false hope among charitable organizations whenever someone wants to film something about them.
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| # ¿ Oct 18, 2010 16:53 |
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Frankie Boyle and Dara were the only reason to watch that show, and now one's gone then it's all that Dara can do to keep it going. They should just do the merciful thing and take it to the bottom of the garden with a shotgun and put it out of its misery. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7CPqZO_IDU This illustrates perfectly the show dynamic. Russell Howard does a crap joke, Hugh Dennis does another while secretly wondering what happened with his life (he used to be part of the Mary Whitehouse Experience for fucks sake), then the magic starts. I think the funniest part is probably Dara's reaction.
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| # ¿ Oct 21, 2010 12:22 |
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SeanBeansShako posted:They should just have a TV show where they give Dara a crate of beer, 48 hours and a modern game and demand him to complete it anyway possible. This would be very entertaining, as he seems to be incredibly bad at them. I remember his segment on Gameswipe about how he couldn't get past the berserker in gears of war.
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| # ¿ Oct 21, 2010 16:00 |
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The best guest on Buzzcocks, by far, was Bill Oddie. Throughout half the show Amstell literally had no loving idea what to do with him.
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| # ¿ Oct 21, 2010 16:58 |
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I like to think that Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive is an accurate portrayal of what goes into making a panel show.
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| # ¿ Oct 21, 2010 18:09 |
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Junkenstein posted:Frankie Boyle was great on Mock the Week because he pipped up with his offensive one-liners at the right time. As a stand-up, he's terrible. I'd really have to agree. He's an excellent ad-libber but he's a terrible writer. All the stuff he's sat down and wrote (i.e. all his stand-up stuff, and the stuff he recycles for mock the week) is awful, but the times when he comes out with something spontaneously is hilarious. It's almost as if he's got all these really dark, horrible ideas bubbling round his head and when he unleashes them they're amazing but when he decides to write them down they just become horribly sterile and bland.
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Speaking of Merlin, there was this mini-series about King Arthur that aired when I was in school, so it's definitely mid to late 90s. I remember it being on one of the terrestrial channels (obviously), but I'm pretty sure it was on ITV. Me and my friends discussed it a lot. Anyone have any idea what it could have been?
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osici posted:Possibly this? That's definitely it. I've got to see if I can track this down. Hopefully the rose tinted glasses aren't lying, but I remember it being quite good.
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| # ¿ Oct 30, 2010 23:50 |
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I always thought the "Scottish people have it hard" routine was pretty old hat and lazy until I was told that Kevin Bridges was born in '86. He's a year older than me. That's not the face of a man in his early 20s.
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ibroxmassive posted:Skins is the life Jay from the Inbetweeners says he has This is the most perfect description of those two shows.
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| # ¿ Nov 1, 2010 10:24 |
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Lot 49 posted:This is brilliant. I bet when you thought of this you smiled to yourself about how right it is. I think the last thing Brydon and Coogan were in together was Cruise of the Gods which wasn't that great. I'm not getting my hopes up, but it would be nice if it was good.
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| # ¿ Nov 1, 2010 16:48 |
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I've met a few celebrities but I don't really get starstruck that much. If there was two men that would do it, though, it would be Stephen Fry and Terry Wogan. Both would reduce me the level of a Take That fan, probably.
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| # ¿ Nov 11, 2010 23:36 |
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Man, I just read about Baker and that's a really lovely thing to happen. Hope he recovers quickly. QI is prerecorded way before it's aired, though, so that's probably an episode where he didn't even know.
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| # ¿ Nov 14, 2010 12:07 |
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Leyburn posted:This seems to be on the iPlayer, not listened to it yet, but it might be good. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...vers_Episode_1/ It's stuff like this that makes me love Radio 7. Also you can tell that Barrie was an impressonist. Most of those voices are spot on.
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| # ¿ Nov 14, 2010 15:00 |
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Not strictly TV related but I finally got around to watching Four Lions. Man, Morris really hasn't lost it. The scene with Waj in the kebab shop was black comedy at its finest.
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| # ¿ Nov 16, 2010 18:38 |
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I can't help but imagine The Quiz Broadcast. I was dearly hoping that some bored guy working on the show would flash up "REMAIN INDOORS" on the screen briefly.
