When should Simon Pegg have stopped?

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OptionVotes
Hot Fuzz 22
Shaun of the Dead 20
I am an American and thus still enjoy his increasingly tired schtick 18
Spaced series 2 4
That one guest spot in I'm Alan Partridge 3
Brass Eye "lol paedos" special 3
Run, Fat Boy, Run 2
Jaaaaammmmmm 1
Hippies 1
Gadflying about with Derren Brown 1
Spaced series 1 0
Big Train 0
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People 0
Hooh boy, that new Star Trek movie doesn't look too good 0
I Am Not An Animal 0


Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:23 (seventeen years ago)

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

The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:24 (seventeen years ago)

Brass Eye "lol paedos" special

Was he in this? And Jam?

The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:26 (seventeen years ago)

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.

I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:27 (seventeen years ago)

Never. Run Simon run. Run like the wind.

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:28 (seventeen years ago)

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

^^^Spegg in Brass Eye Special

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:29 (seventeen years ago)

Hot Fuzz.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:30 (seventeen years ago)

^

For technical assistance, please contact our Support Team (electricsound), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:32 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:33 (seventeen years ago)

partridge

admin log special guest star (DG), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:33 (seventeen years ago)

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

I know, right?, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:34 (seventeen years ago)

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

Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:35 (seventeen years ago)

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

caek, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:35 (seventeen years ago)

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

Neil S, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:35 (seventeen years ago)

I am looking forward to his Scotty

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:37 (seventeen years ago)

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.

J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:37 (seventeen years ago)

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

Yes, Seán of the Dead, that would really work

The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:38 (seventeen years ago)

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

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:38 (seventeen years ago)

???
xp

I know, right?, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:39 (seventeen years ago)

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

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:39 (seventeen years ago)

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.

The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:40 (seventeen years ago)

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

The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:41 (seventeen years ago)

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

J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:41 (seventeen years ago)

have yet to see RFBR

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

am amarican etc

argle bargle HOOSa slobber (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:42 (seventeen years ago)

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

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:42 (seventeen years ago)

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

argle bargle HOOSa slobber (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:43 (seventeen years ago)

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

You are wrong (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:43 (seventeen years ago)

too Irish, not funny

I know, right?, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:44 (seventeen years ago)

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

You are wrong (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:45 (seventeen years ago)

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

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:45 (seventeen years ago)

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

Phil Will, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:45 (seventeen years ago)

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

jed_, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:47 (seventeen years ago)

... by news and current affairs programmes

The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:48 (seventeen years ago)

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.

its cool bro i'm a rugby league player (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:49 (seventeen years ago)

... by news and current affairs programmes

absolutely true.

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:50 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:54 (seventeen years ago)

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

Ste, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:55 (seventeen years ago)

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

J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:56 (seventeen years ago)

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

The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 10:58 (seventeen years ago)

no

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 11:04 (seventeen years ago)

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."

jed_, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 11:16 (seventeen years ago)

the independent owned by Big Brother producer Endemol UK.

nice work guys

admin log special guest star (DG), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 11:18 (seventeen years ago)

that was always going to happen, somehow

J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 11:24 (seventeen years ago)

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

admin log special guest star (DG), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 11:31 (seventeen years ago)

^^ real talk

its cool bro i'm a rugby league player (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 11:36 (seventeen years ago)

This thread makes me sad ;_;

You are wrong (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 11:38 (seventeen years ago)

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

The Atlantis Mystery Solved! (Frogman Henry), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 11:53 (seventeen years ago)

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

snoball, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:00 (seventeen years ago)

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.

caek, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:02 (seventeen years ago)

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

J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:14 (seventeen years ago)

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.

caek, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:15 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Tom D Gives You the Big Reassure (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:21 (seventeen years ago)

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.

J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:22 (seventeen years ago)

Plenty of silliness in Brass Eye too

Tom D is a rattly old puffin, who remembers ILX in the days when... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:27 (seventeen years ago)

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

caek, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:32 (seventeen years ago)

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.

CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:37 (seventeen years ago)

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

CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:38 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Neil S, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:49 (seventeen years ago)

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.

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:51 (seventeen years ago)

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

its cool bro i'm a rugby league player (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:52 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Neil S, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:53 (seventeen years ago)

Black Books is funnier than any Simon Pegg output.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:55 (seventeen years ago)

Not possible, Dylan Moran is in it

Tom D is a rattly old puffin, who remembers ILX in the days when... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:56 (seventeen years ago)

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

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:56 (seventeen years ago)

Like Dylan Moran not being in them?

Tom D is a rattly old puffin, who remembers ILX in the days when... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:56 (seventeen years ago)

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

Neil S, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:57 (seventeen years ago)

Black Books is funnier than any Simon Pegg output.

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Challop Books

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:57 (seventeen years ago)

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

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:57 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:58 (seventeen years ago)

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

Neil S, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:59 (seventeen years ago)

That shit never gets old.

Neil S, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:59 (seventeen years ago)

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

Tom D is a rattly old puffin, who remembers ILX in the days when... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 12:59 (seventeen years ago)

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?

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 13:00 (seventeen years ago)

er apart from The Editor in Doctor Who

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 13:00 (seventeen years ago)

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

Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 13:01 (seventeen years ago)

Referencing Doctor Who on this thread = antifootball

J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 13:01 (seventeen years ago)

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'

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 13:01 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 13:02 (seventeen years ago)

No, he is a bit of a dick

Tom D is a rattly old puffin, who remembers ILX in the days when... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 13:02 (seventeen years ago)

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

Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 13:03 (seventeen years ago)

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

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 13:03 (seventeen years ago)

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

Tom D is a rattly old puffin, who remembers ILX in the days when... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 13:07 (seventeen years ago)

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

Tom D is a rattly old puffin, who remembers ILX in the days when... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 13:08 (seventeen years ago)

deliberately picking the least objectionable member of the regiment there.

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 13:09 (seventeen years ago)

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

Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 13:10 (seventeen years ago)

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

ILX Systern (ken c), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 13:56 (seventeen years ago)

During

Tom D is a rattly old puffin, who remembers ILX in the days when... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 13:57 (seventeen years ago)

if Nick Angel 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 13:59 (seventeen years ago)

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.

the next grozart, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:00 (seventeen years ago)

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

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Fixed

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:01 (seventeen years ago)

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.

ILX Systern (ken c), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:03 (seventeen years ago)

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

Neil S, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:07 (seventeen years ago)

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

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:10 (seventeen years ago)

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

Neil S, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:11 (seventeen years ago)

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

Tom D is a rattly old puffin, who remembers ILX in the days when... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:14 (seventeen years ago)

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

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:21 (seventeen years ago)

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

aye it's me (onimo), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:31 (seventeen years ago)

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

›̊-‸‷̅‸-- (ledge), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:32 (seventeen years ago)

Two words: Shatner's Bassoon.

Tom D is a rattly old puffin, who remembers ILX in the days when... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:32 (seventeen years ago)

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

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Neil S, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:36 (seventeen years ago)

No hammering, sadly.

Neil S, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:36 (seventeen years ago)

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

i was being harsh

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:37 (seventeen years ago)

Fox nails the crab to the table.

aye it's me (onimo), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:38 (seventeen years ago)

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.

caek, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:40 (seventeen years ago)

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.

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:45 (seventeen years ago)

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.

the next grozart, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:50 (seventeen years ago)

i preferred things that Morris, Heap etc. said

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:53 (seventeen years ago)

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

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:54 (seventeen years ago)

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.

some dude, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:57 (seventeen years ago)

dom doesn't mind tired schticks.

ILX Systern (ken c), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:59 (seventeen years ago)

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

caek, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:59 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 15:00 (seventeen years ago)

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

Jordan, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 15:00 (seventeen years ago)

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

Tom D is a rattly old puffin, who remembers ILX in the days when... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 15:01 (seventeen years ago)

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.

