world of glasgow is on itunes for free i think
― Number None, Friday, 9 November 2012 02:57 (eleven years ago) link
disappointingly his wife did the stage layout for frankie boyle's tour.
No, his girlfriend did the art on the DVD cover! (x-post)
He sometimes mentions his father, who is a regional "comedy hypnotist" that performs at local pubs. He's clearly got an interesting family history. Jesus - half the press for S3 is him talking about alcoholism and suicide.
It's amazing to me (as someone who didn't grow up in the UK, so his accent is sometimes REALLY hard for me to understand, like on the Dee Dee sketches or the amazing "Get away from the motor" one) how he can also have such broadly-appealing ones. The Mr. Mulvaney sketches are incredible!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9KmdBEFisQ&playnext=1&list=PLCA06AD4FAB1EAC48&feature=results_video
― She Got the Shakes, Friday, 9 November 2012 07:57 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't quite finish that thought - I just mean the range of his sketches is impressive. Total surreal non-sequitor stuff all the way to something that could have been a Mr. Show bit or whatever.
Part of it is that he's a genuinely great actor, I think.
― She Got the Shakes, Friday, 9 November 2012 07:58 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggEUx-wS0ms
Burnistoun is kind of the flip side of the coin to Limmy's Show - an unashamedly big, dumb, noisy sketch show. There's usually one or two decent sketches per series, and the rest is sort of "hmm". It's disappointing cos the stuff Rab Florence used to do on his old shows(eg Consolevania & Videogaiden) wasn't like that at all, I get the sense he's playing things deliberately low-brow for a more mainstream audience.
Limmy's stuff is in a different league, which is odd as initially they were coming very much from the same place, humour-wise - both very Tim & Eric influenced. Not to mention Limmy was a regular in Videogaiden as "Zak Eastman".
― Pheeel, Friday, 9 November 2012 11:09 (eleven years ago) link
tom d, did you know him well? was he always funny?
Pretty well. Yes, and the humour was exactly the same, but I would never have thought he'd end up a "comedian" with his own TV show!
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 9 November 2012 11:25 (eleven years ago) link
Jesus - half the press for S3 is him talking about alcoholism and suicide.
That's Glasgow for you!
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 9 November 2012 11:26 (eleven years ago) link
Got tae laugh int ye? Else ye'd walk till yer bunnet floated.
― squozen turnip (onimo), Friday, 9 November 2012 11:32 (eleven years ago) link
Aye, ye never knwo the minute
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 9 November 2012 11:38 (eleven years ago) link
forgot mulvaney and up t' bloody tree. both amazing.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Friday, 9 November 2012 12:14 (eleven years ago) link
Seriously though, why is is still not on one of the main BBC channels? Considering the shite they have on. It's not an accent thing is it? Cos that's a bit fucked
― Number None, Friday, 9 November 2012 12:17 (eleven years ago) link
Is it really not on nationwide? I've only seen the sketches on YouTube through mates and assumed it was.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 9 November 2012 13:01 (eleven years ago) link
the anti-thatcher/queen stuff probably doesn't help
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 9 November 2012 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
He's playing up to a stereotype with the "fuck yer England" stuff but maybe some Englishers at the BBC only see the angry Jock.
― squozen turnip (onimo), Friday, 9 November 2012 13:21 (eleven years ago) link
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/louisemensch/100116958/why-is-the-bbc-using-licence-fee-money-to-pay-a-man-who-wishes-margaret-thatcher-dead/
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 9 November 2012 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
good work for hosting this on the telegraph website....
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2011/11/margaret-thatcher.jpg
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 9 November 2012 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
woman of eighty-six, now mentally frail, vulnerable and unable to answer him back or defend herself
Ah the old senile defensia
― Dog the Puffin Hunter (ledge), Friday, 9 November 2012 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
half the press for S3 is him talking about alcoholism and suicide
do you have any links to these? he's spoke previously about quitting drinking after waking up one morning feeling suicidal, be interesting if he's gone into more detail
and woops re: stage layout/dvd cover thing!
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
more from limmy sr:
https://twitter.com/GlasgowLimmy/status/266698584576118785/photo/1
wept laughing at 'up t'bloody tree' when i first saw it
something so brilliant and small about the GBM past of this 'doppleganger' sketch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLlLb4n8ZtY
that brilliant thing of something minor happening that you might raise an eyebrow for a split second before forgetting and moving on, but limmy grabs it and rinses it to death
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know, it's much more variable than the other Scottish comedy shows on the block - for every "Wrong way down a one way street" there's a "Lloyds pharMAcy"
see, i wouldn't pick out either of those sketches as being brilliant or poor, they're just his middling stuff to me. as you can see on this thread people have their own fairly obscure skits that hit a chord with them, that's his genius
and I have real doubts it'll ever get to the heights of the Falconhoof "Kill Jester" again
super disagree. that 'guy in the park' clip from s3 preview is as good as that for me. fascinated by what he'll do next, clearly has ideas and creativity by the ton so as much as i want him to go on making sketch shows forever i think he'll move onto bigger things. he's already mentioned writing a script for a horror film/tv series - bit gutted as i've no interest in non-lol-horror
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
one of my favourites, mostly down to the sheer menace at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9_kpc7zjZMagain, "ya WANK" has filtered its way into my day to day conversation
(he reused this in his series, something a bit harder hitting about the bare room backdrop of this)
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
re: that last clip, what does 'topper' mean? i take it as something like "got one over on you", that right?
