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I think this new Partidge is really what suits the character best - with a full show they sometimes take it to bizarre conclusions, while the small budget and single location here keep it focussed on him.
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The only comedians it is acceptable to like are Stewart Lee, and anyone that Stewart Lee says are good. (If this is your opinion then you are a oval office, btw.)
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Beeswax posted:Yeah, Derren's greatest masterstroke is presenting himself and his tricks as some sort of nearly superhuman psychological tricks when they are in fact mostly about misdirection and obfuscation. I usually really like him but he seems to have made his mannerisms even more full on in Enigma, which gets annoying. He also explains in it that all of his tricks are a combination of traditional magic (ie misdirection, sleight of hand, mechanics, etc) and the auto-suggestion, cold reading, etc. he is famous for. The extra layer to the trick is that because he presents it all as being the same thing, the audience never knows what percentage is done in each way. Reminds me I need to book tickets for this year's tour. edit: ^^^^ This is how I thought that trick was done as well. FreakyZoid fucked around with this message at 12:08 on Jan 8, 2011 |
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Again, from what I remember, Derren Brown's Tricks of the Mind book goes in to how and why stage hypnotism "works". Really do recommend that book.
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Flatscan posted:People like you are why they get away with this poo poo. Kin posted:So nah, lets not ease up on them yet because they loving deserve it. FreakyZoid fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Feb 11, 2011 |
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Feb 11, 2011 09:38
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Kin posted:i don't think you quite understand (not only a point of the show) but the effect of having well off popular middle class comedians reminding everybody that no, the bankers are actually cunts. Topical satire can be more than just making the same joke over and over again.
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Feb 12, 2011 01:05
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"Four celebrities are spending a week living in a slum, to find out what it really means to spend a lifetime there." Well, if you only live for a week, I guess.
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Mar 3, 2011 19:58
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They missed a trick in that Lily Allen show by not having Pulp's Common People as the theme tune. It fits her to a loving t.
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Mar 17, 2011 19:50
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Oh come on, you know Red Dwarf's going to end up falling back on Dwayne Dibbly, Ace Rimmer, or the hilarious bits when someone tries to quote a law by number and Kryten revelas that the particular law they mentioned is to do with wearing an officer's trousers on your head.
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Apr 11, 2011 20:04
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pisshead posted:So people go to the shows and buy the DVDs to hear the same joke they've heard on three panel shows and six stand-up shows? There's also the idea that an hour / 90 minute show will have a better through-line that makes everything in it funnier, even if you've heard some of the individual bits before. Though with straight up "gag" comedians like Jimmy Carr this isn't really the case. Then you get people like goon favourite Stewart Lee who couldn't fit their style of presentation and humour into a panel show.
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Apr 16, 2011 10:47
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Yeah I found Frankie Boyle's book incredibly hard to read. Very disjointed. I find that kind of gag machine comedian hard to watch do an hour's act as well.
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:I honestly cannot believe that we've reached the point where that is saturday evening on BBC One and not a Chris Morris sketch.
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May 1, 2011 10:14
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Kin posted:Noel's House Party, You Bet, The Generation Game and Big Break were much better than the pap we have now.
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May 1, 2011 10:58
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I find the Collings & Herrin podcast a bit too samey. Collings is a loving idiot, almost everything he says and every opinion he holds is retarded, and Herrin just says whatever comes into his head about anal sex related to whatever they're talking about. I preferred the 6 music show because it forced him to get outside that persona and do something different. AIOTM is really hit or miss as well, you can tell some weeks he just hasn't had the time to write anything. Maybe it's my own fault for reading his blog - he produces so much output that unfortunately if you follow it all you hear him repeat himself over and over.
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May 11, 2011 12:19
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I didn't like Nathan Barley the first time around and gave up after a couple of episodes, but I've been watching it again on 4OD and it's a lot better than I remember. Also still very relevant, which is unsettling.
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May 24, 2011 10:09
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justcola posted:I thought their boss in a few episodes whose catchphrase was 'no slacking', was their dad? Who is also a twin and also does a comedy thing with his brother in blackpool.
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May 26, 2011 17:25
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ibroxmassive posted:four chuckle brothers? I don't know why I know these things.
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May 26, 2011 18:33
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I want a programme of Jelly and Mrs Ladybird doing Louis Theroux style documentaries, they're an amazing double act.
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Jun 7, 2011 00:08
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Taear posted:Does anyone know why they moved it?
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Jun 8, 2011 09:53
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I find Johnny Vegas like Boyle - I can take him in small half hour doses, but when he's the flavour of the month and on every show the lack of depth in the act really comes through. To be honest I'm kind of the same way with Stewart Lee - deconstruction & repetition is funny, but I couldn't watch more than an hour of it at a time.
