When should Simon Pegg have stopped?

Shaun of the dead is funny! nothing I've seen him in after has been all that (I haven't seen much, though)

Brass Eye "lol paedos" special

Was he in this? And Jam?

Yeah I went with SOTD, Hippies was shite though.

Was just talking about Simon Pegg and how he's lost it, and should stop making crap movies and go back to sitcoms. Topical.

Never. Run Simon run. Run like the wind.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/BrassEye-MilitPede.jpg

^^^Spegg in Brass Eye Special

Hot Fuzz.

^

Voted for Spaced series 2, although increasingly realising that most of the love for Spaced is "OMG I WISH DAIZY WUZ MY GIRLFRIEND!!!!one"

partridge

Shaun of the Dead, why is Seán spelt like that?

I enjoyed Hot Fuzz greatly and even RFBR was amusing in places, but he just wasn't fat enough.

Good grief. Brass Eye has dated really, really badly.

RFBR, as it's not abbreviated to, was a Pegg too far, so I agree with Hot Fuzz.

I am looking forward to his Scotty

I'd guess at Hot Fuzz being the answer, although I (purposefully) haven't seen anything later. Some of the things in between are a tad ropey. Comparatively speaking (in the British comedy actor's canon) a good repertoire.

Brass Eye, still good for a long loud laugh IMO. But I probably count as a fanboy.

Shaun of the Dead, why is Seán spelt like that?

Yes, Seán of the Dead, that would really work

Pegg also cameoed in Look Around You as a sleeping medieval guard with no speaking part. perhaps a career high.

???
xp

plus Coogan's The Man Who Thinks He It which was awesome (and relevant now Coogan is doing a similar tour again)

Good grief. Brass Eye has dated really, really badly.

No it hasn't. The Paedo one might have, but that was always the worst one anyway.

"Seán of the Dead" = too Irish, not funny

It wasn't the worst one. "Sex" was the worst one. "Crime", "Drugs" and "Decline" fight it out for #1 prize.

have yet to see RFBR

am tempted to see How To Lose Friends etc because of his involvement

am amarican etc

how can the most recent Brass eye have dated the quickest? weirdos

also what an awful photo of homie wtf dom i dunno i suppose that's what you do can't fault you for that

The Hollywood dream will crumble and he'll go crawling back to telly Rik Mayall style.

too Irish, not funny

'What about that third series of Spaced then' etc.

is he supposed to be Paul Morley in 24 our Party People can't remember

Should have stopped after that walk-on as a motorcycle courier or whatever in 'Band of Brothers'.

Brasseye has dated badly mostly because it was ripped off so much.

... by news and current affairs programmes

is he supposed to be Paul Morley in 24 our Party People can't remember

Yeah and it's his best role because he's only on screen for four seconds.

... by news and current affairs programmes

absolutely true.

Brass Eye has dated badly, but so does all satire I suppose. Friday Night Armistice is fucking unwatchable if you find it on any torrent sites.

Should have stopped after that walk-on as a motorcycle courier or whatever in 'Band of Brothers'.

or his zombie part in Land of the Dead

The Day Today is far too silly to have dated, and is still the best Morris/Baynham output

^ 4-4-2 or 4-2-4 or whatever it was... remember that one?

no

talking of Sean of the Dead....

http://www.e4.com/deadset/flash.html

"Guardian columnist Charlie Brooker's E4 zombie thriller Dead Set will be set in the Big Brother house.

The six-part horror series - E4's first move into the genre - is being made by Zeppotron, the independent owned by Big Brother producer Endemol UK.

It is understood that in Dead Set, the Big Brother house becomes one of the last places where people can shelter from the zombies.

According to Broadcast magazine, the contestants in the Big Brother house are unaware of the massacre going on outside."

the independent owned by Big Brother producer Endemol UK.

nice work guys

that was always going to happen, somehow

hope it's as big a success as nathan barley was!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

^^ real talk

This thread makes me sad ;_;

we can see, your crying face has somehow been scanned onto your message

Small role in the film "Hotel Paradiso" vs rival bookshop owner in that episode of "Black Books"...

The Day Today is far too silly to have dated, and is still the best Morris/Baynham output

truth bomb.

