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I'm against improv on a moral level. Just read the script god damnit.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:It's hosed up that QI has just 4 panelist spots and every week one of them is wasted on Alan Davies. There it is, the worst possible QI take.
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Dec 17, 2020 02:43
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What letter are they on now?
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Dec 17, 2020 02:45
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Are you guys making GBS threads on Top Gear?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7CnMQ4L9Pc
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Dec 17, 2020 03:47
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Ok that dismount on 4:42 is obvious, but drat well done.
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Dec 17, 2020 04:02
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El Fideo posted:Are you guys making GBS threads on Top Gear??  I wasn't expecting this to be this good
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Dec 17, 2020 04:21
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GoutPatrol posted:There are a hundred long form improv podcasts that can offer good stuff. It is different from Whose Line, less structured, but it works better in a podcast format. Yeah but that’s long form (which I do prefer but it’s a pretty different beast) I don’t know how many other options you have for short form
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Dec 17, 2020 05:09
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SiKboy posted:The gently caress is this nonsense? sweet geek swag posted:There it is, the worst possible QI take. Come at me! Alan Davies is lame as poo poo!
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Dec 17, 2020 08:03
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Sweevo posted:If I sit down to watch QI and see John Sessions, Rory McGrath, Rory Bremner, Gyles Brandreth, or Jeremy Clarkson then it's getting switched straight off regardless of who else is on. Not a great fan of Arthur Smith either (he's someone only funny to other comedians). It's the natural lifecycle of the UK comedian to become low energy reactionary versions of themselves. Accompanied by writing a light comedic novel and having a column in the Guardian.
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Dec 17, 2020 08:38
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Best QI panelists are Sue Perkins and that old guy who has an anecdote for literally everything, don't @ me. 
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Dec 17, 2020 10:02
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I have to say that it's weird how it suddenly became so easier to have at least one female panelist for each episode after Sandi took over.
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Dec 17, 2020 12:07
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man the indiana jones films have not aged well
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Dec 17, 2020 12:19
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Stingwing posted:
Stewart Lee's one of the greatest stand ups ever, check him out
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Dec 17, 2020 12:31
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Come at me! Alan Davies is lame as poo poo! Alan Davies is the butt of the show. In the early seasons it was pretty much his job to set off the Obvious But Wrong Answer alarm at least once an episode. He mostly got the job because he was better known for playing an unwholesomely clever person on Jonathan Creek. He's good because he knows this and takes it in good part.
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Dec 17, 2020 12:38
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Jedit posted:Alan Davies is the butt of the show. In the early seasons it was pretty much his job to set off the Obvious But Wrong Answer alarm at least once an episode. He mostly got the job because he was better known for playing an unwholesomely clever person on Jonathan Creek. He's good because he knows this and takes it in good part. The original plan for QI was sort of a school motif, with Davies and Fry as team captains--Fry as the 'smart kid' and Davies as the class clown (I think Michael Palin was host). That wouldn't have had nearly the staying power of what we got, but they definitely made the right choice in deciding the big thing to retain about that structure was Davies as a class clown figure.
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Dec 17, 2020 12:54
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nonathlon posted:It's the natural lifecycle of the UK comedian to become low energy reactionary versions of themselves. Accompanied by writing a light comedic novel and having a column in the Guardian. The Guardian if they were ever any good (I much prefer angry woke Frankie Boyle to lovely edgelord Frankie Boyle), some right-wing Sunday rag if they're 99% of BBC panel show fodder.
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Dec 17, 2020 13:09
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Kanine posted:man the indian jones films have not aged well
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The United States posted:https://scroll.in/reel/805944/temple-of-doom-is-the-indiana-jones-movie-that-indians-wont-forget-in-a-hurry At least in Temple of Doom Indy gives the artifact back to its rightful owners. Last Crusade is probably the least problematic, and might be the best. Connery and Ford are great together, and it's just classic nazi punching.
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Dec 17, 2020 14:12
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Disco Pope posted:The Guardian if they were ever any good (I much prefer angry woke Frankie Boyle to lovely edgelord Frankie Boyle), some right-wing Sunday rag if they're 99% of BBC panel show fodder. He was such a gaping rear end in a top hat early in his career he’d have to end world hunger for me to pay attention to him now.
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Dec 17, 2020 14:28
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Barry Foster posted:Stewart Lee's one of the greatest stand ups ever, check him out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrkPNwSRxtM&t=180s
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Dec 17, 2020 14:37
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The United States posted:https://scroll.in/reel/805944/temple-of-doom-is-the-indiana-jones-movie-that-indians-wont-forget-in-a-hurry quote:the menu includes snakes and spiders, which are slurped up with relish by the local gentry, and the piece de resistance, monkey brain soup. C'mon, do your research, man! It was eyeball soup that Willie had after she was grossed out by the snakes and spiders (to her credit, she did not think it would contain eyes), and the monkey brains were whole, albeit chilled, as dessert.
