Comedy from the regions and nations (From TV to Go thread) Posted Sat Nov 4 01:03:09 GMT 2000 by george

This topic was too good to be left dying in the TV to Go thread.

As a southerner living near London, I've recently in the forum been reading lots about naff Scottish and Welsh sketch shows, with descriptions ranging from *patchy* to *shitefest*. Is regional or local humour better? Do you laugh more when someone takes the mick out of your National Assembly, or is it all dreadful cobblers?

Opinions along with descriptions of shows would be most welcome to help satisfy my curiosty on this. Thank you.

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Posted By Justin on Sat Nov 4 08:32:47 GMT 2000:

That Scottish comedy show that managed to get on BBC1 network over the summer was alright in places. When I saw it. Can't remember the title. Friday nights. Knocked spots off Haywire, that's for sure (which btw featured Charlotte Hudson off Watchdog, another careerist cow who thought she'd give comedy a go at Cambridge, but was obviously rubbish on Haywire, but is seemingly forgiven by the male population for being "a bit of a looker". Not good enough, sorry.).

Haven't seen Lucky Bag on BBC Wales. Barry Welsh was alright on HTV, although not a patch on Sparkes' work for Absolutely.

Ummmm...anymore?

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Posted By 'Points of View' on Sat Nov 4 11:30:03 GMT 2000:

>That Scottish comedy show that managed to get on BBC1 network over the summer was alright in places. When I saw it. Can't remember the title.

It was Chewin' the Fat. More please, BBC!

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Posted By 'chris' on Sat Nov 4 11:46:46 GMT 2000:

Lucky bag on BBC Wales is the biggest pile of shite......ever! part two. Why on earth the beeb felt the need to bring it back for a second series is beyond me? It is totally demeaning to the welsh people and am glad it is not networked!!!
Unlike the amusing Barry Welsh over on [itv] carlton wales! This is pure genius and i think with a little more effort and financial investment could easily go network and work on a simialr level to Naked Video and the like. ITV - we need more original humour progs on the network even if they do have a regional slant - so what?

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Posted By 'paul twist' on Sat Nov 4 12:18:29 GMT 2000:

Is Barry Welsh still in production then? Paramount showed it a few years ago, I assumed it had ended when they stopped.

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Posted By TJ on Sat Nov 4 15:26:21 GMT 2000:

The Cousin Matty show on Liverpool Radio City circa 1990. Amazing at first, but the joke quickly wore off.

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Posted By 'Damian' on Sun Nov 5 09:05:34 GMT 2000:

You won't hear any complaints about Give My Head Peace on BBC Northern Ireland from me.

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Posted By 'Richard' on Mon Nov 6 15:45:42 GMT 2000:

>You won't hear any complaints about Give My Head Peace on BBC Northern Ireland from me.

It is absolutely hillarious. But would it translate to a national audience? Obviously most non-Norn Iron people wouldn't get all the jokes, but well...

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Posted By george on Mon Nov 6 23:50:48 GMT 2000:

>>You won't hear any complaints about Give My Head Peace on BBC Northern Ireland from me.
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>It is absolutely hillarious. But would it translate to a national audience? Obviously most non-Norn Iron people wouldn't get all the jokes, but well...

...Ah, but would they release compilation tapes like they did in the late 1980's of Scotch & Wry (BBC Scotland), so that local jokes are mostly filtered out?
Is there any chance of this happening?

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