Limmy's Show

because he really really deserves a thread of his own.

3 clips from limmy's show s3 here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p085w

series returns next monday - still not uk-wide, shockingly. available on iplayer though

some previous limmy chatter here: Rolling UK Comedy Thread - "Ricky Don't Lose Larry David's Number

genuinely obsessed with his stuff. that perfect mix of rough (sidestepping the bullying of frankie boyle) and touching and ridiculous

I don't know, it's much more variable than the other Scottish comedy shows on the block - for every "Wrong way down a one way street" there's a "Lloyds pharMAcy", and I have real doubts it'll ever get to the heights of the Falconhoof "Kill Jester" again - Gary Tank Commander is solidly good, and Burnistoun (although equally prone to misfires) stomps all over it with Jolly Boy John. I'll definitely be iPlayering it though.

Did anyone else ever try following him on Twitter? SERIOUSLY something wrong with him.

I love Limmy. Lloyds Pharmacy was hilarious for me. Yes or noo, all the Adventure Calls, the amazing "will I bring another spoon" sketch. I can't even remember all the ones I like cos there are so many.

Of the new clips, I like the one with the guy in the park.

Also Benny Harvey RIP!

i followed him on twitter for a while, had to give up after not long. though i do have some kind of admiration for someone who is a professional success despite spending all day picking fights with strangers.

The Bus trip to Yoker sketch is his crowning achievement IMO. Yeah his Twitter is pretty crazed.

the "club face" one had me in bits. i can sit and watch him on youtube for hours.

Think this is his pinnacle tbh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5tnlBY7Xek

Remarkable how many Limmyisms are still current between me and the missus: "a child's *sweetie*, officer?", "20s *plenty*?" "youse *guys*???", "REQUIEM" etc etc

The "Yoker" clip is all time. Never seen the "touching" one upthread before (aka Millport I guess), after a robustly shit day of it, mostly due to work, this struck a chord that's resonating like a tuning fork right now. Looking fwd to the new series.

"Yoker" is great. I have no need to follow his twitter as it's all endlessly retweeted into my stream anyway.

I managed one episode of Gary Tank Commander and thought it was excruciating.

I quite frequently get people retweeting him in my twitter stream... and he doesn't seem very funny, to be honest.

The Twitter stuff isn't really representative of his TV comedy. Though I find the repetition and bloody-mindedness of his Twitter does sort of amuse me in a way.

In general with Limmy it's not a love it or hate it thing, but I definitely have recommended him to a few friends who saw no value in his sketches whatsoever.

I also think it's really clear from a lot of the sketches that he has been a major raver at some point, I can't pinpoint this in every sketch but his humour is definitely of that brand to me.

this one is probably the best, for me, a great sketch with a completely meaningless ending that just makes it even funnier:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBU-pzAmqcM

love this one too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv6Ec5P-63k

My friends and I still shout "WASTE" at each other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp3c96XssJg

Limmy is a twitter savant. I've actually read this whole thing twice

http://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/Brian_Limond_%28daftlimmy%29_TheLose1000.htm#TheLose1000

I really like him, despite the PAIN his work causes me in the office. He's clearly a fan of Tim & Eric - says as much on the commentaries for the new DVD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcqzrNOG2TA

this one always gets me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tt5DE4hbYY

My dad frequently tells me how much he loves the sketch with the magic picture frame and his dad in it. Limmy's humour is at its best when it reflects that particular Scottish sense of neither being derogatory /laughing at somebody's expense nor self deprecating - just funny because it is.

YERRA LIAR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AryQPWvlvU

Burnistoun (although equally prone to misfires) stomps all over it with Jolly Boy John.

Much as I love Burnistoun and agree that both are hit and miss, I think Limmy's highs are higher.

I once spent half an hour suppressing giggles on a train after my brother texted "d'ye want this mushroom" to me.

I've followed and unfollowed Limmy several times on twitter. He's hard work sometimes. I used to occasionally watch his webcam stuff too.

the webcam stuff is definitely a little too weird for me

Limmy is a twitter savant. I've actually read this whole thing twice

http://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/Brian_Limond_%28daftlimmy%29_TheLose1000.htm#TheLose1000

― Number None, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 21:59 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wee bits of that are cracking me up - I think he just riffs away and some things eventually become sketch ideas

I once spent half an hour suppressing giggles on a train after my brother texted "d'ye want this mushroom" to me.

yes. it's not so much that he sketches are hilarious (although the best ones are) but that so many of them have taken on a life of their own between my friends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbShY2hE_c
"heavy duty"

"dessert" is painfully otm, could do a follow up with "a glass of wine please" " would that be a *large* glass of wine ooh ooh smirk wink?"

this thread is making me realise how much stuff he has, i'd say there are 30/40 i love and i hadn't seen a lot of the ones posted here.

jed otm too, the stuff has a way of getting into conversation.

the one i drop the most is "and that means YOU".

I also think it's really clear from a lot of the sketches that he has been a major raver at some point

I used to know him, when he but was wee laddie (aye), so I can confirm this as true

A friend's three-year old son asked her for a "muffit of tea" the other day.

love "a muffit of tea".

I've still never seen his show!

The "Nightmare" sketch had me in hysterics first time I watched it.

So many good Limmy's sketches. I bought series 1 on DVD but when it came to watching it my flatmate was just unimpressed and I had to admit that series lacked a lot of the best of his work.

YERRA LIAR

I once did a telephone interview with him and I genuinely was laughing for the full thirty minutes we were speaking.

This is my personal favourite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ysnjjvcAmk

I forgot about "a muffit of tea"! I often read problem as ploblem to myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYVdrwLEx1I

both parts of this sketch kill me

omg muffit of tea

the way the "new characters" sketches - drunk lassie, soaking guy etc. - built to their final realisation was masterful.

-i'm not numb hen, these are great these wee things...
-whit wee things?
-ECCIES!!!

Looking forward to the new series. S2 was brilliant. Easily the best British sketch show (not that there's much competition) since The Fast Show and arguably more inventive.

Each to their own, but I find it surprising that people say Limmy is hit and miss compared to Burnistoun. There are a few great Burnistoun sketches (2 Litre Bottle of Ginger, The Lift, the single issue MP, er that's about it) but it's always been seriously patchy. The latest series was piss poor; lazy writing, a lack of imagination. With stuff like Jolly Boy John it's as if they're trying to go for the weirdness of Limmy, but it totally falls flat and just comes across as the sort of 'random' wacky shit Limmy takes the piss out of so well (youtube the Limmy 'random' sketch from the pilot - one of my favourites).

There are endless Limmy sketches imo.

SHES TURNED THE WAINS AGAINST US!

I love the delivery of "you're a wee fanny" here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKEOwkkmQ68

"I'll fock'n kill ye, ye wank!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zwxIMMGZro

tom d, did you know him well? was he always funny?

i'm hands down obsessed with the guy, greatest comedian of all time for me. certainly the most *now* in tone - as in it seems a product of internet age, cf: his previous career in webdesign and rise to fame through youtube

never seen burniston - is it similar stuff?

true about his stuff bleeding into everyday conversation, i'm always referencing the 'back on top' sketch after any minor/major mishap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH9ajekHNKM

agree slightly about s2 being better than the first, but i can watch both over and over, soaking it up like whale noise. can't do this with any other tv show at all ever, there's something almost songlike and rhythmic about his stuff

vague mutterings online about a beef between him and his older brother, saying limmy jr robbed a lot of material from his bro. apparently elder limmy did 'requiem' for real in the 80s which is kinda horrifying if still a bit amusing

worth checking him out too, his twitter stuff is mostly football rants but there are gems like this on soundcloud and youtube:
http://soundcloud.com/davidlimond/me-calling-danny-dyer

as my mate phil put it, "like limmy but just dead rough and not honed at all"

(warning: bit of racism in that soundcloud link)

and if you've not heard limmy's 'world of glasgow' podcasts then you're in for a treat. should be out there to download but if not let me know and i'll upload a zip somewhere. mental image of jacqueline mcafferty dancing to 'call on me' is forever burned onto my psyche

can easily imagine him not being to many peoples taste, a lot of his material is just a torrent of grim with only a sliver of a pay-off (often just him pulling a disgusted face to camera). then again there are things that make me explode like "they all just wanna RRRRIDE me"

disappointingly his wife did the stage layout for frankie boyle's tour. boyle just seems like a thick nasty limmy, completely missing the point, hitting way below the mark

world of glasgow is on itunes for free i think

disappointingly his wife did the stage layout for frankie boyle's tour.

No, his girlfriend did the art on the DVD cover! (x-post)

He sometimes mentions his father, who is a regional "comedy hypnotist" that performs at local pubs. He's clearly got an interesting family history. Jesus - half the press for S3 is him talking about alcoholism and suicide.

It's amazing to me (as someone who didn't grow up in the UK, so his accent is sometimes REALLY hard for me to understand, like on the Dee Dee sketches or the amazing "Get away from the motor" one) how he can also have such broadly-appealing ones. The Mr. Mulvaney sketches are incredible!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9KmdBEFisQ&playnext=1&list=PLCA06AD4FAB1EAC48&feature=results_video

I didn't quite finish that thought - I just mean the range of his sketches is impressive. Total surreal non-sequitor stuff all the way to something that could have been a Mr. Show bit or whatever.

Part of it is that he's a genuinely great actor, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggEUx-wS0ms

Burnistoun is kind of the flip side of the coin to Limmy's Show - an unashamedly big, dumb, noisy sketch show. There's usually one or two decent sketches per series, and the rest is sort of "hmm". It's disappointing cos the stuff Rab Florence used to do on his old shows(eg Consolevania & Videogaiden) wasn't like that at all, I get the sense he's playing things deliberately low-brow for a more mainstream audience.

Limmy's stuff is in a different league, which is odd as initially they were coming very much from the same place, humour-wise - both very Tim & Eric influenced. Not to mention Limmy was a regular in Videogaiden as "Zak Eastman".

tom d, did you know him well? was he always funny?

Pretty well. Yes, and the humour was exactly the same, but I would never have thought he'd end up a "comedian" with his own TV show!

Jesus - half the press for S3 is him talking about alcoholism and suicide.

That's Glasgow for you!

