Peep Show (now with added Mitchell & Webb Look)

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Anyone watched this yet? Fridays after Sex and the City. I think it's very funny.

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Tried to, went to bed instead!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I really wanted to see it. Is it being repeated on E4 or anything?

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 08:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Pretty funny yeah.

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 08:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I like it. Their voices make me laugh. And the accidentally Nazi post-it was genius, I'm not sure why.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"Brown toast for first course, white for pudding."

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 09:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw the second ep on video last night, mainly from behind my fingers, the excrutiation (sp?) factor was as high as the good episodes of the office, fortunately the laugh content is too.

truly a marvy show.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, it's excellent. Possibly the nerdy one is too short of malice to match the Office, in some ways.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought that this would be about the comic. :(

― adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, that was the bad thing!

The opening montage featuring a lovely 360 shot of Crouch End (spiritual home of ILX) confuses me.

― marianna, Monday, 13 October 2003 08:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Mmm yes, was going to start a thread about this myself. Saw my first episode on Friday - excellent stuff. Best Brit-com since 'Black Books'?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 13 October 2003 08:46 (twenty-two years ago)

It's nasty and squirmworthy, but it also somehow manages to be very funny, and also vaguely sympathetic, in that you do identify with the characters despite their total patheticness, they're somehow still loveable.

Oh no, THAT was the bad thing!

― kate (kate), Monday, 13 October 2003 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Best Brit-com since 'Black Books'?

Damn straight. It's fantastic, I loves it, it's gleefully unafraid of tackling the most outre subject matter but fucking funny with it, and I'm a kinda horrible blend of the two main characters which makes it doubly scary. More please.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 13 October 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

soon EVERYONE will been claiming to have been watching this since the first ep, but we are the true early adopters etcetc

bad thing...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 13 October 2003 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

>Best Brit-com since 'Black Books'

Isn't that almost exactly what the Guardian called it?

Best Britcom since "French Fields"!

― Tag (Tag), Monday, 13 October 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

caught it for the first time last Friday - pleasantly surprised by how good it was

on ahd Tag, let's not go nuts huh? (Anton Rogers is the don)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 13 October 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Tag, are you accusing JtN of nicking all of his ideas from the guardian? or for writing for the guardian?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 13 October 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

which is worse?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 13 October 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Haven't seen this yet but one of the writers is a friend.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 13 October 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

The bit in the last one where he thinks "Look at me, being friends with a big black businessman like it's the most natural thing in the world! was hilarious, I thought.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 13 October 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh really, I know someone who knows someone who knows BOTH of the writers MAYBE.

Me and RickyT watched the third ep on Friday and LARFFED LIKE VERY GURGLY DRANES the entire way through, I must admit I missed the second ep though. Has anyone else taped it percharnce? I am 85% sure it is the best new programme since Delia but sadly it has no vampires.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 13 October 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, that's it, I officially don't like it any more.

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 07:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Er, wasn't it the fourth episode Stars?

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.imperialyt.com/peeps_animation2.gif

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Sarah the second ep has a goth in it. And bowling.

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, it must have been the THIRD I missed. Confusing my Peep Show! I am not 4 REAL!!!

The goth bonking moment was TOO CRINGEWORTHY. I was watching it too sober and too tired whilst doing laundry. All other parts of the show were great.

Tell you what, that Sophie chick is EVERYWHERE at the moment! In the Lotto advert... in er... well Lixi says she's in another advert... I'm surprised the rest of the Britcomedy mafioso haven't turned up - where are the scientists from Look Around You ect ect.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

> well Lixi says she's in another advert...

she's in the 'bev and kev' car insurance thing. she plays 'bev'.

andy

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 16 October 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

Wonderful show... and tucked away late, late into to Channel 4's schedules, where I caught the recent repeat run. Perhaps a shame that it hasn't been so publicised, but I'm sure it will catch on, though it's edgier even than 'The Office'. This show can go places... would be quite a coup I think to do say one episode without the first person approach... A second series could show how things in a contrastingly neutral way; the characters are now quite firmly established. Though admittedly at times I would have liked them to push areas of writing further, this was a 'sitcom' that really did create credible and amusing characters - and with the current and palatable fashion for melancholy. There's a lovely and rather grim inevitability to the failure and humiliation of the characters... Mark seems a stronger creation than Jeremy, though they fit together so interestingly. Some of the others are very sketchy and act as representatives of different things - Alan Johnson (the actor's performance and the writing really had laughing uproariously :)) representating an oddly flashy nerdism and business-obsession, for example. That episode was probably the best of those I've seen; all sorts of frissons and insights into the characters. Johnson has a marvellous way of speaking that obscures and then amplifies the character's one-note oddity; he exists more as a symbolic figure, spouting a feelgood mixture of tough straight talking and elaborate repartee. The scene where he's sitting with Mark and speaking in terms of pure functionality, and then cliched masculinity about Sophie, is a key one... for a brief time, one feels dragged away from the confused, jittery perspective of Mark, and presented with a certainty and bluntness of phrase that is chastening.
I like that Sophie character too; she acts as the object of Mark's desire, yet is perpetually out-of-reach and diffident - all seems in a stasis, as she never really commits to Mark, yet always seems willing to sustain the chance of that. She is possibly thinly-drawn, yet we get the sense of her as a nice, normal person with realistic if vaguely brought out imperfections and contradictions. She could be used with much more depth, but is a fine comic foil in general.

Hopefully we'll get a well promoted second series in the not too distant future. Really heartening, thoughtful stuff it was... and balances the darker elements with the amusing better than many, many comedies. Maybe even tonight's first 'Office' special, which while a very good, was awkward in its changing of a palette that worked. That made the documentary format much more of the focus, with the depictions of a celebrity Brent, and was an effective, but not very funny deviation from the original mise-en-scene. Imagine say if things got self-reverential with PS' characters drawing undue attention to their thoughts being on voiceover, verbally rather than in subtle reactions... "Peep Show" is very, very promising; some of the gags went into slightly dubious areas (shades of "Jam"... occasionally a propensity to go for shock at what-we're'-getting-away-with-on-National-TV) while adding really rather little and things can be patchy, but it had a fine success-failure ratio. Character and dialogue really have to be at the centre of these things, and the perspective filming I felt was largely entirely appropriate for the basis of this show. A really unexpected, hidden gem this... here's to the next series! :)

― Tom May (Tom May), Saturday, 27 December 2003 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

ugh.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 27 December 2003 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Not a convert to this show, then? :)

― Tom May (Tom May), Saturday, 27 December 2003 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

my problem w/ this show=I know someone called the same name as the guy in the show that looks like the guy in the show and he is a bit of a dick+it isn't funny.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 27 December 2003 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

'+...' = u&k.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 27 December 2003 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I will watch anything that Robert Webb and David Mitchell are in.
They are brilliant. First saw them on 'Bruiser' on BBC 2(which also had the woman who plays Sophie and Martin Freeman and Charlotte Hudson rwrorr) and then in their superb one-off 'Daydream Believer' (it was a Comedy lab episode). 'Peep Show' is a good vehicle for them
but i think it would probably be even better if they'd written it themselves. Incidentally Mitchell's character in 'Daydream' was obsessed with fascism/Mussolini - compare his Stalingrad fantasies in 'Peep Show'. They said recently the writers based the characters on them, which they found disturbing.
Hopefully it come into its own in the next series.

― pete s, Saturday, 27 December 2003 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

'will come into it's own..'
sounds slightly filthy

― pete s, Saturday, 27 December 2003 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

it's the funniest British thing to have been on Channel 4 since...

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 27 December 2003 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)

'Pornography:the Musical'.

― pete s, Saturday, 27 December 2003 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

This returns for a second run, by the way, on Friday of next week, Channel 4.

High expectations, anyone?

I must say I rated it very highly last time; only caveat being the obtrusively 'edgy', malcontented camera work. The material needed a more classic sitcom approach in this way; while I accept a lot was based around interior monologues, did the visuals have to be as self-conscious? A moot point, perhaps... I do feel it harmed it slightly but not irrevocably.

But yes: good actors (that's the key! nothing they do is stand-up mugging or 'routine') are the main pair, and gratifying underplaying in the wider ensemble - though I loved that rather exaggerated businessman grotesque, Johnson. Looking forward immensely to this returning. The new Peter Kay show is on before it in the schedules, also.

― Tom May (Tom May), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.peepsshow.com/intro.html

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I clearly couldn't have been paying attention as I could have sworn that the first run had three main characters.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

well if you count the love interest there sort-of is. I think this is pretty funny but at the same time i don't like it. weird.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 12 November 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it's because i don't like the blonde guy - he gives me the creeps but not really in the was he is supposed to, i don't think. He's a terrible actor and signposts the humour too obviously. ugh.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 12 November 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"I'm Louis Theroux. I'm Louis Theroux."

― **%@, Saturday, 13 November 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess 'the two main characters' = the two whom we are given internal monologues from, at many points. We aren't given Sophie's thoughts, generally, though they gestured towards this by having Mark infilitrate her e-mail. She is bound to be more of a stooge and coordinate around whom Mark revolves, but is always made just a little more than that: rather a plausibly naturalistic figure actually.

Friday's episode did impress me; a good deal of tenderness, and a commendable avoidance of obvious moves: unlike the preceeding "Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere", which I hoped would have something of the Tinniswood Uncle Mort & Carter Brandon radio-travelogue about it... but that was sadly rather tired with its irrelevant 'parodies', 'ironic' musical telegraphing. It had potential, but lacked the poetry required; how much better those silhouetted "Dirty Dancing" parodies would have worked with the Ingmar Bergman, or Mike Leigh, silence behind them? Nothing too deep was wrung out of the situation; not enough absurdity, not enough muted feeling. Maybe it'll improve, but I'm skeptical.

"Peep Show" is sharper with the non sequitur, and actually manages to surprise a bit; 't plays often as an onanistic "Bottom" crossed with "The Office". Admittedly, I do have to agree with Jed that the Mark actor is the more skilled... v. good supporting cast; must say that Olivia Colman is right for that role.

An episode without the inner-monologues could be a masterstroke, actually; like moments in the "Office" Christmas Specials where inter-relations appeared so differently without the 'docu'-framing. Being so used to the show's conceit would make such an edition a different take on things, and add a bit more complexity: maybe change how we view the main characters, not being given their innermost thoughts, once in a way.

― Tom May (Tom May), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Having only watched Peep Show intermittently (but being pretty impressed, admittedly), do they mention in the show how much the guy that looks like Richard Littlejohn looks like Richard Littlejohn?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark character, presumably? No, I don't believe so, though maybe Mark's discussion of the bad and good things arising from the '60s sexual revolution could be read as Littlejohnian. ;) paraphrasing: "Okay, I can take the romantic side, "I have a dream", the *Colours*... but not the... *Squalor*!"

― Tom May (Tom May), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

do they mention in the show how much the guy that looks like Richard Littlejohn looks like Richard Littlejohn?

not sure who you mean at all here, but it was a good episode and v funny at times (certainly more than Max & Paddy)

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 15 November 2004 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone bought/seen the DVD of the first series yet? Any good extras? I'm almost wishing I had a TV, just for Peep Show. If there was a way I could make it only receive Peep Show (and maybe The West Wing), I would do it.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 15 November 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

It was very funny indeed. Having found Max And Paddy funnier than I possibly should have I was physically hurting by the end of Peep Show.

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 15 November 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

What a superb friday eve, Max & Paddy (how dare you!) being really funny (I was worried that it might not be.) & then Peep Show. Perfect!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Max & Paddy was roundly panned by the Late Review - surprising as i would've expected it would totally be Tom Paulin's bag.

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 15 November 2004 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

mildly amusing.
it isn't what it wants to be.
constant POV shots = dud.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 15 November 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm, max and paddy wasn't great, peep show was, as usual, watched from behind my fingers, it's so excrutiating and yet brilliant.

the line about "HAVING A GREAT BIG WANK" was particularly well-received chez carsmile...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 15 November 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Me disagreeing with ILX (again) shockah!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't forget Father Ted and The Simpsons, and even Friends. it was indeed a perfect evening, I thought M&P was pretty funny.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 15 November 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really like Father Ted if I'm honest, it bugs me for some reason.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

it isn't what it wants to be.

? disagree there - it seems to be fulfilling the mandate 'make people laugh while presenting sitcom in a relatively novel way' - assuming that IS the mandate

constant POV shots = dud

whole point tho!

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 15 November 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

first episode of new series didn't really do it for me, and i loved the first one.

hasn't mark gotten fat???

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

constant POV shots = dud

whole point tho!

ya. still doesn't work though.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it works okay. personally i enjoy this style as it's not been explored much before and it can be quite interesting to have the characters looking at 'you'. you might argue that as a gimmick it wears off quickly but i would argue the same about The Office - it got to the point where the idea that a TV crew were filming it all for a documentary just became absurd. still hilarious tho, so whether it 'worked' or not didn't matter so much.

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck, that was funny

"Wow, this crack is really moreish"

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 19 November 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

that was a great episode

so otm about racist friends too.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

should I buy this on dvd? will I enjoy it, considering that my touchpoints for recent britcoms are the office, alan partridge, and spaced?

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 20 November 2004 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

yes

i should think so

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Saturday, 20 November 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

haha, yes, it is funny. although it didn't really take off for me until the third episode, and then, after the 4th, I felt like I'd watched enough in one sitting.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 07:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"Come on then Hands, let's go and get you some crack"

"I'm gonna broom you! I will, you'll get the broom, I promise!"

"Now your girlfriend and my best friend are going off to fuck, and what are we gonna do? Make a tent in the lounge and eat Dairylea Triangles? Is that what you want? Cos that's exactly what's gonna happen."

I fucking love Peep Show. It's never going to cross over like The Office did, being (I think) too close to the bone for mass mainstream consumption - ie although these character types no doubt exist in every office/pub/block of flats in the country, nobody really wants to think about that fact too deeply - but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I wouldn't recommend it to my mum and dad, certainly...

"Are you saying we can't be friends just because I'm stalking you?"

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

best program channel 4 has come up with in ages. sad its finished though.

― splooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I was, in the end, disappointed by Max and Padddy. Every other episode was 'Max bumps into old friend who is a psycho just out of prison'. Truly it was a Road to Nowhere. It had its moments though. Tellingly, the best bit was back at The Phoenix.

I don't like Peep Show because they talk to the camera when they are supposed to be talking to each other. This is wrong. Over the shoulder shot and counter-shot is bad, but this is worse. Also it has too much swearing and appears to be genetically engineered for young people. Steptoe and Son wasn't specifically for rag and bone men, was it? I mean, I'm sure they enjoyed it, but you could still get into it if you were a roadsweeper.

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 23 December 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought the last episode was maybe the best yet...

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 26 December 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

rubbish.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 26 December 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

why's that?

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 26 December 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

it isn't funny.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 26 December 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

'15 storeys high'?

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 26 December 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I would like to put paid to the rumours I myself have ever created a tent in the living room and/or eaten dairylea triangles and discovered the "processed cheese hangover".

― Not Starry, Sunday, 26 December 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

If this show comes high in this 'tv treats' thing on right now, i will feel strangely elated. It was the best thing on telly.
Max and Paddy was shite.

my fave Superhans bit: "i tell you what that crack is really moreish"

― Bumfluff, Sunday, 26 December 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

superhans during the wedding all coked up in the bathroom stall!

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 26 December 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Thinking about it, the unexplained oddity (within certain 'type') of the subsidiary characters - Super Hans and Toni particularly - works really well.

This second series really did impress me, especially as it moved along. The characters - if not perhaps so strongly the situation - were pushed into interesting waters. And why is a developing, serial situation now seemingly what I want in a sitcom? Probably a bit too much Reggie Perrin watched of late (though of course the brilliance there, is how the basic melancholy situation is eventually reaffirmed, after, say, the novelties/experiments of new identities, Grot and the commune...) ;)

The occasionally more 'reflective' tone of this was very pleasing; just the sort of thing I was looking for after the last series. Questions remain as to whether the show can perhaps 'speak to' a larger audience, and extend further its reach (aye, maybe change the whole dynamic by removing the POV? would throw up a whole new set of questions about the characters)... but it was more than good enough to be getting on with.

― Tom May (Tom May), Sunday, 26 December 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

so, it's all old jokes and crap jokes?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 December 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Not sure it is all necessarily about 'jokes'; 't ain't stand-up comedy.

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 27 December 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

uh-oh

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 December 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

All this talk of Green Wing begs the question, why was it hyped so, and Peep Show raised barely a, er, peep.
I suppose it has a lot to do with sharing producers with Smack The Pony and having an all star cast.
Green Wing was okay, but not a patch on Peep Show, in terms of laughs, invention and soul.
Yet where is Peep Show in the TV reviews of the year?
I freelance for C4 Ideas Factory. Next time I'm in the office I should tell them Peep Show is the greatest C4 sitcom since Spaced and everyone in it should be given lots of money to do what they want, while Avid Merrion gets beaten unconcious and thrown in a hole into which wet concrete is poured. That would certainly be funnier than Bo Selecta! (I laughed my ass off first time I saw Michael Jackass ice skating with two raw chickens on his feet, but now it really is diabolical - witless, boring and useless)

I'll third the admiration for the "That crack was really moreish" line. Greatest line of the year, all the more so in the light of Pete Doherty's ongoing self-destruction.
The university episode was particularly heartbreaking. The Columbo bit was genius, Peter Capaldi was on fine form (stop taking easy money voiceover jobs and ACT man), and Mark's awkard dealings with the girl were really close to the bone. We've all been there at some point.
The final episode even had its own mini Brent telling Finchy to fuck off moment when Mark asked that knob to leave.
And that Nancy girl is totally hott.

― stew, Monday, 27 December 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

the highly-addictive-drug-is-moreish joke is as old as the harry hills.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 December 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

ha. why do you keep reading this thread if you dislike the show so much?

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Spaced was poor, and yet I miss it.

― Bumfluff, Monday, 27 December 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I dislike the show so much.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i respect that. but you are bringing nothing to the table to convince me i shouldn't like this show!

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't mind, if you like it, but it's pishy!

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i see you've also graced the green wing thread with claims of RUBBISH!

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

I just downloaded the old Radio Shows of 'That Mitchell And Webb Sound'. It's fantastic.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 25 July 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

NEW SERIES starts this friday and Mark gets mugged by teenagers.

then the series 2 dvd is out not this monday but the following one.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Sunday, 6 November 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

There might be a film in the works!

― theantmustdance (theantmustdance), Sunday, 6 November 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

i love peep show so much. yay to its return! boo to its enduring not-crossing-overness!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 6 November 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

YEAHHHH!!!! COOOL!

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 6 November 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

excited.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 6 November 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh fuck, missed this. Is it repeated anytime soon or does anyone know where to find a torrent for it? (can't see it on Piratebay or Torrentspy.)

― Affectian (Affectian), Sunday, 6 November 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Oops, I see it was this Friday coming up and I'm an idiot and I'm walking away now.

― Affectian (Affectian), Sunday, 6 November 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

I have warmed to Peep Show since my sister forced me to watch the whole first series. It is a lot funnier than I first thought.

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 6 November 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

One of the funniest things on telly in recent years. I watched it right from the start because the trailers / opening credits were done outside the Powerhouse shop about a minute from my (then) flat.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Sunday, 6 November 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

the guys who wrote this also wrote 'the thick of it'. woah.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 7 November 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

Woah really? They are my heroes. I can't wait for this (tho I'm most likely going to be out and therefore having to tape it. Dangnammit).

― Cracks (Crackity), Monday, 7 November 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/thickofit/jesse-armstrong.shtml

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 7 November 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Worried that this could be the legendary "series too far"

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

http://www.gamehead.com.au/image.php?productid=76118

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

Never saw any of those (Dylan Moran was in it)

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

they were good (dylan moran was in it).

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

they could have been better - as Bill Bailey was in it

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

vraiment

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

I liked series three of Black Books - quite a bit darker than the previous two.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

you don't understand my genius!

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

i have not seen series 3 of black books. and bill bailey is the best thing in a very good series.

― foxy boxer (stevie), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

I think i could easily sit and watch TV with dog latin for an entire weekend.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

The first two series had me crying ACTUAL TEARS OF LAUGHTER. 'Amusing in places' is probably the kindest I can be about Series 3.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

wait - series three had the childrens' book, right? and manny's parents? and, er, what else? GOLIATH BOOKS!

"you could've been vice-deputy sub-assistant"!

"the judas boogie"!

"get your own plaything"!

series 3 haters are all mental.

(just found out the series 1-3 dvd box came out in October...whee!)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

*cough*, sorry, back to your peep show lovin' love-in...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

is the simon pegg borders pisstake one in series 3? that was v good (although this is possibly to do with my intimate knowledge of teh corporate bookshop)...

YAY to more peepshow anyway :)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

go team!

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

even thinking about a "duty-to-do" card makes me crack up (yes, first ep of series 3).

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

yay it's on now!

first laugh-out-loud line (jez, on his ex's new fella): "he was a monk - he's gonna have 15 years of spunk backed up. how am i gonna compete with that?"

good to have you back, chaps.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

"Note to self RE: being the fonz...Mark...you are NOT the fonz"

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

"You're not just buying chocolate, crisps and booze, are you?"

"No! I also have dips."

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

hold your horses honey i've got two pots of pringles...

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

(and, that was an impressively-sized strapon at the end!)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

that girl is bloody scary, with or without strap-on...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

It doesn't seem to have dipped in quality

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was "I've got coupons for the Pringles".

And now David Webb's on QI. Won't bother doing any packing then.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

She *is* quite scary, but I can't say I wouldn't fancy being in that situation myself ;-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

I meant Mitchell.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

no dip in quality at all, which is great news - i guess because they've never gone mental-office-mainstream-crazy, they've not been weighed down with doing anything other than precisely what they want.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

I could see this series getting quite popular actually. I can't wait to get the new DVD on monday

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

this is great, i was worried it might lose some of what made it so great but it hasnt!

― oko, Friday, 11 November 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

rofl

― BARMS, Friday, 11 November 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

And now David Webb's on QI.

thanks for the tip! i hadn't noticed that. he's much better looking irl.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

God so so good. Is this what the office is like if you work in an office?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

Welcome to Big School!

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Friday, 11 November 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

Drinking in the day, why didn't I think of this before?

It's like watching my life.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Friday, 11 November 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

"Don't I know you?"
"No....I don't think so....you're probably thinking I look a bit like one of the Shadow Cabinet"

― Maskewd Gazza, Saturday, 12 November 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

"I have to say this is a bit rich, but I guess maybe there's certain administrative costs for *you* to bear"

― Masked Gazza, Saturday, 12 November 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)

It was excellent. Has Big Suze been in before? I don't recognise her.

― Affectian (Affectian), Saturday, 12 November 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

Yay, it was just as great as the previous series. Which is a massive "phew!" for everyone I think.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Saturday, 12 November 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Excellent! I'm going to watch it a second time now, and I'm going to buy the series two DVD on Monday and watch it all in one night.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Sunday, 13 November 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

David Mitchell must write a good percentage of his dialogue I'm thinking.

― Masked Gazza, Sunday, 13 November 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Which would include his monologue.

― Masked Gazza, Sunday, 13 November 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

Hi,

I have no TV or video recorder and I missed this wonderful show... Can anyone point me to a download?

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 13 November 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

B1t-T0rrent site UK N0va is yr best bet for all new UK TV.

It's here:

www.uknova.com/

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Sunday, 13 November 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

jez in church: 'there's something almost spiritual about it'

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Sunday, 13 November 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

well googleproofed there paddy

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Sunday, 13 November 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, no one's ever called me Paddy on the internet before. It feels quite sweet.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Sunday, 13 November 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

Jeremy: "You can't be pissed and be miserable, it's just not possible"

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

they made a big point of having near-contemporary films on at the cinema. stuff that came out just 2 or 3 weeks back -- they must have filmed the body of the series before then, and thrown that one shot into the edit.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

Anybody else get the series 2 DVD yesterday?

"I've shot you jeff. With a bullet of Scottish Finance Regulations"

― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

BTW it's repeated on more4 on the following monday

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm doing it Dad, I'm studying Ancient History and there's not a thing you can do about it!

― Corrigan, Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

This latest new one was fantastic; it just gets better and better, frankly. Strangely moving, as well as absurd. Brilliant use of "This Week"...! Despite the central pair's myriad flaws, you really do empathise with them, I'm finding.

― Tom May (Tom May), Saturday, 19 November 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

If by 'empathise' you mean 'feel like a particularly useless combination of their worst parts', then yes.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 19 November 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Yeah this weeks was a good one too. Though i found that Superhands, a character i previously didn't like at all really stole the show.

When he threw the laptop and said

"it's just a metal box jez, it's indestructable".

Fantastic.

― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Saturday, 19 November 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Superhands is easily the greatest Peep Show character.

"The secret ingredient is crime"

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Saturday, 19 November 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Super Hans (as I believe it is) should definately have his own unsuccesful spin-off show.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 19 November 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Um I didn't like the second ep! I thought it was really weak and desperate to be weird and shocking. Disappointing, cos the first one was good.

― Cracks (Crackity), Sunday, 20 November 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

It lacked the believability and didn't hang together too well. Definitely the waekest episode.

This week has Jeremy organising a magic mushroom party though!

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Sunday, 20 November 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

i actually cried with laughter at jez at one point: "one thing we're definitely not doing is opening a pub called 'free the paedos'".

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 21 November 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

BTW it's repeated on more4 on the following monday

ah, this is U&K for fuckwits like me who, er, forgot to watch it or set the video on friday. woot.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 21 November 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

It's repeated on E4 actually. not More4

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 21 November 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

Watched the second ep last night. Still the funniest thing on TV, even if it was a little strange as far as the episodes go...

"No more sectioning for you today"

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 21 November 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

I have had that sectioning conversation before, and the sudden realisation of power was equally wrong. Very funny stuff, and I especially like the fact that Mark may not be the most fucked up person in his relationship.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 21 November 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

'my bone's got a little machine'

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 21 November 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

"Your dream is people on the omnibus... grey... eating grey sludge... that's your dream isn't it?"

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

So, who do you relate to most, Mark or Jez? I'm definately Mark, my other 'arf says both equally, which is a little scary.

― Zora (Zora), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

i think being both equally is better than being just mark?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

that whole sequence in the clinic was fantastic. and for some reason just Mark saying "that's good tucking!" made me hurt myself laughing.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

just watched ep2 this morning - many many splendid laugh-out-loud lines. dunno why people thought it was a weird ep tho, no odder than usual. "my bone's got a little machine", yeah! fuck, what was the other really obscure music reference in the script?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

"People voted for Hitler and buy Coldplay records..."

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

they referenced 'European Bob' from The Streets 'Weak Become Heroes'

also a reference to Spaced with 'the four Bs' thing (Big Blue, Blue Velvet, Betty Blue, Blues Brothers)

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

You think Mark + Jez = rounded individual?

kk. Personally I think they cross-multiply, rather than balance each other out.

x-post etc.

― Zora (Zora), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

they referenced 'European Bob' from The Streets 'Weak Become Heroes'

that's it! exactly! thankyou.

when were the four Bs mentioned in spaced, stevem? i mean, i completely believe you, but i just can't remember it.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 11:05 (twenty years ago)

as student posters

they referenced 'European Bob' from The Streets 'Weak Become Heroes'

wtf!? i missed this. hwo and where?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

haha

TS 'The Blues Brothers' vs 'Blue Velvet' vs 'The Big Blue' vs 'Betty Blue'

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

Super Hans: "I tried to get European Bob involved, but he's useless..."

Jez: "Yeah, arsehole..."

... or words to that effect

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

damn i knew i got that reference wrong. there used to be an indie comic called International Bob by Terry laban.

noticed the 4xblue spaced thing too.

i've had a close friend go through a manic episode (at college) and it wasn't pretty. however this was teh funny.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

One thing I dislike about Peepshow is that both the main actors have funny teeth (to me). Once you are fixed on this you get distracted, perhaps it's because they often have those close up 'goldfish bowl effect' shots.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

yeah the part with "bone machine" lyrics was totally a WTF moment.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

the thing about that pixies reference is that it's *so* wildly obscure (album track off non-Doolittle album etc) that it goes far beyond yer standard 'Spaced'-esque "hey, we really know our demographic, and to prove it, here's a cred cultural reference for you" into genuinely odd territory, like the writers had a bet to see who could squeeze in the most arcane, random references - ditto European Bob. And I love 'em for it...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

and now that crazy bird from friday's ep has shown up on new bbc3 series man stroke woman, playing...er, a crazy bird.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

it's not bad this Man Stroke Woman. it took me seven minutes to realise it was actually a sketch show though...

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

i thought it was a bit dull, to be honest. some vaguely fun ideas, but it's fairly low on flair. spoons is funnier, and christ that's not half saying something - but then, spoons has a far greater grasp on realisty. man stroke woman seems to be mainly surreal/absurdist riffs, only they're not all that original in concept or funny in execution. ah well. i'll watch ep 2 just to make sure...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

i know not of Spoons.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/S/spoons/

New series beginning on Channel 4 Friday 30 September

Spoons is the brand new comedy sketch show from the producers of Channel 4's hit quiz 8 Out of 10 Cats.

The show follows the lives and loves of twenty and thirty-something urbanites as they flirt, argue and struggle to grow-up gracefully in bars, restaurants, parks, bedrooms, as well as the odd brothel. In this tangled web of fragile relationships and insecurity, we'll meet an colourful cast of spot-on characters.

