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I tried to watch the latest QI on iPlayer last night and Nina Conti was such a comedy blackhole I couldn't make it past her first little skit. The other guests just seemed to be uncomfortable and wondering why she was there. It would have been funnier if she had her hand up the arse of an actual old woman.
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I'm related to a famous ventriloquist. I wish I wasn't. I hate that duck 
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Oct 17, 2011 10:46
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You could just see Sean Locke thinking 'It's a loving puppet! Stop talking to the puppet. It's not real! Are you mad?' ... but he wasn't allowed to say it.
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Oct 17, 2011 10:46
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It was the most unfunny thing I've seen on TV since Andy Parsons entire career.
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Oct 17, 2011 11:11
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Unkempt posted:You could just see Sean Locke thinking 'It's a loving puppet! Stop talking to the puppet. It's not real! Are you mad?'
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Oct 17, 2011 11:12
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Oh dear. I don't even like it when they start talking to somebody in the audience, never mind having one of them on the panel. Think I'll give this week's one a miss. Re: panel shows, do they have them in America? We had one over at the weekend and we watched hignfy and wilty on the iplayer and he loved them so much I'm surprised he didn't crawl over to the telly and lick it. It didn't occur to me to ask him whether that format had caught on in the states.
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Oct 17, 2011 11:40
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thehustler posted:I hate that duck I always heard America didn't really have panel shows because the majority of the audience didn't understand having a "quiz" where the goal isn't really to win, but for everybody to be as entertaining as they can be.
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Oct 17, 2011 11:57
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Wormophile posted:Oh dear. I don't even like it when they start talking to somebody in the audience, never mind having one of them on the panel. Think I'll give this week's one a miss. No, whenever this gets asked people always say they have trouble with the concept of points/winning meaning nothing and just playing to make the audience laugh seems weird to them.
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Oct 17, 2011 11:57
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I know I'm like last on the oh god a mad puppet woman on QI train but holy poo poo those things are genuinely unnerving and it's just not my type of humour.
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Oct 17, 2011 12:11
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Wormophile posted:Oh dear. I don't even like it when they start talking to somebody in the audience, never mind having one of them on the panel. Think I'll give this week's one a miss. No, do watch it. The puppet bits are terrible sure, but there's some great material outside of that (especially when they give the normal panelists little puppets)
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Oct 17, 2011 12:16
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Fatkraken posted:No, do watch it. The puppet bits are terrible sure, but there's some great material outside of that (especially when they give the normal panelists little puppets)
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Oct 17, 2011 12:21
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The bit with Bill breaking the panel buzzer had me laughing I have to admit.
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Oct 17, 2011 12:29
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thehustler posted:I'm related to a famous ventriloquist. I wish I wasn't. The 'dirty'orville show that he tours with is amazing tho
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Oct 17, 2011 12:39
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Would I Lie To You is the best panel show on TV. The chemistry between Mitchell, Brydon, & Mack is excellent.
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Oct 17, 2011 12:42
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FreakyZoid posted:Is it true what Herring said about one of your relative's characters? I haven't heard it, what did he say?
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Oct 17, 2011 13:02
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Would I Lie To You is the best panel show on TV. The chemistry between Mitchell, Brydon, & Mack is excellent. I completely agree, I don't usually like Lee Mack that much but he fits right in there. When Mitchell and Mack get into an argument it's great, you can really tell that they love doing the show.
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Oct 17, 2011 13:11
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Would I Lie To You is the best panel show on TV. The chemistry between Mitchell, Brydon, & Mack is excellent. I absolutely lost it at the half-shaven beardface argument.
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Oct 17, 2011 13:20
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I find Lee Mack to be the unfunniest man on TV. I haven't seen this week's QI yet, but I fail to see how even a loving ventriloquist could bring the show down as much as he did a few weeks ago. Having said that, yes, for some reason he works well with Mitchell on WILTY.
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Oct 17, 2011 13:21
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The Supreme Court posted:I absolutely lost it at the half-shaven beardface argument. Every man capable of growing hair on their face has done that at some point, I refuse to believe otherwise.
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Oct 17, 2011 13:26
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Wormophile posted:Re: panel shows, do they have them in America? We had one over at the weekend and we watched hignfy and wilty on the iplayer and he loved them so much I'm surprised he didn't crawl over to the telly and lick it. It didn't occur to me to ask him whether that format had caught on in the states. Speaking as a Yank that lived in the UK when HIGNFY was just getting started: no, not really. There are panel discussion-type shows (such as "Real Time With Bill Maher"), but none that are treated like a game show in the same HIGNFY-style format. There are different theories as to why we have a distinct lack of HIGNFY-style shows. The most likely theory is that the networks just figure most of us 'murricans are too dumb to realize the difference between something like "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and HIGNFY, and would get confused at the arbitrary assignation of points and all the people going off on comedic tangents instead of properly answering the question. This theory is further bolstered when you realize that on the American version of "Whose Line is it Anyway?", the host constantly told people "everything's made up and the points don't matter, they're just a gag to hold the show together" which is something Clive Anderson never had to do. I'm sure if someone actually did a HIGNFY-style show over here, it'd take off like gangbusters; while there are a lot of dumb people here, there are a lot of dumb people everywhere, and they still probably get better television than we do. 