Seriously, I watch Brass Eye and I am genuinely surprised that I ever found it funny. It's so joyless and hectoring and studenty. I think maybe I hate Chris Morris.

[broken record]I'd proscribe Blue Jam for chronic Morris antipathy.[/broken record]

Blue Jam is more studenty than Brass Eye. A lot of it seems like the kind of thing that an Oxford improvisational comedy troupe would come up with.

I saw the "Crime" Brass Eye a few weeks back and laughed like a drain. It maybe helps if you haven't seen them for a good few years.

Really? Would they have taken on all that track-mixing too? Would they have tastefully sequenced great songs into the sketches? And would their sketches have been nearly so good? Seriously, now. It's a heck of a lot more sophisticated than you're giving credit for. And Brass Eye a lot more gleefully irreverent. (yeah, Crime might be the best one)

Now, Broken News (as referenced yesterday), THAT'S studenty.

Plenty of silliness in Brass Eye too

The students wouldn't have mixed the music in because they're presumably not mates with Warp Records.

For full disclosure, I'm not sure I've ever laughed out loud at any Morris output since TDT. But that doesn't mean I don't think it's funny, don't appreciate its frequent brilliance.

And Pegg? Voted for Hot Fuzz.

More props for Black Books cameo too - ace.

...or don't appreciate... etc

Never really understood the appeal of Black Books myself- it seemed to chronically waste Moran and Bailey, and the set-up was just a bit dull.

don't see how it was wasting the main two - never seem them 'act' more in anything else. and bailey got to show off his piano skills. obviously the real star of the show as the fly who buzzes in and then out again with the door closing behind it.

Yeah, but get this, he was a drunk bloke who owned a book store...and he HATED people! Hated customers!

yes indeed!

x-post to blueski

Yeah I suppose you're right, I guess their schtick just got on my nerves in that, whereas I think they're quite good in other contexts.

Black Books is funnier than any Simon Pegg output.

Not possible, Dylan Moran is in it

Spaced and Big Train are roughly as funny as Black Books, maybe better for other reasons

Like Dylan Moran not being in them?

Spaced at least is better than Black Books IMO. Seems difficult to compare Pegg's films with a sitcom though.

Black Books is funnier than any Simon Pegg output.

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Challop Books

thought Spaced would get all the "dated" talk not Brass Eye but i guess that was done already

Spaced is more gently amusing than laugh-out-loud funny I think. It wins because the characters are better than in the vast majority of Brit sitcoms of recent years.

Spaced's a bit lol Phantom Menace and drum 'n bass, but that's not that dated I don't think.

That shit never gets old.

Don't agree with all this "dated" talk. They're hardly "On the Buses".

Like Dylan Moran not being in them?

no, i don't mind him (Bernard might even be one of the better actively Unlikeable sitcom characters...of recent times)

Pegg's Goliath Books manager is maybe the only time Pegg has played someone intentionally Unlikeable?

er apart from The Editor in Doctor Who

He's a bit of a dick in Spaced as well, first series at least.

Referencing Doctor Who on this thread = antifootball

and if that's the case then maybe it's interesting that Hollywood is proving receptive to a British comic actor generally perceived as 'the good (if a bit rubbish) guy'

I think he's meant to be a good guy though, he just comes across as a dick because he basically is "lol comic books and Autechre"

xxp

No, he is a bit of a dick

Doctor Who is a glaring omission in the poll, especially seeing as he's rubbish in it.

yes, a bit, like pretty much ALL sitcom characters ever xp

Are you saying Pte. Godfrey in Dad's Army is a dick?

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b204/ballsmccormick/PUTUPURDUKES.jpg

deliberately picking the least objectionable member of the regiment there.

He was old during the war so probably didn't like the blacks or gays very much.

When you pick a selection do you mean he should have stopped AFTER he did that particular thing, or before?

During

if Nick Angel had actually died halfway thru Hot Fuzz that would be amazing

SOTD was ace, Hot Fuzz just a bit tepid. Big Nothing was not good. Apart from that, I haven't really seen him in much.

if Nick AngelFrost had actually died halfway thru Hot Fuzz that would be amazing

― They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:59 (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Fixed

I mean, making things wise, obv after Shaun of the Dead should have stopped. But then that would mean stopping before How to Lose Friends and Alienate People which would mean not getting to hang out with Kirsten Dunst, which is wrong. It's between a rock and a hard place.