There's the wife who constantly reminds her partner that she 'wants a f***ing baby' at every available inopportune moment, and the man who as a one-off treat offers to cook dinner tonight on the day his wife has given birth. We'll also meet the paranoid Keeping Tabs Boyfriend and the shameless Blind Date Man.

Written by Charlie Brooker, Ben Caudell, Peter Holmes and Neil Webster, Spoons features some of today's most talented comic performers, including Rob Rouse, Kevin Bishop, Josie D'Arby, Tom Goodman Hill, Rosie Cavaliero, Simon Farnaby, Elizabeth Bower and Kerry Godliman.

This blurb makes it sound less funny than it is: the guy who guesses entire afternoons of conversation and the guy who tries to convince people his girlfriend has kidnapped him are both pretty perceptive and funny despite repetition.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

the thing about that pixies reference is that it's *so* wildly obscure (album track off non-Doolittle album etc) that it goes far beyond yer standard 'Spaced'-esque "hey, we really know our demographic, and to prove it, here's a cred cultural reference for you" into genuinely odd territory, like the writers had a bet to see who could squeeze in the most arcane, random references - ditto European Bob. And I love 'em for it...
-- CharlieNo4 (starsandheroe...), November 22nd, 2005.

haha oh noes i was like god how obvious -- and not being an sf fan i don't get half of 'spaced'!

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

the Pixies thing was lost on me as i don't know the song, still laughed at the wtfness of it tho.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

haha oh noes i was like god how obvious -- and not being an sf fan i don't get half of 'spaced'!

I dunno what you usually watch, but in my tv universe there is no corner where quoting a pixies lyric - any pixies lyric - is anything but slightly unusual at least, and wilfully fucking bizarre at most.

This is like that bit in "totally frank" the other day where the girl wouldn't let the guy shag her unless he correctly stated her favourite joy division song...("transmission", as it goes)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

it's horses for courses. i've never seen/read harrry potter or 'lotr' so a lot of mainstream entertainment goes over my head.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

I didn't have the willpower to resist clicking on this thread but I have managed not to read any of the new messages...that's because I managed to miss ep2 not once, not twice, but three times (if you include E4+1). We were up too, making Xmas cards, at 1am - all we had to do was change the channel. Ouch.

Subt1tl1ng job please, Two-E.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

Spaced and Peep Show = both north London sit-coms (Crouch End/Highgate/Tufnell Park)

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

i wonder what it's like, living outside north london...

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

presumably some fans of this show live elsewhere -- clapham, perhaps.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

I can confirm that anywhere outside of North London doesn't actually exist.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

i'm supposed to go to hackney this evening but there's a 'prisoner'-style white ball type thing stopping me, it just doesn't feel right.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

Apparently Peep Show is actually based in West Croydon! Which may explain a lot.

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

b-b-b-but in the opening credits, it's crouch end.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

they've also been in Stepney, and Herne Hill, so far this series. it's definitely a zone 2 sort of show.

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

No, it's Penge. They have a Crouch End tribute street.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

Michael I've got episode 2 on computah if you want copy.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

Oh yes please!

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

didn't find episode 2 as funny as the first, superhands doesn't seem to be as funny as he used to be either.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Only the opening credits are in Crouch End, nothing else, certainly not the flat where they live (although that seems to be different in this series). Also, the opening credits are a lost Crouch End from 2003. That Powerhouse shop with the TVs in closed last summer.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

ha. it's 5 minutes' bike ride from my flat, and i didn't know that.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

'just you, me, some chinese food, and a whole shitload of spreadsheets'

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

"meet you in chicken corner"

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

it's horses for courses. i've never seen/read harrry potter or 'lotr' so a lot of mainstream entertainment goes over my head.
-- Theorry Henry (miltonpinsk...), November 23rd, 2005 11:11 Am

Me too, I've never seen or read any of the Lord of the Rings stuff and don't even have any idea what the plot is. I've never seen The Sound of Music either. I suspect that my everyday life is full of unnoticed references to these things.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Fantastic tonight.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 25 November 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

Yes - that was brilliant.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 25 November 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

So, so good. An unbelievable improvement from last week's debacle. I laughed out loud 6 or 7 times, absolutely tremendous stuff. Johnson was superb too, good to see him again!

― Cracks (Crackity), Friday, 25 November 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

Really really classic.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Friday, 25 November 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

NO SPOILERZ PLEASE!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 25 November 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

Big Suze is apparently the daughter of

http://www.f4group.co.uk/images/eve_pollard.jpg

― Masked Gazza, Friday, 25 November 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

Is that a spoiler? It spoils something anyway.

― Masked Gazza, Friday, 25 November 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

I have seen two episodes, not the latest, the two before. I can see some quality but not as much as is alleged. It feels trendy to me. I'm not crazy about it. I'm not sure. I think it has some qualities, but is dislikeable. I like RJG's scorched earth campaign agin it, upthread.

― the bellefox, Saturday, 26 November 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

The latest episode is better than the two preceding it.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 26 November 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

Immeasurably better, especially compared to ep 2.

― Cracks (Crackity), Saturday, 26 November 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

yes, highly impressed by tonights episode.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Saturday, 26 November 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

i think it would be much better if mark and jez were played by these people:

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b118/sarahlibertine/ALEXDAMONOMGZZZZZZ.jpg

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Saturday, 26 November 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

Peepshow works best when it's not just focusing on Mark and Jez in a scene. Johnson and Super Hans are my faves.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 26 November 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

Jez is getting more evil isn't he? "mustn't think too hard about what i'm actually doing..."

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 26 November 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

"It's not like I'm going to rape him. I could rape him... I'm not going to rape him."

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Saturday, 26 November 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

YES that was a really disturbing line

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 26 November 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

I agree with CharlieNo4. When I was a lad, I liked the fact that these members of Blur were, to my mind, attractive.

― the blurfox, Saturday, 26 November 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

I found that line funny, not disturbing. Oh dear.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 26 November 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

I think I found it funny because I knew the "...I could rape him" bit was coming. I can relate to this sort of mental Tourette's Syndrome.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 26 November 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

NB. I don't want to rape anyone. I don't even think I could rape anyone. Even if I wanted to, which I don't. I don't even fantasise about raping anyone. Thanks.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 26 November 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

"...and anyone who says otherwise is lying" is the traditional end to such protests.

i found it disturbing AND funny. don't worry N. i laffed much more at this ep.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 26 November 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

Everyone thinks things they shouldn't/don't even mean, what's funny about this show is that they generally go ahead and broadcast them...

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Saturday, 26 November 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

Yes. Good. It is Alan in his suit and tie who is disturbed for not having such thoughts.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 26 November 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

i missed ep 2. last night's was transcendently brilliant. "and now i'm standing here, tripping my nuts off, watching you do ... endless poos!"

the whole dynamic does appear to be changing, though: whereas it used to be about two very different but equally tragic people, mark now seems to be presented as a *slightly* more sympathetic character ... probably simply because jez is becoming alarmingly psychotic.

either way: glorious, glorious stuff. i should track down episode 2 somewhere, i suppose. or just wait for the DVD :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 26 November 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

the flat where they live (although that seems to be different in this series)

It *is* different - this series is the first one where they've used a studio set for their flat, rather than shooting on location. Apparently, the people who actually lived there were getting a bit bored of it all.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 26 November 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

-We're going to smash through the doors of perception and see all the things that you don't normally see, cause-

-Cause they're not really there?

-No, they are really there but we don't normally see them cause we're distracted by all the-

-Things that are really there?

...marvellous

― Zora (Zora), Sunday, 27 November 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

I kiss you.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Sunday, 27 November 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to know quite what the Pinefox means by its being 'trendy', exactly?

― Tom May (Tom May), Sunday, 27 November 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

yeah, it seems the opposite of trendy, really! i loved it. i loved last week's too.

― N_RQ, Monday, 28 November 2005 09:22 (twenty years ago)

Trendy (perhaps) = it's stuffed with sexual and drug references and "Why does it have to be so rude?"

I sort of know what he means. But I also don't.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

mm, certainly eps 2 and 3 fit this profile (although this last ep was very much 'the jeremy show'). but in ep 1 i almost thought they'd made mark too much of a fuck-up -- the whole sex-angst thing might've gone too far.

xpost

the show is obsessed with poo, it must be said.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Poop Show ?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

i think this episode really got brilliant when johnson showed up.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Mike's 2nd paragraph could be spoken by Morrissey!

Perhaps he is right about what I meant. But also, the very fact that everyone on this thread likes the programme so much might also suggest that it is trendy. I don't mean that everyone on the thread is trendy, at least not as an insult.

I think it is something about the tone - so perhaps 'rudeness' in some sense, or more than one - 'nastiness' or 'brutality' among them - is indeed relevant.

It feels also like a programme keen to be up to the minute somehow, or to express or represent a contemporary attitude or life.

― the bellefox, Monday, 28 November 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

i'm not sure if that's a bad thing.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Le quote (pinefox sai): "I think it is something about the tone - so perhaps 'rudeness' in some sense, or more than one - 'nastiness' or 'brutality' among them - is indeed relevant."

But but but... if you summed this show up as 'rude', 'brutal' and 'nasty', you'd be way off course. Whilst I can't find anything specifically nice about it / the characters, there's something there that's warm and engaging. Perhaps you mean that the rude-brutal-nastiness is a contemporary veneer over a warm-heart-of-British-comedy core? Or have I misunderstood (it happen)?

― Zora (Zora), Monday, 28 November 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

No, I don't see or feel any warm core, just a chill and sometimes witty wind.

― the bellefox, Monday, 28 November 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

this hasnt been as funny as i thought it would be after episode 2, its seeming a bit more sinister and just plain cruel, esp in regard to jez. when johnson turned up last week though, that really was genius.

― okok, Monday, 28 November 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

I've only been and off viewer of Peep Show since it started, but the two or three appearances of Johnson I've seen have all been hilarious. He's a great character.

Warm core. Hmm... no I think I see one either. I suppose, one could say that at its heart lies a kind of commiseration of self-loathing squalid souls. But that would be stretching the point a bit.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

I saw this by accident a year ago and never thought it would turn up again -- too loose-limbed and fast and personal and funny to ever end up as a regular series, but here we are. I like it. I think it's "trendy" insofar as it's using a lot of the same tricks as "Curb Your Enthusiasm," which was, or felt like, a very new kind of show. Main one being, when a main character has a decision to make, he or she will always make the worst one he or she is capable of at the time.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

I have heard the name of that programme, but never seen it.

Is it on, in Britain?

N. is probably right, in his last paragraph.

― the bellefox, Monday, 28 November 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

friday nights, pinefox, channel 4, 10pm; repeated on E4 at midnight on the following monday (ie tonight!).

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

What or who is it about?

― the bellefox, Monday, 28 November 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Two loser flatmates and their largely inconsequential (but fucked up, in a peculiarly pathetic way) escapades. When on form it really is as great as everyone here is saying.

― Cracks (Crackity), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

He's asking about Curb Your Enthusiasm. It's about Larry David, the co-creator of Seinfeld, living his life in LA. He plays himself. He's neurotic and lost and grouchy.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

i think Curb' is pretty funny, I watched it only recently for the first time and I lol'd quite a lot. and Alba, ah ha that would explain the Seinfeld gags that I found peculiar

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

One formal diff between the two shows is that I doubt much, if any, of PS is improvised (CYE is famous for only the situation being agreed on in advance, rather than the words) which I think gives it a sharper performative bite. Both shows have a knack of thrusting enormous stakes onto their characters from out of nowhere.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

Oh, sorry. (xxpost)

― Cracks (Crackity), Monday, 28 November 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

Crikey, everyone here seemed to really like the last episode, which I thought was really pretty feeble (the only bit I laughed out loud at was Mark's "Not in my name" speech). Too much of Jeremy in this episode. Superhans is always amusing. I like how Big Suze really is Big... but then I just like Big Suze full stop.

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

i didn't enjoy last week's half as much as the one the week before.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

big suze is lovely

― okoko, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

finally saw ep3 last night, and i'm in two minds about it. i loved jez's whole "look at me, talking to a builder!" schtick, and the word "Jeremism" made me cackle, but I thought the scatological ending was dull and lazy, and the drug stuff was awful.

still, "when was the last time sophie sent *you* a template? FUCKFACE!" = teh genius.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

what happened to mark's girlfriend? and the crazy woman? and the deed to the pub? does this show just start over from scratch each time?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

mark's girlfriend sophie is in brighton on business.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

bristol, but yeah.

and presumably the mad girl's still in hospital? and the pub's still hers since she handed over the deeds while clearly deranged?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

brighton/bristol, same shit

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

more to the point, what's happened to Jez's American wife?

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

and presumably the mad girl's still in hospital? and the pub's still hers since she handed over the deeds while clearly deranged?

Yes, it's disappointing they didn't refer back to that. I want to see Jeremy and Superhans running the pub.

Also, what are the odds that Sophie has been seeing Jeff again? I have a sneaking suspicion that she went back to him when she thought Mark was sleeping around, hence the slightly guilty behaviour(and Jeff's comments) later on. This is all pure speculation, of course.

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

sophie's not in bristol at all. she's on an island with polar bears and mysterious hatches and oh wait.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Blimey, I just saw gez and mark on des and mel! MAINSTREAM!

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 1 December 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

and the consensus on tonight's episode?

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

I liked it a lot. But then I always like it a lot.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

I loved it.

But I wish jel hadn't pointed out jez and mark's teeth problems, as I'm really noticing it a lot myself now.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

The second half veered towards gervais-like comedy of embarrassment territory. But it was still funny enough for that to be ok.

I quite fancy big suze too.

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

Yes - for a moment there I thought I was going to be in the ridiculous position of being jealous of Mark's sex life....

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 2 December 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

"Salad and a Hawksmoor church." Awesome.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Sunday, 4 December 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

big suze is fucking hot.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 4 December 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)

she's a daftee though!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 4 December 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

this show is so depressing.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 4 December 2005 08:23 (twenty years ago)

bad too.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 4 December 2005 08:24 (twenty years ago)

no, it's good.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 5 December 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

both were in the weekend papers doing different things (one doing the guardian magazine survey, another re-visiting cambridge for the travel section).

anybody ever heard the radio 4 show that goes out under their real names? there's talk of it transfering to bbc2.

http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/10594/that-mitchell-and-webb-look-tunes-into

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 5 December 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

They were on the Mel and Des programme and said that they're doing a TV sketch show.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 5 December 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

this was a less quotable ep, more conventional sitcom than usual. but it was still fucking skill.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 5 December 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

Fantastic again. And to think I thought it'd jumped the shark 2 episodes ago.

― Cracks (Crackity), Monday, 5 December 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

"I'm coming back for you... and your cock"

Slightly disappointed with this episode too, tho better than the last one. Horribly, it appears Big Suze still fancies Jez.

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

"Promise me you won't try to sleep with her"
"OK - I'll try not to sleep with her"

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

I've lost all sympathy for either of the characters in this series, which takes a lot away from it for me unfortunately.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

I have too much sympathy for Mark, which also takes something away.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

Jeremy has become much less sympathetic.

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

funny at times but not enough to make it worth watching

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

how do you know?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

i am assuming that about a number of programmes tho granted e.g. Broken News (not seen it), current Simpsons (not seen them), oh and Faith And Hope on ABC.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

i'm think mark used to be the central character really, but it's maybe tilted way over in the other direction. mark's sex-ph34r is a bit much, so i identify more w. jeremy.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

maybe Little Britain too (xpost)

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

"Blessed" on BBC1..................... only joking!

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

I have seen peep show

saw an episode of little britain last week

disgustingly awful

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

i guess you do have to watch something before deciding it wasn't worth watching. but how many times?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

it is important to exercise some unwarranted prejudice or you'll be overloaded.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

otm

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

I must have seen at least 5.5 eps of peep show

maybe only about 1.75 eps of little britian but that's more than enough

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

avoid Broken News! I saw the end of it before a HIGNFY rerun last night, and within two minutes I was virtually screaming "Oh just fucking stop it!" at the screen. Unwatchably infuriating and unfunny.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

gaaah! i forgot to watch the e4 repeat last night! damn...

is it on again?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

was Broken News that 'thing' on bbc2 last night? Toss, basically.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

I agree with Dick and disagree with Martin. I think Broken News is often staggeringly good.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

it's the funniest British thing to have been on Channel 4 since...

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

haven't watched broken news properly but it seemed a little irritating

maybe you have to concentrate

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

so: see when big suze was telling mark about her sister? "and the only airline that understands is BA"? does anyone else think this is a preamble to her scamming mark for cash, or am i just a horrible and suspicious person?

i thought that last episode was fantastic. yes, it's far-fetched and silly, but wonderfully so.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

Big Suze would never do anything so mean!

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Mark's capitalist tirade on Friday's "ep" was too disturbing. And still it was unquestionably the funniest episode of the series, which is just frustrating.

― michaelleary, Sunday, 11 December 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

can't wait to watch this.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 11 December 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

"I don't want to wake up in a phone box with a Trucker's penis in my ear."

"...And a little pill with a chicken on it isn't going to solve your problems."

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Sunday, 11 December 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

I've only seen the first episode of the 3rd season, and I was not impressed.

I have the next two episodes downloaded so can someone reassure me it gets better.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Sunday, 11 December 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Three four and five are better then one and two.

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Sunday, 11 December 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Love it now.

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 11 December 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

nah

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 December 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

I 'heart' Big Suze!

www.pfd.co.uk/clients/winklems/a-act-image.html

― gubbins, Sunday, 11 December 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

'you could win this; you owe us that'

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 12 December 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

I still don't like it much. It is nasty and its important realism is too often undermined by its unrealistic storylines and events. Yet it is not without wit; I will not claim that it has nothing, no talent, no verve, for it surely does.

― the bellefox, Monday, 12 December 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Here is another unrealistic feature: the way the two main characters go from hating and baiting each other to asking each other for sympathetic advice within, not a day or a week, but the space of a 30-second conversation.

I don't much like its portrtait of friendship, if that's what it is, as a matter of bile and loathing.

― the bellefox, Monday, 12 December 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

It is hardly offering up an example of thoughtful, mutually beneficial friendship; and this lack is part of its point.

This series has been very good stuff, without really changing or expanding the format, characters or central direction; more of the same, which is to be taken gladly amidst the poverty of comedy elsewhere on British TV. But a bold new direction would have elevated it further.

I do partially agree with the Pinefox; whilst I have no problem with sordid, bleak moments, it does sometimes seem like they are grafting on the 'darkness' and melancholy to fall into line with fashion; it does not arrive innately from the world created in the show - despite indeed the destructive 'friendship'. It can't currently ever hope to reach tragic proportions - as "Fawlty Towers" certainly did, and "The Office" very possibly. While it is often very intricately funny, and the characters work very well (Johnson is indeed an ace card whenever used... "my Skinner and Baddiel...!"), it could do with going a bit further outside its established frame; throw in a jarring, painfully moving episode, give other characters the POV-perspective. But, it does work as a fine - and certainly up-to-date - comedy; if indeed not a timeless one, I suspect.

― Tom May (Tom May), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

Don't believe the hype, this series hasn't been as good as the first two, just not as funny - and, typically, this is the first series to be noticed by the wider world, oh well.

more to the point, what's happened to Jez's American wife?

She's currently getting tastefully naked and indulging in two-on-one sex with Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon in Atom "Dirty Bastard" Egoyan's latest film

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

WHY WON'T THAT STUPID BITCH LET ME PROPOSE TO HER?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 16 December 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

haha weed frisbee...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 16 December 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

"I angered a crow that was defending its young"

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 16 December 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

beat me to it

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 16 December 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

She's currently getting tastefully naked ....in Atom "Dirty Bastard" Egoyan's latest film

Now i'm even more pissed off that this vanished from theaters in the US!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 16 December 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

Last one was an improvement. But disappointed in this series, which can only mean one thing - it'll sweep the board at next year's British Comedy Awards. V. sad that Big Suze won't be on our screens on Fridays anymore :(

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 17 December 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

Liked last night's.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 17 December 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

I did too. It gave me a wide smile.

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 18 December 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

I love how Big Suze pronounces 'cuddle'.

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Sunday, 18 December 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Narnia film thread to thread

― Zora (Zora), Monday, 19 December 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

jez: "so.... .what the fuck?"

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 19 December 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

brilliant

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 19 December 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

i was happy for jez and big suze. but it was a sad episode, overall.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

maybe he will accidentally kill sophie with the poison you get from licking cheap wedding invite envelopes

NOT REALLY OF COURSE. what a smashing ep.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

"you da man"

"i'm a man!"

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

It is really depressing.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 January 2006 05:52 (twenty years ago)

but funny?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 9 January 2006 08:00 (twenty years ago)

http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/films/16890

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 12:02 (twenty years ago)

They are filming a new series of this this month.

how do i know?

i got tickets.

― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 12:14 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

dom passantion says thyis has been cancelled -- i dunno if a show like this gets 'cancelled' exactly, i suppose it would depend if there was a contract for more than 3 series, but i wonder why. i suppose jimmy carr's people will be licking their lips at the prospect of another slot to colonize.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:35 (twenty years ago)

That's strange considering the last (and weakest) series got far more publicity and plaudits than the first two

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:43 (twenty years ago)

1 > 3 > 2

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:46 (twenty years ago)

2 > 1 > 3

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:50 (twenty years ago)

i think '2' had two of the strongest eps (the first of the series and the university one) but too much mark 'n' sophie 'n' jeff.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:50 (twenty years ago)

... I get 1 and 2 mixed up

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:51 (twenty years ago)

2 had the american girl, and although she's fit, i think big suze is funnier.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Big Suze was a highpoint

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:57 (twenty years ago)

2 had Mark befriending the racist? And Jez and Superhans recording the music for Jez's old schoolfriend - with the racist on clarinet?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:58 (twenty years ago)

fucking catherine tate and peep show be runnin tings.

No prizes for Peep Show? You're having a laugh

Last week's British Comedy Awards brought little cheer for Channel 4. But the underrated sitcom and the return of an old hit have kept a smile on the face of the network's comedy boss

Stephen Armstrong
Monday December 19, 2005
The Guardian

Although awards ceremonies are usually fairly shambolic, there was a curious moment at last week's British Comedy Awards when slick, sardonic Ricky Gervais briefly lost it. Handing out the gong for best light entertainment programme, he took a break from exchanging banter with Jonathan Ross to berate the British public and the assembled industry for failing to vote for Peep Show. "It's the best show on television today," he exclaimed, adding that it was a "debacle" that the show did not grab a gong.
Sitting at the Channel 4 table, the station's head of comedy Caroline Leddy permitted herself a quiet smile. Earlier that week she had talked in her office about the show's improving ratings: "Peep Show is just building now. Finally. Bastards. I can't come up with a theory as to why the most beautifully written sitcom in history isn't being watched by the entire nation." And yet it was almost the only cheer on an otherwise slim night for C4. There is no doubt that the BBC has had the run of things in comedy over the past few years - Little Britain and Catherine Tate were the breakthrough shows of 2005 and, while hopes are high for next month's My Name Is Earl, C4 has yet to find a replacement for its imported schedule stalwart Friends.

Waving chequebooks

At the same time Five and ITV are entering the fray, waving chequebooks and desperate to spot the kind of talent that would have been a shoo-in for Leddy just 10 years ago. David Walliams from Little Britain, for instance, first appeared on telly on C4 as part of Annie Griffin's debut Coming Soon, alongside Julia Davis and Paul Kaye. Ex-C4 regular Harry Hill is the centre of ITV's comedy line up and even Ricky Gervais first stumbled on to our screens as part of its late-90s topical sketch offering The 11 O'clock Show. Every channel has decided it needs comedy, and most of them are encroaching on C4's turf.

Leddy is aware of the pressure - "Everybody now has a card with 'I'm a great big comedy producer with shitloads of money - why don't you come to me?'," she says. "At some point, however, I think you have to sit back, not panic, maintain the very good relationships you've got with top talent, not lose sight of the old as well as the new, and have great people working around you."

That she has the talent is clear - Peter Kay, Chris Morris, Graham Linehan and Annie Griffin all put their shows through the channel, and The 11 O'clock Show is still providing the likes of Jimmy Carr and the writers of Spoons. The question is, in a fast- moving television environment, shouldn't the channel be grabbing younger stars earlier and tying them into longer term, US-style output deals?

No, says Leddy. "We don't do exclusivity deals and long-term options because you spend the rest of the year going through all the clauses working out how they can do a Radio 4 series," she says. "You just have to show that you have open arms and are ready for whatever else they want to do with us next."

Will that not have to change in an increasingly competitive future? The comedy industry is not renowned for its loyalty. She remains noncommittal. "It's an ever-changing story. Things will be drastically different in 10 years' time - in two years' time even. As a principle, backing the talent, being loyal through thick and thin and busting a gut to make the product good, is still the best we can do and it's fundamentally what my job is. If you pounce on somebody and give them too much editorial responsibility too early, it can sink them, but you'd hope that with sensible piloting that doesn't happen too often."

Coming up in 2006 are a second series of Green Wing, a new Graham Linehan project, The IT Crowd, a couple of sketch shows for E4, which will find their way on to the main channel, and a new show from the Garth Marenghi team. "Let's get three million people to adore you rather than every 17-year-old in a black T-shirt," is the way she sells working for C4 to comedy talent.

There are 12 further projects in development and a similar number at script stage. She is also revisiting the C4's first comedy triumph, The Comic Strip Presents ... with a Christmas special reuniting the cast and adding the likes of Rebecca Front and Doon Mackichan. "Peter Richardson called me up and said 'what do you reckon?' and I thought - 'I can't really think of a good reason not to do this because it'll be wonderful'."

She chooses these shows, she says, because she has a natural inclination towards authored pieces, but admits that it carries with it a certain risk. "I think - I'm loath to say it but I always end up saying it and then regretting it - I think bad comedy is a lot harder to watch than bad drama or bad factual. If somebody purports to be funny and you think they're absolutely not, the very least you can do is turn it off, and the worst you can do is never come near that channel again. Poor me, eh?"

Her faith in authored work means she intends to stick firmly with Chris Morris and has no regrets about commissioning Nathan Barley - a show that excited more column inches than almost any other in 2005, but that saw ratings tail off significantly. "I think Nathan Barley is an exquisite piece of work," she says, and you can feel she would like to be banging the table at this point. "I think the craftsmanship and mastery that's gone into that may have been slightly under-appreciated but I'm incredibly pleased that we did it."

This sort of loyalty marks out her career. Born and raised in Sheffield, she studied law at Bristol where Morris was a fellow student, then did a postgrad in legal history at Cambridge where she got the comedy bug. She failed an audition for Footlights so co-founded a radical women's theatre troupe called The Millies - "we thought we were dead hard and we so weren't. But we were quite funny."

Industry buddy

After the group fell apart she tried her hand at acting in late-80s kids' telly, such as The Satellite Show, which was produced by Victoria Pile - who later went on to create Smack The Pony and Green Wing for Leddy at C4. A BBC traineeship got her into radio, and from there she went to Talkback to work on Brass Eye with Morris, before arriving at C4 as commissioning editor, entertainment in 1997.

Since then she has stuck by Pile and Morris. Pile praises Leddy's involvement: "She will sit in on workshops and rehearsals whenever she can, and provides regular and valid feedback in the cutting room. Unusually she has true understanding of the real issues that challenge a production such as Green Wing - cast availability, scheduling logistics, unconventional writing methods - and goes out of her way to smooth the path. I tend to get a bit bleak during tricky phases of a show, frequently losing confidence in my goals. Caroline is a tremendous 'morale fluffer'."

Pile is a rare industry buddy for a woman who shies away from the likes of the Perrier panel: "I am slightly reluctant to engage in the fray that is the comedy world," she says. "I'd like to think I keep a rather grown-up distance from that. I hope, as a result, I don't miss out on opportunities, but it's a battle. You have your instinct and your judgment and that's all you've got." And then the Sheffield girl in her speaks out: "So yes, it's hard, but it's not like working down a bloody coal mine, is it?"

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:02 (twenty years ago)

is series 2 out on DVD?

― something less threatening (heywood), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:36 (twenty years ago)

naturally it was the cor anglais, Dadaismus.

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 22:41 (twenty years ago)

yes xpost

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Thursday, 2 February 2006 12:21 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Let's do our bit to at least get a special out of 4.

http://www.petitiononline.com/peepshow/petition.html

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Thursday, 16 February 2006 13:41 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

guy next to me on the bus yesterday was playing enya's 'sail away' v loud on his ipod -- unavoidable associations.

― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

David Mitchell (Mark) was excellent on HIGNFY the other night.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

is there going to be another series

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

no.

― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

ooh, bigger than 'little britain', likely.

"Mitchell, 32, first met Webb, 33, when they were at Cambridge University, studying History and English, respectively. Mitchell, whose parents lived in Oxford, didn't find his new surroundings particularly remarkable."

this has taken my unfortunate identification up a notch.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Friday, 25 August 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

We applied for tickets to watch the new thing being recorded, but alas it was not to be. We get to go to a new comedy set in a library instead oh my sides.

So is series 3 (of Peep Show) still due out on DVD in October? Barely an month woo!

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 25 August 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

oh the library one stas somebody ok, can't quite remember who though.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Friday, 25 August 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

That Mitchell and Webb Look is less severe, like A Bit of Fry and Laurie minus the traces of public-school smugness

Boo to dig at "A Bit of" Fry and Laurie

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Friday, 25 August 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

another for the 'mis-projection of smugness' dossier.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

Can't wait for the S3 DVD either. Peep Show is the funniest British sitcom in a while (I can't believe I forgot it when doing a run-down of my favourites a while ago), the rightful heir to Father Ted's golden age and second to Arrested Development overall as best contemporary. Don't get me started on Little Britain, though. Good luck America, the problem's yours now! :-D

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

Rebecca Front and Morwenna Banks are in the library thing (ominously called 'Shush' but I'll reserve judgement...)

