Why is 'Green Wing' a *WHOLE HOUR* long?

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I mean, it'd be just as shit at half the length. Why is 'daaaaark' humour *still* apparently getting commissioned? 'Jam' on TV was widely seen as a dead end at the time (2000) and yet it's somehow a pervasive influence after all these years.

― Christ's Chin, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I like it.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it really an hour? I switched off after ten minutes.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not being touted as 'daaaark' tho is it? the slo-motion technique is weird and seems pointless most of the time. most of the joke constructions seem weak/lazy/obvious too. and the characters are all too parody to attempt to like. i think this is the problem with C4 shows in general - lack of likeable characters or people to care about in these things. i saw NY:LON for the first time last night and the two leads just didn't seem to have enough about them for me to maintain interest. The Book Club was better for this perhaps but not by much.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

aw i missed NYLON last night. was it the first episode of green wing? the first one is sometimes longer non? (the first nip/tuck lasted for ages)

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

except nip/tuck is awesome. i haven't seen green wing.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I am having no luck with new TV. I'm too squeamish for Nip/ Tuck and NY-LON I find really annoying. Six Feet Under last night was pretty good, if frustrating. David's behaviour was odd. Why wasn't he trying harder to escape? Some people..

― alix (alix), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I lost interest in 6 feet under mid way throught the 2nd series, it just got a bit too odd for me. Nip/Tuck was cracking definitely. I figure I can see all Green Wong has to offer via the irritating adverts, so I don't really have to watch the prog.

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Why am I laughing so much at 'Green Wong'?

― alix (alix), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Comedies ALWAYS take a few episodes to get going - getting to know the characters is urgent and key. Give it a couple more weeks y'all.

Ken, no, it's an hour long every week.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The Green Wing advert with the joke (?) about a woman walking in the airport without realising her baggage has extendable handles to make things easier is beginning to obsess me. Every time it comes on I stare in confusion at it. I watched it the other night, and it really was terrible. Part of the problem is they use all the good stuff on the adverts, and the show just can't live up to the expectation.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I am glad Alix mentioned 6FU, it seems to have slipped off people's radar. Last night's episode was absolutley HARROWING. I couldn't sleep for ages afterwards. I think David is too 'nice' to try to escape.

'Green Wing' has the most obnoxiously pretentious use of slo-mo.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

It strikes me that 'darkside' humour is far less sophisticated than all the camera flim-flam would have you believe. The first ep came down to gags about DOING BIG POOS and men with SMALL WILLIES. And all the characters were ghastly. Cf 'Nighty Night'.

― Christ's Chin, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Part of the problem is they use all the good stuff on the adverts, and the show just can't live up to the expectation.

if the ads are the 'good stuff', i can't even imagine how bad the actual show is...

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I look forward to finding out what happened in 6FU last night. I opted for Champions League Highlights instead. Then CD:UK Hotshots, tho it was rub last night.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Green Wing is good, people! Hit and miss at times, but it's funny.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

isn't Green Wing more fast-mo than slo-mo. it's an odd thing and i didn't think it'd maintain the quality over an hour but was funny enough.

dr mcCartney, the blonde floppy-haired one with the posh real name, where do i know him from?

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Probably from an episode of Black Cooks where he played that explorer dude.

S4rah 4lexand3r's mad staring eyes freak me out, so I probably won't be watching, ta all the same.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahahaaaaaargh is only there was a program called Black Cooks.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

ah. Hippies - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187646/

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"if the ads are the 'good stuff', i can't even imagine how bad the actual show is..."

Yeah, I was being ironic. Though, to be fair, the show is probably about as funny as the adverts.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

. The first ep came down to gags about DOING BIG POOS and men with SMALL WILLIES.

i'm sad i missed it now

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

yeh i recognised that guy from Hippies - he was actually the funniest character in Hippies, but that's a bit like saying Goebbels was the most vicious member of the Nazi party.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Talking about adverts (and veering off-topic), the Channel 4 advert for Betrayed by New Labour, or whatever it is called, with Greg Dyke, is a thing of wonder. I'm quite looking forward to that programme. Does anyone know when it is on?

