Joe Pasquale made me laugh.

<shudders>

I don't feel right...

There's an old Lee & Herring 'listings' item (possibly unused), that you can find on their website in the archives, that says Joe Pasquale nicked material off 4 alternative comics from the 80s, one of whom was Boothby Graffoe. Can't remember the others.

Yeah....I'm *sure* I've heard that "Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, and then it's insulin" line somewhere before, AND GRAFFOE SOUNDS PLAUSIBLE. SORRY, ACCIDENTALLY HIT CAPSLOCK BUT CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO TYPE THAT AGAIN.

You sound better in that forceful mode... you strong lady...

>SORRY, ACCIDENTALLY HIT CAPSLOCK BUT CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO TYPE THAT AGAIN.

Well, you could at least have mentioned the INDEANTS.

Forum Rule 87:5b All caps lock postings should be followed by

IDESNTRS

ISDEANTS

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I thought Lorraine and Frank as The Proclaimers was one of the funniest things I've seen for a long time (not counting One Foot, Royles or BB)

Although I've never seen the ** *'***** show, I'll agree with this strand because Frank makes me laugh.
Hopefully we'll get Series 2 of Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned here, or else the all new "11 O'clock Frank".

>Yeah....I'm *sure* I've heard that "Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, and then it's insulin" line somewhere before, AND GRAFFOE SOUNDS PLAUSIBLE. SORRY, ACCIDENTALLY HIT CAPSLOCK BUT CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO TYPE THAT AGAIN.

Well, Jack Dee's used the insulin line. And I remember it used before that too. But yes, Frank Skinner would make a great II 0 <|0c|< presenter, mainly because it would change the format and delivery of the material.

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>Well, Jack Dee's used the insulin line. And I remember it used before that too. But yes, Frank Skinner would make a great II 0 <|0c|< presenter, mainly because it would change the format and delivery of the material.

*And* he doesn't need two dozen writers.

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>>Well, Jack Dee's used the insulin line. And I remember it used before that too.

I should imagine it's turned up in a couple of Victor Lewis-Smith reviews as well.
Last week there was a bumper bonus in 'first review since coming back off holiday' whereby he got both the Paula Yates 'Ecstacy, Heroin and Tamezepan were found at the scene of her death but the other daughter is still missing' and a line about a (I think it was) Channel Five exec who VLS assumed 'hallucinates in vivid shades of grey'.

Two classics in the one column. Beat that.

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>>>Well, Jack Dee's used the insulin line. And I remember it used before that too.

Jasper Carrott's used it too.

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>>>>Well, Jack Dee's used the insulin line. And I remember it used before that too.
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>Jasper Carrott's used it too.

AAhhhh, that was it. JC used it on Back To The Front (I think) and JD used it on Happy Hour.

Interesting to see everyone grudgingly liking Frank Skinner. Surely his secret weapon is exactly that: his despite-yourself likeability.

That's why he'd make a good ** *'***** **** host - none of the current or previous lot were LIKEABLE - just clever-clever.

Likeability is a quality comics relied on enormously in the past (music hall / Morecombe & Wise etc etc) but few current comics are interested in. Amongst modern performers, I'd put Skinner and Izzard in that rarefied category.

They're not the funniest, but they're quite hard to hate...

He nicked some material from Milton Jones too I heard.

YAY! She's back!!

My original posting was a bit grudging, but this is what I didn't manage to get across...

Skinner is a comic. First and foremost, he's there to be funny. He knows that. And, more often than not, he comes up with the goods. What more can you ask? His show doesn't amount to much, as I said, but I laughed probably twice a minute. Which is as often as prime Seinfeld.

Does anyone know if Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned is coming back, btw? I thought that was good enough too (although I didn't see the first one, rumoured to be one of the worst pieces of TV of all-time by just about everyone I know who saw it).

Yes coming back soon commissioned for 12 new episodes. Thought it was okay, but I've got just about every episode on tape if you want to borrow.
*This is because I tape every comedy programme on TV after making the mistake of not taping Spaced.

I saw Skinner the other night and laughed like a drain. Very funny man - yes he plays up the 'like me, like me' thing - but he does it well.

BTW Whoever said they laughed at Pasquale - so did I. He was actually very funny. Perhaps a rehabilitation is on the cards?

"I've got a song that'll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves..."

"Rehabilitation"? When was he ever habilitated?

Has anyone else noticed that Joe Pasquale is doing the announcements on Platform 5 at Wimbledon BR?

I know a train that'll get on your nerves, get on your nerves�

Why do announcers at railway stations say: "The train arriving TO platform 6 is.. "? I thought things could only arrive AT. A minor point, but it gets on my cods.

Becayse they're not very educated. That's why they work on the railways.

I mean, I can't spel and im more educated than them.

And why do they call us 'customers' and not 'passengers'?

>Does anyone know if Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned is coming back, btw? I thought that was good enough too (although I didn't see the first one, rumoured to be one of the worst pieces of TV of all-time by just about everyone I know who saw it).

What show were they watching?? Having been shielded from any media-led backlash ('cos hardly anybody here knows who the hell Baddiel and Skinner are) I'm guessing it was probably just fashionable to claim the show was bad; at worst it was disorganised, but I found the first one quite entertaining.
My favourite secretary was definitely Paul the penguin man. I'd go to London Zoo just to see him. Bugger the penguins.


{That last comment may be more appropriate for the orgy thread}

I buggered a penguin once. Terrible. The chocolate melted.

LOL

'Penguin' is the name of a chocolate biscuit snack In the UK, just in case you missed the point... do they have them in Australia as well?

>Yeah....I'm *sure* I've heard that "Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, and then it's insulin" line somewhere before,

John Thomson as Bernard Right-On, I think you'll find.

We don't have them here, but I speak fluent chocolate.



(I first heard that Paula Yates gag from Greg Fleet about 4-5 years ago. Popularly retold mongst comics when he visited Edinburgh around then)

>Why do announcers at railway stations say: "The train arriving TO platform 6 is.. "? I thought things could only arrive AT. A minor point, but it gets on my cods.

They don't say that where I live Sam but they do say "Because of an earlier incident intervals will be decurring to all destinations." on the London Underground

What on earth does that mean??? Why don't they just say your train will be late because something went wrong this morning and we haven't got back to normal yet.

Anyway this in nothing to do with Frank Skinner so I'll shut up now.

Soooo, do you lot think Frank is better or worse when he works with David Badiel?

A lot better.
because I like to see guys as friends it's always funnier:
Boosh
Lee and Richard Herring
Can't think of any more right now

Generally, a big fan but the Eastenders obsession spoils the rest of his act.