Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Which is just as well, given that he's an unfunny, inexplicably smug twat of a failed actor who never brought much to the programme. I thought he did alright in Nighty Night, though when you think it about it all he did was look and act drunk in it.
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Gasmask posted:The new series of Comedy Vehicle is pretty great.
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Which is just as well, given that he's an unfunny, inexplicably smug twat...who never brought much to the programme. This also sums up Ian Hislop 2007-present. The show's demise is compounded by Paul Merton losing the razor-sharp wit he had up until a few years ago.
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Britain's Got More Talent is much more enjoyable than the main show, they drop the lovely narratives that the main show seems so insistent on. It drops the laughably false dramatic element. Mulhern is a lot funnier than Ant & Dec and they actually show performances you may be interested in instead of 30-second montages after you just had to endure McIntyre fellating himself and some poor person getting ridiculed for 10 minutes. Also the edits seem even more blatent and obvious this year with dodgy audio/video cuts of people laughing (or whatever) which are obviously not from the same section/act. so the less emotionally manipulative and light-hearted version of this lovely talent show is more enjoyable, who would of thought? le chat fucked around with this message at 21:00 on May 21, 2011 |
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Mickolution posted:I doubt it would have made any difference. As far as I remember, Hislop and Merton knew he had been up to it before and had told him if it happened again, he had to go. There's no way he could continue on a show like that if there was even a rumour of anything going on. You can't appear in a show lampooning the news if you are the news. Hislop and Merton have managed to keep themselves pretty much scandal-free, Deayton must have realised it was only a matter of time before he was outed. Anyway, I still think the show suffers a bit with a constantly changing host. If not Deayton then I would vote for either Alexander Armstrong or Jack Dee as permanent host. I would say Rob Brydon but then he might not be able to continue with the hilarious Would I Lie To You (probably the funniest panel show on TV at the moment). Paperhouse posted:the bits with Armando Iannucci are great and are on the whole way better than the sketches. K.D.Lang - who's let himself go.  I thought the first episode was patchy, and the sketch at the end just embarrassing. Fortunately the subsequent ones have been much improved. Still not 100% sure about the sketches though, they just seem to stretch the joke too far (although maybe that's the point).
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May 21, 2011 21:01
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Quanta posted:This also sums up Ian Hislop 2007-present. I don't think Hislop is even on it to be funny any more. He's more there to just be acerbic, attack some of the guests, provide a broadly centrist political view (in that he hates them all equally) and occasionally go off on one about corruption and the nature of modern celebrity. He's effectively there to keep a measure of seriousness about the whole thing that could otherwise be lost to comedians trying to just tell whatever joke comes to mind and turn the whole thing into Mock the Week.
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goatface posted:I don't think Hislop is even on it to be funny any more. He's more there to just be acerbic, attack some of the guests, provide a broadly centrist political view (in that he hates them all equally) and occasionally go off on one about corruption and the nature of modern celebrity. He's effectively there to keep a measure of seriousness about the whole thing that could otherwise be lost to comedians trying to just tell whatever joke comes to mind and turn the whole thing into Mock the Week. Also to be completely and humorously out of touch with modern trends and music.
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I agree that Hislop should stick to writing Private Eye.
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But who would you replace him with?
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goatface posted:But who would you replace him with? A series of generic undated witticisms and observations coming from his younger self in a tape recorder.
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goatface posted:But who would you replace him with? Will Self
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Mr. Squishy posted:The Shadow Line is beautifully shot and scored and so forth, but I wish it was consistently funny. The humour is what made the opening so strong, and there are little bits of it throughout, like the man in black this episode ("be careful, it's a bit oily"). I know it's not intending to be a comedy, but it feels like the half of each episode that's winding up to or down from an achingly tense moment (normally including Jay) are just po-faced. "A brick would save you the petrol" was probably my favourite line in this weeks episode, Dtc. Honey is consistently awesome and I would watch a whole hour of her being snide to people. Her fight scene was completely absurd with the semi-wall-run-lightbulb thing, but shot perfectly normally, completely bizarre and left me stunned for the rest of the scene.
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Aside from the worst opening music in the world the Horrible Histories kids TV series is pretty cool.
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Gram-O-Phone posted:I would say Rob Brydon but then he might not be able to continue with the hilarious Would I Lie To You (probably the funniest panel show on TV at the moment). It really is brilliant. At first I was unsure about it because it seems like quite an obscure concept to base a panel show on, but it's great. David Mitchell plays off really well with Lee Mack, and I always like trying to work out for myself whether people are telling the truth or not. It's a really clever game, when the right guests are on there are a lot of double bluffs and it's full of wit.
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NaDy posted:It really is brilliant. At first I was unsure about it because it seems like quite an obscure concept to base a panel show on, but it's great. David Mitchell plays off really well with Lee Mack, and I always like trying to work out for myself whether people are telling the truth or not. It's a really clever game, when the right guests are on there are a lot of double bluffs and it's full of wit. I just love that David Mitchell is slowly descending into a caricature of himself. He takes a dressing gown with him whenever he stays away from home, and used to have a little bell he could ring when he was in bed and wanted something. I'm sure there are more, but those two things spring to mind.