Got tae laugh int ye? Else ye'd walk till yer bunnet floated.

Aye, ye never knwo the minute

forgot mulvaney and up t' bloody tree. both amazing.

Seriously though, why is is still not on one of the main BBC channels? Considering the shite they have on. It's not an accent thing is it? Cos that's a bit fucked

Is it really not on nationwide? I've only seen the sketches on YouTube through mates and assumed it was.

the anti-thatcher/queen stuff probably doesn't help

He's playing up to a stereotype with the "fuck yer England" stuff but maybe some Englishers at the BBC only see the angry Jock.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/louisemensch/100116958/why-is-the-bbc-using-licence-fee-money-to-pay-a-man-who-wishes-margaret-thatcher-dead/

good work for hosting this on the telegraph website....

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2011/11/margaret-thatcher.jpg

woman of eighty-six, now mentally frail, vulnerable and unable to answer him back or defend herself

Ah the old senile defensia

half the press for S3 is him talking about alcoholism and suicide

do you have any links to these? he's spoke previously about quitting drinking after waking up one morning feeling suicidal, be interesting if he's gone into more detail

and woops re: stage layout/dvd cover thing!

more from limmy sr:

https://twitter.com/GlasgowLimmy/status/266698584576118785/photo/1

wept laughing at 'up t'bloody tree' when i first saw it

something so brilliant and small about the GBM past of this 'doppleganger' sketch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLlLb4n8ZtY

that brilliant thing of something minor happening that you might raise an eyebrow for a split second before forgetting and moving on, but limmy grabs it and rinses it to death

I don't know, it's much more variable than the other Scottish comedy shows on the block - for every "Wrong way down a one way street" there's a "Lloyds pharMAcy"

see, i wouldn't pick out either of those sketches as being brilliant or poor, they're just his middling stuff to me. as you can see on this thread people have their own fairly obscure skits that hit a chord with them, that's his genius

and I have real doubts it'll ever get to the heights of the Falconhoof "Kill Jester" again

super disagree. that 'guy in the park' clip from s3 preview is as good as that for me. fascinated by what he'll do next, clearly has ideas and creativity by the ton so as much as i want him to go on making sketch shows forever i think he'll move onto bigger things. he's already mentioned writing a script for a horror film/tv series - bit gutted as i've no interest in non-lol-horror

one of my favourites, mostly down to the sheer menace at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9_kpc7zjZM
again, "ya WANK" has filtered its way into my day to day conversation

(he reused this in his series, something a bit harder hitting about the bare room backdrop of this)

re: that last clip, what does 'topper' mean? i take it as something like "got one over on you", that right?

also what's limmy's comedy hypnotist dad called? seriously thinking of making a trip up from manchester to check his show

Five minutes of twitter & soundcloud has convinced me Limmy Snr's an unfunny bawbag.

I suppose I might think the same of his wee brother if twitter was my first impression.

I think this is hypnolimmy

http://lordofthetrance1.webs.com/

http://lordofthetrance1.webs.com/limond.jpg

His article on 'trolling' in the Guardian today is something else. I laughed.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/nov/09/confessions-of-an-internet-troll

onimo, you didn't find the danny dyer phonecall funny?

Bog standard crank call imo. Rab Corbett's were funnier, dunno if they're still online somewhere.

Dyer name dropping Jimmy Boyle was funny

ah, im a big fan of the bog standard crank call. dunno who rab corbett is, mind

He's from Paisley, I think. His stuff used to get passed around on tapes years ago then it surfaced on the web 1.0. Probably not as good as I remember it.

limmy's dad's hypnotist show looks mental: http://youtu.be/J0xX3oxa1hk

skip to second half, 3.45 onwards. watch from 3.45 onwards. bunch of people sat in a row, raging at each other while limmy's dad - who has hypnotised them into thinking he's invisible - walks past slapping and nipping and pulling their hair. goes on for 5 relentlessly unpleasant minutes. no jokes or humour, just anger and rage and pain, increasing in intensity til it looks they're gona smash each others faces in.

at one point he grabs the old lady's boobs and she think it's this scally kid who did it. grim.

apparently his show is self-contained and he's willing to travel the uk so 100% booking him for a show in manchester. who's in?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwfxvo34fRY

ahm actually turnin intae a wuwlf

the electronics shop guy is really annoying

damn thing isn't on iplayer yet. though spotted this interesting nugget:

BBC1 12:00 AM, Sunday 18th November 2012

so it IS being shown nationwide after all. weird as a lot of the press leading up to it says how it's scotland only, criminally

there have been a lot of big shake-ups at the BBC this week.

the US Grand Prix appears to be on BBC1 at that time

Turns out I had BBC Scotland hidden away in the other channels bit on my TV though. I've missed out on so much

ah yeah, says bbc1 (scotland only) on a related page. wish this fucker would turn up on iplayer or box.bz soon. im refusing to sleep until it does.

as good as expected. some properly brilliant bits, some that don't quite make it, but it's definitely of a piece with s1&2. big relief he's not dropped off.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01p085w/Limmys_Show_Series_3_Episode_1/

really hope the guy in the hardware shop isn't going to be an ongoing thing.

favourite bits were the old man with the hats and Dee Dee. Wasn't even a vintage Dee Dee sketch but i just find him hilarious every time

i liked the guy in the electronics shop, tho by the end it wasn't so good.

think my biggest laugh was the "i've never said this to anyone before.... " one. but the dude in the park was just brilliant. reminds me of some IRL twats.

adventure call was pretty good. i liked the bit with the guy drawing the picture on the napkin too. that actor is amazing.

paraside and jac mccaff good and a good mix of others I realise what I enjoy is just limmy's v funny acting plus some v funny moments and ideas than payoffs/punchlines

picture on napkin guy was superb. limmy's face as it went on that bit too long, turning from matey laughing to something uncomfortable, just wonderful. (though needed a few seconds shaving off the end of the sketch)

i did think that there's a small risk some of his stuff could descend into pastiche, a bit catchphrasey. (though as catchphrases go, a disgusted look to camera is up there with the best of them.) don't think he's there yet but it could go like that if he's not careful

INT:DAY: MAN: DUCK

JOHN: WHATS THAT DUCK

JOHN: WHATS THAT DUCK

cat walks in with a bird

JOHN:

JOHN:

DUCK: QUACK

EXT:DAY; EYES LOOK AROUND :INT:WOMANS BOOBS

Was a bit disturbed by the giant doors in one of the lampshade sketch scenes. Is this a Glasgow tenement thing? Made the people look like children.

haha

I thought they looked huge as well.

Park dude was amazing.

Also Deedee ("fucken Alan Titchmarsh").

Deedee's one of the greatest comedy characters of all time. It could have been handled so much worse - point and laugh at the burnout scally, but you're always on his side. I get the impression, just form the decor of his room and the people he knows that he actually used to be a pretty stable guy who just happened to have hit a serious rut.

agree there is sympathy there but it seriously bums me out, such a senseless waste of human life. finniestoun crane was the worst, his poor parents ;_;

the crane one was amazing, and then it turns out it's all a hallucination based on the fact he skinned up on a book about Glasgow landmarks.

"Bastard widnae gie us a straight answer"

read this somewhere else:

"One of the funniest things I saw him do was a webcam where he was waving a big knife about, acting as if he'd snuck it into a nightclub and was threatening to stab people with it. It was both hilarious and genuinely disturbing."

would love to see that

on the webcam one night he pretended to masturbate to savage's "don't cry tonight" for the duration. while softly groaning "don't let me gooo", "don't cry tonight" and sobbing heavily. he kept restarting it, went on for about 20 minutes.

don't think this has been linked on here yet, another of my alltime favourite sketches:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD8qjOjBk-8

similar to napkin one in tone - daft music, expressions, unpleasant payoff. probably my favourite style of the sketches he does (slapstick stuff, influenced by keaton/chaplin?)

xp, ha his webcam stuff was intense. sometimes hilarious, sometimes uncomfortable. always with a great soundtrack though - endlessly pleased that the greatest comic mind of our generation is all about synths and gay club dance music and not lumpen indie

that one was absolutely superb from start to finish

fucking brilliant, right enough.

the 'seamus' pay off had me in tears but they nailed p much everything in that, right down to the face on the guy he sees everywhere.

what's your "hing"

You do realise, like 'hing', a lot of this stuff is just Glaswegian?

yeah it wasn't really that that made it funny

Ah, 'hing' for 'thing' is funny peculiar though

great ep

it is quite funny how you're often not sure when a sketch begins whether it is a new one or a continuation of an earlier one because it's usually the same people usually looking pretty much the same

it is quite funny I realised watching this ep but in eps back to the first series that he often uses liminal spaces for the outdoor sketches or maybe that isn't quite funny

The magic door on the waste ground was perfect.

superb episode that, way beyond last weeks

PARTY
CHAT

Almost too close for comfort that one.

Great episode. My wife pretty much hates it and was on laptop throughout, so I remarked that watching Limmy's Show might have to become my 'hing'; her considered response "Good, at least you'll do it when I'm not around then". Played right into her hands, etc.

got a pavlovian retch from the party chat stuff

ha, my gf hates limmy too. showed her a couple of my favourite limmy clips the other day while sat there stony-faced and disgusted. "i don't get it, i honestly don't see what's funny about it all"

got a package in post the other day, come running upstairs dead excited like a kid at christmas. she looks at me and goes "what's that?" i open it and pull out this: http://cdn-2.cinemaparadiso.co.uk/110415085005_l.jpg

still laughing now at the noise she made, like when you think you've stepped in dogshit and you check bottom of your shoe and find out it's true

it's often the little details that make it so good, imo: the "enchanted forest" type music that comes in as various men describe their 'hing' delighted me almost as much as the premise itself.