Worth repeating: Run, Fatboy... is terrible.

The parts of Brass Eye that have dated the worst are the "real" interviews where they mock their interviewees. At the time though, pre-Ali G, it must have been fantastic

Noel Edmonds can never show himself up too often in my book.

The parts of Brass Eye that have dated the worst are the "real" interviews where they mock their interviewees

I agree, they're quite uncomfortable to watch now, but still peppered with hilarious moments

i never really liked those bits. Phil Collins saying "nonce sense" was/is funny but not much else.

Bernard Manning bit was funny on the Cake thing "One girl threw up her pelvis bone. It's a fuckin disgrace!"

Dr Fox hammering a crab ftw, or did i just imagine that.

Two words: Shatner's Bassoon.

Dr Fox hammering a crab ftw, or did i just imagine that.

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No hammering, sadly.

"there's no scientific evidence for it, but it IS fact"

i was being harsh

Fox nails the crab to the table.

Two words: Shatner's Bassoon.

This is what I'm talking about. Occasional moments of brilliance marred by the vast majority of it, which is shit like that.

Anyway, Simon Pegg. Yeah. Not been good since Spaced.

I liked that Big Night In thing Pegg and Frost did on C4. this was more for the concept than them especially tho (Lenny Henry's also had it's moments because of the archive material he selected, and in spite of himself). Please do this again Channel 4.

WTF? The stupid celeb interviews were some of the best things about Brass Eye. Dr Fox hammering a crab, Richard Blackwood telling us he's more susceptible to peados after typing on a keyboard, the MP for Basildon getting very concerned about a drug that doesn't exist, Rolf Harris, Bernard Manning etc... Still funny.

i preferred things that Morris, Heap etc. said

When you don't know the celebs, or their media moment has passed, it just comes off as unfunny and mean-spirited.

I am an American and thus still enjoy his increasingly tired schtick. Has he even been around over there long enough to be like the UK's Ben Stiller, or is Dom just an early adapter for the eventual backlash? Big Nothing was terrible but I liked SOTD and Hot Fuzz.

dom doesn't mind tired schticks.

When you don't know the celebs, or their media moment has passed, it just comes off as unfunny and mean-spirited.

Especially when the interview has to be edited to fuck in order to make the person look like an idiot, qf the Claire Rayner one. That's some fucking Jamie Kennedy-experience/Rio Ferdinand's Murked shit right there.

i was in a hotel a couple days ago and mission impossible 3 was on, and i was like "whoah, is that simon pegg?"

Making Geoffrey Boycott look like a fool is public-spirited not mean-spirited

Is it just that as soon as British comic actors start making it in the States that they seem less good? I know some people hated Pegg before that anyway but same thing is happening with Gervais, maybe Coogan as well.

Like Billy Connolly?

or Craig Ferguson ha ha

the best moment in modern british tv satire is surely joe cornish tarted up as a daytime presenter, darkly repeating the mantra "do something for telly" in a crowded shopping mall

Joe Cornish's finest moment is probably "give it a whizz, and mugs there is".

That may have been Adam Buxton, though.

pegg always come across a bit too self-satisfied, imo...

I am an American and thus still enjoy his increasingly tired schtick

Gadflying about with Derren Brown

Wait, what?

I'm seeing the Toby Young film thing at the end of next week. Woop woop! (Kirsten Dunst plays Julie Burchill, right? I hope that's right).

Wait, what?

I am not American and I still like him. He's done some mediocre stuff recently, but I reckon he'll come up with the goods again at some point.

xpost: ah right that thing. I thought for a second he and Derren were being gay together or something.

nice image

I still like him too, but in the same way I like Peter Jackson for doing Braindead.

Overlooked: Don't, The phony trailer he did for Grindhouse. Funniest thing about that movie IMO.

one second of screen time doesn't count much as "did"

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Dunno that he ever should have stopped, but boy was Run, Fat Boy, Run dull.

