Dylan Moran: C/D?

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Indie chicks please find a new crush figure, this one is getting played. As well as annoyingly reactionary.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

welcome to 2002

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

his stand-up show was ok but not great. i saw it too late perhaps.

really like him on screen, inc. in Shaun Of The Dead. not seen The Actors as it looked bad.

i have no real opinion on him re sexual or romantic attraction.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

'the actors' was really bad.

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

I liked his stand-up DVD - Monster? That made me laugh. Entertaining in Black Books. By all accounts that is ACTUALLY what he's like - a mate interviewed him once, and he just consciousness-streamed on random subjects for 20 minutes instead of answering any questions. Co-incidentally I got spam this morning telling me to go and see his new touring stand-up show, and I may consider it.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

'the actors' was bad cos it wasn't dylan moran 'as himself'; he's not really comic actor.

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

'How Do You Want Me'>>>>>>>>>>>'Black Books' (ie Charlotte Coleman>>>>>Bill Bailey)

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

He's from my home town! He's very good live, but he does take a while to get warmed up. In this he's much like Bill Bailey, unsurprisingly.

He's also quite 'like that' in real life, apparently. I think accentmonkey has a story about meeting him in the street outside one of his gigs?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

I saw him in a shop at the corner of Foley Street in what no-one calls London's fashionable NoHo. He was buying fags. He was just like on the telly an' that.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

ward fowler so OTM it hurts.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 3 April 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

he used to come into a shop i worked in to buy clothes (he must have lived in edinburgh at this time because it was quite frequent and not just at festival time). he was always kind of unfriendly with a veneer of confusion. i still like him though.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 3 April 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

last i heard he does actually live in edinburgh.

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Monday, 3 April 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

My friend once lent him 20p for to buy a Twix on a train from London to Portsmouth. He was looking very confused at how much it cost.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 3 April 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'm seeing him do standup next week or so at the Melb Comedy Fest.. I'm not expecting greatness, I'd imagine Bill was better (and he was good but not fantastic). Should be interesting tho.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 3 April 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

I interviewed him once, alas only on the phone, when I was a student. He was the shambolic rambling type person I'd expected (v.difficult to keep up with especially as I hadn't mastered shorthand then). Anyway, as far as a crush figure goes, his time has passed. It's all about Noel Fielding now.

― Nobodys Prawn (Nobodysprawn), Monday, 3 April 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

Charlotte Coleman>>>>>Bill Bailey

Nobody is greater than Bill Bailey.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 3 April 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

bb is funny w/out being offensive, which I admire, but he is not v funny

lots of people like dm

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 3 April 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

he's offensive by association for being on NMTBuzzcocks.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 3 April 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Andrew, yes, I did run into Dylan Moran on the street outside a gig of his once, at the Cat Laughs festival in Kilkenny. It was about 11pm and the gig was late starting because he hadn't turned up yet. Eventually he came puffing up the street and asked the girl on the door if this was where he was meant to be playing. She said yes and took him inside, then let the crowd in.

I had never seen him before and thought he was fantastic, but apparently others at the gig were disappointed that he'd done so much old stuff. The reason for this (it turned out) was that he was so drunk he couldn't remember any of his newer material at all, which was why he also couldn't find his gig.

I've seen him many times live and I think he's inspired.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm seeing him do standup next week or so at the Melb Comedy Fest.. I'm not expecting greatness, I'd imagine Bill was better (and he was good but not fantastic). Should be interesting tho.

Report back on the festival! Or just tell me, if you think no-one else will care. All the British comics used to love the Melbourne Comedy Festival, but I noticed on Chortle that there's some danger of it having to close or summat?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

I only just discovered him (at a drunken post rehearsal impromptu party in Anna's living room) a few weeks ago. He is definitely classic.

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

Dud

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

He always seemed like the perfect person to go on an all-dayer drinking binge around old, shabbily ornate pubs with. Something doesn't always quite gel with his acting performances though. But I enjoyed How Do You Want Me a lot.

― David Orton (scarlet), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

I know nothing about him, I am judging solely on his performance as Bernard Black. Who is, indeed, 4 out of 5 (possibly 5 out of 5?) Shimura's Dream Man. Intellectual, bitter, sarcastic, and yet ultimately loveable. Oh yes, and the cheekbones and the "just one more drink, love..." Celtic puppydog eyes...