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Oct 17, 2011 14:24
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David Mitchell is the funniest man on TV.
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Oct 17, 2011 14:30
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sebzilla posted:Every man capable of growing hair on their face has done that at some point, I refuse to believe otherwise. And experimented with every beard style possible via shaving in increments! Soul patch and Hitler 'tache was the most horrendous beardstyle I've ever come up with, but it was quite neat. Ready for junior apprentice tonight?
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Oct 17, 2011 14:33
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The Supreme Court posted:Ready for junior apprentice tonight? Not to ruin your day but I thought that was next week? 
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Oct 17, 2011 14:46
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Infected Mushroom posted:Not to ruin your day but I thought that was next week? Balls. I can't watch it next week 
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Oct 17, 2011 15:11
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Grandpa Pap posted:I'm sure if someone actually did a HIGNFY-style show over here, it'd take off like gangbusters; while there are a lot of dumb people here, there are a lot of dumb people everywhere, and they still probably get better television than we do. The only problem would be the lack of centrists in America that can be political without alienating half the country. Having one captain be on the right and one on the left (Drew Carey and say, Lewis Black? John Oliver? Chris Rock?) and pitting them against each other could work, as long as they're likeable. But that's not exactly "the winner doesn't matter", the vibe might be a bit too competitive. The best host they could ever get? Bill Clinton.
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Oct 17, 2011 16:35
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The Supreme Court posted:Balls. I can't watch it next week It is next week. And I might not be able to watch it either, depending on how late into the evening a work meal drags.
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Oct 17, 2011 16:38
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I know it's been mentioned but how, how, does Lorraine Pascale have a cook show. Tonight she literally made a pepperami wrapped in pre made puff pastry. I mean thats not even edible food far less an actual recipe.
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Oct 17, 2011 20:50
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Oh god there's a celeb edition of Bake Off coming..
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Oct 17, 2011 21:11
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Oh god there's a celeb edition of Bake Off coming..  Don't you play with me boy.
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Oct 17, 2011 21:32
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Oh god there's a celeb edition of Bake Off coming.. Nooo, my precious little show is going to be eaten alive, overpackaged, tarted up and turned into a sad clone of Masterchef/Come Dine With Me. Don't do it, Mary Berry!
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Oct 17, 2011 21:32
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Oh god there's a celeb edition of Bake Off coming.. gross. whiny, dramatic, egoistic celebs are the exact opposite of the amazing regular people with talent and passion like mary-anne that make the show good.
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Oct 17, 2011 21:37
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As long as every single celeb is sue perkins I will be cool with this.
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Oct 17, 2011 21:49
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Wormophile posted:As long as every single celeb is sue perkins I will be cool with this.
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Oct 17, 2011 21:56
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My... my bake off 
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Oct 17, 2011 22:01
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I don't really know much more than this http://www.thegreatbritishbakeoff.com/celebrity-great-british-bake-off/ because it's being edited at the place I'm working at, so I'm not much help with who's on it and whatnot.
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Oct 17, 2011 22:17
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Wormophile posted:As long as every single celeb is sue perkins I will be cool with this. The only good "celebrity" style Bake-Off would be if Giles Coren & Sue Perkins reunited and attempted to make a croquembouche. It would be amazing. After an hour the kitchen would be razed to the ground and in the smouldering remains Giles and Sue would be getting blitzed on a bottle of cooking wine, singing a dirty song about a hedgehog and flinging uncooked lumps of dough at Paul Hollywood.
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Oct 17, 2011 22:17
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Irisi posted:The only good "celebrity" style Bake-Off would be if Giles Coren & Sue Perkins reunited and attempted to make a croquembouche. I found out Giles hates Polish people something fierce today, put me off him a bit.
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Oct 17, 2011 22:28
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Irisi posted:iles and Sue would be getting blitzed on a bottle of cooking wine, singing a dirty song about a hedgehog and flinging uncooked lumps of dough at Paul Hollywood.
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Oct 17, 2011 22:54
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FAT WORM OF ERROR posted:I found out Giles hates Polish people something fierce today, put me off him a bit. What, where did you find that out.
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Sion posted:What, where did you find that out. quote:In his next article, on 26 July 2008, Coren said his Jewish ancestors had been persecuted by Poles. He stated that Poles used to burn Jews in synagogues for entertainment at Easter; and that Poland is in denial about its role in the Holocaust. He used the racial slur "Polack" to describe immigrant Poles, arguing that "if England is not the land of milk and honey it appeared to them three or four years ago, then, frankly, they can clear off out of it". quote:Coren responded: "I wrote in passing that the Poles remain in denial about their responsibility for the Holocaust. How gratifying, then, to see so many letters in The Times in the subsequent days from Poles denying their responsibility for the Holocaust." He also told The Jewish Chronicle: "gently caress the Poles"
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