I still like him too, but in the same way I like Peter Jackson for doing Braindead.

― You are wrong (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 20:55 (5 days ago) Bookmark

^^^^this

Hot Fuzz I think, was just about entertaining enough to qualify. Big Nothing is an awful, awful film, though. I mean really bad.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

i can't even remember what i voted.

I am an American and thus still enjoy his increasingly tired schtick

there's never an option for "i am a brit and hate all funny british people after they've been around for more than two years"

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00218/Knowledge-TTE133301_218629a.jpg

^still lol at these two

Kinda amazed at the lack of Faith In The Future option.

I still like him. In theory.

Kinda amazed at the lack of Faith In The Future option.

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Man, I'd completely forgotten he was in that.

Gotta be up there with Rob Brydon's first major role being in "Barbara", that.

Pegg signs million pound book deal.

I've only seen Hot Fuzz. Once someone has a "breakthrough" film, it's often wise to skip their next 2-3 years' output as they will do high-profile shit. "Earn all you can"

after seeing How To Lose Friends i want to change my vote.

Can someone do a Will Ferrell one next?

On a certain film about to come out:

“I felt damn sexy wearing it," Simon Pegg purred into the phone, "and I took a lot of clandestine photographs in my trailer.”

The 39-year-old British comedy star was talking, thankfully, about his Starfleet uniform...

“I went to live in Scotland for five years and studied as an engineer," Pegg joked in his practiced deadpan. "I’m that method."

I'd like to know exactly what Pegg's "schtick" is. He's not exactly Jim Carrey is he?

He's a bit funny, and is "everyman".

He's not exactly Jim Carrey is he?

thank fuck

Against my impulses I watched 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People' the other week, but actually found it (or Speggs bits anyway) quite lolerrific.

i think you have just lost friends and alienated people with that post

Titter. As if I have any friends.

definitely before stepping on to the set of 'paul'. definitely before that moment.

basically promoting his weed carrier to co-writer was a chump move

lol Frost's writing CV is pretty hot huh?

i really really like edgar wright from his appearances on doug bensons podcast tho couldnt make it thru hot fuzz, never seen shaun, am scared to see scott pilgrim as it looks like the type of thing id hate

id currently call 'scott pilgrim' the best of them

have seen so many awful films with him in recent years (though Shaun is really great; really wasn't all that fussed w/fuzz tho). i think his decision to star in that awful toby young biopic was worst of all. still, if all he'd ever made was the two series of spaced, i'd still think that was a marvellous achievement.

even Shaun Of The Dead is over rated imo. never liked Spaced much either. he was brilliant in Big Train. This sketch reminds me he was clearly going places but it's a shame he went.. where he went in the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKRBYGhqI8Y

am scared to see scott pilgrim as it looks like the type of thing id hate

Pegg has nothing to do with Scott Pilgrim

Paul wasn't very good, no; no-one seemed very interested in what they were doing in it except for Frost. It's kind of cute I guess. But I honestly prefered Run Fat Boy Run and How to Lose Friends and Alienate People to this. Pegg needs to bone up on his writing.

Scott Pilgrim was very good though.

I loved Paul but in no way was it essential.

How To Influence... was even worse than you might imagine a Toby Young biopic to be.

Answer, now. Right now, before this happens:

Slate: In the book, you write about your dramatic training as a teen, and about how you were dying to play Hamlet. Would you still want to pursue something more serious, like a Shakespeare adaptation?

Pegg: I don't distinguish particularly between comedic and straight acting at this point. With Paul I think we were being slightly more clowny. But certainly in Shaun of the Dead, we tried to play it as straight as possible to the point where it becomes tragedy. It was more about trying to make it realistic. The next film I'm doing is kind of a semicomedy, but it's much more of an acting job than just telling gags. It's called A Fantastic Fear of Everything. It's about a writer who is paranoid, basically he's going insane. He's writing plays about murderers but he's becoming obsessed with murder and murdering. And he gets a meeting with an agent, but in order to go, he has to visit the Laundromat because his clothes are dirty and he's frightened of Laundromats. So it's this really odd but brilliant script. It's directed by Crispian Mills who is the grandson of John Mills and the son of Hayley Mills, so he's from a great acting dynasty. It's just a little low-budget British film but I'm very excited about it.*

