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I think Vanguard has changed its name to try and capitalize on the attention being given to the NatC conference, and because you can't call yourself a vanguard when you're just running around reacting against Current Thing. (And because they got less votes than UKIP and the party that if elected won't show up.) e: OwlFancier posted:I would assume the nutters (the other nutters) saw the NatC conference and decided to try and cash in on the branding. 34 is more votes than Vanguard Party (UK) got in the last election they took part in. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Jun 14, 2023 |
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Payndz posted:It's a weird experience, though. When they're not actually shooting a scene, there's a comedian literally running around the stands trying to keep the energy level high, which must be exhausting because more time is spent not shooting than otherwise, and it's a loooooong day. This is still a thing for any comedy show with an audience. I've been in the audience for Taskmaster and Hypothetical and you would have the warm up guy come out any time they needed to move a prop or set things up. Then again, they also had a warm up comedian for Deal or no Deal. Went to watch that filmed several times. They even had a loyalty card for regular audience members.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Isn't there a law against registering a party with a name that might mislead voters, i.e. "the real conservatives, tick here for free money" party? Might be stymied by the existing tories. I think that's more if you register, like, The Labor Party or The Tory Party
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I wanna know more about these warm up guys, they just warm you up for like 8 hours?
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fuctifino posted:I guess we're a one policy nation now Isn't "no stone unturned" what you say when you're looking for something
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:And also That Mitchell and Webb Look, which has given us some all-time greats. The dinner party planning sketches where they play a gay couple bemoaning having to invite James Bond/Shaggy and Scooby Doo are very underrated. ‘I’m not inviting a man called Shaggy. I don’t even know if it’s his real name or some hollow sexual boast.’ E: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eWXMJP1J-3Y&pp=ygUYTWl0Y2hlbGwgYW5kIHdlYmIgc2hhZ2d5 Jakabite fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Jun 14, 2023 |
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sebzilla posted:e2: And of course Tamsin Grieg (and Stephen Mangan too) were in Episodes with Matt Le Blanc, which takes us neatly back to where we started! Episodes was great. Has anyone here seen The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret? I feel like I'm the only person who's watched that.
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Bobstar posted:Episodes was great.
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Jakabite posted:The dinner party planning sketches where they play a gay couple bemoaning having to invite James Bond/Shaggy and Scooby Doo are very underrated. This show was originally on Radio 4 Comedy and has 2-3 series on that, and had a lot of the same skits including the Dinner Party planning ones. So I would recommend to try find that. Mighy Boosh was a radio show before too.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Isn't there a law against registering a party with a name that might mislead voters, i.e. "the real conservatives, tick here for free money" party? Might be stymied by the existing tories. I would be more concerned that their party abbreviates to Nazi and no one bothered to change it. Even the Cuck guys tried CUKTIG. Waiting for the armbands with the totally traditional British symbol of a swastika/black sun.
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We should rebrand from socialism to 'jolly co-operation' and also have a sun for a logo.
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Nadine's un-resigned https://twitter.com/NadineDorries/status/1669060279190052867
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Bobstar posted:Episodes was great. I watched some of it. I can't remember why I didn't watch the rest, I seem to remember enjoying it.
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fuctifino posted:Nadine's un-resigned Tesseraction posted:George is the best character on the show hands down imo.
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smellmycheese posted:Comedy chat and no one has yet mentioned the Fast Show? The Monty Python of the coked up 90s? Of course i did.  Scorchio!!!
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Don't think I saw it but Coupling was one that came out when I was at uni and I liked. No idea how well it has aged.
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Sad Panda posted:Don't think I saw it but Coupling was one that came out when I was at uni and I liked. No idea how well it has aged. Some definite problems but also some moments of pure genius. Sarah Alexander was one of my first celebrity crushes back in the day. Married to Peter Serafinowicz the lucky bastard.
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Smack the Pony was a bizarre mix of incredible and meh, speaking of Sarah Alexander. "Unfortunately, I'm also bone- astard idle" pops into my head on a daily basis.
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Necrothatcher posted:Father Ted is also really top tier stuff, but a bit difficult to enjoy nowadays because of... well, y'know. I might be in the minority here but I have no problem reccomending Father Ted, Black Books and IT Crowd despite Glinner. I suppose it might have been different had I followed their production at the time and particularly identified Linehan with the show instead of lovely people like Dermot Morgan and Richard Ayoade.