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

surely the advert told you?

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, maybe. But my memory isn't worth much.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm thinking the 18th maybe

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Sunday 19th September. 8:00PM

― Craig Gilchrist, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Not even the horn-goddess S4rah 4lexand3r has tempted me to watch this muck. Yes, horn-goddess with mad staring eyes! Mmmmm!

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

it has her from the 'Bev! Kev!' adverts and Peep Show in it tho, and Tamsin Greig (playing Tamsin Greig), and Mark Heap (playing Mark Heap)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Cool, thanks Craig.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe I'll watch it this week - is S4rah in it much?

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

What's so 'dark' about Green Wing? It's just your average middling comedy, but with annoying speedup/slowdown bits all the bloody time.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

it's teh rub trip-hop that's making everyone think it's dark i think...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

*that's* what's 'dark', or 'jam'-like. also the lack of likeable characters, which is what's 'nighty night'-like. the sotcaa people usually argue that 'dad's army' is what's *really* dark -- and certainly 'dark' comedy often is banal in its observations. darkness is about presentation, rather than content.

xpost, and carsmile otm

― Christ's Chin, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

This is an interesting thread - I haven't seen any telly in the last two weeks that wasn't the closing credits of CSI - but I understood from the ENORMOUS billboards ads for Green Wing that are EVERYWHERE in London that it was a bit broader and zanier than it appears to be. It looked like Carry On Kingdom Hospital.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

it's only marginally better than Surgical Spirit

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I watched the first 15 minutes of the first episode and gave up. It falls into the same old C4 sitcom trap of mistaking sarcasm for humour and film speed tricks for visual innovation.

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Basically it is trying to be a British version of Scrubs but at twice the length and about a hundredth of the humour.

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

otm except at least it avoids the tacky sentimental nonsense of Scrubs which really keeps that otherwise hilarious show down

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Except it's not. It doesn't try to do Scrubs in any way, really - if it wasn't set in a hospital there'd be zero similarity. It doesn't do the sugary bits, for a start, the pacing is different, there's no narrator, the humour is very British - it's a very lazy comparison.

I'd agree that the success of Scrubs was probably an incentive to get it made, though.

(x-post)

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

yeh but i get the impression they saw Scrubs and thought 'ok it's time for another British comedy set in a hospital!'

they could've done it like Peep Show - maybe a different first-person perspective every week (actually that's a great idea too good to be wasted here)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

too late suck-ah.

scrubs really is just (as i have possibly said round here before) the wonder years set in a hospital...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i never saw The Wonder Years. Who was the Doctor Kelso character?

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

you're all nuts, Green Wing is neither dark nor fantastic, but it's still above average, especially for it's time slot. It's no worse than Smack The Pony, at least...

― stephen. s (yaye), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

It falls into the same old C4 sitcom trap of mistaking sarcasm for humour

OTM! (though it applies to most of modern life and not just CH4)

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 September 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I sat with my flatmate last night as he laghed away at the Green Wing advert, which has been running for about 2 weeks and he's laughed at it before. The ad's aren't funny the first time round, let alone 3 weeks of the same advert joke.

― Craig Gilchrist, Thursday, 16 September 2004 06:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I really like Green Wing (and it has already polarised enough people for my "quite like" to turn into really like). This may well be partially due to the mode of spectatorship, on video after getting in from the pub, but it is both funny enough and has already built enough characters and subplots for them to happily do character comedy too.

The reason it is twice as long, I have worked out, is that it has twice as many characters as the standard sitcom, which cleverly means that it does not have to rely too much on the same old character interactions.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 16 September 2004 07:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Nah, if you're looking for a UK 'Scrubs' analogue it was 'TLC' with Reece Shearsmith and one of Armstrong & Miller. It had a pretty high profile cast (including Richard Griffiths and Tim B-T) but was pretty awful.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 16 September 2004 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm just about with Pete on this - I like it. Deciding that it's trying to do some particular thing not terribly like what it's actually doing, then blaming it for doing poorly what it's not trying to do, seems neither fair nor useful. (Actually that statement is nearly incomprehensible.) It's a weirdish Brit ensemble piece, more comparable with Spaced or the League Of Gentlemen than Jam or Scrubs or anything like that. I like its diversity of characters and gags.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 16 September 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a *lot* better than Smack the Pony IMO - it has much less of the painfully self-conscious feel. I'm glad Pete likes it - unless, of course, he's lying.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 16 September 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

My stamp of approval on something never normally means something. Yay!

