Just watched the one on Darwin. Just terrific.
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 2 September 2006 23:02 (eighteen years ago)
― Ed (dali), Sunday, 3 September 2006 08:14 (eighteen years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 3 September 2006 08:35 (eighteen years ago)
"Darwin was struggling with resolving his religion with his scientific discovery. It's a bit like a rock star being bought up on big guitars, suddenly realising that classical music requires a higher degree of playing skill!" - cut to Darwin in a wig with a big electric guitar rocking out.
Maybe it's just me, but when I watch these I feel like I'm being talked down to. Not informative enough to be informative and not funny enough to be funny.
Time Trumpet and Screen Wipe are good, tho.
― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Sunday, 3 September 2006 08:42 (eighteen years ago)
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Sunday, 3 September 2006 08:45 (eighteen years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 3 September 2006 08:45 (eighteen years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 3 September 2006 08:47 (eighteen years ago)
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Sunday, 3 September 2006 09:21 (eighteen years ago)
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 3 September 2006 09:31 (eighteen years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 3 September 2006 09:35 (eighteen years ago)
But I find Charlie Brooker perfectly hateful. Armando wins by default.
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 3 September 2006 09:36 (eighteen years ago)
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Sunday, 3 September 2006 09:48 (eighteen years ago)
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 3 September 2006 09:52 (eighteen years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 3 September 2006 09:54 (eighteen years ago)
Sunday 03 September 7:00 pm Dog Borstal8:00 pm Anthea Turner: Perfect Housewife 9:00 pm Little Britain9:30 pm The Catherine Tate Show10:00 pm Little Miss Jocelyn10:30 pm F*** Off, I'm Fat 11:30 pm Too Ugly for Love12:25 am Little Miss Jocelyn12:55 am Dog Borstal1:50 am F*** Off, I'm Fat2:50 am Too Ugly for Love3:50 am Welcome to BBC THREE
Tomorrow: My Small Breasts And I, Trauma Uncut, Spendaholics Saved My Life.
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 3 September 2006 09:55 (eighteen years ago)
Tuesday 05 September19:30 Meetings with Remarkable TreesA look at Britain's largest broad leaf lime tree, which boasts a magnificent rococo-style tree house. [S]
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 3 September 2006 09:58 (eighteen years ago)
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 3 September 2006 10:01 (eighteen years ago)
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Sunday, 3 September 2006 10:04 (eighteen years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 3 September 2006 10:05 (eighteen years ago)
It seems I have little in common with JtN these days...I like his lectures (Pam loves 'em) and would cite the visual gag in his Marx prog (regarding his insensitivity towards Engels' bereavement - shot of Marx in internet cafe typing email, Subject: Re: Dead wife) as one of my top 36 telly lolz of the twenny-oh-ohs. I think the fact that he's local means we forgive the things that annoy JtN.
And Brooker! I find Screen Wipe quite funny! Especially the US edition! Yes, he is quite hateful. He reminds me of a few people round here.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 3 September 2006 11:19 (eighteen years ago)
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 3 September 2006 11:23 (eighteen years ago)
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 3 September 2006 11:28 (eighteen years ago)
Ally C and RJG and I were watching Bruiser with Mitchell & Webb the other day. It was as funny as Ally C remembered, in places.
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 3 September 2006 11:31 (eighteen years ago)
― Ed (dali), Sunday, 3 September 2006 12:08 (eighteen years ago)
(I've never actually watched it, I was trying to maintain the lack of common ground).
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 3 September 2006 12:10 (eighteen years ago)
But if I dl them all myself I'm happy to post a DVD-R of them all to you. Email me your address.
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 3 September 2006 12:18 (eighteen years ago)
I probably was a bit more into these until I saw his dig at John Cage in his Beethoven programme.
― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Sunday, 3 September 2006 12:26 (eighteen years ago)
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Sunday, 3 September 2006 14:34 (eighteen years ago)
I misread this as: "Just watched the one on Dawsons"
― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 3 September 2006 15:44 (eighteen years ago)
― Pete (Pete), Monday, 4 September 2006 07:04 (eighteen years ago)
OTM. i found the marx one funny *at the time* but thinking about steel, he is a bit of a choad.
on the other hand, 'screen wipe' was aces.
i am following 'time trumpet' but it's wildly uneven, often shit. dubya singing u2 was a career low for ianucci, surely?
it is funny, that alba has just discovered this two-year-old programme!
― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Monday, 4 September 2006 07:12 (eighteen years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 4 September 2006 08:19 (eighteen years ago)
started on the radio so fine with no visuals, possibly better, shame no one will be able to hear it beyond the first couple of rows then (when is it? can you blag me in)
― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 September 2006 08:34 (eighteen years ago)
*not that i'm suggesting that my barracking resulted directly in bbc capitulation, but y'know...
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 4 September 2006 08:36 (eighteen years ago)
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 4 September 2006 09:31 (eighteen years ago)
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 4 September 2006 09:42 (eighteen years ago)
are available at www.o b s c u r e d t v.com
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:44 (eighteen years ago)
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:47 (eighteen years ago)
i'll keep me time trumpets and screen wipes except for those bits where brooker just screams the same phrase over and over again in an increasingly shrill voice
― The Real DG (D to thee G), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:48 (eighteen years ago)
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago)
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:46 (eighteen years ago)
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 4 September 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago)
He reminds me of Dom P, Grimly F and dadaismus, a bit
ha! i open this thread because i can't find the "proper" screenwipe one (we did have one ... didn't we?) and the first thing i see is this. i'm very flattered. thank you, alba. nobody has ever compared me to dom passantino before.
ANYWAY. just wanted to say that the second ep of this series of screenwipe was genius on a grand scale. "it's my anus"/"amy winehouse has really let herself go" ... fuck, there was another bit that was equally brilliant. perhaps just the well-timed use of the phrase "bell-end".
mark steel is ace, yeh, but brooker is close to godliness.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago)
there was too much of the anus last night. he makes really good points about the way tv executives are their own worst enemies and then fucks himself over with the teenage humour and waniking actions. (and wasn't the titleless end a bit of a mindbender, straight into something else.)
lol moment last night - calling nadine 'hardly an executive price tag' bagget a terrahawk. (amy winehouse a close second)
― koogs, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 13:38 (seventeen years ago)
i haven't lolled that much at a brit tv show in a looong time. well, not since the last 'tv burp'. the billie phone call was very harry hill.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 13:42 (seventeen years ago)
only ruder obv.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 13:43 (seventeen years ago)
Oh. When is this on? Digital? UKnova?
― Bocken Social Scene, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 13:44 (seventeen years ago)
bbc4 -- it gets repeated.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 13:49 (seventeen years ago)
mark steel is too politically biased to be funny. see also: mark thomas, michael moore. not saying i disagree with everything they've said, it's just that it seems like a left wing version of jim davidson telling immigrant jokes his audience.
― max r, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago)
*to his
― max r, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago)
is it 2 eps in? didn't know it had started again.
bloody good job it's repeated seeing as it's not on THC replay (death to whoever is denying me this).
― blueski, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago)
2nd last night, yes.
― koogs, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:06 (seventeen years ago)
i missed the first :(
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:07 (seventeen years ago)
i will get them, along with Diary Of A Call Girl.
― blueski, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago)
Thought the "Doctor, it's my anus" stuff was slightly overplayed but the rest was sheer genius. Nice to see the return of The Biggest Cocks (and She-Cocks) In Advertising.
A History Of Corners, with Victoria Coren.
― aldo, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:09 (seventeen years ago)
I don't usually watch Screen Wipe but did last night. I didn't think it was very good, though I agree the Terrahawk was funny. And the Billie Piper stuff.
Didn't think the anus thing was funny once, and it didn't become more so as a running gag.
― Alba, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:11 (seventeen years ago)
i tuned in during the 'closing credits' and was very, very close to believing the victoria coren thing.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:13 (seventeen years ago)
I think I need to grab Billie Piper.
― aldo, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago)
Charlie Brooker's disgusted persona just doesn't have legs enough in it for me to work anymore. He's still doing TV Go Home exploitation-TV titles, after all these years. It's like finding out Viz is still going!
