The Long Story was jolly good and not depressing all the way through, as I thought it might be. I'm in two minds about whether it was a cop out to have had a happy ending, but if it hadn't had that last twist, the ending would have been horid.
Thoroughly recommended.
Thoroughly recommended.
This year's Big Fat Quiz is on at 21:00 today!
Giphy "klaxon":
https://media3.giphy.com/media/3oGRFfFTnGBwdu4rAY/giphy-loop.mp4
Giphy "klaxon":
https://media3.giphy.com/media/3oGRFfFTnGBwdu4rAY/giphy-loop.mp4
I swear to fucking Christ that The Big Fat Quiz of the Year must get cancelled.
Jimmy Carr: terrific.
David Mitchell: great.
Everyone else: fucking fuck off and die. Couldn’t they get some actual fucking comedians on it? Jesus Christ, it’s just fucking dreadful. Just...FUCK.
Jimmy Carr: terrific.
David Mitchell: great.
Everyone else: fucking fuck off and die. Couldn’t they get some actual fucking comedians on it? Jesus Christ, it’s just fucking dreadful. Just...FUCK.
You shut the fuck up about Winkleman.
Also I suspect Ayode would be funnier if he wasn't sat with Cunt McCunty.
Also I suspect Ayode would be funnier if he wasn't sat with Cunt McCunty.
In non-shocking news, Satsuma is completely wrong. BFQ is brilliant and all seven of them were really funny, with the possible exception of Fielding.
Fuck off, that American woman was shit, as was the dude sat with C-Dubs.
I liked them both!
Ok, I’d give you Winkleman if she didn’t do the same old routine that she’s done for the last, like, 4 fucking years, “aye up everyone here’s some food from home.” It was mildly amusing the first time but not every fucking year. She hot do’.
Richard Shawaddywaddy is always funny.
So that twat who was with Winkleman was Mo Gilligan who does a television programme with absolute waste of fucking oxygen, homophobe and all round annoying cunt, Big Narstie.
So guess who is on the next Big Fat Quiz of Everything in the New Year? Big Narstie. He can fucking drink bleach. What a shit show that quiz is.
So guess who is on the next Big Fat Quiz of Everything in the New Year? Big Narstie. He can fucking drink bleach. What a shit show that quiz is.
I agree with Craster. It was good.
Personally, I only found Noel Fielding irritating, and only then because he was giving 'hilarious zany' answers rather than letting the humour come from the situation.
It's also the right programme for the right time - nothing too demanding and with enough landmarks (Jon Snow! Charles Dance! The Children!) that keep you watching after a lengthy and inebriated Boxing Day.
It's also the right programme for the right time - nothing too demanding and with enough landmarks (Jon Snow! Charles Dance! The Children!) that keep you watching after a lengthy and inebriated Boxing Day.
Satsuma wrote:
So guess who is on the next Big Fat Quiz of Everything in the New Year? Big Narstie. He can fucking drink bleach. What a shit show that quiz is.
I'm only aware of him because he was on the Crystal maze. Lawks, he was dim.
He was the comic relief last year.
Mr Dave wrote:
Satsuma wrote:
So guess who is on the next Big Fat Quiz of Everything in the New Year? Big Narstie. He can fucking drink bleach. What a shit show that quiz is.
I'm only aware of him because he was on the Crystal maze. Lawks, he was dim.
You never saw The IT Crowd?
Big Narstie was in the IT Crowd?
Powerful misunderstanding on my part, there.
Grim... wrote:
Powerful misunderstanding on my part, there.
Nah, not Mr Ayoade, he's rather sharp.
This... not so much.
Big Narstie & Mop?
I didn’t see the show, but Michelle Wolf is normally amazing.
Curiosity wrote:
I didn’t see the show, but Michelle Wolf is normally amazing.
She was very funny but a bit lost in British injokes
Also she didn't say anything funny.
Grim... wrote:
Also she didn't say anything funny.
Bet she did.
Maybe I missed something? I don't think so.
I think she was a bit overwhelmed by it all. Also, somehow, she didn't know about Stormy Daniels saying Trump's penis was like a mushroom.