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

But I swear to god if either of their characters wear a cardigan I will turn in my masters degree right then and there.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

yeah lol @ guardian writer hating on public school types.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

people get paid for doing that? i've been at it for years and never seen a penny for it :(

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

Public school 'types'? Do you realise that if I were to hate on 'state school types' then I'd be hung, drawn and quartered (or at least shoved off ILX)? There's no common public school 'type' any more than in other demographics. If there's one thing I dislike it's crass generalisations, and everyone who makes them is a dick.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

what are you moaning about? it's you who gets easier entrance to oxbridge so you can be underemployed after leaving having bought yr masters and spend yr time ranting about rockists on the internet

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

louis m'dear, this isn't the thread for it.

but which school did you go to?

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Trying to make me feel sorry for people who went to public school isn't going to work any more than convincing me that hating on public school types is equivalent to hating on state school types

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

That last bit was A JOAK GUYZZZ, erm, I went to Westminster on a scholarship (i.e. we're not very rich and I basically needed reduced fees to get in) and enjoyed it greatly. :-) I wasn't really moaning.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

*closes eyes, waits for revolutionary axe to fall*

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cdquest.com/images/album_art/sorted/0731/4566/0731456697727.jpg

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

chiz chiz

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Whenever I see the Young Knives I think of Mitchell.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Full article now up.

'Daytime television is great because being annoyed is really helpful for writing a sketch,' says Mitchell. 'You don't have to watch much daytime television to get annoyed, mainly with yourself for watching it.'

Webb agrees. 'And the adverts in between daytime television! You know, the debt relief thing: "Being fucked by a hundred tiny cocks? Join us and get fucked by one big cock!"'

Also, there is going to be a fourth series!

― g00blar (gooblar), Sunday, 27 August 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Peep Show is the funniest British sitcom in a while

absolutely. i just started watching this six months ago and it's probably the funniest thing i've seen in years. now if bbc america will just parcel us out the third series by the end of 2007 thanks.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 27 August 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

It's certainly the most liberally quotable sitcom I've seen in recent years. The scripting is phenomenal.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 27 August 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

It really is. They toss away gags that would be the centrepiece of a whole scene in a lesser programme.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Sunday, 27 August 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

'You basically can't exist in London for less than a tenner a day. I thought, "Where the fuck am I going to get a tenner every fucking day?"'

SO TRUE

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

I met someone in real life who I can't believe is not a fictional shard from Peep Show, cast fugitive into our world. She's lived in "Stokie" "since twenty oh three" and "loves it, man," has a long-term girlfriend (who has a long-term boyfriend), is born-again, and also speaks very positively about yogic meditation. She says doctors are shit, the NHS is full of wankers, and we'd be better off giving money to the police to stop another terrorist attack.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

that last bit is rather un-stokey!

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

Not really, most hippies are closet fascists

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

she's born again! she's a lesbian! she has a girlfriend who has a boyfriend! she's just CONFUSED in this fucked up world we live in man, what can you do, just keep on going mate you know?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

(the police comments really NAILED it for me, actually)

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

To be fair, there ARE some shit doctors in this city.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

My GP for one

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

London's entire polyamourous population needs to be shot.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

With a core audience of more than a million viewers and brisk DVD sales, a fourth series is scheduled to start shooting in January.

Hooray. The wife and I have been forcing Peep Show on friends for a year now in an attempt to "grow" the US audience. The first season's a thing of beauty.

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/gig-23352449-details/Brand+New+Heavies+Feat+N%27Dea+Davenport/gigReview.do?reviewId=23366765

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Thursday, 14 September 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

Mitchell and Webb sketch show thingie on BBC2 now. It is, let's be honest, not Peep Show.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

it's not even a Man Stroke Woman. mind you that didn't have the laugh track.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar!

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

God that was awful. I quite liked the radio programme but they really didn't manage to transfer it to television very well.

― theantmustdance (theantmustdance), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yipes. Extras wasn't much good either.

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Really? Jesus, the banana dance nearly made me sick laughing. I really enjoyed the whole thing, in fact. You guys are a tough room.

Extras was okay, but really, selling out your artistic sensibilities in order to become a big star isn't really a life-situation I have much empathy with.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

I thought Extras was superb and M&W was a bit rubbish.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

I actually got confused right at the start (following straight on from Extras) and thought the German uniforms sketch was a paradoy of a bad sketch show.

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Numberwang was basically Quizzlestick without the gags, right?

The blackface reveal was pretty funny.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

You're all mad, funniest thing on tv since Blair at TUC conference. BMX Bandit boy having second thoughts, the irate waiter and his crab ladle, dancing banana all lol, albeit aided by a bottle of wine.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, yeah, I'm being cruel to it. Crab ladle, "June Whitfield" and the Albanian mail order bride, and the "Who'll watch that?" "Freaks". It actually is the best UK sketch show since Fast Show, which is kinda scary really.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar, people!

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

no, it was crap

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

no, it was great. "june whitfield" made me laugh myself stupid. HOWEVER, i'm reserving judgement until i've seen a couple more episodes and worked out whether it'll build upon and advance the characters and situations with different jokes each week, like wot sketch comedy used to do, or just repeat the same sodding thing every single fucking week, like wot it all seems to do now :(

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

no, it was crap

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

It actually is the best UK sketch show since Fast Show, which is kinda scary really.

Since Big Train. Snobby waiter good, black face reveal good, "June Whitfield" good, Numberwang good, Sir Digby Chicken Caesar ok, the rest meh.

Couldn't sit through all of Extras. Gervais' smugness now reaching stratospheric levels.

― Venga (Venga), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Since Big Train

As long as we pretend the second series of BT didn't exist, I stand corrected.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't watch it, but I trust the real DG

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

People always think they can resuscitate an old format. Baddiel, Herring and others have tried it with conventional sitcoms. Mitchell & Webb are trying it with conventional sketch show. In reality this is certainly no worse than Little Britain but it's not much funnier either. I just don't get why they think after bringing something relatively novel and refreshing to the TV table in Peep Show they have to regress like this.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Boring. Oxbridge revue does the Bobby Davro Sketch Pad. Not one laugh. Not one.

― DavidM* (unreal), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

they didn't/don't actually write "peep show", though, do they?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

The sketch show is just an incredibly shit format, isn't it? I can count on one hand the number of programmes that have done it well.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Sketch shows always age a lot quicker than any other format as well. Mary Whitehouse Experience looked old and dated by around 97/98, the Fast Show never gets repeated because it'd get showed up, blah blah Goodies not on TV for 30 years blah blah...

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

my will to defend the BBC from marauding thatcheroids grows weaker everytime i turn the telly on, if someone wants to try and convince me that market forces will diminish my chances of tuning in to BBC2 to see my license fee being pissed away on rubbish attempts to get funny people from channel4 to be funny on teh beeb they can have my soul on a silver platter

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, you're doing a Carmody gimmick, right.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

oh, you're being a prick, right

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

To be fair, Dom can't get past the word 'Thatcher' in a sentence without the big flashing CARMODY sign in his head lighting up. It's a serious affliction.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Marauding thatcheroids? Perhaps a doctor can perscribe a cream.

(do you think if I sent that to M&W they'd use it?)

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

i LOVED that...

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar!!!!!

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

It was very poor.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you, Stevie!

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

best ever sketch show (by enormous margin): Monkey Dust

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

monkey dust was good for the first episode, but every episode was like a xerox of the first (loved the animal hunter tho)

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

The creators of Monkey Dust and Monkey Trousers are now working together on a new show. They're struggling to come up with a name for it though.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

Konal,that had better be a joke. And in fact it is, because Harry Thompson, the co-creator of MD, died last year. :(

And the first episode was one of the weaker ones. And the third series was the best. And the whole thing, although hit-and-miss, when it hit, stayed hit.

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

We sit here amongst the plant-pots of acceptance. I love you guys up to the point where y'all defend sub-Footlights stupidity on account of it's broadcast across the Pubic Service Chanels. But in all honesty: stop defending Shite, peeples. Comedy is a long way past funny now, and the Commissioning Editors on 2 et 4 are the major causeway.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

Louis I think you're a good bloke but Harry Thompson makes the dogshit on the soul of a heirophant look tasty.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

:( what did he do wrong? Was HIGNFY such a crime?

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

He cutesified/commodified weak satire of monolithic forces of evil?

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

Is there really some sort of comedy crisis in the UK? Or is it merely a case of quantity exceeding quality (probably more comedy shows made in the 00s than any previous decade because of the increase of channels). The last six years have seen some shows emerge that are just as good as anything that has come before, and it's always been the case that some of the most popular comedy shows on TV are not to the taste of...whatever kind of people we are (cynical elitist nerds?).

ITV's comedy output has been considered poor for some time. How many sketch shows have they produced this decade - is it just the two in The Sketch Show and Monkey Trousers (both actually quite watchable if not riotously funny)? C4 gave up on it long ago unless I'm forgetting something and Sky, Paramount and so on have not really gone for it although they have made their own comedy shows in recent years (tho with no real success - Time Gentlemen Please probably being Sky's most successful sitcom, but often so crude and poor) Anyone seen the one on Paramount that's set in a brothel? This leaves BBC and their reliable radio foundation with no real competition. Consequently the complacency seems to have reached new heights (lows?).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

"Not Riotously Funny" = The Enemy = "I'll watch any old shoit if it makes monkey noises at the government of the day without suggesting that the society we live in that produces pleasant ickle lite-satire shows is twisted to the extent that it and every member of it needs to die in horrendous pain right now."

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

Konal, when compared to Arrested Development, most contemporary British comedy seems cringeworthy (Peep Show, I'll grant, an honourable and brilliant exception). Man, I cannot get over quite how truly the Yanks nailed that one.

xxpost: NV, what weak satire? And what forces of evil? Are you talking about the stronger-than-any-other-satire-I've-seen-on-TV-except-perhaps-Brass-Eye Monkey Dust here?

actually, on that last point, NV is utterly OTM. Just OK is not good enough, not good enough at all. although I feel a Little Britain rant coming on, so I'll zip it before it all comes gushing out.

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

Are you saying if it doesn't make you laugh until you're sick then it's rubbish? (xpost)

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

C4 gave up on it long ago unless I'm forgetting something

smack the pony! not too recent but i watch the recent reruns and thought they were still mostly very good.

ITV has always sucked at comedy. BBC has always sucked at drama.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

Any old stupid shit that makes you laugh is great. The genre of "OHHH WE SO CUTTING EDGE CRAZY WATCH US LAFF IN THE FACE OF BOORJWARRR CONVENTION LOVE US OR LEAVE US COCKSUCKER" is what needs to die, bloodily, alongside its fans.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

ITV suck at everything really. The only drama I've liked on the channel ever is Cracker, I think.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

And yeah, Monkey Dust is fucking shit.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

ITV suck at everything really

OTM, although probably not the most original thought you've had all day. ;-)

NV, I will grow out of Monkey Dust, of that I am sure, but plz let me be an impressionable teenager for now? pleeeease? i mean, it is sometimes shit, but I adore the bits that work so much that I'm prepared to forgive it virtually anything.

― Really Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

ITV has always sucked at comedy.

Rising Damp! And, um, French Fields?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, it is sometimes shit, but I adore the bits that work so much that I'm prepared to forgive it virtually anything.

I liked that bit where someone said something shocking and subversive and dark and then there was a pause. That bit was great.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

*sigh* You win.

The animation's pretty awesome though. Guys?

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

LJ (lol you = live journal) I'm not cliticizing you, your age or that cartoon. I'm shouting cos I'm drunk. And cos I want perfection to exist tho I know that project is self-defeating. And I know MD might be funny in the right context, which is to say funny on account of how we all wallow in our different cuntexts. which is to say funny, full stop. Sometime it make me laugh. Sometime it the unwatched bumper-sticker of sump'n I want to whine about. Either way I'm wrong in a sea of noisy wrong.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

Coronation Street is the best drama and the best comedy on TV.

one of the sketches in monkey dust where Bob Mortimer played an estate agent showing people round properties made me laugh more than anything else i've seen on tv.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/results?search_query=mind+your+language&search=Search

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

Sometime it make me laugh. Sometime it the unwatched bumper-sticker of sump'n I want to whine about. Either way I'm wrong in a sea of noisy wrong

:-D That sounds like one of Chris Morris' Blue Jam intros...

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

I've never found Rising Damp to be that great.

Rumour has it big changes are under way at ITV although I doubt these will involve increased comedy output, let alone anything of the more leftfield variety.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

ok that wasn't monkey dust - what was the thing with vic and bob on it plus old timey comedians?

xxxp

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

Monkey Trousers, Jed.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

are those comments for the Mind Your Language clips on youtube sincere?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

Mortimer's Steve Irwin pisstake in MT was funny.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

I is too busy listening to the Cocktail Twins to listen to hilarious UHUtubes.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

It's nearly the right time of year for them, I guess.

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

Mind Your Language fun fact:

The Swedish girl was played by the daughter of Ingmar Bergman

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

Is that why they all killed themselves in that one episode?

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

It was when the stern headmistress got raped by a goatherd that his influence really became obvious.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

Except for Farhan Mahboob, who nobbed her against her will in a comedy Pakistani voice?

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

"Why is it you is not appreciating my non-consensual intercourse yes please?"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

If you ever see Vince Twuntfocker or whatever the writer's name is (also wrote Love Thy Neighbour, racism fans) being interviewed on a We Love the Past show, his explanation of how he wasn't a racist cunt but was in fact an equal opps visionary is fucking hilarious.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

Vince Foster, yeah. You see, the black guys gave as good as they got. I think if you asked the average black person what three things have most helped them in their life, the top three answers would be Dr King, Jessica Hopper, and Love Thy Neighbour.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

Vince Powell, actually. Vince Foster is something to do with America.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

T/S: Vince Powell vs. Enoch Powell

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

Well, nobody walks around wearing "VINCE WAS RIGHT" badges, do they?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Vince Powell.

Anyway I think we can all agree that an extended excruciating death would be too good for the cunt.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

if it wasn't for the plots and shit family guy would be a sketch show. that's a funny cartoon. popular with young people.
if it wasn't for the plots and shit the mighty boosh would be a sketch show. that's a television program. popular with young people.
you guys all like richard ayoade right?

― acrobat (elwisty), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

this was great you mentalists!

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 07:21 (nineteen years ago)

jerry hated it but i'm pretty sure he bigged up 'the mighty boosh'...

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 07:30 (nineteen years ago)

Louis I think you're a good bloke but Harry Thompson makes the dogshit on the soul of a heirophant look tasty.

his autobiography of peter cook is brilliant

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Friday, 15 September 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

ITV has always sucked at comedy.

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/itvyorkshire/progs/selwynfroggitt.jpg

― Oh No It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 15 September 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

his autobiography of peter cook is brilliant

LOL!

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 15 September 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

I have a seventies porn mag w/the daughter of Ingmar Bergman in. I never knew she was in Mind Your Language.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 15 September 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

i loved monkey dust when i first saw it, but fucking hell: it was the prime offender - more so than little britain! - in just repeating the same fucking joke sketch in, sketch out. some of the ideas there were brilliant - the gambling father was genius - but you did end up watching it and knowing EXACTLY what was going to happen.

and so up to a point i agree with noodle vague: if "satire" has become a process whereby smug graduates with digital telly sit and smirk because they know that in 30 seconds they'll watch amusingly drawn middle-class dinner-party guests being dismembered horribly, something has gone badly wrong. it's the same reason HIGNFY should have been taken off the air years ago: once comedy becomes part of the establishment it seeks to attack, it's no longer satire. this is a no-brainer, but seems lost on most producers.

as for sketch shows: while recognition/anticipation of the shared joke has always been a big part of such comedy - why else would comedians create characters? - we seem to have reached some kind of reductio ad absurdum where the very appearance of the character is, er, the joke itself. this is probably the fault of "the fast show"; or, rather, the fault of knob-end writers who watched it and didn't quite work out that its genius lay in the depth of the characters and the tiny observations therein, not just in the fact it repeated "ooh, suits you" a lot.

looking at next week's TV listings in h**t magazine, i see mitchell and webb are promising "a night at the pub with captain pugwash, two highly competitive actors playing holmes and watson, and a call-centre worker who has telekinetic powers ... over biscuits". so: three new characters/setups in the second week! my god, this is like a return to the golden age of fucking comedy. whenever that was.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 15 September 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I read an interview somewhere where they said they're not going to do too many (or any?) recurring sketches. Good thing.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 15 September 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

i hope the bring back the homeless guys though.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

I would be surprised if they don't have any recurring sketches given that three or four in the first programme were lifted directly from recurring sketches on That Mitchell and Webb Sound.

My favourite recurring radio sketches are the snooker guys and Big Talk, and neither of these were as good in visual versions, I thought. But the things they couldn't have done on radio were pretty good ie. the banana dance, How What Not to Look Like (actually come to think of it they COULD have done the latter on radio but the blacking up gag wouldn't have worked as well obviously).

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 15 September 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

yeah the snooker thing fell flat on tv.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

The joke just doesn't work anyway, are they saying snooker commentators are all boozers? I didn't see the point of it.

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but the thing is, even in those sketches that don't really have a 'point', (like the snooker commentators), I just think watching Mitchell and Webb is funny. This is probably why I'm pretty forgiving--I'm very fond of them as performers and sort of think they're intrinsically funny.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

I agree, I like them but they are supposed to be making us laugh here

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

the whole show was like the BBC had just discovered this hot new thing they call "alternative comedy", welcome to 1979

in teh snooker sketch that webb fellow looked an awful lot like the non-bald prick from little britain

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

big talk was a parody of a chris morris parody of something else though, right?

antyway. i liked the show, certainly enough to watch it again. and i loved the james bond-baiting guys!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

the whole show was like the BBC had just discovered this hot new thing they call "alternative comedy"

no it wasn't.

it was a sketch show. it didn't set out to change comedy forever. it never claimed to be new in that way. in the same way most television programmes don't involve a total revolution of the medium. it set out to entertain, and it did so.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

in addition to my 'autobiography' snafu up there, i actually meant monkey trousers when i was talking about monkey dust.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

it didn't set out to change comedy forever.

that's not what i meant

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

Too slow, all characters done better by others previously, smug.

The best TV sketch show this year has been Modern Toss and even that was uneven.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

and just hammered the same (admittedly very funny) jokes again and again.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

all characters done better by others previously

eg?

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

in teh snooker sketch that webb fellow looked an awful lot like the non-bald prick from little britain

Ha! I was just gonna ask if anyone noticed that Mitchell, when dressed in certain costumes (like in the snooker sketch), looked strangely like the bald guy from little britain.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

i thought the 'how not what to wear' rug-pull was good -- shaping up to be a soft-target 'lol reality tv failure' thing, then it's a bit 'wtf serious misjudgment', and then, and then...

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

...it wasn't funny

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

well, ok. i laughed.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

I thought they would do more of that thing where they're just being themselves, like when Morecambe and Wise did the bits at their "flat", and Fry and Laurie used to a similar thing too, I think... but not like French and Saunders of course! (Bleccccccccchhhhh)

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Modern Toss was just 'lol swearing' for the most part wasn't it?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

the bits i saw were shit.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

Did Joel Veitch have a whole series to himself on C4 a while back or not? When in doubt, reach for the deranged kittens in flatcaps.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

Rather Good TV? Didn't watch it myself...

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

It's all been downhill since Beggar My Neighbour.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't Channel 4 sign Veitch to some long term deal and then found out that they had absolutely no outlet for his, ahem, "talents"? Hence crazy singing cats appearing on every late night comedy show for about three years?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

My ranting last night was glorious like the Charge of the Light Brigade.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if it's Veitch behind the terrific new video for Sparks 'Dick Around'. Doesn't look quite his style but similar/influenced by.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

> My favourite recurring radio sketches are the snooker guys

this was the only bit i've seen of this so far (was busy watching Low Winter Sun or whatever it was called) anyway, it reminded me of Dick & Ken the snooker men, something radcliffe used to do his radio shows.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

Couldn't be bothered with Low Winter Sun, since it looked like a ripoff of what I do much better in Rebus...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

I found it odd that the snooker sketch took a booze theme when on the radio it isn't like that at all, there's a whole story arc involving being gay and stuff which is much better.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

I still think Monkey Dust was rather harshly dicked upon. Sure the conclusions to most sketches were inevitable, but with MD it's all about the getting there, not the end result. As a bleak, despairing portrait of British society and its wrongs it had to be this way, with clever narrative tricks traded in for stark, terrifyingly real images and a sense of complete narrative logic that bashes its message into your skull with the same urgency of a man in a nightgown running bell in hand down Charing Cross Road with tales of apocalypse on his tongue. You know exactly what's going to happen, yet in the case of satire often this knowledge is empowering, and adds to your enjoyment of the cruel, ritualistic procedure.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

a bleak, despairing portrait of British society and its wrongs

Oh how we laughed!

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

Some of Monkey Dust really got to me; it actually made me cry in places. The knowledge that it was partly written by a dying man makes it all the more poignant, but not in a sentimental way.

About the Mitchell and Webb prog...ah well, never mind...it'll be comedy heaven tonight, with the third edition of the Charlotte Church Show!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

I think one of the points I was drunkenly thrashing after was that MD strikes me as part of the landscape of shite it's trying to satirize. I don't get a sense of moral indignation, just "lol modern life". And not many lols, neither.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

the suicide bomber gags were spot on, not that they'll ever be repeated now

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Monkey Dust really was depressing unpleasant pap for the most part. Where was the heart/humanity? I didn't see much actual satire in it either. I did like the 'it's actually an old lady making those dial-up modem sounds' and 'quiz shoq host talks like that to his wife as well' things tho.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

About the Mitchell and Webb prog...ah well, never mind...

"Oh dear. How sad. Never mind."

http://www.stuart.cann.freeuk.com/images/windsor_davies.jpg

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I miss It Ain't Half Racist Mum.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

why is cruelty enjoyable? (obv. i enjoy cruelty in other shows, to an extent - never more than in mid 90s Simpsons episodes) but the way it was handled in MD left me colder than cold (ice cold).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

yeah they should have done gags about james bond instead

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

Are you 'avin' a laff?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

You 'avin' a laff?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

he's 'avin' a laaaaaaaaaaaaf!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/imagedump/4897.jpg

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/imagedump/4897.jpg

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

so, is this thread broken or something?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

no. louis, WTF are you on about?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

x-post to DG: "LAAAAANDAAAAN!"

― grimly fiendish, pp louis (qv "is the 9/11 conspiracy thread broken?" for explan, Friday, 15 September 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

ESSSSSSSEXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN-DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

― grimly fiendish (doing it for himself this time) (grimlord), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

ESSSSSSSEXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

LLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNN!

(hey, I can post now!)

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

ok, MD defence:

Of course MD had heart and humanity! The moment when Geoff finally finds his perfect partner and they agree to 'have a cuddle' rather than wastefully cottage away in the park! The bit when Divorced Dad decides not to kill himself but have a kickabout with Timmy (having just found out that he isn't his real father)! THE END OF SERIES ONE when Dobsky escapes, in the most perfect meshing of tv and song (Pulp's Sunrise) I have ever seen! Those are just the ones I can remember; throughout there's marked a contrast between little idylls such as these and the cruel realities some would choose to partake of.

Actually, the best example would be the suicide bombers and their innocent, sweet home-life with their charmingly down-to-earth mother, contrasted with their terrorist campaign. The rich one who eggs them on...in one crossfade, even he is seen enjoying life with them, larking about on a seesaw and putting suicide missions behind him for once. MD is saying 'it doesn't have to be this way', and THAT is what completes its brilliance, for me.

And there was a James Bond sketch, in series 3 (I think), so there.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

yeah the snooker thing fell flat on tv.

Well, except for the excellent drinking game they introduced.

I used to like Monkey Dust, but that doesn't mean I want everything on telly to be like that.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

nor me. although sometimes I wish everything on TV was like Arrested Development.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

what, american?

(nb: i never watched AD. all i know is that it was, er, american.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, American, pulled from Fox prematurely owing to dismal ratings, hence minor outcry amongst those who'd actually seen it, series 2 has over 100 user reviews on Metacritic, all but 2 of which give it 10 (the other 2 give it 9), and quite simply the funniest, cleverest, sweetest, truest, greatest sitcom I think I've ever seen.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

This 'Star Stories' (written by bain and armstrong) is fucking awful.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Except for Super Hans as Venables.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

o. i thought it was funny as fuck. hey ho. didn't realise it was by the peep show dudes either.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

i keep missing all these new tv programmes. i've clearly lost my faith in the idiot-box :(

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

wait till you're old and can't be arsed going out. then you'll watch a lot more telly.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry to hear this wasn't any good - I think I caught the last 17 minutes on tape but my new video doesn't allow me to see which channel I'm taping (family were watching something on More4 or something).

I was hoping for a Fry & Laurie for the mid-to-late '00s.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 16 September 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

'm sorry to hear this wasn't any good

quite a lot of us liked it, you know.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 16 September 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I'm sorry to hear (from certain people who I know in real life and whose comments my eye is inevitably drawn towards) that it isn't any good. Point taken, it's hardly unanimous.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 16 September 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

it's not great, though. i mean, i wouldn't want to get your hopes up :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 16 September 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

so. episode two? i'm beginning to really, really like this. a lot. the sherlock holmes thing, the daytime TV and the heroin in particular.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't see all of last night but Sherlock Holmes excepted it didn't seem as memorable as the first one. However even when it runs a bit flat it coasts through thanks to the charm of the two leads, unlike other sketch shows where the performers come across as arrogant, smug arseholes.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

okay the snooker thing is SHIT cos these guys, for all their talent, cannot do accents. plus they rely on their 'peep show' personas (OK these are probably drawn from life a little) bit too much, feels somewhat like an odds-and-sods thing.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:27 (nineteen years ago)

enjoyed this. can't remember any of it now i come to sit down and write this (um, bad sign) but remember enjoying it at the time. was hoping for more funny nazis but hey... ah, yes, heroin for christmas.

> but my new video doesn't allow me to see which channel I'm taping

what fresh hell is this?

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

the homeless guy wd be funnier recurring character than snookermen.

numberwang feel somehow familiar but i roffed anyway.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

Heroin for Christmas was great. And Watergategate. I quite like the bits where they are being 'themselves' - a bit Mighty Boosh-esque. But the snooker guys have really suffered in the transition from radio, going on these first two eps.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

Saw the first ep in the BBC3 repeat and caught the 2nd "as live" last night, in a genuine "let's sit down and watch the telly with Sainsbury's-branded fake Cornetto(e)s" moment.

I think it's really rather good. For a couple of clever fellas they do the physical comedy thing very well (banana dance, Holmes-Watson violence). And, yes, the "and this is us" moments are the best.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

holmes/watson was a great conceit and one i don't think has been done before.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

There was something a bit Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town about it.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't get any further than the first imaginary number in Numberwang before I started crying with laughter. I didn't think there was anything else quite as good as Angel Summoner and the BMX Bandit, but I do still love this programme. I just like this style of terribly British "look, I'm sorry, but if you want me to murder him, can't you please just say that?" comedy.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 23 September 2006 07:42 (nineteen years ago)

Its a grower, not a shower.

― Pete (Pete), Saturday, 23 September 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

watched it again this morning. i had forgotten the biscuit telekenesis and pugwash in the pub.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Saturday, 23 September 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

This is getting better.

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

Agreed.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Consistently hit and miss, anyway. Wonderful lines like "if there's one thing we've learned from the last thousand miles of retreat, it's that the Russian agricultural system is in dire need of mechanisation" is what they should be concentrating on rather than pratfalls and the Holmes/Watson rubbish.

The Scooby Doo sketch tonight was perhaps an illustration of why I warm to them - an obvious and too-oft repeated reference point for jokes is a bad starting point, yet they managed to make it very funny with great lines and force of personality.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

ally C! good to see you round these parts again. shame you're WRONG about the holmes/watson thing :)

i posted on the extras thread about this tonight ... the "fish and cushion" sketch was one of the most inspired pieces of extended surrealism i've seen since the glory days of, er, that paul merton sketch show that nobody else watched. (except mrs fiendish.) and yes, the scooby-doo thing was a triumph of personality: it was obvious from the off where the sketch would go, but it got there in such a fantastic way ...

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

I laughed most of the time tonight - in particular, the Chip & Pin nonsense reduced me to teary-eyed roffles, and the too-brief Sir Digby stuff was very welcome. Thought that even the snooker commentators were much funnier.

Blast you grimly, you got in there just before me with the Fish & Cushion...New Messages Alert indeed...

― Bill A (Bill A), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot about Fish & Cushion! Very good.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

I missed the start tonight, so I'll have to see Fish & Cushion some other time. I like the bit's when they're being 'themselves', effortlessly funny. I wonder if they share a bed, with Webb smoking a pipe.

Shame it's on after Extras, it's like having to eat a rather stodgy, unpleasant dinner before you can get to the pudding.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

joeks about scooby doo and crap daytime tv *are* a bit studenty, it must be admitted.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 29 September 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

i spent a good bit of the last show anticipating what would be on the other side of the Numberwangk carousal. and just what fate would befall susan(?) this time. it's a bit 'man with the stick' but hey...

does billy dods' tv not have an off switch or channel changer? 8)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

You mean there's channels other than bbc2? Blimey.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

Holmes/Watson wasn't rubbish, it was the slimmest of ideas beautifully realised. They're just about getting away with a lot of stuff through sheer verve, as Ally says; I mean, could you imagine someone riffing on Scooby Doo in the pub? You'd be squirming with embarrassment - 1970s kids' telly just seems like one of the most bone-dry and lunk-headed areas for comic mining - and yet, by not going the wry observational route and just throttling the absurdity, they wring something out of it.