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

Clearly, what this thread needs is more pictorial evidence:

http://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/Images/EventImages/spring06/Dyaln.jpg

Wow, look at the pointiness of his nose. And coincidentally, that is the exact colour I am going to be painting my living room:

http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/images/2005/4/6/1ae.DylanMor.picA.jpg

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

That first one is clearly just John Lydon in a wig.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

Hush.

Though I loved your idea that he was looking for the secret booze he'd hidden in his hair in the second picture.

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

that's where he keeps his spare ciggie butts.

― David Orton (scarlet), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, is that what half-naggin means?

You Irish with your pointed noses and your confusing slang words. Cease and desist.

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

I never knew he was an indi chicks crush? perhaps i don't know enough indi chicks anymore to have established this.

he's good, but i prefer bill bailey live.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

Um, there is no half-naggin. There is only a naggin. Ok, there's a half-empty naggin, but it's not the same thing.

Fucking Dylan Moran, as my mother calls him.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I would.

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - Yeah, I thought that might be the case. It's not even my second language, booze.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmmm, boooze. GOD, WHEN IS LENT OVER?!?!?

One of these days I am going to get around to seeing Shaun Of The Dead, but there's still that Hilton Betelgeuse problem. I just can't...

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

DOM, HOW DARE YOU DIS THIS ICON OF SOPHISTERCATED INDIE COMEDY?!¬?!?!?

AKA...he's not akshully funny, but
I'd love to chat about proper books with long names what he's name-drooped with him.

― Mystic Handyman (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

see also: PLEASE PUT SOME FUCKING JOKES IN SHIV OF THE DEAD IF YOU WANT ~US TO LAFF

― Mystic Handyman (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Shiv?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Capitols aside, as soon as somebody admits that Muster Moran's ouevre is pretty fucking far from hilarious, but they boost it anyhoo cos it's about sophistercated middle class subjecks like drinking wine and owning a book shop...

I want that shit to be funny but it's pitiful so can we pleeeeeeez assess it with the meh it deserves, pleez.

― Mystic Handyman (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Eh? WTF?

I don't like it because it's MIDDLE CLASS, I like it because it MAKES ME LAUGH, which very few "comedies" or "comedians" actually do.

Anyway, this is based on 3 episodes seen while utterly drunk.

And the point isn't whether he's funny or not, it's whether he's HOTT or not. (Which, apparently, is what Dom objects to the most.) Which he clearly is.

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

First of all, Dylan Moran has done more than Black Books. He's done years of quality standup.

Second of all, I still think he's very funny, despite the fact that I think the second (and was there a third?) series of Black Books was unwatchably bad.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't that because the latter series of Black Books were actually written by Dylan Moran rather than (either Linehan or Matthews, I forget which one)?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

I like it because it MAKES ME LAUGH

And the point isn't whether he's funny or not, it's whether he's HOTT or not

You're right. I'm sorry. There's a black olive pit in my soul that finds this hilarious. But you're right. Carry on. HOTT=FUNNEE

― Mystic Handyman (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/stage/2004/06/henryiv/lance_mid.jpg
Funny

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/lions_gate_films/fahrenheit_9_11/larry_david/fahrscreenc.jpg
Not funny.

Thanks Kate!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

Mystic Handyman your argument that Black Books isn't funny seems lacking...

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I'd probably agree with that. But there you go.

(xpost)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

The first one was written by Dylan Moran and Graham Linehan. The other ones were written by Dylan Moran and a stable of not-Graham Linehans, one of whom was Arthur Matthews.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

And I'm really hoping we can avoid image spam of Moran on this thread... [/tentative]

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

I think the moment I did realise I hated Moran was the episode of Black Books that was all "HA HA EASTERN EUROPEANS AREN'T AS CULTURED AS US THEY DON'T OWN BOOKSHOPS OR DRINK RED WINE".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

admit it Dom, your intention with this thread was pure flamebait.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

It's this kind of behaviour that warrants an IGNORE USER button in my view.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 15 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

PS I am rilly rilly pissed so my opinions may be controv but bollocks

― Mystic Handyman (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

dom, i thought people were riding you unfairly, but now i can't tell if you just said lance > david or were fooling around, and it's freaking me out.

T'was irony, I was pointing out foibles in another's argument.

Larry David > Everyone else on the planet > James Lance.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

black books (1&2) is good, it just is, and anyone who disagrees is wrong. end of discussion, activate ignore function.

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really find Greig attractive, although I do think she is quite funny.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

If I had a kate brain transplant i would fill dis thread up with 60 tamsin g pix now.

