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OwlFancier posted:Maybe it depends how naturally open you are to other people. 
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Not enough people use the word "suppurating" nowadays.
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Apr 14, 2021 18:50
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It's especially notable that the only interview to have challenged Robert on his poo poo has come from a US outlet. The British media is so pathetic it's unreal - it's one of those topics that everyone quietly agrees won't be brought up under any circumstances.
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Apr 14, 2021 18:54
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I mean british media is generally extremely incestuous which I think is part of why they were so utterly erect at the opportunity to go after corbyn.
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Want to report Virgin for breaching GDPR and the ICO complaint page is down for maintenance.
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WhatEvil posted:Mitchell at least did "Diane Abbott is thick" jokes on HIGNFY. Always got me that one. Top tier stuff.
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satire is when you say funny things about someone who wears a suit
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serious gaylord posted:Want to report Virgin for breaching GDPR and the ICO complaint page is down for maintenance. Just put all of your personal data on a postcard and send it to them. goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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Gorn Myson posted:I only watched it for Ian Hislop's weekly reference to John Prescott and his weight. Roy Hattersley is also fat, much like John Prescott is fat. *crowd almost dies in laughter* My enduring HIGNFY memory is Ian Hislop talking about how he thinks that this coalition thing is great after the 2010 Election. Just sincere belief in it. That's the best satire.
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Jakabite posted:I’ll be sure to also pick up your favourite, roast beef monster munch You know drat WELL this is a Flamin' Hot household!
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Apr 14, 2021 19:47
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Brooker's the one that makes me seethe the most. The first screenwipe after Corbyn got in was just so... bitter, there was a particular tone and venom to the jabs that just wasn't there for any other public figure during the show. And ofc, him just devolving into straight up repeating verbatim the same libellous poo poo the rest of the media was slinging at Labour after 2017 and calling it a day.
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SteelMentor posted:Brooker's the one that makes me seethe the most. The first screenwipe after Corbyn got in was just so... bitter, there was a particular tone and venom to the jabs that just wasn't there for any other public figure during the show. And ofc, him just devolving into straight up repeating verbatim the same libellous poo poo the rest of the media was slinging at Labour after 2017 and calling it a day. Yeah he was the most disappointing to me. He'd so massively shat on the Tories previously that I thought he might welcome Corbyn as a real alternative but nope, 99.9% of successful TV comedians are liberal melt turds. There are only a few I can think of off the top of my head who haven't fully melted: Stewart Lee, Josie Long, Francesca Martinez, Alexei Sayle.
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WhatEvil posted:Yeah he was the most disappointing to me. He'd so massively shat on the Tories previously that I thought he might welcome Corbyn as a real alternative but nope, 99.9% of successful TV comedians are liberal melt turds. Nish is still good isn't he?
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Apr 14, 2021 20:14
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I'm going to continue to nurse a mental blindspot for Brooker cause he's so good at slagging off Tories and some of Black Mirror is good. But it's amazing how HIGNFY only lets dickheads on. Maybe Jo Brand is an exception? I have no idea what her politics are like and I don't really care. Also, I haven't really watched HIGNFY post-Angus
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stev posted:Nish is still good isn't he? Nish is very anti-tory and very left, yeah.
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Apr 14, 2021 20:20
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Brooker made a whole bunch of important connections off of the success of Black Mirror and suddenly his biting criticisms of the same sort of people he was now rubbing shoulders with completely disappeared. Not too difficult to explain what happened there.
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I'm probably very dumb for only just realising this, but the blue-tick hatred for Corbyn is *exactly* like the TERFpocalypse (there is, of course, significant overlap in terms of the people involved) where people who want to pretend they're good have suddenly been given an acceptable target of hatred and have just absolutely let rip.
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Apr 14, 2021 20:40
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I'm probably very dumb for only just realising this, but the blue-tick hatred for Corbyn is *exactly* like the TERFpocalypse (there is, of course, significant overlap in terms of the people involved) where people who want to pretend they're good have suddenly been given an acceptable target of hatred and have just absolutely let rip. Pretty much yes. Libs across the board prefer to say they're good people rather than, y'know, act like one. So you get someone like Corbyn who has dedicated his life to improving those of his fellow man and they fall to pieces, lashing out to protect their egos. It's literally the poo poo Virtue Signalling was invented as a phrase to describe, such a shame it got co-opted.
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Apr 14, 2021 20:53
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Miftan posted:Nish is very anti-tory and very left, yeah. It's also why he is no longer on TV. I'm sure the rest of the people making a living in UK entertainment got the message.
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stev posted:Nish is still good isn't he? Possibly as a person; and could well be as a mechanic. Maybe he'll find a job he's suited to.
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Apr 14, 2021 20:59
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I hope Nish is good, he was amazing on Taskmaster. Absolutely crap at it, but he had such fun doing it.
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Oh yeah Nish Kumar is good AFAICT. I thought Rachel Parris was good - she did some good bits on The Mash Report, but I've since seen her saying some (vaguely) melty stuff on Twitter. I don't think she's necessarily a bad person or anything but it's that same thing of lack of awareness among comfortable liberals. Jo Brand used to be very strongly, explicitly anti-Tory and do a decent amount of material on that, but has mostly shut up on that front these days, probably to protect her career. Oh, Mark Thomas is good too I believe. Funny how literally everybody we've managed to list as "still good" has disappeared almost entirely off telly and radio though, yeah. WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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David Mitchell clearly has dumb lib views but at least seems to be smart enough to keep his loving mouth shut on the real hot button issues most of the time. I used to love Brooker and really hoped he might have the self-respect to not fall into the lazy centrist rabbit hole, but oh well. Frankie Boyle too, but at least he had the decency to look remotely ashamed as he sold out to keep his cushy bbc gig.