It wasn't the best thing in the show but, in some ways, it was the most interesting and perplexing. It was almost like they were doing it for a dare. "Make something funny out of stuff everyone knows and remembers about Scooby Doo and which every bad stand-up has already built routines around - now, in 2006."

Or perhaps I'm giving them too much credit.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

I missed whatever was wrung out of the Scooby Doo thing.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

yeeaaaah... "rofl".

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

why would they do it tho, if not that?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

to fill space?

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

maybe whatshisname's hair is done in curtains to give it an 'early 90s studenty' vibe?

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

x-post

I know what you mean, Michael - they even managed to resist the obligatory Scrappy Doo bashing, choosing instead to remark on his "perfectly good english" (or words to that effect). Admirable restraint.

Bits of the show keep coming back to me eg. "We've got all the makings of crystal meth here, sir!" during Sir Digby.

― Bill A (Bill A), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

numberwang was one of the funniest things I've seen on TV in a long time. Some of the subsequent sketches were poor, the BBC one was really boring and unfunny. I quite liked the one with the magic clarinet, tho they could have ended it after the woman in the supermarket "I secretly harbour racist views..."

Sir Digby didn't make me laugh that much but is a good character, could be funny in future.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

"I think it's cruel to feed that to a dog" was one of my favourite lines. I also love the incredibly uppitty and cruel English men who are still unaccountably waiters or vicars. I just really like this show. It's just funny.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

Scooby Doo, Fish & Cushion, green clarinet = good

Digby chicken caeser = half-good

Numberwang = bad

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

i wd say the exact opposite way round.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

Numberwang was at its best last week with the imaginary numbers. Although when they rotated the board to show the nativity scene, that was pretty good.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

once was enough for numberwang (though it > the snooker guys) but the scooby doo/james bond dudes are really weak.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

"A shark a policeman or a pebble". I lolled.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 5 October 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

i came home drunk and programmed the video to tape the repeat.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 5 October 2006 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

Is it me or did the author character look a lot like Ned?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 6 October 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

this was better than the last few.

― the classic sounds of the seventh of january 1998 (Enrique), Friday, 6 October 2006 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

"Now we know."

That was the first - and so far only - sketch to make me laugh in this show.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 6 October 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

i like the 'ride attendant' character Mitchell plays.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 6 October 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

My favourite joke from the radio version of Big Talk ('I can think of at least two yes or no answers off the top of my head!') made an appearance. But otherwise I think it's getting weaker.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 6 October 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

Nümberwang.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

Nümberwang = classic. Still not convinced by the rest of it tho.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

Weakest so far - the "and this is us" sections weren't any good this week. And we didn't need two consecutive shows with implied gags about bumming! I can do that at home.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 13 October 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

You lucky sod.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 13 October 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

As long as we pretend the second series of BT didn't exist, I stand corrected.

ha, so true.

this was a bit rub tho, saw it for the first time last night. all seemed a bit 'by the numbers' for me. i may as well have just stuck repeats of BT or Fast Show on

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 13 October 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

I meant make implied gags, you saucy bandit!

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 13 October 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

I loved the toothbrush joke last night, it surprised me with being both OBVIOUS and FUNNY (and a good payoff).

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 13 October 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

didn't really enjoy last night's. it's very patchy.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

"two consecutive shows with implied gags about bumming"

both mentioned "Deliverance" as well.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

the garden centre savages were great too. teaching the new abductee how to find water and nuts in the 'wild'...

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

i'm seeing them live on thursday not to sure if its rehashed sketches or not

― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

is a constant surprise to me that the Extras thread always gets bumped yet this one never does despite being a zillion times better. yes, a zillion.

i imagine the meta 'and this is us' section raising a laugh in the jones household especially.

(and last night i also remembered the 'Gute Luck', 'Thanks very much' bit of Nümberwang.)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

I loved last night's meta-section.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:03 (nineteen years ago)

Donitz & "double-edged sword" were highlights last night. "Oh, and that's a bad miss" makes me laugh every single time. I can't help it. Don't feel bad for me.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

is a constant surprise to me that the Extras thread always gets bumped yet this one never does despite being a zillion times better. yes, a zillion.

Indeed. Last night picked up after a weakish couple of episodes, the wacky historian was a particular treat. Never warmed to the snooker men, but their rendition of Lady in Red was priceless.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

Bingo!

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

I had to tape it last night (we rep the director) and I watched the first couple of sketches - it really is a treat.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 20 October 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

Saw this for the first time yesterday evening and I was actually pretty impressed. Extras (which I watched, conversely, for the last time yesterday evening) does indeed pale by comparison.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

It's terribly patchy. Numberwang and Digby Chicken Ceasar are great, the snooker commentators are piss poor, especially as their prominance in the show implies that M&W consider them their flagship characters.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

saw the live show, little different to the tv series a usual sketch best of but holds up reasonably well to knowing what the punch lines are

― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

New on E4 next week (24th November) and a week later on CH4 Proper.

22:00 Blunder
[subtitles]
An ensemble sketch show written and performed by six of the UK's brightest young comedy writers and performers: David Mitchell (Peep Show), Simon Farnaby (Spoons), Rhys Thomas (The Fast Show), Nina Conti (Bromwell High), Tom Meeten (Mighty Boosh) and Tony Way (Extras).

(oh, thought it was both of them, appears not to be)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

david mitchell's kind of selling himself short there. who the fuck are the others?

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

I've gone off Mitchell because of that TV license/talking sofa thing.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Nina Conti = daughter of Tom. She's a ventroloquist, but she's also funny (something I thought mutually exclusive until I saw her).

No idea about the rest, but I might recognise them on seeing them.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

"ventriloquist", that should be.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Nina Conti = daughter of Tom. She's a ventroloquist, but she's also funny

Ooh, I think I know who you mean - yes, very good.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

yes: can't remember where i saw her, but she was great.

i saw a trailer for "blunder" and it looked weak. however, i am a miserable tit and often proved wrong, so ...

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

She has a monkey puppet and she makes it swear at her and it rogers pint glasses and stuff. This is a lot funnier than it sounds on paper, really.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

She's gets away with this by having her being a very shy, giggly, nervous little girl, while this monkey's rude and brash - I can't remember seeing such a gap between the puppet's personality and the operator's before.

Who's Tom Meeten? Says Mighty Boosh, but GIS shows me someone who I've never seen before in my life.

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure the trailer features Noel Fielding in a wig.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds very funny on paper, Ailsa. It can't possibly live up to it.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

imdb says Tom Meeten was Peppo in the Fountain Of Youth Episode of Boosh. um, i think that makes him slightly less famous than the locksmith with the whistle in series 1.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ailsa is right. Nina Conti is very funny. I like not just the contrast between her lovely poshness and the monkey's rampant badassedness, but also the fact that she finds the monkey funny too and often laughs, and the monkey just looks funny. Most enjoyable.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Rhys Thomas played Swiss Toni's protege Paul in The Fast Show and was in Nathan Barley too.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Heh, they're doing the Mac ads now
http://www.apple.com/uk/getamac/ads/

― stet (stet), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

Ag, they're ruining it.

Just started watching Series 3 on DVD - still a delight.

― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

I quite like shenanigans and japes in the Pie Chart one.

― stet (stet), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

taking sides: mitchell and web mac ads vs those guys from 'green wing' barclaycard ads.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

The Barclaycard ones aren't nearly as annoying as the radio ones - most of the national radio ads in the UK are voiced by people who've been in Green Wing, I think.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

adverts are great, for adverts. have seen the american ones with him off of daily show on youtube.

― Koogy Bloogies (koogs), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, the ads won't play on my iBook. Perhaps they detect that I already have an apple computer, so I don't need another one?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

No, I can't get any video either - even downloading it and playing it in QT Pro 6.5.2 which I* paid for. Well done, Apple!

(* - my work)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

they're on youtube, bros!!!!!!

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

Also I've just realised mine won't play because of my, er, adblocker. I R BRANE.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear, I like M&W, but those adds are really punchable. LOL at "Macs don't need restarts!"

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

And the background music sounds like Salad Fingers. Which is bad.

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

I think they're pretty decent. They're ads!

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

The ass-suckingness of Quicktime is just astonishing. Why do Quicktime movies just create a question mark in your browser sometimes? Who knows? Why doesn't the spacebar start and stop a Quicktime movie when it's in your browser, the way it used to? Who knows? Why do some big Quicktime movies not load up completely in the standalone app, so that only like the first 5 minutes are available? Etc. etc.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

What would be cool is if they now did an ad for Dell or someone.

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

i just watched all three of the series online over the past two days. pretty funny! is it wrong that i find robert webb and his flarey nostrils kind of cuet?

― homosexual II, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

No, no it isn't. If loving Robert Webb is wrong, I don't want to be right. Or something. He's kind of cute anyway.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

I have heard *extremely* bad reports about the new Mitchell and Webb movie:
http://www.totalfilm.com/movie_news/the_peep_show_team_are_magicians

― Stevie T, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

i dont know, magicians are sort of automatically hilarious aren't they? it could be okay!

― homosexual II, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

anyone wanna take a crack at guessing what else is on jez's sex mix besides sweet reggae? i want the track listing.

― homosexual II, Thursday, 22 March 2007 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

it will be odd seeing teh new 'peep show' now they're properly famous.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

if it makes you feel any better they still mean fuck-all over here in the states

― Edward III, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

I have heard *extremely* bad reports about the new Mitchell and Webb movie

Sadly I have too. Perhaps if they'd got a proper director to direct it instead of letting the producer do it it might have been okay. Such a disappointment.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

This isn't very good.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

Lets WHISPER exposition at each other because we've had a RENEWED marketing PUSH and thus may have NEW VIEWERS.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, if Sophie is from this minor aristocratic family why does she work in a medium pay sales job?

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

i am so shit at liking or not liking stuff. for some reason if it's been overexposed, i find it harder to like. so i wasn't loving this, there was no "welcome to big school" moment. but i can't say it was too bad either, just oppressively cynical.

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

you're pretty good at not liking stuff surely.

i quite enjoyed this without thinking about it much at all.

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

i mean 'Ramadan' is always funny.

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

i like 'l o s t'

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

I thought it was fine. Not a spectacular return, but pretty good.

― chap, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

I realise I am disagreeing with people who think going 'OBIE TRICE' is funny, but this was great. The Jamie character was scarily well-observed (ie he is EXACTLY like my friend's little brother).

― Matt DC, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

So you think it was better than series 3 then Matt?

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

The grumpy father was a bit Meet The Parents and the randy Mum was a bit ho-hum. But I laughed; the suituations were all a bit obvious, but there were some good lines in there.

Oh yeah that Jamie character = just so, so like this kid I house-shared with a couple of years ago.

― DavidM, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

I thought it was about as good as a middling episode of series one or three, which is to say very good. Problem is that the second series was so great it skewed everything.

Needed more internal monologues, and more Super Hans.

― Matt DC, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

OBIE TRICE

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:12 (eighteen years ago)

Obie Trice: I'm a Mac
Joe Budden: And I'm a PC

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:15 (eighteen years ago)

"I [i]am[/i} James Bond!" - that bit was funny.

― Stevie T, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck. I forgot this way on. Is it repeated on E4 or something?

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Saturday, 14 April 2007 08:35 (eighteen years ago)

"Haven't seen this yet but one of the writers is a friend.

-- suzy (suzy), Monday, 13 October 2003 13:51 (3 years ago)"

down a shot

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 14 April 2007 08:42 (eighteen years ago)

meh.

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 14 April 2007 09:06 (eighteen years ago)

wasn't great, too predictable and going over old ground, ie jez sleeping with the mum.

thought the scene that ended "I am James Bond" was probably the funniest, especially when Jez tried to look like there was nothing odd being said after whatever innuendo the mum made.

― Ronan, Sunday, 15 April 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

we haven't even gotten season 3 over here yet. i bought the dvd from amazon uk. i might have to t0rr3nt the new ones.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Sunday, 15 April 2007 12:06 (eighteen years ago)

lols meantime we haven't even got '30 rock' here...

― That one guy that quit, Sunday, 15 April 2007 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

I thought his name was Super Hands. boy is my face red.

― blueski, Sunday, 15 April 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

It's alright, I did too for ages (I assumed it was because he was really good at rolling spliffs).

― chap, Sunday, 15 April 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

Okay last night's actually wasn't very good.

― Matt DC, Saturday, 21 April 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

its unravelling, isn't it? it doesn't seem to have anywhere else to go, and is meandering poorly.

― stevie, Saturday, 21 April 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Alan Johnson's character is just so different to when he first appeared, for no other reason than slapstick potential it seems. Last night was indeed rather pants, although I did like "I'm going to join Al-Qaeda".

― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

that was just silly. on two or three occasions i assumed mark would wake up and large parts of it would have been a dream.

i'm still not convinced that won't happen at the start of next week's.

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 22 April 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

it's lost subtlety and specificity, the characters are becoming "i'm a mac"/"i'm a pc" in their polarity. i'm sure jeremy has said 'this is probably a bad idea but... i'm jeremy, so this is what i do' about three times in two episodes. although he always did stupid shit, pimping his hard-won girlfriend and then snogging mark's fiancee within a 24-hour period is a bit much.

please not to play the 'it's comedy it doesn't have to be realistic' card.

― That one guy that quit, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

no i agree for once here. Series four is still excellent and worth watching, but half the point of the original serieses was that the situations could and probably would happen quite easily.

A lot of the characters have changed it's true, although I kind of like the way Sophie has gone from being a stuffy office frump to a ravey hippie chick over the course of the show. It reflects more the way Mark once thought about her to the way he thinks of her now. Al Johnson I'm not so sure about. He was always a great character but now his subtleties have been amplified to almost extreme proportions. He used to be this all-powerful corporate alpha male - you wouldn't have caught him sleeping around or getting pissed in a strip club before. But then again, maybe this is how the show works, same as Sophie. Mark saw him as this all-too-perfect boss when actually he's just a ratty little cunt like everyone else.

― the next grozart, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

i think you're giving the writers rather too much credit. from where i'm sitting it's just really sloppy, lazy character development and nothing more.

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

As said elsewhere: Peep Show now feels like Peep Show fan fiction, the characters are far too broad, the situations are too obvious, it's like Peep Show used to be painted by watercolours and now they're using a ceiling roller.

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

Why do they put this on when its demographic is most likely to be at the pub, and why haven't the bastards at Virgin put it on TV on demand? Ah well, it'll be uploaded somewhere or other soon enough.

― chap, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

Can't you watch them on the C4 website?

― Matt DC, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

Not mac compatible.

― chap, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

Ironically enough.

― chap, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

it's repeated on c4 midweek.

― That one guy that quit, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

Why do they put this on when its demographic is most likely to be at the pub, and why haven't the bastards at Virgin put it on TV on demand? Ah well, it'll be uploaded somewhere or other soon enough.

They obviously gave the Nathan Barley schedulers a second chance instead of firing their arses all the way to kingdom fucking come.

― the next grozart, Sunday, 22 April 2007 23:54 (eighteen years ago)

Or it could be that Channel 4 has shown all of its flagship comedy programmes on a Friday night for the past... 13 years now?

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 22 April 2007 23:58 (eighteen years ago)

Has anyone seen the pre-Peep Show sketch series "The Mitchell & Webb Situation"? My flatmate downloaded a few episodes and while it was funny, it did kind of get a bit repetitive. I did roffle at the farmer who's all

"Hey, if you want a quick tip on getting rich, listen to this - Get into farming! I just chuck seeds on the ground and bloody corn grows out of it! It's fucking easy! And you see those hens over there? They're MADE of CHICKEN! Real chicken - just kill 'em and sell 'em! OR, don't kill 'em and fucking eggs come out of their arses. You can't lose!"

― the next grozart, Monday, 23 April 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

It could be that Mitchell and Webb are having more input into the show than before, now that they're nearly mainstream stars. Who knows what nonsense is going on behind the scenes - I bet the dynamic is nothing like S1 or S2.

Having said that, I have been enjoying S4 so far. It's much broader and dafter but it's making me laugh more than S3.

― Michael Jones, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

You may well be right Michael. I noticed the credits said "additional material by Mitchell and Webb." That may always have been the case of course...

― Stew, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

"tube up his nose
tube up his nose
tube up his nose
tube up his nose"

this made me laugh long and hard.

― CharlieNo4, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

While I agree that this series seems to be more 'wacky adventures' whereas previously I particularly loved the everyday-ness of it, I'm still laughing like a drain. "That bloody hippy sold me down the river!" "Every man has a price... yours is £530" - awesome.

― Not the real Village People, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

lol that was shit

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 28 April 2007 09:38 (eighteen years ago)

yeah that episode was completely crap. one or two mildly amusing moments.

― Ronan, Saturday, 28 April 2007 10:16 (eighteen years ago)

i actually lolled a lot more at that one than the previous eps this series, and then they pulled the scene accusing matt, and i didn't know what to think :-/

― Alan, Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

also 4OD pc only. fuckers. it's all on homechoice anyway. but that's not the point.

― Alan, Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

If they just got rid of Mark this series wouldn't be as bad as it has been.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:02 (eighteen years ago)

the end was the worst thing ever. it's kind of turned into one of the later series of 'bottom'.

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:06 (eighteen years ago)

Also, are the episodes meant to be self-contained nowadays? Why has nobody mentioned Mark pretending to be dying to get off his job? Was he fired? What?

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

Still better than Ruddy Hell It's Harry and Paul, though.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

us both: "he's still got a job??? wtf"

― Alan, Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

not seen Harry and Paul, but I like the bits in the trailers showing Bono and The Edge.

― Alan, Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:13 (eighteen years ago)

it's really, really bad.

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

it's mediocre

― acrobat, Sunday, 29 April 2007 00:46 (eighteen years ago)

Am I the only person who thinks it's still really funny?

― chap, Sunday, 29 April 2007 01:15 (eighteen years ago)

i still think this is really funny (1st episode was just okay but its gotten a lot better since then - def as good as the earlier series). but im sick of seeing them everywhere now. all over the tube, the posters for the movie, then their stupid adverts are even on the screen when i check my yahoo mail. kinda ruins the 'loserdom' appeal of peep show.

― titchyschneiderMk2, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

They were saying that that haggard musician Jez was working for was in Norway, but then Superhans arrives having apparently just wanked him off at his house for £££, what's that all about?

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

I thought last Friday's was immensely funny and true. I've only ever watched PS sporadically, but this was as good as anything I can remember.

― Alba, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, Friday's episode was back on form at last. As for Harry & Paul, well, it has its moments but it's got the same problem that all sketch shows have: using the same jokes with the same characters every week.

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

Last Friday's was really good.

I loved the bit with Jez speaking to the musician guy first: "you've been so high and just.....SO LOW" etc

― Ronan, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, last Firdays seemed fine to me.

But mnore importantly, where is the Not Going Out thread?

― Pete, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

Why has everyone become so obsessed with Not Going Out just now, it was on ages ago and no-one liked it then.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

last night was a Not Going Out that i hadn't seen before. is it a new series? or just luck to see a repeat i'd not caught before?

― Alan, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I see, it's on again just now - we're not getting it up here. It would appear to be the first series repeated again anyway.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

I loved the bit with Jez speaking to the musician guy first: "you've been so high and just.....SO LOW" etc

ha ha. yes. unfortunately i always think of that guy as Liam, Claire's Dad, from Eastenders in the mid 90s.

routine humiliation of Mark no matter what not actually v funny really. there must be something else they can do for once?

― blueski, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

this was a much better episodes than the others this series, for realsies.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

~~seconded~~ ~~thirded~~ ~~fourthed~~ like everyone else, i agree. absolutely brilliant.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 23:28 (eighteen years ago)

my leg actually went into spasm with acute embarrassment during the whole comedy farce denouement. it could only have been better if they'd contrived, somehow, to have mark dressed as a vicar.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 23:29 (eighteen years ago)

It's just time to admit that Webb is a much better comic actor than Mitchell, says I.

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 08:57 (eighteen years ago)

Agreed. Mitchell is very good at playing Mark, but not much else. He's rubbish in TMAWL.

― chap, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:38 (eighteen years ago)

In the last two weeks I have watched every episode of Peep Show, series 1, 2 and 3. I have laughed so much I think I am in danger of developing a six pack. I take back everything I said about it when I'd only watched bits of it while drunk.

And it is awful to admit this...but it was the awful mac/pc adverts that made me think I should get round to actually watching PS. Every cloud, silver lining.

― Zoe Espera, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

I was at the cinema yesterday morning (The Painted Veil, lots of old ladies) and there was one very talkative pair. Then a Mac/PC advert came on and they remained silent and I was vaguely wondering what they were making of it. When it finished the older one said "What was that about?". "Computers", nodded the other.

Sorry, that seemed a more interesting story in my head.

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

You could smell the lavander in the Painted Veil screening I saw. I kept expecting Inn of The Seventh Happiness bird to walk across the screen.

― Pete, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

Another of her comments, about Edward Norton's character: "He's straight-necked, that one".

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

haha, that's much funnier than Peep Show.

― jed_, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

I am so not "straight-necked".

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

― stevie, Friday, 11 May 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

^^^ this. It comes from shifting the entire focus of the show to Mark with Jeremy as his tagalong. Mark comedy has to be pained farce comedy of embarassment, Jeremy can just be simple stoner lulz. Maybe they'll get it right with series 5?

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

that was shit

― Alan, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

The Ruth Badger joke was funny, tho.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

was the only lol for me, yeah

― never acid again, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

that was shit

-- Alan, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:04 (4 minutes ago)

qft

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

thee worst.

― jed_, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

ah. i quite enjoyed it. utterly beyond far-fetched, but gruesomely so; and still strangely more believable than the whole office nonsense of ep 2. we chortled away and watched the last three minutes through our hands.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

pretty good episode.

― Frogman Henry, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

i switched off when he got on the boat with the dog in the bag. too horrific. i'm too squeamish for this...

― stevie, Friday, 11 May 2007 23:28 (eighteen years ago)

i find that squeamishness only really affects me when it's in some way related to a situation that could actually happen to me irl.

― jed_, Friday, 11 May 2007 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

i'll leave you to draw your own conclusion there.

― stevie, Saturday, 12 May 2007 00:17 (eighteen years ago)

I thought it was good, particularly the second half on the canal.

― Bob Six, Saturday, 12 May 2007 08:51 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't think it was much cop, except for "We're not in the euro". Their heart didn't seem to be in it, really.

― Alba, Saturday, 12 May 2007 09:10 (eighteen years ago)

i thought the exact opposite to bob. it went downhill amazingly fast. the whole diesel/petrol thing was stupid enough, but the dead dog material was just shit.

also why the fuck is every episode set away from their flat now?

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 12 May 2007 09:17 (eighteen years ago)

its only fools & horses xmas special syndrome - spend the extra budget on location

― stevie, Saturday, 12 May 2007 09:32 (eighteen years ago)

i seem to recall (from DVD commentary) that it might be the other way around - the flat is not a studio but a real flat that they don't have constant access to.

― Alan, Saturday, 12 May 2007 09:48 (eighteen years ago)

lol i realize the other day i was saying 'what's the big deal with single-location comedy?' but this episode was too much like the first in the series: go to the country, meet tory grotesques. i preferred it when they went to pubs and bowling alleys mark's office, and super hans was in it.

the flat was a real flat in series one (and maybe two?) but i saw a newspaper article, i think, where it said they'd had to start using a studio (somewhere in north west london).

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 12 May 2007 09:49 (eighteen years ago)

i don't like this programme anymore. its too heartlessly cruel (to and via its central characters) to be funny. and the farce element is getting so obvious now. its like fawlty towers, and while i appreciate fawlty towers is great, i can't watch it as as i feel stomach ulcers forming with every passing minute.

I agree with everything here, especially the Fawlty Towers fear. I almost switched off Peep Show last night, because it all just seemed too horribly locked on to a farcical course. I'm not seeing a lot of difference between it and One Foot in the Grave, or some similarly awful programme, apart from its cruelty levels being higher.

― accentmonkey, Saturday, 12 May 2007 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

I'm probably easily pleased with tv at the moment: it's the only programme I've watched all week apart from Tony Blair's speech.

― Bob Six, Saturday, 12 May 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

difference being that One Foot in the Grave was expertly and densely plotted. And often very funny.

― Alan, Saturday, 12 May 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

One Foot in the Grave, or some similarly awful programme

i'm with alba here: OFITG was basically masterful. it was a little too, er, "traditional" in some of the set-ups and secondary characters, but as traditional sitcoms go it's godlike.

"peep show" is very funny but - even as someone who's enjoying this series a lot more than most people here - i wouldn't say it's a classic at all.

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 12 May 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

I am not an Alanmal.

― Alba, Saturday, 12 May 2007 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

One Foot In The Grave was great.

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Saturday, 12 May 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

what's a ba - or, for that matter, an an - between friends?

sorry alba, for (maybe wrongly) casting you as the number one fan of OFITG. sorry alan, for not being able to read properly. in fairness, i was in bed drinking coffee.

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 12 May 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

What kind of excuse is that? I do some of my best reading in bed.

― Bob Six, Saturday, 12 May 2007 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

I am still loving this series although I wish they wouldn't do the crazy farce thing all the time. Dead bird in series one was get-away-with-able but this is too much. I really liked the first half, esp Jeremy's genuine attempt at getting Mark a stag weekend of boring stuff he'd like.

― Not the real Village People, Saturday, 12 May 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

I do some of my best reading in bed

as you can see, i do some of my worst.

Jeremy's genuine attempt at getting Mark a stag weekend of boring stuff he'd like

... which, of course, he can't actually see through - just like everything else in his life.

i thought they nailed jeremy brilliantly in last week's; how quickly he switched to bullying mark, and the associated thought-over ("stay in with the stronger group", or whatever, and later "how can something so wrong feel so right?") it's little bits like that which *do* lift this above the norm.

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

as dom's ben saying they've subtly made mark the main character with jeremy as comic foil. i suppose the second half of last night's ep doesn't stand up to that analysis but i don't really want to think about it, it was so fucking dire.

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

Final episode of series 4: complete waste of Superhans, my favourite character, but I enjoyed Mark and Jez hiding in the church.

Superhans has been woefully under represented in this series.

― Bob Six, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:10 (eighteen years ago)

Not very funny overall, and the whole wedding-avoidance thing wasn't good enough to make me stop thinking about how well Seinfeld did it with George. And the bodily functions thing is really getting tired.

Still,

"There are no badgers"

"You're going to get us killed because of 'your legacy'. You're not fucking Blair."

"It's a moot point"

all gems.

― Alba, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:15 (eighteen years ago)

yeh this one wasn't so bad, some gold from jeremy. it is getting kind of depressing though.

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

somehow i cant really imagine alba watching a comedy show

― 696, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:40 (eighteen years ago)

it is getting kind of depressing though.

the end surely? This series worst altogether, but nicely tied up at the end i reckon.

― Bocken Social Scene, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:43 (eighteen years ago)

i think i snickered - at some of ~~alan~~alba's gems. but the bit at the shops was by Harlesden Blockbusters. which was quite the highlight here.

― Alan, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

I quite like how this series has explored Mark and Jez's relationship a bit more than previous ones - there's been a real sense of how tragically symbiotic they are.

― chap, Saturday, 19 May 2007 02:24 (eighteen years ago)

so was that the final ep in the series or not?

i enjoyed it. a lot. i was a bit drunk, though.

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 19 May 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

yes that was it. but the next series is now confirmed.

― CharlieNo4, Saturday, 19 May 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

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― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 9 August 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

That is damning. I didn't much like s04, and Jeremy is clearly the better of the two (and criminally underused). I mean really, this is wonderful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXLlhNsbncI

― Will M., Thursday, 9 August 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

haha dom, one of my "friends" just joined some group which is "petition to get [david hassel]hoff songs on jukeboxes".

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 10 August 2007 08:45 (eighteen years ago)

i really went off this show during the last series.

― stevie, Friday, 10 August 2007 08:48 (eighteen years ago)

didn't they have a film out? about magicians? anyway students like comedy, shocka huh dom. it's not like you can quote family guy episodes verbatim is it.

― acrobat, Friday, 10 August 2007 09:01 (eighteen years ago)

they did have a film about magicians which was universally panned.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 10 August 2007 09:02 (eighteen years ago)

RIP big man

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 10 August 2007 09:48 (eighteen years ago)

you really gotta stop doing that

― acrobat, Friday, 10 August 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

"mark" is in voiceovers for life now, doubt he's too bothered.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 10 August 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

I'm off to watch Mitchell & Webb filming tonight, I'll report back.

― Mark C, Friday, 10 August 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

tell them to do some more sketches with the drunk tramp, because he's funny

― stevie, Friday, 10 August 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

are you:

a mark

a jeremy?

― pc user, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

That was... good.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 2 May 2008 22:02 (seventeen years ago)

Like, surprisingly so, considering how much I was booing the last series. Very series 2.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 2 May 2008 22:02 (seventeen years ago)

It was an improvement on the last series without ever being hilarious. I liked the burglar in the living room bit.

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 2 May 2008 22:14 (seventeen years ago)

I'm off to watch Mitchell & Webb filming tonight, I'll report back.

-- Mark C, Friday, 10 August 2007 13:19 (8 months ago) Bookmark Link

so many lies on this board

― ledge, Friday, 2 May 2008 22:19 (seventeen years ago)

The moment where Mark tried to lay blame for the megatron on the burglar was where I did actually L.O.L.

