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Alright, despite being American I managed to see Toast of Tinseltown via "Methods". It's fantastic, very surreal and very funny, would love to watch it again legally if given the chance. One problem I had with it though: sometimes Toast really didn't feel like he was enough of an rear end in a top hat to warrant the amount of poo poo he gets. Like, maybe I'm just naturally inclined to side with Matt Berry, but half the time the plots were less "Toast is a jerk and gets his comeuppance" and more "Toast is a reasonable man just trying to do his job and gets screwed over by much worse people who all get off scot free despite being awful human beings" like it's still funny, but it felt a little darker and meaner than past seasons (and past seasons are already pretty dark and mean).
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Rando question - do I need to watch all of Toast of London to understand Toast of Tinseltown? Like, is this basically S4 of Toast of London, or is it a new show that happens to star the same main character? I’ve watched the first 3 eps of Toast of London and it’s not really grabbing me. Part of that is because the show seems to be very British, and I feel like I’m missing a lot of references. Is Toast of Tinseltown the same way?
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Jan 9, 2022 01:05
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It’s very much season 4.
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OldSenileGuy posted:Rando question - do I need to watch all of Toast of London to understand Toast of Tinseltown? Like, is this basically S4 of Toast of London, or is it a new show that happens to star the same main character? The first few eps of Toast of London are the weakest, it gets a lot better as the series goes on. I actually stopped watching after the first ep until my wife watched the rest and convinced me to give the rest a shot.
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Jan 9, 2022 16:57
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:but half the time the plots were less "Toast is a jerk and gets his comeuppance" and more "Toast is a reasonable man just trying to do his job and gets screwed over by much worse people who all get off scot free despite being awful human beings" like it's still funny, but it felt a little darker and meaner than past seasons (and past seasons are already pretty dark and mean). It's sort of Curb Your Enthusiasm in that way, yeah.
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Jan 10, 2022 22:39
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thekeeshman posted:The first few eps of Toast of London are the weakest, it gets a lot better as the series goes on. I actually stopped watching after the first ep until my wife watched the rest and convinced me to give the rest a shot. The first episode has the surgical mishap, did you not find that funny?
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Jan 11, 2022 14:33
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OldSenileGuy posted:Rando question - do I need to watch all of Toast of London to understand Toast of Tinseltown? Like, is this basically S4 of Toast of London, or is it a new show that happens to star the same main character? Where are you watching this, because apparently Netflix dumped the show back in September and nobody else seems to have it on the usual US streaming apps.
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Jan 11, 2022 14:37
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Where are you watching this, because apparently Netflix dumped the show back in September and nobody else seems to have it on the usual US streaming apps. It's up on iPlayer, if you have a way to watch that, or JustWatch reckons it can be bought on AppleTV.
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Jan 11, 2022 14:39
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WonkyBob posted:The first episode has the surgical mishap, did you not find that funny? Lol the fact that they devoted like half the episode to that lame quasi-gag (and completely wasted a Julian Barratt cameo) was half the reason I stopped watching. Maybe it would be funnier if I knew or cared who Bruce Forsythe is (was?), but I gather he's like a British Dick Clark or something so probably not.
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Jan 11, 2022 18:29
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So in episode 1 of Toast of Tinseltown - that's Kayvan Novak, right?
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Jan 11, 2022 22:09
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Arglebargle III posted:So in episode 1 of Toast of Tinseltown - that's Kayvan Novak, right? Whoa. I just noticed his name is a stone's throw away from being a palindrome.
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Jan 11, 2022 22:35
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Arglebargle III posted:So in episode 1 of Toast of Tinseltown - that's Kayvan Novak, right? Yup! He nailed his role too.
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Jan 11, 2022 22:57
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I almost didn't recognize him because he's like... hot. Nandor doesn't hot.
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Jan 11, 2022 23:00
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He was also Roger Dearly in Cruella... https://www.reddit.com/r/WhatWeDointheShadows/comments/nncj23/kayvan_novak_is_in_cruella/ for a bad screen cap of it.
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Jan 11, 2022 23:15
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Arglebargle III posted:I almost didn't recognize him because he's like... hot. Nandor doesn't hot. I disagree that Nandor isn't hot, but yeah Kayvan Novak is indeed hot out of costume. For me the thing that made him hard to place is the voice, I'm so used to hearing him be Nander and his regular speaking voice sounds like a completely different person.
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Jan 11, 2022 23:43
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He'll always be Razz Prince from PhoneShop for me.
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Jan 12, 2022 00:40
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He also plays a huge dumbass wannabe suicide bomber in Four Lions, which everyone should seek out ASAP. "It's me prayer bear"
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a lovely king posted:He also plays a huge dumbass wannabe suicide bomber in Four Lions, which everyone should seek out ASAP. Holy poo poo, I never put that together. Good excuse to rewatch Four Lions.
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Jan 12, 2022 01:30
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Yeah, Four Lions is absolutely incredible, well worth watching (or rewatching!)