Help.

lolololol

kula shaker in the melody maker :(

"He was in Austria during the interview."

beautiful

A stellar IMDB resume.

i really liked SOTD and Hot Fuzz, IMO that was a new brand of comedy that actually WAS really clever while it lasted. kinda though Paul was going to be that whole thing but for sci-fi, but man what a disappointment. probably thought the movie was worse than it actually was because I expect so much more out of him. On the other hand, he could just be getting lazy, I can't imagine those two movies were really that much fun to write considering how thick the plots are and how many things needed to be done to capture the moods of the films they were imitating.

loved him on Big Train, him and Mark Heap were the best

Needs Edgar Wright to be really good IMO.

was Paul really going for the same kind of affectionate genre satire as Shaun and Hot Fuzz? the trailers made it look like a Kevin Smith movie with a CGI budget

no, it definitely wasn't, but I remember him mentioning it in an interview a couple years back that we was going to look at the three movies as kind of a "trilogy", so that's why I got my hopes up, obviously it's got really nothing to do with those other two movies

I thought they were doing one more film with Wright to complete the trilogy, and Paul was something else on the side.

Yeah, Paul was not the third part of the trilogy.

I liked Paul just fine (absolutely love SOTD and Hot Fuzz), probably because I thought Pegg and Frost's involvement was limited to acting until after I'd seen it, so no huge expectations going in.

as long as they do another film with Wright I'm okay

I think that's the plan with that third film.

what won the Kula Shaker tracks poll btw?

the trailers made it look like a Kevin Smith movie with a CGI budget

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that's kind of right yep

http://www.contactmusic.com/photos.nsf/main/hayley_mills_3011700

He still has the same stupid hair.

Crispian Mills, that is. I googled it, but for some reason the picture isn't showing up.

he's from a great acting dynasty.

I thought Paul was really funny but I didn't know anything about it going in (not even the main acting dudes), or have any expectations for it – I just had a free movie ticket for whatever was showing that day. So I found it surprisingly hilarious.

love spaced and SOTD, and looked forward to hot fuzz with great anticipation ― was a bit disappointed though. funny as hell when it was on, but otherwise overlong and a bit too precious for my taste. suspect that, as an american, the specificity and accuracy of the country village humor went over my head.

haven't liked anything since, and paul looked just awful, but i may give it a shot one of these days.

I didn't think SotD was that good, but it's been a minute since I've seen it

it's on TV so often i could believe it was a literal minute.

i really like it yhough.

yhough = yo

I think Edgar Wright was supposed to direct Paul but he got distracted doing Scott Pilgrim.

pretty sure Wright was never attached to Paul and it was always planned as one they'd do w/o him

gotta say I loved the bit in SotD where they're trying to fight a zombie by throwing records at it, but Shaun can't bring himself to throw his more valuable ones so he has to rifle through them first...classic

"it's not hip-hop, it's electro"

Well, following that imdb link I discover that Maxwell Caulfield is married to Juliet Mills so I feel I've learnt something to-day.

paul was unbelieveably terrible

But nerds and aliens

Star cameos

merciless unfunniness

alien dick jokes

simon pegg

The trailers for this looked so bad, I'm not surprised.

oh it was much much worse than the trailers

and they were terrible

ha even I knew better than to watch that movie

Wow, to be worse than the trailers...yikes.

it was really bad. what's worse is that I got it on demand on direct tv and didn't realize they were charging me $25 for it (they have some 'while it's still in theaters' thing that is bullshit).

$25 for an on demand thing? More like 'Occupy Direct TV' time, amirite?

holy fuck, that is horrible

ANAL SEX!!!! there, I just recounted every joke in Paul.

really? i mean, it wasn't my movie of the year, but i thought it was mostly funny throughout. but then i though run fat boy run was a decent enough romcom as well - thought they both kinda scraped by with a 7.000 out of 10. ie, i enjoyed both of them well enough, decent number of laughs scattered often enough throughout both of them, don't feel like demanding those 2 hours of my life back etc...

still, an argument could be made for pegg stopping as soon as the credits for hot fuzz stopped rolling.