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apparently the most recent Creek episodes weren't especially good (according to reviews and people) but I still really liked them, easy to please maybe but I think the formula is just so good that it's difficult for me not to enjoy it

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Zorba the Greek posted:

I have never, ever seen an episode of Johnaton Creek. I have heard that it's pretty crap though...

you been talking to the wrong people son, Jonathan Creek owns

# ¿ Nov 4, 2010 20:13

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HoldYourFire posted:

Holy poo poo Pat Sharp was the presenter of Fun House?! I altered my memory to make it Noel Edmonds

i literally did the exact same thing and was surprised to find out recently Noel Edmonds never presented Funhouse

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# ¿ Nov 5, 2010 00:33

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has the new peep show been broadcast yet or is it just online?

# ¿ Nov 20, 2010 17:21

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le chat posted:

Family guy will forever loving suck mind

one of my housemates was gobsmacked when I said old Simpsons was way better than Family Guy. He said Simpsons was poo poo and for kids and then went around asking everyone which they preferred

they all prefer Family Guy :negative:

# ¿ Nov 24, 2010 11:40

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SeanBeansShako posted:

Well poo poo, Gene Kelly just passed away out of nowhere .

that's not Gene Kelly :colbert:

man I love Gene Kelly, he was my childhood hero for some reason

# ¿ Nov 28, 2010 13:47

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Idioteque Dance posted:

Good thing the topic is about standup at the moment because that's what I came here to ask. Stewart Lee is my favourite standup artist going and I love his brand of alternative comedy. In that regard I love Richard Herring's shows too due to it being a different kind of humour, aside from the usual observational standup.

What I want to ask is which alterative standup artists I look into next, with Stewart Lee being a favourite? I know he's getting quite popular again but his style is still really something else (and I absolutely loving love it).

His style is not really similar to Stewart Lee's at all but Hans Teeuwen has a really good "alternative" standup show, it's often really weird and I've not seen anything like it but it's very funny. One of the few standup acts I really like, check out his Live in London dvd I think some of it is on youtube for a start

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# ¿ Dec 1, 2010 18:09

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Akuma posted:

I don't watch Hollyoaks, but sometimes it gets left on while I'm doing stuff, and the episode that's just finishing now is actually not completely poo poo. Except for the cheesy, unnecessary flashback-voiceover just now.

I actually watched a bit of it for the first time in ages yesterday and it seemed worse than ever. Lots of new characters who really can't act have come in and the storylines are still mental. Something about a 12 year old girl who is pregnant and someone is annoyed about it because she can't have a baby and tried to steal one once. This was all just mentioned in casual conversation as well. Also somebody appears to have come back from the dead.

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lmao

is Dom really a paedo or was he set up? always thought he was written as one of the best people in there. Pretty much everyone in Hollyoaks has done at least a few things that make them loving terrible people though

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yeah I love how every so often Hollyoaks introduces a character that is just completely mental and ends up killing a few people, usually in a fire.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2010 17:15

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Flatscan posted:

I vaguely recall that being a big problem for the yank version of Whose Line Is It Anyway, but I might be wrong.

I think you're probably right, every time I've watched that Drew Carey says many times throughout the show "and remember folks, the points don't matter". I can't remember that ever being said in any panel shows here, they just get on with it

# ¿ Dec 3, 2010 14:50

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lionlegs posted:

One of my favourite films, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, is on iPlayer currently: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00s3v0w/The_Diving_Bell_and_the_Butterfly/

Very affecting film, I remember coming out of the cinema in a daze. Highly highly recommend it.

I've been meaning to watch this for a long time

<3 iplayer

# ¿ Dec 4, 2010 07:48

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goatface posted:

Watching last nights Buzzcocks. Tim Westwood is a parody of himself.

yeah he's ridiculous

still high fived him in a club he was DJing at though, if only to say I had

# ¿ Dec 4, 2010 20:52

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meme posted:

I'm not a big fan of Merton or Hislop, but they do provide a base level of comedy and they're basically just secondary/tertiary hosts. No belly laughs, but, you know, it'd be worse without them.

thing is though, Merton did used to be a lot better than he is on it now and possibly the same could be said for Hislop. They still do alright but have been better

# ¿ Dec 5, 2010 16:58

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Fatkraken posted:

That's the one with pear cider (made with 100% real pear(s)) right? Saw that one live, it was loving stunning.

yep, I also saw it live and it was indeed stunning

# ¿ Dec 6, 2010 11:40

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ibroxmassive posted:

Is that what I was getting the piss taken out of me for?

I haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about sorry

# ¿ Dec 6, 2010 11:55

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SeanBeansShako posted:

I enjoy Top Gear, but to me it really just boils down to slightly amusing middle aged blokes driving all sorts of cars.

I guess this series of Peepshow isn't that enjoyable for some at all?

If you mean because nobody is talking about it in here, that's because it has its own thread. And for what it's worth I thought the most recent episode was excellent

# ¿ Dec 6, 2010 18:00

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yeah I'm actually looking forward to seeing Richard Ayoade in it, I've no idea what he'll be like but he's been excellent in everything I've seen him do and I imagine he's a naturally funny guy. Alan Carr and Michael McIntyre can gently caress off though

# ¿ Dec 17, 2010 00:37

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I've not really heard anything bad about Emma Watson either, she seems alright to me.

# ¿ Dec 20, 2010 20:40

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Trickjaw posted:

Dear me. Always wanted to do rude things to Sohie Ellis-Bextor, now her mum hoves into view and reignights Blue Peter fuelled mumsy fancies. Not my mum. Brr

that come dine with me just made me fancy Susie Amy a lot

# ¿ Dec 22, 2010 23:11

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LE0N posted:

Rubber dingy rapids is kayvan novak? really?

are you doing your confused face?

