Rolling UK Comedy Thread - "Ricky Don't Lose Larry David's Number

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I would say that though, because I hate women.

Here's a scene. You're looking along your collection of CDs, or shuffling through your playlist, trying to find that new Lady Sovereign album or whatever. But you stumble across something else, something from 10 years ago - the Fugees, say."

That senile dribbling cunt with his own column in the Guardian weekend magazine.

That senile dribbling cunt with his own column in the Guardian weekend magazine.

Cue stock that's no way to talk about Zoe Williams gag.

I don't have a Wikipedia entry either.

Includes News Summary at 9.00pm.

like swimming in a cool sea and passing through a warm current, etc...

Where are the standards of today, I ask you.
I don't have a Wikipedia entry either.

-- Marcello Carlin (marcellocarli...)

Oh, have I got one?

Whew.

also on the bad can someone please put Have I Got News For You out of its misery.

At the risk of, on this reviewer's logic, inviting lynch-mobs to my door, I'd argue that Extras was shite.

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

-- Ruairi Wirewool (horseproduction...), January 15th, 2007. (Ruairi Wirewool) (later)

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what were the chances of that happening?
-- mark grout (mark.grou...), January 15th, 2007. (mark grout) (later)

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If you can put CT and Green Wing on a par, you truly show a lack of discernment IMO.
Frankly, now that GW has been and gone, I'm inclined to agree with Ruairi, minus the bit about Harry Hill.

-- You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (papiermachealamphibia...), January 15th, 2007. (Haberdager) (later)

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If you can put CT and Green Wing on a par, you truly show a lack of discernment IMO.
no it's just a 'higher' (or rather 'stricter') level of discernment.

-- vita susicivus (n...), January 15th, 2007. (blueski) (later)

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'the thick of it' will be back, later in the year, and so will 'peep show'.
-- the original hauntology blogging crew (miltonpinsk...), January 15th, 2007. (Enrique) (later)

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but in a another more accurate sense...
-- mark s (mar...), January 15th, 2007. (mark s) (later)

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but then i do like Harry Hill so it's apples and roundabouts.
-- vita susicivus (n...), January 15th, 2007. (blueski) (later)

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rubbish
-- RJG (RJ...), January 15th, 2007. (RJG) (later)

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so you keep saying
-- vita susicivus (n...), January 15th, 2007. (blueski) (later)

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RJG's TV Burp
-- Dom Passantino (juror...), January 15th, 2007. (Dom Passantino) (later)

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Hmm. I was only talking about currently-running comedy shows. If Peep Show returns for a fourth bite at the cherry (and TTOI for a second), I will only be too delighted. Of course, the one I'm really looking out for is Nathan Barley II.
-- You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (papiermachealamphibia...), January 15th, 2007. (Haberdager) (later)

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i think it would be a big ask for there to be a 'great' uk comedy series to be running all 52 weeks of the year. i have low standards perhaps; but i don't ask for a 'great' film each month either.
-- the original hauntology blogging crew (miltonpinsk...), January 15th, 2007. (Enrique) (later)

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of course i too want 'nathan barley' back.
-- the original hauntology blogging crew (miltonpinsk...), January 15th, 2007. (Enrique) (later)

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They could drop scissors on a dog's head this time.
-- Dom Passantino (juror...), January 15th, 2007. (Dom Passantino) (later)

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uh, rose-tinted view there i reckon - but at least it was generating interesting discussion.
one episode of Screen Wipe a month would be good. ditto TV Burp.

-- vita susicivus (n...), January 15th, 2007. (blueski) (later)

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ha ha Dom OTM
-- vita susicivus (n...), January 15th, 2007. (blueski) (later)

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as with 'green wing', take away the hype and the expectation it'll live up to 'the day today' and 'nathan barley' was 23 minutes well-spent. i lolled anyway.
-- the original hauntology blogging crew (miltonpinsk...), January 15th, 2007. (Enrique) (later)

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i didn't laugh more than i did laugh etc.
-- vita susicivus (n...), January 15th, 2007. (blueski) (later)

And Screen Wipe rocks.

it was good, but not 300 times better than 'nathan barley'.

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I was disappointed by the ending.

I kind of was too but I guess they had to open it up for s02.

his worzel gummidge reboot was great too

Worzel has terrified me since I was tiny, not sure I can stomach that!

You'll never get me to like music hall, but the most recent edition of the Harry Hill Show on Youtube has a really good piece about it. Kiri Pritchard Maclean is the guest, and she's great too.

First ep of Unacceptable was decent, as far as second tier panel shows go.

It's spawned a terrible Guardian thinkpiece already which fails to understand how comedy works, so well done everyone involved.

i don't like the host or one of the team captains so it started at a disadvantage. i'm not sure it won me over.

