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Matt Rock
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Posted: 6th Mar 2008 21:44
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There's a new (well, new to Americans) TV show on BBC America that you guys might be interested in seeing, called "That Mitchell and Webb Look." It airs Friday nights at 9:20pm Eastern. It's a sketch comedy show, starring pretty much the entire cast of the BBC show "Peep Show," one of the four sitcoms I've ever actually found entertaining, lol.

Here are some videos from Youtube, skits from the show:
WARNING: These link to videos with some adult humor, they might be offensive to some people:

Watch the football on Sky Sports!
The Green Clarinet
That's Numberwang!
Drug addict holiday
Henchmen with literacy issues
Early BBC test footage

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Van B
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Posted: 6th Mar 2008 21:52
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I like this show, probably even more than I like Peep Show - especially the tramps who do that drin-drrrin-drin-drrrin song , cracks me up.

Not sure if you've seen any of the other newer UK shows, like...

Spaced
The Mighty Boosh
Catherine Tate
The IT Crowd
Ideal
Shameless

All worth a look.


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Posted: 6th Mar 2008 21:57 Edited at: 6th Mar 2008 21:58
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Yeah, watched it years ago and have the series and live show. My favourite is Angel Summoner and BMX bandit (mentioned loads of times on this forum).

Also look up The Mitchell and Webb situation. Is a similar series they did years ago.

Currently I'm going through my Monkey Dust and Jam! series. Both are well worth looking up if you like British comedy.

Oh and apparently there is a new Mitchell and Webb look series coming soon.

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Posted: 6th Mar 2008 21:59
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I'm not normally impressed with British comedy. I just can't relate as I can when Americans make fun of us or our ways. But I must admit it was pretty good, and the Green Clarinet is totally outrageous.

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Quote: "I just can't relate as I can when Americans make fun of us or our ways"
In that case watch Monkey Dust. They particularly make fun of American films in a couple of episodes. The Crusades is a good one off the top of my head.

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Posted: 6th Mar 2008 22:19
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Quote: "Also look up The Mitchell and Webb situation. Is a similar series they did years ago."


How come your more upto date on British comedy than me, and I bloody live here!

Anyhoo, just ordered the DVD of 'situation' and series one of 'look' . I drew the line at the radio CD's.


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Posted: 6th Mar 2008 22:23 Edited at: 6th Mar 2008 22:24
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The second series is on at the very moment over here, lots of new sketches although theres still some numberwang in there

edit: Sir Digby Chicken Caesar rules btw!
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Posted: 6th Mar 2008 22:24
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Quote: "I'm not normally impressed with British comedy. I just can't relate as I can when Americans make fun of us or our ways. "


That's why you replaced David Brent(!) in The Office, and Basil Fawlty(!!!!!!!!) in Fawlty Towers. It probably won't mean much to you but The Office is David Brent, and Fawlty Towers is Basil Fawlty. Without them, you might as well call them Some Business, and Some Hotel
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Quote: "Without them, you might as well call them Some Business, and Some Hotel"


Amen to that, most of our best comedies are made funny by the charismatic nature of the leading actor/actors


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Once again, I can't relate. I never watch situation comedies. They're just not funny. I'm more of a Mad TV or Saturday Night Live kind of guy. I guess it's parody that makes my laugh more than anything.

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I absolutely love Spaced, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are hilarious! There was a funny episode where the guy from Life on Mars showed up, another show on BBCA I love. I like Catherine Tate but they keep replaying a season's worth of shows here in the States. And of course there's the Office, much funnier than the American version with Steve Carrell I think. I wish we got more comedy shows here, and less episodes of Gordon Ramsay or Changing Rooms or any of that other boring rubbish .

Easily one of my favorite shows, not just on BBC but in the whole world, is Top Gear. I like cars but I'm not obsessed with them, and there's nothing quite as boring as a show about cars. But Top Gear mixes humor and funny car-related challenges (building a space ship out of a Reliant Robin or a car that can cross the English Channel (on the water of course)). And they can make cars look so rediculously cool! Like this clip of the Bugatti Veryon, the fastest car in the world, hitting it's top speed of 250+ MPH.

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Quote: "BBC America"


How can you have a british broadcasting channel in america or have i just got the wrong end of the stick
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Quote: "How come your more upto date on British comedy than me, and I bloody live here!"
This stuff is really quite old now. We have had Numberwang posts for years on this forum. And "situation" comes from 2001 I believe.

Seriously watch Monkey Dust though. You don't really have to be British to get most of the jokes (brummie taliban though is particularly British with Gihad being put off to watch the footy). The american film version of the Ivan Dobsky (he never done it) story is well amusing.

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Posted: 6th Mar 2008 23:34 Edited at: 6th Mar 2008 23:36
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Quote: "british broadcasting channel"


Actually, its the "british broadcasting corporation", Also, I see no problem why they cant have a channel outside of the UK
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"That Mitchell and Webb Look" isn't really my thing, kinda like "Little Britain". A little entertaining perhaps but no pull.

"The IT Crowd" is nice but a bit over the top.

It's odd that no one have mentioned "Coupling", it's my favorite comedy show, seen most episodes trice (TV first then got it on DVD).

