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Z-Magic posted:I bet it would have tasted pretty poo poo-tea (lovely) Certainly a different blend. Crapsang Souchong, perhaps?
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Oct 11, 2011 13:41
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Wormophile posted:A friend got told by the psychiatrist he was shadowing that on Jeremy Kyle the bookers have a checklist of acceptable medications that the guests can be on. I think the idea was that if they were on antidepressants or something they'd be just the right level of nuts for good TV, but if they were on antipsychotics they were too risky to have on in case they went mental and killed themselves afterwards. Not sure how true it is, I admit I am predisposed to believe anything unpleasant about that loving awful program.
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Gorn Myson posted:This is literally a chapter from "The Psychopath Test" by Jon Ronson. Definitely worth a read. Generally the jackpot drug was prozac. Is it? I really like him, I'll have to pick up that book.
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Gorn Myson posted:This is literally a chapter from "The Psychopath Test" by Jon Ronson. Definitely worth a read. Generally the jackpot drug was prozac. I plan on starting it on the bus journey home from work tonight 
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The book is incredibly interesting, but that chapter in particular stuck out. They would avoid people on drugs like lithium or really mild anti-depressants (because that would mean they were too crazy or not crazy enough). Its quite tragic because he talks about the way a few people have emerged from these TV shows and have harmed themselves or others in the aftermath.
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Z-Magic posted:There might be cameras but that doesn't mean anyone's watching. Of course this also means that if it blows up into a huge argument later on they can't air it because they've no proof of why it happens, and that would open them up to huge fines and legal bullshit once the housemate that did it gets out. There is a reason that some things aren't shown and it's not censorship for "favouritism" or whatever the DS forums like to say, it's the same reason that BB has never been successfully sued for cutting someone in a misleading way.
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Why the gently caress is Raymond on four now in the mornings, where is my Frasier. I loving hate Raymond.
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Bioalchemist posted:It gets better, he was freezing it to put in Marks tea. That poo poo's just cold. Seriously though BB is such a non-entity that it might as well not be there. So it kinda suits Channel 5 like a glove then. Szmitten fucked around with this message at 12:33 on Oct 12, 2011 |
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henpod posted:Why the gently caress is Raymond on four now in the mornings, where is my Frasier. I loving hate Raymond. But everybody loves him!
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Oct 12, 2011 12:33
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More specifically I hate his harping wife. 
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FAT WORM OF ERROR posted:More specifically I hate his harping wife. Everyone does, but that's pretty much the role of the American sitcom wife, being the shrill harpie who won't understand the guy we're meant to empathise with (except for Malcolm in the Middle's Lois, who is pretty great. She's like she is precisely because she understands her family.). I tend to think Raymond was worth watching for Peter Boyle and Brad Garett's performances, though.
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Oct 12, 2011 13:16
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Metrication posted:Wow what happened to Buzzcocks? It's terrible now. Are you kidding? I loved the last one (Jack Dee).
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HoldYourFire posted:Are you kidding? I loved the last one (Jack Dee). Actually yeah this one is not bad. Kind of jumped the gun when I posted (watching now)
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Tonights Fades was so much better than last weeks teen shite. As in, genuinely pretty loving bleak. Come back audience 
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henpod posted:Why the gently caress is Raymond on four now in the mornings, where is my Frasier. I loving hate Raymond. I don't know if they stopped showing them as I haven't watched Channel 4 in the morning for ages, but I know a couple of years ago they always had Everybody Loves Raymond followed by Frasier. I remember even further back when they had Just Shoot Me and Will and Grace. You could argue channel 4's early morning comedy schedule is better than their late night one.
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I went to a recording of Buzzcocks last night. Lorraine Kelly was the host and, no exaggeration, every last one of her scripted jokes completely died on its arse.
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Adrianics posted:I went to a recording of Buzzcocks last night. The exact sound of a barrel being scraped.
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Adrianics posted:I went to a recording of Buzzcocks last night. Some friends of mine went to see it a couple of days ago and Adam Buxton was hosting. He was repeatedly Stephened.
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Cerv posted:The exact sound of a barrel being scraped. The best way to save Buzzcocks would be to make Simon Amstall and Mark Lamarr as the team captains and let them go to town on the guest hosts and each other.
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Z-Magic posted:The best way to save Buzzcocks would be to make Simon Amstall and Mark Lamarr as the team captains and let them go to town on the guest hosts and each other. Put them on the same team. Turn it into an evil Beat The Eggheads. Padje fucked around with this message at 12:10 on Oct 13, 2011 |
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Oct 13, 2011 13:17
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Are these ads on C4 for Ricky Gervais' standup supposed to be enticing? Even the audience in them is barely laughing at the unfunny shite he's dribbling.
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Kin posted:Are these ads on C4 for Ricky Gervais' standup supposed to be enticing? Even the audience in them is barely laughing at the unfunny shite he's dribbling. I wouldn't be laughing that hard either if I'd been rounded up at gunpoint, which is the only way I can possibly envisage anyone being able to produce an audience for a Ricky Gervais show. Also on the subject of Mark Lamarr: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ciGksRcQA
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Seriously don't get the hate for Ricky Gervais's stand up. I find them fantastic. I think I've mentioned before that saying you like Ricky Gervais in public is akin to saying you like child pornography. You instantly get shunned and people start whining at you. His stuff is not quick-fire jokes like the majority of people like. It can be very intricate and clever. And I guess people hate that, these days.
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I was once a Gervais fan and I'm not snobby about him, but holy poo poo is Science bad. Completely unfunny and painful to watch.
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The past couple of tours he did weren't as funny, but I'm still really looking forward to Life's Too Short. Seems writing comedy series is his strong point, though working with Stephen Merchant is probably a big reason for that.
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thehustler posted:His stuff is not quick-fire jokes like the majority of people like. It can be very intricate and clever. And I guess people hate that, these days.
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Gervais different strokes fo' different folks. Lets not go down that route again we'll be here all night. I certainly do agree though about the lack of awesome HBO drama history stuff about the 2nd World War, watching Deadwood lately and I suddenly have a yearning of a series set in a struggling trading post at the edge of India or the African coast in 1840 for us.
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I think RentaGhost could be good, if they stick to the original idea and not the panto it became. Which is what it sounds like they're doing.
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Bloody Nora. What next, Simon and the Witch starring Justin Bieber and Susan Sarandon?
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"This summer Taylor Lautner is Andy Pandy." These films can only go up from Doogal, to be honest.
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"Rentaghost the movie" is a premise, not a plot. How exactly do they make a 90 minute film out of it. Doesn't seem like it exactly writes itself.
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thehustler posted:His stuff is not quick-fire jokes like the majority of people like. It can be very intricate and clever. And I guess people hate that, these days. Whenever I've watched his stand-up I always feeling like I'm not so much watching a comedy gig as watching a fairly amusing but not very informative lecture by a guy who was roped in to doing it at the last minute.
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FreakyZoid posted:Yes, that must be it - everyone who doesn't like it is just an idiot who doesn't like clever jokes. I didn't mean it like that really. Remember when he did that spot at live 8 and people said he wasn't funny and had no material at loving ten minutes notice? He's a comedy writer, not some quick fire Milton Jones type figure. Not that that kind of comedy is bad, of course.
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HIGNFY is back! Victoria Coren is looking ravishing as ever  Graham Linehan is sitting there and giggling a lot, coming out with the odd gem. I've missed this show.
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