I will never willingly watch Joanne McNally. Never! Plus in the ads everyone was wearing waaay too much makeup.

I'm absolutely fine with Ed Gamble, but the team captains are not for me. Joanne McNally in particular is awful, yes.

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Australian Ghosts is even more random than US ghosts. some kind of flapper, 80s keep fit host, someone from captain cook's ship, katy-wix-alike, biker, chinese prospector with no trousers...

Ann Droid, best bits of this are the robots' interactions in the background.

Unacceptable is approaching that. host and female team captain haven't got any better.

I enjoyed Ann Droid massively more than I thought I would enjoy something with such a terrible name, but the son was definitely a weak point. He was just too awful a person. However, the rollercoaster adventure made me properly laugh.

Harry Hill’s podscarf continues to be excellent, btw.

Wondered how Australian Ghosts would deal with the "portrayals of dead Aboriginal people" question, seems like by sidestepping it entirely?

Wondered how Australian Ghosts would deal with the "portrayals of dead Aboriginal people" question, seems like by sidestepping it entirely?

The lead actress is (apparently) one of the most prominent 'First Nation' actresses on the market (if her agent is to be believed) and in the episode where her mum comes round they keep going on about how "black" they are.

I like the keep fit host, especially the Ned Kelly episode.

Diane Morgan's robot voice is very funny, but overall Ann Droid is a bit too obviously geared towards oldies for me.

Podscarf love seconded.

i did like his rick rubin skit

the dad in ghosts Australia is the spoon boy from the matrix

boyfriend, not dad rather

Guy Mont Spelling Bee starts tonight on bbc3. i know nothing about it other than that clip with sam campbell in it (above?)

I skipped a few of the early podscarf episodes when I didn't like the guest but I made a point of watching all of the second run. I do like how often it can catch me offguard (for instance that rick rubin bit)

Koogs, I'm a big fan of the Spelling Bee, as I think I mentioned before.

Like, for whatever that's worth. It's not like I'm some great arbiter of taste or anything.

it is, apparently, series 2 of the Australian variant.

I think that’s still Aaron Chen.

yes, recognised him from Oz Taskmaster

Hamish from lego masters au was on Spelling B the other day.

colin from accounts starts again on bbc2 tonight.

New series of Colin From Accounts is terrible. I loved S2 but this new one is just awful.

Oh, that's a shame. I felt S2 started to go off the rails - his emotional immaturity was becoming a hard watch - so I'm not overly surprised, but I'm disappointed nonetheless.

I do wish that excellent Aussie motherhood comedy, The Letdown, had got a couple more series.

New series of Colin From Accounts is terrible. I loved S2 but this new one is just awful.

Well, that answers that question. I stopped watching it in season two after they went to visit his terrible family, but I did wonder if it had picked up again.

i didn't mind the fist episode of the new Colin. but i'm not sure the comedy bits weren't the least interesting bits.

second part tonight

(though i do feel sometimes that i would rather watch anything than nothing, especially if i have residual feelings for it, and maybe this is one of those)

I watched the first two eps of S3 last night and really enjoyed it!

Youtube served me up the first episode of World Of Pub, a 00's sitcom that happens to feature Peter Serafinowicz and Kevin Eldon, amongst others. Enjoyed it a lot, especially the notion of the Queen being invited to "the 200th anniversary of the East End".

That's surfaced in my algorithm a couple of times recently, too - I definitely want to give it a go, as I'm sure I missed it on the first go-round.

I think we may all have similar algorithms. It seemed like a radio comedy that didn’t suit tv at all. Still a fun enough way to spend half hour.

I'm annoyed that TLC have not put zombie Mock the Week up on their Youtube channel for me to watch without ads.

I have to say I absolutely thoroughly loved s03 of Colin From Accounts, one of the best things I've seen all year: genuinely laugh-out-loud moments in every episode and proper decent romcom action that never went sentimental but did properly tug at the heartstrings in a way I've not seen work so well since Love, that sitcom with Britta from Community on Netflix.

feels like damning with faint praise to say something is the best UK sketch show in years given there how few of them there are now, but the new series of Ellie & Natasia is really good, not just good for the 2020s good

i enjoyed it (and series 1). but the scene in the shop went on too long.

High hopes for this.

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Mackenzie Crook is making his film directorial debut with Mars Express' working alongside Toby Jones who plays the lead character in the film.

The film tells the extraordinary true story of Colin and Judith Pillinger and their mission to find life on Mars back in the late 1990s. With no prior experience of building a spacecraft, the English farmers pulled together a team of misfits who took on NASA and almost won.

Joe Bone (image 2) has written the script, based on Colin Pillinger's book My Life On Mars: The Beagle 2 Diaries.