God I'm bored with TV
Posted by: Minky on 16 March 2004
I need a laugh and t'tele isn't helping. New series of "Teachers" (enter the fat bird) looks promising and something called "World of pub" (I think) was great but finished the instant I noticed it. Steve Coogan's "Dr. Terrible's house of horrible" was goodish. Latest Ab Fab is plops.
Anything ?
Anything ?
Posted on: 16 March 2004 by ErikL
Don't be such a grump! 
If you want a laugh, go see Puppetry of the Penis. Even better, go audition (but stretch and practice in front of the mirror first). Wait- trumping all that, develop a Twister type board game based on manipulating your penis into shapes described on cards chosen by your opponent.
If you want a laugh, go see Puppetry of the Penis. Even better, go audition (but stretch and practice in front of the mirror first). Wait- trumping all that, develop a Twister type board game based on manipulating your penis into shapes described on cards chosen by your opponent.
Posted on: 16 March 2004 by Minky
Ludwig, Ludwig, Ludwig,
Why is that all your roads seem to end in a field of Penises ? You got something you want to share with us brother ?
Why is that all your roads seem to end in a field of Penises ? You got something you want to share with us brother ?
Posted on: 16 March 2004 by ErikL
You can't honestly tell me you never had a Sunday of bible study and prayer end with a penis oragami contest around the priest's poker table. C'mon bro- no way that was only my upbringing.
Posted on: 16 March 2004 by Minky
Ah, so you're a catholic. Now I understand. Were you breastfed ?
Posted on: 16 March 2004 by ErikL
Yeah dude, of course. How else do you learn to milk a goat?
Fields of penises, fields of goats... I'm afraid of the nightmares I'll have tonight. As long as we don't talk Cub Scouts and my bully sister's gerbil...
Fields of penises, fields of goats... I'm afraid of the nightmares I'll have tonight. As long as we don't talk Cub Scouts and my bully sister's gerbil...
Posted on: 17 March 2004 by long-time-dead
quote:
Originally posted by Minky:
New series of "Teachers" (enter the fat bird)
With that thought - I reckon it's a score draw between you and Ludwig !
Posted on: 17 March 2004 by Richard S
"Nighty night" on BBC2 had a promising start this week. Unsettling but funny. Found myself repeating the gags the next day which is always a good sign.
regards
Richard S
regards
Richard S
Posted on: 17 March 2004 by J.N.
quote:
"Nighty night" on BBC2 had a promising start this week.
I'll second that. For once (as with 'The Office') the viewing public are not treated as morons - there is no canned laughter.
Delightfully bad taste humour.
Posted on: 17 March 2004 by Minky
I had a bit of a net-dig and "Nighty night" looks fantastic, as do "Jam" and "Catterick". Alas, many of these programs don't make it to our shores as they are deemed too parochial.
Is it fair to say that a large slice of British comedy these days involves Steve Coogan ?
Is it fair to say that a large slice of British comedy these days involves Steve Coogan ?
Posted on: 18 March 2004 by matthewr
"Nighty Night" is the blackest of the black although I think it's just too unpleasant to be a major success.
"Jam" is a modern classic although I always preffered "Brass Eye" and "The Day Today". It has a great soundtrack as well.
Do you have "Black Books" (Dylam Moran and Bill Bailey) in NZ? Well worth the effort and it is on DVD if you missed it (at least Series 1 is).
"Is it fair to say that a large slice of British comedy these days involves Steve Coogan?"
His ego knows no bounds. "Dr Terrible..." was awful I thought and bombed over here.
Matthew
"Jam" is a modern classic although I always preffered "Brass Eye" and "The Day Today". It has a great soundtrack as well.
Do you have "Black Books" (Dylam Moran and Bill Bailey) in NZ? Well worth the effort and it is on DVD if you missed it (at least Series 1 is).
"Is it fair to say that a large slice of British comedy these days involves Steve Coogan?"
His ego knows no bounds. "Dr Terrible..." was awful I thought and bombed over here.
Matthew
Posted on: 18 March 2004 by Rico
Matthew
we did indeed get Black Books down here, dammned brilliant it was. The episode they house-sat Piers' and busted their way through the cellar had me in stitches, as did the one with the cleaner. Brilliance.
Minky - is it that they are deemed parochial, or that the programmers here can get twice as much US pap for the same money.?
Rico - SM/Mullet Audio
we did indeed get Black Books down here, dammned brilliant it was. The episode they house-sat Piers' and busted their way through the cellar had me in stitches, as did the one with the cleaner. Brilliance.
Minky - is it that they are deemed parochial, or that the programmers here can get twice as much US pap for the same money.?
Rico - SM/Mullet Audio
Posted on: 18 March 2004 by Mike Hughes
Check out Shameless from C4 and look out for The Shield from C5 via US. Series 1 of latter is out on DVD and is best cop stuff for years.
Posted on: 18 March 2004 by Minky
quote:
Originally posted by Rico:
The episode they house-sat Piers' and busted their way through the cellar had me in stitches, as did the one with the cleaner. Brilliance.