# ¿ Dec 24, 2010 04:07

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FAT WORM OF ERROR posted:

worked for dawn porter

with her shows though there was always the idea that she might get her tits out

# ¿ Dec 30, 2010 04:03

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I really hope in the new series of Skins they just make it fun, in the last two series everyone was basically just intensely moody and depressed the entire time and I'd rather see them take a much more lighthearted approach.

# ¿ Dec 31, 2010 11:12

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Brown Moses posted:

Is it a new Jonathan Creek tonight?

it's a repeat of "The Judas Tree" which is one of the more recent specials, possibly the most recent

# ¿ Dec 31, 2010 11:36

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I think that looks interesting actually, it's apparently only going for seven episodes at first and is only written by a couple of people so already the signs are that it's not going to be some typical American style sitcom

# ¿ Jan 2, 2011 21:44

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we've had hollyoaks and eastenders chat a number of times, the archers is no worse

# ¿ Jan 3, 2011 03:16

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Friends is being axed from C4 and E4 sometime this year, not sure exactly when though. It will probably just be replaced with something comparable like How I Met Your Mother

# ¿ Jan 4, 2011 09:44

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everyone has watched Friends though

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I really hated what I saw of HIMYM before deciding to watch the first episode just out of boredom and I grew to quite like it. It's not especially good but it does have its moments and it's light and easy

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NaDy posted:

All his other live shows are on 4OD, If you haven't already, I suggest you watch them, they are all amazing.

The best thing about that show I thought was when he takes the loving engraved coin out and it's that womans grandmother's name. I can see how he did most other things through the power of suggestion but that was insane.

I think the weirdest poo poo is what he does in one of his other live shows, where he just gets someone at random from the audience and says something very, very specific about them. Like for one person it was that he had a pot of surfboard wax called SEX in his pocket, and with another he gets the persons name (a very uncommon ethnic name) and can tell he's nervous about going abroad for the first time :psyduck:

only things I can think it would be is mics everywhere or stooges but I think he picks these people out with a frisbee

# ¿ Jan 7, 2011 04:25

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Mark Watson's blog post is from April last year, bit slow on the uptake isn't he. Anyway, he's made himself look like a complete bellend there

# ¿ Jan 7, 2011 14:03

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nationalista posted:

I'm not sure if anyone will be interested in this, but I caught this on the BBC News Channel last night and it made me far angrier than it reasonably should have:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00x79g5/HARDtalk_Robin_Gibb/

Robin Gibb of The Bee Gees proclaiming that 'music today is terrible, not like in my day " and demonstrating just how far someone can disappear up their own arse.

The BBC's flimsy grasp on popular culture is getting worse. I thought this programme was supposed to be some kind of hard-hitting discussion, or a grilling of the guest, not a rambling ego massage.

yeah I'm inclined to agree with you after watching for about 10 minutes, he's really pretty smug about how good he is/was

# ¿ Jan 7, 2011 15:24

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Graviton v2 posted:

Im no real fan of theirs or anything but they can actually sing and play which cant be said of the majority of the cack in the top 40.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlehycyTGT8

I know, they're good musicians who know how to write great pop songs but he didn't half keep going on about how many records they'd sold and how many pop stars they've written songs for and how not many people can do natural harmonies but I can etc

and yeah, like thehustler said there is loving tons of great music coming out all the time, always has been, and it's annoying when people make generalisations about music based solely upon the very very mainstream

# ¿ Jan 7, 2011 16:39

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SeanBeansShako posted:

Because Stayin' Alive was the pinnacle of humanities musical culture.

tbf i love the bass in that song, it owns

# ¿ Jan 7, 2011 16:41

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Akuma posted:

I don't really get the "selling cider to teenagers" thing... Is it selling to teenagers just by virtue of being cider? It's hardly youth-centred, is it?

I think it's playing up that stereotype of teens buying a cheap bottle of cider and getting drunk in parks and bus stops and shite

and yeah, I don't see a problem with Mark Watson doing an ad for it. Frankie Boyle calls him a sellout but he's hardly compromising his principles is he? He just got offered an easy and presumably well paid job and took it, I'm not sure what the issue is

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Ezzie posted:

I don't watch any soaps, but these Hollyoaks/Eastender's plot lines make me think you guys are making poo poo up.

Hugging a scare crow whilst mourning the loss of your cot-death child. Really?!?

in the last episode of Hollyoaks I watched, a girl who wants to be a boy jumped in front of a car that her ex boyfriend was joy riding. Hollyoaks owns

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Pablo Bluth posted:

Every single time I see Sandi Toksvig I think "Didn't she die?", then remember I'm thinking of Linda Smith. Every time.

I wish she had died instead of Linda Smith, she's crap

# ¿ Jan 15, 2011 15:32

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Forty Two posted:

How have I never heard of Dead Set before?! Just started watching it and it's really drat good. I can't believe I didn't know that Brooker had written his own TV series.

E: Davina McCall just got eaten by a zombie. This is brill

Charlie Brooker also co-wrote Nathan Barley with Chris Morris, which was brilliant too.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2011 23:23

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yeah I don't really care for Boosh very much but I do quite like Noel Fielding.

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I actually kind of like Episodes. It's not especially funny but it's not unfunny either and it's quite watchable. I think someone else in here said it's kind of more like a light drama, idk if that's what they were going for but I can certainly see it that way.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2011 21:09

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