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
also what's limmy's comedy hypnotist dad called? seriously thinking of making a trip up from manchester to check his show
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
Five minutes of twitter & soundcloud has convinced me Limmy Snr's an unfunny bawbag.
I suppose I might think the same of his wee brother if twitter was my first impression.
― squozen turnip (onimo), Friday, 9 November 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
I think this is hypnolimmy
http://lordofthetrance1.webs.com/
http://lordofthetrance1.webs.com/limond.jpg
― squozen turnip (onimo), Friday, 9 November 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
His article on 'trolling' in the Guardian today is something else. I laughed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/nov/09/confessions-of-an-internet-troll
― Walter Galt, Friday, 9 November 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
onimo, you didn't find the danny dyer phonecall funny?
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
Bog standard crank call imo. Rab Corbett's were funnier, dunno if they're still online somewhere.
― squozen turnip (onimo), Friday, 9 November 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
Dyer name dropping Jimmy Boyle was funny
― squozen turnip (onimo), Friday, 9 November 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
ah, im a big fan of the bog standard crank call. dunno who rab corbett is, mind
― NI, Friday, 9 November 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
He's from Paisley, I think. His stuff used to get passed around on tapes years ago then it surfaced on the web 1.0. Probably not as good as I remember it.
― squozen turnip (onimo), Friday, 9 November 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
limmy's dad's hypnotist show looks mental: http://youtu.be/J0xX3oxa1hk
skip to second half, 3.45 onwards. watch from 3.45 onwards. bunch of people sat in a row, raging at each other while limmy's dad - who has hypnotised them into thinking he's invisible - walks past slapping and nipping and pulling their hair. goes on for 5 relentlessly unpleasant minutes. no jokes or humour, just anger and rage and pain, increasing in intensity til it looks they're gona smash each others faces in.
at one point he grabs the old lady's boobs and she think it's this scally kid who did it. grim.
― NI, Saturday, 10 November 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
apparently his show is self-contained and he's willing to travel the uk so 100% booking him for a show in manchester. who's in?
― NI, Saturday, 10 November 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwfxvo34fRY
― alt-jjj (cozen), Saturday, 10 November 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
ahm actually turnin intae a wuwlf
― jed_, Saturday, 10 November 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
the electronics shop guy is really annoying
― Number None, Monday, 12 November 2012 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
damn thing isn't on iplayer yet. though spotted this interesting nugget:
BBC1 12:00 AM, Sunday 18th November 2012
so it IS being shown nationwide after all. weird as a lot of the press leading up to it says how it's scotland only, criminally
― NI, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
there have been a lot of big shake-ups at the BBC this week.
― jed_, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
the US Grand Prix appears to be on BBC1 at that time
Turns out I had BBC Scotland hidden away in the other channels bit on my TV though. I've missed out on so much
― Number None, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
ah yeah, says bbc1 (scotland only) on a related page. wish this fucker would turn up on iplayer or box.bz soon. im refusing to sleep until it does.
― NI, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
as good as expected. some properly brilliant bits, some that don't quite make it, but it's definitely of a piece with s1&2. big relief he's not dropped off.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01p085w/Limmys_Show_Series_3_Episode_1/
― NI, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
really hope the guy in the hardware shop isn't going to be an ongoing thing.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
favourite bits were the old man with the hats and Dee Dee. Wasn't even a vintage Dee Dee sketch but i just find him hilarious every time
― Number None, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
i liked the guy in the electronics shop, tho by the end it wasn't so good.
think my biggest laugh was the "i've never said this to anyone before.... " one. but the dude in the park was just brilliant. reminds me of some IRL twats.
adventure call was pretty good. i liked the bit with the guy drawing the picture on the napkin too. that actor is amazing.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
paraside and jac mccaff good and a good mix of others I realise what I enjoy is just limmy's v funny acting plus some v funny moments and ideas than payoffs/punchlines
― conrad, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
picture on napkin guy was superb. limmy's face as it went on that bit too long, turning from matey laughing to something uncomfortable, just wonderful. (though needed a few seconds shaving off the end of the sketch)
i did think that there's a small risk some of his stuff could descend into pastiche, a bit catchphrasey. (though as catchphrases go, a disgusted look to camera is up there with the best of them.) don't think he's there yet but it could go like that if he's not careful
― NI, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
INT:DAY: MAN: DUCK
JOHN: WHATS THAT DUCK
cat walks in with a bird
JOHN:
DUCK: QUACK
EXT:DAY; EYES LOOK AROUND :INT:WOMANS BOOBS
― john forshaw, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 09:41 (eleven years ago) link
Was a bit disturbed by the giant doors in one of the lampshade sketch scenes. Is this a Glasgow tenement thing? Made the people look like children.
― Dog the Puffin Hunter (ledge), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 11:58 (eleven years ago) link
haha
― conrad, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link