― DavidM, Friday, 2 May 2008 22:23 (seventeen years ago)

Tom I did report back! And told everyone how genius Cheesoid was. Did you listen? No.

Tonight was pretty good, yep.

― Mark C, Friday, 2 May 2008 23:31 (seventeen years ago)

I liked it. I was one of the few people to like series 4 as well.

― chap, Friday, 2 May 2008 23:35 (seventeen years ago)

is anything beyond season 1 available on DVD in the U.S.?

― Mackro Mackro, Friday, 2 May 2008 23:48 (seventeen years ago)

"If I have to, I will fuck you in order to get to fuck her."

― G00blar, Saturday, 3 May 2008 10:43 (seventeen years ago)

Basically Peep Show S4 lost the plot because it went right through the limits of plausibility, the lolz in Peep Show stem from it being something that could realistically happen.

Eating a dead dog/setting fire to a neighbours barn = nah
Apprehending a burglar and then acting the hard man because you think it plays well with your date = yay

― Matt DC, Sunday, 4 May 2008 13:50 (seventeen years ago)

Also watching Mark and Jeremy acting on their respective class neuroses is always funny. TS: "I'm wrestling with the white working class!" vs Jeremy trying to bond with the burglar.

― Matt DC, Sunday, 4 May 2008 13:54 (seventeen years ago)

The eating a dead dog bit was a low point. How hard is it to get rid of a bag of dog... by a fucking canal?

I didn't actually laff too much during this though. Setting up the E4 player was a fucker as well.

― Raw Patrick, Sunday, 4 May 2008 15:20 (seventeen years ago)

4OD, whatever.

― Raw Patrick, Sunday, 4 May 2008 15:21 (seventeen years ago)

4OD really sucks, not as badly as ITV's equivalent but it's pretty bad. The iPlayer is the best of these things by a mile.

― Matt DC, Sunday, 4 May 2008 15:22 (seventeen years ago)

is anything beyond season 1 available on DVD in the U.S.?

-- Mackro Mackro, Friday, May 2, 2008 7:48 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

unfortunately no. but you can get series 2-4 from amazon.co.uk or cdwow.com. if your computer's got a dvd drive, it's possible to play dvds from other regions (NTSC/PAL isn't an issue for computer monitors), as long as your software player will disregard region flags.

you can also find cheap region-free dvd players in the US pretty easily, there are quite a few toshiba or philips models that are region free with built-in PAL converters.

I've got series 4 sitting unopened on my shelf, haven't got around to watching it yet.

― Edward III, Sunday, 4 May 2008 15:48 (seventeen years ago)

i have a region-free dvd player. Just wondering if I had to get the imports or not. Thanks!

― Mackro Mackro, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:30 (seventeen years ago)

yes much better. thx peep ppl

― Alan, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:43 (seventeen years ago)

astonishingly, they're giving away this episode free on iTunes (UK, i guess).

anyway, yeh. tick tick VG.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 5 May 2008 20:27 (seventeen years ago)

Something I noticed - the burglar shouted "clean shirt!" at Mark. The actor that played him was in the first episode of Peep Show, playing "bicycle teenager" - the same character that shouted "clean shirt!" at Mark in that episode?

― limón, Monday, 5 May 2008 20:46 (seventeen years ago)

yeahuh.

― G00blar, Monday, 5 May 2008 21:20 (seventeen years ago)

Aha - I was wondering if this was meant to be the same character. Great episode. Someone elsewhere pointed out that Jez has already mentioned having chlamydia in the episode where he gets together with Mark's sister - not sure if this is intentional or what, I can't work it out.

― Not the real Village People, Monday, 5 May 2008 21:46 (seventeen years ago)

Maybe, they brought back an old character and another even older, very obscure, character for this episode, so maybe there's some more nerdy continuity stuff going on aswell. I like it.

― limón, Monday, 5 May 2008 21:53 (seventeen years ago)

Needs more Dobby.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 9 May 2008 22:00 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah seriously, I hope she comes back!

― G00blar, Saturday, 10 May 2008 00:23 (seventeen years ago)

"Iggy, Bowie, Lou Reed... Tupac, they're all sucking each other off"

― Matt DC, Saturday, 10 May 2008 10:20 (seventeen years ago)

hahaha. I did think the ending, when they just kept repeating "sucking off" was trying to replicate the (better) episode when everyone's like "If you even think of sectioning me I will section you so fast".

Still: "Old-style pedoing, before it got a bad name."

― G00blar, Saturday, 10 May 2008 10:24 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah it all unravelled from the bit when they found Sophie in the toilet. To be honest I was hoping they'd write Sophie out altogether for this series to avoid getting bogged down in that stuff, but then I remembered how classic Jeff is.

― Matt DC, Saturday, 10 May 2008 10:28 (seventeen years ago)

i once worked with a guy who out-jeffed jeff. but had none of his redeeming qualities.

still laughing about "old-school paedoing".

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 10 May 2008 19:50 (seventeen years ago)

That episode was dark.

― chap, Sunday, 11 May 2008 01:45 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/P/peep_show/images/episode_guides/series_5/s5_ep2_dobby_mark_200x150.jpg

Just....fantastic.

― Mister Craig, Sunday, 11 May 2008 12:51 (seventeen years ago)

I think this was maybe the best episode ever.

― nate woolls, Sunday, 11 May 2008 12:59 (seventeen years ago)

Whilst waiting for this episode to appear on 4OD I made my girlfrend watch (cos she hadn't seen any of the first 2 series yet) the episode from the first series when they go to the party and then Mark get off with the goth-teen and they go bowling, and I thought that was the best episode ever, and then I saw this, and thought this was the best episode ever, so it's probably true. Even though I did think Dobby was being played by Josie Long. (disclaimer: I saw Cry Baby at ATP, and thought Johnny Depp was Shane Richie)

― Bocken Social Scene, Sunday, 11 May 2008 23:03 (seventeen years ago)

This episode didn't even touch the majesty of "For the worst thing that can possibly happen, this is actually going quite well" or "I am a drug user! Fuck da police!"

― Matt DC, Sunday, 11 May 2008 23:09 (seventeen years ago)

The best episode is Mark stalking the cute history student.

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 11 May 2008 23:10 (seventeen years ago)

If only because it feels a lot like an episode of Family Guy, with Mark as Brian and Jeremy as Stewie.

Chick that played Dobby is actually one of Josie Long's "crew", I think.

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 11 May 2008 23:10 (seventeen years ago)

^^^ This. My housemate and I binned an entire trip to our old university town during Fresher's Week on the basis of that episode.

Also, genuinely most heartbreaking ending.

― Matt DC, Sunday, 11 May 2008 23:11 (seventeen years ago)

I agree with Dom on the best episode. It doesn't end with a punchline, but with a savage indictment of human nature.

― chap, Sunday, 11 May 2008 23:12 (seventeen years ago)

I might well revise my 'best episode ever' opinion as I make my way through previous series. I might even like the 4th series by the time I get around to that.

― Bocken Social Scene, Sunday, 11 May 2008 23:15 (seventeen years ago)

Peep Show series 2 episode 4: http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=4731945431959116536&q=Peep+show

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 11 May 2008 23:17 (seventeen years ago)

Bit of a lapse in quality last night, excruciating without the usual cleverness. I've known Aussie girls just like that, though.

― chap, Saturday, 17 May 2008 11:39 (seventeen years ago)

Bought and watched the entire first season over the weekend. Going to need to get Season 2 very, very soon, I think.

― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 19 May 2008 09:24 (seventeen years ago)

Season 5 is brilliant - so glad they turned it around after the totl drop in quality in season 4. My fave episode is the magic mushrooms/toilet door one from Season 3.

― the next grozart, Monday, 19 May 2008 10:11 (seventeen years ago)

BTW if anyone's thinking of getting any of the past series on DVD then you can buy the season 1-4 box set for peanuts on HMV... £18 delivered

http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=2590;-1;-1;-1&sku=703800&WT.ac=offer_of_the_week-PBODY-offer_of_the_week_2-703800

Gah, it was £16 as well...

― Not the real Village People, Monday, 19 May 2008 18:15 (seventeen years ago)

Pretty fucking great.

― G00blar, Friday, 23 May 2008 22:05 (seventeen years ago)

"Not proper rape, like up the bum or anything."

― aldo, Friday, 23 May 2008 22:08 (seventeen years ago)

Jeremy's become too much of a dick as a character. Good Superhans and "Mark isn't very good at being an intellectual" lolz though, so they're getting the basics of the show right.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 May 2008 22:13 (seventeen years ago)

Jeremy's total cuntishness toward his mum could've been subtler. Great episode nonetheless, this continues to be the darkest since S2.

― chap, Saturday, 24 May 2008 00:58 (seventeen years ago)

i dunno. i thought that one was a bit overplayed -- ciphers rather than characters. like some of the more excessive bits of the last series, it just didn't quite hang together as an entirely credible sequence of events.

the nicholas lyndhurst gag made me choke laughing, mind.

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 24 May 2008 01:49 (seventeen years ago)

Aye, I know some people who've been cunts to their mums, but Jeremy was just a step too far last night, I think.

― Scik Mouthy, Saturday, 24 May 2008 08:01 (seventeen years ago)

it just didn't quite hang together as an entirely credible sequence of events

This is what I've thought about the whole series really.

― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 24 May 2008 08:51 (seventeen years ago)

Not that credability is necessary for laughs of course, just that they were more believable, now they're just horrible.

― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 24 May 2008 08:55 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah but the scene with Mark at dinner with Jeremy's mum and that dude was sort of amazing.

― G00blar, Saturday, 24 May 2008 10:31 (seventeen years ago)

*i would literally stab a baby*

― ailsa, Saturday, 24 May 2008 10:51 (seventeen years ago)

And I've got a tiramisu!

I was in stitches through most of this episode, esp Mark doing 'the pause'.

― Not the real Village People, Saturday, 24 May 2008 11:25 (seventeen years ago)

"don't pause, Mark, you're not Davina"

― ailsa, Saturday, 24 May 2008 11:26 (seventeen years ago)

Older people are still people, they're just people who think that when they open a window on the computer, the previous window's disappeared for good.

― G00blar, Saturday, 24 May 2008 13:22 (seventeen years ago)

More than any other, this series has been about Jez and Mark spitefully sabotaging each other.

― chap, Saturday, 24 May 2008 13:24 (seventeen years ago)

so this season is "mark goes girl crazy" with a different "one" every week?

― jeremy waters, Saturday, 24 May 2008 13:28 (seventeen years ago)

I don't think you can really say that was Mark going girl crazy. Dude was a rape victim.

This was easily the funniest episode in, well, years. Also bonus points for containing the funniest Superhans moments ever. They've cottoned onto the fact that the humour in Superhans isn't having him do pure druggy slapstick but instead just laying it on thick with the faux-authoritative pronouncements. His cure for cancer stuff had me in stitches very early on, plus the way he went "rape, classic case".

― Matt DC, Sunday, 25 May 2008 22:06 (seventeen years ago)

OTM.

― G00blar, Sunday, 25 May 2008 22:17 (seventeen years ago)

Superhans surely ripe for a spin off series where he's a detective or something.

― Raw Patrick, Sunday, 25 May 2008 22:25 (seventeen years ago)

Would pre-order dvd right now.

― G00blar, Sunday, 25 May 2008 22:39 (seventeen years ago)

what's odd about this show is how ludicrous the plot is but how great and real some of the guest characters seem to be.

― Ronan, Monday, 26 May 2008 03:24 (seventeen years ago)

Now caught up with almost every episode - have only series 4 ep 6 and series 5 ep 1 to watch, which we'll do tonight.

I wouldn't say series 4 is quantifiably 'worse' than 1-3, but the dead dog thing is very, very close to being a jump-the-shark moment, and makes other things (getting Matt the personal trainer sacked, etc) look worse by reflecting badly upon them with hindsight. The desperation in Jeremy's eyes as he took a bite out of the dog made us laugh, but it wasn't a... it was laughing because it was ludicrous and stupid rather than because it was funny, you know?

Looking forward to seeing how the wedding goes...

― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 08:49 (seventeen years ago)

i think i saw in the credits that this ep wasn't written by bain and armstrong BTW

― Alan, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 12:26 (seventeen years ago)

The latest episode or the dog-eating episode?

― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 12:26 (seventeen years ago)

sorry, the recent one.

― Alan, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 12:27 (seventeen years ago)

Dom right about Jeremy, he now has no redeeming features, so isn't as funny

― Tom D., Tuesday, 27 May 2008 12:27 (seventeen years ago)

Jeremy that is, errrrrrr, not Dom

― Tom D., Tuesday, 27 May 2008 12:31 (seventeen years ago)

I can kind of accept Jeremy becoming less sympathetic / more psychotic over the arc of the program; he's been completely divorced from society and most normal social contact for five years now, it makes sense that he's going pretty insane.

― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 13:19 (seventeen years ago)

Completely divorced from society? He's had two totally hot girlfriends for a start!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 27 May 2008 13:21 (seventeen years ago)

Exactly! Nothing normal about that!

― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 13:28 (seventeen years ago)

(zing retracted)

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 13:31 (seventeen years ago)

I wouldn't say series 4 is quantifiably 'worse' than 1-3, but the dead dog thing is very, very close to being a jump-the-shark moment, and makes other things (getting Matt the personal trainer sacked, etc) look worse by reflecting badly upon them with hindsight. The desperation in Jeremy's eyes as he took a bite out of the dog made us laugh, but it wasn't a... it was laughing because it was ludicrous and stupid rather than because it was funny, you know?

Totally OTM.
Also I think there needs to be a Jeremy episode where he tries, properly, for a bit, to do something normal. I liked when he did Mark's stag do for him.

― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 20:00 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah; that effort he made, putting all Mark's favourite things together, was really touching. of course he fucked it up, but he's Jeremy.

― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 20:01 (seventeen years ago)

It was touching when he got Mark that violin with Johnson's stolen credit card as well. He loves Mark more than vice versa.

― chap, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 09:10 (seventeen years ago)

It's reciprocal love, they are both incapable of living without the other, Mark just doesn't realise it.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 09:12 (seventeen years ago)

That's the message of this series, yeah. They do seem to be laying it on a bit hard though. Some suggestions that they're taking a lot of inspiration from Curb Your Enthusiasm and its "series arcs", which is visible in at least the last two series.

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 09:22 (seventeen years ago)

I'd never have dreamt from the first 4 series that I'd be finding Peep Show borderline erotic - but first the Dobby scene and then the dominant band manager yesterday...

Maybe it's helping me to re-connect with a overlooked sordid part of myself.

― Bob Six, Saturday, 31 May 2008 12:19 (seventeen years ago)

Please tell me you're not including wanking over a banknote in that.

― ailsa, Saturday, 31 May 2008 12:26 (seventeen years ago)

ha ha - ailsa, I nearly spat out my lunch laughing!

― byebyepride, Saturday, 31 May 2008 12:31 (seventeen years ago)

No - for some reason I only seem to empathise with Mark's inadequacies..

Which sadly probably confirms that Guardian comment that all blokes watching Peep Show would like to be Superhans, believe they're probably more Jez, but are actually Mark.

― Bob Six, Saturday, 31 May 2008 12:50 (seventeen years ago)

all blokes watching Peep Show would like to be Superhans

Haha WHAT?!

― Matt DC, Saturday, 31 May 2008 13:19 (seventeen years ago)

the other time jez tried to do something normal (that i can remember) was when superhans got him a job in a recording studio - loved that episode

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 31 May 2008 15:40 (seventeen years ago)

This episode was excellent.

― chap, Saturday, 31 May 2008 16:20 (seventeen years ago)

It was so Series Two. I loved it. We haven't had such an outright episode-stealing female supporting character since ... probably the defendant in Jeremy's jury duty episode.

― fields of salmon, Sunday, 1 June 2008 16:59 (seventeen years ago)

"mummy, coffee, hurry fucky uppy"

― jeremy waters, Sunday, 1 June 2008 17:10 (seventeen years ago)

I like how the only reason they got a deal in the first place was because Psycho Dominatrix Woman had a load of record company budget to spend before the end of year, might as well waste it on these losers.

― Matt DC, Sunday, 1 June 2008 17:13 (seventeen years ago)

"sitting on a rock, crying and wanking"

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 2 June 2008 09:33 (seventeen years ago)

That was a great flight of fancy, that sex therapist plane crash thing.

I think my favourite line came when Mark was mulling over the virtues of being told what to do in bed. "Is this humiliating? It is a bit humiliating. I guess the upside is that what I was doing before was humiliating in ways I wasn't even aware of".

― Alba, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 01:03 (seventeen years ago)

Sixth series has been commissioned. I fear it may be one too far.

― chap, Monday, 9 June 2008 14:54 (seventeen years ago)

"one"

― banriquit, Monday, 9 June 2008 14:57 (seventeen years ago)

tbf, this last one was better than series four.

― banriquit, Monday, 9 June 2008 14:58 (seventeen years ago)

Peep Show recently beat BBC4's The Thick of It, ITV's Benidorm, and also The IT Crowd to be named best sitcom at the 2008 BAFTAs.

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 9 June 2008 14:58 (seventeen years ago)

there was only one bad ep in this series of peep show, and i've forgotten what happened in it, and there was an excellent self-referential gag where mark says "i'm really pushing the envelope!!" but i've forgotten that now too.

― banriquit, Monday, 9 June 2008 15:04 (seventeen years ago)

loltastic:

http://i26.tinypic.com/bfrggh.jpg

― Bodrick III, Thursday, 12 June 2008 21:40 (seventeen years ago)

"So, what was your news?"

― Bodrick III, Thursday, 12 June 2008 21:41 (seventeen years ago)

This was awesome. The Jeremy episode I wanted finally came, although it was a BIT weird. I loved the 'reveal' gag that they don't usually do, of Jeremy talking about the cult and then they reveal SuperHans in an identical buttoned up shirt.

There was one line that had me laughing for ages, I can't remember what it was though... I'll have to watch it again!

― Not the real Village People, Friday, 13 June 2008 22:02 (seventeen years ago)

http://i26.tinypic.com/bfrggh.jpg

Can someone shove the Mortal Kombat "FINISH HER" text over this? We may have an image macro if we do.

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Friday, 13 June 2008 22:10 (seventeen years ago)

"you put up a document on that baby, and you are really looking at that document"

― Black Arkestra, Friday, 13 June 2008 22:55 (seventeen years ago)

"I can't fire people, I'm British Leyland in 1976"

― ailsa, Saturday, 14 June 2008 08:11 (seventeen years ago)

What we need is an animated gif, but I can't do them.

― Bodrick III, Saturday, 14 June 2008 11:40 (seventeen years ago)

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r1/kwanting/Animation1-3.gif
Not my work

― theslothproject, Sunday, 15 June 2008 15:41 (seventeen years ago)

A++++++

― Bodrick III, Sunday, 15 June 2008 15:59 (seventeen years ago)

Insta-meme

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Sunday, 15 June 2008 16:00 (seventeen years ago)

david mitchell has been writing the funny sports bit in the observer for the last few weeks. here's the last one:

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/06/14/televised_traffic_is_nothing_b.html

"It's like something out of an Injury Lawyers 4U advert. Doubtless a whiplashed Raikkonen will be suing 'no win no fee' for thousands of pounds, almost enough to buy an F1 tyre: 'and the good news is, they've re-sited that pit lane.'"

(am trying to find the other two but searching for david mitchell on the guardian web site throws up a lot of book reviews and lit blog stuff...)

― koogs, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 08:53 (seventeen years ago)

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/05/31/hohum_kiwis_could_try_haka_to.html

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/06/07/no_talent_but_britain_has_sple.html

― koogs, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 09:01 (seventeen years ago)

watched first 4 episodes of series 4 last night... first one where they visit sophie's parents was classic, second with project zeus was not too far behind ("great, now I'm getting an angry lapdance"), 3+4 were kinda meh.

oh look series 5 is on dvd now.

― Edward III, Thursday, 19 June 2008 13:24 (seventeen years ago)

also this thread needs more animated gifs

like jez's job interview tic from series 1

― Edward III, Thursday, 19 June 2008 13:26 (seventeen years ago)

The best episode in S4 was the school reunion, by a mile.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 19 June 2008 13:27 (seventeen years ago)

dholliday

June 7, 2008 3:44 AM
Hamburg/deu

Um...I sort of lost track here, but I love Peep Show so thanks for that!
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― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Thursday, 19 June 2008 13:28 (seventeen years ago)

seven months pass...

Royal to marry Peep Show actress!

― Bob Six, Sunday, 15 February 2009 14:19 (seventeen years ago)

booo

― ^^ one of enriques sincere posts (special guest stars mark bronson), Sunday, 15 February 2009 14:35 (seventeen years ago)

― James Mitchell, Saturday, 21 February 2009 23:12 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

This series of Mitchell & Webb has been quite good so far.

― chap, Thursday, 18 June 2009 23:14 (sixteen years ago)

Snooker guys = still as funny as bowel cancer

― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Friday, 19 June 2009 09:08 (sixteen years ago)

nah, they go over my head. OTOH the rest of the series is brilliant.

― dog latin, Friday, 19 June 2009 11:14 (sixteen years ago)

Bowel cancer isn't funny, or have I misunderstood you?

― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Friday, 19 June 2009 11:16 (sixteen years ago)

I wouldn't go as far as brilliant. The bit that made me laugh the most last night was Polite Taxi Driver. I actually thought the snooker commentators were a bit funnier than usual.

― chap, Friday, 19 June 2009 11:23 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

the first two get me hennimore sketches were brilliant. they've fallen away since, or is that the point? pretty quality all around imo.

― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Sunday, 5 July 2009 23:34 (sixteen years ago)

there's been some good bits every week. i watched the last 3 back to back the other night. i liked the meta sketch where they discuss the hits/misses ratio of the show and did their smug voices. also HENNIMOOOOORE.

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Sunday, 5 July 2009 23:59 (sixteen years ago)

Bowel cancer isn't funny, or have I misunderstood you?

1/2 tempted to use that as a Display Name.

― the shock will be coupled with the need to dance (jim), Monday, 6 July 2009 00:01 (sixteen years ago)

David Mitchell's column is pretty much the best thing in the Observer at the moment (which isn't that hard).

― chap, Sunday, 12 July 2009 15:28 (sixteen years ago)

Although having just said that he doesn't appear to have one today!

― chap, Sunday, 12 July 2009 15:31 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

Back back back next Friday!
Behind the scenes clips at
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/peep-show/articles/peep-show-is-back

― Not the real Village People, Friday, 11 September 2009 23:04 (sixteen years ago)

Bit of a dud that one.

― chap, Friday, 18 September 2009 21:37 (sixteen years ago)

I thought it was alright. Men with ven got a laugh the first time. I find Peep Show a bit diminishing returns in general really. Oh and the wedding between the royal and Sophie Winkelmann just happened, I saw it on the cover of some woman's magazine. In case anyone was interested.

― amarillo fat (jim), Friday, 18 September 2009 22:24 (sixteen years ago)

given it's the sixth season/series, i thought it was pretty dece.

― history mayne, Friday, 18 September 2009 22:30 (sixteen years ago)

Men with ven was a good joke, yes. I also liked the reversal of the German guy Mark was lampooning being very urbane and smooth.

― chap, Friday, 18 September 2009 22:41 (sixteen years ago)

"froenkforrt" was the only bt i lolled at.

― or something, Friday, 18 September 2009 23:20 (sixteen years ago)

Most Mark-centric episode ever? You really need equal bits of Mark and Jeremy to keep it funny. I thought the last series was pretty lolsome all the way through but this one was a dud.

― Matt DC, Friday, 18 September 2009 23:37 (sixteen years ago)

i irl lol'd about five or six times, which isn't bad. "byatt and drabble" i just remembered.

― history mayne, Saturday, 19 September 2009 11:53 (sixteen years ago)

lolling like a drain here but I lol at neighbours so

― cozwn, Saturday, 19 September 2009 13:07 (sixteen years ago)

the Mitchell & Webb Sound radio show is on at the moment & has been really good, the jokes work much better on the radio than on their Look tv show

― zappi, Saturday, 19 September 2009 13:27 (sixteen years ago)

I'm a total Peep Show stan, was laughing at every single line here. "I've been screwed- you've, at best, been diddled"
also the fantastic way Jez replied to Mark's "That's a Spinal Tap joke" with "I know..."

Yeah I remember hearing the first M&W Sound and was really looking forward to it being on telly, but it works so much better on radio.

― Not the real Village People, Saturday, 19 September 2009 14:04 (sixteen years ago)

Return to form this week.

― Bob Six, Saturday, 26 September 2009 11:58 (sixteen years ago)

No question.

― I saw your posse, but now it's me who's bossy (DavidM), Saturday, 26 September 2009 13:20 (sixteen years ago)

Really liking this series. They lost their way for a bit, but this is the good stuff again.

― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 2 October 2009 22:20 (sixteen years ago)

Aye, we had to pause it for Jez's "she watches porno" song, we were laughing so hard.

"Just because I've never gone to Zimbabwe to buy a fucking cake" was gold.

― ailsa, Friday, 2 October 2009 22:27 (sixteen years ago)

Totally on top form this week.
"Sussex"
"Fewer"

― Not the real Village People, Saturday, 3 October 2009 00:31 (sixteen years ago)

^haha, yeah, that too. Also, Dobby is a very welcome addition (we went on a history walk in York a few weeks ago taken by some kind of mixture of David Mitchell and Terry Pratchett. I bet he fancies Dobby). Needs more SuperHans, but otherwise, great.

― ailsa, Saturday, 3 October 2009 08:10 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah episode 3 was cracking.

― Matt DC, Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:00 (sixteen years ago)

This series has been decent since the slightly flat first episode. There hasn't been one as good as the one last series where Super Hans made Sophie's cousin into his sex slave yet, though.

― chap, Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:18 (sixteen years ago)

I don't know - I think the last couple have been right up there with the best ones.

― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:59 (sixteen years ago)

Sophie's new haircut is shit and makes her look rough. There, I said it. Someone had to.

― ailsa, Sunday, 4 October 2009 21:13 (sixteen years ago)

Jez's new girlfriend's pretty tasty on the other hand. Anyone have any idea what her accent is?

― chap, Sunday, 4 October 2009 21:31 (sixteen years ago)

Having seen Superhans in Skins, I'm really not missing him from this series. Also quite glad that "Soph" seems to have become a minor character.

― Lovely and tender, like velvet. (Upt0eleven), Sunday, 4 October 2009 21:32 (sixteen years ago)

Wikipedia tells me she is Ukrainian.

― ailsa, Sunday, 4 October 2009 21:37 (sixteen years ago)

xpost to chap

― ailsa, Sunday, 4 October 2009 21:37 (sixteen years ago)

"Please don't pull me into your emotional fuck pie."

― chap, Saturday, 10 October 2009 19:56 (sixteen years ago)

Cracking episode. Nearly every line was gold.

― chap, Saturday, 10 October 2009 20:22 (sixteen years ago)

Many many actual lols. Seriously, why is there not more TV of this quality?

― Lovely and tender, like velvet. (Upt0eleven), Saturday, 10 October 2009 22:32 (sixteen years ago)

The Johnson/Big Suze one last week was mostly pish. This week, gold. Snoopy on a 'lude!

― ailsa, Friday, 16 October 2009 22:54 (sixteen years ago)

Worst episode of Peep Show ever.

― chap, Saturday, 17 October 2009 02:53 (sixteen years ago)

did they cook and eat another dog?

― scourge of prometheus, toaster of marshmallows (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 17 October 2009 04:17 (sixteen years ago)

^ this. Come on, it was funny! Mark's sister was good value, also anything involving SuperHans makes it not the worst anything of anything.

― ailsa, Saturday, 17 October 2009 08:37 (sixteen years ago)

i thought it was the worst episode of the series. "Red next to yella cuddly fella" had me laughing though.

― Pedro Paramore (jim), Saturday, 17 October 2009 08:45 (sixteen years ago)

I thought last week's was awful. Different strokes, eh? (I watched last week's one sober and this week's one drunk, if that makes a difference)

― ailsa, Saturday, 17 October 2009 08:47 (sixteen years ago)

I thought this week's episode was depressing. There were a couple of lines that got me, but it's been so much better...

― argosgold (AndyTheScot), Saturday, 17 October 2009 09:05 (sixteen years ago)

I thought this one was the funniest, wtf?

― Matt DC, Saturday, 17 October 2009 11:24 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, I don't understand. People seem to make these pronouncements at some point in every series. "Worst evah!" PS is consistently high-quality and funny, even if the level of funny tends to rise and fall a bit from episode to episode. I guess some folks just need something to bitch about.

(I would probably agree, though, that the Grand Guignol series 4 was the weakest.)

― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 17 October 2009 13:45 (sixteen years ago)

i don't know, last ep was good overall but got a little wacky/wonky at the end. mark seemed really out of character, the sophie & dad/marriage thing just rang a little forced to me.

― scourge of prometheus, toaster of marshmallows (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 17 October 2009 14:30 (sixteen years ago)

Thought it was a fairly poor ep, like it's easy to sit back and laugh but the plot of the ep was telegraphed a mile off. Plus Mark vomming after doing the bong hit was so predictable that them dragging it out made it even worse.

I am enjoying Jeremy's almost sensible emotional honesty in this series. Plus his gf (and her gf) are absolutely smoking...

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 17 October 2009 15:16 (sixteen years ago)

Just rewatched sober (could barely remember a thing about it) and thought it was pretty good this time, if a bit over-stuffed with supporting characters. Maybe I was too pissed to understand the jokes last night.

