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Having just watched Friday Night Dinner for the first time it's mildly amusing but I have no idea how it ran for as long as it did or why people rave about it. A lot of the really long running popular UK comedy just isn't very funny is it. Not Going Out, My Family, Benidorm, Mrs Browns Boys. Why do we elevate mediocre piss so much?
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stev posted:Having just watched Friday Night Dinner for the first time it's mildly amusing but I have no idea how it ran for as long as it did or why people rave about it. Please don’t compare Friday Night Dinner to that poo poo.
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Aug 8, 2021 23:13
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stev posted:Having just watched Friday Night Dinner for the first time it's mildly amusing but I have no idea how it ran for as long as it did or why people rave about it. FND is very good (but should have ended at least one season earlier)
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Aug 8, 2021 23:20
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FND reminds me of when Kryten went and done the US version of Red Dwarf. It so wants to be an Inbetweeners style clone, even with one of the original crew, but it ends up as being really fake looking and just wrong. Mark Heap doing his Green Wing character is only good parts of it.
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Aug 9, 2021 00:48
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https://twitter.com/YGVassilakis/status/1407594275618099200?s=20
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Aug 10, 2021 00:06
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sebzilla posted:FND is very good (but should have ended at least one season earlier) Honestly that last series was absolutely awful. It feels like the "natural end" of the show was when Jim had dinner with them - and then it carried on for about 3 more series afterwards.
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Aug 13, 2021 00:43
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The No More Jockeys guys all look stoned out of their minds this week for some reason.
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Aug 13, 2021 14:33
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Been binging the new series of Ghosts, and its fantastic and everything, but it seems weird in how each ep is set up. Each one seems to have 3 or 4 concurrent plots and you can kind of see what bubbles they had to be in while filming. Also, episode 2 had 3 Taskmaster alumni in it (Charlotte Ritchie and Katy Wix, along with Jess Knappett).
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Aug 13, 2021 22:40
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Bogmonster posted:Been binging the new series of Ghosts, and its fantastic and everything, but it seems weird in how each ep is set up. Each one seems to have 3 or 4 concurrent plots and you can kind of see what bubbles they had to be in while filming. Also, episode 2 had 3 Taskmaster alumni in it (Charlotte Ritchie and Katy Wix, along with Jess Knappett). I mean two of those are in every episode though!
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Aug 13, 2021 23:08
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Holy poo poo, just found this in an antique shop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnuMAL2YKgI
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Aug 16, 2021 14:17
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That brings back flashbacks, none of them good
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Aug 16, 2021 15:37
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It’s got a real grimy end of the pier panto feel, like a lot of UK-based kids tv shows from that era (Rod Hull & Emu, T-Bag, etc).
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Aug 16, 2021 16:11
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What about the Rod Hull reboot? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQsRClW77_4 That was a much more dignified and modern affair.
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Aug 17, 2021 11:25
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I knew this country was doomed when Grotbags died. Who can save us now?
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Aug 17, 2021 11:40
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Doc Croc? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7G6cVSP5QY
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Aug 17, 2021 12:05
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Used to love that as a kid.
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Aug 17, 2021 12:39
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It's two thirds of Spitting Image's voice acting in one puppet.
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Aug 17, 2021 12:56
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I think I uploaded them all, all eighteen episodes iirc. Still a bit jarring to see a link of mine here
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Aug 17, 2021 13:35
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I’d love to see all of Telebugs one day. The final series had so much serialisation and went odd places.
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https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/1427933473277423623?s=19 Blimey 
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Aug 18, 2021 11:05
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gently caress cancer What a horrible loss. Carrot in the box was one of the best things ever.
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Aug 18, 2021 11:09
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Just saw this. Had no idea he was sick. gently caress.
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Aug 18, 2021 11:14
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Really awful, he was such a funny guy. Rip
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Aug 18, 2021 11:16
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Oh man that is awful, I was hoping he'd be on a future season of Taskmaster at some point. Cancer can gently caress off.
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Aug 18, 2021 11:19
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Oof. That sucks. Like others have said, I had no idea he was even ill. Poor guy.
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Aug 18, 2021 11:24
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Aw hell. Just this morning I was watching the 8/10 Cats Countdown bit with the alphorn. Awful news.
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Aug 18, 2021 11:25
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Yeah this sucks poo poo. He was away from 8 out 10 Cats Does Countdown for a period and I recall hearing he'd had surgery and there was a time afterwards when he seemed and sounded pretty frail, though no less funny. gently caress. I first saw him in 15 Storeys High and really enjoyed it. Time for a rewatch.
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Aug 18, 2021 11:32
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Yeah I recall his voice being quite hoarse for a series, also randomly had a shaved head for a few episodes. Sad death. Consistently the funniest part of that show imo
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Aug 18, 2021 11:45
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How very sad. There's very few comedians who regularly manage to make all the others in a room completely lose it.
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Aug 18, 2021 11:53
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He was always someone I hoped would pop up on Taskmaster.
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Aug 18, 2021 11:55
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Aug 18, 2021 11:56
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Oh wow. That's really sad.
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Aug 18, 2021 12:07
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I stopped watching 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown after a series of transphobic jokes from him on it but being a bigot doesn't mean he deserved to die of cancer. He was a very funny man when he wasn't being a piece of poo poo. Feel sorry for his family and their loss
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Aug 18, 2021 12:07
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It’s surprising he wasn’t MORE of a piece of poo poo given that demographic. I remember that bit and it’s the only time I’ve ever winced at his stuff
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Aug 18, 2021 12:38
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I never really liked him, he always seemed to have this nasty streak about him and his comedy. Obviously I didn’t want him dead though.
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Aug 18, 2021 12:51
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Add me to the ooff, cancer that loving sucks pile.
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Aug 18, 2021 13:57
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I really liked Sean Lock, this is rubbish news. Here's my favourite bit of his:Sean Lock posted:A thing a lot of people don’t know about me: I’m incredibly organised. For example, if I make tea, I don’t make one cup of tea – I make a big batch of tea. I’ll have a cup of tea and then I’ll freeze the rest of it. In other news, Ghosts is getting an American remake, and it looks like it misses the charm of the BBC one by a mile https://youtu.be/03--3HM4YKc
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Aug 18, 2021 21:30
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I'm probably forgetting something obvious, but has there been a single successful adaptation from UK to USA comedy?
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Aug 18, 2021 22:01
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Whose line is it anyway, maybe? If you mean sitcom the office is probably the only contender depending on whether you prefer silly manchildren to on the nose workplace misery.
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Highway Traffic
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Mr. Squishy posted:I'm probably forgetting something obvious, but has there been a single successful adaptation from UK to USA comedy? The Office is the most recent one, but earlier there was Man About the House, which became Three's Company in the US.
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