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Adrianics posted: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. Yep I dismissed him as being a fat version of Michael Mcintyre with his 'please all easy comedy' but he's really good in Gavin & Stacey. Did anyone see Troy during the week? he's a street magician/illusionist like Dynamo but with a personality.
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the_cow_fan posted:
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Feb 21, 2014 19:24
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AMooseDoesStuff posted:I can't be the only one who finds this Jam'ie tat on BBC3 abhorrent, right? I'm a Brit turned Aussie permanent resident and my partner gets a kick out of it as he says it strongly reminds him of some private school girls he knew from his high school time. I usually leave him to it when he insists on watching.
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Feb 22, 2014 01:05
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To be fair, has a spin off based on a single sketch show character ever really worked? I'm anticipating being hit by a flood of really obvious ones now.
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The Perfect Element posted:To be fair, has a spin off based on a single sketch show character ever really worked? I'm anticipating being hit by a flood of really obvious ones now. Wayne's World.
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WeAreTheRomans posted:Wayne's World. I liked Caterick. That was like 2.5 sketch show characters though, but all from the same sketches. I think Anchorman basically span out of SNL.
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The Perfect Element posted:To be fair, has a spin off based on a single sketch show character ever really worked? I'm anticipating being hit by a flood of really obvious ones now. Swiss Tony was good.
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The TV critic on the Guardian has a weekly review video. Thought I's post it here as he's turned me onto a few shows. Does US/Euro stuff too, but obviously mainly UK. I disagree with a lot of his opinions, but it's still a decent method of discovery. http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/series/andrew-collins-telly-addict
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the_cow_fan posted:Did anyone see Troy during the week? he's a street magician/illusionist like Dynamo but with a personality. Ugh god, we caught an episode of this and it was atrocious. The main thing is it's very very very obviously fake; we saw the one with the "comic book store" where the guy ripped a £15,000 comic then magically fixed it. Well first up, a real assistant would never have gotten the comic out of the display case for a random dude (if he was just an assistant he'd probably have to call his manager), then he would never have let some random dude just take it out of the polybag, then he would NEVER have let some random dude gently caress about with it, and he would definitely not have taken him destorying it so calmly. And that's quite apart from the fact that the comic was clearly a mockup; british kids comics from that time were printed on cheap newsprint that yellows terribly, while the prop they had was freaking pristine. Add to that "secret filming" from like 6 different camera angles at the same time with zooms and tracking and perfect sound reproduction, there's absolutely no way the people in the tricks weren't actors, and lovely ones at that, or at best members of the public extremely aware of the massive camera crew filming them and asking them to go back and redo bits so they have full coverage. That's fine in and of itself, but don't present it as "street magic" or secret filming if you're gonna cheat like that. I also don't find the guy remotely interesting, a few of the tricks were OK but with the obvious fakeness of the filming I couldn't get into the fiction of the tricks because they were probably hosed around with in editing anyway
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The Perfect Element posted:To be fair, has a spin off based on a single sketch show character ever really worked? I'm anticipating being hit by a flood of really obvious ones now. Would Man to Man with Dean Learner count? That was loving excellent.
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Would Alan Partridge count? Because he was a fairly minor character who eventually went on to be more popular than the show that he was created in.
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VogeGandire posted:Would Alan Partridge count? Because he was a fairly minor character who eventually went on to be more popular than the show that he was created in. Probably. Also in that vein,Ali G
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WeAreTheRomans posted:Probably. Also in that vein,Ali G Also, Borat became way bigger than Ali G, but that's not UK TV anymore.
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SuperHunBastard1690 posted:Swiss Tony was good. Counterpoint: Swiss Tony was absolutely horrendous.
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Hollow Talk posted: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 It wasn't as good as some of his earlier stuff. The last TV thing he did (on Essex) was really great. The MeadesShrine channel on YouTube has most (all?) of his programmes. I love the guy.
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The Review Show complained that the female characters in TRUE DETECTIVE were either nagging wives or strippers and questioned the "people" who write this stuff. Sometimes I completely understand these criticisms, but I also don't know what's wrong with a story that has a specific point of view and sticks with it. Weirdly there's no strong black characters in the show either, but that always seems less of an issue. It reminds me of the time when Newsnight Review complained that there were no women in MASTER AND COMMANDER. The film set almost entirely on a boat during the Napoleonic War.
