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Peter Serafinowicz, David Mitchell and Dave Gorman has sold me. If Serafinowicz mentions Butterfield, I'll lose my poo poo.
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Sep 24, 2012 11:13
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Yeah, looking forward to it. He got sacked from a writing job for Russell Howard's Good News, didn't he?
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Sep 24, 2012 11:20
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Junkenstein posted:Yeah, looking forward to it. He got sacked from a writing job for Russell Howard's Good News, didn't he? After he bragged about how he saved all the best stories for himself and only went there to eat the Haribos.
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Sep 24, 2012 11:30
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Was Mr Blobby that funny/terrifying back in the 90's? He was the best thing on the Big Fat Quiz of the 90's last night and I swear he was awful on Noels House Party!
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Sep 24, 2012 15:28
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Mr Owl posted:Was Mr Blobby that funny/terrifying back in the 90's? He was the best thing on the Big Fat Quiz of the 90's last night and I swear he was awful on Noels House Party! I have the same memory of him being outright awful back then and I was genuinely laughing last night. It's also the one, and probably only time I will find Jack Whitehall funny. That was real, genuine terror in his eyes as he saw Blobby walk on.
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Sep 24, 2012 15:46
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Whitehalls standup routine is dire but he give a decent performance in bad education to be honest.
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Sep 24, 2012 17:25
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Leon with a Zero posted:Whitehalls standup routine is dire but he give a decent performance in bad education to be honest. He was pretty good in Fresh Meat too. The scene where he's having a horrible acid trip and has a complete breakdown over a horse he believes is his dead dad was equally funny and weirdly touching.
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Sep 24, 2012 17:33
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In this week's University Challenge (it's on again, apparently), Paxo corrected St. Andrews' answer "sir Francis Bacon" with an emphatic "SIR Francis baconn", causing them to lose by 5 point more than they should have. So much for commitment to the regions I say I say.
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Sep 24, 2012 20:32
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Mr. Squishy posted:In this week's University Challenge (it's on again, apparently), Paxo corrected St. Andrews' answer "sir Francis Bacon" with an emphatic "SIR Francis baconn", causing them to lose by 5 point more than they should have. I'm pretty sure the guy said Francis Baker
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Sep 24, 2012 20:39
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Irisi posted:He was pretty good in Fresh Meat too. The scene where he's having a horrible acid trip and has a complete breakdown over a horse he believes is his dead dad was equally funny and weirdly touching. Speaking of Fresh Meat, it's back soonish and I just caught up with it over summer, and was really pleasantly surprised. It wasn't that it was completely hilarious and amazing, because it wasn't actually that funny, but I actually found myself caring about the characters by the series end, and the finale is a lovely emotionally warm bubble. I'll definitely be watching series 2.
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Sep 24, 2012 20:53
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Yeah I started watching it out of boredom and it's actually ok. The girl playing Vod has fantastic delivery on some of her lines
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Sep 24, 2012 21:04
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Apparently there's a new Buzzcocks tonight. Sarah Millican and "the other one" from N-Dubz? BBC2 at 10.
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Sep 24, 2012 21:08
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I despise Sarah Millican's act. Despise! 
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Sep 24, 2012 21:11
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Noreaus posted:I despise Sarah Millican's act. Despise! Yeah, she's like nails on a blackboard to me. I'll skip this episode.
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Sep 24, 2012 21:13
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lDdICifwtY Touch of Cloth 2 preview.
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Sep 24, 2012 21:24
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stickyfngrdboy posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lDdICifwtY Is this out soon then? Seems like the first instalment wasn't long ago at all
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Sep 24, 2012 21:51
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Sky website doesn't say when its starting but I'll assume they'll leave it for a few months at least. On the upside it appears that Stannis Baratheon is making an appearance.
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Sep 24, 2012 21:56
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I'm not watching NMTB again until Adam Buxton is the permanent host. Every time a musician hosts the programme it's so, so bad and embarrassing.
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Sep 24, 2012 22:03
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Did anyone see the ad for "Cuckoo" on BBC3 just now? Was that Andy Samberg? 
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Sep 24, 2012 22:34
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Mr. Squishy posted:In this week's University Challenge (it's on again, apparently), Paxo corrected St. Andrews' answer "sir Francis Bacon" with an emphatic "SIR Francis baconn", causing them to lose by 5 point more than they should have. The contestant said Baker. If there's one thing that's sure to get Paxman's ire it's getting art wrong. I was amused by Paxman's later incredulous response that Baroness Warsi is chair of the Conservative Party not a Supreme Court judge. The perils of recording shows months in advance!
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Sep 24, 2012 22:36
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HoldYourFire posted:Did anyone see the ad for "Cuckoo" on BBC3 just now? Was that Andy Samberg? If it's the ad I saw, yes.
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Sep 24, 2012 22:37
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Answers Me posted:I'm pretty sure the guy said Francis Baker Well I'll be. None of the people watching it with me caught the difference, so at least I'm not entirely alone. I'm re-evaluating my scorn of Humphreys last season of Mastermind when he took a "pass" as an incorrect answer. It was a pretty scrubby game all round, and on Only Connect right after some people didn't know what Iran-Contra was. Mr. Squishy fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Sep 24, 2012 |
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Sep 24, 2012 22:51
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Kirsty Wark on Newsnight talking about the possible recovery of Richard III bones from Leicester "Tell us what you think about this dick" Top Notch.
