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Jun 2, 2011 23:50
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Don't forget Coupling! I'd put Game On on that list as well.
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Jun 2, 2011 23:52
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wickles posted:Tealeaf Not watched it yet but oh god no!
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Jun 3, 2011 00:32
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Uhm...
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Jun 3, 2011 00:33
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I think for the most part any Americans that come into this thread asking for comedy shows isn't going to download fifty or so different series in the hope it's going to be like The Office or The Inbetweeners. Just watch Peep Show and read the thread, jeez. I was pretty shocked at Psychoville. It treads the line between drama and comedy quite well, I think, as by now I actually hope the original cast survive between the jokes. I suppose it depends how dark they want to go but judging from their previous output I doubt it's going to turn out well. A lot of what I don't get about other comedy shows, such as Scrubs or Community, is that they go through all the rigmarole of trying to humanize characters through struggle yet having the actual chance the characters may die makes me invest more in the show.
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Jun 3, 2011 00:38
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Oh, don't forget to add The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret to the list as well. Also, Fawlty Towers. I'm still amazed I know a Major who acts just like the Major from it in real life.
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Jun 3, 2011 01:07
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Has anyone else completed the code on the Psychoville website? If not, the code is 8152118. When I click the unlock button, a loading screen drops down. I'm not sure if it's loading and will show something at a later date, or if it's just loading slowly for me. Can anyone verify?
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Jun 3, 2011 01:15
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Dicky B posted:Sounds like a plan. Dont forget Geordie shore.
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Jun 3, 2011 01:39
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drat, Tealeaf was my favourite character
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Jun 3, 2011 01:42
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FelixMeOneMoreTime posted:Has anyone else completed the code on the Psychoville website? If not, the code is 8152118. When I click the unlock button, a loading screen drops down. I'm not sure if it's loading and will show something at a later date, or if it's just loading slowly for me. Can anyone verify? I got it. The way they dropped the final number was great. As for the loading screen, I left it on a good long time and got nothing. I don't think we're getting any answers until the finale on monday.
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Jun 3, 2011 01:47
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The Shadow Line was pretty great as well. Written by the same guy who did Marion And Geoff, who also played young Joker in the burton batman film :guardian: I think the psychoville site just carries on Loading.
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Jun 3, 2011 01:49
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I haven't watched the latest episode yet, but if Tealeaf's gone I'll be irked. I always liked that he was the one sane character, the eye of the storm as it were. And his reaction to last week's Nazi basement was perfect.
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Jun 3, 2011 01:49
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Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive to the Spoof section. Criminally underwatched and underappreciated.
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Jun 3, 2011 04:29
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LE0N posted:Dont forget Geordie shore. You're getting confused. Geordie Shore isn't comedy, it's a hard-hitting drama touching on themes of isolation, social deconstruction, misanthropy and the nature of freedom. Gaz's quest to 'stick it' to one of the girls will go down in history.
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Jun 3, 2011 07:41
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No-one has mentioned Look Around You for the list
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Jun 3, 2011 09:17
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I've been watching Snuff Box again recently and that really is a fantastic bit of comedy. Matt Berry's voice could carry pretty much anything, but Snuff Box doesn't need carrying.
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Jun 3, 2011 10:20
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How to piss off your Scottish girlfriend who hates Stewart Lee and considers Braveheart to be one of her fave movies ever 101: Make her watch Comedy Vehicle: Identity.
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Jun 3, 2011 10:34
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Monster w21 Faces posted:How to piss off your Scottish girlfriend who hates Stewart Lee and considers Braveheart to be one of her fave movies ever 101: Make her watch Comedy Vehicle: Identity.
