― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Father Ted and The Day Today use 'dumbness' in a manner that almost entirely removes the stupidity, because they do it with such unremitting poise.
― the killfire konspiracy (Haberdager), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
'Peep Show' is intelligent with regard to the subjects it handles, but I never notice the actual jokes being that esoteric.
― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― the killfire konspiracy (Haberdager), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
joek
― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link
that sort of thing just doesn't happen in yer standard sitcom
― vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link
he achieved this a lot better with The IT Crowd it would seem. i don't think he'd actually be capable of writing a 'stupid' Roy Clarke-esque sitcom.
― vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link
(I'll admit to having not seen either of the first two in 20+ years - they could be dross misremembered as understated gems with cracking performances).
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:22 (seventeen years ago) link
- the doctor who has eleborate swearwords- 'he killed the man'- '--brackets--'- rothko- 'i work in the warm arts'- 4ft car- '...can't you just' (louis knows what i mean)- the dance charts -- hackneyed but still funny
but also to repeat it was half a *music show*, and worked on those terms. think of it like steve wright in the wee hours or something.
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 18 January 2007 11:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― WOEbat (elwisty), Thursday, 18 January 2007 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 18 January 2007 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Thursday, 18 January 2007 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 18 January 2007 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 18 January 2007 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― putting me in mind of attractive women (Enrique), Thursday, 18 January 2007 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 18 January 2007 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Ah there was often comedy gold to be found there. Favourite ever was insults from Huey of the Fun Lovin' criminals:
You still pushing your jaw each way but westwards? You're raising my pressure quickstyle my friend, upside like a doped joker. i'm gonna cut you open so far you'll be up all night stitchin' your backpipe together just so you can start weepin'! You're gonna need eleven different kinds of treatment! You'll be tryin' to find ice till there's no more ice!
(from memory, tragically)
― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 18 January 2007 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link
roffle all the way home . . .
― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Thursday, 18 January 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 18 January 2007 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Thursday, 18 January 2007 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Thursday, 18 January 2007 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Enrique's list is good, and contains (just about) two of my top-3 BJ moments...
3) Series 1 Episode 4, 25:10. The sprightly, uptempo groove accompanying Michael Alexander St.John's dance countdown suddenly morphs (in the radio equivalent of bone-spaceship in 2001:ASO) seamlessly into Lennon's '#9 Dream'.
2) Series 2 Episode 4, 27:59. The Rothko monologue ends. Accompanied by the melancholic, chilled middle-eight of Madonna's 'Ray Of Light', although you don't know that at this stage. As the monologue ends, the building, throbbing intro to the actual song bounces into gear, and as the last word is spoken, Madonna's heavenly voice takes up the baton. As a moment of sadness into happiness it is unparalleled.
1) Series 2, Episode 1, 34:18.
"Well, we'll just have to get used to it being just the two of us again."
"Mmmmmmm..."
― unmixed by DJ Mrs. Clark of Egham (Haberdager), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― balling fart-ravine (Haberdager), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Friday, 19 January 2007 02:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Bear in mind that I probably hate LB more than almost every single other person on earth, so I am speaking with an element of bias, but frankly, to blame CM for them is I think ridiculous.
― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 19 January 2007 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Friday, 19 January 2007 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Friday, 19 January 2007 09:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 09:26 (seventeen years ago) link
citation required.
there's a dvd extra on the LB dvds that is them talking about their influences but sadly(!) i haven't seen it. i have them down more as Dick Emery copyists.
― My Koogy Weighs A Ton (koogs), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:32 (seventeen years ago) link
1 Jagger, Louis, posted at Rolling UK Comedy Thread - "Ricky Don't Lose Larry David's Number, 19 January 2007
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost
steve otm there.
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:10 (seventeen years ago) link
MAN: What's he want now, eh?
[Him from next door enters - he's a stereotyped Pakistani character.]
HIM: Ah, Mr Eddie. I was wondering if I could be borrowing a cup of sugar for my lunch.
MAN: What's he say?
WOMAN: He said he wants you to give him a punch.
MAN: Ah. [He does so.]
HIM: Oooh, ooh! You misunderstanding me, I am asking for sugar. That is why I am here.
MAN: I can't understand a bleedin' word he's saying!
WOMAN: He says he wants you to give him a thick ear.
MAN: Oh, right. [He obliges.]
HIM: Oooow, ooooh!
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link
which makes a point, and a good one, about representations of race in current affairs broadcasting. 'little britain' isn't in the same game, let alone the same ballpark.
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link
this is what i've been trying to say. the workings of, say, 'brass eye' are incalculably more interesting than the dumb-as-shit plodding idiocy of LB. to compare the two is futile.
answer to steve's question: Bill Bailey
― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
still the greatest (if you bear in mind its importance and the effect it had as well as its quality) single episode of television there has ever been.
― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link