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 15:12 (seventeen years ago)

Like Billy Connolly?

Tom D is a rattly old puffin, who remembers ILX in the days when... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 15:14 (seventeen years ago)

or Craig Ferguson ha ha

They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 15:15 (seventeen years ago)

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

J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 15:17 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 15:19 (seventeen years ago)

That may have been Adam Buxton, though.

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 15:19 (seventeen years ago)

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

rollerblading on the back of a cereal box in 1997 (internet person), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 18:36 (seventeen years ago)

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

omar little, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 18:38 (seventeen years ago)

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).

DavidM, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 18:56 (seventeen years ago)

Wait, what?

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 19:02 (seventeen years ago)

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.

chap, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 19:12 (seventeen years ago)

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

DavidM, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 19:22 (seventeen years ago)

nice image

admin log special guest star (DG), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 19:26 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

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

Pillbox, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 21:15 (seventeen years ago)

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

john della boscaoila (sic), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 07:08 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Saturday, 27 September 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

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

Life Begins at Death (Bo Jackson Overdrive), Sunday, 28 September 2008 13:43 (seventeen years ago)

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

J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Sunday, 28 September 2008 13:45 (seventeen years ago)

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

Matt, Sunday, 28 September 2008 17:27 (seventeen years ago)

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

System, Sunday, 28 September 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

i can't even remember what i voted.

right, we all start when the drum machine starts, lads (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 28 September 2008 23:10 (seventeen years ago)

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"

REIGN IN FUDGE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 29 September 2008 09:07 (seventeen years ago)

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

^still lol at these two

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 29 September 2008 09:08 (seventeen years ago)

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

I still like him. In theory.

Michael Jones, Monday, 29 September 2008 09:33 (seventeen years ago)

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

― Michael Jones, Monday, 29 September 2008 10:33 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 29 September 2008 09:37 (seventeen years ago)

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

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 29 September 2008 09:37 (seventeen years ago)

Pegg signs million pound book deal.

Any cook should be able to run the country. (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 10 October 2008 14:50 (seventeen years ago)

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"

Dr Morbius, Friday, 10 October 2008 14:54 (seventeen years ago)

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

some dude, Friday, 10 October 2008 14:57 (seventeen years ago)

Can someone do a Will Ferrell one next?

bear, bear, bear, Friday, 10 October 2008 18:39 (seventeen years ago)

six months pass...

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...

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 04:21 (seventeen years ago)

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

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 08:26 (seventeen years ago)

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

the next grozart, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 08:48 (seventeen years ago)

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

Mark G, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 09:13 (seventeen years ago)

He's not exactly Jim Carrey is he?

thank fuck

Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 09:20 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 09:29 (seventeen years ago)

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

ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 10:37 (seventeen years ago)

Titter. As if I have any friends.

Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 12:40 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

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

a gadfly within the ranks of the nationalist far right (history mayne), Sunday, 6 February 2011 20:38 (fifteen years ago)

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

a gadfly within the ranks of the nationalist far right (history mayne), Sunday, 6 February 2011 20:40 (fifteen years ago)

lol Frost's writing CV is pretty hot huh?

Y Kant Torres Red (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 February 2011 20:42 (fifteen years ago)

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

johnny crunch, Sunday, 6 February 2011 21:01 (fifteen years ago)

id currently call 'scott pilgrim' the best of them

a gadfly within the ranks of the nationalist far right (history mayne), Sunday, 6 February 2011 21:08 (fifteen years ago)

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.

thank you based mods (stevie), Sunday, 6 February 2011 21:19 (fifteen years ago)

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

piscesx, Sunday, 6 February 2011 21:22 (fifteen years ago)

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

Pegg has nothing to do with Scott Pilgrim

basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Monday, 7 February 2011 00:03 (fifteen years ago)

three months pass...

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.

akm, Thursday, 19 May 2011 06:56 (fifteen years ago)

I loved Paul but in no way was it essential.

