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Mr Beens posted:I just can't stand the current regulars - Sandi Toksvig, Jeremy Hardy and some other bloke who is on it all the time are a bunch of smug twats. Hugo Rifkind? Because he's more or less the anti-Jeremy Hardy surely?
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ookiimarukochan posted:Hugo Rifkind? Because he's more or less the anti-Jeremy Hardy surely? I don't listen to the News Quiz so I had to look him up. Haha the BBC really gave Malcolm Rifkind's son a job on their radio satire show? BBC's leftist bias strikes again.
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Feb 19, 2014 17:46
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Fatkraken posted:Apropos of news-satire chat, for anyone that's interested, some kindly soul has put the ENTIRE run of Friday/Saturday night Armistice, as far as I can discern, on youtube. Shouldn't be This is amazing As an aside, I put shitloads of 11 O clock show on YouTube. Check the channel 11ocs. It's occasionally great and sometimes poo poo. Seriously there's like 60 episodes or something
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Feb 19, 2014 20:57
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SuperHunBastard1690 posted:drat nice moves. It's all down to a certain lanky comedian and the fact that his mother records every bit of tv he does.
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thehustler posted:It's all down to a certain lanky comedian and the fact that his mother records every bit of tv he does. I clicked a random episode and it has held up pretty well.  daisy donovan
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Any attempt at satire these days seems to be construed as a left wing attack on the government, see the Sherlock Boris newspaper article thing. From the way the right wing dead trees behave, having a sense of humour is something grossly offensive.
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Do you really call papers "dead trees"?
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Aaaah, Michael Mosleys' programmes for BBC4 are so weird. Not content with huffing ether and injecting the ol' sodium thiopental like there's no tomorrow, he's now guzzling tapeworms and having hairdressers plop wriggling little headlice onto his body.
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Mr. Squishy posted:Do you really call papers "dead trees"? Mostly no, but it makes a good contrast sometimes between the press and new media 
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Thought I'd watch the Brits - feels more like the One Direction Roast presented by James Cordon. What a bellend.
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onoflalks posted:Speaking of great news and thread favourites, Chris Morris will be in the new series of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, which starts a week on Saturday (the 1st of March). Also to try and head off the same arguments over the show each week: Stewart Lee's arrogant persona is part of both the performance and the joke. It is possible to be aware of this and still not enjoy his comedy. It would be swell if we could skip past all the "how do you enjoy this self-important twat" and "you just don't get it man" posts.
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Looke posted:Thought I'd watch the Brits - feels more like the One Direction Roast presented by James Cordon. What a bellend. Am I the only one weirded out by the fact One Direction don't look 15 any more? 
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Or by the fact that anyone can stand within 3 metres of James Cordon without smacking him in his fat gob.
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Line of Duty and Inside Number 9 are the best things on British TV atm. Inside Number 9 is especially well written. Little predictable this week but enjoyable nonetheless.
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Just wanted to pop in and confirm that Inside Nimber 9 is absolutely fantastic. Carry on.
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James Corden actually is a genuinely good comedic actor when he's given the right material, he was great in Gavin and Stacey and sensational in One Man Two Guvnors on stage, it's just gently caress whoever told him he would make a good presenter/television personality. It's sad to see that his career is heading towards the latter rather than former.
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stickyfngrdboy posted:Line of Duty and Inside Number 9 are the best things on British TV atm. Inside Number 9 is especially well written. Little predictable this week but enjoyable nonetheless. I only watched the first ep of season 1 of this and thought it was drivelling tosh. What makes it so good? None of it was credible or believable.
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WastedJoker posted:I only watched the first ep of season 1 of this and thought it was drivelling tosh. What makes it so good? None of it was credible or believable. Yeah, I watched the first couple of the first series and it was so over the top it was laughable. Does it improve or is it just not for me?
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I've never seen the previous seasons, and I don't tend to watch crime shows in general, but I really enjoyed the opening two episodes. I don't really care if it's realistic, but I dunno how that could be important in a tv crime thing.