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 16 September 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Say what you like about Green Wing; it has just featured the phrase "I want to C on your Ts"

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 1 October 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Really? Like, 'see on your tees' or without abbreviations?

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 1 October 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, actually it was "I want to cum on your (splutter of shock and indignation that might have been a T)"

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Taking Sides: Green Wing vs Eyes Down

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I watched the first episode of this with a friend who loves Black Books and the like. She was laughing constantly and stuff and it seemed pretty avarage to me. I counted that there was a total of about 2/3 minutes of that fast-mo bullshit editing in the whole episode.

I'd probably rather die that watch it again.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Friday, 1 October 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

none of the characters are at all likeable/endearing

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Monday, 4 October 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

and it has already polarised enough people for my "quite like" to turn into really like).

It really bugs me when I find myself forced into this position by other people's likes and dislikes. Because all of my stupid friends think that Pirates of the Caribbean is the greatest film ever in the whole world, I find myself having to take up a far more negative position when discussing it than the film itself actually warrants. So instead of just being able to say 'I thought it was ok, but not that great', my opposition to their unbounded enthusiasm marks me out as some kind of fun-hating old curmudgeon.

That said, I didn't like Green Wing one bit. The music is intrusive, the characters really only seem to be there to hang themed sketch ideas on (fine for a sketch show, but if you're trying to be a sitcom, it doesn't seem to work so well), the speed-up, slow-down shtick is annoying in the extreme, and the jokes, when you finally get to them, just aren't that funny. Mind you, I think the first series of Black Books is the only watchable one, and I seem to be in a minority there too, so what do I know? I don't even like Curb your Enthusiasm. Maybe I'm losing my sense of humour.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 4 October 2004 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I kind of like it enough to keep watching it - but only just. Vaccilates between 'utter crap' and 'pretty good'.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

'...ahhh, yes, i've come to fix an APPLIANCE...'

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

my god this program is awful.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 27 December 2004 00:05 (twenty years ago)

is it still on?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 27 December 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago)

I'm watching the 'top 100 tv treats' programme, it was number 8.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 27 December 2004 00:15 (twenty years ago)

Clips from Green Wing being introduced with a voiceover from Jimmy Carr. Ladies and gentlemen, this is why Channel 4 is shit.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:00 (twenty years ago)

rubbish.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:03 (twenty years ago)

Well, yeah, there is that whole "cancelling Late Night Poker" thing, but I'm pretty sure Carr and Green Wing are symptomatic of the rest of the rot setting in through the channel.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:17 (twenty years ago)

this show is rubbish.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:19 (twenty years ago)

ha!

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:20 (twenty years ago)

Ah right. Well, yes. That guy that played Adrian Mole in "Adrian Mole: The Helen Baxendale Years" that's in this really is one of the worst comic actors in history.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:21 (twenty years ago)

I don't like it.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:23 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I just watched the last episode. I'm in the US, and I'm getting the episodes over BitTorrent and Slsk. I think it's hilarious. I haven't seen Smack the Pony and I didn't have to watch weeks of advertisements or stare at the billboards, I've just got the show. So to take a skewed, narrow American perspective - and I have no idea if they'll license this to an American network (BBC America? Yes, I know it's not BBC, but neither was Trailer Park Boys) - I enjoyed it because it's such a weird pastiche of the British humor that has trickled here over the years.

The first episode frankly blew my mind. You've got the dry wit/sarcastic characters, but then in the next scene, people rubbing themselves like chimps. The Scottish staff liason is into magical realism and other people make poo jokes. A lot of the characters seemed like clear rip-offs of stock types - for example, the last big Britcom to hit the States was the Office, and on Green Wing you've got two of the secondary actors and then a guy who's like Gareth - but somehow that makes it funnier. And the music and the slow-down/speed-up effects crack me up. American TV has tried to incorporate more music and dance - especially on Scrubs - and Green Wing seems to practice a weird kind of distortion of human movement that goes beyond slapstick. It's often funny and sometimes mesmerizing. (I like albums by the Books for the same reason - the editing tricks give it a strange weightlessness.)