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Jun 11, 2011 10:07
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6 Music have offered Collins & Josie Long the Saturday morning slot when Adam & Joe's run finishes again. As far as I know Collins has accepted, which does seem to suggest that Herring's running joke that Collins is just trading his way from comedian to comedian to better his own career is actually true. I just don't understand how he keeps getting work. I've listened to his Radio 6 show, he's awful. I've listened to him on various comedy podcasts, he's not funny. I've read his stuff in Radio Times, he knows dick all about movies. His opinions on pretty much any subject are either ill thought out, reactionary, or just downright dumb. He also has a really smug punchable face. Him & Josie Long is probably going to be a trainwreck if their performances on individual podcasts are anything to go by. FreakyZoid fucked around with this message at 11:50 on Jun 26, 2011 |
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Jun 26, 2011 11:36
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Oh also for whatever reason Collins declined to do the daily Edinburgh podcast with Herring, so he's doing that on his own. I've mainly only heard Long on Utter Shambles, but her entire contributions were "tee hee I am ditzy and don't understand" and "rawr feminism, people shouldn't assume I'm ditzy because I'm a woman". I think maybe in ten years she might have the perspective to be a really good comedian though.
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Jun 26, 2011 12:18
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Ten pairs of Ugg boots and a hundred handbags? My vote's with the Chuckle guy.
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Jun 27, 2011 20:32
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Taear posted:that doesn't somehow become "Yes wasting money on poo poo is fine".
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Jun 28, 2011 19:12
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Since someone mentioned it earlier - Collins' blog about his falling out with Herring http://wherediditallgorightblog.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/the-break-up/ Herring's reply http://wherediditallgorightblog.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/the-break-up/#comment-23249
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Jun 29, 2011 13:25
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I thought Collins' original career was liking the 1980's?
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Paperhouse posted:Certainly he hasn't got close to the acclaim that Stewart Lee has so I've always thought of him as the shitter half that didn't go on to do much Herring does a pretty much completely different act to Lee, I couldn't see how them as a double act would work these days, but he is very good at what he does. I'd recommend picking up one of his recent show DVDs. I like Lee, but I've seen a lot of other acts that get less acclaim than him that made me laugh an awful lot more.
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Jul 29, 2011 10:27
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I like him, and I found a lot of AiOtM self-indulgent poo poo that you can tell was scripted in an afternoon. I don't think it gives a decent indication of how good he is at all.
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Jul 29, 2011 12:00
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During the show she did sort of look like she might actually be a puppet being controlled by half a dozen of Jim Henson's best men. But she also had some of the best lines in the episode. She's way more entertaining than James Caan ever was.
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Aug 1, 2011 13:42
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Kin posted:At least it's better than the US one. They're showing it on Dave and the cunts on that show rarely accept anything less than a controlling percentage of the individual's business. It's loving sickening. i.e you give them some equity in exchange for a loan of however much money. You still have to pay the loan back, but they keep the equity.
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I thought they lost the Friends rights a couple of years ago - how come they're still showing it?
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Incidentally on his twitter feed he's saying the Sooty thing happened ages ago, that he just popped in to hospital to have it checked, and that the whole thing has been hugely blown out of proportion by the Sun. Which doesn't sound like the sort of thing they'd do at all. Oh no.
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If you're in Edinburgh you need to see Alex Horne's Taskmaster 2. The first one was loving amazing last year.
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FelixMeOneMoreTime posted:Seinfeld as it truly is the pinnacle of PG US sitcoms, and set the foundations for most good comedy.
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Rarity posted:Great. Because of this conversation I've now found a youtube channel with over 200 SMTV clips and am streamlining through them. There goes my weekend. Thanks a lot, guys.
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The Cosby Mysteries posted:Anybody remember a children's program on ITV about.. Ten years ago? It featured two wolfs who ate people and two police officers that put a beating on them with batons for no real reason most episodes. What are Trevor & Simon up to these days? Still swinging their pants? FreakyZoid fucked around with this message at 09:25 on Aug 6, 2011 |
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I recognise 3 of those people (counting Jedward as one person).
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Fungah posted:Basically as the series went on Simon became more and more insufferable and stupid. The episode where they skive off school
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Aug 28, 2011 18:36
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B...but Stewart Lee says that musical comedy is lazy and rubbish.
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cloudchamber posted:He was referring to musical theatre like the Queen musical as being poo poo, not musical comedy. My post was a joke anyway, nobody should be defining what they do or don't find funny based on what Stewart Lee does or doesn't find funny. As for musical comedy - I like the Conchords. I don't like Mitch Benn.
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