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stickyfngrdboy posted:Bravo for not wishing you'd been abused as a child by an adult responsible for your care, yay! I was being nice.  I just remember everytime threads about this sort of thing that came up in GBS threads and the aforementioned attitude was prevalent. Also I like it when people are measured and intelligent about difficult subjects.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:QI is a totally different beast because the female panelists actually contribute, whereas every time I watch MtW, it's a pretty much perfect definition of 'token female.' No 'pretty much' about it anymore. http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/25/dara-o-briain-bbc-ban-men-only-panel-shows
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The problem with the entire atmosphere of Mock the Week is that its like a sixth form common room where a bunch of people who think they're funnier than they actually are loudly competing for attention. It's not something conducive to most female comedians anyway.
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Apr 8, 2014 13:33
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Also it, like all comedy quiz shows, is poo poo.
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Apr 8, 2014 13:55
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Junkenstein posted:No 'pretty much' about it anymore. A good step imo, women are literally half the human race so I'm sure we can eventually drum up enough of them to furnish at least 1/7th of the average panel show cast including host. And it's not like you can protest "but they might not be funny!! It will ruin the programmes!" when Mock the Week allows loving Andy Parsons to be on TV
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Apr 8, 2014 14:05
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I'm fed up tae gently caress with QIs theme music.
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Junkenstein posted:No 'pretty much' about it anymore. Sexism is bad, and everyone but me should do something to end it. Liberalism.txt
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Trickjaw posted:I was wondering why I liked the threads reaction to Theroux yesterday (its on again now, and nowt else is), it may be that no one brought up that ex-teacher in a 'HURR my teacher never hosed me!Wish she did Seems judges still view woman-on-teenage-boy sex differently to the man-on-teenage-girl sex issue.......
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Prism Mirror Lens posted:A good step imo, women are literally half the human race so I'm sure we can eventually drum up enough of them to furnish at least 1/7th of the average panel show cast including host. And it's not like you can protest "but they might not be funny!! It will ruin the programmes!" when Mock the Week allows loving Andy Parsons to be on TV
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Even without that weird emphasis, he has a voice like bollocks on a cheesegrater. How on earth did he get past a screen test?
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hermand posted:Is anybody watching Endeavour? I'm finding it a great way to chill out with the wife and a brew - very easy watching, but interesting enough that it keeps you engaged for the 2 hours. Yes, I love it, but I watched all of Morse and Lewis, so I'm a bit biased in this regard. I really like the characters and 1966 setting, it captures the feeling of the old Morse episodes very well, integrates into them pretty well, and is really nicely shot. Unfortunately the plots and especially the resolutions are a bit outlandish/illogical. But the rest makes up for it in my opinion. Don't like their treatment of the Masons much though, but that's something that was already in the old Morse series too.
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Even without that weird emphasis, he has a voice like bollocks on a cheesegrater. How on earth did he get past a screen test? Also his facial hair is gross.
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Apr 9, 2014 12:16
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I think there's a new series of The Trip on, where Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are on television together eating food. I quite liked the first series although the episode I watched didn't have the same pazazz, that certain jerner say-quo of the first series. It also reminds me of one of my friends who won't shut the gently caress up about cooking. University Challenge is also over again. I think I preferred the semis to the finals because SOAS were fun.
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I too was saddened when SOAS lost. They had my heart. Only Connect is picking back up the week after, which surprsies me as I sort of thought those two shows where scheduled together.
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Goons, I need help identifying a show (think this is the third time): It was a teenage fantasy type thing, about a group of youths (two or more of them may have been related), who stumble into some bleak parallel world. While there there's a scene when one of the dudes finds the girls hand sticking out the ground in a woolen glove, and immediately cuts it with his penknife to check if its real. It may or may not be real. They get a bunch of artifacts there - a sword, a spear, i think a cauldron, and a magic rock. But when they come back to our world they look like just mundane junk, a brick, a stick, a cup, I think a piece of railing. The fantasy world starts bleeding through, and one of them almost gets stabbed by a spear that comes through either his computer screen, or a TV showing only static. Somehow the kids are to blame for this. At the end there's a magic unicorn (who gets into our world) and is supposed to sing which is important somehow (I don't remember there being much of a threat or villain, there might have been though). In keeping with the bleak, depressing tone, the reveal is "she sings when she dies" and the oldest dude ends up having to stab the unicorn with the railing/magic spear. Would have aired either late 90s, early 2000s. I think there was a book too, either before or after. This is the stuff that keeps me up at night.
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Apr 9, 2014 18:44
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Elidor.
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I mentioned a few pages back that I was going to see Robert Webb and Mark Heap in Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense in the West End. Well pleased to report that Mark Heap was amazing, and Robert Webb was fantastic. It was only their second night in the parts (the cast changed on Monday), so a few things went wrong, but they stayed in character which only added the humour. Mark Heap never, ever breaks character (even when he's playin Madeline Bassett), but Robert Webb did giggle a few times, especially when MH was playing Stephanie Bing and her Uncle at the same time. And at the Viking exhibition at the British Museum (the long boat!  ) I ran into Hugh Quarshie, who plays Ric on Holby City. He is/was really lovely despite me being a total fangirl  , and he laughed at my story about the Lewis Chessmen.
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Daius posted:The problem with the entire atmosphere of Mock the Week is that its like a sixth form common room where a bunch of people who think they're funnier than they actually are loudly competing for attention. It's not something conducive to most female comedians anyway. and it's not conducive to most male comedians. the show is so reliant on its small clique of the same guys.
