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| Jan 8th, 2005 07:13 PM | ||
| huond |
i just got UNCUT VHS tapes of Filthy Rich and Catflap (all the british releases have a total of about 6 minutes cut out due to music rights  )
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| Jan 8th, 2005 04:59 PM | ||
| Zbu Manowar |
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| Jan 6th, 2005 10:14 AM | ||
| pjalne |
I probably have Little Britain in my mailbox, but the lock was changed while I was away. WTF is that all about? 
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| Jan 5th, 2005 05:41 AM | ||
| Dole |
JAM is amazing - really fucking dark and weird in places, hysterical in others. Its like Brass Eye on crack and acid. Forgot to mention that with the other stuff.... The chris morris charlie brooker thing is happening - its about the nathan barley character from tv go home. I think its been filmed, should be on pretty soon. |
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| Jan 4th, 2005 08:27 PM | ||
| sloth |
i dont know, little britain is pretty irritating. its predictable, like the fast show became. just a series of easily memorable and widely applicable catchphrases for people to quote at each other. whats jam like? i caught a few episodes when it was on tv. weirdly funny, but never saw much more of it. i want to know what happened to the rumoured collaboration between chris morris and charlie brooker
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| Jan 4th, 2005 02:44 PM | ||
| the_dudefather |
anone else watch grumpy old men? (tv series which is completly unrelated to movie) got the dvd + tshirt combo the other day, great stuff, but only 5 episodes (including christmas episode) |
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| Jan 4th, 2005 01:38 PM | ||
| MetalMilitia |
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It is just more predictable than the previous series. In the first 2 its pretty much impossible to know what hes going to do to make a situation worse but in the third hes almost become a parody of alan partridge. But dont get me wrong i still love watching it. Bits like the bond movie watching afternoon are classic. |
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| Jan 4th, 2005 01:37 PM | ||
| HickMan |
I've only seen Allo Allo and absolutly loved it . I need more British.
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| Jan 4th, 2005 01:27 PM | ||
| huond | what do you folks think about LITTLE BRITAIN? | |
| Jan 4th, 2005 01:14 PM | ||
| Dole | I too, was one of the 'I'm..' series two haters initially, but on repeated viewing its far and away the best, easily. | |
| Jan 4th, 2005 10:24 AM | ||
| MetalMilitia |
Yep, i recently got all 3 serises of alan partridge. Definatly one of favourite shows. I loved the way the show kind of got worse and worse throughout the series 1 until the brilliant ending. Im alan partridge was easily as good, if not slightly better. Especially the episode with the farmers and the radio interview  I think is went slightly downhill at 'im alan partridge series 2'. It was still good but i think the character of Alan Partridge had reached the end of its comedy life and further series would have been bad. |
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| Jan 4th, 2005 05:55 AM | ||
| Dole |
Glad to see you got The Day Today Jixby! Hope you enjoyed it. Get Brass Eye too...go on. The things that wont really translate is the shit british celebrities that they are fooling, as you wont know who any of them are, and also the fact that both series parody english news/documentary programs in quite specific ways, and obviously an American audience wont have the same frame of reference......Those two series were incredibly groundbreaking in so many ways....and really, REALLY funny. There is a great easter egg on the day today dvd with chris morris interviewing Peter OhanraOhanrahan on the morning of 9/11 when he is supposed to be in the world trade center...I think you have to go to the episode menu and then back to the main one and it starts playing (its audio only) Coogan's Run was ok - not particularly memorable, but the best thing Steve Coogan has ever done, far and away is the Alan Partridge series. He is the sports reporter on The Day Today....there are 3 series, the first is a fake chat show called 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' then two series of 'I'm Alan Partridge' - my favourite comedy programmes ever...bleak, cringe-inducing and fucking funny. YOU SHOULD GET THEM. I thought Dr Terribles house of whatever was really, really poor. |
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| Dec 29th, 2004 07:48 PM | ||
| GADZOOKS | I'm not a fan of running, would I not like coogan's run then? | |
| Dec 29th, 2004 06:26 PM | ||
| Jixby Phillips |
There are no references to Logan's run that I saw on the show. I remember the videos had like pictures of like joggers on it and instead of "volume 1" it said "lap 1" get it
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| Dec 29th, 2004 12:37 PM | ||
| Rongi | i know coogan's run is obviously a parody of the title, what i meant to say was is the show just a parody of the movie or what | |
| Dec 28th, 2004 09:58 PM | ||
| MetalMilitia |
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But I must admit a couple of the episodes where brilliant. |
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| Dec 28th, 2004 07:29 PM | ||
| Rongi |
INSIDE JOKE oh and also is Coogan's Run a parody of Logan's Run? |
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| Dec 28th, 2004 07:26 PM | ||
| GADZOOKS |
Starring Mike Nelson and Steve Harvey and black people |
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| Dec 28th, 2004 06:35 PM | ||
| thebiggameover |
are you being served...