― Mystic Handyman (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, you should start a Tamsin G thread and fill *that* with pictures, but who am I to nitpick when it's my behaviour being criticised?

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Dylan Moran has been Indie Shagging Bait since at least 1997. My old publisher signed him to write a book around then based on this provable fact. Every single comedian I have ever known started out to improve his chances at attracting women/girls. But then when they do get them they tend to point all that resentment at past failures straight at the girls in the frame in the present. They're kind of like lead singers without the musical skills in so many ways.

YMOF - it seems like most Irish comix from Naaaaaaaaaavan. They all say it was a shithole and they ran for their lives.

I can report that Tamsin Grieg is bloody lovely - she did a readthru of friend's play where she was Che Guevara's wife, and then playwright invited us to party a few weeks later which I spent sitting on the sofa with her, getting pished w/ her and partner who is also an actor. She is enormously good value in the fun department (we talked about the Archers too).

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oh mizz boom I didn't mean to be critical I woz just pointing out we can all have pointy-jawed indie sex fantashies. I'd like to fank suzy for not dispelling said fantashies.

― Mystic Handyman (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

I can sort of understand both Moran's and his character's appeal to women tho (how different are they really? the latter is just an exaggeration of the former perhaps). The accent obviously, it is great - charming and effortlessly seductive. He looks like he desperately needs feeding/looking after...but comfortable with it. Wild eyes, the look of a man who slept in the street after some random drunken adventures, the craving for hedonistic excess and gay abandon, recklessness, but also the blatant passion and belief in ideas, standards (however contradictory), the evidence of intelligence (specs, plus rantings about Chaucer or whatever) despite ridiculous, chaotic way of living suggesting shades of genius, unpredictable, emotional...

none of this esp. to do with being funny tho. that's just a bonus. people would still crush on him even if he was only as funny as average bloke.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

he's exactly like my norniren friend mike.

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

I think you've just very eloquently described why I can't stand him and his whole schtick

― Nadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

DyMo is much hotter and funnier in that thing with Churlless Coalman were he's a photographer condemned to Norfolk.

― Mystic Handyman (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

PS I am rilly rilly pissed

Really? We'd never have guessed. Good lunch?

They all say it was a shithole and they ran for their lives.

So, so true. A HOLE!!! But a hole that produced Tommy Tiernan, Dylan Moran and Pierce Brosnan. Swings and roundabouts.

Oh, and Andrew Farrell as well.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Lunch? FORK that shoit trish. Pubs opened at 9am woohoo.

― A Van That's Loaded With Weapons (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Good lord, you're all nutters. Black Book is hilarious! I dont particularly have the horn for DM at all, but I find the show funny because he and Bill Bailey play utterly hopeless, over the top, rude/mentalist losers. I point to the scene where they are housesitting and get drunk on the ridiculously expensive french wine, for example. It isnt Dylan alone, or Bill, it is the way the play off each other, almost a mother and petulant child relationship I guess.

I will concede series 2 was pretty flat though.

― Trayce is not a guy! (trayce), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

I will concede series 2 was pretty flat though.

― Evil Misogynist (noodle vague), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

i liked seasons two and three. two has one of my favourite lines of all time in it.

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

Fran: So what's it like then? The fags and booze.
Bernard: Well, to be honest, after years of smoking and drinking, you do sometimes look at yourself and think...
Fran: Yep...
Bernard: You know, just sometimes, in between the first cigarette with coffee in the morning to that four hundredth glass of cornershop piss at 3am, you do sometimes look at yourself and think...
Fran: Yep...
Bernard: ... "this is fantastic. I'm in heaven."

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha. i noticed my post above on 'why Moran is hott' has been quoted on some creepy cunt's blog (ooh stalker fite?!), although they seem to think it means i don't like Dylan Moran which is foolish, for as i said way upthread, i do quite like him.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Why would you read a person's blog, if you think they're so creepy?

― Treacle in a Flaming Wheelbarrow (kate), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, don't answer. I don't want to know.

― Treacle in a Flaming Wheelbarrow (kate), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Why would you quote someone you think is a 'cnut' on your blog?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

link?

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Black Books was great until it "jumped the shark" with the episode where Manny goes to work for the chain bookstore next door. Mostly because that episode starred that cunt Simon Pegg.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

The phrase "jump the shark" has now "jumped the shark" with the above post.

― David Orton (scarlet), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Esteban OTM re: Pegg = Cunt.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

please find a new hate figure, Pegg has been played since '98

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

why is Pegg a cunt? sometimes i think nobody around here knows what the fuck they're talking about

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

can someone explain the penn hate?

