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On 04/11/2022 at 16:56, cassidy said:

Btw The Alex Horne TV show is on All4 now as well. 

 

Ep 2 and Grandaddy's peas song had me in tears. 

 

This is such a strange programme. Only 3 episodes in and we enjoyed the Pea song and the Is it The Police song. The bits in the rehearsal room with the Horne section are quite entertaining but the rest is pretty iffy, probably on purpose? It's like someone has asked Alex to make a TV show and for it to be like his opening bits on Taskmaster where he talks to Greg about something random, but with a bit of a budget.

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Yeah it's a shame because all the bits which are just Alex and the band are great, but everything else is just a bit rubbish.

 

Those bits in the rehearsal room you're talking about @spork are basically what their podcast is. I wish they'd just adapted that into a half hour programme with a different guest each week - the framing of it as a sitcom seems like something that's been tacked on by outside influence, probably from C4? Whoever decided on it as the format, it doesn't work at all.

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On 01/12/2022 at 22:23, JamesC said:

I really enjoyed this series. Fern Brady was just lovely and really funny. 

Next series we get Frankie Boyle, which I'm pleased about, and Jenny Éclair, which I'm not. 

Oh, if Frankie Boyle shows up properly (and I'd imagine he will) that will be brilliant. But, yeah, Jenny Eclair can resort to a similar type of mithering to Jo brand that really does my nut in. She could be good if she commits, she could be rubbish if she doesn't.

 

I didn't know Fern Brady before this series, but I love her to bits now. Joins the list of people I'd pay to read the phonebook at me - hot damn that accent's gorgeous, and the enthusiasm was infectious.

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I was unaware that Fern had recently been diagnosed as being Autistic and wanted to show that having autism was no impediment to doing comedy. 

At no point did i think "she's seems a bit different" for want of a better description. she just seemed quirky and tired a lot of the time. 

 

I think this has been a classic series up there with the best of them.

 

I shall always say "Wait what? What wait, hang on. Wait what?" when presented with a troubling problem from now on. then say "no Way" in a Geordie accent. 

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Eclair aside that looks like a strong continuation from this excellent season. Boyle should be a highlight. Kiell Smith-Bynoe is good on Ghosts and Stath Lets Flats. Ivo Graham I am surprised hasn’t been on before. He’s part of the whole Acaster, Wang, Gamble clique.

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Listing people who are “standup comedians” on Wikipedia rather than necessarily those I’d want on

 

Alan Carr

Ben Elton

Bill Bailey 

Billy Connolly

Caroline Aherne 

Craig Charles

David Mitchell 

Dawn French

Eddie Izard

Harry Hill

Henning Wehn

Jimmy Carr

Etc

 

There’s still plenty

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How strict are they on the 'Stand Up' thing? We had Bob Mortimer who isn't really a traditional stand up. Assume that means we could get Vic too.

I'd quite like to see Ade Edmondson and Jennifer Saunders on the same series - I think having couples could be a good laugh (was a bit disappointed David Mitchell wasn't on with Victoria).

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44 minutes ago, JamesC said:

How strict are they on the 'Stand Up' thing? We had Bob Mortimer who isn't really a traditional stand up. Assume that means we could get Vic too.

I'd quite like to see Ade Edmondson and Jennifer Saunders on the same series - I think having couples could be a good laugh (was a bit disappointed David Mitchell wasn't on with Victoria).

Not overly. They joked about it on the second series with having Richard Osman. They do seem to be sticking with it a little more recently, and keeping a good % on up and coming comedians.

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6 hours ago, pledge said:

Listing people who are “standup comedians” on Wikipedia rather than necessarily those I’d want on

 

Alan Carr

Ben Elton

Bill Bailey 

Billy Connolly

Caroline Aherne 

Craig Charles

David Mitchell 

Dawn French

Eddie Izard

Harry Hill

Henning Wehn

Jimmy Carr

Etc

 

There’s still plenty

 

At least half of those haven't done stand up in literally decades!

 

I would like to see several of them though, admittedly.

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Great series. I’m with everyone on Fern having initially struggled with her accent. John was brilliant as this season’s fall guy, and Dara was surprisingly likeable whilst being one of the most logical thinkers to do a series. Sometimes I laugh more when they turn up and absolutely nail a task in a ridiculously quick time because it’s funny to see the rests’ faces when they realise how easily they could have done it.

 

It’s a shame Rik Mayall isn’t around anymore; Greg might have been able to persuade him to do it after working with him on Man Down. Frankie Boyle could be very interesting, and I was actually really surprised he’s doing it.

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David Mitchell's been pretty adamant about not doing it. He was asked about it on Richard Herring's podcast and said he reckoned his public persona of being quite clever would likely not survive his probable performance on the show.

 

Interestingly that interview would have been recorded around the time Victoria C-M was recording her series (Winter 2020-21 for transmission in autumn 2021)

 

 

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On 05/12/2022 at 13:07, Sidewaysbob said:

I was unaware that Fern had recently been diagnosed as being Autistic and wanted to show that having autism was no impediment to doing comedy. 

At no point did i think "she's seems a bit different" for want of a better description. she just seemed quirky and tired a lot of the time.

Quirky literally means a bit peculiar/different/unusual though?

 

Anyway, regarding who to choose as contestants, I thought there was something in here a while back that reported them wanting to move away from having comedians on there?

 

I don't watch this regularly - I think I've seen 3 of the 14 series - but Jenny Éclair is enough to switch me off. I'm not sure about Boyle in this format either, to be honest. When does the next series start? 

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10 minutes ago, Gabe said:

Quirky literally means a bit peculiar/different/unusual though?

 

Anyway, regarding who to choose as contestants, I thought there was something in here a while back that reported them wanting to move away from having comedians on there?

 

I don't watch this regularly - I think I've seen 3 of the 14 series - but Jenny Éclair is enough to switch me off. I'm not sure about Boyle in this format either, to be honest. When does the next series start? 

I think Frankie Boyle might turn out to be the clever one who just turns up and nails things. I hope I'm wrong and he's wonderfully incompetent and frustrated and sweary, but I think either will work. Regardless, I don't think he'd have done it without deciding to commit, so my guess is he'll be a good call.

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9 minutes ago, Gabe said:

Anyway, regarding who to choose as contestants, I thought there was something in here a while back that reported them wanting to move away from having comedians on there?

 

I think it was mentioned that they might open the floor a little more, but I doubt they'll have an entire full series where the majority haven't some sort of comic background or personality.

 

The New Year Treats could be seen as testing the water a little on how others go down, and they've been quite successful in my opinion, but I dunno if they'd sustain a whole ten episode series.

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3 minutes ago, Fry Crayola said:

 

I think it was mentioned that they might open the floor a little more, but I doubt they'll have an entire full series where the majority haven't some sort of comic background or personality.

 

The New Year Treats could be seen as testing the water a little on how others go down, and they've been quite successful in my opinion, but I dunno if they'd sustain a whole ten episode series.

Who is in the Treats show?

 

I think the key, as @MarkN highlights, is people committing to it. I've seen little bits where people look bored or rather uninterested in it all and it does drag things down a bit. It could've gone that way with John in this series, but he turned it around.

 

Munya was the standout for me, because he really did commit to everything but also did it with a style and confidence that was infectious - whereas I thought Sarah wasn't really all that bothered. 

 

They do need some more interesting tasks though - lobbing toilet rolls/pulling a cloth from some eggs etc do not make for particularly interesting viewing.

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