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steinrokkan posted:Agreed, it's a great show (or was, don't know if it's still running), the premise is that each host has to give a lecture on a given topic and trick the others into believing as many made up facts as possible (or contesting true facts) See also the vaguely related Two of these people are lying youtube series (with Tom Scott and friends).
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Waltzing Along posted:I love Noel Fielding. He looks like an elf or something to me. shame but he’s about to me #MeToo’d everything good in the UK is dead now
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Cyril Sneer posted:That was dire. No way!
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Cyril Sneer posted:That was dire. You miserable cynical bastard. Go to hell and take your bullshit with you. Crystal Thenis posted:shame but he’s about to me #MeToo’d You too. Put up or shut up. Funky See Funky Do fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Sep 22, 2023 |
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Funky See Funky Do posted:You miserable cynical bastard. Go to hell and take your bullshit with you. There's some muck-raking happening because he was pally with Brand and he apparently dated Pixie Geldof when she was 16, but who knows. All I know is if I ever get stuck in 2004 Camden with no way of every escaping, shoot me and every member of my ironic dayglo synthpop band and turn the corpses to ashes.
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steinrokkan posted:Yeah, they are humans and not American vat-grown androids. I've ran into a lotta Brit tourists and it's pretty debatable if they were human.
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Juliet Whisky posted:Jerry Sadowitz did a series for the BBC called 'The Pall-Bearer's Revue'. It was distinguished by being not only taken off-air after a single episode but also immediately deleted from the BBC archives. I managed to get a torrent version of it back in the early 2000s, grainy as gently caress and bad quality. The opening sequence is him hanging himself. The rest is just meh these days, but back then yeah it would be edgelord territory.
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steinrokkan posted:Agreed, it's a great show (or was, don't know if it's still running), the premise is that each host has to give a lecture on a given topic and trick the others into believing as many made up facts as possible (or contesting true facts) 29 series and still running, amazingly.
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Crystal Thenis posted:shame but he’s about to me #MeToo’d Probably not likely because Pixie Geldoff (The woman who would me-too him) has openly defended their relationship (relatively) recently, I think. Anyway Sean Locke.
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Oh, just popped into my head. I also like Aisling Bea (Irish though, not British) and Joe Lycett. Diane Morgan, perhaps better known as her character Philomena Cunk, is loving hilarious too. She's on Netflix now and you should definitely check out her documentary stuff.
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Bob Mortimor is a treasure, I could listen to him talk about his life(or make it up) all day. He has the best WILTY stories.
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The girl from Game Face. I forget her name was it's an odd one. Roisin Conaty. Gameface is great. I hope they do another series. Also that lady from This Way Up, she's great, too.
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Charles Bukowski posted:Bob Mortimor is a treasure, I could listen to him talk about his life(or make it up) all day. He has the best WILTY stories. We do beg your pardon but we are in your garden
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verbal enema posted:We do beg your pardon but we are in your garden We just always felt we were stealing something from the families
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Waltzing Along posted:The girl from Game Face. I forget her name was it's an odd one. Roisin Conaty. She was great on Man Down too
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Reginald D Hunter and Rich Hall
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Dr. Cool Aids posted:done much better by alan partridge: alpha papa The second the North Norfolk Digital logo comes up it’s non stop incredible for a good solid 10 minutes. It feels like they just put so much effort into starting as strong as possible. Always loved his radio show elements, especially with callers, and my god they hit that bit out the park.
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I visited years ago and there was this talk show on called 18 Stone of Idiot where the host was like a British Larry the Cable Guy
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That’ll be Johnny Vegas. National icon.
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EL BROMANCE posted:That’ll be Johnny Vegas. National icon. I've only seen him on taskmaster, and he seems like someone who ever evening goes to the pub, has a beer and a half, than cries the rest of the night away over the misery his life's become.
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one of my greatest fears is accidentally enjoying a british comedian. it’s like russian roulette but somehow less fair
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dr_rat posted:I've only seen him on taskmaster, and he seems like someone who ever evening goes to the pub, has a beer and a half, than cries the rest of the night away over the misery his life's become. https://youtu.be/JADmrVVz3bI?si=4D6qWgXnraxOPP8O You'll like this
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I was surprised when I learned that Frankie Boyle was an edgy comedian because his comedic persona on Taskmaster was just a grumpy scottish grandfather.