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| Dec 28th, 2004 02:55 PM | ||
| sloth | brass eye is absolutely brilliant. if not hugely 'funny' funny, bang on satirically. ted maul is a legend. one show that seemed to slip under the comedy radar in the post-office wake was garth marenghi's darkplace. good stuff, its on bittorrent although probably dead by now. armando iannuci was a co-writer for the day today, his show was fucking HILARIOUS. the town sniper was the best sketch ive seen in ages. | |
| Dec 28th, 2004 02:32 PM | ||
| the_dudefather |
i just got the filthy, rich and catflap dvd for christmas and i love it, it is a sort of young youngs style surreality but in a bottom like enviroment, which makes for a good mix. it features a lot of asides where they address the audience and whatnot. a lot of other british comedy actors make appearences, like stephen fry, harry enfield and chris barrie i would like to get the comic strip presents at some stage, as i hear its good |
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| Dec 28th, 2004 09:50 AM | ||
| Krythor |
Yeah, Stella Street is by Peter Richardson. It's better in 10 minute doses, but it does work surprisingly well in movie form. I could only see anybody disliking it if they're turned off by impressionist comedy, which is understandable. Father Ted, Spaced, Black Books, Peep Show and the 11 o'clock show which spawned Ali G all started on Channel 4. Really, while BBC has produced alot of great stuff, it's produced alot more garbage. I really despise My Hero, Keeping Up Appearances and My Family more than any American sitcom. I haven't seen Alexi Sayle's show for a long time, when I was much younger and much dumber. At the time, I hated him and his cameos in the Young Ones, but recently I re-watched the first series of the Young Ones and loved them, so I'm dying to see his show again myself. I forgot to mention that Big Train was written by Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews of Father Ted fame. |
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| Dec 28th, 2004 05:22 AM | ||
| GADZOOKS | If My Hero is that show with the talking baby, then without a doubt it sucks. | |
| Dec 28th, 2004 05:07 AM | ||
| Jixby Phillips |
I saw two episodes of it and it made me stop watching BBC America all together. I had that channel for like, two years and they mostly showed Changing rooms and boring drama series, and the only comedy they ever showed was either: 1. being repeated all over PBS (Keeping Up Appearances, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, The Thin Blue Line, Are You Being Served, etc) 2. stuff already out on DVD, easy to rent on netflix, or already been on cable channels in recent memory (The Young Ones, Absolutely Fabulous, Father Ted, The Office) 3. Already been on other cable channels (The Young Ones on MTV & Comedy Central, Absolutely Fabulous on Comedy Central and Oxygen) 4. In the case of My Hero: Stuff that's awful and unfunny. We need a "Channel 4 America," except people would think the "4" means "for," I'm sure. I'm not sure of that would actually be good, but it seems like I've seen a bunch of shows that I liked that originally aired on Channel 4. I just wish there was some kind of British Comedy channel that allowed for shows that aren't easy to see. |
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| Dec 28th, 2004 02:55 AM | ||
| Guitar Woman | I hope YOU'RE being sarcastic. I can't tell because you are a cuntflap. >=O | |
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