Mrs A has shown v occasional amusement at some of his work (Yoker, the "two spoons" dessert sketch), but mostly tolerates it at best. Nothing worse than sitting there unimpressed whilst yr husband/lifepartner/other is braying with misplaced laughter across the room though, I imagine.

the series 1 dvd comes HIGHLY recommended btw. each episode has video commentaries explaining each sketch, motivations, little details, etc. fascinating stuff. (dunno if ilx has a beef with cookdandbombd or what, but i ordered it via the amazon link on the top of the forum page to give the guy a few pennies, neighbourly like)

right, that's Wishlisted for christmas then. Spread a little festive cheer and good humour for 50% of the household at least.

yeah, it's the details and limmy's mannerisms that make it. the larry forsyth thing is kinda just a one-joke premise but limmy's performance had me in stitches, the way he sneaked that "stop larrying me" line in there. so realistic, like a genuine aggro drunk

credit due to the supporting cast too. tall skinny guy is terrifyingly funny and i almost wet myself when other guy said about (SPOILER) spending all weekend in that wardrobe laughing his head off. so much better than the 3 from s1 it's untrue

the s2 dvd with more of the same coming out in a few weeks too!

tall skinny guy's finest moment is either last week's napkin sketch or I KNEW IT

currently changing my ringtone to dee dee's HAA as he watches the newsreader trip up

and if anyone hasn't heard the world of glasgow podcasts yet, here they are:
http://www.mediafire.com/?tcudyh7ih453i1j
http://www.mediafire.com/?loivtrivxiql8kj

(i don't think they're on sale anywhere but mods: feel free to take the links down if they are)

hehe my missus just stormed out of the room within milliseconds of his voice coming out of the Iplayer

I liked Raymond Mearns a bit for the ECCIES gurn and the bit with him being on the phone to Dee Dee all depressed at what his son had become but yeah the new guys are better

The guy that's the younger of the two has something about him (I think around his mouth?) that I can't get past. Do think the three of them are really good though.

do any american ilxors like his stuff? interested in if it translates

Yes but I lived in Glasgow for a while.

i really like the younger guy. he's really good at that "whit ye talkin aboot?"/"couldn't give a fuck" kind of shrug or brush-off thing that's required in a lot of limmy's sketches. like the sketch this week with him pouring the big head on the pint followed by limmy's rant about a guy at a foam party which escalated when the guy wouldn't look at him doing the impression. brilliant sketch. "whit's yer hing?" and the chest-touching sketches were great too. it's not all gold though - that PARASIDE sketch is crap as was the scratch-card thing.

Yeah Paraside is pretty weak. Started watching this with flatmate, after Paraside and PARTY CHAT she said "ok I'm going to do the washing up". Not the best start to the show then but I was pissing myself through all of Larry Forsyth's Experiments.

i quite liked paraside. scratch card was shit though, i agree. the script in the corner shop "whit's yer hing" is so perfect. "i tell the wife i'm stocktaking..." followed by the conspiratorial "but you're not"

"Stop Larrying me!" and "something beginning with allpaper" had me in tears. Loads of meh scattered elsewhere though.

The "reaction" sketch tied it all together (perfect deployment of the yelled "fanny" n'all), specifically justifying the scratch card sketch where the subverted expectation was resubverted by it having exactly the punchline you would expect have expected it to, had it not been a Limmy sketch.

Loved the fact that PARTY CHAT guy was always in the process of skinning up, even though it felt like the whole thing took place over a couple of hours.

Some banter on 'em on all man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PtwbY7fP6VQ

t is quite funny I realised watching this ep but in eps back to the first series that he often uses liminal spaces for the outdoor sketches or maybe that isn't quite funny

― conrad, Tuesday, November 20, 2012 2:06 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

limny

3 of his best here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yy8pz/clips

Went to a friend's engagement party last night and ended up staying quite late then getting a taxi home on my own - was severely tempted to lean in to the driver and go 'So mate, what's your hing?'. Managed to restrain myself, but only just.

Think my all-time favorite sketch from this though is the 'Winged Sandals' installment of Adventure Call.

There was talk of an Adventure Call spin off. Don't see it myself.

Think my all-time favorite sketch from this though is the 'Winged Sandals' installment of Adventure Call.

I love when he forgets himself in that one and is "naw ye didnae... em... no you did not."

^Yeah it's just spot-on. The guy calling in on that one is pitch-perfect as well.

can't imagine falconhoof making it to a spin-off. i'd say jacqueline mcafferty is most likely but my, and most people's, fave would be dee dee. huge undertaking though - he's hugely skilled at the under-3-min sketch but to stretch this out to a 30 min episode x 6, i dunno. fascinated by what he'll do next. can see him attempting a bunch of different stuff, charlie brooker style.

can actually imagine a show with those 3 leads (jm, f & dd), plots interweaving. not inconceivable that those 3 would interact in real life

well he did that to amazing effect in the world of glasgow christmas special podcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rgq_t92jxg

is that youtube showing or just blank? it's not showing for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rgq_t92jxg

people really rate that final ep of WoG but i dunno, felt a bit forced. great example of form but the content felt weak and restrained, just didn't have the lols. but yeah something he can clearly pull off from a 'creation' pov

i liked it a lot. there were a couple of duff characters in WoG but they brought the goods in this.

which did you think were duffs? i ended up loving phil the most, with john-paul close behind. malice for malice's sake, something you don't see much on tv/radio but come across all the time in day to day life. could never really get into tom, vijay or benjamin but i have some mates who properly love the benjamin character

do any american ilxors like his stuff? interested in if it translates

I'm not American, but he's lols

American; love it; though I live in the UK. I sometimes have to rewind sketches a couple of times to make sure I understand him in the sketches where he's real slang-y. I think I get about 72% total. Love it, though.

72% !

ok, seems there needs to be some link to the UK for someone to *get* it. shame in a way but i guess it's mostly observation based so it's bound to be kinda parochial.

Ep 3 particularly dark, even more references to mental illness than usual.

Never seen any of this - is there reason why I need to watch the first series first or can I just dive straight into the second?

nah, it's a sketch show. You can pretty much pick it up whenever

I think that might have been my favourite episode overall. It was particularly bleak, even by the show's usual standards, but there was a thrilling kind of tightness to it; it felt like the themes were in even sharper relief than normal.

And Falconhoof. Poor, poor Falconhoof.

i thought this week's was awful and depressing. i only laughed at the "receipt in the bag" sketch.

i loved the bleakness yeah. not far off laughing along with (not at) mental illness some of those sketches

to answer your question upthread,NI, my WoG duds were Phil and Wee Gary. Benjamin and Tom verged on dud but were saved by being played really well and being well observed. Jacqueline, Xander and Vijay were my favourites.

you didn't like directions by phil?! that's one of my go-to 'laugh out loud on buses' just thinking about it things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG2b0BdWLMM

First "building bricks!" was great, last sketch was definitely [sidelong raised eyebrow slightly pained glance at camera limmy-style] but i liked the bit with the gun/sideways gun/gun & torch.

When the woman buying booze froze with that face on, making that noise (and before the gun stuff), I was absolutely delighted that I wasn't stoned. Nightmarish.

i couldn't stop laughing at the final "building bricks"

I didn't really get building bricks

did the phrase "building bricks" bring back some weird childhood toy or playschool memory for everyone else?

limmy christmas fun
http://www.chunkgames.com/snowball/

This was always fun when I worked in an office

http://www.limmy.com/playthings/xylophone/

the xylophone is an all-time classic. love the new series & started to follow him again on twitter after having to give him a rest for a while

Is it wrong to be mildly freaked out by the fact that the receipt-in-the-bag actor guy from the show has the same mouth as the Third Stage Guild Navigator from Lynch's Dune?

placed a pre-order on amazon for this limmy s2 dvd (out on monday) but unless i pay a shedload extra i'm not gona receive it til wednesday or so. where's likely to stock it in a city centre (manchester)? hmv or something? not bought a dvd on day of release ever before, dunno how it all works - will an english shop even stock it? questions questions!

lol u can't wait two whole days?

fopp mb? vague scottish connection might give you marginally better odds

it kills me how iplayer takes a full day to put the latest limmy's shows up so no i can't wait two (actually three) whole days, no. gona try fopp and hmv tomorrow, wish me luck!

purchased. and because i love him so much, i actually bought TWO. the only two copies in the whole of the city. have THAT, manchester

(not actually mental, it was two for £20 at hmv, one alone cost £17. so if anyone in manchester wants a copy give us a shout, a tenner to you. otherwise my girlfriend gets it and she's already promised she'll punch me hard in the face if i give her anything limmy for christmas)

best adventure call yet

first half of the show was hard going i thought

NI i ilxmailed yiz

sorry bud, it's already been passed on to a new owner!

i should have guessed you'd sort it out swiftly

think this series has been his weakest yet but he's my favourite comedian of any description right now.he absolutely kills me.his twitter ramblings are sort of anti-comedy,but can be amazing. coco jambo.

second ep of this run altho a few dud moments is the best complete ep I can remember and most recent adventure call the sketch that has given me the most continuous/mounting lol

This week's episode was the best yet I think... such a devastating combination of bleak and slapstick. Facile comparison, but "Mam, it's the Windy Man agin: call the polis" made me think he's a post-Trainspotting Ivor Cutler.

Dunno about best, but definitely very good. Perhaps the best episode to show someone who'd not seen the series before? It felt a bit easier going than, say, episode 3.

There's a track on the forthcoming Mogwai album (a soundtrack to a French TV show, 'Les Revenants') called "Kill Jester".

Episode 6 was pretty great too... and apparently the last ever. Which is a pity, but given the workload he'd have had making the thing it's probably best he stopped before getting burned out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH9ajekHNKM

Saw ep 5, the payoff for the scary puppet sketch was bathos par excellence. i lost my shit.

episode 6 was the best of the series, for me.

series 1 dvd comes HIGHLY recommended

My sister got me it for Christmas, but I did actually see an episode on my last trip to Scotland so it wasn't quite my introduction. Have only watched the 1st DVD but... Googoogagas: Modus Operandi? Looks like I might have to stop my (occasional) Bobby Gillespie skits on ILM in case people think I'm ripping Limmy off :( Dee Dee is an instant classic, the Finnieston Cran + the kitchen. And that sketch about the evil wee ned annoying the guy in the park is so accurate on evil wee neds, down to saying "Yas" instead of "Yes", *steps down to pick up a conker* "Gies that"...

somehow had missed everything by him (one of those where you keep promising yself you'll catch up with it but don't). Watched all of season 6 the other week - Stevie T otm about bleakness of it all. Particularly enjoyed Windy Man and puppet battle. will start from season1.

