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Brown Moses posted:Speaking of terrible stand ups, I just realised watching Britain's Got Talent that one of the reason I loathe Michael Mcintyre is he's insincere in exactly the same way Tony Blair was. Wait, Britain's Got Talent is back? Yay!  Piers Morgan's been replaced by the Hoff? Well I guess that's an improvement  Simon's gone?! Oh man, that sucks.  I wonder who they got to replace him. Some guy called... Michael Mac- 
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netally posted:On a completely unrelated note, is anyone else sick of shows about giving birth? Flicking through the channels has become a minefield lately. Every other show seems to feature gruesome childbirth scenes. And the women at my work won't shut the gently caress up about One Born Every Minute. The beeb are running a season of programmes on young parents that might be why you keep seeing them?
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Dicky B posted:Yes, just like bands and art and food.
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Rarity posted:Simon's gone?! Oh man, that sucks. The only reason I watched it yesterday was to see Michael McIntyre! He's awesome!
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Lurchibles posted:The only reason I watched it yesterday was to see Michael McIntyre! He's awesome! To be fair he's not quite as bad as he normally is. I think the fact he's not the focus of the show helps a lot. Also, bejeezus that first show was terrible. Looks like we've used up all of Britain's talent now.
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Lurchibles posted:The only reason I watched it yesterday was to see Michael McIntyre! He's awesome! "I've done the same mundane crap as you've probably done, but i'm telling you about it in an exaggerated way. Laugh you poor cretins, laugh. Some guy drying his bollocks in a changing room, WHO DOES THAT??? HE'S MENTAL ISN'T HE. LAUGH AT MY WITTY OBSERVATIONS!" 
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Stop being MEAN to MICHAEL McIntyre he has his problems TOO.
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Paperhouse posted:this is a terrible analogy and you know it :itisagoon:
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Just finished my Hornblower boxset again and I have to say, I really do hope ITV did something with all those Napoleonic era costumes like donating them to musuems and reinactment groups instead of tossing them into a vault for future projects which looks like they will never happen. The quality and research into them is incredibly impressive. They even got the pre-Napoleon Revolutionary uniforms spot on for the French soldiers. On the same note stupid cliffhanger ending argh!
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netally posted:I don't get why people watch stand up on TV. I love seeing a good comic live, but so much of the experience depends on the atmosphere and the audience. Maybe my attention span is ridiculously low. For this reason, even though I like Ross noble, his stand up dvds are hard to watch. You need to be there to see why he's gone off on a mad tangent.
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Oh that poor simple Romanian lad in The Hotel. I'd like to see how that manager would manage if someone was barking orders at him in foreign language. And the proposal 
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Trickjaw posted:Oh that poor simple Romanian lad in The Hotel. I'd like to see how that manager would manage if someone was barking orders at him in foreign language. It's his own fault. He seems pretty thick (inability to do simple things like move chairs or tables without breaking things) and he chose to come and work in a country where he doesn't know the language very well.
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Well 2011 sucks so far, First the Brigadier and now Sarah Jane  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13137674
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Lord Dekks posted:Well 2011 sucks so far, First the Brigadier and now Sarah Jane Oh for gently caress's sake
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Rarity posted:Also, bejeezus that first show was terrible. Looks like we've used up all of Britain's talent now. Yeah it did show us how talentless we are really. I'll be honest though, my expectations were very low to begin with.
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It like the old variety shows! But with some really rubbish variety. Also, last episode of White Van Man. Was pretty drat good series over all. Ended on a cliff hanger so I'm guessing they will be picked up again at some point.
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BBC two still does a "pages from ceefax" broadcast, late at night. It's on now. for 40mins between 3.20am and 4.00am on a wednesday night / thursday morning. This has made me happier than it should have done.