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

He treats Teller like shit.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

ngggg

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Do people get called cunts now just for being on telly a lot rather than for being actual cunts?

― A Van That's Loaded With Mushy Peas (noodle vague), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

"now"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

I agree with Fuzzy. What on earth have you got against Simon Pegg? He seems like a perfectly nice bloke. I'm not sure it's fair to throw accusations of cuntishness at him while people like Rik Mayall still walk the earth.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Guys guys guys, I don't think y'all understand.

I call Simon Pegg a cunt because SIMON PEGG IS A CUNT. Case Closed.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Thursday, 6 April 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

At last, How Do You Want Me? comes to DVD!

― David Orton (scarlet), Monday, 19 June 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

Cor! It's a Cinema Club vanilla release...PJM, did you do the subs for this?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 19 June 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

i'm shock to find that nobody seems to have done any photoshopping on this thread yet?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 19 June 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://aycu34.webshots.com/image/39593/2001771288875081079_rs.jpg

― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 8 January 2009 15:11 (sixteen years ago)

was gonna say

― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:34 (sixteen years ago)

seven years pass...

Black Books was great until it "jumped the shark" with the episode where Manny goes to work for the chain bookstore next door. Mostly because that episode starred that cunt Simon Pegg.
― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:23

Esteban OTM re: Pegg = Cunt.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:23

I'm not sure it's fair to throw accusations of cuntishness at him while people like Rik Mayall still walk the earth.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:47

Weird thread. That's one of the best episodes and I thought Pegg was particularly great in it.

I guess I have to see How Do You Want Me?

I loved his Marc Maron interview.

Moran is one of the few comedians whose writing I admire for having some sort of beauty about it. Haven't seen any of his stuff in several years now.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 18:50 (nine years ago)

I think that his performance as the evil bookshop manager in that episode of Black Books is the maybe the best thing Simon Pegg has ever done, either that or the 'This is Your Life' sketch from Big Train.

I recall that I enjoying the WTF interview when I listened to it a few years ago, but at this point I can't remember anything about it aside from there being a cringey bit where MM keeps asking DM about the troubles after DM tells him that he lived in Belfast for a period? I should probably listen to it again

― soref, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 01:34 (nine years ago)

I never did answer as to how his standup show went those years ago. It were alright. He insisted on being able to chainsmoke, despite our city having had indoors smoking bans for some time at that point. He then berated - absolutely berated - some poor twit in the audience who had the gall to take a pic or film or something. Went on a rant about how no one lives in the moment, "IM HERE NOW", bla bla old man.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 06:52 (nine years ago)

Gonna get the two most recent of his 5 stand-up shows on disc. I'm a tad worried because some say the formula is getting a little tired.

I sometimes thought maybe he's just holding back for the audience and sticking to universal subjects because if he just went off in any direction he wanted, he'd lose some of his audience. But from that Maron interview, something he said did suggest to me that he is invested in talking about love, death, men, women etc.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 12:47 (nine years ago)

I saw him do stand-up a couple of years ago. it was fine, quite funny and charming in parts, lost steam in the last half, and was marred by the common thing of him being an aging comedian who is now a middle-aged stay at home dad, and thus the material being skewed towards hackneyed observations about the drudgery of domesticity.

― the unbearable jimmy smits (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 16:50 (nine years ago)

one month passes...

Watched the two most recent standup dvds. Yeah Yeah is probably as good as the previous ones. Off The Hook (which includes a bonus show) is suffering from the thing I was concerned about but there's still plenty of brilliant lines in there.

He's quite up front about making old fashioned absurd generalizations, but that sort of bewildered grumpy old man humour is just too familiar and I think it's a shame how often he falls in that territory. I know lots of comedians play a character or a version of themselves but I get easily tired by rants about things they probably don't care about much.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 14:09 (nine years ago)

Christ this thread

― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 21:49 (nine years ago)

Watched the complete How Do You Want Me? (12 episodes) I liked it a lot, very funny, lovely soundtrack. Moran isn't listed in the writing credits but so many of his lines sound exactly like something he would write. Love the stuff about the donations to organizations that the father doesn't approve of and how Moran gets respect in the village for slapping a child.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 9 July 2016 15:04 (nine years ago)

Much underrated show

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Saturday, 9 July 2016 23:30 (nine years ago)

seven years pass...

Did anyone see Stuck that he did with Morgana Robinson?

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 23 June 2024 21:59 (one year ago)

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