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Jun 3, 2011 10:48
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justcola posted:I was pretty shocked at Psychoville. It treads the line between drama and comedy quite well, I think, as by now I actually hope the original cast survive between the jokes. I suppose it depends how dark they want to go but judging from their previous output I doubt it's going to turn out well. A lot of what I don't get about other comedy shows, such as Scrubs or Community, is that they go through all the rigmarole of trying to humanize characters through struggle yet having the actual chance the characters may die makes me invest more in the show. I know what you mean, the final scene with David's mum was one of the most emotional death sequences I've ever seen. I went into this show looking for laughs and I end up a sniveling wreck
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Jun 3, 2011 11:22
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Added quite a few of my all time favourites to the list! Didnt include anything that i dislike though so there are still more. If people consider them funny that is... Updated list: Sitcom 15 Storeys High 2 Point 4 Children Absolutely Fabulous 'Allo 'Allo! Birds Of A Feather Blackadder Black Books Bottom Catterick Dad's Army Extras Father Ted Fawlty Towers Filthy Rich And Catflap Friday Night Dinner Game On Getting On Grandma's House Green Wing Hyperdrive Lab Rats Lead Balloon Men Behaving Badly Mongrels Nathan Barley Nighty Night Not Going Out Open All Hours One Foot In The Grave Only Fools and Horses Peep Show Red Dwarf The Good Life The Inbetweeners The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret The IT Crowd The Mighty Boosh The Office The Smoking Room The Thick Of It The Thin Blue Line The Vicar Of Dibley The Young Ones Saxondale Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em Spaced Black/Dark Comedy Attention Scum Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Ideal Monkey Dust Night Night Psychoville Snuff Box The League of Gentlemen Chat Show/Spoof Alan Partridge's Mid Morning Matters Da Ali G Show I'm Alan Partridge Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge Man to Man with Dean Learner Room 101 The Mary Whitehouse Experience TV Heaven Telly Hell Quiz Show Al Murrays Compete For The Meat Have I Got news for you Never Mind the Buzzcocks QI Shooting Stars They Think It's All Over We Need Answers Would I Lie to you You Have Been Watching Sketch Show Armstrong and Miller Big Train Bremner, Bird and Fortune Bo Selecta Cowards Fist of Fun Harry Enfields Television Programme Harry and Paul Jam Little Britain Smack the Pony Spitting Image That Mitchell and Webb Look The Catherine Tate Show The Fast Show The Sketch Show This Morning with Richard Not Judy Time Trumpet Mockumentary/Spoof Bellamys People Brass Eye Come Fly With Me Rich Hall's Fishing Show Rich Hall's Cattle Drive The Day Today Review Show Gameswipe Newswipe Screenwipe Stand Up Is It Bill Bailey? Live At The Appollo Frankie Boyles Tramadol Nights Stewart Lees Comedy Vehicle Radio/Podcasts 7 Day Sunday 99p Challenge Adam and Joe 6 Music Armando Ianucci's Charm Offensive Armando Ianucci Shows As It Occurs To Me Collins and Herring Down The Line Heresy I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue In Excess Just a Minute Lee and Herring Lionel Nimrods Inexplicable World On The Hour Richard Herrings Objective Sarah Millicans Support Group So Wrong Its Right That Mitchell and Webb Sound That Was Then This Is Now The Goon Show The News Quiz The Now Show The Sunday Format Vic Reeves House Arrest Would I Lie to You devildriven fucked around with this message at 11:29 on Jun 3, 2011 |
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Jun 3, 2011 11:25
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Last night's Shadow Line was ruddy brilliant if I do say so myself - certainly the best episode of the series to date. I would like to highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't been watching, but I'm afraid you'd just be hopelessly lost if you picked it up now. Plot spoilery discussion ahoy: So it seems to me that Glickman and Ratten were both working for Gatehouse on whatever 'Counterpoint' is and they all seem to me like MI5 or government agents of some sort. For whatever reason something went wrong, Gatehouse sets up the plan for Ratten to get out of jail so he can kill him, Glickman realises he's next and scarpers off to Ireland. The question is since we saw Gatehouse at the police station when the young kid was let out presumably he was behind it - so then presumeably he is also providing the cash to the kid to buy the coke from Bede and the gang and advised him to bump off Harris? But why? And on the copper side why was Patterson so furious that Gabriel didn't go to him before the Commissioner, then say if he did the case would still be open? Was he tacitly allowing Gabriel to investigate the case hoping to dig up dirt on the big boss, perhaps so he could get the top job?
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Jun 3, 2011 11:30
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lionlegs posted:I know what you mean, the final scene with David's mum was one of the most emotional death sequences I've ever seen. I went into this show looking for laughs and I end up a sniveling wreck I thought that Oops Upside Your Head bit was truly bizarre, since I really didn't know whether to laugh or not. I did a bit, though.
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Jun 3, 2011 11:33
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That list is now worthless for the following reasons: Hyperdrive Lab Rats The Catherine Tate Show Frankie Boyles Tramadol Nights
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Jun 3, 2011 12:03
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Since everyone has different tastes the list will, given enough time, encompass every comedy ever made. Except My Family. That's just poo poo.
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Jun 3, 2011 12:07
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I still think The Brittas Empire should be on there
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Jun 3, 2011 12:10
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Anybody remember that one with Jasper Carrot as a builder and Meera Syal as his Asian wife and their son with cerebral palsy. Brave, funny and touching... were the three boxes it completely failed to tick. All About Me. That's what it was called. Don't add that to the list.
