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Leon with a Zero posted:It's not being put on 4od or repeated due to music rights fyi. Thought that might have been the issue. I'm sure it'll surface on Youtube or something. Hopefully anyway, not heard anything A-Trak has done in a while, nor has he played near me. Seen him a few times and love most of what he's put out so far, even if he is a double of Cesc Fabregas...
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Did anyone else watch Parade's End? I thought that it was really top notch. I was a little worried that it would be an attempt to jump on the Downton badnwagon, but it turns out it's actually a quite complex book adaption (by Tom Stoppard no less!).
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Aug 25, 2012 22:09
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So I'm guessing Inbetweeners and IT Crowd were so high up the C4 top list as its a bit embarrassing to not have anything not from the last decade place highly. I like both shows, but they were ahead of some truly excellent TV.
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Aug 25, 2012 23:58
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Aug 26, 2012 00:36
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Well, Father Ted was at the top spot, so that's good enough, I guess. I never know whether these are actually voted on by actual people or not though. They usually say they are, but that doesn't really count for much. That program's shown me a whole load of comedies that look really good. Going to be busy looking some of those up.
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Aug 26, 2012 00:41
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Touch of Cloth on Sky One felt like a mixture of Naked Gun mixed with a remake of Naked Gun directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans.
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Aug 26, 2012 22:09
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Quanta posted:Touch of Cloth on Sky One felt like a mixture of Naked Gun mixed with a remake of Naked Gun directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans.
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Aug 26, 2012 22:32
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Aug 26, 2012 22:38
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30. Paul Merton - The Series - Good, bit dated. 29. The World Of Lee Evans - Lazy Lee Evans 28. The Jack Dee Show - Good at the time very hard to watch now since it's dated badly. 27. Star Stories 26. Saturday Night Live / Friday Night Live - Incredibly hit & miss 25. Desmond's 24. Harry Hill - S1 yes, S2 maybe, S3 no. 23. PhoneShop 22. The Armstrong & Miller Show - Horrible if this is the 90s show that exposed them as being Fry & Laurie without the talent, charm, charisma. 21. Friday Night Dinner - Didn't last more than an episode. 20. Smack The Pony - Underrated, but very reliant on knowing pop culture of that era. I mean the first song parody relates to an obscure Kenickie song. 19. Bo' Selecta! - Wank. 18. The Adam & Joe Show - Again, good at the time but dated. 17. The Comic Strip Presents... - Dated. 16. Drop The Dead Donkey - Heavily reliant on knowing the era, still quite fun 15. Absolutely - Great 14. Vic Reeves Big Night Out - Still borderline incomprehensible. 13. Fonejacker 12. Trigger Happy TV - poo poo 11. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace - Great 10. Da Ali G Show - poo poo 9. Phoenix Nights - Great 8. Brass Eye - Great but what once was a parody of news is now unsettlingly standard 7. Green Wing - Great 6. Spaced - Simon Pegg lazily references poo poo for cunts 5. The Inbetweeners - Personally just didn't like it. 4. Black Books - S1 was amazing, S2/3 were terrible. 3. The IT Crowd - Mediocre. 2. Peep Show - Great 1. Father Ted - Great. Terrible cop out 'happy ending'. Well at least Max N Paddy's road to nepotism wasn't on there. No JAM, no Bremner, Bird & Fortune and no TV offal.
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Aug 26, 2012 22:48
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Brown Moses posted:But was it any good?
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Aug 26, 2012 22:51
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Brown Moses posted:But was it any good? There's nothing original in there at all, but some of the very gross parts did make me laugh. The final product is very much what you'd expect if a TV channel had given Charlie Brooker money and complete freedom to write ~90 minutes of uncensored vulgarity.
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Aug 26, 2012 22:56
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Giedroyc posted:30. Paul Merton - The Series - Good, bit dated. Some of the ones you didn't rate (although I disagree on quite a few of your writeups that you didn't like much) 27. Star Stories - from the scenes shown and the interviews, this looked like poo poo of the highest order 23. PhoneShop - Only ever saw the first episode (not the Comedy Lab one) and it was garbage. 13. Fonejacker - Not as original concept as the talking heads would like you to think (Crank Yankers was years before), but a fun enough show. Definitely agree that TV Offal should have placed, definitely when crap like PhoneShop was.