My son and his school pals do the Dumbbell Dance and shout "your wife is a floozy!" at each other. I like that Limmy's created playground memes without being too catchphrasey.

Fockin' love how every Dee Dee sketch begins "Fockin'..."

... I was thinking the very same thing earlier today!

limmy's show the tv series? pfft, true fans watch THESE: http://www.youtube.com/user/GuyWoodward/videos?sort=da&flow=grid&view=0

Limmy getting attacked on twitter by Caitlin Moran is bringing tears to my eyes.

His obsession with hating the Daft Punk album is a bit embarrassing. Let it go Limmy, it's just a record.

I don't know what the correct quantity of time and words to spend on Daft Punk might be.

On Twitter? A lot less than this.

did you see this though http://hiddentracks.org/its-not-actually-a-disco-album-per-se-daft-punk-notes-from-a-small-backlash-2013/

xp on twitter as opposed to what? Print journalism?

I don't know what the correct quantity of time and words to spend on Daft Punk might be.

― oppet, Monday, 20 May 2013 20:25 (28 minutes ago) Bookmark

i'd say about a muffit's worth

lol

haha

i thought his review of the album contained some of the funniest stuff he's ever done.

mainly:

https://vimeo.com/66155376#t=2206 the bit about working in an office and the guy next to him singing the words to the julian casablancas track under his breath, then breaking off to say "can you just put this on the server mate".

also the part where he's listening to skrillex then cuts back to that terrible terrible intro to the panda bear track. doing this relentlessly for ages.

both tracks are kinda crappy but limmy puts a magnifying glass right up to it, for 10/10 lols

also doing 'get lucky' as the foxy bingo ad

(ok, 'funniest stuff he's ever done' is a reach but i have been laughing a shitload at those bits)

The Caitlin Moran stuff is hilarious. I would like to see more of him v chattering classes idiots.

curses, i had vowed never to listen to the dp lp ever ever but a limmy liveblog is temptation itself

not sure i want to engage with his music views, he likes funk d'void and other shitty scottish techno.

Never engaged with this dude before but seriously the longer the Daft Punk hate goes on the funnier it is.

He's right about the Peter Paphides piece being astonishingly patronising btw.

He's done way funnier stuff than the specific Daft Punk stuff - it's not even cos I disagree with him on the record, it's just not his best work. The Caitlin Moran fallout and the Paphides stuff is brilliant though. Esp the photos of him in the park.

Her tweet about "if he keeps slagging off my man, he'll be pissing through a straw" was incredibly embarrassing.

imo all paphides pieces make complete sense once u realise he is the spit of gale from breaking bad

Her tweet about "if he keeps slagging off my man, he'll be pissing through a straw" was incredibly embarrassing.

It was so bizarre. All the more because he genuinenly did not slag off her hubby, not in a nasty way, but was more concerned about the DP opinion. Moran picked the wrong person to mess with, rookie mistake.

Has anyone storyfied it? Need to browse casually at work

not sure i want to engage with his music views, he likes funk d'void and other shitty scottish techno.

gona disagree. he also likes pet shop boys, shannon, shit loads of early 80s disco and a ton of early house. i've always thought and been pleased by the fact he has vastly better music taste than pretty much any other uk comedian out there. (saw david baddiel tweet the singer of starsailor the other day saying he was a huge fan)

the caitlin thing is car-crash interesting. i like her, and paphides writing, but her response to limmy was a real head-in-hands nooo moment

and yeah limmy was totally right to point out how condescending that PP article is: 'oh, the little people simply haven't heard it under the right circumstances' (though his early vinyl release idea does have something about it). i can't think of any circumstances where i'd listen to 'touch' or the panda bear track and think 'ahhh, of course!' shite's shite

calling his daft punk patter an embarrassing obsession misses the point. seems to me he's pushing it as far as he can go, like matt dc said, the longer and more extreme he gets, the funnier it is. i doubt he lies awake at night legit fuming about it, it's just schtick

the longer and more extreme he gets, the funnier it is

I mean yeah, this is what he does

and yeah limmy was totally right to point out how condescending that PP article is: 'oh, the little people simply haven't heard it under the right circumstances' (though his early vinyl release idea does have something about it). i can't think of any circumstances where i'd listen to 'touch' or the panda bear track and think 'ahhh, of course!' shite's shite

isn't pete paphides from 6music? working for that station you could understand how he assumed music fans are myopic.

touch is awesome btw!

i dunno, i just didn't find the repetition funny in this case, he has done plenty of far funnier things. plus as well as being schtick there's an actual opinion in there and opinions aren't funny.

I still think this is the best thing that's ever happened on twitter

http://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/Brian_Limond_%28daftlimmy%29_TheLose1000.htm#TheLose1000

ive read a lot of great stuff by paphides in the past, i think he meant well with this but misfired badly. he hasn't actually responded to limmy has he?

ahahaha

xp

:DDDDDD

THEY WERE STUNNED AND SHOCKED YESTERDAY AND TODAY.

this is magnificent

Limmy ‏@DaftLimmy 20h
As I sit in Victoria Park, I am trying to take in what's happened in the last few hours. pic.twitter.com/A9iUU5Adqh

Limmy ‏@DaftLimmy 20h
Did that really happen? I need to think. pic.twitter.com/P6uqDZkWTN

ENDS UP JUST GROGGIN BETWEEN THE ARSE CHEEKS N GETTIN A SPITTAL DEID ARSE CHEEK WANK AFF THIS CORPSE, FUCKIN HOWLIN.

this might be the best thing I've read

the Lose 1000 thing = best thing on twitter of all time, just phenomenal usage of the medium.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbCqAJ0uN8Y

Nothing new, but had this on while I was cooking and the bit starting at 01:03:30 cheered me immensely

that's brilliant. his vines are incredible too. he's said how there won't be any more sketch shows as he might have making a sitcom, and i was gutted but some of his vines are totally up there with limmy's show. mindblowing how he just wanders around parks coming up with this stuff seemingly on the spot.

been making a list of the best few:

https://vine.co/v/hWeqA3aEVDA
https://vine.co/v/haEYEALiVD3
https://vine.co/v/hzmObaZ2Tv9
https://vine.co/v/hWWAExhjXVF
https://vine.co/v/hzlrUDZIdWW
https://vine.co/v/h7JEEPzZUDH
https://vine.co/v/hWQp75ueBqh

wish there was a way of downloading them all in a big batch as he has a bad habit of deleting all his tweets so im worried these might not be around much longer. also is there a way of searching vines by creator? having to scroll through his twitter feed to find them all, must be an easier way

good job! they are pretty magnificent to watch all like that

these pop up in my fb feed. "aye fuck off you" is killing me, howling here.

The easiest way to see all someone's videos is through the vine app. Limmy is by far the best user of this exciting new medium.

Jesus. I'd heard about how bad the new Daft Punk album is, but I never expected it to sound exactly like the music they use in the background on Teletext Holidays.

Those are terrifying

perfection

that made me lol so hard

few more winners:

https://vine.co/v/ha3i1XZpTaI
https://vine.co/v/hWmEpAELwEw
https://vine.co/v/haTTIbMK0XY
https://vine.co/v/hatVvKMr7nH
https://vine.co/v/hajTpKE6jpe
https://vine.co/v/hav6Xd2mdvl

far from a complete list, feel free to add your own. (is there any way of d/ling the vine app or a player/downloader on windows?)

a mate pointed out last night how you can hear his kid yelling in the background of some of these, while he's dicking about on his own making these horribly unsettling 10 second video loops. that and http://seenive.com/v/966063770055180288 suggest his kid is going to grow up to be the funniest darkest person on the planet

that KEVIN WEBSTER webcam bit above has kept me entertained for hours. if anyone else comes across more gems like that please post here!

The series of Vines where he spots the cider bottle in the park and then just loses his shit are SO FUNNY to me

the one where he's pushing his kid in the buggy, spots the bottle of frosty jack then walks away from it bellowing. that one's amazing. almost sounds like he's taking the piss out of his son as in the first clip you can hear his son chattering on going "blehh blehh" then the final scene is limmy running away yelling BLEEHHHH BLEHHHH

https://vine.co/v/h7vnzgumzDW

Finding Vine urls is a pain in the arse

is there a way to make vine not muted by default or do i have to click the unmute button every time?

Yeah how annoying is that?

Limmy ‏@DaftLimmy 4h

Check out Daft Punk's new single "Get Lucky" if you get the chance. Sound of the summer.

garry ‏@OneGearGo 4h

@DaftLimmy It's been out for ages mate, catch up!

All my vines in one place

brilliant, thank you

also lol xpost

Aaah the spider aaaaaaah

been weeping laughing at this one:

http://seenive.com/v/960101221006487552

also loving:

https://vine.co/v/h73LhFVeYp3
https://vine.co/v/hZM0itZe3wg
https://vine.co/v/hZA2JHhAD19
https://vine.co/v/hZApZ0U2KrL
https://vine.co/v/hZi7rTAgeaj
https://vine.co/v/hZiVg23PqvI
https://vine.co/v/hahl9MnwLPH
https://vine.co/v/hzUu15n727F
https://vine.co/v/hzU303d5Um5
https://vine.co/v/hzlxWLKEMma
https://vine.co/v/hzwHUWgzWqY
https://vine.co/v/hzFZVbwqjYT
https://vine.co/v/hzFKALrOxaz
http://seenive.com/v/960918306649481216
http://seenive.com/v/960862325500493824
http://seenive.com/v/961259192252096512
http://seenive.com/v/961276740892864512
http://seenive.com/v/960515899897573376
http://seenive.com/v/960509168211603456
http://seenive.com/v/960593451945271296
http://seenive.com/v/960516739035230208
http://seenive.com/v/960002009132679168
http://seenive.com/v/960101221006487552

Translation help, cannae get the last line:
http://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/654DF56834966651307215958016_1373441828267b385b1303d.mp4_HWiMF0beLaNtABtQEhjG_1JhKjtA3yuil5OBt4sQK97q5CPk50VvyufGe_cWarj3.mp4?versionId=36tdOXR.bPCZGHH2AE17Ydn_2YtYEu8n

Sorry that is the URL it gave me

"..kicked his heed [head] aff [off]"

reet ta

https://vine.co/v/hZD0KEwnqid

it's actually pretty amazing the way he plays with the form with regard to the editing. very skillful.

http://seenive.com/v/967894578206269440

and the "johny don't stab me" one already posted.

https://vine.co/v/hzwHUWgzWqY

love this series:

https://vine.co/v/hAT3xMraaJb
https://vine.co/v/hATLuEtqniI
https://vine.co/v/hATLMExJQ0h
https://vine.co/v/hATLtde61Jz
https://vine.co/v/hATLLOJzhi3
https://vine.co/v/hAtBBE2xQBH
https://vine.co/v/hAtBF0PI11t
https://vine.co/v/hAtuurJAwLh

(watch in order)

and here's his first 300 vines in one 30 minute video:

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

different to watching the vines loop, not so much better or worse, just different.

lost it at the swan one

just watching this a few times this evening http://seenive.com/v/957404961220829184

jesus - those vines.

sometimes they are very good, sometimes bad. mostly they make me think that Limmy is someone I would never want to know personally.