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Jan 12, 2022 02:07
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thekeeshman posted:Lol the fact that they devoted like half the episode to that lame quasi-gag (and completely wasted a Julian Barratt cameo) was half the reason I stopped watching. Maybe it would be funnier if I knew or cared who Bruce Forsythe is (was?), but I gather he's like a British Dick Clark or something so probably not. It could have been any old white guy, the absurdity of that situation was what I found funny. Natasia Demetriou was great and I'd be more than happy to see a spin-off about Carman. If were talking about wasted cameos they brought in Bill Hader and had him do two "sorry I thought I was muted" jokes. I didn't think the Larry David cameo was any better. Julian Barrett hasn't been in Toast, if you're talking about the surgeon that's Harry Peacock as Ray Purchase. He does look a lot like Barret with tache, I've always assumed that Purchase was written for Barrett but they had to recast and found someone with a similar face.
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Jan 12, 2022 17:16
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I'm glad they did This is one of my favourite line deliveries of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al8JhJQeoNY I poo poo THEE NAY!!!
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Jan 12, 2022 17:44
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Very same. Peacock is great and gives Purchase a wild eyed intensity that Barrett may not have been able to muster. The revelation that he's supershredded was hilarious.
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Jose Oquendo posted:I don't know if anyone here is familiar with Found Footage Festival, but one of their oldest bits is Kenny Strasser (see the video below). What I never realized until last night is that Kenny is played by Mark Proksch aka Colin Robinson. I've seen those clips many times but never connected the dots until they mentioned it on their Youtube show last night. I think I originally discovered these clips on SA like a decade ago and immediately thought it was one of the funniest things a human being has ever done relieved to find out they're still very funny. god the sheer look of terror on some of these hosts' faces. idk how Mark doesn't break character even a little. it's insane he's also very funny in On Cinema. all of his Oscar Special bits are amazing. like he's always the best part of them and I love every second
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JAMOOOL posted:I think I originally discovered these clips on SA like a decade ago and immediately thought it was one of the funniest things a human being has ever done The guys from Found Footage have done a few other gags like this. They've gone on local news shows as 'cooks' and weight lighting experts. It's hilarious because these Midwest tv stations are basically desperate for content so they'll book anyone on their news shows.
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Something to look forward to:quote:ELLIE & NATASIA: BBC3, due in spring
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Oh nice, the pilot was pretty good. I’ll watch that for sure.
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So, he really is playing a butler in the new star wars.
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Arglebargle III posted:So, he really is playing a butler in the new star wars. Was Matt Berry cast as that before or after Toast of Tinseltown was written? I can't decide which is funnier.
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Technically his character on Boba Fett is a torture droid, which is why he kept recommending torture.
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"I'm just saying, it's gotten me quite a lot of mileage in the past. I was able to get a gonk droid to tell me every gonk he knew, and then some!"
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I really needed some TV comfort food so I've been rewatching community and im getting to Season 6 (the yahoo years) for the first time since yahoo screen was a thing, and ol Matt Berry himself shows up as a teacher in S6E9 as a guy who teaches a class about grifting people. I have no recollection of the episode, but im sure he does well with the material provided
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Brawnfire posted:"I'm just saying, it's gotten me quite a lot of mileage in the past. I was able to get a gonk droid to tell me every gonk he knew, and then some!" Goennnnnnnnnkkkeeeh
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Eat This Glob posted:I really needed some TV comfort food so I've been rewatching community and im getting to Season 6 (the yahoo years) for the first time since yahoo screen was a thing, and ol Matt Berry himself shows up as a teacher in S6E9 as a guy who teaches a class about grifting people. I have no recollection of the episode, but im sure he does well with the material provided "you HIT me! with a WOMAN's hand! you midWEStern floozYYYYYYY!"
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Pattonesque posted:"you HIT me! with a WOMAN's hand! you midWEStern floozYYYYYYY!" Ha! Yeah, delivered beautifully 
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Eat This Glob posted:I really needed some TV comfort food so I've been rewatching community and im getting to Season 6 (the yahoo years) for the first time since yahoo screen was a thing, and ol Matt Berry himself shows up as a teacher in S6E9 as a guy who teaches a class about grifting people. I have no recollection of the episode, but im sure he does well with the material provided Amazing episode
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Seasons 1 and 2 of WWDITS are on Disney+ in Canada! Toast of Tinseltown is great. I love how absurd it is. Is it only 6 episodes? Toast does seem like less of an rear end this season, but I took it as Hollywood being full of even more terrible and weird people. Yellow Ant fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Jan 21, 2022 |
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Jan 20, 2022 18:39
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Yellow Ant posted:Seasons 1 and 2 of WWDITS are on Disney+! What country?
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Jan 21, 2022 04:24
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Fartington Butts posted:What country? Sorry - Disney+ Canada.
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Yellow Ant posted:Sorry - Disney+ Canada. And UK!!
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And Finland! If anyone has Audible, Matt Berry's Toast on Toast is included in the Audible Plus library at least on Audible.co.uk. I made the mistake of listening to it during my shopping run and people probably think I'm dangerous after I lost my poo poo during the first chapter when Toast tells the story of a misguided charity TV program that ends up with Prince Edward pulling a switchblade on a bunch of journalists and putting several of them in the hospital. It's amazing, and I am in awe of Matt Berry's ability to add extra syllables to common words like "slogan" and "television". Link: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Toast-on-Toast-Audiobook/B016UWQ5SC Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 11:50 on Jan 22, 2022 |
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