>Sweet Christ, Iain Lee seems to have lost every single vestige of the pretence he is anything approaching even any of the vowels in the words 'honest' or 'talent' and has come to terms with the a gookoid spoon dolly media scatmuncher that he truly is
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er....Details??

Their using old footage that they videoed two years ago.

So that was worth forgetting to video.

Good to see <joke> Lee and Herring on TV together again at last <end joke>

I told Herring not to talk to funny men, and now look at him, conversing with Lucifer...

Dear God I just called Ian Lee funny....

*sound of distant ambulances*

I felt my stomach rise watching Richard Herring be an amicable bloke, sometimes you just yearn for the devil in people to arise. He did look languished with alcohol though.

>I felt my stomach rise watching Richard Herring be an amicable bloke, sometimes you just yearn for the devil in people to arise. He did look languished with alcohol though.

Why was he wearing Tony Slattery's jacket?

Things have changed since he left behind his vegetarian lifestyle, including a need for meat-eaters clothing. Glands reemerge in places only tailored outfits can accomadate.

Lee really showed that Perrier judge woman a thing or two! It was like Morris on a fierce day. That was the best bit - that the woman wouldn't budge despite Lee's best efforts to be menacing, and upfront. So then Iaiaaiaiain got a bit cross. Of course he pretended he was cross in an ironic way, but you could tell he was really angry that his attempt at being Morris wasn't working.
That's what I thought anyway.
And the way he dealt with coogan - it was almost like he was out of his depth, or something.

Non Comedy related thing.

Iain Lee was good in Thumb candy. Wish they'd make a series.

The live Edinburgh or Bust was shambolic, but not in a good way. Live TV like that can be exciting when things go wrong. However, when things involving Iain Lee go wrong, you can't help feeling a slight tingle of satisfaction, yet at the same time, embarassment for a man out of his depth, drowning in the live tv ocean.
His inept filling at the end of the show brought out a particular sense of schadenfreude.
"Well, it's crazy here..it..really...is...um...crazy.
JENNY!
Oh, Jenny isn't there. So, as you can see..it's crazy...etc."
Of course it's a difficult job, but Lee was woefully inadequate; his interview with the "lady judge" was particularly excruciating. Good to see that he fell back on that comedy safety net of insulting somebody for little or no reason.

He also looked somewhat fearful when interviewing Mr Herring.

I wasn't talking to a funny man
I was talking to Iain Lee
Boom Boom

Can't remember much about it except a researcher collaring me saying "We can't find any one at all to interview, so someone suggested you"
Nice

Ahhhhh....bless oo.... :)

>Non Comedy related thing.
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>Iain Lee was good in Thumb candy. Wish they'd make a series.

Bullshit, some twat getting off on the fact he beat some guy at an old arcade game. If I'd been those Japanese guys I would of said "Who gives a fuck mate? I wrote this game it made me a tidy sum so I don't have to play it. Who are you again?"
And I learnt jack shit about games (maybe that's why they need a series).

>Non Comedy related thing.


Iain Lee sounds like the right sort of bloke then.

Richard Herring, sir, please, you looked super last night. Seriously. How pissed were you? and I don't know if you even remembered it, but the 'I 've never met you but I feel like I know you' comment at the start really took the spoon dolly off his guard...respect. It was like watching the anti-Iain Lee and Iain Lee meet up. Only it wasn't just like that, it was that. Or, erm, yeah.

>Richard Herring, sir, please, you looked super last night. Seriously. How pissed were you? and I don't know if you even remembered it, but the 'I 've never met you but I feel like I know you' comment at the start really took the spoon dolly off his guard...respect. It was like watching the anti-Iain Lee and Iain Lee meet up. Only it wasn't just like that, it was that. Or, erm, yeah.

Was it more like a very funny man, whose entertained you for more or less a decade, being interviewed by a twat?

you mean the computer game Elite? It was shit anyway, I wouldn't worry that you were no good at it.

>you mean the computer game Elite? It was shit anyway, I wouldn't worry that you were no good at it.
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I know but all my mates were good at it... I feel... you know... Ah well least I'm not Iain Lee.

MY mates were good at it too. well, the ones with BBC Micros. Or Ataris. Us spectrum owners never bothered too much with it. That'll be cos it was shit. I always preferred Atic Atac or Jetpac myself. Ultimate games. They lost it after Underworld tho. Too much pissing baout ith clever graphics. Elite was truly fucking boring.

>They lost it after Underworld tho. Too much pissing baout ith clever graphics. Elite was truly fucking boring.

Ha! It's UnderWURLD, you idiot!

Yet again Iain shows how we will never keep up with his brilliant mind.