^^^

Limmy uploaded all 85 "World of Glasgow" clips to Soundcloud tonight.

https://soundcloud.com/limmy/sets/world-of-glasgow

I laughed at "@serafinowicz A nice, relaxing half hour" in response to the Limmy Vines YouTube. It's like a sometimes-funny, sometimes-terrifying anxiety attack!

I think Phil is my favourite WoG character - the mock-English accent captures perfectly a kind of strained, bullshitting search for pleasure and status. Someone who sounded just like him used to advertise a shopping centre/food-court/nightclub complex somewhere in London which promised top brands!, decadent lattes!, and 'twisted entertainment'.

And Benjamin is everything the show Nathan Barley was trying to do but actually works

enjoying watching him circle the gta reaction

is this twitter? or webcam?

got tons of his vines to catch up on (the ones since he did the youtube video collecting together the first 300). has anyone been following them all and are they as good as the first batch?

not seen the vines. i appreciate the way he relentlessly prods at things

waiting for the next 300 tbh, first lot is still the best half-hour on youtube

his vines need looping imo

yeah, best way is to watch them looped imo then go for the full 30 min blast. weird how they work so differently but still really well both ways

stuff like the gta thing is where i'm most tempted to unfollow him. his actual opinions about stuff are moronic.

Where's the slam tent, mate?

Limmy ‏@DaftLimmy 15 Sep
Getting close to my second 300 Vine compilation. Don't worry, I'll chop out all the bread stuff. But the judge stays in.

wish there was an easier way of watching his vines. i know there's that link to them all on a big page but it's still unwieldy trying to get them in chronological order. determined to do that before he releases his next 300 on youtube

I haven't been able to see what he's been tweeting since he blocked me for no reason a few months ago. It's partially a relief as he's one of those that seems to sit all day every day on Twitter and tweets constantly. Some of his tweets are brilliant but when he gets on a roll about being obnoxious about something it can be tedious having to scroll through it all.

he deleted all his tweets a few days ago too. annoying for a signed-up fanboy like me who hangs on his every word - means i missed his gta stuff, what was he saying? been a few things over the past few months where i thought 'hmm you've not really thought that through' but mostly im in agreement with him - or if not agreement, can see what he means but shy away because it's just too dark/cynical

ha wonder why he blocked you? i do kinda buzz off that, how he's so brutal and harsh with his blockings. did you tweet anything at him? the 'getting on a roll about being obnoxious about something' is a real line in the sand for a lot of people it seems, i usually enjoy the relentlessness of it. ie. tweeting every couple of days about get lucky being the sound of the summer never fails to bring a mini-lol

i enjoy his twitter, he obviously uses it excessively, but that's because he's a tv writer/performer who has a young kid , no friends, and mental health issues and spends most of his time at home fannying about on the computer. also because he is a bit of a self-confessed bam-up merchant/troll.

his vine has definitely gone downhill quite a bit, but it would have been difficult for him to keep up the early quality.

I was playing my nephew some of his dafter vines and when one of the ones where he encourages his kid to just go nuts shouting came on, my sister just glanced over and wistfully said "oh, his poor wife"

ftr it was repeat playing of the "I'm gonna sell you this today notfortenpounds notforfivepounds notforthreetwooronepound bat for free - FER FREE?! - fer free" one that almost got me divorced

his vine has definitely gone downhill quite a bit, but it would have been difficult for him to keep up the early quality.

aw damn. still gona put an evening away to soak them all in. there must be some gems in there though? i guess he's been doing a load of bread ones which i can do without

has he done any webcam sessions lately?

don't know if this is a joke or not:

Limmy ‏@DaftLimmy
That's right, folks, there will be a Limmy's Show Christmas Special!

https://twitter.com/DaftLimmy/status/381461676727361536

he's said recently how he's busy working on stuff til the end of the year but no clue as to what it is other than a vague mention of a sitcom. be interesting to see if he can pull it off - he's so skilled at the short intense blast, wonder if he can stretch it out to 6 x 30 mins. also if he'll be using dee dee, jacqueline etc, if he's playing most the parts himself - would actually prefer this for the sheer fuckedupness, no one else in the entire show except limmy dressed and made up in various ways

guess some of the world of glasgow were around 20-30mins so he does have some decent long-form stuff

In the What's Your 'Hing sketch, what does Limmy suggest to the guy at the store? I can only make out about 40% of what he says after "you know what you could do..." (I'm from the U.S.)

Watch back the CCTV for that day. Go up next to where people were standing. Go like that to them (ie. say to them) "All right Sir, two for one. Can I help you madam? Tin of tomatoes. Alright here?". Like you usually would. But with your cock out.

Ahhhhh thanks. Best 'hing = sitting the wardrobe all weekend, fuckin' laughing your heed'aff.

Christmas special isn't a joke - he is making that

what a classy guy

https://twitter.com/DaftLimmy/status/394108118126575616

http://www.geschichteinchronologie.ch/judentum-aktenlage/antisem/d/EncJud_anti-semitism-band3-kolonne143-144a-karikatur-Rothschild-1898.jpg

https://twitter.com/DaftLimmy/status/394181369871335424
https://twitter.com/DaftLimmy/status/394181514499350529

lot of unbelievably gullible folk out there.his account is a constant bam-up-merchant and never fails to get a bite.

hes got a wee vine narrative on the go now - painter and decorator descending into alcoholism - which has been superb.

yeah but he can clown people with conspiracy shit by using any of the idk 40% of conspiracy shit that isn't overtly antisemitic, see also

Is this anti-semitism?

I have a book on oddball conspiracy stuff -- they pretty much all went there eventually. Even the alien Bigfoot time castle stuff.

i've got about a thousand of his vines to catch up on. might put aside my entire afternoon for it (not looking forward to the bread ones)

x-post (see also: Jon Ronson's "Them.")

2nd lot of vines (301-600):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI80ts9odHI

full 60min mindfuck (001-600):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXEw1e7ii4k

probably the most intense undiluted limmy experience yet, up there with his world of glasgow podcasts

bit annoyed with myself for not going through the 2nd batch of vines individually, something about the relentless loop really elevates the rough lols (for certain clips). still great to see them run-on like this.

has he announced a broadcast date for the xmas special yet?

Special on BBC2 tonight.

Scotland only, unfortunately. Sarah Millican for the rest of us.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03mtqd6/Limmys_Show_Limmys_Show_Christmas_Special!/

A BASTARD AE A BOY

that was kind of bad. I liked the Scottish song though

Loved Dee Dee's bit

And Mulvaney

the dee dee one was great, limmy in excelsis. rest a bit patchy but that's standard with limmy, worth it for the good stuff

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-12-19/limmy-what-im-watching-this-christmas

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-12-19/limmy-im-writing-a-new-sitcom

Mr. Mulvaney kills me every single time. So, so funny.

thought that was p excellent as it goes. keen sourcing of old rave flyers on teenage Dee Dee's wall

I also found it bad and not funny, sadly. He's lost quite a lot of weight and looks better for it though.

Thought that was pretty much consistently good, which is rare.

I thought Christmas of Yesteryear was one of the funniest things he's ever done tbh.

this was pish bar Xmas of yesteryear and deedee in my opinion.he has lost a ton of weight,skinny bastart now.

Loved Dee Dee and Adidas 4 Stripe. Most of the rest was meh. He must be running out of ideas, "what would you do?" is a recycled Internet sketch from years ago.

nah, he often rejigs early ideas (as do many writers/comedians/creative types, right?), and the density of ideas in his vines suggests that he's still 'got it'. he was saying a few days ago how he'd love to remake the benjamin skits from his world of glasgow but no tv person would fund the creation something so vicious.

remember thinking 'hm bit weak' about the first ep of s1 and s3 but subsequent viewings shows on a par with the rest, all part of a piece. falconhoof was good in this and the mr mulvaney is A+.

think he struggles with a theme,the "live" episode he did also fell a bit flat.also when he gets sentimental it can be a bit cloying.

really curious as to what he's going to do next. fingers crossed for a weird limmy sitcom.

like, i guess, was an uplifting way to leave jacqueline mccafferty but not even trying to be funny.

well he's doing a sitcom pilot anyway

this was ok! weird when he started doing the what would you do? sketch at the end and repeating just about all of the elements of the original but really sped up and not funny

just been reading about the source of the bust-up with rob florence, on cookdnbombd. some mega childish shit here, from both sides, though mostly from rob: http://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,29109.msg1556411.html#msg1556411

would love to know what happened on that subsequent webcam.

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aye right

Limmy ponders Pitbull

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMXuHBEn8F8

http://i57.tinypic.com/2645oug.jpg

what episode of WW was that limmy pitbull bit from?

No idea, I'm from the U.S. and had never heard of that show

the last episode

ah great, i'd ignored that one as i thought it was a compilation. are there other new bits in it too?

http://www.comedy.co.uk/shop/limmy_daft_wee_stories_comedy_book/

Scottish comedian Limmy is working on a comedy book.

The writer and actor, real name Brian Limond, first came to prominence via his online blogs and videos. He has since gone on to create three series of the award-winning BBC Scotland sketch format Limmy's Show! and recently contributed filmed inserts for Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe.

Limond is now working on Daft Wee Stories, which is being described by publishers as a "inventive and funny" book.