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Quote: "I like Catherine Tate but they keep replaying a season's worth of shows here in the States"

Don't assume it's any different in the UK!!!! By the way...bad news...they killed off Lauren Cooper last Christmas. I ain't bovvered, but you might be
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As long as they don't kill off Nan, she's about the funniest part of 'Tate, although to be honest I really can't be bothered with the most recent series, seems to be stretched a bit now. You can always tell when a British comedy series is struggling, they start having more and more guest appearances, and filler material like stupid song and dance routines. What an effing liberty!.


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Quote: "It's odd that no one have mentioned "Coupling""
Well would take quite a while to list all great comedy shows But yeah, this was an amazing series.

As for IT crowd it is very hit and miss. Even though I think some of the more IT support type jokes should hit home better. But they don't. Highlights I remember were the smoking one where Jen turns Russian, pretending to be handicapped, and the funeral one where weird blokey gives the greaving widow a CD of Cradle of Filth. Think he points out a song like Nail in the Coffin as a good one.

At this point I'll do my usual plugging of Darkplace (see my avatar for the saviour of horror). Ruddy brilliant. When the main character goes off to make a couple of coke floats in the middle of a ritual, thus missing the opening of the gates of hell, then you know it's something special. Coupled with doctors packing shotguns on a day to day basis and it's a winner

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Quote: "By the way...bad news...they killed off Lauren Cooper last Christmas. I ain't bovvered, but you might be "

What happened, did someone finally blow a fuse and shoot her? lol I kinda liked that character, although she did get sort of annoying after a while, as did the creepy sexual ginger nurse. Like Van, the only character that's stayed persistently entertaining for me is Nan, I was saying "what a ___ liberty!" for weeks lol. And I like that couple who laugh at stuff that normal people wouldn't find that entertaining, I've known people like that lol.

Quote: "kinda like "Little Britain". A little entertaining perhaps but no pull."

Quote: "It's odd that no one have mentioned "Coupling""

I absolutely love Little Britain, although I heard they want to make an American version, not that I'm shocked lol, all of our shows are British knock-offs. Coupling I sort of like, and Jeff is easily on my list of favorite TV characters, but are they still shooting it? The last season we got here in the US, Jeff went away to Lesbos, and Steve and Jane had a kid, and the show ended very abruptly. It's been years now since we've seen a "new" episode, so I assume they canned it, but is there a fifth (or sixth?) season in the UK that we didn't get here? The american "equivilent" of Coupling is "Friends," they're almost carbon copies of each other, pretty much the same formula for cast and situation design, although Coupling is, imo, far funnier and with more adult appeal.

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Sometimes I like Little Britain too, but it teeters on being too homosexual for my tastes. I like the character in the wheelchair though


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Matt:
Nope, only 4 seasons of Coupling, the birth episode is the final. And yeah, Jeff is a great character, he's not in the 4th season though.

Friends may have 6 characters that slightly reminds you of the ones in Coupling but there's a huge difference. Friends also started 6 years before Coupling.

There was a US attempt on Couplings though, from Wikipedia:
Quote: "It failed to perform in the ratings and was canceled prior to completing its first season on NBC. It was immediately panned as a poor imitation of the original UK series by viewers and critics. Miscasting and stilted delivery of a nearly identical script were believed to be the reasons for the failure."


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Quote: "Quote: "By the way...bad news...they killed off Lauren Cooper last Christmas. I ain't bovvered, but you might be "
What happened, did someone finally blow a fuse and shoot her?"

no, i think she was killed either caving or she went off a cliff. i'm not sure - i missed the episode.


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Quote: "Sometimes I like Little Britain too, but it teeters on being too homosexual for my tastes"


Thats because the actors are homosexual, lol

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Quote: "Thats because the actors are homosexual, lol"


Well I guess that explains it! Hehe.


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I didn't know they were gay. Although the fat one seemed awfully chummy on the Graham Norton show . I hope you're basing this on fact and not simply remarking on how they wear dresses in certain skits, I mean, everyone from Monty Python did a skit in drag at some point. And Sylvester Stallone wore drag in... um... some crappy movie with Rutger Hauer, can't remember what it was called though.

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Nah, the fat one is definitely gay (has a civil partnership with a bloke so that gives it away). The other one just looks it but has been out with a serious amount of top female totty.

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@ Dazzag - 'That poor man. Not only have he just been screwed by a giant eye, he is now giving birth.'

Priceless.

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Quote: "I hope you're basing this on fact and not simply remarking on how they wear dresses in certain skits, I mean, everyone from Monty Python did a skit in drag at some point."


It's fact, they have said so on tv at some point. But the tall one is bisexual, so I guess that makes him half a gay lol

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lol I got in trouble a long time ago on my radio show for saying something to the effect of "If you're gay or straight, I don't have a problem with you, but I don't like bi people because, well, they're greedy! You can't just walk into a room and say 'I want everyone in here!'" Sad that I got in trouble for that, it was a comedy show and anyone offended by something so obviously silly really needs to get a life imo .

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Quote: "But the tall one is bisexual"
I think that one is speculation. Look up quotes and it seems he does not fancy blokes. He deffo acts it up though.

Quote: "Priceless"
Yep. As is the quote in my sig. Get the Darkplace Facebook quote app for loads of good quotes. "He saved my life once. I saved his twice. So I was one up." - my fave at the moment.

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