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SirSamVimes posted:I was surprised when I learned that Frankie Boyle was an edgy comedian because his comedic persona on Taskmaster was just a grumpy scottish grandfather. Yeah, about 15 years ago when he was first really coming into the spotlight, when I was a teenager, his comedy was pitch black and edgy. But he got out of that because, well, the zeitgeist moved on and so did his comedy. Still got the occasional hit of pitch black cynicism but much more tempered by, as you said, grumpy Scottish grandpa. Still fuckin giggle about the Tories and Mary Whitehouse wannabes getting pissed off with "I'm so old, my pussy is haunted" though because it dared to make an old joke about the queen AND use the word pussy
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SirSamVimes posted:I was surprised when I learned that Frankie Boyle was an edgy comedian because his comedic persona on Taskmaster was just a grumpy scottish grandfather. You are not allowed to show or do your comedy on Taskmaster, its not your show. Frankie is a vicious bastard in his live shows still these days. But hes like most others who survive to still be relevant 20 years later, they become 'dad comedians'. Tamer, more acceptable by mainstream, start writing books .
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Taeke posted:https://youtu.be/JADmrVVz3bI?si=4D6qWgXnraxOPP8O Haha, yep! Legit decent and funny poem and 100% what if you asked me what he'd write a poem, I would of guessed it would of been about!
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I wonder why panel shows are such a British thing? I know there's been an attempt or two to do US ones that have failed (maybe US comedians are less willing to play the fall-guy role that a lot of these shows seem to need?). Like, do they have their roots in posho parlour games that became radio shows that became TV Shows or something? One thing that is true - I cannot think of a single good British animated comedy. loving Stressed Eric?! Monkey Dust had its moments, but not enough to call it "good".
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Disco Pope posted:One thing that is true - I cannot think of a single good British animated comedy. loving Stressed Eric?! Monkey Dust had its moments, but not enough to call it "good". Bob and Margaret was mild and pleasant.
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I mean, Wallace and Gromit is pretty great
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free hubcaps posted:I mean, Wallace and Gromit is pretty great To be deliberately pedantic that was a claymated British comedy.
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Szyznyk posted:To be deliberately pedantic that was a claymated British comedy. To poo poo on your pedantic'ism with more so, claymation is a type of animation. It can still can 100% accurately be described as an animated film!
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Yea I was already being slightly pedantic in my first post, anything done in stop motion is absolutely considered animation. Speaking of which, while it's not entirely comedy I'm a huge sucker for the work of Cosgrove Hall
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Animation was usually a kids thing upto the Simpsons in the UK, probably in most countries. Outside of TV show intros, can't think of an adult aimed cartoon show before The Simpsons.
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dr_rat posted:I've only seen him on taskmaster, and he seems like someone who ever evening goes to the pub, has a beer and a half, than cries the rest of the night away over the misery his life's become. I’ve also only seen Johnny Vegas on Taskmaster. He looked pretty old and decrepit, when he did the raft on wheels task I thought he might not be able to finish. Then I look at his IMDb page and I’m a few months older than him!  
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Snowy posted:I’ve also only seen Johnny Vegas on Taskmaster. He looked pretty old and decrepit, when he did the raft on wheels task I thought he might not be able to finish. Then I look at his IMDb page and I’m a few months older than him! Watch the show he did back in the early 2000s called Ideal. He plays a drug dealer ( I deal geddit!) who never leaves the house, everyone comes to him. It has some of the greatest characters ever made. Cartoon Head and Psycho Paul.
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happyhippy posted:Watch the show he did back in the early 2000s called Ideal. It seems hard to find in the US but the first series is on archive.org, thanks for the heads up! https://archive.org/details/bbc-ideal-s-01-e-03-the-boyfriend-dvdrip-lkrg
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Disco Pope posted:I wonder why panel shows are such a British thing? I know there's been an attempt or two to do US ones that have failed (maybe US comedians are less willing to play the fall-guy role that a lot of these shows seem to need?). Like, do they have their roots in posho parlour games that became radio shows that became TV Shows or something? The argument I've seen come up lots of times is that Americans just don't understand a game show where no one cares about winning.
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I hear that a lot too, but did anyone ever care about winning in Whose Line? I think the main thing is, most panel shows are just a bit poo poo really.
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happyhippy posted:Animation was usually a kids thing upto the Simpsons in the UK, probably in most countries. monkey dust was amazing
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