Just started ITV2
Talking of which - did ITV get a discount on showing Ice Age on two successive weekends or is there something more fundamental going on ?
In uk.rec.motorcycles, The Older Gentleman belched forth and ejected the following: Ali G or me posting it? Ali was funny, I guess you didn't/don't get it.
He's a one-joke comic. The schtick is funny the first time, and after that the novelty wears off. Like Little Britain.
Looked in, while surfing for something halfway interesting. I think that Ali G is crunchingly unfunny as an act [1], anyway, but the bits I saw were made even less impressive by the fact that Ali G *cannot* act. He's confident enough as a TV turn, but in a film he was like a rabbit in headlights. [1] Just a grown-up equivalent of a child saying 'bum' and willy'. Just a quick comedy-turn which he [very cleverly] managed to turn into an industry. Just a less brave or challenging version of 'Candid Camera' or 'You've been Framed'.[2] [2] Just my view.
I rather wish that I had shown the same sense of self-discipline. The TV version was the radio version painted in primary colours. Which is usually the case in radio/TV transfers.
Still often is, as The News Quiz [1] remains funny. I was thinking more about character-based comedy, rather than current affairs-based or quiz programmes. The slavish copying of R4's Little Britain characters, and the beating to death and beyond of every catchphrase, made for a very lame programme. Then they just tried to out-grotesque themselves, and stopped bothering to write comedy. [1] I have high hopes of Sandy Toksvig as the new chairman, when the programme returns.
In uk.rec.motorcycles, The Older Gentleman belched forth and ejected the following: Little Britain was never funny.
His interviews were amusing. He once interviewed Sir Rhodes Boyson who was completely and utterly unaware of what was going on during the interview. AliG even managed to use the phrase "drinking from the furry cup". Fantastic stuff. Plus the 'Ali G in the USA' series made Americans look stupid. Admittedly it was like shooting fish in a barrel but even so.
Well. I never knew that. Seriously. Still The News Quiz is miles better than HIGNFY ever was (and it was pretty bloody good about 10 years ago.)
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