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MIKERAPHONE
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 Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 9:25 pm Post subject: Comedy Hour..But Me Up TV |
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Just listened to 15 minutes of this on Listen Again.
I just despair.
Did not even raise half a smile.
What the people were laughing at is beyond me.
What has happened to radio comedy?
This is dire with a capital D.
BRING BACK The News Huddlines...PLEASE
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MIKERAPHONE
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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Actually it is BUY ME UP TV.
Although my original post may have been funnier.
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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Glad tidings everyone.
Out To Lunch returns in June.
Will have to do some afternoon gardening to take away the pain between 1 and 2.
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PJ in Kent
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| MIKERAPHONE wrote: | Glad tidings everyone.
Out To Lunch returns in June.
Will have to do some afternoon gardening to take away the pain between 1 and 2. |
Radio 2 have no concept of what constitutes "comedy"
How do you think Steve Wright is still getting away with it?
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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I was looking forward to Buy-Me-Up TV - the subject is ripe for satire and there was a really good cast.
But 10 minutes in my girlfriend suddenly said "this is Sh!t" and I couldn't disagree. It was just too frantic, too desperate. Good ideas and lines were there but thrown away in a hail of shouting. And the same thing happened in yesterday's offering "Miranda Hart's Joke Shop"
But yes, soon we'll get Out To Lunch and it's numerous spinoffs (at least 3 at the last count!  ). |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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| PJ in Kent wrote: |
Radio 2 have no concept of what constitutes "comedy"
How do you think Steve Wright is still getting away with it? |
They used to have. The previously mentioned News Huddlines being a good example, along with It's Been A Bad Week. For me, the trouble began when they got stuck in the rut of comedy clip shows. I can't see the point in them. I'd much rather have a full half hour of a particular comedian, but not some of the shouters / 'motor-mouths' of recent times though.
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idcowden
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Actually Arthur Smith's clip show is pretty good. Agree with Hudd lines and Bad week. Also Jammin' is good.
Miranda Hart's Joke Shop was appalling (and very rude for a show repeated on a Saturday lunchtime). I am quite enjoying On the Blog though which is quite entertaining. cLive Anderson's show is quite good also, as are Parsons and Nailor.
It's the crap like Jeff Green and Lee mack (and that terrible Ade Edmonson thing) that make you dispair. |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
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Find a spot for Adrian Juste.
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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| idcowden wrote: | Actually Arthur Smith's clip show is pretty good. Agree with Hudd lines and Bad week. Also Jammin' is good.
Miranda Hart's Joke Shop was appalling (and very rude for a show repeated on a Saturday lunchtime). I am quite enjoying On the Blog though which is quite entertaining. cLive Anderson's show is quite good also, as are Parsons and Nailor.
It's the poor (in my opinion) like Jeff Green and Lee mack (and that terrible Ade Edmonson thing) that make you dispair. |
I'll agree with Jammin' & Parsons & Nailor. But I just can't enjoy clip shows whoever the narrator is, however I'd like to hear Arthur Smith do a whole sketch / comedy show in his own right (as opposed to talking about other comedians doing it) I'm sure that would be good.
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Smith's more recent series have included original sketches and songs as well as specially-recorded clips. I think they've been pretty good - like Adrian Juste, but funny and talented  |
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