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Mickolution posted:There was also talks of a Spaced remake a few years ago. If I remember correctly, it was focused mainly on the idea of two people pretending to be a couple to get an apartment, an idea I had pretty much forgotten from Spaced and certainly not the main thread of the series. Also, there was already a US series based on the same idea, Ned & Stacey. Doesn't this all go back to Man About the House / Three's Company if they only care about the initial setup?
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piratepilates posted:Now that leads me to a question as someone not from the UK, how was David Baddiel at some point popular? Baddiel's 'as a famous comedian, I'm just as qualified as a trained x' on Monkey Dust was good, but he lost any good will from me after being on AIOTM - he described his routine about the 'school spanner', then after receiving a letter from said spanner's sister, asking him to show some compassion as his life had been effectively ruined by years of bullying and abuse, he just waved it off as 'well he was the school spanner so he deserved it'. Chubby Henparty fucked around with this message at 13:27 on Dec 23, 2012 |
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Cerv posted:This is a new and exciting definition of "realistic" I've never encountered before. I just watched the first ever episode, I wonder if they were making a point with him playing the "I'm a (higher ranking) policeman, don't even try and touch me" card a bunch of times.
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Matt Berry makes me want to adopt bizarre affectations that I'll never be able to pull off, I want to say "casual" in about 5 syllables and make it last 10 seconds.
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Royality posted:Toast of London is pretty watchable actually, even if not laugh out loud funny. And I'm fairly sure most of Matt Berry's comic talent is derived from his ability to say words in disjointed ways. I'm loving it. I imagine it'll be like Snuff Box for me - not the greatest comedy ever but there's something hypnotic about it that means if I want to watch one sketch I'll end up watching the entire series end-to-end. Also anything else with East-End-Gangster in it. I figured in Snuff Box a lot of the smuttier jokes would be Fulcher's but from Toast it appears not! Also, love the constant stream of comedy names leading up to "Benedict Cumberpatch's balls in the palm of my hand" "Who?" Chubby Henparty fucked around with this message at 12:21 on Nov 13, 2013 |
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Irisi posted:Heads up, my lovelies, BBC Radio 4 Extra is repeating Chris Morris' Blue Jam, starting this Friday at 11pm. The music selection during these shows, peak Bristol-sound, crazy ambient and more, is perfect. (at least for me, still listening to what I guess were original rips regularly)
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Feb 26, 2014 01:18
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Did he really sell a hifi with the front facade made to look like separate-brand individual components? Because that is actually genius.
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Jul 7, 2015 13:54
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Rondette posted:The first time I remember 'Literally' being used as a thing was in some early series of Peep Show. I wonder if it's modern genesis sprang from that. Here's a bit from Frasier in 1993 (tried to find youtube but script came up first) code:
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Nov 27, 2015 15:31
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Hugely confused between the above and Harry Peacock/Ray Purchase. I'd like to know more about that guy.
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(Not in response to the post above) W1A is good and often shifts from wacky to cringe unexpectedly.
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Apparently there's a new BBC America Dirk Gently's coming up without Stephen Mangan and with Elijah Wood as the straight man. Could be good? They might have to file down the 'there is no uni but oxford. end of' but would be great if they can do a good crossover/shout-out when they visit the professor there.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Yeah, I'd read the hell out of that. It always bothered me how he went from someone you were supposed to think was a complete arsehole to them writing him as a character the audience should root for. Was it the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 that Gene does a big speech about it being a bad thing, and that all right minded and good people should be against it, causing the poncy minister to disappear in a puff of stuffiness?
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Red Oktober posted:Which lines in particular? Just watched it through for the first time, great stuff. Thinking about this, the line about difficulties in getting child actors for that sort of production is a lot creepier. ... I can imagine the discussions about 70s beeb that sparked this episode ...'if that then probably this as well' Chubby Henparty fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Jan 1, 2017 |
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Fedule posted:Just dropping by TVIV to note that Sherlock S4 was a crock of poo poo and every part of it was bad except for literally any part involving Mrs Hudson. For some reason, Mrs Hudson is the one part of the show I don't numbly ingest. She's acted well but there's something wrong about 'lol I'm not a ~civilian~ (spit)'. Bet Watson's treated a few of the victims that made her husband's fortune in his clinic. Or Molly's seen a few of Mrs H's own hit and run victims herself.
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Lol at Watson having a jolly rum old time while gaslighting Mycroft after a psychopath literally shot him and might have made an orphan of his child
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How are there two men in a shabby million pound flat ready to leap into action 'when all else fails' if one will tell you to go gently caress yourself if you don't pique his particular interest
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Jan 18, 2017 12:37
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ookiimarukochan posted:Holmes/Sherlock homoeroticism I think technically that counts as incest first, homoerotic or otherwise. I'm sure there is fanart.