百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 19 May 2011 07:01 (fifteen years ago)

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

You made the right choice, Deanne... (stevie), Thursday, 19 May 2011 07:20 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

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.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 21:29 (fourteen years ago)

lolololol

someone who's got a bit of swarthiness in them (history mayne), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 21:30 (fourteen years ago)

kula shaker in the melody maker :(

resonate with awesomeness (jel --), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 21:32 (fourteen years ago)

"He was in Austria during the interview."

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 21:34 (fourteen years ago)

beautiful

jed_, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 21:34 (fourteen years ago)

A stellar IMDB resume.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 21:36 (fourteen years ago)

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

frogbs, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 21:37 (fourteen years ago)

Needs Edgar Wright to be really good IMO.

Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 21:54 (fourteen years ago)

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

some dude, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 21:54 (fourteen years ago)

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

frogbs, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 21:55 (fourteen years ago)

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

Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 21:57 (fourteen years ago)

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.

SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 22:07 (fourteen years ago)

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

frogbs, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 22:20 (fourteen years ago)

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

SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 22:22 (fourteen years ago)

what won the Kula Shaker tracks poll btw?

blueski, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 23:44 (fourteen years ago)

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

― some dude, Wednesday, June 15, 2011 10:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

that's kind of right yep

someone who's got a bit of swarthiness in them (history mayne), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 23:46 (fourteen years ago)

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

He still has the same stupid hair.

I don't know who Cerebus is, and I'm 6'0 and 192 (Nicole), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 23:56 (fourteen years ago)

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

I don't know who Cerebus is, and I'm 6'0 and 192 (Nicole), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 23:57 (fourteen years ago)

he's from a great acting dynasty.

jed_, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 23:59 (fourteen years ago)

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.

free inappropriate education (Abbbottt), Thursday, 16 June 2011 00:43 (fourteen years ago)

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.

And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Thursday, 16 June 2011 00:50 (fourteen years ago)

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

(btw contendo, VAS DEFERENS ORGANIZATION! duh!) (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 16 June 2011 00:51 (fourteen years ago)

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

i really like it yhough.

jed_, Thursday, 16 June 2011 00:56 (fourteen years ago)

yhough = yo

jed_, Thursday, 16 June 2011 00:56 (fourteen years ago)

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

hand me the banana of shame (NotEnough), Thursday, 16 June 2011 11:59 (fourteen years ago)

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

some dude, Thursday, 16 June 2011 12:52 (fourteen years ago)

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

frogbs, Thursday, 16 June 2011 13:19 (fourteen years ago)

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

frogbs, Thursday, 16 June 2011 13:19 (fourteen years ago)

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

i can't, i won't (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 16 June 2011 21:21 (fourteen years ago)

three months pass...

paul was unbelieveably terrible

guh (jjjusten), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:06 (fourteen years ago)

But nerds and aliens

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:13 (fourteen years ago)

Star cameos

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:13 (fourteen years ago)

merciless unfunniness

guh (jjjusten), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:14 (fourteen years ago)

alien dick jokes

guh (jjjusten), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:14 (fourteen years ago)

simon pegg

caek, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:15 (fourteen years ago)

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

DaTruf (Nicole), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:15 (fourteen years ago)

oh it was much much worse than the trailers

guh (jjjusten), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:16 (fourteen years ago)

and they were terrible

guh (jjjusten), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:16 (fourteen years ago)

ha even I knew better than to watch that movie

the tax avocado (DJP), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:20 (fourteen years ago)

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

DaTruf (Nicole), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:33 (fourteen years ago)

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).

akm, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:53 (fourteen years ago)

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

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:56 (fourteen years ago)

holy fuck, that is horrible

the tax avocado (DJP), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 20:07 (fourteen years ago)

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

frogbs, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 20:18 (fourteen years ago)

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.

messiahwannabe, Thursday, 6 October 2011 07:58 (fourteen years ago)


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