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Jun 3, 2011 12:14
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Cerv posted:Since everyone has different tastes the list will, given enough time, encompass every comedy ever made. Which is why (once we have the list) we have to argue the poo poo out. The Catherine Tate Show and Frankie Boyles Tramadol Nights are loving abortions, for example. Burnistoun, on the other hand, is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZthGdjGX0E
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Jun 3, 2011 12:16
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I've seen (or listened to) very very close to 100% of the things on that list at some time or other, and done in the entire run of far too many of them. Even the terrible ones. Anyone who takes that list at face value and goes off to watch things is getting trolled hardcore and will be spending a third of their time sitting stonyfaced / cringing or just shouting at the telly. I mean, it's not that there's no room for bad things. What's objectively bad anyway? I'm sure that there's something for everyone, from the most to least discerning, in at least one small part of one episode in every single one of those. Except anything Walliams and Lucas have done since Rock Profiles, of course. Pair of cunts.
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Jun 3, 2011 13:11
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lionlegs posted:I know what you mean, the final scene with David's mum was one of the most emotional death sequences I've ever seen. I went into this show looking for laughs and I end up a sniveling wreck
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Jun 3, 2011 13:55
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I've edited the original post with this helpful and informative list of things people have at some point watched.
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Jun 3, 2011 14:02
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Kin posted:The Catherine Tate Show and Frankie Boyles Tramadol Nights are loving abortions, for example. The Catherine Tate Show consists mainly of catchphrases, and is a prime example of how we can't seem to do good sketch comedy anymore in the UK. Even my once-almost-favourite Chewin' The Fat is actually just a series of catchphrases when you look at it objectively. Tramadol Nights was just poor and disappointing. That and much of the CLiNT comic Rex Royd pretty much proved that unless Boyle is reined in by the constraints of stuff like Mock The Week, he just goes completely insane in a way that isn't really funny. There's a difference between edgy offensive comedy and just being offensive in general in the hope of being funny. Also, Bo Selecta's on the list? It's basically the same catchphrasey show every week. One episode can be kind of funny, but having sat through a DVD of it with a friend (well, if you can call a person who makes you watch a whole DVD of Bo Selecta a friend), I can't stand it. ChuckDHead fucked around with this message at 14:08 on Jun 3, 2011 |
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Jun 3, 2011 14:05
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As I recall, the 1st series of Bo Selecta was okay when they were clearly taking the piss out of celebrities and celebrity obsession then afterwards they did a complete 360 degreee turn on their views instead and just poo poo out a load of catch phrase propped up nonsense. Also, to the 'don't watch' pile, Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie and Crapston Villas.
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Jun 3, 2011 16:16
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Cerv posted:Since everyone has different tastes the list will, given enough time, encompass every comedy ever made. And 2.4 children, which is the proto-My Family. Nebulous, perhaps? And if you're doing the Now Show, throw Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music on there.
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Jun 3, 2011 16:21
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My girlfriend's mam made me watch 'the life of riley'. What the gently caress  .
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Jun 3, 2011 16:24
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Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting
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Jun 3, 2011 16:30
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Why don't you edit the list so that each person can put a tick or some sort of emoticon next to the ones that they'd recommend. Then the list would be sorted by how many people recommend it. Then people that want to watch British TV but don't know where to start can just go to the most recommended. And then shows that only one person likes(Catherine Tate, Come Fly With Me, Tramadol Nights, etc etc) will be shown as thus. Done. (Of course this would mean 3 more pages of useless posting of lists. So... Yep.)
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Jun 3, 2011 17:19
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ChuckDHead posted:I thought that Oops Upside Your Head bit was truly bizarre, since I really didn't know whether to laugh or not. This is why I absolutely love Psychoville. It's completely bizarre, but everything that happens makes sense in terms of the characters. Dave and his mom always celebrate by dancing, and she wanted Oops Upside Your Head played at her funeral, so it seems perfectly sensible to dance with her corpse. It's made even better when the absurd things are so emotionally destructive to the characters. I was almost in tears when Mr Jelly smashed his hand, Mr Jolly is a spiteful motherfucker.
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Jun 3, 2011 18:57
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Great Unanswered Questions for but not sure what category it belongs in. Also the infinite monkey cage for podcasts
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Jun 3, 2011 18:57
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That list is becoming less useful and more bloated with every new addition. Like is any foreign person who wants to check out some British programmes going to go through a list of 50 things.
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Jun 3, 2011 19:03
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