I think she was a bit overwhelmed by it all. Also, somehow, she didn't know about Stormy Daniels saying Trump's penis was like a mushroom.
To be fair, that’s something we’re all trying to forget.
Giphy "penis toad":
https://media1.giphy.com/media/MWMFX7P3lyv9S/giphy-loop.mp4
https://media1.giphy.com/media/MWMFX7P3lyv9S/giphy-loop.mp4
Trump is getting all excited and wiggly.
Grim... wrote:
Also she didn't say anything funny.
Her line about Edwardian architecture was funny.
Finished all the Inside No. 9's, some duffers in there but on the whole it was very good. The halloween special I've just watched had a great Ghostwatch vibe to it!
I probably shouldn't have binged all of them so much, as the expectation of the twist was too ingrained by the end, it would have worked better as a weekly show, so should have watched it when they were shown really.
I probably shouldn't have binged all of them so much, as the expectation of the twist was too ingrained by the end, it would have worked better as a weekly show, so should have watched it when they were shown really.
This Bros documentary on iPlayer is fucking marvelous.
Findus Fop wrote:
This Bros documentary on iPlayer is fucking marvelous.
Watching it now, 10mins in, getting a huge David Brent vibe from Matt
Trooper wrote:
Findus Fop wrote:
This Bros documentary on iPlayer is fucking marvelous.
Watching it now, 10mins in, getting a huge David Brent vibe from Matt
Massively so. Aside from the content of what he's saying, his timing is very Brentian too.
Desperate for something/anything to watch last night, Mrs W and I resorted to Netflix. We rarely find anything we really want to watch in there but we came across "Safe,' a Netflix British made original, and a bit half-heartedly gave it a go.
Six hours/episodes later, we finally called it a day as it was approaching midnight and there are still two episodes to go. Basically, a story of a a suspicious death and a missing teenager from an up-market gated community, it has more twists, turns and blind alleys than you can imagine. Much of it was shot in Manchester, so we had a lot of fun playing 'spot the location,' which added to the enjoyment.
We're really hoping it isn't spoiled by a stupid ending because we've thoroughly enjoyed it so far, apart from one stupid act of mild violence that we thought was a bit far fetched, but might turn out to make more sense in the end. We still haven't made our minds up as to who is/are the guilty party/parties.
Recommended.
Six hours/episodes later, we finally called it a day as it was approaching midnight and there are still two episodes to go. Basically, a story of a a suspicious death and a missing teenager from an up-market gated community, it has more twists, turns and blind alleys than you can imagine. Much of it was shot in Manchester, so we had a lot of fun playing 'spot the location,' which added to the enjoyment.
We're really hoping it isn't spoiled by a stupid ending because we've thoroughly enjoyed it so far, apart from one stupid act of mild violence that we thought was a bit far fetched, but might turn out to make more sense in the end. We still haven't made our minds up as to who is/are the guilty party/parties.
Recommended.
Findus Fop wrote:
This Bros documentary on iPlayer is fucking marvelous.
Does it tackle whether or not they actually meant it to be pronounced as "Bross"?
markg wrote:
Findus Fop wrote:
This Bros documentary on iPlayer is fucking marvelous.
Does it tackle whether or not they actually meant it to be pronounced as "Bross"?
Well, they say their own band name a few times.
It's an amazing documentary, if you went in thinking it was a spinal tap kinda spoof thing, you could easily come out the other end still thinking that... Matt is a sight to behold, and Luke isn't that far behind him.
Watched half of it last night. It is indeed a thing of wonder.
I'm also glad that it proved my memory of Bros originally being a trio was not false, although Craig Logan was very much the Jim Corr of the line-up.
I'm also glad that it proved my memory of Bros originally being a trio was not false, although Craig Logan was very much the Jim Corr of the line-up.
I don’t know why I thought The Inbetweeners: Fwends Reunited was going to be an actual one-off show rather than an 2 hour clip show and conversation with some of the stars but there you go. Maybe I should have looked at the Radio Times beforehand.
