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Walliams is a oval office too.  It's just that Matt Lucas was the one being discussed in the thread. I don't see what's weird about it.
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Slash posted:Also the last episode of Inside No. 9 was great, didn't see the twist coming, but not sure anyone could! I saw a few people online say that they saw it coming, but they may just be talking shite. I'm terrible at guessing that sort of thing and I think it helps me enjoy it more. Really enjoyed the episode, but I'm not a huge fan of the actual supernatural ones.
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Mar 11, 2020 23:51
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I have more fond memories of Matt Lucas with Vic and Bob so I tend to project my lingering distaste for Little Britain et al on to Walliums.
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Mar 12, 2020 02:59
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Vic Reeves needs to be given a one-hour stand-up slot on primetime TV. Just him, on his own, on a stage. We can then all finally conclude, as a nation, he's a massively unappealing bellend who hasn't landed a joke since 1996 and has ridden the coat-tails of others. When the show concludes, we can cut straight to the ceremony where Bob Mortimer is knighted, that is if he can still kneel down after carrying Vic's useless corpse around for 20 years.
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Mar 12, 2020 04:23
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Khablam posted:Vic Reeves needs to be given a one-hour stand-up slot on primetime TV.
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Mar 12, 2020 08:29
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What's this based on exactly? I love Bob Mortimer and he does exceptionally well without Vic, but I don't think that means Vic has been doing nothing for 25 years. They write and create all their shows together, and Vic's performances in them are just as good as Bob's
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Mar 12, 2020 08:51
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Coming to the Great Pottery Throwdown final and matt was robbed, he’d been consistently better over the weeks and his final tea set was really good
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Mar 12, 2020 10:30
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Khablam posted:Vic Reeves needs to be given a one-hour stand-up slot on primetime TV. I went to see them live a few weeks ago and it was absolutely bizzare. Like more bizzare than their usual shows. It's hard to explain, just kinda them chatting about everything.
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Mar 12, 2020 10:44
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Paperhouse posted:What's this based on exactly? I love Bob Mortimer and he does exceptionally well without Vic, but I don't think that means Vic has been doing nothing for 25 years. They write and create all their shows together, and Vic's performances in them are just as good as Bob's Bob is incredibly funny without Vic, Vic is incredibly unfunny without Bob.
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Mar 12, 2020 11:33
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Bob Mortimer's Train Guy is better content than most the BBC's comedy output https://twitter.com/RealBobMortimer/status/1237778023925112835
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Mar 12, 2020 11:59
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Total Meatlove posted:Coming to the Great Pottery Throwdown final and matt was robbed, he’d been consistently better over the weeks and his final tea set was really good Looking back at the results on Wikipedia; it was actually Jacob and Claire who managed most posts of the week at three apiece. Rosa managed twice, Matt just once. edit: Here's the instagram accounts of most of the contestants. Jacob has a stunning looking half ginger jar six posts in. Ronaldo Wiltshire https://www.instagram.com/motionsofclay Claire Murdock https://www.instagram.com/clairemurdockceramics/ Rianna Erbas https://www.instagram.com/rainna_ceramics Rosa Wiland Holmes https://www.instagram.com/ceramic_rosa_wiland_holmes/ Flea St. George https://www.instagram.com/florencestgeorge Matt Cronshaw https://www.instagram.com/littletorchceramics Jacob Chan https://www.instagram.com/jchanceramics Rosalind Worland https://www.instagram.com/rosalindworland/ Tom James https://www.instagram.com/tomjamesmusicandpottery/ Sampada Gurung https://www.instagram.com/sampadagurung Kit Andrews https://www.instagram.com/thecornishpotter Pablo Bluth fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Mar 12, 2020 |
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Mar 12, 2020 13:47
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Khablam posted:Vic Reeves needs to be given a one-hour stand-up slot on primetime TV. I’ve never really liked the double act. Hated their game show. Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) was one of my favourite things though, and they are both good in that.
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Mar 12, 2020 14:30
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ineptmule posted:I’ve never really liked the double act. Hated their game show. Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) was one of my favourite things though, and they are both good in that. You hated Shooting Stars? What's wrong with you? Randall and Hopkirk was awful.
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Mar 12, 2020 16:26
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Vic Reeves was alright hosting Brainiac. Though I think I remember liking Hammond more.
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Mar 12, 2020 16:31
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Dell_Zincht posted:You hated Shooting Stars? What's wrong with you? Could also be talking about Families At War. I liked Randall and Hopkirk at the time, I've looked at the DVD set that's been in my local CEX a few times just to see the department store deathtrap episode again but not bought it.
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Mar 12, 2020 16:32
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Comedy is a very subjective thing.
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Mar 12, 2020 17:18
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Dell_Zincht posted:Bob is incredibly funny without Vic, Vic is incredibly unfunny without Bob. I've liked him on his own a couple of times, he does it a lot less than Bob though so I've hardly seen it Seeing them both together on some unscripted thing is good, they're both funny and play off each other brilliantly. Which, of course they would, they're Vic and Bob And I really really love Bob so I know where you're coming from, I just don't think we really know enough to say that he's the only funny one. And after all Vic is the one who started it, Bob joined him later by chance It's a bit like when people say Merchant is the only funny one and Gervais is a total hack. Which he is now, absolutely. But he was funny at the time they did The Office and the xfm shows, and was a huge part of why The Office was so good
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Mar 12, 2020 22:17
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Dell_Zincht posted:You hated Shooting Stars? What's wrong with you? Shooting Stars, yeah that was it. Dreadful. Randall & Hopkirk was my Dr Who.
