Not sold on his musical comedy (that I've seen so far) but otherwise completely classic. I know he's successful and famous but somehow I don't see much talk of him.
Watched his Dirty South documentary last night and he goes on a nasty rant about musician biopics, accuses Phoenix and Fox of raping the corpses of Johnny Cash and Ray Charles, then says a big "fuck you" to people who like films like that. It was really funny.
All his BBC documentaries are worth seeing.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 23 April 2017 14:30 (seven years ago) link
PB has a set of his documentaries up. I grabbed it a couple of weeks back but have probably seen most of them anyway.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 23 April 2017 14:34 (seven years ago) link
What is PB?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 23 April 2017 14:42 (seven years ago) link
Pirate bay
― Stevolende, Sunday, 23 April 2017 15:19 (seven years ago) link
I think all of them are on youtube.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 23 April 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link
He's great in early seasons of QI.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 23 April 2017 16:21 (seven years ago) link
ctrl+f "sniglets"...0 results
So disappointed in all of you.
― Sort-of like a Hershey's kiss, only it's an anus (Old Lunch), Sunday, 23 April 2017 17:45 (seven years ago) link
Before today I'd never heard about sniglets or his work on American tv. I thought maybe he's a UK based American comedian like Reginald D Hunter. The majority of his YouTube search results are from UK and Australian tv.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 23 April 2017 21:26 (seven years ago) link
Loved his bit (possibly in the California documentary) about his face compared to the MTV ideal, I'm paraphrasing: "this is a BBC face, a BBC 4 face, a face you can only see at night".
Also his routines on Tom Cruise and microwave food.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 23 April 2017 21:32 (seven years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 23 April 2017 17:21
Astonishingly, someone in the earlier days of ILX said he was the worst thing ever on QI.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 23 April 2017 21:34 (seven years ago) link
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, April 23, 2017 4:26 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
My experience is exactly the opposite. He's the sniglets dude from the '80s who was on Saturday Night Live and Not Necessarily the News and then disappeared off the face of the earth thirty years ago. I'm glad to learn he's doing well.
― Sort-of like a Hershey's kiss, only it's an anus (Old Lunch), Sunday, 23 April 2017 22:48 (seven years ago) link
Should look up his newer stuff, it's fantastic
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 23 April 2017 22:51 (seven years ago) link
ctrl+f "onion world"...0 results
― andrew m., Monday, 24 April 2017 15:58 (seven years ago) link
He veers between boring/bored and pretty good, all within five minutes.
But he's actually told a joke or two in his life and therefore in a completely different class than reg d hunter
― virginity simple (darraghmac), Monday, 24 April 2017 16:13 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFal553wR3k
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 8 May 2017 14:02 (seven years ago) link
I was shocked about how the rest of the world knew about Rich Hall.
I asked my wife, "You don't know who Tommy Shaw is, but you know Rich Hall?"
― pplains, Monday, 8 May 2017 14:44 (seven years ago) link
Also, that isn't the "Live from the Apollo" that I'd heard of.
― pplains, Monday, 8 May 2017 14:47 (seven years ago) link
Had to look up Tommy Shaw. The Styx member? Why compare his fame with Rich Hall?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 8 May 2017 15:01 (seven years ago) link
I keep hoping someone will upload to YT the early Comedy Channel promo with the mail guy delivering packages to the offices of all the shows. No luck so far.
Mail guy delivering a chicken to Rich Hall: "Hey Rich it says this'll help your act!"Rich, deadpan: "I'm not working with a chicken."
Mail guy delivering to the Higgins Boys & Gruber: "Package for the coffee achievers."HBs&G, digging into the coffee: "Coffee!"
Etc.
Someone, somewhere must have this on a tape!
― andrew m., Monday, 8 May 2017 15:01 (seven years ago) link
I was wrong. Someone uploaded it. Real shit quality, but...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM6OmzEANh4
― andrew m., Monday, 8 May 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link
This guy is one of those people who is way more famous in the UK than he is in America. The dude out of Fun Lovin' Criminals is another one of those people.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 8 May 2017 18:24 (seven years ago) link
See also Reginald D Hunter
― nashwan, Monday, 8 May 2017 18:29 (seven years ago) link
do not see reginald d hunter
― spud called maris (darraghmac), Monday, 8 May 2017 22:26 (seven years ago) link
huey criminal is a dublin legend btw
Just seen his new American Dream documentary on iplayer, not sure what to make of it overall, I think a lot of things needed backing up, like how the fifties situation is responsible for internet addiction. But I enjoyed it.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 22 July 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
Beware the youtube upload, the sound cuts out occasionally.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 22 July 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
this thread is really weird when you have confused Rich Hall with Rich Little in your head and don't have images on
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 22 July 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
you mean Syd Little?
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Sunday, 22 July 2018 21:32 (six years ago) link
love Piper at the Gates of Dawn
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 22 July 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link
I had no idea he had that many documentaries out (MetaFilter link to all of them on YouTube)
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 21:00 (one year ago) link
I think I've seen them all. Someone ought to clip his hilarious rant about Walk The Line.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 21:33 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-V7pMu-A1IThis explains why he moved his comedy career to britain
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 19 December 2024 19:43 (two weeks ago) link