Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Is Out Now

[McNeillR]

Seinfeld, for me, took a while for the ball to get rolling but is a sitcom pinnacle.

Problem is, Darkplace is a Thrillerama series that maybe lost it's effect over the past two decades for some people.

[M.M.S]

Friends is the shittest thing ever created. Classic my arse.

OK, "popular classics...", but for the record i think Friends was good for atleast the first 5 series...

My point was probably badly worded, but i was trying to get at the fact that some people just like what is popular/universally acclaimed (and rightly so), but if they dug a bit deeper they would find other things they liked (Mighty Boosh anyone?)...

Ah well, its comedy, so each to their own

[Jim Miles]

Darkplace fell flat on its arse when i showed it to 2 friends of mine earlier this year...

...Lets just say we're no longer friends

Without sounding harsh, i think people who dont like/get Darkplace have lower "comedic intelligence" that others. For example, the 2 friends who didnt like Darkplace were massive comedy fans, but they deeply loved only the classics such as Friends, Cheers, Frasier, Seinfeld etc...I guess they'd just been dumbed down by that (no matter how good), and couldnt get into anything different or experimental like Darkplace. Ah well, their loss.

Oh God, I totally know what you're talking about. This is really about people opening themselves up to something new and trying to get it. With comedy you have these people who won't laugh at something if it's not comfortably similar to something else they like or just really popular and they feel they ought to like it because everyone else does. It really irritates me because these people don't understand comedy on a universal, subverting of expectation level but only on a social, established "joke" level. What's worse is when people can't understand comedy without a plot attached, that really gets me.

I do like things like Frasier and Friends but they're all the same kinds of jokes and some of the setups are really tired. Even Seinfeld is guilty of some pretty boring situations which are supposed to be a big "joke".

[M.M.S]

Oh God, I totally know what you're talking about. This is really about people opening themselves up to something new and trying to get it. With comedy you have these people who won't laugh at something if it's not comfortably similar to something else they like or just really popular and they feel they ought to like it because everyone else does. It really irritates me because these people don't understand comedy on a universal, subverting of expectation level but only on a social, established "joke" level. What's worse is when people can't understand comedy without a plot attached, that really gets me.

I do like things like Frasier and Friends but they're all the same kinds of jokes and some of the setups are really tired. Even Seinfeld is guilty of some pretty boring situations which are supposed to be a big "joke".

Cool, at least someone does

I love stuff like My Name is Earl and The Office USA etc, but it falls into that "universal" comedy category for me. Cant see everyone liking that and then putting Mighty Boosh on to watch Old Greg show everyone his mangina...

[Popo]

People dissing Friends need to forget the last 4 or so seasons and go back to watching it from the start, there was a lot of smart, character-based comedy in there.

[murray]

So has anyone found any easter eggs? Do tell.

[winkerwatson]

Leave the testbars on the setup screen running for a few minutes.

[Professor Puzzles]

Oh God, I totally know what you're talking about. This is really about people opening themselves up to something new and trying to get it. With comedy you have these people who won't laugh at something if it's not comfortably similar to something else they like or just really popular and they feel they ought to like it because everyone else does. It really irritates me because these people don't understand comedy on a universal, subverting of expectation level but only on a social, established "joke" level. What's worse is when people can't understand comedy without a plot attached, that really gets me.

What a horribly elitist attitude.

"Somebody doesn't like something I do so they must be stupid and I am cleverer and more open minded than they."

For the record, I was really looking forward to Darkplace but when I watched it I didn't find it funny. So I stopped watching it.

[Jim Miles]

"Somebody doesn't like something I do so they must be stupid and I am cleverer and more open minded than they."

Which isn't what I said. You've got all defensive because you feel I'm attacking people like you who don't find Darkplace funny. That's false, it's fine not to like Darkplace (or indeed anything); I'm making a general point about some people's approach to comedy.

For the record, I have no problem with elitist attitudes so long as they are grounded in something.

[Professor Puzzles]

Which isn't what I said. You've got all defensive because you feel I'm attacking people like you who don't find Darkplace funny.

True.

That's false, it's fine not to like Darkplace (or indeed anything); I'm making a general point about some people's approach to comedy.

Okey Dokey. No hard feelings.

[A.C.R.O.N.Y.M]

How do you access the Easter eggs?

[Simmy]

"you and he were... buddies?

......Need i say more? .... Neeeed i say more....."

[CrispinG]

Maggots? Maggots. Maggots. Maggots.

[Tequila]

I will buy the Darkplace dvd when it's dirt cheap.

It really isn't as good as you all make out, though.

Wrongo.

"If you need me, I'll be in the vestry. If not, I'll be out in the jeep."

[CrispinG]

"What I do is sometimes get a tin of soup, heat it up, poach an egg in it, serve that with a pork pie sausage roll."

"I'll get a Wimpy."

"Have it your way, Dag."

[Michael J Glocks]

"I'm not talking over your dog! There's six feet of earth over your dog. That's if you buried it, you might have burnt it."

"Or chucked it on the skip."

[Monkeyboy]

"Greetings, friend. I hope you're sitting uncomfortably. Be it on your armchair, sofa or beanbag if that's how you choose to live your life."

And this one purely for Sanch's great delivery.

"Dead Dag, wer're too late. Looks like our man struck agaaaain."

[Beta]

"Then a hellbeast ate them."

[K]

"I'm out of line? He's out of liine!"

[Jack]

"WHAT? Am I holding a crock of shit? Tell me something, is this hospital called St. Crock of Shit?"

[Simmy]

"I'm out of line? He's out of liine!"

i Can't read that without hearing Sanch saying it in my head. His delivery of that line is remarkable

[K]

i Can't read that without hearing Sanch saying it in my head. His delivery of that line is remarkable

Classic example of brilliant delivery. I'd dispute if that line was even written to be funny, yet it's probably the funniest bit of the series for me.

[Santa Claus]

I got this yesterday. The commentaries are quite good aren't they.

[Davros sock drawer]

"He-ere. Let me cut up your pork piie."

[Monkeyboy]

I think Sanch's best delivery is the line (quoting from memory), "He's dead Dag, we're too late! Looks like our killer has struck agaaainn."

[CrispinG]

Just who was this Renwick customeeeeeeer?

[cistm_k0nfliqt]

"one of the main reasons i went into medicine was for the laughs, that and the pussy, and that dried up ten year ago if you pardon the expression"

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many, many more.

[Paradigm]

Got it for Christmas, loving it. Learner's just brill, talking about Harris Ford:

"He looks like he's about to do a joist."

Almost wet myself.

[DirkCrisis]

The in-character commentery is exteremely good.

"You're not using a coaster?!? You're an ANIMAL!"

[Davros sock drawer]

She's smooth! Like ice,

Cold to the touch, and it isn't very nice...

 

The commentaries are class. "Ethnic Cleansing".