I wouldn't say I find any of the characters likeable, but on most British shows, I don't find the characters likeable. US sitcoms want you to root for the characters - "whoooo, Ross kissed Rachel" - whereas you guys love the unhappy ending. The British TV that we get has a grim, hopeless worldview. That's what makes it funny.

The last episode was a cop-out, and the last scene was a bad pun. I laughed a lot, though.

― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

I hated that Scottish woman in it

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

I hated ~~that Scottish woman in~~ it

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

I've just downloaded it and watched it again. I heart it. It seems from this thread that it's something that works for you or doesn't, and I just adore it.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 14 April 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

The Green Wing is responsible for the single best depiction of a house party ever seen on television.

"Goths - I mean, what's the point?"

"The point is, they get away with being that ugly by making it look deliberate."

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 14 April 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

i've come round to this, hard-style.

― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Monday, 24 April 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

It's the only 'hospital drama' Dawn can stand.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 24 April 2006 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

I have no doubt that it must still be v v v awful

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 24 April 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

you'd hate it, yes.

― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Monday, 24 April 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

Funny.
I mean, Mark Heap!

― David Orton (scarlet), Monday, 24 April 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

That guy is meant to be Elliot Gould, right?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 24 April 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

i think this is the least funny thing mark heap has ever done.

friday saw the return of sally phillips (last seen in that dreadful Hyperdrive thing)

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 24 April 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

'as herself' basically

― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Monday, 24 April 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

i think this is the least funny thing mark heap has ever done.

even more than his 'straight' role in Happiness? hmm you may well be right.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 24 April 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

I was at a wedding the other day and sat next to a girl who was gushing about Green Wing and then started on about 2DTV. I asked her if she liked Mighty Boosh and she went "Oh, no!". I didn't really say much to her after that.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

Quite. I mean, she didn't understand comedy at all. She was a silly little thing.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

yeh 'zactly. ;-) plus she was a bit northern and spoilt.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

does not compute

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

you are quite the raconteur, dog.

― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

I've got into this. I completely missed the first series (partly due to the almost univesal slating on here), but each episode I've seen of this new series has a number of LOLS, and some ROFLS for good measure.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

the sped-up/slowed-down thing is still quite annoying but ech, wvs, it does have some lols.

― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

The 'to wit' 'to woo' thing was great.

― Teh HoBBler (the pirate king), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

The second series doesn't seem as funny and fresh as the first one somehow, but I'm still happy to just gaze upon Tamsin Greig mostly...

This is one of the sourest, gotta-keep-hatin' threads I've seen on all ILX.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

It is too long though.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

thinking about it, WHITE WING morelike amirite.

srsly, whitest hospital in the UK.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

It needs to keep it real like Holby City

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 15 January 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

i have never seen 'holby city'.

have softened to 'green wing' though.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

Holby City is as real as it gets. Even more so than Doctors.

I quite like Green Wing.

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

Green Wing is quite good. Not my favourite show by far, but I like it!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

I don't dislike it, but it's not as funny as many people would say so. I want to live in a world where this was as bad as tv got.

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Monday, 15 January 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

there's too many "meh" moments in.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 15 January 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

I want to live in a world where this was as bad as tv got.

This is so fucking OTM. There are hundreds of worthier targets than this show to pillory, and in fact I'd say it's one of the better recent comedies. So long as Catherine Tate is allowed to succeed, you can't go slating shows like Green Wing to quite this extent.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Monday, 15 January 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

both equally shit :)

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

To put things into context: Harry Hill aside, all British TV Comedy right now is total shit.

― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

what were the chances of that happening?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

If you can put CT and Green Wing on a par, you truly show a lack of discernment IMO.