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True Detective doesn't portray anyone positively though, and Martin's wife is at least sympathetic and relatable.
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I just watched the second episode of Inside No 9, and by god am I impressed. I wish the league of gentlemen guys did more stuff, because they're always nothing short of excellent. More psychoville than league of gentlemen, but that's not wholly a bad thing. The single scene idea is also really nice and makes it feel much more like theatre than usual TV stuff. They benefit from being self-contained and unrestricted by the need to fit into a longer narrative too.
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From the Andrew Collings video, I've just started Life of Rock. It's uneven, but fun and manages to come out with some golden lines. Also liked House of Fools, if anyone else has been watching? Was apprehensive but if you love Vic and Bob there's no reason you won't love Vic and Bob with Matt Berry delightfully breaking the English language. You twat.
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BizarroAzrael posted:Also liked House of Fools, if anyone else has been watching? Was apprehensive but if you love Vic and Bob there's no reason you won't love Vic and Bob with Matt Berry delightfully breaking the English language. You twat. (and my inner 12 year old!)Vic and bobs stuff is always thematic with randomness, so you see the first one and are sortof hmmm, what the gently caress, but then the next episode makes sense with the in jokes. Seaside Loafer fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Feb 24, 2014 |
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Seaside Loafer posted:Really grew on me, didnt quite get the concept on the first one, but just gets funnier if you give a few more a try. Made my 12 year old laugh like a loving drain Buff my Barnaby Rudge 
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Feb 24, 2014 02:20
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You'll all be thrilled to hear that Piers Morgan's show here in the US has been cancelled because apparently nobody likes him, so hopefully he'll be back in the UK as soon as possible!
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Feb 24, 2014 07:42
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Quickly, fit him up for terrorism activity and get him sent to that bad island.
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Are there actually any people who like him at all? Who are they? Extremely liberal self-loathing Catholics? Americans who like everything British because they can't understand the accent? I really hope he ends up somewhere in New Zealand thus minimising the damage.
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Aww I'm glad to hear Tiny Andrew Collings is working for The Guardian now. I just watched the 2013 Screenwipe review of the year and you know that fella what said to Kay Burley the royals had a black baby, did anyone find out who he is? Because that was the funniest moment of 2013 and my funniest moment of 2014 thus far.
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Bloodbath posted:Aww I'm glad to hear Tiny Andrew Collings is working for The Guardian now. Aside: I'm not glad at all.
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It's been bugging me a few times now but the new 3 advert with the kid on the bike is definitely cgi'd on to the street, it just looks odd.
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reality_groove posted:Aside: I'm not glad at all. Does he talk about homeopathy or his unfair mortgage-based lottery win distribution ideas in the Guardian?
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Paladinus posted:Are there actually any people who like him at all? I think the answer to this is simple: No.
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Piers Morgan, possibly. Maybe his mother.
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This video is the only good thing that Piers Morgan has ever contributed to the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ePx61TkXKY
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Paladinus posted:Are there actually any people who like him at all?
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thehustler posted:Collings doesn't do homeopathy does he?
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thehustler posted:Collings doesn't do homeopathy does he? http://mrjoeblogs.blogspot.de/2007/02/joe-blogs-interview-95-andrew-collins.html?m=1 "What do people commonly say about your site? If they are doctors, they say I am wrong about the efficacy of homeopathy. But I don't care what they think." Sorry. But really, both are running jokes from the Richard Herring/Andrew Collins podcast and AIOTM.
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Feb 24, 2014 18:25
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Feb 24, 2014 18:27
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The new series of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle starts on March 1st at 10pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XpvH-j9BHg
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Has anyone watched the entertainingly titled REVENGE OF THE EGGHEAD on BBC2. Since Pointless has apparently rendered the original obsolete, we now have CJ (the worst Egghead) sitting on a pedestal with an Ipad with which he plunges a panel of schlubs into an Who Wants to be a Millionaire-styled hell if they gently caress up a regular Egghead quiz round. The gurning he does as they get a question right is enough to make one swear off telly entirely. e: the thing that'll make a quiz show stay is pointless complexity, to my mind. Mr. Squishy fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Feb 25, 2014 |
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