http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 19:20:46 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074&page=2#post-156295 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:22:17 +0000 waylandsmithy 156295@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I like Miranda. It isn't trendy, biting or cleverly political, but it is funny. Like comedies in the old days. It's nice to see someone focusing on the 'funny'.</p> <p>I saw a bit of Mrs Brown's Boys but I didn't really understand it.</p> <p>Strangely enough, all the best comedy seems to be on Sky these days. Moone Boy was extremely good, for example. The BBC seems to have become awful just lately: I never thought I'd see the day when Sky was making better original TV than the Beeb. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074&page=2#post-156283 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:24:45 +0000 The All New Jeni B 156283@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Says the 'snootie' boy...</p> <p>Have you watched it Hoops, of all the really beautiful, nice places he could have filmed, he chose all the really run-down, former industrial areas.<br /> And it seems to have rained the entire time... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074&page=2#post-156282 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:22:36 +0000 Hoops McCann 156282@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hoi Ferry girls hands off The Dee </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074&page=2#post-156216 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:59:50 +0000 The All New Jeni B 156216@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Carter, I don't know if it is available on BBC iPlayer, but Brian Cox recently did a documentary series on addictions which was extremely interesting.</p> <p>It was also filmed almost entirely in and around Dundee, but please don't let that put you off. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074&page=2#post-156210 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:09:22 +0000 Ironduke 156210@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Miranda is utter tripe. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074&page=2#post-156206 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:19:40 +0000 Carter 156206@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>signubd - agree about Manhunter, I thought Brian Cox nailed that role and was far more sinister than Hopkins. Brian Cox is one of those actors that when I see his name on the credits I think 'great' and am never disappointed even when the film itself is a right old load of gubbins. Chain Reaction the Keanu Reeves epic I'm thinking of you. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156143 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:03:09 +0000 sigmund 156143@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Brian Cox was good as Hannibal Lektor in ‘Manhunter.’ Much more chilling than Hopkins, who tends to chew the scenery too much for my taste. But, by god, for a man born in ’46 he’s not aged well. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156141 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:57:33 +0000 beau-jolly 156141@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Brian Cox? Isn't he a professor?<br /> VCG; Agree. No point dragging yourself out of the gutter if you prefer the gutter. Can't help thinking home-sickness for said gutter may be looking at it through rose tinted specs or the wrong end of a telescope.</p> <p>As for JC, he comes from Western Super-Mud so cannot be blamed for living anywhere else. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156138 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:51:16 +0000 The All New Jeni B 156138@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I do believe that John Cleese isn't Scottish, yet lives in Santa Barbera Sigmund.</p> <p>VCG, absolutely. That was the example I was about to use.</p> <p>One 'star' who is proud of their roots and who spends as much time revisiting them as possible is the actor Brian Cox. He still has a home here and is frequently seen wandering around town.<br /> Sometimes even without a film crew. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156137 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:46:16 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 156137@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>If you were very wealthy and/or employed in a way that means you can be based from home, wherever home may be – why the fuck would you want to live in Britain?</p> <p>I don’t think we should criticise people for moving away from their “humble roots” because anybody in their right mind would move out of a shit hole the first chance they got. If they choose to bang on about those “humble roots” though, and pretend they’re still the same person they were when they were growing up, then fair enough, let them have it.</p> <p>Jennifer Lopez for example – “I’m still Jeni from the block”. No you’re fucking not and nobody’s falling for it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156136 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:45:09 +0000 sigmund 156136@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>A great many seem to prefer living away from Britain.<br /> </blockquote><br /> Or, at least, Scotland. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156133 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:20:10 +0000 The All New Jeni B 156133@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Suppose the same could be said of many who 'made' it.<br /> A great many seem to prefer living away from Britain. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156131 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:14:15 +0000 Tripod 156131@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>for all he prattles on about his humble roots he's not terribly keen to revisit them. </blockquote></p> <p>Isn't that pretty standard? I'm thinking... Sean Connery. I remember visiting Capri, where Gracie Fields decided to live. I don't think she ever went back to Rochdale. </p> <p>And so many 'elder statesmen' default to the cliché that "the older I get, the better I was"... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156130 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:06:27 +0000 The All New Jeni B 156130@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>BC has his moments. His stand up is still one of the few things guaranteed to have me snorting with laughter, although it's mostly very old stuff which does that.</p> <p>He takes himself far too seriously for a comedian, and for all he prattles on about his humble roots he's not terribly keen to revisit them. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156128 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:53:14 +0000 beau-jolly 156128@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>About 33 years ago I was relaxing in the Edinburgh Students Union during the Fringe (oh, I know luvvie) BC came in to do something. He stood on a chair and said "heloo" and the crowd of sycophants just pissed themselves. I had seen enough and luckily he had given me the chance to get to the buffet so not all bad. I've never really liked him since. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156127 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:48:46 +0000 Oxbridge 156127@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>There's a plausible piece in the Torygraph (no, really) suggesting that their success is due to cross-generational appeal. A child can get the fart jokes in both, as mine indeed do. With Miranda, you also get niceness as opposed to the knowing cruelty of most modern comedy.