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Aug 26, 2012 23:00
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Touch of Cloth had a few too many jokes that didn't really land or went on too long, but the majority of the jokes/observations were fried gold. I'll definitely be rewatching (and apparently both parts are going to be shown as one, with an extra scene?). My favourite jokes were probably the two either side of the halfway-mark ad-break along with Boss' love for learning foreign languages via The Killing and Spiral. Oh god and the "Where do you keep your cups?" line, and the unnecessary lesbian character development. Yeah, it's pretty brilliant.
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Aug 26, 2012 23:11
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The entire part of the orgasming father molesting his daughter's severed arm in the pathology room while a choir boy sang an erotic French song in the background was fantastically crass. Just typing that made me giggle.
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Aug 26, 2012 23:16
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Giedroyc posted:1. Father Ted - Great. Terrible cop out 'happy ending'. A. Dermot Morgan died and B. It wasn't funny.
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Aug 26, 2012 23:21
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Jam was alright but it was just morris wanking himself off by that stage. Ponce de Le0n fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Aug 26, 2012 |
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Aug 26, 2012 23:37
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I quite like Friday Night Dinner if only for the Dad. Drop the Dead Donkey has suffered the most from the passing of time imo. Used to love it as a kid but tried watching an episode recently and it's a bit poo poo unfortunately.
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pointsofdata posted:Did anyone else watch Parade's End? I thought that it was really top notch. I was a little worried that it would be an attempt to jump on the Downton badnwagon, but it turns out it's actually a quite complex book adaption (by Tom Stoppard no less!). I did. I may be being very dumb but there were a couple of points where it wasn't clear what was going on, for example the bit where they decided to ride the horse for 24 hours (?).
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Aug 27, 2012 00:31
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I really want to show The Adam and Joe show to someone who didn't grow up in the nineties, I don't think it would work.
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Did anyone watch Bad Sugar? We got about 10 minutes in and ended up switching channels. It had some great names in it but I just couldn't get what it was trying to do...it just didn't seem funny to me, and it felt like we were watching the second episode and had missed a load of establishing jokes. Shame because I really liked Nighty Night and Human Remains, but this totally missed the mark for me. Should I have stuck with it? eta-Oh I just read that that top 30 comedy countdown was solely for C4 programmes. Wow, what a terribly self-important thing to have done! Rondette fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Aug 27, 2012 |
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Aug 27, 2012 09:38
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Rondette posted:Did anyone watch Bad Sugar? We got about 10 minutes in and ended up switching channels. It had some great names in it but I just couldn't get what it was trying to do...it just didn't seem funny to me, and it felt like we were watching the second episode and had missed a load of establishing jokes. It was very strange. I never really got on board with the whole theme and atmosphere of it, but I was cracking up at stupid little things like how they pronounced "Harvard".
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C4 Top X of Y programmes are always a bit of a swindle. The public gets to vote from a pre-determined list of Y+10.
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My old boss at work missed the last episode of this, so he asked his mate what happened. It turns out the 3 main characters were bank robbers that fled Ireland after a huge heist and assumed the identity of priests so they could live a quite life with no bother on Craggy Island. No one would suspect a priest robbing a bank. The last episode was about the cops twigging on and surrounding the island to recapture the dangerous criminals. I think it ended in a big shoot out, possibly with Mrs Doyle as a hostage. It was a few years before he managed to catch the real last episode, he was very disappointing when he saw it.
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Pablo Bluth posted:C4 Top X of Y programmes are always a bit of a swindle. The public gets to vote from a pre-determined list of Y+10. I think they bottomed out with Top 100 worst Britons. Which was lazy tabloid slagging at its worst. I don't think they even considered the irony of having Gina Yashere giving her opinion on the subject.