Daft Wee Stories will feature a mix of "stories, thoughts, musings and anecdotes" from the comedian. The publication will present readers with a mix of short and long stories, with "stupid ones next to thoughtful ones, some written in the first person, some in the third person, some with illustrations, and some the size of a tweet sitting in the centre of the page".

Jack Fogg from publishers Century says: "Limmy has one of the most original, thoughtful and brilliant comic minds I've encountered. He can flip from side-splittingly funny to genuinely profound in the space of a paragraph. I'm sure that with Daft Wee Stories we're seeing the start of what will become a very exciting and unique writing career."

Daft Wee Stories will be published in hardback in July 2015, and as a paperback in 2016.

Last month Brian Limond spoke to GQ Magazine about fighting depression

The below behind-the-scenes video from Limmy's Show! sees the star talking about Falconhoof, one of his popular characters:

At the time of writing, Daft Wee Stories is not yet available to pre-order.

Limmy's Show! is available on DVD

will read fuck out of that

Limmy's Millport sketch alone indicates that he might well suit a more serious oeuvre too

Promising young comedian Limmy has shown in his brief public appearances so far that his best work might extend beyond mere comedy

Yeah, I was gunna say, Limmy's appearances on Charlie Brooker's latest series exposed him to plenty of America

not read this yet but here's the gq piece mentioned: http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/articles/2014-05/19/limmy-comedian-fighting-depression

would love to hear american ilxors take on limmy btw

he's doing readings & signings for the book so going all-out to get him booked in for a manchester slot. he's loath to do any actual live sets after the 2 or 3 he did, but would be so great if this was a step toward that proper

4 out of 5 Americans I've shown Limmy's Adventure Call to love it.

1 out of 5 didn't like it when he mock-strangled Jingle

Worth it

^^^^^^^^^^

I watched that vine 1-300 compilation last summer and it was a rare time when I needed to shout my laughter out to get it out my system.
Watched the 301-600 video a few days ago and that was great too.

I love that "class A designer drug ecstasy" voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Db1qDwUaA

this might be his greatest 56 seconds

pretty much all of the videos he's done in the past year are just too good

the book is out tomorrow

I'd always assumed that Limmy's work was a big outlet for his madness and that day to day he'd be quite diffident and socially anxious, but on his book readings he's just been affably commanding the attention of hundreds of people like an old school game show host, so naturally funny and at ease the whole time

Is the book any good? The deadpan bombshell he dropped in the middle of the second story he read last night had people next to me doubled over crying with laughter for minutes afterwards

I'd always assumed that Limmy's work was a big outlet for his madness and day to day he'd be quite diffident and socially anxious

Brian is Limmy and vice versa, in my (admittedly outdated) experience

I downloaded the audiobook, it's good. No doubling over for me yet but I've drawn glances with the occasional snort-laugh. It's exactly as it says, daft wee stories, often grotesque, often with ironic punchlines you can spot a mile off, lots of great one-liners. Not earth-shattering but it's lovely to hear him read, he's a rare storyteller

mmm

danone

saw him on friday and it was entertaining but a strange atmos with braying crowd shouting catchphrases I hadn't heard any of the stories and they were fun I'd like to listen to the audiobook and he did the q&a handling questions such as "do you think you deserve to be world famous?" wasn't sure how it was going to go but he seemed to be enjoying it

did anyone say 'answer the question, yes or no?'

yes someone said that one

comedy fans are so dreadful

what was his answer to "do you think you deserve to be world famous?"? saw him in manchester, was amazing but then again i'm a signed-up ultrafanboy. kinda wish someone would ask him about his estranged ex-con brother's claims that he came up with most of limmy's material, but don't know if that'd be going too far. he has been v candid in the q&as though, talking about how 'eckied dad' is so funny because of the line 'i'll be with you soon hen', as his mother is dead.

started rewatching limmy's show s3 in advance and was shocked by how poor episode 1 is, esp the first half. fairly sure it picks up as the series goes on, but there are some dismal dismal sketches in that one

Aye, it was a bit of a shiter.

what was his answer to "do you think you deserve to be world famous?"

think it was "wi this fuckin accent?"

Whatever the truth about him using his brother's ideas, I find a lot of his brother's own videos/audio unpleasant. Especially interviewing that crying woman on the street, unless it wasn't his brother.

S3 ends really, really strongly iirc

xp. his brother is a bitter, bigoted (jailed for racist abuse of a journalist online), unfunny arsehole. clearly a fantasist. the idea that limmy stole anything from him is absurd, as evidenced by a) how incredibly unfunny his brother is and b) the sheer length and breadth of original, funny content limmy has created over the last decade or so.

like his twitter bio used to bemoan the fact that limmy had stolen his name, ignoring the fact that it's incredibly common in the west of scotland for brothers to have the same surname-based nickname at school.

I've not seen the brothers stuff and I dare say there were a few jokes shared earlier that Limmy made use of but the guys been making comic sketches for about 10-12 years now

Xposts!

Watched one of Limmy's webcam videos. Funny the way he kept saying "place" and then mockingly correcting it to "space".

‏@DaftLimmy
Good morning America, LIMMY'S SHOW is now on US Netflix!
This is a big hello to America!
I'm from Scotland

limmy a wee bit of a hard-sell for north americans wi his accent and aw, ive managed to get a couple of people into his stuff though.

the first series of limmy's show doesn't hold up that well, he's said himself it seems a little slow-paced. subsequent series he makes more cuts, sketches are a bit more kinetic.

Show gets better when he gets better supporting actors in.

aye I would also say I prefer the supporting cast in series 2 and 3

The supporting players in seasons 2-3 are really amazing. So many sketches would be way less funny without them.

There's a Sky Arts 8min Christmas piece. The parts with his terrified face are the best.

is that online anywhere yet?

Still not on YouTube but I hope Sky Arts sees my request on their other Xmas video.

Just seen his long interview with Richard Herring, the parts about his dad dancing on drugs and societies based on what kind of jokes they could take was hilarious.

I feel conflicted about everything being turned into Gifs, but his terrified reactions in the Xmas short are really ripe for using on forums as Gifs.

well annoying it's not on youtube. i've got sky so i could've recorded it too.

anyone go to the limmy live shows last month? bunch of us went up from manchester. verdict: flawed but good, only really for full throttle limmy fans. bit panto in parts, lot of bits fell flat, lot of bits belly-achingly funny. can kinda see that he's not a great live performer but gets by on charm and skill of supporting cast. fair few old sketches rehashed to work live, often falling a bit flat. v expensive for what it was but hey, who'd begrudge him that. pretty sure he's touring the rest of the uk later this year - if you're a fan, go, but don't take people expecting it to convert them. i dunno if i'd spend another 30 odd quid on the manchester gig but i'd like to see how he's developed it. he's known for being meticulous and there's a fair amount of flab that could be trimmed

Malcolm Malcolm of the politics bar is on a roll, particularly enjoyed today's Death of Banterboy arc

listened to a podcast with former scottish football bureaucrat roger mitchell and he sounded exactly like malcolm malcolm

Former Scorrish football bureaucrat surely?

ya these videos are hilarious

https://youtu.be/NnRwJ8lCPd0

I still fire up that Glasgoo N'croplus one quite often to laugh hysterically at the "FULL MEASURE! WITH YOUR frieeeends" bit, a baffling and hilarious signoff for the short-lived dickhead vlogger persona

Either the pigeon one or the School of Art are my faves of that genre

Scorrish

he's doing limmy live in London and Manchester. Tickets on sale tomorrow.

I'm not sure about the politics bar. think he just likes doing that transatlantic voice

I find most of these really cunty and hard to watch. I've tried to watch the art school one a couple of times and lasted about a minute each time.

skewl of aar

http://www.limmy.com/deedeespeakingclock/

Godammit, gunna be clicking this every minute or so for the next 24 hours...

:)

http://www.limmy.com/gouch/

dear god, anything truly is possible

http://shortfilms.org.uk/events/2017-01-12-special-event-the-vines-of-limmy-filmmaker-qa?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=lsff_2017_were_live&utm_term=2016-12-06

see you all there

That's fantastic. The compilation of his first 300 vines is the last time I remember really shouting with laughter. 3 years ago maybe?

yas

it was three years ago, vine was released in january 2013 and it was that summer that limmy was making vines constantly

still not seen the sky arts xmas thing

the one from last year? Not his best work

But the scenes of him retreating in terror are classic Limmy

screening has already sold out

Watching 300 of those together would legit drive me insane

600! haha

should have done it on imax

srsly

https://soundcloud.com/limmy/turkishdelight

http://www.factmag.com/2017/01/09/limmy-techno-frys-turkish-delight/

i cried with laughter at that earlier.

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

Hahaha. I was crying too.

had this in my head intermittently for a day now

Fuck's same I just realised this is what's been in my head all morning

*sake. But same.

da-da da daaa da da-da da-da-daaaa

looool

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/15037542.Scots_comedian_Limmy__reported_to_the_FBI__over_Trump_assassination_tweet/

https://twitter.com/DaftLimmy/status/822034254729252864

this latest sketch is so amazing:

I'm talking less about getting dressed up and doing characters and stuff more along the lines of this: pic.twitter.com/bBtrmFRjcJ

— Limmy (@DaftLimmy) July 14, 2017

That's great. "But at what cost?!" is a keeper.

that is pretty incredible

yeah i think it's a new level of quality. just so fucking weird and hilarious.

saw that and yes it’s amazing. would v happily see a series of this.

There's also this: https://www.patreon.com/Limmy

I've gone for the $10 behind scenes + bonus option, and it's way more money than he'd get from me in any other way. Really glad he's doing this. Likely because his sitcom ideas keep getting turned down by the BBC, Sky, etc.

That Armadillo sketch is a year or two old, he's not done many (any?) new sketches in a while. Probably saving his ideas for the Patreon stuff. I wish he'd ditch the computer game stuff and return to his webcam videos, some incredible stuff buried in those.

his posh-glaswegian-student videos are about as good as anything he's done

the final "but at what cost" is so good.