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Sep 24, 2012 23:16
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Last series of University Challenge, I distinctly remember posting in this very thread about a question on "Who wrote The Dispossessed? -Ursula le Guin". This year, we get a question "The world of Anarres is a feature of which sci-fi novel by Ursula le Guin?" Honestly, it's like they're not even trying anymore 
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Sep 24, 2012 23:42
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HoldYourFire posted:Last series of University Challenge, I distinctly remember posting in this very thread about a question on "Who wrote The Dispossessed? -Ursula le Guin". This year, we get a question "The world of Anarres is a feature of which sci-fi novel by Ursula le Guin?" Honestly, it's like they're not even trying anymore To be fair though The Dispossessed is one of the best novels ever written! I think the question from last year was a quote from the book, I've not seen this year. I must say, I think University Challenge has gotten easier over the years, either that or I just know more than I did when I was 12...
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Sep 24, 2012 23:46
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Alan BStard posted:I must say, I think University Challenge has gotten easier over the years, either that or I just know more than I did when I was 12... The questions in the later rounds, especially the final, are usually bastard hard. We're still early days yet.
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Sep 24, 2012 23:51
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Alan BStard posted:To be fair though The Dispossessed is one of the best novels ever written! I think the question from last year was a quote from the book, I've not seen this year. Paxo answered this question in a radio interview a week or two ago, and said by his reckoning the difficulty had actually increased hugely over the years.
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Sep 24, 2012 23:56
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Well I guess I just know more than I did when I was a teenager. All I know is that when I was on the new Blockbusters the questions were much easier than they were in the 80s-90s, and Bob was asking them to Sixth Formers rather than the easier questions to proper grown-ups.
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Sep 24, 2012 23:59
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Raeg posted:I have the same memory of him being outright awful back then and I was genuinely laughing last night. I have no loving clue who or what Mr. Blobby is, but his appearance on The Big Fat Quiz was like a weird fever dream. It was also the most hilarious thing of the whole show.
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Sep 25, 2012 00:03
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Alan BStard posted:Well I guess I just know more than I did when I was a teenager. Actually there was an incredibly hard question tonight about the "Upsilon meson". I'd never heard of such a thing, and I've been spending most of my time researching quantum physics for the last month! I said "Muon" and then "Pion" when that was pronounced wrong. Also when he read out the list of films that won the Golden Raspberry award, did anyone else think "Scientology" like both I and the contestant did? It's because "Cocktail" starred Tom Cruise, and Battlefield Earth was obviously a Scientology movie.
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Sep 25, 2012 00:09
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DominoDancing posted:I have no loving clue who or what Mr. Blobby is, but his appearance on The Big Fat Quiz was like a weird fever dream. It was also the most hilarious thing of the whole show. This made me do a double take. Mr Blobby is forever scarred onto my childhood psyche and I don't think I've ever met someone who didn't feel the same....brrr... still gives me the heebie jeebies
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Sep 25, 2012 00:16
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On second thought thats probably just the subconcious association with Noel Edmonds
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Sep 25, 2012 00:17
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Captain Mediocre posted:This made me do a double take. Mr Blobby is forever scarred onto my childhood psyche and I don't think I've ever met someone who didn't feel the same....brrr... still gives me the heebie jeebies I'm simply not British, and since Noel's House Party (just checked Wikipedia) was on from '91 to '99 that was quite a bit before I had any way to watch foreign TV shows. Apart from that, The Big Fat Quiz was, as always, "okay". Jack Whitehall and Denise van Outen played the stupid team this time around, fortunately they weren't as annoying as the David Walliams/Miranda Hart combo. I'm willing to bet that these shows are not quite the hit with the critics.
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Sep 25, 2012 00:36
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Don't forget Mr Blobby spent three weeks at No. 1 in the UK charts. It's creepier than any North Korean propaganda video, and it's one song that's haunted me for nearly twenty years. Back in early 1994, the coach driver that used to take my class to our swimming lessons played it on loop for over twenty minutes. And the video contains cameos by Noel Edmonds, Jeremy Clarkson, Garth Crooks and Carol Vorderman which renders it more evil than any beheading snuff video.
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Sep 25, 2012 00:42
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Oh god kill it with fire send it back to hell!
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Sep 25, 2012 00:53
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A friend of mine has that song on cassette, CD, and VHS that he's transferred to DVD. He plays it when he wants people to leave.
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Sep 25, 2012 01:03
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I felt so old for a moment when I thought there was someone posting here who didn't know Mr. Blobby.
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Sep 25, 2012 01:26
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HoldYourFire posted:Actually there was an incredibly hard question tonight about the "Upsilon meson". I'd never heard of such a thing, and I've been spending most of my time researching quantum physics for the last month! I said "Muon" and then "Pion" when that was pronounced wrong. The upsilon meson is b bbar and was the first thing containing a bottom quark discovered
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I don't know what's wrong with you guys, Mr Blobby is The Best I remember I made a clay Mr Blobby in art class, but had to give him a tail for balance reasons, my grandparents still have it somewhere. I think I may have related this story before but, Noel Edmonds kept the Mr Blobby outfit for a long time and when he was hosting dinner parties, barbecues etc would excuse himself, put on the outfit and charge through the party entertaining and terrifying guests in equal measure.
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