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Jan 18, 2017 18:26
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Lol edgey
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Jan 25, 2017 09:38
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When the Guardian's travel editor decided the paper would pay for his mate's son's gap yah to India, they justified it by saying the kid had written for Skins. The comments in the original and follow up articles are still a joy to read. Later on they gave the kid a spotlight piece about how the experience was the worst kind of cyberbullying.
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Jan 25, 2017 19:38
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Really hope this turns into a series of casting/booking mishaps ala Brian Cox
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Feb 1, 2017 16:41
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Last year several ladies at work came back from lunch all wobbly because they'd just seen Egg at a local deli.
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Feb 1, 2017 17:06
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Saw the New Year's episode, it's very pleasant and the period Parisian setting is a nice change. Atkinson is good playing... calm and dignified? The procedural side of it seems nicely quaint. Not that other British police shows go fully CSI, (what was the name of the other detective show on that night set in the 60s, it had Tim McInnery as a Northern union leader?) but being adapted from books of the time and not a recent creation makes a difference.
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Apr 2, 2017 21:32
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Disgusting Coward posted:Which is the more depressing - Cookdandbombd or Digital Spy? 10 years ago Cookdandbombd content was pages on pages of 'M..m..m...monkey cheese  '. There was a really great write up of why Ever Decreasing Circles was The Best Comedy though. What's it like now?
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May 3, 2017 09:30
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Always liked popbitch but weary of donating to them after an ill judged witness-recounts-lord-caught-loving-small-boy piece presented as a funny story and apparently not submitted as evidence to yew tree
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Sentinel Red posted:My favourite scene from the three eps was the old man delivering his crushingly sad tale of love and loss This post made me remember something I've wanted to follow up on for years: is there a legit way to watch Whitehouse and Langham's (yeah yeah) psychotherapy comedy thing Help?
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Dec 21, 2017 10:48
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Sod, I'd never put two and two together - I'd just caught one episode on a long haul flight 10 years back, and Whitehouse did this amazing, heartfelt monologue made up as an old man. I hope he is/gets considered for some serious drama roles instead of comedy accents. I'd prefer to think Langham's story is as was presented but who knows.
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Dec 21, 2017 13:42
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I'd be surprised if Mad Men wasn't the weird blip in his career of zany adventures at this point.
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Dec 28, 2017 11:01
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I wish Diana Wynne Jones had that Potter money. (think she's made comments to that effect too)
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Blue Jam is absolutely made by its music, even if Jam did give us The Day Kilroy Went Mad
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Christ why can't just one person in Collateral not be damaged and angry. I was praying the MI5 guy would turn out to be disarmingly pleasant and chirpy, even if just to show how far above the little people he was.
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Feb 20, 2018 18:41
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Really hoping the opening to next week's Collateral is 'Barbie Girl' panning over to Sandrine wallowing in the blood and intestines of bad-colonel and his wife. She's naked again, for some reason.
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Feb 27, 2018 13:17
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Those City and City promos look kind of BBC sci fi and family production, I'm hoping it's been done by whoever has churned out Taggart or Morsel or whatever with a nerd advisor on set
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She wasn't too bad but that toothy murder monster she had was terrifying.
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SEX BURRITO posted:This sounds amazing. Going to add it to my terrible Xmas music playlist. Maybe after Mel Smith & Kim Wilde doing Rocking Around the Christmas Tree? Please say they also did 'respectable'
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Aug 20, 2018 12:56
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SEX BURRITO posted:Oof yeah that’s a bad movie. I’d actually forgotten it existed. Completely pointless to bring the character back. The one, so obvious that in any other movie it would have been hack, thing they had to do to save it was have Brent make some small sacrifice for Doc Brown's character's career. It was almost brave that they instead go to poo poo and say 'no he was good and right to stick his guns and learn nothing'. quote:Sadly, it’s not very good. The humour of them using old timey language wears thin very quickly and there’s not much in the way of actual jokes. In the first episode I found about two moments amusing. It feels very much like a Thing Matt Berry Is In (additional swears by Matt Berry) than A Matt Berry Project.
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Bernard Woolley passed 
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I really hope the one about paring down thousands of horse racing bets until they found the one punter that won x in row, was true, because that was kinda breathtaking in its scope.
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crispix posted:BBC is putting Battlestar Galactica (2000s) box set on iPlayer and they're showing it on BBC2 tonight from 21:45. Seems like an odd thing for them to do but I like the show. Well, the first 2 seasons before it became wank Feels like about ten years since they did the same for The Wire just to get people to stop bothering them about it.
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I'm playing the rpg Divinity: Original Sin 1 and it's a cavalcade of uk voice actoooors hamming it up 100%, I love each and every villager troll and orc in this game. One of them (gate guard outside Silverglen Village) is doing his absolute best Matt Berry Voice, in every sense. It made me wonder, is that actually Berry's specific thing, or did he lift it from famous theatre traditions everyone should probably know like half Olivier's Othello and half textbook RADA, the Brian Blessed years, or something?
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Interesting, thanks! Hoping I'll catch some proto - Berry in A Man for All Seasons or something.
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