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Rondette posted:eta-Oh I just read that that top 30 comedy countdown was solely for C4 programmes. Wow, what a terribly self-important thing to have done! Well it's part of their 30 year anniversary, isn't it? They did a top X sitcoms before, years ago, I think. Though thinking about it, maybe that was just sitcom characters and it was BBC who did the sitcoms one.
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They did a top 30 channel 4 comedy programmes and couldn't find a place for Porkpie? I can't remember if it was any good or not, but I loved that theme tune as a kid.
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Aug 27, 2012 12:37
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Can a Scottish goon explain the Jolly boy John sketch from Burnistoun to me? Or is the joke simply a self obsessed mentally ill man with a camera?
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Leyburn posted:They did a top 30 channel 4 comedy programmes and couldn't find a place for Porkpie? I can't remember if it was any good or not, but I loved that theme tune as a kid. Porkpie had his own show? He was my favourite character in Desmond's.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Can a Scottish goon explain the Jolly boy John sketch from Burnistoun to me? There's no explaining it really. It'd like trying to explain a surreal Vic and Bob sketch. As far as I can get it, he's just some nutcase manchild with a webcam who spends too much time keeping his own company. Being Scottish isn't going to help much, although in one of his sketches he sang this "Does yer maw drink wine" song that I don't think I have heard since primary school. netally posted:Porkpie had his own show? He was my favourite character in Desmond's. Yeah, he won the lottery and that's all I can remember about it (besides the badass theme).
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Aug 27, 2012 13:54
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SeanBeansShako posted:Or is the joke simply a self obsessed mentally ill man with a camera? Didn't you just describe every TV show with Rab Florence in it?
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I really enjoyed the first episode of A Touch of Cloth like others said it's not very original but ehh
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Aug 27, 2012 17:11
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le chat posted:I really enjoyed the first episode of A Touch of Cloth like others said it's not very original but ehh Me too. Like it a lot. Someone mentioned the similarity to Police Squad (or Naked Gun, whatever) and that's it exactly. Loads of silly jokes in the background, loads of obvious set-ups the bit when the chav was talking gibberish for ages until John Hannah just paused and said 'what?' at exactly the right time in exactly the right way had me roaring. Any bad jokes are quickly forgotten because there's so many good ones that follow. Class.
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Just rewatched it, and didn't notice too many jokes that I missed the first time round, with the exception of the first body being disposed by being put in a shopping trolley outside the Rundowne Estate and Oldman's fiancee using "Modern Lesbian Milk" Oh and I'm changing my vote of favourite joke being Cloth showing picture after picture of the corpse to Crossbo followed by "THIS IS HIS BLOOD, DRINK IT!" Stupid. Silly. Brilliant.
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Like I mentioned earlier, it's obviously very heavily influenced by Naked Gun, and what I like is that Suranne Jones' character is Frank Drebin instead of John Hannah's Cloth.
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Aug 27, 2012 17:46
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Ah yes, there's goes the feeling of emptiness, Only Connect is back.
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incredible bear posted:Ah yes, there's goes the feeling of emptiness, Only Connect is back. The host's joke at the end regarding dreaming of a naked Michael Portillo in her dressing room deeply disturbed me.
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Aug 27, 2012 21:09
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Touch of Cloth hospital signs: Cardiac Ward Renal Ward Shayne Ward Ear, Nose & Throat Removal Almost Dead Jurors Ward Second World Ward Injections Looks a Bit Niasty Words on Sign Coughs & Sneezes Looks a Bit Nasty Placenta Kitchen Hattie Jacques Ward Almost Dead Jurors Ward Words on Sign Pause Button OCD Unit
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Aug 27, 2012 22:09
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incredible bear posted:Touch of Cloth hospital signs: Saving the best for last, I see.
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Enjoying the Boyle Variety performance more than I thought I would. Just laughed way too much at the stupid both types of Indian joke. The guy in the tux shirt was funny as hell but I have no idea why.
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I liked the filthy Canadian woman, and that joke at the end about "What would you do if you were invisible for the day" had me in complete hysterics. Seemed weirdly rushed though, they let that last guy tell like 3 jokes before cutting him off.
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