fonejacker

no

watched it once. if i genuinely had nothing better to do with my time -- no toenails to pick or navel to contemplate -- i might even watch it again.

even if this is quite funny i can't be bothered to watch it.

Shouild have called it "Trolls on a Phone"

some of its tropes has the potential to cross over into common usage. i can't think of HDTV or DVDs without saying them his way now (much like vid-ay-oh and oo-erver from, er, some Scottish sketch show bloody years ago that took the piss out of welsh pronunciation).

fonejacker has all the more resonance for me because on wednesday a guy called me saying he was "police officer - fbi" and just kept repeating "wossyorname? wossyorname?" until i hung up...

"tropes have" - ugh, sorry.

because on wednesday a guy called me saying he was "police officer - fbi" and just kept repeating "wossyorname? wossyorname?" until i hung up...

sorry i was drunk

much like vid-ay-oh and oo-erver from, er, some Scottish sketch show bloody years ago that took the piss out of welsh pronunciation

"absolutely". which had john sparkes (welsh) and morwenna banks (maybe welsh) in it too. and was FUCKING GENIUS.

haven't watched an episode yet, it being in every single ad break for a month kinda made me sick of it.

speaking of these tropes, i caught myself thinking of wasptard (mustard that comes from wasps, obviously) just this morning.

also, 'video' as pronounced by vivian (rick?) from the young ones.

terry tibbs already has 2 myspaces.

I don't like prank call shows in any case, and this is no different to any other, really. They always come across as disrespectful and rude as opposed to subversive.

"absolutely". which had john sparkes (welsh) and morwenna banks (maybe welsh) in it too. and was FUCKING GENIUS.

oops my bad, memory a little hazy.

see, i was all about the disdain when first watching fonejacker but then found myself laughing at a lot of the more absurd stuff (east end gangster perusing the small ads etc). he doesn't seem out to make people look stupid specifically, it's more about creating a surreal, nonsensical exchange i think. it's more like victor lewis-smith's haile selassie bbc reception thing of old.

I think it's pretty funny in parts, particularly Terry Tibbs and the guy selling internetings. My mouse is crap though.

John Sparkes does a lot of stuff that's only shown in Wales - Barry Welsh is Coming was very funny, as was Pub Quiz. The last thing I saw him on, a few months ago, was a walking tour of great welsh pubs, and it was beyond boring.

Oops, the mouse, not my mouse.

i hated the idea of this and hated the ads for it but out of boredom watched a segment on youtube and it truly brought the lolz. the animations that go with the calls really make it. ch4 didn't help by screening the unfunniest clips *constantly* on ad breaks.

i caught some of it between Studio 60 ad breaks last night. bits were funny, but exactly what percentage of the show draws its humour from "LOL foreigners talk funny"?

37% or thereabouts

there's TERRY TIBBS t.shirts *already*.
http://www.chargrilled.co.uk/t-shirts/proddetail.asp?prod=m0talktometerrytibbs

The only funny prank calls ever:

Victor Lewis Smith

Paul Garner and Chris Morris on the Chris Morris Radio One show

The Jerky Boys when I was sixteen

4) Steve Coogan phoning up Piers Morgan and pretending to be Bono

caught clips of this virally through boingboing, got hooked on the the 'doovde' guy then downloaded the rest of the episodes. they get better and better with the most recent ep (5?) being roffle-tastic from start to finish. major thumbs up, and yes, half the best jokes are in the visuals.

not even SEEN ep 5 yet. can't wait.

lemme tickla ya

fuck. s'pose i should give this another chance, then.

John Sparkes does a lot of stuff that's only shown in Wales

really? i love that dude. gah.

does he/the producer/ch4 really have to contact the people back and get permission to use these clips? if so how on earth did they get the 'IM IN BED... FUCK OFF' guy to agree

one of the best things about it is that it's not mean humour, the 'victim' is either baffled or many cases laughing along, there's no spite in it. it's refreshing after so many years of morris/gervais style cruelty

.. well, apart from the old lady getting "coronary" captions etc..

4) Steve Coogan phoning up Piers Morgan and pretending to be Bono

OK this I need to see, what was it on?

It was Chris Morris, and it was on a flexidisc w/ Select magazine.

This is a lot better than it has any right to be. Particularly "internetings" and the canvas stretcher.

Why have the last two episodes been repeats of earlier episodes in this series? Last night's was the first episode, I think.

The voices are spot on, esp. Terry Tibbs, but this show never seems as funny as it could be. I liked the old geezer going on about taking cary Grant up in a balloon. SOme of it's unwatchable tho.

Anyone see it last week when he sang "Get Ur Freak On" to some record store guys?