</p> <p>There has to be something. Egged on by aforesaid children, I've just splurged £92 on 4 tickets to see her in Brum - it's nearly sold out and it doesn't even happen until April 2014. If anyone wants a spare ticket, let me know because I don't want to go. You could actually keep my children as well, come to think of it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156120 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:23:19 +0000 Gerontius 156120@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Never did a lot for me either but I guess Billy can be a fine performer. However, his selective amnesia does him no credit. He left Glasgow as soon as he could...and headed off to rub shoulders with the beautiful people in LA</p> <p>Batman....I mean proper Batman, not this modern damnation.<br /> Only the Americans could turn something as profoundly silly as Batman and attempt to turn it into serious art.<br /> Batman *POW* used to *CLANG* look directly *KERCHUNK" into camera. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156112 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:27:09 +0000 Squudge 156112@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@ Geri - I'm not much into Billy either, but he is spot on about the shouty/gurny young turks who, for the most part, I can't remember a single funny sketch from.</p> <p>Billy's saving grace is that he is a passable story teller, so is able to get into 'walkabout' comedy/documentary rather than endless 'standup' (or 'sitting' comedy on panel shows).</p> <p>Love Malcolm, In the Thick of It and Twenty Twelve, and still miss the Fast Show, Not the Nine O'Clock News and Yes Minister. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156108 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:21:39 +0000 Tripod 156108@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>Both Mrs Brown and Miranda directly address the camera. Has there ever been a sitcom using that device that wasn't shite?</blockquote></p> <p>Gary Shandling's Show... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156107 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:14:11 +0000 godly1966 156107@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Personally Miranda does make me laugh a bit but I can’t stand Mrs Browns boys. And as for Billy Connolly I had the misfortune to see him in the 80s. A large theatre full of middle class pricks who laughed every time he swore and every other word was a swear word. The best things on my telly this Christmas were The Likely lads, Rising Damp and Steptoe and Son all on DVD and Steptoe is now over 50 years old! I think the IT Crowd is the last sitcom I have really liked. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156104 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:50:46 +0000 beau-jolly 156104@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>My daughter and her 20 something mates all adore Miranda, so I guess its a girl-in-their-20s thing. I can take it or leave it.<br /> Only watched Mrs. B's Bs once. The joke appears to be that its live and they laugh at the cock-ups. The one I saw had a girl just pissing herself all the way through which left me bemused. Maybe funny once but I won't risk testing a second go.</p> <p>I have found myself laughing out loud to Buzzcocks and Mock the Week recently but I think that is because they have been on telly well into the 2nd bottle. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156087 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:12:17 +0000 Qoxiivi 156087@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"Has there ever been a sitcom using that device that wasn't shite?"</p> <p>Malcolm in the Middle? Excellently written, in my view. Can't think of any others though.</p> <p>With regards to Miranda – I honestly just don’t get it. At all. I don’t even find it charming. To me, it comes across as comedy for children or idiots. Literally. Like it should be on CBeebies or something. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156086 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:52:49 +0000 butagirl 156086@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Agree with Jeni about Green Wing. Sublime stuff.</p> <p>I must admit I quite like Miranda in a "switching the brain off" way. I watch Mrs Brown's Boys, despite it being absolute pish, because O'Carroll in drag is the dead spit of my gran. Watching your gran say "fuck" a lot never gets old. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156080 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:35:17 +0000 The All New Jeni B 156080@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>After having heard almost everyone of my acquaintance rave about Mrs Brown's Boys we were forced to watch it on Boxing Day.</p> <p>What a load of utter pish. Didn't raise a smile let alone a laugh and I managed to fall asleep after about 10mins.</p> <p>I don't claim to have the most sophisticated comedic tastes, but that takes banal to new shallows.</p> <p>Miranda, hmmm... it doesn't annoy me, but neither do I feel the need to set the reminder for it.</p> <p>The last truly great show I can remember was Ch 4's 'Green Wing'. That took silly yet clever to a whole new level for me. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156077 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:52:38 +0000 Carter 156077@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Am going to have to get it. Be good to see Terrance Oblong again. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156076 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:50:18 +0000 Idiot 156076@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I have the Nightingales dvd - a bit hit and miss but there's some great stuff on there. Where's me suckling pig? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156075 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:42:55 +0000 Carter 156075@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Both Mrs Brown and Miranda directly address the camera. Has there ever been a sitcom using that device that wasn't shite? </p> <p>I was going to suggest Nightingales but I haven't seen that since I was about twelve and it has probably not aged well seeing as it is now entirely forgotten. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156064 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:28:17 +0000 Oxbridge 156064@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Mrs Brown is a really old-fashioned kind of comedy too, in that it origniated out of theatre. I saw it all on stage in Glasgow once. O'Carroll spent the whole show corpsing the rest of the cast. Grotesquely unprofessional as well as unfunny - and yes I know I fucking swear a bit too.</p> <p>Miranda induced a few smiles but has definitely jumped the shark now. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156054 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:31:45 +0000 Gerontius 156054@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>That's a bit rich coming from somebody who has spent the last 20 years sunning his arse 'pool-side' with some of Hollywood's biggest movers and shakers.<br /> Has he forgotten what a fixture he was on chat-shows in the 70s and 80s<br /> No bigger ratings whore than Billy when he was busy making a name for himself.<br /> But I guess the multi-millionaire can say what he likes about those still trying to make their way in the business.<br /> Brighton......FFS </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54074#post-156049 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:59:52 +0000 Squudge 156049@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>couldn't agree more with this article:<br /> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/comedy/9775801/Billy-Connolly-modern-comics-are-endangering-stand-up-comedy.html">modern comedians rant</a><br /> The original image yesterday had Billy alongside a picture of squashy faced irritant Jimmy Carr. </p> <p>As for Brown and Miranda, both would be light and refreshing the first time around, but the material wears very thin after about one show (perhaps a couple, in Miranda's case). At least they are still making an effort and are still one step removed from 'gurning on panel shows' (or just standing up shouting and hoping that looking buff or odd carries the show, which is what the rest of them seem to do).</p> <p>Time for a new wave of comedians perhaps. </p>