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Mar 12, 2020 22:29
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ineptmule posted:Shooting Stars, yeah that was it. Dreadful. It is the only celebrity panel show that is at all good. And treats the slebs with appropriate lack of attention.
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Mar 12, 2020 22:48
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I still maintain that Catterick is one of the best TV shows ever made, it's criminally under-rated.
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Lemon posted:I still maintain that Catterick is one of the best TV shows ever made, it's criminally under-rated. Also I grew up watching repeats of the original Randal and hopkirk and while I initially thought the Vic and Bob version was pretty naff its definitely grown on me over repeat viewings. I really like the running gag with Tom Baker's awkward forced rhymes. Its just really silly.
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I showed my (American) wife an episode of Shooting Stars once, and I feel her reaction was worse than Larry Hagmans. It didn’t help that I promised her Matt Lucas, and I forgot that Angelos replaced him.
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Mar 13, 2020 05:02
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Probably some layers of irony that I've missed but I always liked the story of how Angelos got the job on Shooting Stars by writing to Bob Mortimer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wzrg7Nc3K8
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Mar 13, 2020 20:01
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Conversation reminded me that they cancelled House of Fools, and that's some bullshit.
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Mar 13, 2020 21:08
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I love Vic and Bob but god I absolutely hated House of Fools. It was totally and utterly unfunny. I know that they basically do what they think is funny (and that Catterick is their favourite thing, that's why they're doing a film) but HoF just completely fell flat.
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Mar 13, 2020 21:49
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House of Fools didn't click with me and I quite enjoy mindless nonsense.
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Mar 13, 2020 22:38
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Lemon posted:I still maintain that Catterick is one of the best TV shows ever made, it's criminally under-rated. It is brilliant. But I loved their origins more, in Bang Bang. I love Kinky John, and 'Is it Giro Day' Fun Fun Fun characters. I have only a few 90s comedy shows that I permanently have on my computer so I can watch again, again, and again. And one is Smell of Reeves and Mortimer. Love that show.
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Mar 13, 2020 23:54
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That wake sure was something In This Country. 'Roy was right as rain about his overalls though'
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Mar 13, 2020 23:56
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Bogmonster posted:Probably some layers of irony that I've missed but I always liked the story of how Angelos got the job on Shooting Stars by writing to Bob Mortimer Not true! He met Bob at an awards show where Bob presented him with an award for "Mobile Caterer of The Year." Bob asked him to be on his funny telly program, and after initially rejecting Bob's generous offer, he decided to do it after all. The rest, as they say, is history.
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crispix posted:Remember when Matt Lucas apologised for blacking up and doing racist caricatures and said Little Britain was a long time ago, even though he'd done the very same thing on Come Fly With Me much more recently Matt Lucas shouldn't have apologised, the same way that Bob Mortimer (rightfully) has never publicly apologised for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X1y84IZ6zo or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Gj6swpfZA
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Dell_Zincht posted:Matt Lucas shouldn't have apologised, the same way that Bob Mortimer (rightfully) has never publicly apologised for this: Why "rightfully"?
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Taear posted:Why "rightfully"? Because I don't believe it's racist. EDIT - Rather, I don't believe the intention of either sketch is to mock people of colour. Dell_Zincht fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Mar 14, 2020 |
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why is your opinion more important than the very large number of black people who say that blacking up is offensive
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Bob Mortimer hasn't apologised, but he also hasn't done that kind of thing for a very long time. Lucas apologised for it while still literally doing the same thing
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Julio Cruz posted:why is your opinion more important than the very large number of black people who say that blacking up is offensive I didn't say it was. I said in my opinion Bob and Matt shouldn't have to apologise. Maybe Matt apologised because for him it WAS coming from a racist point of view, although having read his autobiography and watching multiple interviews with him I very much doubt that's the case.
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Mar 14, 2020 16:12
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right, well my opinion is you should probably listen to the people affected by something the most before spouting off about whether it's actually racist or not
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Mar 14, 2020 16:25
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Julio Cruz posted:right, well my opinion is you should probably listen to the people affected by something the most before spouting off about whether it's actually racist or not In my opinion I don't believe it's coming from the perspective of a racist. I'm not saying black people can't be offended by it. I dare say there are plenty of white people offended by it too. It doesn't make them right.
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"black people shouldn't be offended by blacking up because I say so" is, uh, quite a take
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Sometimes something is racist because of societal or institutional racism, and power dynamics, not because the person doing it is an Evil Racist. It's incumbent on those of us in the majority to listen to people of colour and not do things that wound them, and apologise when we do, even if it wasn't coming from a place of bigotry. There's a larger racism at work than just 'Matt Lucas hates people of colour' which is obviously untrue and white folk should try to avoid playing into it.
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Julio Cruz posted:"black people shouldn't be offended by blacking up because I say so" is, uh, quite a take Except that's not what I said? Some blacking up obviously is racist and has racist intentions. I don't believe Shooting Stars or Little Britain/Come Fly With Me's sketches had racist intentions, that's all.
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