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My thoughts exactly. It's all rather safe. I mean a gay comedian TV presenter/compère. POSITIVELY SHOCKING!
Agreed 100% Look how utterly ridiculous and self-indulgent the hit sketch show by Lucas and Walliams Little Britain became after the second series or so! A ton of money thrown at a thing once it becomes "big" often isn't the answer in popular culture. The first series of Little Britain is still the best, before all the flab was added.
Oh he is unfunny.
Indeed he is. To. A. Mind-numbing. Extent.
Most Brit comics sell out as soon as they get some success, Boyle like his hero Hicks has never done that.
Fair enough. What do you think of Stewart Lee, then?
He's crass but I still find him really funny (for the record I like Stewart Lee too, I've seen him live before).
Absolutely staggering. The height of sophisticated British humour.
I thought "Don't Scare The Hare" from a couple of years ago was as bad as it got for Saturday evening entertainment on the BBC.
Sadly, I was wrong.
I honestly think its the worst programme ever made. Even Naked Jungle on channel 5 had the comedy/novelty value of Cheggers with his cock out.
Monkey Tennis gets laughed out of TV Centre but Puppet Game Show gets green lit? Go figure.
The scary thing is we've even had "Cooking in Prison" X_X
Inner City Sumo would honestly be better than Puppet Game Show - even if it was done in a pub car park with a circle drawn in chalk.
Partridge is a visionary. Either that or the commissioning standards have dropped off a cliff since the stringent Tony Hayers died. This wouldn't have happened on his watch.
"You've got to keep the energy up" ;-)
So it was as shit as I thought it seemed then? I didn't watch it because I thought it looked awful.
I was going to post on how appalling it was but for once the Wizard was left speechless. It's the TV equivalent of paying 20m for Downing and look what happened to Kenny.
The only conceivable explanation I can possibly come up with is that someone at the Jim Henson corporation has a picture of Tony Hayers balls deep in a toddler and is threatening to go to Yewtree.
Norwegian/Danish comedy? We're getting a bit off piste now aren't we?
Although given that Scandinavian telly had the vision to bring us 'Richard Kiel & Verne Yroyer Meet the Swedish Bikini Team' (genuine programme that has to be seen to be believed - Youtube it) I'm prepared to give it a try.
In regard to actual programmes I saw the first episode of Big Bad World the other day with Neil from The Inbetweeners - and was disappointed.
British comedy is becoming more like American comedy -in-your-face and less subtle.
Recently I saw one of the worst examples of a comedy that combines British and American stars. Movie 43 - an absolutely abysmal experience featuring the likes of Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman and Stephen Merchant. On the American side the there was Anna Farris, Sean William Scott and Halle Berry.
It was intentionally bad but was trying so hard to be crude and offensive.
The first minute consists of the Halle Berry clip. 0.55 must be Halle's lowest point in her acting career - and we all know what film that includes.
And with Iannucci spending increasing amounts of time stateside it seems that soon there will only be Stewart Lee and Joe Pasquale left.
I like Stewart Lee I remember him from the Lee & Herring days, not seen much of his stand up though. I am aware that he said something about Boyle and he retaliated in typical Frankie fashion.
I have seen that puppet show abortion and it is beggars belief what passes for humour in this country these days.
I must say though one series caught my eye and I think it might be a marmite show. Count Arthur Strong with our own Bill Tanner the hugely talented Rory Kinnear.
It's particularly sit com like but it's co written by Graham Lineham with the title character star Steve Delaney. The beauty of the show that the Count on his own could become tiresome and annoying but due to Kinnear's humanity it becomes or did for me incredibly likable. Delaney's creation evolves into far more than he initially appears with Kinnear's gravitas.
I'm not sure it would translate that well over the pond but it's full pathos something us Brits can do very well, be warned it might not be your cup of tea as initially could be dismissed as yet another cookie cutter UK sit com.
The series ended in a way that it should be left but I've no doubt it's going to get it a 2nd series although 1 would be more than enough as it's likely to descend into formula.
In what way do you mean emulate? Can you give examples?
And in terms of satire, the UK still leads the way:
That Was The Week That Was
Spitting Image
The Day Today
Brass Eye
Have I Got News For You
The Thick Of It
Private Eye (publication)
Hilarious, did Frankie Boyle just sign in on the forum then?
When I watch British stand up comedians, I rarely laugh. But maybe satire was not the right word. You can do satire and absurd at the same time. Maybe it has something to do with characters.
An interesting comparison with both types of humour by Stephen Fry, I think he nails it (and explains it better than me):
Agreed as funny as the onion news network was someone had clearly been watching the day today and brass eye, as the format is almost a complete lift at times.
Yeah we still lead the way with satire our u.s cousins are still playing catch on that one, the thick of it, need I say more?
Quite. Yeah Americans lead the world in satire to the extent they have to fly Armando over to create a piss weak watered down version of TTOI for them.
I quite liked VEEP but it was still not a patch on The Thick Of It. Tucker rules! :-)