The last "but at what cost?" Is his Mr Mulvaney voice.

that video is a sort of compilation i think? all fine fare

Fuckin hooray! Another interview on Richard Herring's show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ6915IeGoY

yas

some kind soul posted all the dee dee skits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22KiKYflVew

Some folk are asking what's happening with Limmy's Homemade Show. It's almost finished, and it'll either be on Patreon or the BBC.

— Limmy (@DaftLimmy) September 30, 2017

I'd almost prefer Patreon as there's a chance of more stuff coming out. Hard to say that Limmy would benefit from a BBC editor as his stuff varies so much, one man's £5 note trick is another man's Yoker, high chance of obtuse gold getting culled. I'd rather have 6 hours of Patreon videos, with a 50/50 hit rate, than 3 hours on BBC with 80/20.

Or to put it another way, zero chance of his Vines making it to mainstream TV, and that's no good.

"Wrong way down a one way stray-eet..."

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

"Wrong way down a one way stray-eet..."

#Snowmageddon pic.twitter.com/LGplMZ8AZo

— Limmy's Vines TOUR (@DaftLimmy) February 27, 2018

We should try to get limmy to post on ilx

he'd be a constant presence on the random access memories thread, that's for sure

haha

:D

his new show is completed and will be broadcast on bbc scotland. no date yet.

Limmy's Homemade Show will be on BBC Two Scotland on Thursday 5th April!

— Limmy's Vines TOUR (@DaftLimmy) March 21, 2018

one-off special

but at whit cost?

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

Here we go: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09yj4rc

this is really something. it feels like a window into genuine mental illness and into thinking about your own mental state. i'm glad there aren't six episodes of this. it was very overwhelming/depressing.

the depressing element of it seemed greater than the comic element of it.

His best stuff yet I reckon.

Amazing how he was the only person in it, all filmed himself round his house and local park, but it felt so rich and layered. So much more intense than his sketch show stuff, largely because it was all him, not having to reign it in or dilute it at all, no (or v few) clunky punchlines. Credit to the BBC that they'd put out something like that, but minus credit that it's online-only.

I didn't find it depressing though, more like he's pushing things further than most, saying unsayable, etc. Your mileage etc etc though.

Loved it. Agree with how intense it felt, very well crafted.

it's all gonna kick aff again

Currently don't own a computer and live in Canada so fuck knows when I'll get to see this. Murder.

Xpost to NI : it was shown on tv, on BBC 1 Scotland. Just not UK-wide.

Also loved this, seems like it's surely cost effective enough for the BBC to pay for more. Didn't find it anymore depressing than Limmy's Show or the Vines though. The mental illness has always been there, like the Millport sketch is just brutal.

I watched it on youtube last night. A search there currently turns up the full episode (uploaded by Darren Rigby-O'Neill) for those without BBC access, though I guess it may get taken down before too long.

one-off special

― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 16:28 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but at whit cost?

― DJ U OK Hun? (jed_), Thursday, 22 March 2018 00:29 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lool

this was incredible

with this, and still game, bbc scotland are putting out stuff that's funnier than anything else on iplayer

the depressing element of it seemed greater than the comic element of it.

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, April 6, 2018 2:00 AM

With this and Limmy saying he was drifting away from the comedic approach, I wasn't expecting to laugh so much. This is as funny as he's ever been, I was laughing at this more than any comedy show since... maybe since Limmy's Show? I'm sad there's only one episode.

Did anyone else search for this on iplayer and find his Funny Valentines short video? That's good too. It's about a guy making a dating profile advert, who has no clue how fucked up he is.

yes

& i should have seid: whit with this and still game, bbc scotland have got tv comedy.. on loch

oh dear, oh dear

cheers for the link, krakow. got it watched last night, thought it was cracking, not sure it will be commissioned for a series as it seems a little darker and even more sui generis than his earlier tv stuff. limmy tweeted that he will make a series whether it is commissioned or not, id imagine he'll probably going down the patreon route if it isn't

wonderful. but imagine how wonderful if that bear had been there instead of the odd shoes

a second viewing of this confirmed that i was wildly wrong about this. it is excellent.

i absolutely love that sketch where the hard-man shouts to ask if his wife is in then starts filing his nails and bitching "Ivy, whit is she wearin'?"

"call yersel' a man? I says "man?' - wi that thing?"

exactly. I loved the minimal nature of this - everything pared down to a facial expression or tone of voice (radiator harpist) or repetition (ouija board)

The bit about how to tell the guy to pick up the litter was perfect.

that might have been my favourite

imago's idea about the bear is good!

The bit about how to tell the guy to pick up the litter was perfect.

― nashwan, Friday, April 27, 2018 2:25 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aye

Love it when he kicks out the handyman and starts saying crazy shit like "I'm legally entitled to stab you"

"A big fat hen!" is probably the winner though.

"hey there guys, on today's show we'll be looking at call out culture an online spaces and we'll be asking the question 'what does it mean to be a good ally?'"

...

"whit?"

Limmy's Show

gah, not that, this: twitter.com/MartyMcMullan/status/982946927233982465?s=19

(getting annoying poxy fule error when trying to post full link, is this a known bug?)

comedy + music almost never ever works, but limmy nailed it

You need to take the ?s=19 bit off the end for the embed to work.

@DaftLimmy nice to hear your tribute this morning pic.twitter.com/nbrO5hEYBl

— Arun (@le_murt) June 7, 2018

incredible

his tweets today are the funniest thing I've seen

I went and looked and he seems genuinely concerned about the fire, people in the area, and whatever institutional malpractice could let it happen again. I don't see why one would take it as a joke (nor make one)

lol

oh hmm, seems the fire was pretty bad

maybe he's being serious

he's ruined my sense of propriety

Bit of both going on tbh. Gallows humour is a Glaswegian speciality after all.

that's what I thought. it's amazing gallows humour if so

a sincere/insincere binary is inadequate for life in general and limmy in particular

Been listening to the That's Your Lot audiobook lately and it's a LOT better than DWS, although that wasn't bad by any means. He seems to have nailed the craft of story-telling a lot better, less of the ta-da! punchlines or over-extended endings of DWS. Plus the final Benidorm story is fantastic - a total throwback to his World Of Glasgow podcasts but with all the skills he's learned and honed in the years since. Few duffs in there, particularly in the final third, but overall a lot better than I expected.

Two stories really stuck with me, for totally different reasons. New Life is this brilliantly understated, non-grim, non-shock, genuinely moving short story, which ends in the exact right place for ultimate spine-tingling effect. Getting a shudder thinking about it now, in a perfect world, where Limmy got his own series of Black Mirror, this would be his San Junipero.

And Moustache, which is classic dark Limmy, but it's a tone I've never come across anywhere, no other comedian, no writer. Totally unique, and again, stuck with me long after reading, but for nastier laugh-out-loud reasons.

I hope you die on Halloween.

— Limmy: TIX ON SALE NOW (@DaftLimmy) October 30, 2018

so limmy twitch streams regularly now. some of him playing games but also regular storytelling streams. stories are generally available on his youtube

https://www.twitch.tv/brianlimond

Would very much like him to do some more TV with other actors etc. That was the best stuff he's done.

I once found myself watching him play GTA for a couple of hours, it was entertaining but I promised to myself to never do that again

I ridicule youtubers playing Minecraft etc so I can't imagine the hell my children would put me through if they caught me watching Limmy doing the same thing.

i watched him play a truck driving simulator for 2 hours one day

loved him playing that

I watched him do the 350 dabs in a row thing the other day after idly clicking the link on twitter. I have little idea what twitch is or how it tends to work/be used and missed the set-up of why he was excessively dabbing in the bushes in the park in the snow, which all added to the watching experience in the end.

It was a reward he posted that he would do if he got 3500 subscribers

... and what a reward it was.

he's fair cranking out the content right now.

doing his improvisational storytelling streams every day or two, ranging in time from 10 minutes to half an hour.

recent ones that have had me creasing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0Shf6qXYdA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87XD_O8fklo

the autobiography is also out

it any good ?

Not got it yet

he did a long stream where he read some selections from the autobiography

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKYt7qulo00

quite candid

also revealing some elements not touched on in his online presence before

https://www.thenational.scot/news/17505619.limmy-10-things-that-changed-my-life/

I went from doing wee daft animations to being an invaluable member of a team of 30 people. I’d only started at the company a few months previously as a wee ned from Carnwadric – that’s how I felt.

I was one of those 30 people btw.

did you think he was a wee ned from carnwadric

that place name makes you sound like you've got a speech impediment.

(xp) Pretty much, that's was the desired effect I think.

Turns out that Limmy was asked to star in Bandersnatch as the more experienced developer who leapt off the balcony after taking acid. But he turned it down as it clashed with the Bristol tour date.

Crazy that he turned it down - Black Mirror is a worldwide phenomenon and could have exposed him to a massive new audience and new acting roles. I mean, massive respect for not letting down his Bristol fans but he could have rescheduled that date, surely?

that's wild.

although i would say that he's never going to become a worldwide draw due to his accent and he probably wouldn't fancy a big acting career as he's a huge homebody

Both true yeah, but it'd be a big boost to his career either way. He is fansfirst4eva though but man, I'd have moved heaven and earth to do that role, it's the most 'him' tv character probably ever

Simultaneous. pic.twitter.com/tbo7Iq8oLh

— Graeme (@spacecadet0697) March 25, 2019

Haha! It's the way his smile drops at the end but he keeps baring his teeth, all manic. Absolute master of those tiny subtle moments like that

Similarly, at his Manchester show the other night he was talking about his penultimate pill in Ibiza, aged 35, stood in the middle of the dancefloor going YESSS, the other, younger clubbers backing away. Acting out their fears about him lashing out wildly with huge sweeping punches then gripping someone in a headlock leering down on them going ME AND YOU ALL NIGHT SON, ALL FUCKING NIGHT, eyes bulging, same terrifying grimace. Hands down one of the funniest things I've ever seen

I was trying to think what he'd do next. Hopefully more tv like his homemade show or vines, probably for Sky, or maybe ch4. I haven't delved into his twitch much, some of the improv stuff falls flat for me, same with the gaming, doesn't reach the heights of his earlier webcam party shows, but I hope he returns to that in some form. Having said that, apparently he earns decent money just from donations on twitch, like some kind of through the looking glass YouTuber, and he's said he loves doing that more than anything at the moment

His autobiography ends on a weirdly dark note, makes the reader hark back to the uncomfortable implication of the title. Whole book is full of astonishingly candid stories, like how not long before finishing the book he was on the verge of leaving Lynn, looking for a new flat. Brutally honest, but not in the usual way that term is used, in a smaller, more intense way

i don't envisage him doing more tv as it seems he can't get a series on the BBC. sitcom ideas patched by execs without even getting to do a pilot or anything, and then the homemade show commissioned but just a one off, no series commissioned. just can't be commercially successful to the extent of making it worth the BBC's while, which is a crying shame.

he twitch streams a lot. he goes on about how that's what he wants to do from then on quite often. he also occasionally mentions writing, what i assume is another book. think this will be him for a while

He said at his (other) Manchester show the other night that he should be starting to film a full series of Homemade Show soon.