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Honestly having been present the filming of one of Linehan's co-written shows, he's always struck me as more just the guy with clout as opposed to the writing talent. I wholly believe the other people are the ones behind the funniest jokes. And his insanely defensive reaction to the IT Crowd's transphobic episode suggest to me that he really was behind the crappy parts.
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fuctifino posted:Nadine's un-resigned The funniest thing that could happen here is for the Treasury to take her very public statement that she’s standing down as an MP immediately as an implicit request to be appointed to the Chiltern Hundreds and to grant the appointment, much as they did with Gerry Adams. The downside being that some bright spark will realise that if you don’t have to accept the office, the Treasury then has the ability to arbitrarily boot out MPs from Parliament by appointing them against their will…
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sebzilla posted:Some definite problems but also some moments of pure genius. Glinner was his brother in law for a bit (before Glinner's wife and kids left him), so not that lucky. Comedy chat reminds me, I should really watch Spaced again.
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SpaceCommie posted:Glinner was his brother in law for a bit (before Glinner's wife and kids left him), so not that lucky. Ah that reminds me of Red Dwarf. Another 'curates egg'. One of the very early episodes when the hologram bloke (can't remember his name) spent ages creating ever more elaborate exam revision timetables but somehow added an extra month in and ended up missing the actual exam. That was me. My highly optimistic & more beautiful revision timetables were definitely displacement activity for me and I'd always find myself swotting at 2am the night before. I tried an episode a couple of weeks ago after many years of having not seen it and it didn't really do it for me.
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Nilbop posted:I might be in the minority here but I have no problem reccomending Father Ted, Black Books and IT Crowd despite Glinner. I suppose it might have been different had I followed their production at the time and particularly identified Linehan with the show instead of lovely people like Dermot Morgan and Richard Ayoade. Big Train. Big Train is my big "Linehan being a oval office does not change my opinions on it", such a great cast with Mark Heap, Julia Davis, Simon Pegg, Kevin Eldon, Rebecca Front. It's not the best sketch show of the 90s because Jam exists, but I think it has aged slightly better than The Fast Show. But that may just be because it has fewer of the recurring catchphrases/characters. Although if you want to talk about aged poorly, Kevin Eldon playing a dying Chairman Mao who bursts into a rendition of Virginia Plain in yellow face is not the sort of thing you'd do now. But I do think by their nature sketches shows will always be hit and miss. Talking of underappreciated, I'll always be grateful to my cousins university flatmates for introducing me to 15 Stories High, Sean Lock's very low key but slightly surreal sitcom, which I think is on the iPlayer these days
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I started watching Monkey Dust again a couple weeks ago. drat that’s a good show if you can deal with the very dark humor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuMfb4syEHA cat botherer fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Jun 15, 2023 |
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Jordy boy uses a pronoun to say he won't use pronouns. The respondent uses two pronouns to say they won't be using them. https://twitter.com/CrawfCol/status/1669036201108463619?s=20
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:And also That Mitchell and Webb Look, which has given us some all-time greats. It has forever changed the way my friend group says 'cheese' and 'petrol'
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Every time the wife and I are at a garden centre I chant 'calendula wisteria leylandii' under my breath.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Ah that reminds me of Red Dwarf. Another 'curates egg'. One of the very early episodes when the hologram bloke (can't remember his name) spent ages creating ever more elaborate exam revision timetables but somehow added an extra month in and ended up missing the actual exam. That was me. I think you'll find this was something Rob & Doug added for the first novel, after they'd thought about the backstory a bit more than "here's a ship with two chicken soup repairmen on it, now everyone else is dead and they have to watch triangular videotapes for eternity".
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Boozy Boz Barred from Westminster https://twitter.com/johnestevens/status/1669254434356969473?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg
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smellmycheese posted:Appears he got off lightly. The SNP wanted to dynamite him harsh but fair
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smellmycheese posted:Appears he got off lightly. The SNP wanted to dynamite him Have they tried just feeding him a single, wafer-thin mint
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smellmycheese posted:Appears he got off lightly. The SNP wanted to dynamite him finally
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