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

Nick Helm

He looks hilarious based on a cursory image search.

https://www.comedy.co.uk/images/library/fringe/2012/250x250/nick_helm.jpg

the first time i saw him i thought he was fabulous, then i discovered that hoarse shouting thing is all

he

does

bbc1 preannounced hignfy as "with frankie boyle and strong language", which seems redundant

Can't believe I've never seen Black Books until now - this show rules

life's too short to watch detectorists repeats, so i almost didn't bother. but i did and i loved it (again). it's pretty perfect, all the little touches. the tr7 in yellow. the bit in episode 5 with the two 'did you see university challenge last night?' conversations. sophie's face painting...

series 2 starts next monday. i guess series 3 will follow.

elsewhere, Go 8 Bit: DLC was funny this week. it's scrappy, in a good way. and the guest was good this week (steve hill?)

> The Darling Cunts of May.

John Oliver coined 'Thatcher in the Rye' on his show last week, after playing the clip of the, gosh, wheat field revelations.

Anyone been watching Live From The BBC standup series? Enjoyed Liam Williams, had never seen him before. Pretty gloomy guy.

Good looking too.

So the gloomy thing is an act. LOL Footlights.

this jimmy carr interview by david tang is the most entertaining train wreck i've seen in a long time. tang (1) decided research and preparation are unnecessary and (2) evidently saw two minutes of a jimmy carr standup and decided being a shit to him would be funny. it's funny all right, but not for the reasons he thought it would be.

if you don't want to sit through the whole hour you can get the gist in the first three minutes. just incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRTMnJ6y14Y

Jimmy Carr is shit is a shit and, so being a shit to him is the only acceptable approach.

So the gloomy thing is an act. LOL Footlights.

― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 01:10

Dunno. He seems quite sad to me. Not that it matters too much.

Sad and not funny. Still, I'm sure he will do well, Footlights an' that.

Jimmy Carr is shit is a shit and, so being a shit to him is the only acceptable approach.

― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 10:25 (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you can hate him if you like but he's a generous and insightful interview subject, so wasting his potential by being a dick for a full hour is not a good use of anyone's time

Playing at 'Being a dick' is how Jimmy Carr earns his money surely?

that's his act, not how he conducts himself professionally (outside gigs, at least)

Fuck comedians with 'acts'. It's a pity his generosity doesn't extend to paying his taxes.

which comes back to my point that david tang apparently thought jimmy carr's act = jimmmy carr, without bothering to do any further research whatsoever

xp yes i get he's done dickish things, doesn't mean he's not worth listening to as an interview subject

Well that's one way of looking at it, but who is really interested in some boring little bourgeois businessman who is 'Jimmy Carr' for a living?

thanks for your input

Thanks for the video.

Lex couldn't make it, i'm standing in for him.

Good video, thanks. Carr handled that immensely well, I thought.

he was great. it seems he very quickly decided the audience was only going to get value for its money/time if he took control. most people would have politely fumbled their way through, or just stormed out.

Just finished it, that was a lot of fun.

(are the volume levels of that all over the place?)

Mash Report was ok, but they don't seem to have left space for the laughing - they just kind of keep talking.

I enjoyed Nish's John Oliver schtick, he carried it off well, but I struggled with the rest of it. The news sketches were poor and the social media section was a nice idea which didn't really work for me in practice.

Anyone watching Ill Behaviour, Sam Bain's "comedy drama" on iPlayer? Not hitting the mark for me mainly because main man is pretty much Will from Inbetweeners

Jimmy Carr clip was great

the interviewer is human garbage

The desert island discs episode he mentions was great and should still be available for listening.

oh my god the Q&A is even crazier, starting around 18:40

really surprising (to me) how humane and personable and generous carr is here

Towards the end it turns out they know each other socially but i doubt JC really knew what he was letting himself in for, quality-wise.

The guy is terrible, yes. I have no idea who he is. Or how this relates to China.

The other thing that got me about mash report was how he threw over to the news desk 'one last time' but they were all 'first off...' and ended with 'more later'. There is no later, it's the end of the show.

I have no idea who he is. Or how this relates to China.

― koogs, Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:09 (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's the guy who started shanghai tang. the only thing i can see that's related to china is that tang was born in hong kong. also 中国站 translates to 'china station'. the whole thing's silly.

we have a heap of these china-relations organisations in australia. i've tried to get involved with some but they don't seem to do anything. it's infuriating.

Fuck comedians with 'acts'.

Er, pretty sure every stand up in existence has an 'act'. Maybe your point?

"pls like" on iplayer is better than it really has any right to be

the vloggers themselves are perfect, "james wirm" is perfect. the only not quite firing piston is the protagonist oddly

i can't stop watching it even though it's maybe 7/10 at best

so many things going against it

- it's about social media but there's like 1 tiny black speaking role
- an episode with a white grime MC named 'bombzy' where his race is never mentioned
- shot in cringe-doc style
- on bbc three
- did i mention it's really white
- relentlessly makes fun of teenagers as simple idiots

for some reason though a lot of it really clicks. i can't tell if it's the writing, the editing, the acting or what - so like, it's good? somehow. maybe i just want to watch a show where james wirm svengalis the hell out of his vlogger proteges. no need for the ostensible everyman, he just gets in the way

Teenagers can sometimes be complex idiots it's true

Maybe I'm too far inside the bubble, but there seems to be considerable backlash against the BBC cancelling Count Arthur Strong (not least them adopting a fairly random screening time and/or broadcasting the shows out of order).

Was misled into thinking Ill Behaviour might be decent due to the author's Peep Show pedigree and a Guardian review, but the first episode is basically appalling. The premise has potential, execution very lacklustre.

First ep probably the worst, it does get better, doesn't really pull it off though

I was going to watch it because blokey from You're The Worst is in it, but haven't got round to it yet. Not entirely inspired by above comments.

It's unlikely I'll watch episode 2.

Me either, the first was dreadful. (And I watched all of Mountain Goats, The Wright Way, Siblings, Together etc etc et-bleedin'-cetera)

it improves.
a bit.
there were a couple of proper chuckles, but its more of a drama/comedy as opposed to straight up comedy.
and everyone is a complete tw&t (other than the secretary from 'drifters' who steels every scene she is in), therefore making it hard to really connect with the story.

The American lady is fit.