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Dec 17, 2020 15:09
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The United States posted:https://scroll.in/reel/805944/temple-of-doom-is-the-indiana-jones-movie-that-indians-wont-forget-in-a-hurry quote:Spielberg made two more Indiana Jones films, The Last Crusade (1989) and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), which featured stereotyped Nazi and Russian agents, respectively. Nobody does franchises, or ethnic stereotyping, like Hollywood.
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Dec 17, 2020 15:24
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I know we talk about x-files a lot, but I barely made it ten minutes into the one about a haunted shaman skeleton that an archaeologist dug up in
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Dec 17, 2020 16:23
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Ambitious Spider posted:At least in Temple of Doom Indy gives the artifact back to its rightful owners. Last Crusade is probably the least problematic, and might be the best. Connery and Ford are great together, and it's just classic nazi punching. The only woman character is a literal nazi whore.
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Dec 17, 2020 16:26
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hawowanlawow posted:I know we talk about x-files a lot, but I barely made it ten minutes into the one about a haunted shaman skeleton that an archaeologist dug up in My favorite Egregiously Vancouver moment in the X-Files was when they were in “my hometown,” and they didn’t even remotely try with any of the visual details. Especially when there was an early 00s mecha anime I was watching at the time that did nail all the local flavor, somehow.
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Dec 17, 2020 16:37
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let's put the monkey brains dinner scene from temple of doom in the next movie but now indiana jones is hunting for artifacts in sweden, the willie scott analogue is a doctoral student from south asia, and the meal is surströmming
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Dec 17, 2020 16:49
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Fish of hemp posted:The only woman character is a literal nazi whore. And still a better-realized, more well-rounded character than Willie in ToD.
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Fish of hemp posted:The only woman character is a literal nazi whore. least problematic. And she's a honey pot not a sex worker (not that there's anything wrong with sex work). At least she's an adult when she gets with Indy, and not a child.
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Dec 17, 2020 17:04
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Um, actually, there's also a different Nazi lady who yells "ALARM!"
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Dec 17, 2020 17:13
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The tank fight is still top-form 80s spectacle fighting
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Ambitious Spider posted:least problematic. And she's a honey pot not a sex worker (not that there's anything wrong with sex work). At least she's an adult when she gets with Indy, and not a child. Also she's a Nazi. The thing that aged least well about Last Crusade is the model work. The plane that flies into the tunnel is an entirely different colour to the previous scene, and when the turret comes off the tank in the cliff scene you can clearly see there's no entrance beneath it - just the mount you'd find on a plastic kit.
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Fish of hemp posted:The only woman character is a literal nazi whore. Wtf dude, why do you think she's a whore?
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Wtf dude, why do you think she's a whore? Because she sleeps with the Jones boys as part of her job as a spy. But as has been pointed out, that makes her a honeypot, not a prostitute.
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Dec 17, 2020 18:51
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Dude wtf?!?!
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Dec 17, 2020 18:58
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El Fideo posted:Are you guys making GBS threads on Top Gear?? holy poo poo
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muscles like this! posted:A weird thing about Studio 60 was that Mark McKinney was supposed to help behind the scenes with some of the in universe sketches since he had experience on shows like Kids in the Hall and SNL. Either Sorkin didn't listen to him or the other Kids were the talented ones. Know this is old but I'm catching up on this thread. Slings and Arrows AND Superstore should put a rest to the second question. Even without being an SNL for a bit hes easily had the most success post KiTH of any of the kids.
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Turpitude II posted:i think you might be forgetting about this bit. the mask was on tv semi-recently and i was like, boy, i sure forgot that he sodomises a man with a car pipe. seems bad. In the og comic that this scene is based on he sticks a muffler down the guys throat and hangs the other guy up with chains before sticking spanners, wrenches, and screwdrivers in his head.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Know this is old but I'm catching up on this thread. Slings and Arrows AND Superstore should put a rest to the second question. Even without being an SNL for a bit hes easily had the most success post KiTH of any of the kids. I've never found him quite as funny as the other Kids but he's kind of the only one who was good at disappearing into lots of different characters instead of mostly playing variations on "themselves." It didn't always allow him to stand out within the group but it helps for maintaining a non-KITH career.
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Dec 17, 2020 20:46
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Especially when there was an early 00s mecha anime I was watching at the time that did nail all the local flavor, somehow. incredible goon sentence
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:My favorite Egregiously Vancouver moment in the X-Files was when they were in “my hometown,” and they didn’t even remotely try with any of the visual details. Well, what city HASN'T Vancouver played? I think every metro area in the country has been Vancouvered in a show.
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