Jimmy Carr was on good form though. I just wished these kinds of shows weren’t just riddled with filler and bullshit like they’d be hastily shoved together at the last minute. At one point one of the cast is about to tell a story about the behind the scenes moment but is interrupted, twice no less, when a suitcase is shoved on stage and someone is forced inside to recreate an actually amusing story. About 10 seconds pass and it’s clear that this recreation is a bad idea as everyone looks around like “WTF is happening” since we’ve already seen the actual behind the scenes footage and laughed at it already. There was also a table of hot girls (sans Emily Atack who was sacked the day before for no good reason I could see) who are used for the purpose of an embarrassing game of “shag, marry, kill, avoid”. What’s wrong with interviewing guests and giving them time to tell amusing backstage stories about the TV and films?? You could have people alone or in group go up on stage and get interviewed by JC with the main characters chipping in, listening and reacting... but instead we get this load of bollocks where ancillary characters just sit in the audience and are occasionally asked questions whilst being filmed at the shortest angle they could find and preferably with the back of someone’s head in shot or without any lighting so it’s so dark you can’t see who it is. Yet we get time dedicated to this mock award show where “celebs” come out and show a bunch of clips. Not only that but one dancing clip gets shown 3 times and the scene with the pop on the waterside shown like 4 fucking times over!? You get more time with random celeb bantz (who I didn’t turn on to watch by the way because they’ve got fuck all to do with the show and I wanted to see the cast of The Inbetweeners) than talking to any of the actors from the films. Yet we get masses of screen time dedicated to The History of The Inbetweeners which should SURELY have come from someone who made the fucking programme in an interview on stage. At least it’d be far more interesting than some fucking random doing some lame shit to camera. Someone says at some point “I wanted to know if that was his actual bollock” and, y’know what, I never wanted to know but now I do and no fucker asked the fucking question to anyone for a fucking what-would-surely-have-been an amusing answer!?
And there’s Anthony Head in the audience but he’s referred once in passing!? Fucking use him for something!
And that ending? Oh boy did you see the looks on people’s face when the dancers came out. Jesus Christ.
Just...FUCK. I should stop watching TV cause it makes my blood pressure rise.
Jimmy Carr was on good form though. I just wished these kinds of shows weren’t just riddled with filler and bullshit like they’d be hastily shoved together at the last minute. At one point one of the cast is about to tell a story about the behind the scenes moment but is interrupted, twice no less, when a suitcase is shoved on stage and someone is forced inside to recreate an actually amusing story. About 10 seconds pass and it’s clear that this recreation is a bad idea as everyone looks around like “WTF is happening” since we’ve already seen the actual behind the scenes footage and laughed at it already. There was also a table of hot girls (sans Emily Atack who was sacked the day before for no good reason I could see) who are used for the purpose of an embarrassing game of “shag, marry, kill, avoid”. What’s wrong with interviewing guests and giving them time to tell amusing backstage stories about the TV and films?? You could have people alone or in group go up on stage and get interviewed by JC with the main characters chipping in, listening and reacting... but instead we get this load of bollocks where ancillary characters just sit in the audience and are occasionally asked questions whilst being filmed at the shortest angle they could find and preferably with the back of someone’s head in shot or without any lighting so it’s so dark you can’t see who it is. Yet we get time dedicated to this mock award show where “celebs” come out and show a bunch of clips. Not only that but one dancing clip gets shown 3 times and the scene with the pop on the waterside shown like 4 fucking times over!? You get more time with random celeb bantz (who I didn’t turn on to watch by the way because they’ve got fuck all to do with the show and I wanted to see the cast of The Inbetweeners) than talking to any of the actors from the films. Yet we get masses of screen time dedicated to The History of The Inbetweeners which should SURELY have come from someone who made the fucking programme in an interview on stage. At least it’d be far more interesting than some fucking random doing some lame shit to camera. Someone says at some point “I wanted to know if that was his actual bollock” and, y’know what, I never wanted to know but now I do and no fucker asked the fucking question to anyone for a fucking what-would-surely-have-been an amusing answer!?
And there’s Anthony Head in the audience but he’s referred once in passing!? Fucking use him for something!