― chap, Saturday, 17 October 2009 16:25 (sixteen years ago)

This series has hung extremely disjointedly. I don't remember the other series being like this. It didn't even seem like a series, really.

― ailsa, Saturday, 24 October 2009 07:38 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

so i watched the first couple series on on hulu but i dont know if i can keep watching this after the 3rd season, mark saying yes to marrying sophie is so horrible

― max, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 11:57 (sixteen years ago)

i mean, hilarious, obviously

― max, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 11:57 (sixteen years ago)

but horrible

― max, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 11:57 (sixteen years ago)

The end of series 4 is more horrible (though it's generally agreed that S4 is the worst).

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 12:07 (sixteen years ago)

Series 4 is the worst but has a couple of good moments, S5 is a return to form by and large, S6 is a bit patchy but generally enjoyable.

The episode with the dog on the barge is so far and away the worst ep, maybe rivalled by Mark's wedding.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 12:12 (sixteen years ago)

you guys are talking "worst" in terms of "humor" or in terms of "horrible moments that make you sad"

― max, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 12:13 (sixteen years ago)

In the case of Series 4, both.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 12:13 (sixteen years ago)

maybe ill just skip it then

― max, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 12:15 (sixteen years ago)

It's worth watching for the School Reunion one alone.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 12:17 (sixteen years ago)

Best one in series 2 is the gig at Dartmouth University imo.

― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 12:19 (sixteen years ago)

I dunno, I'd just watch the whole thing - substandard Peep Show is still pretty great. You should probably at least watch the last episode, as that's the one where plot happens.

xpost - I think that's my favourite episode they've ever done.

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 12:20 (sixteen years ago)

yeah the dartmouth episode is great

― max, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 12:23 (sixteen years ago)

The ending of the Darty episode is genuinely heartbreaking.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 12:24 (sixteen years ago)

It's like the double whammy of watching both a really cute potential girlfriend and your youth slipping away at exactly the same moment.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 12:26 (sixteen years ago)

lol the "business studs". oh man i haven't seen that in years... shd rescreen.

― just someone who's l o s t (history mayne), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 12:27 (sixteen years ago)

darthmouth has malcolm tucker in it too

― max, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 12:27 (sixteen years ago)

yeah. isn't there an ep where julius (baldemort) turns up?

― just someone who's l o s t (history mayne), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 12:28 (sixteen years ago)

yeah hes the foreman in the episode where jez has jury duty

― max, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 12:30 (sixteen years ago)

Agreed that the school reunion one is the best of S4. It's also the one with The Orgazoid.

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 12:32 (sixteen years ago)

Just realised that Alex McQueen is the new Mark Heep/Kevin Eldon.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 12:33 (sixteen years ago)

Starting from the beginning after seeing a few random episodes over xmas. First episode was a very promising start just now.

― krakow, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 13:31 (sixteen years ago)

The episode with the dog on the barge is so far and away the worst ep, maybe rivalled by Mark's wedding.

I don't know about worst...well, maybe worst. But those are definitely the points (and S4 in general) where they were milking some pretty dark stuff for laughs, and the show threatened to become something more akin to League of Gentlemen.

― Dif Juz Guys (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 19:16 (sixteen years ago)

The dog one wasn't great but I thought Mark's wedding was hilarious!

― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 19:24 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, Mark's wedding is one of my favorite episodes of anything. It's kind of amazing that a show can push the discomfort level that high without sacrificing lols. The whole scene with Mark and Jez hiding upstairs ("how many missed calls?", "prayer bucket", the coin toss and "I'm excited!") is brilliant.

― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 20:33 (sixteen years ago)

Just re-watched season 6 and it's even greater than I remembered. Elena grows on you, and the Jez & Mez stuff is still pure gold.

― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 20:45 (sixteen years ago)

oh great, now I'm getting an angry lapdance

isn't that S4? one of my favorite lines

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 20:49 (sixteen years ago)

then again I thought the dog episode was hilarious

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 20:49 (sixteen years ago)

The only bad thing about the dog episode was that they took it too far and it became really unbelievable and a bit stupid at the end. The stag weekend stuff with the two women was great.

― everything, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 20:58 (sixteen years ago)

Museum, lunch, and a snooze! The big three!

― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 21:15 (sixteen years ago)

S1E3, the one with the teenage goth and the bowling and the shopping... oh my, that was wonderful.

― krakow, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 23:34 (sixteen years ago)

Also, I love how "Jeff!??!!" has become a sort-of catchphrase. Every time Sophie/anyone mentions him it causes Mark to splutter his name angrily.

― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 23:47 (sixteen years ago)

Elena grows on you

What, as a horrible horrible person?

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 23:56 (sixteen years ago)

> Museum, lunch, and a snooze! The big three!

as good as a blowjob and a twirl?

― koogs, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 09:26 (sixteen years ago)

S2E1: "This is good. This is like watching a porno, except I can't see anything, I haven't got a hard-on, and I want to cry."

― what kind of present your naked body (Upt0eleven), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 10:26 (sixteen years ago)

one of the classics.

― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 10:34 (sixteen years ago)

The final scenes of S1E4, with the confrontation with Johnson and the realisation about 'the bad thing'...

― krakow, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:07 (sixteen years ago)

What I meant about Elena is that I thought she stuck out as unconvincing - an actress playing a weird part - first time round, particularly as I totally buy every other character as being real.
Second time around she seems more believable, not sure why - maybe I've met some vile people in the interim :)

― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:12 (sixteen years ago)

i think i would buy a script book of this show

― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:13 (sixteen years ago)

pretty sure it exists

― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:14 (sixteen years ago)

Am I right in thinking series 7, whenever it comes out, will be the final series?

― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:15 (sixteen years ago)

There's been so many supposedly final series of Peep Show.

― Disco Stfu (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 23:02 (sixteen years ago)

first time round, particularly as I totally buy every other character as being real.

I don't really buy into any of Jeremy's lust objects as being real, except maybe Toni. It doesn't really matter seeing as we only see them through Jeremy's crazed mind.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 23:44 (sixteen years ago)

yeah big sooz is way too hot for jeremy

― max, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 23:45 (sixteen years ago)

They all are! Elena and Nancy are both incredible looking too.

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 23:47 (sixteen years ago)

yeah i forgot how hot nancy was. it was kind of annoying i thought since soph and toni look like such regular people.

― max, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 23:49 (sixteen years ago)

Toni's definitely prettier than average, but her personality makes her instantly repulsive.

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 23:58 (sixteen years ago)

Max you haven't even got to the best doomed potential girlfriend yet (ie DOBBY).

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 23:59 (sixteen years ago)

dobby <3 <3

― mr bollock apple (electricsound), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:01 (sixteen years ago)

Underage goth chick Mark sort of has sex with in season 1 is pretty hot (er, I'm guessing the actress wasn't underage).

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:01 (sixteen years ago)

Has no one re-edited the UK mac & pc ads to incorporate Jeremy's ruminations of raping Mark while he's ill in bed?

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:05 (sixteen years ago)

Dobby is my favorite (by which I mean least reprehensible and one whose company I would enjoy most IRL) character of the entire show. Which I'm sure is by design.

― Dif Juz Guys (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:12 (sixteen years ago)

I think it was clear that Big Suz was always supposed to be slumming it with Jez, in a "Common People"-type way.

― everything, Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:14 (sixteen years ago)

I always got the impression Jez himself was slumming it in a Common People way, with Mark constantly embarrassed at him. His mum was pretty middle class and well off, and she did name him Jeremy.

― bilbao baggins (88), Thursday, 7 January 2010 09:46 (sixteen years ago)

Underage goth chick Mark sort of has sex with in season 1 is pretty hot (er, I'm guessing the actress wasn't underage)

The goth chick wasn't underage either, depending on what kind of underage you mean. She was at sixth form college.

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 7 January 2010 09:54 (sixteen years ago)

Disconcerted to see Big Suz appearing as the all-growed-up Queen of Narnia in LW&tW film over Xmas. I guess even Aslan wasn't immune to her charms.

― Stevie T, Thursday, 7 January 2010 09:55 (sixteen years ago)

she also married a minor royal iirc.

― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Thursday, 7 January 2010 10:07 (sixteen years ago)

"I always got the impression Jez himself was slumming it in a Common People way"
Yes -- Jez is explicitly slumming with the carpenter who fixes the door Super Hans kicks open in the "I'm thinking about raping Mark while he's ill" episode.

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 7 January 2010 18:25 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, and he occasionally has great moments of self-awareness, like when he thinks he's not a proper person (with Elena) and when he off-handedly announces that his marriage to Nancy was a Visa wedding. This makes him a much better character than merely believing all the shit he comes out with.

― Not the real Village People, Thursday, 7 January 2010 19:43 (sixteen years ago)

Love Mark's response to one of Jez's moments of self-awareness: "Is he on acid? Or maybe he's watched a whole episode of Jeremy Kyle."

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Thursday, 7 January 2010 19:47 (sixteen years ago)

Yes -- Jez is explicitly slumming with the carpenter

"look at me, talking to a builder, like it was the most natural thing in the world"

― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Thursday, 7 January 2010 20:35 (sixteen years ago)

started watching this on hulu :)

― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Monday, 18 January 2010 20:29 (sixteen years ago)

I'd imagine a good quarter of the jokes in Peep Show would be lost on non-Brits, which would still leave plenty to enjoy of course.

― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 15:46 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, there have definitely been Brit-centric jokes that went over my head, but I think it's universal enough that I get quite a bit out of it. One of my favorite sitcoms ever.

― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 16:07 (sixteen years ago)

Oh christ, the shoe shop & dartmouth university episode from midway in Series 2! I watch this through my hands with a kind of self-loathing grimacing laughter.

― krakow, Sunday, 24 January 2010 22:21 (sixteen years ago)

I don't know if this is common knowledge but here are all series of Peep Show for free, legally from Channel 4:

http://www.youtube.com/show?p=yiRE6Z5QFLo&s=1

― piscesx, Sunday, 24 January 2010 22:27 (sixteen years ago)

And which require the use of a proxy server for anyone outside of the UK...

― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 25 January 2010 00:27 (sixteen years ago)

hulu has the whole series too i belive

― max, Monday, 25 January 2010 01:13 (sixteen years ago)

Said it before, but the Dartmouth Uni one is the best episode, an absolute masterpiece.

― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:29 (sixteen years ago)

yep my fave episode. most brit com movies of the last 10 years (even shaun of the dead and suchlike) have been garbage by comparison.

― piscesx, Monday, 25 January 2010 02:43 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, hulu has the first five series for American viewers.

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:50 (sixteen years ago)

Just watched it again. Fucking hell, I forgot about the bit when he calls Sophie to gloat!

― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Monday, 25 January 2010 03:03 (sixteen years ago)

The finale where she walks away across the campus and he realises that this will be an image that haunts him for the rest of his life was heart breaking.

― krakow, Monday, 25 January 2010 09:14 (sixteen years ago)

The finale of the magic mushroom party, broken toilet door, illness, failed trip to Frankfurt episode where Johnson turns up to save Mark is the funniest thing I've seen for so so long. I was genuinely crying with laughter.

― krakow, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 13:48 (sixteen years ago)

"Is that normal pooing? It doesn't smell like normal pooing."

― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 13:55 (sixteen years ago)

Definitely my favourite episode too. That last line by Johnson was drowned out by laugh tears.

― dog latin, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 14:04 (sixteen years ago)

This one and the Dartmouth Uni/Shoe shop are my favourites so far. I feel the hints of a Peep Show poll coming on...

― krakow, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 14:21 (sixteen years ago)

The one where they do e is very good, I think that comes later in S3.

― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 14:57 (sixteen years ago)

Oh yes, the ending of that toilet door episode is my favourite single scene in the history of PS.

Oldie but a goodie and a strong contender for favourite overall episode: the Darrell the Racist episode including, as it does, Indian restaurant scene "FOUR peshawari naan? that's insane, Jeremy" the recording studio scene "he probably plays in the BNP jazz combo" and other bits and pieces.

― fields of salmon, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 15:07 (sixteen years ago)

Also moreish crack.

― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:06 (sixteen years ago)

"yeah yeah, terms and conditions may apply... this sports drink may cause anal discharge, etcetera.."

― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:13 (sixteen years ago)

finished all 6 series. i felt like the quality dropped for s3 but the rest was great. as far as brit things going over my head, i definitely didn't understand the canal boat episode. is that like a typical thing people do over there? seems weird

― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:16 (sixteen years ago)

What, eat raw dead dog? Only at weekends.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:19 (sixteen years ago)

i liked mark yelling at the boiler and jez explaining how setting a higher temp makes it work harder

― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:22 (sixteen years ago)

Series 4 (especially the dog bit, but also weeing in a church, setting fire to a barn) was a serious shark-jumper, and I thought the show would end there, but somehow S5 and S6 were great. Not that S4 was bad, but it got too bogged down in plot and ridiculous situations that wouldn't normally happen IRL, so the humour didn't quite work.

― dog latin, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:23 (sixteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrowboat

― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:26 (sixteen years ago)

Narrowboat, a more genteel version of carvanning and only at 4 miles and hour -> Exactly the sort of thing Mark would be into.

Incidentally its quite a pleasant way to spend a few days.

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:36 (sixteen years ago)

i liked mark yelling at the boiler and jez explaining how setting a higher temp makes it work harder

"Obey my commands, Orac!"

― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:57 (sixteen years ago)

all his pent-up anger at being an ineffectual dweeb is unleashed at it

― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 18:02 (sixteen years ago)

Some of the storylines go a bit iffy, but every episode has tons of fantastic lines. I'd never be able to choose!

The pooing episode, incidentally, was the first thing I thought of when I saw this:
Passive aggressive housemates..

― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 18:18 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

im so sick of hearing/seeing this guys on adverts/programmes/doing columns. ffs.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 12:18 (sixteen years ago)

*these

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 12:18 (sixteen years ago)

I'm a huge Peep Show fan and yet I completely agree with you. Especially the one that plays Jeremy. The one that plays Mark can be a little more neutral in a newsreader sort of way.

― fields of salmon, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 05:41 (sixteen years ago)

three months pass...

watched the season 1 region 1 disc & am hooked. uh how do i shot watching more eps in the usa, short of seeking out downloads (which ill do if necessary)?

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 15:30 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.surfthechannel.com/show/74777.html

Think the Megavideo links for each episode should work for you. Pretty poor quality though.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 15:37 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, torrents or a region-free DVD player are pretty much your only stateside options. Worth it, though. I just rewatched the entire series and confirmed it as one of my all-time faves.

― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 15:39 (fifteen years ago)

Britishers can buy the whole box set from hmv.com for £14.99 now!

― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 15:42 (fifteen years ago)

Also we can watch them all on YouTube for free, haha.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 15:54 (fifteen years ago)

wtf im so jealous of all u britishers! i guess theres a 1st time for everything

o well, ty for the info. looking fwd to watching~

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 15:56 (fifteen years ago)

I'm re-watching them atm too! s4 has all my least favourite eps on, but I still love it. s3 is a+++++++++
Also: Mitchell & Webb Sound type stuff with animation here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/clips/p0087j80

― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:03 (fifteen years ago)

Series 4 was much better on a rewatch than it was the first time through. Although the bit with the dog was still waaaaay too OTT.

― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:29 (fifteen years ago)

uh how do i shot watching more eps in the usa, short of seeking out downloads (which ill do if necessary)?

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, June 8, 2010 11:30 AM (

http://www.hulu.com/peep-show

― spud webs (am0n), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:38 (fifteen years ago)

how did i not know about this! My s4 DVD wouldn't play some of the eps so I ordered a new one. (Still only £8 from Amazon UK incl. shipping to US)

― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:40 (fifteen years ago)

that's numberwang

― spud webs (am0n), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 20:22 (fifteen years ago)

Can't resist re-watching s3e3 - the finale of the mushroom sex party / gastric flu / broken toilet door story is amazing.

― krakow, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 21:12 (fifteen years ago)

I was thinking about that one yesterday when I had a bowl of two different flavours of crisps for lunch - all mixed up!
Superhans always gets the best punchlines-
Opening the door to "Why didn't you tell me about the wanking?" in the Orgazoid one.
Opening the door to "Did you try and section me?" in the sectioning one.
In the s5 $cient010gy one, the reveal when Jeremy's going on about it changing his life, to see Hans sitting there in his buttoned up shirt agreeing with it all. Fantastic.

― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 22:05 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

What, eat raw dead dog? Only at weekends.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:19 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

loooooved this episode

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 17 July 2010 01:09 (fifteen years ago)

The new M&W Look was pretty pathetic, though I laughed at the Ceasar sketch.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 17 July 2010 11:18 (fifteen years ago)

four months pass...

Series 7 Ep.7 on 4OD now.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/peep-show/4od#3139622

This has annoyed David Mitchell.
http://twitter.com/#!/RealDMitchell/status/5666279130136576

― on the cusp of eligibility (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 19 November 2010 17:26 (fifteen years ago)

I mean Series 7 Ep. 1 obv.

― on the cusp of eligibility (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 19 November 2010 17:27 (fifteen years ago)

For some reason this annoys me also. Gonna wait til next Friday.

― Number None, Friday, 19 November 2010 17:54 (fifteen years ago)

If you're steadfastly waiting 'til Friday, then look away, perhaps...
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Jez did made me laugh several times, but otherwise not that great a beginning in my eyes. It felt rather slight, especially for a series starter.

― krakow, Saturday, 20 November 2010 08:33 (fifteen years ago)

why are they still going with this, it's still mildly amusing but a seventh series...god.

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 20 November 2010 11:44 (fifteen years ago)

The opening episode was the weakest of the last series. Haven't watched this one yet, will do this afternoon. I'm fairly confident it's still decent.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Saturday, 20 November 2010 12:54 (fifteen years ago)

Ha, I like how people are all "gah, seven seasons!" when the sum total of Peep Show eps at this point is about equal to one and a half seasons of a US show.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 November 2010 13:32 (fifteen years ago)

^^^

― A brownish area with points (chap), Saturday, 20 November 2010 13:34 (fifteen years ago)

To me it seems like people are looking for and expecting a decline in quality as it's gone on for a relatively long time, whereas if there has actually been one it's only been slight. Series 6 made me laugh my arse off.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Saturday, 20 November 2010 13:35 (fifteen years ago)

S4 was the worse, but they've really rallied from that IMO.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Saturday, 20 November 2010 13:39 (fifteen years ago)

To me it seems like people are looking for and expecting a decline in quality as it's gone on for a relatively long time, whereas if there has actually been one it's only been slight. Series 6 made me laugh my arse off.

Agreed. Also agreed this was a slightly odd opening ep, maybe a bit lazy what with Jez vaguely successfully chasing another pretty woman, but Mark was pretty good.

― Not the real Village People, Saturday, 20 November 2010 19:14 (fifteen years ago)

Watched it. Not a classic but definitely funny.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Saturday, 20 November 2010 20:16 (fifteen years ago)

was ok.

the Robert's Web thing that followed it was funnier than it should've been based on the tv listing / premise.

― koogs, Sunday, 28 November 2010 13:01 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah it was ok. The only laugh out loud part was the "sad gnome, fishing for turds".

― nate woolls, Sunday, 28 November 2010 13:07 (fifteen years ago)

This week's was back on form. Dobby club. Awesome.

― Not the real Village People, Saturday, 4 December 2010 06:24 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, was much better than last week.

― ailsa, Saturday, 4 December 2010 09:12 (fifteen years ago)

Don't fancy Jez's new love interest as much as his previous ones, tbf

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 December 2010 10:09 (fifteen years ago)

First episode of the season that's really hit the spot for me. "I've mistakenly run to Windsor".

― A brownish area with points (chap), Saturday, 11 December 2010 03:17 (fifteen years ago)

Sorry, that should read first episode of the SERIES. Been talking about American telly too much.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Saturday, 11 December 2010 03:18 (fifteen years ago)

The set up was great and there were very funny bits but I'm not sure they really matched the comic potential of Mark buying a dildo. Or for that matter Jez holding a book group.

Superhans great obviously. Hopefully he's in every episode.

― Matt DC, Saturday, 11 December 2010 11:45 (fifteen years ago)

fancy jez's new love interest more than the other ones.

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 11 December 2010 12:50 (fifteen years ago)

birth ep was weak but the two since have been brilliant, my favourites so far. so pleased it's still great

― NI, Saturday, 11 December 2010 14:05 (fifteen years ago)

Just watched the second and third episodes and felt they were many steps above the first of the series - wonderful.

― krakow, Sunday, 12 December 2010 01:07 (fifteen years ago)

kenneth

― am0n, Sunday, 12 December 2010 01:13 (fifteen years ago)

I like the way Jez and Mark are interacting more this series. Feels like they're friends again.

― Number None, Sunday, 12 December 2010 03:06 (fifteen years ago)

Most of my favourite moments of Peep Show have been just Jez & Mez and their conversations.

― Not the real Village People, Sunday, 12 December 2010 03:32 (fifteen years ago)

superhans' wood-crack-running monologue was his finest moment so far, eye-bulgingly brilliant

― NI, Sunday, 12 December 2010 03:40 (fifteen years ago)

love mark's mockery of mr. nice

― The Dumbest Jews on the Planet (and Maureen Dowd) (symsymsym), Sunday, 12 December 2010 03:53 (fifteen years ago)

The scene with Mark & Jez walking along the street where Jez suggests Mark needs to "grow a pair" and then "rip her a new one" had me in near tears.

― krakow, Sunday, 12 December 2010 09:29 (fifteen years ago)

I noticed there was a different writer on Friday's episode - not Armstrong/Bain. They should use Friday's guy more often, was miles better than the previous two episodes.

― nate woolls, Monday, 13 December 2010 09:39 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, this was great stuff. First two were a little iffy. Still funnier than 99% of stuff on TV.

― scary-cat-mascot-costumes-for-kids2.tk (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 13 December 2010 10:19 (fifteen years ago)

The boss character is so great, what a horrible bastard.

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Monday, 13 December 2010 14:45 (fifteen years ago)

Peep Show absolutely revels in creating supporting characters who are either total idiots or total wankers.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Monday, 13 December 2010 15:29 (fifteen years ago)

first half of last night's was great (very stephen moffat in his press gang / joking apart years. i thought). second half tailed off a bit but...

― koogs, Saturday, 18 December 2010 09:28 (fifteen years ago)

Yes - from the netherzone bit it was shaping up to be all-time... fizzled out once they got in the shower.

― Stevie T, Saturday, 18 December 2010 10:18 (fifteen years ago)

bottled the bottle episode

― sugg knight (cozen), Saturday, 18 December 2010 11:11 (fifteen years ago)

ive seen something using that 'locked in the stairwell between the flat and the main exit' type plot device before, possibly an old film noir or a hitchcock presents/twilight zone. is it a nod to something really obvious that im missing?

― NI, Saturday, 18 December 2010 16:55 (fifteen years ago)

Episode was amazing I thought, one of the best in any series. Jeff is now looking like a cross between David Cameron and Dennis Wise, which is about as easily hateable as its possible to be.

― Matt DC, Saturday, 18 December 2010 17:02 (fifteen years ago)

dobby <3

― jumpskins, Saturday, 18 December 2010 19:08 (fifteen years ago)

yes, plot very familiar but am having trouble placing it. involved being naked iirc.

― koogs, Saturday, 18 December 2010 19:48 (fifteen years ago)

This actually happened to me several years ago, at night, with those lights that automatically turn themselves off after a minute, until I was rescued in the morning. But I'm guessing/hoping I wasn't the inspiration for this episode. There was an episode of The Peter Prinicple (where Jim Broadbent is a bank manager) where he got trapped in the entrance to his bank for the whole weekend in similar circumstances.

― Sepp Blatter quipped (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 07:09 (fifteen years ago)

the early malle policier ascenseur pour l'echafaud involves a meticulously planned murder going awry when the protagonist spends most of the movie trapped in the elevator. not very close but ' an old film noir or a hitchcock presents/twilight zone ' type scenario

― zvookster, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 07:35 (fifteen years ago)

dial 'm' for murder turns on access to the stairwell via a certain key

― zvookster, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 07:38 (fifteen years ago)

There was an episode of The Peter Prinicple (where Jim Broadbent is a bank manager) where he got trapped in the entrance to his bank for the whole weekend in similar circumstances.

There was an episode of Friends where this happens to Chandler. Except instead of his irritating best mate, he gets stuck with a playboy playmate. Less comedy than Peep Show ensues.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 08:41 (fifteen years ago)

i dont think its any of these im thinking of, it's a v hazy memory though - could even be something like an episode of league of gentlemen. this is gonna bug me for ages..

― NI, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 09:23 (fifteen years ago)

haha, OK, Christmas episode was aces.

― ailsa, Sunday, 26 December 2010 21:38 (fifteen years ago)

There was a hilarious conversation about potatoes. Not sure I bought Mark's mum being all risque, but his dad was suitably monstrous.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Sunday, 26 December 2010 23:03 (fifteen years ago)

fuck off poirot = alltime lolz, also potato conversation, plus everything Superhans said.

― ailsa, Sunday, 26 December 2010 23:07 (fifteen years ago)

This one and episode 3 were both pretty good. I know it's dangerous for the show for characters to have any kind of growth or self-knowledge, but Dobby and Mark both had pretty awesome moments that came close.

― (are you sure you want to) exit the wizard (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 02:31 (fifteen years ago)

christmas ep was bloody brilliant (although in an old ep, Mark was sniggering about how Jez thinks potatoes "count" as one of your 5-a-day, would have been good to elaborate on this a bit...?)

― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 08:35 (fifteen years ago)

Oh hey, Mark's dad was Kate Winslet's dad in Heavenly Creatures. Knew he looked familiar.

― (are you sure you want to) exit the wizard (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 10:13 (fifteen years ago)

Wow yeah, well spotted.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 15:17 (fifteen years ago)

No love for the final episode of s7? I thought it was great. "No Mark, not the Hootenanny, never the Hootenanny!"
Mark is a little weasel though. You'd think he'd be wise to Geoff (GEOFF?!!) by now.

― Not the real Village People, Thursday, 30 December 2010 08:55 (fifteen years ago)

Eh, has it broadcast already? I had no idea.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Thursday, 30 December 2010 11:02 (fifteen years ago)

last night. is repeated on E4 on 31st at 11:00pm and 1:50am (and an hour later on E4+1)
and on the 5th on CH4 at 11:40pm (and 00:40am on CH4+1)

Dave's also showing repeats *from the beginning* starting at 11:00pm on 3rd

― koogs, Thursday, 30 December 2010 11:59 (fifteen years ago)

(repeats are weekly)

― koogs, Thursday, 30 December 2010 12:01 (fifteen years ago)

SuperHans' party.

― That's life in the world of shadows, Garkun. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 12:00 (fifteen years ago)

that was actually the first ever episode, last night? I saw most of it.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 12:19 (fifteen years ago)

Thursday, 30 December 2010 11:59 (5 days ago)
"Dave's also showing repeats *from the beginning* starting at 11:00pm on 3rd"

yes, first ever

― koogs, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 12:23 (fifteen years ago)

Loved the bit with Superhans' party. Sometimes what you don't show is funnier than what you do.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 12:54 (fifteen years ago)

"I've looked inside the hurt locker" made me lol. Each party reminded me of a different NYE I'd had - this one was 1996, listening to punishing techno in a freezing cold warehouse with outside toilets.

― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 12:59 (fifteen years ago)

nine months pass...

been watching so much peep show lately. wasn't crazy about the barbecued dog episode but they made up for it with the awful (in a good way) wedding episode.

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 27 October 2011 21:09 (fourteen years ago)

i thought dude's name was "superhands" until yesterday btw.

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 27 October 2011 21:10 (fourteen years ago)

mark's crazy boss is my favorite supporting character though.

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 27 October 2011 21:18 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLmmr52p410

― ███★★★███ (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 17:15 (fourteen years ago)

is there a fresh meat thread?

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 17:21 (fourteen years ago)

bit of talk about it in Rolling UK Comedy

― Number None, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 17:23 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

♫♫ I am in loco parentis/I am the last remaining contestant on the Apprentice/I am the home-trained dentist ♫♫

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 01:02 (fourteen years ago)

yeah i want more plz

― walking liquidity crisis (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 01:55 (fourteen years ago)

I spent much of my xmas/new year break watching all of m&w look/m&w situation/Bruiser on youtube. I do like sketch shows, I must admit (should I make a get coat joek now....)

― Trayce, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 05:36 (fourteen years ago)

Feels like the writers got themselves distracted with Fresh Meat this year and Mitchell and Webb got distracted by appearing on anything that wasn't nailed down.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 09:41 (fourteen years ago)

Jesse Armstrong has a lot of other stuff going on, including writing for Ianucci's Veep

― Number None, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 10:05 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

Damn I just spent all night watching Peep Show... one of the best ways to ride out insomnia IMO. I had been meaning to finally watch it and god its brilliant!

― Frobisher (Viceroy), Monday, 6 February 2012 15:54 (fourteen years ago)

What series were you watching?

― brain (krakow), Monday, 6 February 2012 20:38 (fourteen years ago)

In the last couple of weeks I've had two people surreptitiously ask me if I've ever seen Peep Show (I'm a Brit in the US and the conversation usually turns to TV comedy for some reason) and as it's p much my favourite show ever it's a wonderful thing to bond over, and people who like it here seem to really LOVE it. But hardly anyone's seen it!

― kinder, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 08:26 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

david mitchell is a koala

― Wesley Crusher: Teenage F#ck Machine (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 March 2012 20:38 (fourteen years ago)

series 6 started a little slow but worked itself up into an admirable froth, series 7 was as good as its ever been, from sophie giving birth -> the xmas/new years finale.

so just waiting around for this....