^^^^^who's this guy

by that i mean to say, long time no see

I'm listening to his autob on Audible and yes it is surprisingly down to earth but surprisingly not funny, but also a great listen.

hello imago!

getting the lbzc back together brick by brick

He said at his (other) Manchester show the other night that he should be starting to film a full series of Homemade Show soon.

― Animal Bitrate (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, March 26, 2019 6:58 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol I am wrong once again

in fairness to me the homemade show pilot thing was broadcast 11 months ago and there's been no word since

Did Limmy do the internet video where the dad character won't stop dad dancing and the son is like "stop him, he's got a heart condition!" while the dad goes "I miss her so much son!"?

hah, okay, yes now I found it. I wasn't sure if that's what you all were talking about, or if it was just uncannily like the one I was remembering

eckied dad

originated on his webcam as an improv bit, and was in the second season of the show https://www.facebook.com/LimmyDotCom/posts/eckied-da-one-of-the-best-nights-of-my-fucking-life-and-hell-be-appearing-somewh/131497513584692/

if that’s an illuminating reminiscence by Limmy about Eckied Dad, could you post it here?

that link no work? it's just a Facebook update from limmy from the time linking to the original clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTOiXWXeqVo

no worries then! no, it doesn’t work without facebook

Hi Patrick

xp. i don't even have Facebook ;_;

Song For Brexit Day is hilarious

aye was good.

that same day he did a morning walk stream, a dark souls stream, and an american truck driving stream. some work ethic on the boy.

on the truck driving stream that day he started talking about the song hazard by richard marx and then got folk to post the lyrics in the chat and did a really strained version of it. he then crashed his truck while singing it and said "it is a fucking hazard".

i was absolutely howling. maybe you had to be there though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bQNZUjup34

ha the "relax" one is so good too

trucking > karaoke

sometimes i think it's an indictment on scotland that our greatest comic mind twitch streams for a living. other times I'm not sure it's a bad thing

To all you youngsters worried about your #SQAresults, I failed all my Highers. Look at me now! pic.twitter.com/fYZLYsKelA

— twitch.tv/Limmy (@DaftLimmy) August 6, 2019

is this something that can earn you £££?

he's got a few thousand subscribers i think, and he gets a few quid a month for each one. people can also donate 2 quid or "cheer" (not sure how that works exactly but he gets an in-twitch currency called "bits" for this which can then be converted into money when he has larger sums of them)

ah i see kinda.

subscribers pay monthly, so he's getting a few quid monthly, from a few thousand people, plus a bit of additional income from the donations and "cheers". it's basically his main job at the moment, though he has mentioned that he has been writing for some project (whether for another book or tv he hasn't confirmed)

https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/33717765

Duolingo and Dee Dee's trip to Yoker.

hahaha

That’s really sweet.

if i had the time today i would do a transcription for that thread, maybe tomorrow

"I can't wait to make Limmy's Homemade Show, and I hope everybody likes it as much as I'll enjoy putting it together."

YAASS!!! @DaftLimmy's Homemade Show will return in 2020!

See it first on your BBC Scotland channel! https://t.co/Kt6MIVZYU5 #LimmysHomemadeShow pic.twitter.com/Ff06941nAC

— BBC Scotland (@BBCScotland) August 21, 2019

fuck yes

(Krakow is your display/user name combo a my so called life reference from when he tutors Jordan? If so - a+.)

I love Falconhoof. That is all.

(It is indeed! a+ mscl reference spotting.)

Great news on Limmy's Homemade Show, the first was incredible.

short article on limmy's streams

https://theoutline.com/post/7889/a-good-place-playing-trucker-with-limmy

my browser's image render behavior is strange:
https://s.put.re/tb2JA51e.png

lol

On Limmy's stream today he was talking about feeling suicidal when his son was a toddler,leading to him going to the doctor for the first time regarding his depression and it was very affecting. I was tearing up at it. Daftest most puerile stream in the world most of the time too

pic.twitter.com/beJ6dSgz0k

— Deptford Goth (@danielwoolhouse) October 8, 2019

read the autobio. he's an odd fish

that image has been the best thing on my feed all week too haha

Xpost if "odd fish" = arsehole, then yes.

lol at one of the top replies on that ‘yoker’ tweet being from thandie newton of all people

limmy has always struck me as being someone whose work i love but i’d probably go out of my way to avoid meeting irl

He doesnt seem like an arsehole to me. In the autobio he talks about not really having friends in primary school, and how his mother never told him that she loved him or cuddled him or anything (and obviously same with his da) and he is completely disinterested and unmoved when she suddenly gets ill and dies when hes in his late teens. He also just generally has difficulties forming relationships with people and is a fairly, to his own admission, bad father (though his love for his son is about the only strong emotion towards a person that he seems to have).

I mean that sounds like a bit of an arsehole? But he talks about feeling like he has something missing, that's kind of more the vibe.

he’s mentioned about wondering whether he’s on the autism spectrum before iirc

He's certainly not an arsehole ime, though I knew when he had nothing - well, not much anyway. Not a saint either and not as out there as he likes to portray, he functioned pretty well

He's very intelligent and talented and I'm trying not to do the "There's a lot of funny people in Glasgow" bit, but he is a very Glasgow/ West of Scotland kind of guy.

was gonna say, this

how his mother never told him that she loved him or cuddled him or anything (and obviously same with his da) and he is completely disinterested and unmoved when she suddenly gets ill and dies when hes in his late teens. He also just generally has difficulties forming relationships with people and is a fairly, to his own admission, bad father

is very typical West of Scotland stuff

lol, yes

lol

sad lol

otm, alas

No fucking way. Big time! https://t.co/QOjkHuO8dY

— twitch.tv/Limmy (@DaftLimmy) November 1, 2019

lol ‘frankie boyle’

That's me finished with the Surprisingly Down to Earth patter. Old as fuck noo. Deid.

— twitch.tv/Limmy (@DaftLimmy) January 22, 2020

end of an era

Full series of Limmy's Homemade Show starts this Sunday.

https://youtu.be/RfT7q0CynA8

Making the first episode of this the episode that was already on was a terrible idea. I get it (sort of) but just list it as a repeat of the pilot, followed by a new series if, in fact, it is a new series.

oh that's a bit silly.

oh well, an extra week to wait for something new

I'm enjoying this, in these unprecedented times

aye, ive been enjoying, shame there's only 3 eps

ah boo

This series plays out like a terrible anxiety dream to me and a pretty good example of why you need to work with other people to make a TV show. The other players on his previous shows were so good and necessary. The effect here is so suffocating it makes me hyperventilate to even watch it. I'm a fan but I'd say this is about 10% funny and about 60% horrifying and about 30% thankfully, helpfully, "don't care".

If you think it's good then that's great, of course, it's just extremely not for me and definitely did not help me out rn. I had to stop the 3rd episode.

I liked the way that some of the bits eventually pay off into something like a conventional punchline and some of them just leave you hanging. I agree about the anxiety dream thing, it's easy to imagine a sketch like the one with the guy's mate not liking the film he recommended being done with the shorter guy from Limmy's Show as the mate, but it feels so much more claustrophobic without them

It does feel weirdly appropriate for the moment, that claustrophobia, though. Lot of people rattling about alone indoors with their thoughts rn. Watched e3 last night and had tears running down my face.

Frankly I think Limmy's enough of a good weirdo that I could imagine him doing this show even w/o quarantine, so it's not been too bad on that front for me.

it was purely coincidental that this came out now, it was all conceived, commissioned, filmed and scheduled before COVID.

It's unnervingly apt

He's basically been doing this solo shut-in stuff ever since limmy's show finished in 2013 so it's hardly some spooky coincidence, just the world has lined up with his neuroses now

limmy was on Tim heidecker's "Office Hours" today which is, for me at least, a real world's collide moment of two of my favourite comedians of the 21st century. haven't watched it yet

Uncanny.

https://youtu.be/ws-slxSyvAk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X24Wr9N5fRs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bltQ07N6HxQ

gosh why am I not surprised that Lloyd Cole is a tedious and snobbish fucking bell end

Why on earth would you read an autobiography by someone you've never heard of before?
Why would you read a book by a comic if you don't understand humour?
Or empathy for that matter?

it's a shitty program (lol, that I frequently listen to!) that wasn't ever likely to be warm towards a Limmy biog. But they seem to be questioning the validity of an oik like that even writing one.

I imagine he was given the book to review? The funniest thing was fat wanker Cole mentioning that he learned Flash too nyah-nyah-nyah, what a tool.

Yeah it sounds like something from the early 80s and extremely snobby

below in the comments someone is quoting Jerry Sadowitz: "I used to hate Bryan Ferry until I discovered Lloyd Cole"

The perception of Limmy's book I'd picked up elsewhere is that he does come across as a vaguely disquieting empathy void and his partner is quite long-suffering, but those lot come across as such raging wankers on that bit

all sounds quite relatable!

Limmy's gf tweeted "Lloyd Cole was right" shortly after this was aired

lol!

A mate who is a fan, after reading the book, described him to me as a 'creepy wee gadge' and say it's written poorly.

it's a shitty program (lol, that I frequently listen to!) that wasn't ever likely to be warm towards a Limmy biog.

Isn't this A Good Read? So they're reading it because one of the guests - or the host - liked it and picked it.

doesn't she just do general book reviews sometimes? or I might be mixing it up with her other program on WS.