Yes, he's rather wonderful and yes he has turned water into wine, but for god's sake.... 40 percent of the topics here are love letters to old crater cheeks. And frankly, it bores me. Can we move on please?

P.S. i made up the 40 percent bit. Poetic licence.

You could always start the ball rolling by, say, introducing a new topic for discussion. And not just whining about what other people are talking about. For fuck's sake.

There. That's my good mood successfully put on the back burner. Though to be honest that's probably a good thing - it was beginning to make me feel uncomfortable.

God sake, man...........I was scrolling down the list looking for the new stuff and all I could see was Brass Eye this and Brass Eye that....maybe i'm getting allergic or something.

Right. So you added yet another thread containing the words "Chris Morris"...

>That's my good mood successfully put on the back burner. Though to be honest that's probably a good thing - it was beginning to make me feel uncomfortable.

I can identify with that.

In terms of comedy Brasseye is presently the most interesting thing.

But if you want to talk about "Up late with...Gina Yashere" be my guest. I think she has copied Blackwood's shit delivery, I think she's filling up a slot which is rightfully John Gordillo's Letterman rip and most people in her audience hate her jokes, especially the "black people"/"white people ones" which aren't cool to do anymore and many blacks tend to agree it just makes them and their white friends feel further apart.

Why can't they repeat decent shows instead of this bullshit which "must be good because it is new". I want the goodies back on TV, I want to see Python repeats, I want to see Fry & Laurie. But I can't. So I am going to boohoohoo about Chris Morris all fucking day.

List the number of good artists who are functioning today? Not many, and even fewer who get on TV which is the greatest medium ever. And you can fuck the new talent because their all Seinfeldphiles who want to push the observational moniker to a higher degree or be stupider than Vic 'n' Bob or just act weird for no reason a la Noble and Silver. So excuse me if I'm excited about a new episode of brasseye that I might never fully see as it was orginally intended to be viewed.

by the way is the CD version of Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands track shorter than the Vinyl version because I really need to hear "all of it"?

> is the CD version of Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands track shorter than the Vinyl version

At the bottom: http://www.rdf.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Append/AppendixA.htm

does anything great happen in those 35 seconds?

>does anything great happen in those 35 seconds?

That's the George Formby bit they used on The Day Today.

And the PantySmile theme is the hidden track on In Utero. 'course you have to bear 10 minutes of silence before the bastard starts up.

> And the PantySmile theme is the hidden track on In Utero. 'course you have to bear 10 minutes of silence before the bastard starts up.

I consider ten minutes of whirring ambience favourable to the tortured industrial chug whining of Cobain.

Autechre?

Cobain's whining matches the mood though. As does the music of the Vampire Rodents.

.or just act weird for no reason a la Noble
.and Silver.

I thought they acted weird to be funny. I laughed.

> But if you want to talk about "Up late with...Gina Yashere" be my guest. I think she has copied Blackwood's shit delivery,

Well, a lot of Richard Blackwood's 'material' is written by Gina Yashere, so maybe he's copying her(?)

Either way, I think they're both awful.

Gina Yashere added some salient and thought-provoking comments to "There's Only One Madonna" and I won't have a word said against her.

>I think she's filling up a slot which is rightfully John Gordillo's Letterman

When I read about this on the cakeshop (Mel and Sue are guest presenting shortly) the flyer info does make it sound an awful lot like the RDA. I really hope this isn't a replacement.

>When I read about this on the cakeshop (Mel and Sue are guest presenting shortly) the flyer info does make it sound an awful lot like the RDA. I really hope this isn't a replacement.

As far as I know, the RDA probably won't be back on Choice. It doesn't "fit the profile" (ie, it's a tad too clever for its own good).

>>When I read about this on the cakeshop (Mel and Sue are guest presenting shortly) the flyer info does make it sound an awful lot like the RDA. I really hope this isn't a replacement.
>
>As far as I know, the RDA probably won't be back on Choice. It doesn't "fit the profile" (ie, it's a tad too clever for its own good).

And it's shit.

>As far as I know, the RDA probably won't be back on Choice. It doesn't "fit the profile" (ie, it's a tad too clever for its own good).

That's a shame. It's not a terrible show by any means.

>Well, a lot of Richard Blackwood's 'material' is written by Gina Yashere

That is one very sick dynamic they have going. How did she ever qualify as funny. Maybe they egg each other on to further their unfunnyness. Did she write blackwood's stuff for WKWYL.live?

Noble and Silver had one good episode. The travel-log one in eastern europe. It wasn't very funny but it was entertaining and aesthically pleasing. Evocative.

It's unfortunate that the RDA isn't coming back. "Up late..." isnt a replacement in the best sense, it's more like TV for 'brothers'.

Yashere and Blackwood are wankerish like Murphy. Not a patch on Pryor. Incidentally "Here and Now" is on Paramount this Sat.

>And it's shit

It knows and admits that it is bad. And it makes you feel connencted to the show. One episode even had the caption at the beggining: "Letterman is starting now on ITV2". Like saying "we know who we're trying to copy and we're proud".

Spot where Blackwood or Yashere use self-irony.

And to the Noble & Silver fan, remember the part where Stuart is holding the cat and pretending to screw it, why is he still wearing his underwear? It could just be easily done without it to greater comedic effect. Chris Morris did his screwing scene in the buff, why are Noble and Silver such lazy gits?

>>And it's shit
>
> It knows and admits that it is bad. And it makes you feel connencted to the show. One episode even had the caption at the beggining: "Letterman is starting now on ITV2". Like saying "we know who we're trying to copy and we're proud".
>
> Spot where Blackwood or Yashere use self-irony.
>
>
> And to the Noble & Silver fan, remember the part where Stuart is holding the cat and pretending to screw it, why is he still wearing his underwear? It could just be easily done without it to greater comedic effect. Chris Morris did his screwing scene in the buff, why are Noble and Silver such lazy gits?
>

So it's self-parodying shit. Big fucking deal.

The eight minutes of dead air when RDA introduced Bonnie Langford as a guest, only to leave her on her tod after a Gordillo walk out, was a triumph. As was the cute socialist...as brainiac says, they know what the viewer is thinking, but there's a passion behind it which validates the show. This seperates it from shit like Blackwood.

>As far as I know, the RDA probably won't be back on Choice. It doesn't "fit the profile" (ie, it's a tad too clever for its own good).

That's depressing, I hope it isn't true...

"Yashere and Blackwood are wankerish like Murphy."

Great. That means they'll end up doing voices for a great film made entirely by a computer.

Anyone remember Gordillo's double act - The Fabulous Double Act Brothers? Very stupid and most amusing. Dumb props and stunts, including a Reservoir Dogs-style torture scene featuring Gordillo tied to a chair, and his double act partner torturing him by scraping fingernails on a blackboard, popping bubble wrap just out of reach...

> Reservoir Dogs-style torture scene featuring Gordillo tied to a chair

I was just watching a python video. It was a series two episode. Cleese is a boxer who is in bed and Palin starts to saw his head off, and just then the camera pans to the left.

What do you make of that? Python invented the whole goateeed film/crazed/filmmaker of the nineties - Tarantino is a magpie!!