Series 8 (2012)

Series 8 will be filmed in Summer 2012, and broadcast in the Autumn of that year.[84][85][86]

[edit] Series 9

A ninth series has also been commissioned.[84] Series 9 is expected for 2013, the show's 10th anniversary.

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Monday, 19 March 2012 21:01 (fourteen years ago)

There's been an unusually big gap between 7 and 8 no? I guess Mitchell in particular is a bigger, busier celeb than ever at the moment.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:03 (fourteen years ago)

i am american; what do these guys do when they're not doing these series? Character work?

― Wesley Crusher: Teenage F#ck Machine (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:18 (fourteen years ago)

They have their own sketch show and appear on many many panel shows. David Mitchell also writes a shit column for the Observer

― Number None, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:20 (fourteen years ago)

got a particular bad example of said shit column?

― Wesley Crusher: Teenage F#ck Machine (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:22 (fourteen years ago)

also, very weird to me that y'all have panel shows... just talking celebrity heads basically of the bill maher variety? and is that stuff heavily political?

― Wesley Crusher: Teenage F#ck Machine (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:23 (fourteen years ago)

I'm in the midst of my third or fourth round of watching the complete series at the moment. It holds up so well to repeat viewings. I can't imagine ever growing tired of it (provided none of the forthcoming series are shit).

― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:24 (fourteen years ago)

Panel Shows = supposedly a quiz show, but with celebrities (usually comedians) making up both teams and nobody really caring about the scores or correct answers, just having 'a laugh' at the 'banter'

― Let's Talk About Socks (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:26 (fourteen years ago)

The ubiquitous David Mitchell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOB-j9Ihfl8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzNJYQXhDUw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OFXL0jIMR4

― Let's Talk About Socks (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:30 (fourteen years ago)

They also make That Mitchell and Web Look, as the thread title mentions. The fourth (and final?) series was in 2010.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOZtWZ56lc

― polyphonic, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:33 (fourteen years ago)

ayuh, i've gone through the M+W Look and it's okay but nowhere near peep show quality.

― Wesley Crusher: Teenage F#ck Machine (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:43 (fourteen years ago)

Agreed.

― polyphonic, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:44 (fourteen years ago)

Dunno if i can point out a particular example forks (they all kind of blend in to each other) but feel free to peruse at your leisure
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/davidmitchell

― Number None, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:50 (fourteen years ago)

Robert Webb also recently did this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJOZ_Jb_Wiw

― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:53 (fourteen years ago)

urgh yeah i just tried three of those guardian columns they're um not very good let's say.

― Wesley Crusher: Teenage F#ck Machine (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:58 (fourteen years ago)

David Mitchell and Victoria Coren are engaged. Too perfect

― Number None, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:21 (fourteen years ago)

Peep show star David Mitchell and TV presenter Victoria Coren have announced their engagement in The Times.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:38 (fourteen years ago)

Cynicism aside, I think that's nice. I'm happy for them.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:47 (fourteen years ago)

I'm sure corrigan will find some way to screw this up

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:52 (fourteen years ago)

Jez'll probably screw her the night before the wedding.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:54 (fourteen years ago)

and Mark will ignore all the vol-au-vants at the reception and 'actually eat the pizza'

― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:57 (fourteen years ago)

Super Hans will have taken some drugs.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:01 (fourteen years ago)

This is so perfect! Then they'll be 'over the hump'

― kinder, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:28 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar, people!
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― Stinky Ray Vaughan (Eisbaer), Monday, 4 June 2012 02:48 (thirteen years ago)

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar is wonderful and everything, but I'm pretty sure it's technically illegal to bump this thread right now if it isn't regarding a start date for Peep Show series 8.

― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 4 June 2012 04:45 (thirteen years ago)

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar is not only my least favorite part of the show, but it's a bit I actively hate. Dreadful!

― Pita Malört (Je55e), Monday, 4 June 2012 18:04 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

ayuh, i've gone through the M+W Look and it's okay but nowhere near peep show quality.

Is this true, because I just started watching Mitchell and Webb Look and it's the best thing I've seen in ages -- is Peep Show even better?
(my relationship with M+WL = I love Numberwang and hate Digby Chicken Caesar, if that helps pin me down.)

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 14 July 2012 15:58 (thirteen years ago)

well Mitchell and Webb Look is terrible so it's hard to say what your opinion of Peep Show will be. You're definitely watching them the wrong way round though

― Number None, Saturday, 14 July 2012 16:00 (thirteen years ago)

peep show is about 6.75 times better than mitchell and webb look

― This clam, stranded on someone’s floor, is trying to dig itself (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 July 2012 04:24 (thirteen years ago)

need to move that decimal point right a couple of notches.

david mitchell is the cockfarmer's cockfarmer

― Tartar Mouantcheoux (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 July 2012 10:58 (thirteen years ago)

I really like M&W Look :(

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Monday, 16 July 2012 11:03 (thirteen years ago)

I had a lot of love for these two when Mitchel and Webb Sound was on R4 a few years back. Overexposure to DM's cockfarmery has made their entire output go down in my estimation. It really did look for a little while that they were gonna turn into a C21 Fry & Laurie.

― give me back my 200 dollars (NotEnough), Monday, 16 July 2012 12:23 (thirteen years ago)

as a non-UKer I am unfamiliar with the cockfarming aspects of DM.

― Simon H., Monday, 16 July 2012 12:55 (thirteen years ago)

I think they are being overemphasised here. He's smug and facetious but also quite witty.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 16 July 2012 13:55 (thirteen years ago)

he's a smug unfunny Tory, kinda Happy Shopper Stephen Fry vibe

― Tartar Mouantcheoux (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 July 2012 13:56 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah it worked much better on radio

― kinder, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:38 (thirteen years ago)

those soapbox videos were the worst things DM has ever done. that dismal 'old wealthy white male' (or in this case, old before his time) has a <sneerquote>hilarious</sneerquote> rant about something that fails to resonate with anyone ever. even his reading is some dreadful contrived shite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTBBKmBtdEM

love peep show but hate mitchell's carefully crafted young/straight/nerd/pompous take-off of stephen fry

― NI, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:52 (thirteen years ago)

in fact his whole soapbox thing is a combination of all the very worst traits (and lo, there are many) of jeremy clarkson, will self and stephen fry. very very nearly tarnishes the brilliance of mark corrigan but not quite

― NI, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:53 (thirteen years ago)

xxxpost is he tory?

― NI, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:54 (thirteen years ago)

M&W Look season 1 is okay but not great. Just watched season 2 eps 2 and 3 though, and they are quite a leap funnier.

(nowhere near peep show tho)

― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Monday, 16 July 2012 17:11 (thirteen years ago)

i just saw a pilot where mitchell & webb are roommates except one of them is a sci-fi writer and they have imaginary sci-fi adventures.
now THAT was terrible.

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 16 July 2012 18:07 (thirteen years ago)

About half the sketches are good. I watch it on streaming netflix. I like "Get Me Hennomire"

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Monday, 16 July 2012 18:38 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE_Glg85-60

― The Painter of Blight™ (Sanpaku), Monday, 16 July 2012 18:40 (thirteen years ago)

I also really like the Cheesoid robot

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Monday, 16 July 2012 18:41 (thirteen years ago)

i liked the garden centre tribe. and the bit where they read the script and the script reads 'they read the script'.

― koogs, Monday, 16 July 2012 18:50 (thirteen years ago)

*prefers mitchell and webb look to peep show*

― duobting tuomas (m bison), Monday, 16 July 2012 18:51 (thirteen years ago)

and of course Angel Summonor and bmx boy

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Monday, 16 July 2012 18:53 (thirteen years ago)

xp No he's not a Tory afaik but he's small-c conservative in a very smug, condescending way.

― Get wolves (DL), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:16 (thirteen years ago)

in concordance, is webb a small-w wastrel in real life?

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 16 July 2012 19:20 (thirteen years ago)

he seems like s nice man

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:39 (thirteen years ago)

four months pass...

New series looks like it's starting next Sunday:
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/peep-show

― kinder, Sunday, 18 November 2012 18:04 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_2nFeYxLUI

From the Jonathan Ross show apparently

― kinder, Sunday, 18 November 2012 18:06 (thirteen years ago)

Sunday's not a bad day for it actually.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 18 November 2012 18:40 (thirteen years ago)

So, what did anyone think? I did laugh, but it was no great shakes.

― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 11:07 (thirteen years ago)

It was pretty good but not great, Jeremy in front of the therapist was probably the best bit. There's a bit too much clunky quipping in Mark's inner monologue now, I'm sure it wasn't always like that.

Still don't actually believe that Gerard is dead.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 11:19 (thirteen years ago)

Johnson's speech at the funeral was terrible. I didn't really enjoy the episode much at all, and can't think of a single good line, though one thing did make me giggle (not a very good return from 20+ minutes, really)

― ailsa, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 11:21 (thirteen years ago)

It doesn't really help that they become increasingly pathetic as they get older and the writers are aware of that. What works when the characters are in their mid-20s becomes increasingly desperate when they're in their mid-30s.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 11:24 (thirteen years ago)

i only do robotic food, i can't do analog

― koogs, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 11:24 (thirteen years ago)

I like Peep Show, although this was the first time I'd seen it in a very long time and yeah, not great - seemed to be harking back to the dark days of series 4 when situations would get so far-fetched they no longer seemed to have any grounding in real-life, which for me is part of the point and spirit of the show. But y'know, breaking the microwave, confronting the therapist; there was no "ah, we've all done that" acknowledgement, it just seemed zany for the sake of it.

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 11:28 (thirteen years ago)

What works when the characters are in their mid-20s becomes increasingly desperate when they're in their mid-30s

Hey now

― W. Somerset Ma'am (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 11:44 (thirteen years ago)

It was average. The first episode of any given series of Peep Show is often a bit sub-par though.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 11:57 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah it was a bit business as usual. The whole prolonged curry bit had me laughing irl though.

― kinder, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:04 (thirteen years ago)

Oh yeah that was funny. Always good when Mark gets properly spiteful.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:08 (thirteen years ago)

yeah the curry bit was good actually, and jez not being sure whether his cover had been blown or not for a bit.

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:10 (thirteen years ago)

i don't really expect hilarity from Peep Show anymore. It sort of trundles along as a comedy institution now. I quite enjoyed that episode though

― Number None, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:12 (thirteen years ago)

Oh I don't know, season 7 had its hilarious moments.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:22 (thirteen years ago)

Sorry, SERIES 7. Must avoid Americanisms in a Peep Show thread.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:23 (thirteen years ago)

p excited to see this (i am an americans so I guess it will have to be by illicit means). But chap OTM that the season openers of Peep Show are almost always subpar.

Series 8 is bound to be tons better than that frickin' magicians movie which I failed to endure on Netflix a couple of months ago...

Also no one is mentioning Dobby PLEASE CONFIRM S8 HAS DOBBY

― you only write about... pleassssure (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:03 (thirteen years ago)

s8 has dobby

― koogs, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:07 (thirteen years ago)

Dobby, 1x Johnson, no Sophie

― kinder, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 21:54 (thirteen years ago)

Still hoping for the return of Toni.

― nate woolls, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 22:06 (thirteen years ago)

she's the beautiful poison, my friend

― kinder, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 22:10 (thirteen years ago)

Rewengeh!

― you only write about... pleassssure (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 22:39 (thirteen years ago)

True to form, second episode a lot better.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 3 December 2012 00:25 (thirteen years ago)

"this must be the greatest quantity of squeezable mustard ever present at a literary lunch"

― jumpskins, Monday, 3 December 2012 03:56 (thirteen years ago)

the velvet spoon routine...

― kinder, Monday, 3 December 2012 08:22 (thirteen years ago)

It's still leaving me a bit cold. I just didn't buy Mark, the most suspicious man in the world, falling for that fake publishing deal. No matter how desperate he might have been, he'd have picked up that Denmark isn't in the Euro.

I like Jeremy gradually trying to assert himself as the more sensible one though.

― Matt DC, Monday, 3 December 2012 13:29 (thirteen years ago)

I feel like the context was that, no, Optimally-Performing Mark wouldn't have allowed himself to be fleeced like that but Desperate, Bathroom Supply Selling Mark might well lose his sense of judgment.

Can I just say: I'm always glad when they bring things around and show Mark and Jez being, y'know, actual friends who care about one another.

― Tangy Flavor Nuggets™ (Old Lunch), Monday, 3 December 2012 13:39 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah, I agree. The ending was actually quite sweet.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 3 December 2012 14:26 (thirteen years ago)

By the way, has everyone spotted Zhara from last series talking to Yoda with a Northern accent in the new Vodafone ad?

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 3 December 2012 14:35 (thirteen years ago)

"...plus, it's not like Napoleon is wiping his bum with pages of MY biography, so I am, to an extent, maybe...winning?"

― Simon H., Tuesday, 11 December 2012 20:26 (thirteen years ago)

Was a good one this week.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 20:34 (thirteen years ago)

yeah the third one was good. superhans was great.

― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 20:40 (thirteen years ago)

Back in the game with this one.

― kinder, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:20 (thirteen years ago)

"9/11 was good news. Not good news obviously but… good 'news'."

― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 09:58 (thirteen years ago)

Really good episode that one, waaaaay more solid than ep.2 even if it did lack a line that caused me to literally piss myself like the chitty chitty bang bang one did last week.

― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 11:16 (thirteen years ago)

The problem with the first couple was that the situations just weren't very funny. Paintball episodes are kind of modern sitcom bankers though, really enjoyed this one.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 11:25 (thirteen years ago)

How does an americaner shot s8? I'm dyin' here.

― the clown's reflection is incorrect (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:43 (thirteen years ago)

Peep Show only works when the situations and reactions are believable. Jez has gone from being a narcissistic layabout to a deluded, borderline sociopathic nihilist. Mark has also turned into an active cretin. Despite their faults, the two characters were sympathetic; you empathised and rooted for them in most situations, but as with S4, much of this series revolves around them doing ridiculous, unbelievable things.

― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:52 (thirteen years ago)

xpost Some kind soul or another has been thankfully uploading the s8 episodes to YouTube.

― New Testes Leper (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:57 (thirteen years ago)

ha cool i didn't even check there cause I figured it would have been stamped out right away!

― the clown's reflection is incorrect (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 17:00 (thirteen years ago)

the velvet spoon routine had me dying, perfectly captures that feeling of being startled when caught trying to be sneaky

― ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 17:18 (thirteen years ago)

series 8 appears to be on hulu as well

― CGI fridays (Edward III), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 17:29 (thirteen years ago)

God bless you hulu.

"Demanded the Ramsgate blowjob?"

"Mumford & Sons"

― the clown's reflection is incorrect (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 16 December 2012 21:37 (thirteen years ago)

Just re-watched that episode before ep 4. Both classic.

― kinder, Sunday, 16 December 2012 22:56 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah, episode four is really excellent.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 17 December 2012 01:21 (thirteen years ago)

the pizza line ahahahsahaahaa

― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 17 December 2012 01:49 (thirteen years ago)

Episode 5 is up on 4OD, by the way.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 17 December 2012 14:21 (thirteen years ago)

dead gerard

― ✧ (am0n), Monday, 17 December 2012 16:11 (thirteen years ago)

haunting me from beyond the grave, like a boring dracula.

― the clown's reflection is incorrect (Jon Lewis), Monday, 17 December 2012 16:44 (thirteen years ago)

That Freecycle gag was excellent. Total callback with the Barchester Chronicles too

― kinder, Monday, 17 December 2012 23:32 (thirteen years ago)

Episodes 3 and 4 have been great.

― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Monday, 17 December 2012 23:33 (thirteen years ago)

5 is a cracker as well.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 00:43 (thirteen years ago)

Was Episode 4 not the one just shown on Sunday?

― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 10:17 (thirteen years ago)

Yes, but episode 5 is available on 4OD already.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 10:19 (thirteen years ago)

Ooh, that I did not notice, thanks!

― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 10:42 (thirteen years ago)

Gone now, I think. Or maybe I'm just too stupid to find it.

― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 11:49 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/peep-show/4od#3457579

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 11:54 (thirteen years ago)

Looks like you have to go through the Peep Show FB page.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 11:55 (thirteen years ago)

Got it. Ta.

― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 11:58 (thirteen years ago)

Ep 6 is on Monday, the day after Ep 5 I believe.

― kinder, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 13:41 (thirteen years ago)

Enjoyed e6, especially Mark's presentation on fast forward. I think this series may have pulled off the trick of making each episode better than the last. It helped that the first one was so bad.

― Alba, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 23:57 (thirteen years ago)

E5, I mean, not e6.

― Alba, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 23:58 (thirteen years ago)

six months pass...

david mitchell, professional conservatory seller, thinks the 'little people' should remain quiet and humble, no matter what:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/07/sainsburys-jo-clarke-david-mitchell

― NI, Sunday, 7 July 2013 13:53 (twelve years ago)

david mitchell, inevitably to be divorced from that poker lady, thinks the working classes should know their place

― NI, Sunday, 7 July 2013 13:53 (twelve years ago)

Huh, I don't know how things work over there, but over here I see "no cellphone use" signs at checkouts all the time. It's massively rude to the person helping you that they are not even worth eye-contact, and that what you're talking about is more important than what you're doing (it almost never is).

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 July 2013 14:01 (twelve years ago)

surprised people have time to be on the phone - over here the customer is increasingly called upon to do all of the packing and payment card handling work and the assistant now just passes things over the scanner. and don't get me started on self-service machines.

― koogs, Sunday, 7 July 2013 14:25 (twelve years ago)

kind of a bummer that dude is his character on the show

― how bad could it be to be stuck to the couch, forever... (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 July 2013 14:30 (twelve years ago)

i listen to this low-ranking digital radio station, smooth 70s, and in every advert breaks mitchell always pops up doing a totally straight ad for conservatories and each time i hear it i hate him a little bit more. how much money does one in-denial right winger actually need

― NI, Sunday, 7 July 2013 14:47 (twelve years ago)

It's interesting that the incident Mitchell wrote his article about is considered news

― badg, Sunday, 7 July 2013 15:00 (twelve years ago)

i work in two shops and wish I was brave enough to refuse to serve customers who're on the phone/have headphones in. I just ramp up the really sarcastic politeness instead in an attempt to shame them.

― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Sunday, 7 July 2013 15:06 (twelve years ago)

motherfuckers will check in at concerts to see if they're on the list while they're on the goddamn phone and will ignore me until they're ready; that shit, i do not play

― how bad could it be to be stuck to the couch, forever... (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 July 2013 15:27 (twelve years ago)

as a friend says, 'reads very much like the view of a man who's never had a job serving customers'

― NI, Sunday, 7 July 2013 15:39 (twelve years ago)

When I worked as a cashier for a retail bank, some of my colleagues had a similar attitude.

However, my feeling is that in a customer service role you are being paid to provide the best possible customer service. If it's clear the customer would like to be served while they are on the phone, then what's wrong with serving them?

Sure, they may be being a little rude, but just be professional and get on with it.

― AlanSmithee, Sunday, 7 July 2013 19:07 (twelve years ago)

I agree that good customer service means letting wankers treat you like shit. No snark.

― for many people a really special folder makes a huge difference (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 7 July 2013 19:49 (twelve years ago)

Can't stand anyone in British comedy at the moment. Veep wipes the floor with The Thick of It.

Many years ago I was a betting shop manager in a pretty tasty area and got countless death threats, but still had a good relationship with the customers. Some of the people who threatened to kill me would also fetch me sandwiches and lagers during night-racing. The worst customers were the Mitchells of this world. I can handle crackheads, degenerates and bums but not supercilious m/c arsewipes who think they are still living in Victorian times.

― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Sunday, 7 July 2013 20:28 (twelve years ago)

the thing with Mitchell and his ilk is that there's this double layer to the fogeyism - if he was a genuinely odd dude with some interesting take on the ills of modern society you'd forgive him the occasional bum opinion because eccentrics are fun - but he's not eccentric or old-fashioned, he's a very modern take on a faux nostalgia for an era when white middle class dudes ran the country and there was no public challenge to their values - he fits neatly into the same niche as fans of 1940s chic and language pedants, a niche of self-consciousness about your values that refuses to criticize them and instead plays them as irony in the hope that other people will think you're joking about being a cunt

― for many people a really special folder makes a huge difference (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 7 July 2013 20:45 (twelve years ago)

Nailed it.

― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Sunday, 7 July 2013 21:01 (twelve years ago)

Veep wipes the floor with The Thick of It

This is straight-up challops 101, right?

― ailsa, Sunday, 7 July 2013 22:25 (twelve years ago)

and language pedants

careful now

― Hamburglar's smiling too (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 7 July 2013 22:41 (twelve years ago)

No. Some of the labyrinth, overdone zinging in TTOI goes on for far too long and becomes repetitive and ineffective. It gets to the point where every character is spitting out complex witticisms, every fucking scene and it stops working as a comedy. That is just my humble opinion.

― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Sunday, 7 July 2013 22:48 (twelve years ago)

mitchell is one of the worst flag-wavers for everything shit about the guardian.

― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Sunday, 7 July 2013 22:52 (twelve years ago)

Even as a non-UKer it seems to me quite clear that TTOI >>>>> Veep, just so much more vicious and wonderfully black-hearted. And funny.

I really wish David Mitchell would never ever talk as Peep Show is awesome.

― Simon H., Sunday, 7 July 2013 23:00 (twelve years ago)

Yep, the fact he's a less charismatic Mark IRL kinda damages the show's legacy.

― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Sunday, 7 July 2013 23:12 (twelve years ago)

i need to watch ttoi like now.

― how bad could it be to be stuck to the couch, forever... (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 July 2013 00:25 (twelve years ago)

Is Webb similarly a chill dude like Jeremy?

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 8 July 2013 00:42 (twelve years ago)

oh yeah, the reason i haven't watched the thick of it is that hulu puts an ad on every six minutes.

― how bad could it be to be stuck to the couch, forever... (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 July 2013 01:22 (twelve years ago)

Veep wipes the floor with The Thick of It.

absolutely. banged on about this at length elsewhere on here but TTOI is flawed in so many badly-written and depressing backslappy ways (esp later series) that Veep completely isn't. (and sorry to sound like a dick, ailsa, that kneejerk "you ARE joking right? i mean guys guys, this guy is CRAZY, right? everyone agrees with me on this right?! right?!" response is just one of them).

but yeah this is about mitchell and

a niche of self-consciousness about your values that refuses to criticize them and instead plays them as irony in the hope that other people will think you're joking about being a cunt

fucking nails it.

― NI, Monday, 8 July 2013 03:12 (twelve years ago)

I braved ttoi, ads and all
This is brilliant, vile and very very funny

― how bad could it be to be stuck to the couch, forever... (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 July 2013 03:24 (twelve years ago)

No, that's fair enough. I found the first series of Veep (haven't seen the second) to be too slapsticky vs the bitterness of TTOI, but my initial reaction was a bit overboard though, it's true, and it did improve as the season went on.

― ailsa, Monday, 8 July 2013 10:47 (twelve years ago)

Is Webb similarly a chill dude like Jeremy?

Pretty sure he's a Tory so idk.

― Inte Regina Lund eller nån, mitt namn är (ShariVari), Monday, 8 July 2013 10:52 (twelve years ago)

he's probly made a small fortune from no discernible talent, i'd be pretty chill in those circs

― the SI unit of ignorance (Noodle Vague), Monday, 8 July 2013 10:54 (twelve years ago)

Pretty sure he's not.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7599102/General-Election-2010-Who-are-these-floating-voters-Most-people-decided-how-to-vote-years-ago.html

― AlanSmithee, Monday, 8 July 2013 17:46 (twelve years ago)

I think one problem with Mitchell's schtick is that he's not actually old enough to remember the things – culture, atmosphere, social conventions - that he's supposed to be nostalgic about.

The 'David Mitchell' type, which David Mitchell plays, hasn't felt at home in Britain since at least the 60s. People actually living through the 1960s, whether they're for or against the changes they see around them, at least have a perspective informed by direct experience of social change.

But for the DM type, the good old days are always something that should have happened long enough ago to be dimly remembered, but recently enough to have a reality, so that it's like a longing for something you knew, rather than an idiosyncratic attachment to historical artefacts. But the actual, historical watershed moment - the 60s - is a long, long time ago. So it becomes deeply suspicious to see people like DM going around 'remembering the good old days'.

― cardamon, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 00:53 (twelve years ago)

Xp, thanks for correcting me. I could have sworn I remembered an interview in which he was saying he was voting for Boris Johnson but maybe I'm mixing him up with someone else.

― Inte Regina Lund eller nån, mitt namn är (ShariVari), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 05:29 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

Final series starts 11th of November.

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 29 October 2015 14:50 (ten years ago)

!!! That snuck up out of nowhere!

― Trimming The Hegyes: The Life & Times Of A Sweathog's Barber (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 October 2015 14:52 (ten years ago)

so looking forward to this. Last series was the first one where I thought p much the whole series was a bit off the boil, but it's still better than most other current stuff.

― kinder, Thursday, 29 October 2015 15:41 (ten years ago)

Looking forward immensely. Will be weird when it's finished though, it's been on tv for over a third of my life.

― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 29 October 2015 15:43 (ten years ago)

Yeah, last series just kind of...stopped in a really awkward way. Peep Show gets a lot of slack from me, though, for being overall one of the best shows of all time.

― Trimming The Hegyes: The Life & Times Of A Sweathog's Barber (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 October 2015 15:44 (ten years ago)

My first Christmas in the US, I watched the Peep Show Christmas ep and all was right again

― kinder, Thursday, 29 October 2015 15:50 (ten years ago)

I take it back about s8, the paintballing one was ace

― kinder, Thursday, 29 October 2015 16:08 (ten years ago)

Yayyyyyy

― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 29 October 2015 16:09 (ten years ago)

don't ever watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yredc3ayOE&feature=youtu.be

― kinder, Friday, 6 November 2015 22:32 (ten years ago)

Ouch. That Big Bang Theory dude and Seth Myers' brother? INSPIIIIRED CASTING.

― Capitalism Is A Death Cult And Science Is A Whore (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 7 November 2015 00:36 (ten years ago)

First episode was a riot.

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 13 November 2015 10:09 (ten years ago)

this was p good i thought, yeah. nice slot for tim key. the scene where they fantasised about poisoning him was hilarious.

― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Friday, 13 November 2015 12:57 (ten years ago)

no way to get this in US except torrents huh?

― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 November 2015 16:50 (ten years ago)

Yeah, many laughs to be had. Right back on form.

― ailsa, Friday, 13 November 2015 17:08 (ten years ago)

sober hans

― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Friday, 13 November 2015 17:10 (ten years ago)

"It's degenerated!"
"I knew it would."

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 13 November 2015 17:19 (ten years ago)

no way to get this in US except torrents huh?

It's on Youtube right now.

― Capitalism Is A Death Cult And Science Is A Whore (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 November 2015 00:31 (ten years ago)

thanks

― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 14 November 2015 01:13 (ten years ago)

last night's was even better

― kinder, Thursday, 19 November 2015 11:11 (ten years ago)

Oh shit I completely forgot!

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 19 November 2015 11:26 (ten years ago)

jez's speech was great. another good episode.

toast of london was p funny too.

― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Thursday, 19 November 2015 11:28 (ten years ago)

i never liked toast but after seeing matt berry on vic & bob i've softened to him and i'll admit to liking this one - it's got more heart than i had credited it for

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 19 November 2015 12:05 (ten years ago)

good episode. i lol'd hard at jez's face when hans tells him to freestyle the speech. also the twins!

― dynamicinterface, Friday, 20 November 2015 14:59 (ten years ago)

We ended up immediately rewinding the scene when Superhans asks Mark to be his best man. Three times. "You're a meat-and-potatoes, straight-up-and-down, Beef-Wellington, Don’t-trust-the-Argies, dick-in-the vagina, cheddar-cheese and chicken-tikka-masala-man".

― Matt DC, Friday, 20 November 2015 15:12 (ten years ago)

Hans is owning this season so far.

"I can move move move any mountain"

― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Friday, 20 November 2015 15:14 (ten years ago)

Mark's reaction to "Simon" was great.

― Capitalism Is A Death Cult And Science Is A Whore (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 21 November 2015 19:56 (ten years ago)

hiding in a bathroom, crushing candy and quoting shakespeare; the confused high-point of western civiliation

― flopson, Saturday, 21 November 2015 19:59 (ten years ago)

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lmao

― flopson, Saturday, 21 November 2015 20:00 (ten years ago)

Feel like they're going all-out with this series

― kinder, Thursday, 26 November 2015 21:46 (ten years ago)

Yesterday's was fantastic

― Lionel Richie the Wardrobe (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 26 November 2015 22:51 (ten years ago)

Yeah, absolutely hysterical. Particularly Mark not blinking.

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 26 November 2015 23:31 (ten years ago)

yeah it's going out on a high so far. yesterday's felt like vintage peep show. they've had a few good episodes were an awkward, mismatched gathering in their flat involving different levels of subterfuge and quickly descends into recriminations and that was as good as any other.

― Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 26 November 2015 23:33 (ten years ago)

they've had a few good episodes were an awkward, mismatched gathering in their flat involving different levels of subterfuge ~~and~~ quickly descends into recriminations and that was as good as any other.

― Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 26 November 2015 23:34 (ten years ago)

This week's was the best of this series thus far. A bit on the broad side but they've earned the right to have fun with things at this point. I'm seriously going to miss these characters.