Minky - is it that they are deemed parochial, or that the programmers here can get twice as much US pap for the same money.?
Yes - very, very funny. The scene that ends with the counter teetering on £6999 as Manny coaxes the last drip from a £7000 bottle of wine. The cleaner revealing black grime on his white gloved finger after wiping it through mid-air. Magic.
I DO think we don't see some stuff because the powers that be think we won't understand it. Why has the long-running show "have I got news for you" never aired here ? Surely the aforementioned "Jam" can't be more expensive than "Just shoot me, "Spin city", "Friends" or (Yuk) "Frasier".
Sometimes I think it's time to move to the UK to get heaps of concerts, cheap travel and the latest in designer comedy, then I remember ..
Posted on: 19 March 2004 by Not For Me
Try Little Britain if you can get it.
DS
DS
Posted on: 19 March 2004 by Minky
Had a bit of a laugh last night. Saw British comedian "Boothby Graffoe". Interestingly, he has performed with and recorded a CD with Antonio Forcione. He certainly deserves to be big in the UK. Is he ?
Posted on: 20 March 2004 by Rasher
TV in the UK is dire Minky.
I trust you don't have to endure Graham Norton or Johnny Vaughn. It has become desperate here! Really desperate.
I trust you don't have to endure Graham Norton or Johnny Vaughn. It has become desperate here! Really desperate.
Posted on: 20 March 2004 by Minky
quote:
Originally posted by Rasher:
TV in the UK is dire Minky.
I trust you don't have to endure Graham Norton or Johnny Vaughn. It has become desperate here! Really desperate.
Yes, we get Graham Norton, no I don't endure it. I don't find humiliation/embarrassment entertaining. Ditto to the new wave of "reality" TV, which I assume Fredrik is talking about :
quote:
Originally posted by Fredrik Fiske:
That really is a yawn a minute, but at least it is not aimed at a moronic level of intelligence in the potential viewers.
Back to the radio.
Can you get the World Service?
No, but I listen to our national program which is is pretty good.
Don't get me wrong - I don't watch a lot of TV, but sometimes it's the only thing I have the energy for. It's just SO disappointing when, having dug up remote (we call it "the troll") and assumed the Al Bundy position full of hope that somewhere in the 4 local and eleventy million SKY channels lies blob nirvana, I'm confronted with, yet again, wall to wall CRAP. The other day there was an advert for a game show where one of the contestants was required to press worms through a grape press with her feet and then drink the juice. WHO WATCHES THIS STUFF ?
Posted on: 20 March 2004 by Jez Quigley
You must catch "The worst week of my life" 9pm Fridays, BBC1. This is going to be a classic ala Fawlty Towers. It's been years since I laughed out loud for 30 minutes watching TV.
Posted on: 23 March 2004 by Minky
Does this imply that television is sexier than than sex ?
Posted on: 24 March 2004 by Rico
quote:
Does this imply that television is sexier than than sex ?
No, I think it suggests that television is used by much of the world as contraception.
I recall heading in to work many years ago as a fresh-faced 19 year old, our token catholic in the team (and my supervisor to boot) announced with a tone of foreboding "oh guess what - my wife is pregnant again" - the fast response from one of our colleagues was "what happened mate, did your TV break down again?". Being a fresh-faced 19 year old, I asked what this meant - the explaination was last time his wife had fallen pregnant it was indeed due to the malfunction of their K9 televisual viewing apparatus...
Rico - SM/Mullet Audio
Posted on: 24 March 2004 by Minky
Ah, so sex is a SURROGATE for TV.
BTW Rico, "fresh faced 19 year old" + "K9" is a form of carbon dating.
BTW Rico, "fresh faced 19 year old" + "K9" is a form of carbon dating.
Posted on: 27 March 2004 by Rico
ooops looks like I've been tumbled. #; )
Rico - SM/Mullet Audio
Rico - SM/Mullet Audio
Posted on: 27 March 2004 by Mekon
Currently watching Nighty Night and Alan Clark for the second time, and only just twigged that Julia Davis plays Alan's secretary.
Nighty Night excellent, but I am still yearning for a re-run of Peep Show. It deserved at least as much praise as Little Britain got, but seems to have slipped below the radar.
Nighty Night excellent, but I am still yearning for a re-run of Peep Show. It deserved at least as much praise as Little Britain got, but seems to have slipped below the radar.
Posted on: 28 March 2004 by Jez Quigley
quote:
You must catch "The worst week of my life" 9pm Fridays, BBC1. This is going to be a classic ala Fawlty Towers. It's been years since I laughed out loud for 30 minutes watching TV.
Typical. The first 2 episodes were brilliant. The third one last friday was dull. My apologies if anyone watched it on my recommendation.
Posted on: 29 March 2004 by joe90
Hey Minky and Rico you just gotta check out 'Kung Faux' on C4. I swa it last night at about 10 ish after the abysmal 'Holla Hour' (hip hop rap shite of the worst 'big up yo biatches' kind BTW)
If you want funny, you got it!!!
Joe90
If you want funny, you got it!!!
Joe90