And that ending? Oh boy did you see the looks on people’s face when the dancers came out. Jesus Christ.
Just...FUCK. I should stop watching TV cause it makes my blood pressure rise.
I wouldn’t ever suggest you click on this link (The Sun, hnnngh) but apparently I wasn’t the only person who thought we were going to have a new episode of the Inbetweeners.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/8 ... s-furious/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/8 ... s-furious/
They should have let Greg be the host.
Well, he wasn't actually in the show. They talked to him at the start, though.
I was sad at the lack of Atack, though.
Satsuma wrote:
And there’s Anthony Head in the audience but he’s referred once in passing!? Fucking use him for something!
Well, he wasn't actually in the show. They talked to him at the start, though.
I was sad at the lack of Atack, though.
He’s got more of a connection to the show than sodding Frank “You’ve got a nice suit. I like your suit. You call take the mickey out of me because your suit is nice. I like your suit. Suit I like etc” Bruno.
Trooper wrote:
markg wrote:
Findus Fop wrote:
This Bros documentary on iPlayer is fucking marvelous.
Does it tackle whether or not they actually meant it to be pronounced as "Bross"?
Well, they say their own band name a few times.
It's an amazing documentary, if you went in thinking it was a spinal tap kinda spoof thing, you could easily come out the other end still thinking that... Matt is a sight to behold, and Luke isn't that far behind him.
Some kindly soul on Facebook has collated some of the finer quotes from it.
Started to watch the Big Fat Quiz of Everything and Big Narstie is fucking me off already. Pathetic juvenile nonsense coming out his fat homophobic face.
Sandi Toksvig is boss though.
Sandi Toksvig is boss though.
Why do you think he's homophobic?
Didn’t you see him on Britain’s Got More Talent when that gay comedian went to dance with him for the lulz?
Finished watching the Big Fat Quiz of Everything. Much, MUCH, better than the 2018 episode and actually watchable thanks, for the most part, because Fat Cunty shuts the fuck up for most of it although he does occasionally widen his yawp to shout “They’re white” “I’m black and “I’m black ask me about Bob Marley”. There’s loads of intelligent black comedians so it must be insulting to have this prick appealing to the lowest common denominator.
I forgot it was on. Will have to see if there's a late night repeat. I could use All-4, but then I could also host a trepanation party.
Ah, Saturday at 1 AM on '4-7'.
Edit: or 22:55 on Thursday on Channel 4.
Edit: or 22:55 on Thursday on Channel 4.
Satsuma wrote:
Didn’t you see him on Britain’s Got More Talent when that gay comedian went to dance with him for the lulz?
Yup.
Didn't you see that the gay comedian's opinion of the event?
Satsuma wrote:
There’s loads of intelligent black comedians so it must be insulting to have this prick appealing to the lowest common denominator.
From Popbitch a while back
Quote:
Sean(n) Walsh is managed by infamous comedy agency, Off The Kerb. Along with Avalon, OTK have pretty much got the entire UK comedy industry all stitched up.
This is partly because OTK has a sister production company, Open Mike Productions, which makes shows like Live At The Apollo, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, The Last Leg, Alan Carr's Chatty Man – shows that are then packed with Kerb's own acts.
One of their better known tricks for promoting their lower-rung clients to other shows is to offer package deals. So if you want a big name like Jonathan Ross or Jack Dee or Jo Brand to appear on your show, you can get them – but only if you take a bunch of their other, lesser-known acts too.
This trick is known in the business as the 'Shappi Clause' – named for its major beneficiary.
This is partly because OTK has a sister production company, Open Mike Productions, which makes shows like Live At The Apollo, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, The Last Leg, Alan Carr's Chatty Man – shows that are then packed with Kerb's own acts.
One of their better known tricks for promoting their lower-rung clients to other shows is to offer package deals. So if you want a big name like Jonathan Ross or Jack Dee or Jo Brand to appear on your show, you can get them – but only if you take a bunch of their other, lesser-known acts too.
This trick is known in the business as the 'Shappi Clause' – named for its major beneficiary.