Frankly, now that GW has been and gone, I'm inclined to agree with Ruairi, minus the bit about Harry Hill.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

If you can put CT and Green Wing on a par, you truly show a lack of discernment IMO.

no it's just a 'higher' (or rather 'stricter') level of discernment.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

'the thick of it' will be back, later in the year, and so will 'peep show'.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

but in a another more accurate sense...

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

but then i do like Harry Hill so it's apples and roundabouts.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

rubbish

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

so you keep saying

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

RJG's TV Burp

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

Hmm. I was only talking about currently-running comedy shows. If Peep Show returns for a fourth bite at the cherry (and TTOI for a second), I will only be too delighted. Of course, the one I'm really looking out for is Nathan Barley II.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

i think it would be a big ask for there to be a 'great' uk comedy series to be running all 52 weeks of the year. i have low standards perhaps; but i don't ask for a 'great' film each month either.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

of course i too want 'nathan barley' back.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

They could drop scissors on a dog's head this time.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

uh, rose-tinted view there i reckon - but at least it was generating interesting discussion.

one episode of Screen Wipe a month would be good. ditto TV Burp.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

ha ha Dom OTM

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

as with 'green wing', take away the hype and the expectation it'll live up to 'the day today' and 'nathan barley' was 23 minutes well-spent. i lolled anyway.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

i didn't laugh more than i did laugh etc.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

'Peep Show' seems to be the only programme in recent memory that people can say that they loved without having to justify it by saying 'As long as you don't compare it with...', 'As long as you don't expect it to be...' as a prefix. And that's a pretty bad state of affairs.

― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

i liked respectable

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Was that the one with James Lance as a drug dealer?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

Didn't see it. That was the 'Cuddly Whores' show on Channel 5, wasn't it?

― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

yes

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

i'd like to see James Lance varying his accent.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

I'd like to see James Lance (insert insult here)

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

I'd like to see James, Lance!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

Loving this all over again. Appaz Victoria Pile is doing one called Campus now (pilot went out in C4's Comedy Showcase last year).

― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 10:58 (fourteen years ago)

Christ's Chin otm

― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 December 2010 11:03 (fourteen years ago)

i think i was christs chin

― rip whiney g weingarten 03/11 never forget (history mayne), Thursday, 2 December 2010 11:04 (fourteen years ago)

I wondered

― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 December 2010 11:10 (fourteen years ago)

It was the "fuck off 'dark' comedy" that gave it away

― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 December 2010 11:11 (fourteen years ago)

been on this board abt a quarter of my life

― rip whiney g weingarten 03/11 never forget (history mayne), Thursday, 2 December 2010 11:13 (fourteen years ago)

rong rong rong rong rong

― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 11:16 (fourteen years ago)

think i softened on it at one point

― rip whiney g weingarten 03/11 never forget (history mayne), Thursday, 2 December 2010 11:18 (fourteen years ago)

it's, if you will, 'no scrubs', though

― rip whiney g weingarten 03/11 never forget (history mayne), Thursday, 2 December 2010 11:18 (fourteen years ago)

think I meant "dark 'comedy'"

― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 December 2010 11:19 (fourteen years ago)

aw cmon this had its moments

but I was younger once, and hath not the time now

― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Thursday, 2 December 2010 11:21 (fourteen years ago)

http://ohmydarling.org/drcox/coxjd.gif green wings isn't even that dark, is it, just kind of up itself?

oh i can't remember

― rip whiney g weingarten 03/11 never forget (history mayne), Thursday, 2 December 2010 11:24 (fourteen years ago)

to clarify, my main objection to the dark comedy thing is that the dark is used to give sub-standard comedy a pass with people who like that sort of shit. fine, chacun a son goat and all that. my main objection to lol nerd comedy is that the lol nerd shit is used to give sub-standard comedy a pass with people who like that sort of shit. I guess people have different taste to me, dayyum. my main objection to black books is that it's not fucking funny.

― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 December 2010 11:47 (fourteen years ago)

four months pass...

CAMPUS (CH4 TUE 10PM)

what do you think of it?

i think imogen moffat just stole my heart from caroline and mac.

― jumpskins, Friday, 8 April 2011 18:09 (fourteen years ago)

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