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ChuckDHead posted:Yes, that's him. Took me a while to remember who he was as well, and another friend texted me to ask who it was (luckily just after I'd figured it out). He was messing David around with bureaucracy because he isn't sure whether the murders occur in the right council area. Ahh, I'm glad someone knew - we'd watched the series only a few months ago and still weren't sure who he was. It seems weird to bring back what's essentially a throwaway joke like that.
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Would you like to come to my party pom pom? It's a poo-poo party.
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Ratjaculation posted:Would you like to come to my party pom pom? It's a poo-poo party. Geh ready to do a poo pom-pom! I don't know if you're referencing this week's Adam and Joe or Psychoville, doesn't really matter.
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Richard Herring has started the third series of As It Occurs To Me, which you can download here Also, 9pm tonight on BBC 2, Louis Theroux: Miami Mega Jail. Brown Moses fucked around with this message at 10:48 on May 22, 2011 |
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Brown Moses posted:
Followed by Zodiac, which is awesome.
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And don't forget that Adam Curtis has a new documentary on tomorrow at 9pm BBC2 - All watched over by machines of loving grace The line comes from this poem: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, by Richard Brautigan posted:
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DaWolfey posted:And don't forget that Adam Curtis has a new documentary on tomorrow at 9pm BBC2 - All watched over by machines of loving grace I've been way too excited about this since it was announced.
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I had no idea David Mitchell was dating Victoria Coren until I just saw them together on the BAFTAs programme. First Konnie Huq and now this; how heartening for ordinary looking guys! Also, the BAFTAs is rubbish, don't bother watching it.
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lionlegs posted:I had no idea David Mitchell was dating Victoria Coren until I just saw them together on the BAFTAs programme. First Konnie Huq and now this; how heartening for ordinary looking guys! That Essex soap bollocks just won one, so yeah, standards are definitely slipping.
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A friend of mine tried to convince me that The Only Way is Essex is actually the greatest satire ever made. He failed.
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Kin posted:That Essex soap bollocks just won one, so yeah, standards are definitely slipping. Well it was a Youtube audience voting for that one soo.. Anyway, Matt Smith was robbed.
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Kin posted:That Essex soap bollocks just won one, so yeah, standards are definitely slipping. It won the 'Youtube Audience Choice award', over the likes of Sherlock so if anything is slipping it's the good taste of the British public. That being said, I never saw 'Essex', for all I know it might be a work of pure brilliance.
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God, the American justice system is hosed up.
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Gram-O-Phone posted:It won the 'Youtube Audience Choice award', over the likes of Sherlock so if anything is slipping it's the good taste of the British public. That being said, I never saw 'Essex', for all I know it might be a work of pure brilliance. The Only Way is Essex is perfect television and I won't hear a word said against it 
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I don't know why but the thought of that young latino dude locked in a cell with these crazy huge guys scared the living daylights out of me... Glad i'm not him.
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gently caress going to jail in the US.
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Kid Moe posted:I don't know why but the thought of that young latino dude locked in a cell with these crazy huge guys scared the living daylights out of me... Glad i'm not him. I felt bad for the director lady when the guy was throwing cards at hell telling her to strip and stuff 
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Metrication posted:I felt bad for the director lady when the guy was throwing cards at hell telling her to strip and stuff I don't understand why they have women officers in a male jail.
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DaWolfey posted:And don't forget that Adam Curtis has a new documentary on tomorrow at 9pm BBC2 - All watched over by machines of loving grace A longer trailer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/05/all_watched_over_by_machines_o.html Which features some great music: http://grooveshark.com/#/playlist/All+Watched+Over+By+Machines+Of+Loving+Grace/53450482?src=5
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How can it possibly be legal to hold people for 3(+) years who haven't been found guilty by any trial? Not saying any of the guys on that show seemed particularly innocent but that fact still sits very uncomfortably with me. I enjoyed it as always though, I can see why lots of people don't like Louis Theroux but I can't get enough.
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Captain Mediocre posted:How can it possibly be legal to hold people for 3(+) years who haven't been found guilty by any trial? Not saying any of the guys on that show seemed particularly innocent but that fact still sits very uncomfortably with me. I enjoyed it as always though, I can see why lots of people don't like Louis Theroux but I can't get enough. What? Why don't people like Louis Theroux? His documentaries are amazing.
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Zorba the Greek posted:What? Why don't people like Louis Theroux? His documentaries are amazing. The best criticism I've ever heard of him is that he visits the strangest people in the world, and somehow manages to make it still about him. But I figure it all comes down to how annoying you find him personally.
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Zorba the Greek posted:What? Why don't people like Louis Theroux? His documentaries are amazing. Some people seem to think that he's a bit of a dick. I don't see it personally, the documentary he did on Jberg was fantastic. Going to catch up on this latest one soon
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