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I think limmy might be one of the few successful comedians I genuinely respect. Working class former alkie getting a big break with the BBC is impressive enough, but the fact that he got a few series out then got the gently caress out of dodge with his winnings and dignity intact and now makes what seems to be a very comfortable living playing videogames on the internet hundreds of miles away from the London media circuit is genuinely very cool.
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ThomasPaine posted:David Mitchell clearly has dumb lib views but at least seems to be smart enough to keep his loving mouth shut on the real hot button issues most of the time. A lot of the younger (ie under 40) comedians seem to do that more often than not these days too. Or they're just utterly indifferent to all of it or are terrified to say anything one way or the other.
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Apr 14, 2021 21:39
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All the TV comedians came through private schools or Oxbridge unis.
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stev posted:A lot of the younger (ie under 40) comedians seem to do that more often than not these days too. Or they're just utterly indifferent to all of it or are terrified to say anything one way or the other. That said I quite enjoyed Fern Brady getting as close to accusing Russell Brand of sexually assaulting her as it is humanly possible to do without being willing to go to court lol
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Gonzo McFee posted:All the TV comedians came through private schools or Oxbridge unis. Isn't that just everyone high profile in UK tv in general? ITV has pet northerners but they're for soft mockery.
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Regarde Aduck posted:Isn't that just everyone high profile in UK tv in general? ITV has pet northerners but they're for soft mockery. It's been basically every new star over the past forty years. Acting is piss easy yet all the roles go to the fifth Earl of West Cuntburry's Nephew and Niece.
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Apr 14, 2021 21:51
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Failed Imagineer posted:I'm going to continue to nurse a mental blindspot for Brooker cause he's so good at slagging off Tories and some of Black Mirror is good. Aren't all the presenter jokes written by Merton/Hislop anyway? HIGNFY is for the rotating jobless in a hope to get some BBC exec to remember their name when the last season on Taskmaster turn it down.
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https://twitter.com/LiamThorpECHO/status/1382422510210269187?s=19 Any excuse, eh?
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Gonzo McFee posted:All the TV comedians came through private schools or Oxbridge unis. Does Ross Noble count as a TV comedian? He's pretty down to earth I think but no idea where is politics lie. E: Sean Lock seems ok too, and from the younger bunch Jon Richardson also seems ok. Lungboy fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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Apr 14, 2021 21:57
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Lungboy posted:He's pretty down to earth
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Lungboy posted:Does Ross Noble count as a TV comedian? He's pretty down to earth I think but no idea where is politics lie. He's just a man with ADHD.
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Mother is donating a DVR/VCR to an older lady in her 90s who needs a VHS player. But we can't find the remote. I don't know anything about universal remotes, do you think one might be able to work on this? It is a Toshiba and has scart not HDMI connector. I've googled like crazy but can't find relevant info. I think it can be worked from the front if we can't get a remote but I don't know the old lady's capabilities (her daughter is getting it for her.)
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Failed Imagineer posted:I'm going to continue to nurse a mental blindspot for Brooker cause he's so good at slagging off Tories and some of Black Mirror is good. Munin posted:It's also why he is no longer on TV. There is that - but what left wing comedians are there who could go on HIGNY, or any other panel show of that sort? I'd think that anyone who gets far enough to make the sort of connections to end up on a show is going to be centre left at best by default - and definitely a bit of a lib. Basically this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLcpcytUnWU but for any media medium you care to think about.
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/LiamThorpECHO/status/1382422510210269187?s=19 quote:Posting after the government was forced to change course over exam results, she accused the Labour leader of 'attempting to bask in the victory of a hard won U-turn by thousands of students.' shitehawk fits? e: ah they printed an extra letter of the forbidden word previously and I think it's actually shithouse https://twitter.com/ofthesparrows/status/1295754493049614336?s=19 quote:Social media attack tells 'Brylcreemed sh******e' Labour leader he and deputy Angela Rayner 'should be worried' clearly they got too many complaints, possibly someone died of shock, who knows XMNN fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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happyhippy posted:Aren't all the presenter jokes written by Merton/Hislop anyway? Merton and Hislop don't even write their own jokes.
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ThomasPaine posted:I think limmy might be one of the few successful comedians I genuinely respect. Working class former alkie getting a big break with the BBC is impressive enough, but the fact that he got a few series out then got the gently caress out of dodge with his winnings and dignity intact and now makes what seems to be a very comfortable living playing videogames on the internet hundreds of miles away from the London media circuit is genuinely very cool. He did a really good interview with Richard Herring that was recorded right before covid kicked off proper but aired after lockdown started where Herring was making GBS threads on the idea of streaming games and what a waste it was of Limmy's talent that he wasn't doing any more live shows or TV series (in a "things that actually matter" kind of way) that was bumpered with a post-lockdown fairly contrite Herring asking people to subscribe to his own new Twitch stream.
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