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| # ¿ Nov 17, 2010 17:05 |
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Seinfeld was a really great show. The "mass-produced" criticism is incredibly misguided and uninformed as it was the creation of Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, both of which had full creative control until the very end. The show might seem like every other show after it because it was the original that all the others aped, usually very badly. Thanks to Seinfeld we have stuff like Father Ted, Black Books and Peep Show. We also have stuff like Friends, Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie and Family Guy. So it's a bit of a mixed bag. Probably one of my favorite things about Seinfeld was that most of the plots and storylines are based somewhat in fact. Like the episode where George decides to quit his job, but then regrets it, so decides to go into work anyway and pretend like it didn't happen. Larry David got some poo poo from people saying that it wouldn't happen, and if it did then nobody would react in that way, then he revealed that it did happen to him and that's exactly what he did. Ddraig fucked around with this message at Nov 24, 2010 around 10:42 |
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Hell is watching a you've been framed marathon with Andy Parsons and Russell Howard.
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| # ¿ Nov 26, 2010 09:34 |
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reality_groove posted:Hey, you know what, You've Been Framed is loving hilarious. Forget all these Rude Tubes and Robert's Webs, YBF is the original and best clip show. Say what you will about Harry Hill but he makes that show ten times more watchable, I randomly tuned in last weekend and laughed a lot mroe than I have at any other recent show (bar the Apprentice). The hell part would come from Andy and Russell's colour commentary.
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| # ¿ Nov 26, 2010 14:39 |
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I don't know about that. David Mitchell seems to like doing panel shows, and Robert Webb likes getting money for old rope. Both are pretty good at what they do, and both are pretty successful. Besides, we never got to see David Mitchell do this One nil to the Webbster I believe.
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| # ¿ Nov 26, 2010 16:25 |
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Chubby Brown. He couldn't pull off the sexy banter properly, though.
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| # ¿ Nov 28, 2010 12:04 |
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Stewart Lee, at least, had an entertaining stand up show and the sketches were relatively well thought-out. This is just bad.
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| # ¿ Dec 1, 2010 09:08 |
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Have they made a coronation street on ice yet?
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Royality posted:Richard Herring did History at Oxford! His specialist subject is Rasputin
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meme posted:This poo poo happens all the time, I remember was it Top Gear that had some music from command and conquer? From what I can tell, a lot of game sounds from the Doom era and such were just stock sounds that could be found on the "10,0000 GREATEST SOUND EFFECTS EVER!" albums. That and the BBC sound library is all encompassing.
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Junkenstein posted:It's loving terrible. The first series was OK*, but it's unwatchable now. Come now, not even Herring could save it. Plus he was only in it for the Haribo.
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| # ¿ Dec 31, 2010 15:19 |
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Just watched Screenwipe (finally) and holy gently caress there's no way that Dawn dish soap commercial can be real? Right? Right? 
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| # ¿ Dec 31, 2010 18:24 |
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Just to make sure I'm not going insane and made up the entire thing, I'm pretty sure Sue Perkins did a huge presentation about the BBC and comedy in general following the huge "Sachsgate" scandal (I'm pretty sure this is what triggered it)? Does anyone have a link to it or am I a crazy person?
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Which is especially odd as he's a teetotaler as he was an alcoholic and he supposedly very nearly ruined his life thanks to it. Way to not sell out your principles, Frankie.
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| # ¿ Jan 7, 2011 18:10 |
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This is very common. Billy Connolly actually sounds like Hugh Grant. That accent is just for the camera, honest.
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| # ¿ Jan 7, 2011 22:04 |
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There's also Psychoville which was an excellent dark comedy from the League of Gentleman guys. The Halloween special and Rope parody in particular were fantastic.
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Anyone with an interest in traditional sideshow magic or mentalist stuff would be wise to track down some of Jim Rose's books. He's the ringleader of a rather famous circus in the states, and is a lot like Derren Brown (not so much the persona, but the pursuit of impressive showmanship and deception). His book "Snake Oil" has a very brief section on hypnotism and other mental tricks and in a lot of cases it's definitely stooge work or even just plain bribery (also a lot of it has to do with being in unfamiliar circumstances with sensory overload and someone being forceful - a lot of people will cave under such pressure and agree with anything). In one he mentions that one guy was giving him a lot of trouble so he just briefly whispered to him that he'll give him $100 after the show if he plays along. Just before he took him "out of the trance" he said 'Before you come out, I want you to forever be under the impression that Jim Rose owes you money'
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| # ¿ Jan 8, 2011 16:08 |
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I'm personally in favour of it. Brooker is an excellent TV critic, and if he can make more people even slightly more critical of the dreck that's on TV then that can only be a good thing.
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And Barry Shitpeas  Such an understated genius.
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