TS: Ali G vs all the other bits of the 11 O'Clock Show

Dominic Mohan, you mean.

The book btw, is very funny.

apparently it's back, only at ten?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6Grq6l31cUU/TSJtYeqs2eI/AAAAAAAAAfM/NnHgeNBJrAs/s1600/72ee9e55-57e0-42a8-8b5a-3b555c1e1aae_625x352.jpg

^ any one of those people >>>>>>>>>>> the collective powers of those involved in the 11 o'clock show.

sbc >>>>> any of those fucks

all of those fucks

let's hope Lauren Laverne's as great at comedy as she is at arts programming and being in a band

this was commissioned on the strength of the alternative election show and i'm looking forward to it, but it's hard not to think it won't go the same way of every other weekly comedy/current affairs show (that's not a quiz), i.e. nowhere

i have it on good authority that the reason there is no nightly show like this in the UK is that "writers cost too much" to hire four nights a week

just rip your zings off of ILX and other disreputable websites and cut out the middle men

let's hope Lauren Laverne's as great at comedy as she is at [...] being in a band

BAN NOODLY VAGUER

i'm not sure if i ever heard kenickie

me neither

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

amateurish rehash of some more famous song i can't quite remember?

idk there's still something a lil bit endearing in some kids from sunderland getting 'mad hype' rather than 20 yr olds from the right london schools with acoustic guitars, chill beats, namechecks for aaliyah, james blake remixes etc

never knew toby jones was in kenickie

That promo photo upthread is some uniquely terrible photoshoppery...

never knew toby jones was in kenickie

lol

i liked this kenickie song 'back in the day', doesn't quite hold up for me now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIqEkTQ-64

i know i'm in my 40s but what's 'sbc'?

sacha baron cohen

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/feb/10/lauren-laverne-token-tv-woman

derp

sicking her _____ in

that was the least crap part of her g2 cllumn last week iirc

a hahahahah...

Last week was particularly excruciating. The auto-cue went wrong while Laverne and Charlie Brooker were on camera. Neither of them could hold things together, but Laverne started dishing out what seemed like blame and responsibility, yelling at Brooker: "It's your item. It's your item." Other than this, there has been no tiny hint as to why the show has to be live at all. If it's to build creative tension and get the best out of the four performers, then it's not working. At all.

• The following correction will be printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Friday 11 February 2011. An item referring to the Channel 4 current affairs and comedy show 10 O'Clock Live said an auto-cue had failed last week when Lauren Laverne and Charlie Brooker were on camera and "neither of them could hold things together". In fact this segment was a pre-recorded, scripted sketch used to demonstrate the perils of live television.

ha

feel like only Deborah Orr has ever compared Laverne to Fey

i think i got confused between deborah orr (will self's wife iirc?) and that american woman who was on newsnight review for some inexplicable reason

feel like only Deborah Orr has ever compared Laverne to Fey

I'd put money on it

but it's so obvious. tina fey was lead writer of one of the most famous tv formats of the last four decades. lauren laverne did that one song with mint royale. fey wrote 'mean girls'. laverne did the breakfast show on x-fm. fey created and starred in an acclaimed sitcom while launching a hollywood career, albeit with mixed results. laverne was on the culture show.

laverne once did a muppet walk

• The following correction will be printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Friday 11 February 2011. An item referring to the Channel 4 current affairs and comedy show 10 O'Clock Live said an auto-cue had failed last week when Lauren Laverne and Charlie Brooker were on camera and "neither of them could hold things together". In fact this segment was a pre-recorded, scripted sketch used to demonstrate the perils of live television._

the thing about the 11 o clock show was that it wasn't trying to be satirical or incisive at all... any mention of current events was at a purely tabloid level and for use as a springboard for iain lee's puerile schoolboy humour about "bummers" and "spastics".

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

ppl rly hate iain lee

just think comparisons between the two shows are weird,if iain lee had ever interviewed a tory mp, he'd have just asked him questions about knob cheese or if anybody in the house of commons gents sat down to pee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEz2PJu91NY

He actually told me he bailed out of doing the 11OClock show because the scripts were 'utter crap'