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Never have i had to listen to such absolute dross as this.
I had it on for 10 minutes while upstairs and it was one of the worst attempts at comedy i have ever heard.
Toilet humour,stupid voices and not one funny or remotely funny line in the whole 10 minutes.
I was actually shaking my head in my hands thinking
This is dreadful.

Then at 1.30 it got worse
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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

I think 'Out To lunch' is about the only sane one left between 1-2pm Saturdays. Apart from that basically I gave up the Comedy Hour a while back.

SantaFefan · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 10:00 pm Post subject:

I was listening to some of this during a short car trip. I didn't realise it was Vic Reeves at first.
What on earth has happened to this man? he's not remotely funny anymore ( since Big Night Out imho) and yet he keeps turning up!
I'd also like to know why today's humour relies so much on gutter talk.
"laid a bog sausage" Rolling Eyes

yeh, real class stuff Vic!
How the Beeb make mistakes like this?
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SantaFefan · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 12:01 pm Post subject:

I thought he was great in Big Night Out. Very different, pretty amusing and with lots of catch lines, plus I liked his image.

The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer was good too and of course Shooting Stars was a must see for a while.

But since then, it seems like he's given up on himself and all his efforts that I've seen at least; are very dowdy and just - unfunny!

I don't think he's made the right decisions in the past and wasted his talents.
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Gnasty Gnome · Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Posts: 313 Location: West Wales

Blistering comment from Gillian Reynolds in today's Daily Telegraph;

"Vic Reeves' House Arrest (Radio 2, Sat) is a radio show made on the assumption that what made television audiences laugh 20 years ago will work today without further effort.

Just say "sausages", add a few explosions and footstep sounds, throw in a skit or two and, bingo, you'll get advance coverage on Radio 4's Front Row, a welcome from the daft radio critic of The Daily Telegraph (who let fond wishes prevail over the absence of a preview disc) and a place in the comedy pantheon next to The Goon Show.

If only. This is tat, rubbish, or something Vic himself elegantly describes in one of his frequent excretory references as a "bog sausage". There were glimmers of possibility in the skit on American sitcoms, and Vic's glimpse of a tiny little man riding on a hornet, but they were swept away in the general waterfall of aural sewage."

In case anyone thinks this is mild criticism; in 20 years of reading the DT it's the most damning review of a radio programme I've ever seen.

Ian Robinson · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:33 pm Post subject:

Vic can't get comedy work on TV anymore (TV bosses reckon they've seen all he can do) which is why he's suddenly on every panel show to pay the mortgage. Seems Radio 2 will take any old rubbish though!

As for Out To Lunch - if you tune into BBC Three's "Comedy Shuffle" you can see all the same people do all the same routines while an experienced, genuinely funny, compere looks embarrassed.

pickle · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 3:33 pm Post subject: Vic Reeves' House Arrest

I felt the US sitcom skit was him having a go at Channel 4 relying on same on a morning to get viewers - I felt he was slagging off Everybody Loves Raymond, which I like.
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Minx · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 4:40 pm Post subject:

He and some of his sidekicks were 'interviewed' on Steve Wright this afternoon. It was one of those occasions when I felt like I must be living on another plant, so smugly proud were they of this latest Saturday afternoon abomination. Mad

Ian Robinson · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 4:42 pm Post subject: Re: Vic Reeves' House Arrest

Ian Robinson · Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 9:33 am Post subject:

Typically, The Guardian love it:

(by Zoe Williams today)

I don't know if you are familiar with the children's book, The Search for Delicious, but here's what happens. They're trying to write a dictionary, some people from the olden days, and they can't agree (the Queen thinks apples and the King thinks sausages ... I'm ad libbing, really) and, to truncate rather and also spoil the ending, someone cuts off their water supply, and they all agree that the most truly delicious thing in the world is water.

I feel that way about Vic and Bob. If I were writing a dictionary of funny, they definitely wouldn't be it, and yet once someone cuts off the Vic and Bob supply, I then realise how truly they embody the spirit of comedy, and how, really, the enjoyment of The Mighty Boosh and Little Britain is only even possible upon a solid foundation of Vic and Bob. Or maybe I am pushing it. You can decide for yourself as supply is re-established, in Vic Reeves' House Arrest (Radio 2, Saturday).

The premise ... the premise is a tiny bit flimsy. Vic Reeves has been arrested under suspicion of trussing Elton John at a village fete and riding around on him like a pig. In consequence, Vic is under house arrest, where he will amuse himself by making a noise. The more I say, the more I realise you had to be there, but, besides the seminal double act, I think this raises issues about Radio 2.

When they signed up Chris Evans a couple of years ago, it was the start of a new party line about the station: the listeners have all got a bit older, and Radio 2 has got a bit younger. In other words, it was no longer the sound du choix of the superannuated. It was reinventing itself for an audience in its prime. Radio 1 could keep its young idiots, thank you, 4 could keep its fogeys: 2 was making a bold bid for the movers and shakers, the kind of busy people who shouldn't really have time to listen to the radio. Vic and Bob nail this 30-45 demographic very squarely, but I'm worried about what happens if a young person tunes in by accident. They'll realise we're not more mature, after all. Just older.

Minx · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 1:31 pm Post subject:

She's having "a larf" surely!

I've just endured 10 minutes to see what hidden depths were to be found. Only the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel, it seems.

I'm off to browse through the "Listen Again" opportunities. Mad

Ian Robinson · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 4:45 pm Post subject:

I also had to give up after 10 minutes. Terrible!