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Just watched this trash about cam-girls.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03w2w8t/The_Truth_about_Webcam_Girls/ It's as depressing as you'd expect. Only watch poo poo like this in a window on computer whilst multi-tasking, don't actually sit down ad lose an hour of life to it. --fake edit-- by "multi-tasking" I don't mean wanking.
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SuperHunBastard1690 posted:I clicked a random episode and it has held up pretty well.
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onoflalks posted:This is great news. That's an awful day! I know I can iplayer it, but I'd prefer to watch it when everyone else does.
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Uhh, yeah, if you're not watching Inside No. 9 right now you're doing yourself a disservice. Third episode wasn't quite as good as last week's but I love that they're giving these guys the opportunity to tell these little stories like this. Kinda cements their status as British comedy legends imo (although I am biased, being a massive League of Gentlemen fan).
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I just watched the first episode of Inside No.9 and I have to say I'm impressed. It's more subdued than their previous work, but also much more atmospheric. And every bit as dark.
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For me it's easily as good as League of Gentleman, just in a different way.
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Comedy radio station launches It's a subscription app and might be interesting. Not sure I'd pay for it straight off the bat, but there may be some good stuff on there and hopefully it will do well.
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I can't be the only one who finds this Jam'ie tat on BBC3 abhorrent, right? I mean, I know almost nothing BBC3 does is particularily good, but this just seems really offensive. Also really racist.
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Ja'mie has enough material for one filler sketch at best. It's 2014 and we're still supposed to say 'Ha ha, it's a man in a dress?' Rewatch Cardinal Burns on 4oD if you want to see dress-up comedy done right. Also joining in with the love for Inside no. 9, watched the 'itinerant' episode last night. Laughs were a bit slow in coming during the body of it, but it was so worth it for the payoff.
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ookiimarukochan posted:Hugo Rifkind? Because he's more or less the anti-Jeremy Hardy surely? No idea who that is Just had to look up the guy I meant - Francis Wheen
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Don't Sit In The Front Row must surely be the most boring, pointless panel show in history. What the hell were they thinking?
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Ja'mie has always been Chris Lilley's weakest character because, yeah, the whole joke is "Ha, it's a grown man dressed as a teenage girl". Like, it was tolerable in Summer Heights High, because there were plenty of other characters too. Although, let's be honest, he nailed it with Angry Boys (as long as you don't count him HONEST TO GOD BLACKING UP)
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The joke about Ja'mie is that shes a parody of teenage girls and it works because shes a pretty accurate depiction of the nastier side of teenage girls and Lilley is pretty good at depicting her. The problem is that much like most parody characters, shes really one note. Her thing is that she wants to be this popular person whos loved for her good qualities but is actually an atrocious human being. It works when you only spend a few minutes with her person episode but I'd imagine than an entire show about her is unbearable. Besides, the real stand out star in Summer Heights High is clearly Jonah. And you know what? Theres no chance I'm going to watch that TV series either.
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AMooseDoesStuff posted:I can't be the only one who finds this Jam'ie tat on BBC3 abhorrent, right?
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Did anybody watch "The Brits who Built the Modern World"? Slightly cheesy title aside, I really liked the first episode last week and I am very glad to see that the BBC still does the OU programmes.
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Hollow Talk posted:Did anybody watch "The Brits who Built the Modern World"? Slightly cheesy title aside, I really liked the first episode last week and I am very glad to see that the BBC still does the OU programmes. Jonathan Meades's rant about Brutalism was good as well: http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b03vrphc/
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cloudchamber posted:Jonathan Meades's rant about Brutalism was good as well: I felt kind of like I had been lamped in the face with a concrete hammer while watching that; his style is very...forceful. Very interesting though, and raised a lot of questions in my previously empty brain about why we perceive some styles of building as beautiful and some ugly.
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cloudchamber posted:Jonathan Meades's rant about Brutalism was good as well: Irisi posted:I felt kind of like I had been lamped in the face with a concrete hammer while watching that; his style is very...forceful. I started watching it but found him annoying to the point where it reached unbearable and I stopped watching it. It's a pity, because it looked really interesting! Unfortunately, I felt as if he threw around phrase after phrase, all of it poorly connected and needlessly opaque. For me, it was felt way too pretentious, really  In a way, I was rather happy the other show wasn't like it!
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