Maybe judging whether such things are tired or a classic seam of humour is just an irreducible matter of taste. Still, the title "A History of Corners" was good, even if the execution of the programme was a bit rub (you can't get Victoria Coren et al on board to be in on the joke). But then I think taking the piss out of trends in high-brow programming is much less played-out than doing it for Celebrity Spew On My Widow and what have you.
― Alba, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:23 (seventeen years ago)
any of the new sketches on youtube?
― max r, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago)
He's still doing TV Go Home exploitation-TV titles, after all these years.
hells yes. no sell-out.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:26 (seventeen years ago)
the 'so you want a job in tv?' thing was a virtual repeat from last season as well.
corners, yes, funny.
― koogs, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago)
Didn't think the anus thing was funny once, and it didn't become more so as a running gag
heh. i thought it got funnier each time.
mind: i think i've missed only two issues of viz since 1988.
i actually wasn't so taken with the "corners" bit, mainly because i remember alexei sayle beginning his show with five minutes of juliet bravo, which was way less obvious and way ahead of the curve.
actually: that's who brooker reminds me of -- the swearing/anger/beating up stooges etc. it's alexei sayle. who is also a god amongst men.
― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago)
the adam curtis segment was awes.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago)
Yeah, I thought that was possibly the best Screen Wipe yet. (although criticising the 70s news for being too slow while attacking the modern news for being too exciting = happy for about 5 minutes in 1986?)
― aldo, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 07:02 (seventeen years ago)
Brooker is never happy is he? I'm getting bored with his schtick - it seems to me to be along the lines of "is it me or is everything shite?" which i'm really bored with too.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 07:27 (seventeen years ago)
He likes Billie Piper and The Wire.
― Alba, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 07:43 (seventeen years ago)
I like how many of his main pieces to camera are done while he's on his couch, perched above his computer, as if at any moment he's going to go, I don't know, Google something. And then I see the candles he's got on the table and I'm like hang on, have I somehow just gone "back to mine" with Charlie Brooker? Is he going to put the moves on me?
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 09:49 (seventeen years ago)
at one point he was fetching a cup of tea which was lol-y.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 09:53 (seventeen years ago)
i liked his rant in last week's about 'the death of the credits' altho can't make up my mind whether or not i agree (breather or cast members hamming it up over credits vs who gives a shit who the associate producer is anyway)
― blueski, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:38 (seventeen years ago)
i notice his series seem to be immune from credit death, ie the bbc isn't putting him in a box and/or talking over.
― koogs, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 11:35 (seventeen years ago)
Oh yes they are! A week or so ago they did it, and he put gaffer tape over his mouth. The continuity woman apologised, wryly.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:19 (seventeen years ago)
it's perhaps not that credit death is particularly bad in itself (although i think it is) it's the fact that it once the credits did go out of the window it led to trailers for what's coming next encroaching into the programme itself. 5 or so minutes from the end (at the stage) there's a pop up telling you what's coming on after, which is really very very annoying if your watching "tribe", for example, but probably less so if you're watching ant and dec's saturday night takeaway. if you watch a lot of US TV the what's coming next bit occupies the bottom third of the screen for most of the show.
― jed_, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:24 (seventeen years ago)
I have been on the internets for too long, I spent far too long just now trying to work out what word wryly was a contraction of.
― aldo, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:25 (seventeen years ago)
i liked his rant in last week's about 'the death of the credits' altho can't make up my mind whether or not i agree
I'll tell you what I did not like was how he appeared doing a jokey "shout over the squeezed credits" trail for his own programme over the end of the last episode of Tribe, which had ended the series on an extremely sombre note, being about logging destroying the way of life of the Penan in Borneo.
I realise that the puncturing of space and time for reflection is part of what Brooker is complaning about, but this seemed an unnecessarily crass way of proving the point. If I were a member of the Tribe production team (or the Penan), I'd wonder who volunteered me to be the butt of Brooker's "cruel to be kind" point-proving.
― Alba, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:37 (seventeen years ago)
That Penan episode was totally amazing (despite my intense loathing for the presenter).
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:58 (seventeen years ago)
yes, the adam curtis bit was fantastic (even though i thought the "berlin wall coming down changed everything" hypothesis a little shaky). really liked the whole episode, but that's hardly surprising. his less-than-ten-second dismissal of sport was fucking joyous.
― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 13:07 (seventeen years ago)