Spectrum users were looked down on by BBC B users, you see Queen used the "Beeb" (see we had our own slang) on their Kind of Magic LP, while Speccy user (see, that's slightly nasty isn't it) did nothing except grow up and bang on about Jet Set Fucking Willy. I'm sorry...

Bizarre fact about the Beeb: You could get the licenced game "Evil Dead" on it. Weird or what?

Firstly, nice to see that I can mimic Mr Lee's style so well :D

>Bizarre fact about the Beeb: You could get the licenced game "Evil Dead" on it. Weird or what?

It actually came out for the C64 as well. And was predictaby toss. Granny's Garden was infinitely better.

I'm just happy we all have a hate figure we can unite round, warming the hands of our collective psyche round Lee's unfunny but so warm comedy brazier.

And BBC Micro types were so fucking THRILLED they had the channel's backing. Wouldn't be the same now...And you had Castle Quest, which was also shit. And the Commodore64 was like the BBC Micro in Mode....8 I think

Bad Bad Bad

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>It actually came out for the C64 as well. And was predictaby toss. Granny's Garden was infinitely better.

You see that's why the Beeb rocked, the music, and yeah I only ever played the Evil Dead game once 10 years ago, it was shit.

Granny's Garden used to scare the shit out of the girls when I was 9. Cool or what?

Drug games for the 80's computers: I had Magic Mushrooms and Mr Ee, any more for any more?

Don't remember the conversation at all. Except that he said I wasn't a comedian at one point and then I said "Blimey Iain Lee telling ME I'm not a comedian"
Was I miked at that point? Or did I dream it?

The mike kept cutting out because Iain kept forgetting to hold it up to you.
So we could see you talking, but not hear a word some of the time.

No, you said it...
he did seem strangely nervous. It was nice to see him squirm, even if it was only for a few seconds....
Who's Garth Marenghi? hoho

>I always preferred Atic Atac or Jetpac myself. Ultimate games. They lost it after Underworld tho. Too much pissing baout ith clever graphics.

Yeah, but as "Rare" they're right back on form. Goldeneye, Banjo Kazooie and Conkers Bad Fur Day are top N64 waste a day at a time pieces of software.

Comedy in computer games, anyone? What about Deus Ex Machina on the Spectrum?

lord thta was a bad game...Deus Ex Machina. Wow. I forgot all about that. As noone vaguely SOTCAA seems to contribute anymore we may as well turn this into an Alien8 discussion forum.

>Comedy in computer games, anyone? What about Deus Ex Machina on the Spectrum?

Conkers is pretty funny. Lots of jokes about shit admittedly, but loads of amusing filmy type in-jokes. Definitely worth picking up if you can find it in a Virgin for 20 quid.

And Bishi Bashi Special is excellent. The producers of Banzai can also tell you how funny it is.

Monkey Island used to make me laugh.

>Monkey Island used to make me laugh.

How much wood can a woodchuck chuck?

Look behind you, a three headed monkey!

You fight like a dairy farmer. etc.

Ahh, Amiga memories.

We have a game involving a hedgehog that chirps in a high pitched Victoria Wood voice:
"Oooh fresh worms... my fav'rite!"

It's funnier than Victoria Wood though, honest.

>Conkers is pretty funny. Lots of jokes about shit admittedly, but loads of amusing filmy type in-jokes. Definitely worth picking up if you can find it in a Virgin for 20 quid.

The Saving Private Ryan cut-scene is my favourite. Can't kill that Alien at the end, though.

Worms and The Sims can be amusing if you ignore the rules and inflict massive pain.

The Wally Weekend games on the ZX had flashes of humour. And I remember one game I rented that had a music track on the B-side of the cassette. The song was "Leader of the Pac" (geddit?!) and featured some naughty lyrics about his joystick and "gobbling me up". You don't get that with Pokemon, do you?

>Worms and The Sims can be amusing if you ignore the rules and inflict massive pain.

LOL. The only reason I would want to get the Sims is so that I can put a person into a small room with no doors or windows and see what happened.

Same with The World is Not Enough - there's a level with loads of civilians on it, and I take great pleasure in executing every motherfucking last one of them!

Sadistic? It's only a game!

PS if you type weldersbench into Conkers, you can choose whatever chapter you want.

Why didnt Ricky Gervais twat Iain Lee?

Evil Dead came out on the Spectrum too. It was manufactured by Palace Games, an offshoot of the video company who handled the distribution rights in Britain. The release of the game was legally delayed over a year while the Crown Prosecution Service made a hamfisted attempt at prosecuting Palace for releasing the video under the Obscene Publications Act.

>>Conkers is pretty funny. ...

>Can't kill that Alien at the end, though.


I've done it now and I'm right proud.

Unfortunately I haven't got another game to play in it's place. So I'm actually doing some work (and occasionally playing minesweeper, to my eternal shame)