― The Squirrel Who Punched His Dad In The Neck (Old Lunch), Friday, 27 November 2015 05:56 (ten years ago)

this week's really was all-time wasn't it

i had forgotten how much peep show had pioneered the art of uncomfortableness in modern tv comedy - not exactly cringe comedy a la the office but something stronger

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 27 November 2015 12:28 (ten years ago)

"I'm eating a Fruit Corner, Jez"

or something like that. Killed me.

― nate woolls, Friday, 27 November 2015 14:26 (ten years ago)

best episode in living memory

― Number None, Friday, 27 November 2015 15:53 (ten years ago)

What was it Mark said after putting on the eyeliner? "I've been told it's the fashion, but perhaps I've been misinformed" something like that. Cracked me up.

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 27 November 2015 15:57 (ten years ago)

stop actually rubbing your hands

― Number None, Friday, 27 November 2015 16:03 (ten years ago)

"I'm sure you're full... of... cum... really"

― Matt DC, Friday, 27 November 2015 16:04 (ten years ago)

Just watched it, everybody OTM, that was just glorious. Kind of surprised at a Hans-free ep being an all-time A++ highlight, but there you have it.

― ailsa, Friday, 27 November 2015 21:09 (ten years ago)

so cringey I had to watch it with my hood pulled over my face. terrifying

― gazcom (NickB), Friday, 27 November 2015 21:12 (ten years ago)

guys the 'cocktail'

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 27 November 2015 21:19 (ten years ago)

'this tastes like-'

'it's moroccan. very subtle, isn't it?'

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 27 November 2015 21:20 (ten years ago)

Is this Ribena?

― Lionel Richie the Wardrobe (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 27 November 2015 23:27 (ten years ago)

ep 2 was my fave so far, the "best man" speech was all-time

― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Saturday, 28 November 2015 01:02 (ten years ago)

reminded me a bit of the Enya funeral speech though

― kinder, Saturday, 28 November 2015 11:41 (ten years ago)

I was going to do that post

― Number None, Saturday, 28 November 2015 12:14 (ten years ago)

also, Mark was making his own hummous in that series where he'd lost his job and was making cutbacks

― kinder, Sunday, 29 November 2015 10:17 (ten years ago)

Easily the weakest of the series so far this. Still some great moments. Enjoyed Mark on Cocaine. But the plot seemed underworked.

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 3 December 2015 11:48 (ten years ago)

Thought this week's was suddenly in danger of being the weakest so far, but it picked up in the second half considerably.

― quixotic yet visceral (Bob Six), Thursday, 10 December 2015 00:05 (ten years ago)

ha, they said they were going to fill the series with references to previous episodes and i noticed one last night - two slices of toast, one brown, one white. brown for main course, white for pudding.

― koogs, Thursday, 10 December 2015 09:42 (ten years ago)

speaking of Toast, it was better, as it usually is

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 10 December 2015 12:04 (ten years ago)

Mark's original bit about the brown and white toast in s1 is probably one of my favourite Peep Show quotes of all time
'but I'm the one who's winning because I actually love brown toast'

― kinder, Thursday, 10 December 2015 19:20 (ten years ago)

also the cereals in the flat a la Gog

― kinder, Thursday, 10 December 2015 19:21 (ten years ago)

Sophie sliding in the ball pool is the most 'me irl' of all time too

― kinder, Thursday, 10 December 2015 19:21 (ten years ago)

feel this season is stretching things a bit too much. cmon mark would never even consider getting back together with sophie.

― tayto fan (Michael B), Thursday, 10 December 2015 23:54 (ten years ago)

Kind of lost touch with this, but have they done a callback to Business Secrets of the Pharaohs yet?

― Agents, show the general out. (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 11 December 2015 10:20 (ten years ago)

They did a whole episode a year or so back about Mark pitching it to someone. It wasn't really a gag that merited an entire plotline.

― Matt DC, Friday, 11 December 2015 10:25 (ten years ago)

That does sound like labouring it, yeah.

― Agents, show the general out. (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 11 December 2015 10:30 (ten years ago)

The episode wasn't bad though iirc.

Last two have been less good definitely, though still fine. Hard to believe that next week is the last ever episode of Peep Show.

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 11 December 2015 11:01 (ten years ago)

Peep Show has been on for a third of my life.

― Matt DC, Friday, 11 December 2015 11:28 (ten years ago)

Peep Show has been a third of my life.

― Agents, show the general out. (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 11 December 2015 11:44 (ten years ago)

http://m.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/Peep-return-future-reveals-writer-Jesse-Armstrong/story-28242688-detail/story.html

― quixotic yet visceral (Bob Six), Friday, 11 December 2015 11:53 (ten years ago)

Never known where the show was set.

I thought this episode was great.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 11 December 2015 15:34 (ten years ago)

They really missed an opportunity in failing to utilize the phrase 'ball pit viper' in this week's episode.

― Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Saturday, 12 December 2015 14:48 (ten years ago)

"well that was actually probably my favourite line of the two!"

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 01:42 (ten years ago)

Perhaps inevitably it was a bit of a disappointing last episode - but what a fantastic run since 2003. I'm really going to miss it.

― quixotic yet visceral (Bob Six), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 22:38 (ten years ago)

The last one oddly enough was the weakest. The kidnapping was a bit too ridiculous.

But the thing I felt I'd miss was Super Hans. I was marvelling at his eyes.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 22:41 (ten years ago)

yeah it was a bit weak. jesus christ 'toast of london' is an awful show

― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 22:46 (ten years ago)

That didn't feel like a last show, but then anticlimax seems appropriate.

― michaellambert, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 22:52 (ten years ago)

I haven't actually seen it yet, though im not worried about spoilers, but i can't imagine a finale of peep show being anything other than underwhelming or anticlimactic. wouldn't be in the nature of the show to have a resolution, certainly wouldn't be consistent for them to have a happy ending, and in keeping with the general futility and self-inflicted misery of the el dude brothers' sad-sack lives i fully expect the show to end with them in much the same state as when the show started.

― Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 22:58 (ten years ago)

That all makes sense but it just wasn't that great an episode in general. I'm not pissed about it but I thought it deserved something a bit better.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 23:07 (ten years ago)

I liked it a lot (tho agree ANOTHER kidnapping a bit ott) but bloody recording chopped off what I assume was the last couple of lines :(

**SPOILER**

I almost thought Mark was going to win for a bit although I guessed who'd sent the text

― kinder, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 23:09 (ten years ago)

**MORE SPOILERS**

Yeah I guessed who sent the text but thought they'd actually gone

Thought it was a good ending tho.

― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 23:19 (ten years ago)

The last line is important.

― quixotic yet visceral (Bob Six), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 23:25 (ten years ago)

"have you been pissing in my piss?"

― koogs, Thursday, 17 December 2015 14:44 (ten years ago)

series 9 began stronger than it finished def, thinking back to hanses party & bagging up the prior rmmate bloke lol

― johnny crunch, Thursday, 17 December 2015 14:48 (ten years ago)

I really enjoyed this as a finale, reminded me of the Father Ted finale a bit, this glimmer of light that things might actually change, but no, this purgatory lasts forever. I'm glad they didn't sugar the ending.

Loved the reveal that when it comes to relationships and living arrangements, Hans is way more Mark than Jez.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 December 2015 14:56 (ten years ago)

It was a perfectly fitting finale, I wasn't expecting some pull out all the stops extravaganza. There was probably the closest it's ever come to sentimentality in the central relationship, but all served with dollops of trademark cynicism and misanthropy.

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 17 December 2015 15:23 (ten years ago)

three weeks pass...

A favourite bit(s) of mine that I often think of is Jez being disgusted by the Elgar bank note in two different scenes.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 11 January 2016 22:12 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

"Butter the toast, eat the toast, shit the toast. God, life's relentless."

― the evening redness at the injection site (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 4 June 2017 13:23 (eight years ago)

"This is basically like watching porn, except I can't see anything, I haven't got a hard on, and I want to cry"

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 4 June 2017 14:22 (eight years ago)

three months pass...

Anyone watching Mitchell/Webbs "Back" ?

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 11 September 2017 04:35 (eight years ago)

I didn't know it existed. Would probably be pretty hard to divorce myself from thinking of them as Jez and Mark.

― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 11 September 2017 05:01 (eight years ago)

completely agree. The show presents them as fundamentally similar to those characters, but range is overrated anyway. Some good laughs, but not excellent like PS so far

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 11 September 2017 05:19 (eight years ago)

I mentioned it on the Rolling Comedy thread. Felt like a pair of slippers where your toe sticks through and you can't find anywhere fresh to write on the sole with biro.

― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Monday, 11 September 2017 08:43 (eight years ago)

Made me chortle a couple of times, but yeah most of time I was thinking "What's Mark doing living in some village? Why are he and Jez pretending they've got different names, what are they up to?"

― chap, Monday, 11 September 2017 10:05 (eight years ago)

Did you guys have the same reaction to Sir Digby Chicken Caesar and his trusty sidekick Ginger?

Thanks for the heads up. I had no idea they were doing a new thing.

― Scott Staph (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 September 2017 10:21 (eight years ago)

I can't believe ppl upthread were down on the mark's wedding episode. One of the best television episodes of anything ever

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 11 September 2017 19:00 (eight years ago)

https://img.gifglobe.com/grabs/peepshow/S01E01/S01E01-sjoOqtgM-subtitled.jpg

― nomar, Monday, 11 September 2017 19:06 (eight years ago)

D40- I agree.

I recall some ridiculous "I bet they're fucking tories" talk upthread.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 11 September 2017 19:16 (eight years ago)

Would probably be pretty hard to divorce myself from thinking of them as Jez and Mark.

OL OTM, it's not like they didn't have thriving, visible careers outside of Peep Show during Peep Show

― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Monday, 11 September 2017 22:14 (eight years ago)

yeah but everything they've done outside Peep Show has been awful

― Number None, Monday, 11 September 2017 22:34 (eight years ago)

Counterpoint: you are wrong and what you said is wrong.

― Scott Staph (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 September 2017 22:41 (eight years ago)

i think you'll find he's right.

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 11 September 2017 23:03 (eight years ago)

I forgot to mention that they're also awful people

― Number None, Monday, 11 September 2017 23:05 (eight years ago)

their careers outside of peep show: that mitchell and webb look and the bobbins film magicians, david mitchell writes for the guardian and appears on panel shows, robert webb wrote for the telegraph, and wrote a memoir, appears on panel shows

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 11 September 2017 23:07 (eight years ago)

Awful people?

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 11 September 2017 23:12 (eight years ago)

Don't forget their ads for Barclays bank.

― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 08:46 (eight years ago)

I recall some ridiculous "I bet they're fucking tories" talk upthread.

they'd both probably consider themselves sensible centrists; RW a confirmed blue labour blairite sort & I'd guess DM an old school liberal by inclination, but ofc in ilx discourse both of these = tory

― ogmor, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 08:54 (eight years ago)

"but ofc in ilx discourse both of these = tory"

I'd probably stop clicking on ILX if it didn't have any posters that didn't hate on these odious, unfunny smug-cunts. Yours, a barrel of laughter and self-confessed "comedy lover" and lover of laughing etc...

― calzino, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 09:26 (eight years ago)

dm in real life is like mark corrigan minus the charisma

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 10:00 (eight years ago)

his recent memoir was featured on R4 last week, it sounded like some real trite and dull shit. And this wasn't coloured by my complete dislike of these 2. It was awful writing, honestly!

― calzino, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 10:09 (eight years ago)

Whose memoir? I'm sure they've both written memoirs and, if not, will probably have dashed one off for the Christmas market by the end of this month. I suppose reading about their terrible struggles to make any sort of living from performing, acting, writing, journalism, appearing on panel shows etc might be insightful to some any person looking to follow them into the terribly tough dog-eat-dog world of the British media.

― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 10:26 (eight years ago)

It was DM's, and he is dealing with his masculinity issues + his tough upbringing on the mean streets of Lincolnshire. It is very "edgy", well maybe shit is the right word!

― calzino, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 10:33 (eight years ago)

You mean RW not DM. Sorry just saw an article about RW and masculinity being retweeted a lot recently.

― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 10:52 (eight years ago)

er.. that'll be the one.

― calzino, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 10:56 (eight years ago)

He is a terrible writer, so any plaudits he is getting for tackling "serious issues" in that book are seriously misguided imo.

― calzino, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 10:59 (eight years ago)

Again with the "odious"

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 11:12 (eight years ago)

Thanking u all for coming into a thread dedicated to something you don't like and letting us all know that you don't like it. This is some hot content.

― Scott Staph (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 12:14 (eight years ago)

Actually I think the thread is primarily dedicated to something people do like

― Number None, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 12:24 (eight years ago)

Yes, I do like Peep Show, I even quite liked That Mitchell and Webb Look, but these two, especially Mitchell, are only what's bleedin' wrong with this bleedin' country.

― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 13:28 (eight years ago)

yeah I think Peep Show is incredible. I don't have much feeling about Webb but Mitchell is a fucking annoying bore.

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 14:59 (eight years ago)

I definitely find the "tellin' it like it is" rants annoying* but I've found enough of his soapbox videos interesting and funny. Totally disagreed with a few but I don't think they're all to be taken seriously.
Occasionally you find out something that seems uncharacteristic: he thinks people should fart in public without embarrassment and necrophilia doesn't really bother him.

*buy I hate anyone taking that tone regardless of what they're saying. Most people who've been given a weekly platform to rant are going to get on your nerves.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 15:29 (eight years ago)

I liked Peep Show but it's depressing as fuck - comedy torture porn, almost.

I'll happily watch it in five-minute YouTube chunks, but I can't handle it as a binge show. The nihilism gets tedious.

To each their own, of course.

But it's interesting that M&W have such a cosy reputation based on this unredemptive and brutally sad show.

As their individual, mediocre BBC-panel-show dickishness, it's not my thing, but they don't really seem worth the energy of hate.

― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 15:31 (eight years ago)

depends on whether you subscribe to a donaldonian view of finite hate energy or whether you find the occasional two minute hate energising

― ogmor, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 15:35 (eight years ago)

I come away from peep show feeling both indicted and better off--a bit like rubbing the knots out of your back, like I know I'm not as bad as these guys but I think everyone shares some traits w them, esp in the deception of self and others ... there's something so cleansing abt watching peep show, it's like seeing ppl for what they really are for half an hr

I don't know much about them beyond that except that the "are we the baddies?" Nazi skit is a classic and david mitchell's rant on bread on that quiz show made me laugh

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 15:36 (eight years ago)

Lads

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 15:37 (eight years ago)

I miss Super Hans.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 15:44 (eight years ago)

I recall DM's op-eds being depressingly shit but PS is classic for sure, though it probably went on a series or two too long

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 15:48 (eight years ago)

overall peep show is uneven but ultra classic. I think david mitchell is watchable and can be funny in a one-note ranty way but there is something offputtingly complacent and defensive about him

dm in real life is like mark corrigan minus the charisma

this is kind of true, I think the writers saw him more clearly than he sees himself so there is strangely more awareness and fragility about mark than DM. equally I think RW doesn't get jez and as the show progressed and their antics got more outlandishly awful the lack of sympathy they both had for their characters made it more of a struggle imo

― ogmor, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 17:24 (eight years ago)

the idea of Jez being a centrist pundit is hysterical to me

― flopson, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 18:00 (eight years ago)

Only met DM once but he was thoroughly likeable

― kinder, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 20:01 (eight years ago)

ogmor that sounds extremely plausible re both of them xps

― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 20:03 (eight years ago)

actually my other half worked with them and has only nice things to say about them. but yknow they're Oxbridge so obv the root of all evil.

xp Ogmor I'd agree re Jez. Mark and the vanity publishing didn't ring true either. Other than that I thought they'd drawn quite a clever line wrt his self-awareness/total cluelessness

― kinder, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 20:07 (eight years ago)

this show is weak. should be happy it exists but it's meh at best so far

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 15 September 2017 03:44 (eight years ago)

Love Mitchell's crazy laugh in the rare times you hear it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxjXAb9LQlc

Something I'd nearly forgotten from the first times I'd watched Peepshow was how astonished and distracted I was by Mitchell's eyes, how big and black they were. Like Bad Cooper but bigger.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 16 September 2017 11:46 (eight years ago)

this show is weak. should be happy it exists but it's meh at best so far

Objectively wrong

― circa1916, Saturday, 16 September 2017 11:51 (eight years ago)

not sure if it's been mentioned but RW's book is the number 1 selling non fiction hardback book in the Uk.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJWN7jgX0AAoxRp.jpg

― piscesx, Saturday, 16 September 2017 13:03 (eight years ago)

well, look at the fucking state of that lot. You can only read a finite amount of books in a lifetime, folks. Choose wisely!

― calzino, Saturday, 16 September 2017 13:11 (eight years ago)

Circa - yeah I was wrong. This has grown on me

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 16 September 2017 16:41 (eight years ago)

I generally have an instant annoyance of animal-related storylines in sitcoms. (Same with Mummy the dog in Peep Show). So I'd rather it did without that, or maybe I'm just dead inside.

― kinder, Saturday, 16 September 2017 18:01 (eight years ago)

I loved the Mummy plot.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 16 September 2017 18:43 (eight years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/6ECdo6p.png

― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 00:09 (eight years ago)

three weeks pass...

"back" is pretty enjoyable so far

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 13 October 2017 07:09 (eight years ago)

that was the last one, wasn't it? (the cancer test one).

― koogs, Friday, 13 October 2017 08:18 (eight years ago)

four years pass...

This is pretty brutal https://t.co/e0SFKXAQol pic.twitter.com/2whBIrMgZG
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) March 7, 2022

I wonder how much of this is just bluster and how much reflects how people would actually act in that situation, it reminded me the Peep Show episode where Mark and Jez talk about whether they would have joined the resistance had they been in nazi-occupied France

Mark: I dunno, Jeremy. It would have been a terribly difficult time, but I would probably have kept my head down.
Jeremy: You're kidding! I totally would have joined up.
Mark: That's very easy to say, Jeremy, but you would have risked death not just for yourself but for your family.
Jeremy: I'd probably have just got on a train to Berlin and taken Hitler down. Boof, the whole thing's over.
Mark: Well, I guess we'll never know for sure.
Jeremy: Oh, I know. I definitely know. No question about it.
Mark: Well, congratulations. You would have been a brave, brave man.
Jeremy: I can't believe you wouldn't be in the Resistance with me. I'm really disappointed in you.

obviously Jeremy is not any braver than Mark, he's just has a more conceited, less realistic self-image - but maybe the person with the deluded self-image is more likely to actually do the heroic thing when the moment comes because they've rhetorically backed themselves into a corner, whereas the self-critical person is more likely to not do the heroic thing because they're already prepared to do that, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy? Being constantly self-critical can make you a bad person because you have a ready made explanation/excuse whenever you do bad things?

(I guess the difference is that joining the resistance would have been unarguably the morally right thing to do, but whether staying to fight for the US would be the right thing to do is more ambiguous?)

― soref, Monday, 7 March 2022 23:14 (four years ago)

jeremy would, of course, have run like hell and/or become an informer

― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 12 March 2022 15:56 (four years ago)

one year passes...

relaxing video of los dude bros coming to life:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnshhIWdEfk

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:18 (two years ago)

It's so weird, my first reaction was, huh, Peep Show is still on? Then my second reaction was to look up when it stopped airing. Then my third reaction was to try and determine if we've seen every season, and ... I don't know! It's been so long I can't remember if we ever finished it, but reading the episode descriptions is no help at all. Maybe we did? Maybe we didn't? Were there really *9* seasons? No idea! I could have sworn we stopped at 5, which for some reason I thought was the end, but scanning the summaries I think we went past there, but no idea how far. Might have to start over. Or maybe just pretend we finished and thought it was all very funny.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:28 (two years ago)

I feel like the 'Mark and Jez eat a dog' season is where a lot of people understandably jumped off the train but it's worth hopping back on because it did quickly and admirably redeem that epic misstep imo.

― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:34 (two years ago)

It's solidly funny all the way to the end imo

― nate woolls, Thursday, 14 December 2023 19:36 (two years ago)

There’s a lot of great episodes from the later seasons, like when Mark finally publishes Business Secrets of the Pharaohs—a rare example where Jez is the (relatively) sane one and Mark is unhinged. Or "Chairman Mark", which has a great election speech from Mark as he tries to become chairman of the freehold committee (tho as an American, I’m not really sure what that means… like being on a condo board, maybe?)

― blatherskite, Thursday, 14 December 2023 20:13 (two years ago)

It's a shame people remember the dog eating episode mainly for the dog eating, this scene from the same episode has one of the series greatest ever lines

"Unfilled?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkjeorS12F0

― nate woolls, Thursday, 14 December 2023 20:34 (two years ago)

good timing, I decided to watch Back this week. it starts off really badly imo. was really jarring to see them basically playing the same characters in what starts off as quite a lame trad sitcom with trad sitcom jokes. it gets better after about 3 episodes, but apparently because it got cancelled they never resolve anything, but am going to finish it anyway

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 15 December 2023 03:05 (two years ago)

re Peep Show, I did have the impression it started sucking after about series 5 but I rewatched it last week before watching Back and it's actually still quite funny most of the time and some of the episodes I don't like are in the early seasons - I think my least favourite one is the one in the gym where they accuse that guy of shitting in the pool and touching up Mark.

I looked up the guy that wrote Back when I was hating it and he also wrote the Peep Show episode where Mark gets raped which was another low point.

What I did notice was both Peep Show and Back have the same bullshit nonsense about tracking people's IP addresses which just isn't how this works but strangely the Back guy didn't write that episode.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 15 December 2023 03:08 (two years ago)

one year passes...

Curse These Metal Hands

nightly repeats on 4extra have been useful. mostly for the band names and superhans' asides about crack being moreish and that glue would take the edge off.

and it's odd how not-odd the filming technique is, the direct to camera thing that gives it its name, you don't see it anywhere else and yet it's fine

― koogs, Friday, 14 March 2025 11:51 (one year ago)

Cally: "I got a call from Super Hans, he's having an ego attack. He's driving to Festivus with all the windows down shouting his own name. Reckons he's gonna make a super group out of Hard-Fi and Kaiser Chiefs."
Jez: "He's talked about that before."

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 14 March 2025 12:40 (one year ago)

This came up on my facebook today - decent effort!
https://www.tiktok.com/@finlaycomedy/video/7481319586051214614

― kinder, Friday, 14 March 2025 13:11 (one year ago)

Any East London people - I'll be hosting a Peep Show quiz night at the Lord Napier Star in Hackney Wick on Thursday the 10th of April 8 pm.

― chap, Monday, 17 March 2025 18:24 (one year ago)

there's a radiator shelf in the kitchen that appears to be full of disposable lighters

series 8 now and there's lots of dobby

while things starts again from the beginning on apr 01

― koogs, Thursday, 27 March 2025 11:36 (one year ago)

(whole thing)

― koogs, Thursday, 27 March 2025 11:51 (one year ago)

seven months pass...

Peep Show festive Bake-off...

with Olivia Colman, David Mitchell, Dobby, Superhans and Big Suze

(repost as this thread is more recent)

― koogs, Friday, 21 November 2025 09:40 (four months ago)

I thought, for a long time, that this show finished with S5! I did love this show, but it was the stretch of episodes where they set fire to a barn, eat a dog and one of them pisses himself in church where I assumed it had completely jumped the shark, and so got off the wagon. Are the latter series worth a dive?

― Now read it backwards. (dog latin), Friday, 21 November 2025 10:16 (four months ago)

If you didn't like s5 then probably not, that's generally considered the peak

― giving you schtick (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 21 November 2025 10:37 (four months ago)

Maybe I'm a terribly undiscerning viewer but I never really thought there was *that* much of a decrement in excellence as the seasons progressed. It may be significant however that I'd likely find any old nonsense featuring Dobby worthwhile!

― It’s a powerful boat for a powerful mind. (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 21 November 2025 10:43 (four months ago)

S5 was a significant dip imo, that dog episode in particular stands out as one of the worst. But it definitely has lots of brilliant episodes after that. Well worth watching imo.

― LocalGarda, Friday, 21 November 2025 10:48 (four months ago)

those episodes are all S4, not S5

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 21 November 2025 10:53 (four months ago)

S5 is not "generally considered the peak"

It was all downhill from 1 & 2!

― Number None, Friday, 21 November 2025 10:59 (four months ago)

(with occasional returns to form)

― Number None, Friday, 21 November 2025 10:59 (four months ago)

those episodes are all S4, not S5
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 21 November 2025 10:53 (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yes, good point

S5 is not "generally considered the peak"
It was all downhill from 1 & 2!
― Number None, Friday, 21 November 2025 10:59 (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Not my opinion but that's the consensus online. S2 is my favourite too - for me the nadir is Season 3 episode Jurying.

― giving you schtick (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 21 November 2025 11:58 (four months ago)

It’s all good

― ok (D-40), Friday, 21 November 2025 15:33 (four months ago)

Maybe I'm a terribly undiscerning viewer but I never really thought there was *that* much of a decrement in excellence as the seasons progressed.

I agree; although the latter series with Business Secrets of the Pharoahs, life coaching etc are far more forgettable. I don't like anything involving Saz either. Or that storyline with the gym trainer. Sober Hans getting married is ace though.
I hate the dog-eating bit of the stag one (that is definitely the lowest point) but liked the wedding one.

― kinder, Friday, 21 November 2025 17:45 (four months ago)

feel like the dog eating was a silly way to end what had been a decent episode which has one of my favourite quotes - "Jeremy, there are many things I would do to help you, but digging a hole in the wintry earth with my bare hands so that you can bury the corpse of a dog you killed is not one of them."

― giving you schtick (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 21 November 2025 17:51 (four months ago)

Peep Show is at its best when the situations they're in are at least close to plausible or somehow relatable. Eating the dog was neither.

― Now read it backwards. (dog latin), Saturday, 22 November 2025 00:23 (four months ago)

Funny, I thought I'd seen all of S3 but I don't recall anything of the synopsis of Jurying

― Now read it backwards. (dog latin), Saturday, 22 November 2025 00:25 (four months ago)

Y'all prompted me to immediately re-watch the oft-maligned season 8 (life-coaching, Business Secrets of the Pharaohs, paintball, bathroom fittings, lots of Dobby) before going to bed last night. (Barely the length of a feature film in total, conveniently.) If this alleged (by the interweb) 'worst season' ranks below average in terms of hilariousness and crucial "life is futile" vibes it's not-super obvious that the margin even reaches statistical significance, as it were. I guess I should immediately refresh my memory of seasons 1/2...

― It’s a powerful boat for a powerful mind. (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 22 November 2025 01:13 (four months ago)

"not super-obvious" rather o_O

― It’s a powerful boat for a powerful mind. (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 22 November 2025 01:23 (four months ago)

Do the Brits now call it “Season” instead of “Series”?

― Remo Palmieri: The Adventure Begins (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 22 November 2025 03:48 (four months ago)

LOL. I've just added a whole bunch of 'seasons' to the thread (I think I both use pretty much interchangeably) but the UK is not responsible for those instances. :) A text search suggests that 'series' has appeared more than five times as frequently as 'season' if we ignore those...

― It’s a powerful boat for a powerful mind. (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 22 November 2025 04:46 (four months ago)

I agree with D40 here, I've rewatched it all about five times and I don't think there's a huge dropoff apart from the odd dud episode like the dog one. Even very late there are some amazing characters, like the bloke obsessed with orthodox churches or whatever.

― LocalGarda, Saturday, 22 November 2025 07:35 (four months ago)

I'm so used to hearing "Seasons" with regard to US TV that I end up defaulting to it sometimes. But yeah it's usually "Series" when referring to UK shows.

That said "Series" is annoying as I'm never sure how to emphasise if I'm speaking in the plural or not. Keep wanting to say "Serieses" which is bonkers

― Now read it backwards. (dog latin), Saturday, 22 November 2025 10:08 (four months ago)

I'm going to have to rewatch this whole programme, aren't I? It's my partner's favourite show and she puts on random episodes to go to sleep to. Don't know how she doesn't cringe herself to sleep

― Now read it backwards. (dog latin), Saturday, 22 November 2025 10:11 (four months ago)

LOL (re: sleeping to it.)

I've now re-watched series 9 too. (In addition to 8 last night, I mean. I don't really need all *that* much encouragement it seems.) It certainly doesn't feel like it desperately needed to be killed off when it was. Far from it. LocalGarda OTM about the addition of pretty solid characters right to the end.

Basically the best sit-com evah. Maybe.

― It’s a powerful boat for a powerful mind. (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 22 November 2025 11:04 (four months ago)

yeah, do it DL.

https://img.gifglobe.com/grabs/peepshow/S07E05/gif/6ruw4aya3h72.gif

― kinder, Saturday, 22 November 2025 17:28 (four months ago)

The final series is really really good

― chap, Saturday, 22 November 2025 22:11 (four months ago)

OTM. eg. Olivia Colman's final few scenes have been haunting me anew for a couple days now lol.

― It’s a powerful boat for a powerful mind. (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 24 November 2025 06:38 (four months ago)

With any episode anybody describes as weak I just immediately think of at least one thing that's indispensably good about it. Matt Townsend gym episode has one of the single best jokes in the series ("what's a novel?"). Jury episode has Mark's big spiteful lecture about consumer capitalism as he reclaims the apartment. Jeremy's "you've ground down my self-worth" thing as he wets himself on the church balcony is fantastic and probably emotionally necessary as a lead-in to the ceremony itself. You have to get a lot closer to the end before reaching any where I just think eh, yeah, that one's not great.

― ን (nabisco), Monday, 24 November 2025 22:55 (four months ago)

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