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A good couple years and a few hundred pages ago I was bemoaning the lack of anywhere to watch the forgetable 2003 BBC series Sack Race (a hidden camera show in which two comedians are employed in two different businesses and have to compete in order to get sacked closest to 3pm on their first day). My teenage self absolutely loved it and at long last a couple episodes have been uploaded to youtube along with newly filmed contestant preamble for some reason. Its probably the only hidden camera show I have ever actually liked and if anyone else remembers it they might also enjoy a watch.
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Cerv posted:and it's not conducive to most male comedians. the show is so reliant on its small clique of the same guys.
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Whilst doing other things had Doctors on in the background. They managed to work in a reference to barking spiders. So proud, and composing my letter to Viz now. Do I win £5? http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/barking-spider
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Watching Stewart Lee and Chris Morris crack up at the end of that series has got to be one of my favourite bits of TV this year.
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goatface posted:Elidor. Nice one.
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Captain Mediocre posted:A good couple years and a few hundred pages ago I was bemoaning the lack of anywhere to watch the forgetable 2003 BBC series Sack Race (a hidden camera show in which two comedians are employed in two different businesses and have to compete in order to get sacked closest to 3pm on their first day). My teenage self absolutely loved it and at long last a couple episodes have been uploaded to youtube along with newly filmed contestant preamble for some reason. Its probably the only hidden camera show I have ever actually liked and if anyone else remembers it they might also enjoy a watch. Watched the first few minutes of this and it reminds me of My New Best Friend which was great but so relentlessly cruel to the people who had agreed to be on it (they clearly had no idea exactly how far Mark Wooton would go) that it came across a bit like a post-modern parody of reality TV.
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I'm watching Masterchef and finally the guy in the red shirt from the pre-credit sequence talking about how mental he is shows up. I hated him in the early rounds because of his continual gurning and annoying voice, but I've turned right around after he served a selection of Masterchef finalists literal piss and poo poo (to go from their faces). Please, more contestants, troll the judges of reality shows. I believe in you.
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Al2001 posted:Watched the first few minutes of this and it reminds me of My New Best Friend which was great but so relentlessly cruel to the people who had agreed to be on it (they clearly had no idea exactly how far Mark Wooton would go) that it came across a bit like a post-modern parody of reality TV. My New Best Friend has always stuck with me as at one point he goes to a photograph on a shelf and rips it up. I like the actor in it, who was also in Shirley Ghostman and one or two other thing, but that series was immense! available of 4od, natch http://www.channel4.com/programmes/my-new-best-friend/4od
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Gorn Myson posted:Watching Stewart Lee and Chris Morris crack up at the end of that series has got to be one of my favourite bits of TV this year. I'm not sure that Chris Morris lived up to the level Armando Iannucci set in the prior series, but the bit where Morris is tabling satirical animals-in-things, and Lee dismisses "Sausages?" with a slightly taken-aback "Not on their own, no" struck me as a lovely moment.
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That whole bit was great. Morris excels at strange sentences. It's hard to weigh him up versus Iannucci though. I just want Brass Eye and the Armando Iannucci Show back. Also, what's worse: Farage on HIGNfY, or a prog on Channel 5 called "Gypsies Living on Benefits and Proud"?
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Apr 11, 2014 21:05
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I think Morris was better at skewering Lee, but Iannucci was funnier. I love the fact that by the end of the series, Lee is pushed to the point where the best defence for his act is "time passed and something happened". Its the semi-proud look on his face in front of a bewildered Morris that gets me.
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Great British Menu are basing the competition around World War 1 and D-Day veterans. So far names of dishes have included Memories of Normandy, Smoke on the Beaches.... I think all they'll serve up is a big plate of PTSD.
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WastedJoker posted:Great British Menu are basing the competition around World War 1 and D-Day veterans. Yeah. I don't think I will be proved wrong but I'm betting spam and powdered eggs will show up.. Possibly bisto on the chef's stockings. It doesn't take much imagination to make a nice corned (bully) beef hash with loads of flavour, topped with a poached egg. Wouldn't like to have to make it for hundreds, but delia has an awesome recipe for it http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/cuisine/exotic/american/corned-beef-hash-with-fried-eggs.html It is really nice, and if you chuck in a bit of black pudding and cherry tomatoes, well, I'm yours.
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Trickjaw posted:Yeah. I don't think I will be proved wrong but I'm betting spam and powdered eggs will show up.. Possibly bisto on the chef's stockings. If someone doesn't serve up a dish inside a corned beef tin or one of those sardine tins you open with a key, I'll be mucho disappointed.
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Oh my god, does 5od only have the three adverts? That BT infinity advert is so grating, nobody should make a deliberately annoying character and then show it 3 times in a row.
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If you enjoy War Films that are more 'War is a gritty boring brutal slog that is loving horrible and nobody wins' Cross of Iron is on iPlayer in the movies section. It might not be Come And See but it is still weirdly entertaining like all war films.
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Enjoyed both episodes of The Trip so far, but does anyone else think they're getting on far too well at the moment? There's a massive falling out coming up, I'd say. Probably something to do with the girl on the boat.
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Apr 12, 2014 22:55
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Coogan stabs Brydon by episode 5 or I'll give you all £5.
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W1A is so dull it makes me loving wish we got a Thick Of It spin off insead. Jesus.
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Mr. Squishy posted:or a prog on Channel 5 called "Gypsies Living on Benefits and Proud"? Is that real? it reads like something off of a daily mail headline generator site.
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I added the "living" in my haste but otherwise, yeah. I watched literally nothing on it, so maybe it's good? Mustn't judge.
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