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SeanBeansShako posted:It like the old variety shows! In it's defence, previous seasons have thrown up some really good talent that you'd never be able to see on any other show (eg. Diversity, Spelbound, the Regurgitator) and Simon Cowell's always really laid-back about it so he's actually entertaining. It's just about enough to look past all the sob stories and generic singers who should be on X-Factor instead. Looks like this season's lacking all of those good things though
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Ben Soosneb posted:BBC two still does a "pages from ceefax" broadcast, late at night. It's on now. for 40mins between 3.20am and 4.00am on a wednesday night / thursday morning. There also have Ceefax online: http://www.ceefax.tv/txtmaster.php?page=100&subpage=0&channel=bbc1&search_string=news&fontsize=2 Edit: Looks like information hasn't been updated in a few years It used to be a live mirror.
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There's a Bamboozle app for the iPhone. I forgot how impossible that drat game was. I always preferred teletext to ceefax. I liked reading the cheap holiday ads with the palm tree pictures and the personal ads.
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slotbadger posted:Don't quite a lot of comedians produce a new hour of material each year? Tim Vine has at least four hours worth of horrible-yet-amazing jokes. You see the same faces show up at Edinburgh every year with a new set. Most comedians do their job. I've worked in the Edinburgh Festival 3 years running and can sadly say most comedians have about 20% new material/ 80% old material in their acts. I loved Jason Bourne the first time I saw him 
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The Supreme Court posted:I loved Jason Bourne the first time I saw him You mean Jason Byrne, right? Bourne would be rubbish at stand-up.
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SeanBeansShako posted:gently caress yeah, Bamboozle and the Teletex Kids section for life. Digitiser was, and 7 years later still is, some of the best games related writing ever produced.
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slotbadger posted:You mean Jason Byrne, right? Bourne would be rubbish at stand-up. Haha, I'd love to see that. Jason Byrne can be great, but I think he does too much talking to the audience stuff, though I haven't seen him in a long time.
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Pasco posted:Digitiser was, and 7 years later still is, some of the best games related writing ever produced.  RIP Digitiser
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Mr Biffo did a Press Reveal drawing for me once as a way of cussing me. I think it was a man with a massive hand.
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Padje posted:Mr Biffo did a Press Reveal drawing for me once as a way of cussing me. I think it was a man with a massive hand.  . On another occasion he called me "daddy cynical"  .Digi
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Some Strange Flea posted:David Mitchell being forced to cut off Clive Anderson is a pretty clear demonstration of one of the big reasons 10 O'Clock Live shouldn't be live. I just can't be bothered watching it anymore. The section overcrowding makes them cut some people off just as they're getting going in the interview, and then they have roundtable debates with the most moronic loving individuals I've seen outside of a question time audience. When they're not doing that, Charlie Brooker spends half his time ranting about the things he normally bemoans people ranting about and Jimmy Carr does some poo poo sketches where he has to mug for laughs. When I do bother to watch an edition on 4od I just end up skipping chunks because they don't do anything other than piss me off.
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goatface posted:I just can't be bothered watching it anymore. The section overcrowding makes them cut some people off just as they're getting going in the interview, and then they have roundtable debates with the most moronic loving individuals I've seen outside of a question time audience. When they're not doing that, Charlie Brooker spends half his time ranting about the things he normally bemoans people ranting about and Jimmy Carr does some poo poo sketches where he has to mug for laughs. When I do bother to watch an edition on 4od I just end up skipping chunks because they don't do anything other than piss me off. It just shouldn't be live. If they cut it up it would be fantastic. Right now it's just so hit & miss it's not worth watching
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A version of The Manifesto where they give him a bunch of cash to go campaigning could be pretty funny. Or you could just have leftist comedy hour with Mark Thomas, Jeremy Hardy and Mark Steele spending an hour every week plotting how to bring down the conservative party.
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Thick Of It defos this year? Watching In The Loop again and I need more.
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spe posted:Thick Of It defos this year? Watching In The Loop again and I need more. Apparently. It's way later than it was supposed to be. Election special, hopefully.
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