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
I thought they looked huge as well.
― studge_siren.gif (onimo), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
Park dude was amazing.
― calumerio, Thursday, 15 November 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
Also Deedee ("fucken Alan Titchmarsh").
― calumerio, Thursday, 15 November 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
Deedee's one of the greatest comedy characters of all time. It could have been handled so much worse - point and laugh at the burnout scally, but you're always on his side. I get the impression, just form the decor of his room and the people he knows that he actually used to be a pretty stable guy who just happened to have hit a serious rut.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Friday, 16 November 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
agree there is sympathy there but it seriously bums me out, such a senseless waste of human life. finniestoun crane was the worst, his poor parents ;_;
― Dog the Puffin Hunter (ledge), Friday, 16 November 2012 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
the crane one was amazing, and then it turns out it's all a hallucination based on the fact he skinned up on a book about Glasgow landmarks.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Friday, 16 November 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
"Bastard widnae gie us a straight answer"
― studge_siren.gif (onimo), Friday, 16 November 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
read this somewhere else:
"One of the funniest things I saw him do was a webcam where he was waving a big knife about, acting as if he'd snuck it into a nightclub and was threatening to stab people with it. It was both hilarious and genuinely disturbing."
would love to see that
― NI, Friday, 16 November 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
on the webcam one night he pretended to masturbate to savage's "don't cry tonight" for the duration. while softly groaning "don't let me gooo", "don't cry tonight" and sobbing heavily. he kept restarting it, went on for about 20 minutes.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Friday, 16 November 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
don't think this has been linked on here yet, another of my alltime favourite sketches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD8qjOjBk-8
similar to napkin one in tone - daft music, expressions, unpleasant payoff. probably my favourite style of the sketches he does (slapstick stuff, influenced by keaton/chaplin?)
― NI, Friday, 16 November 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
xp, ha his webcam stuff was intense. sometimes hilarious, sometimes uncomfortable. always with a great soundtrack though - endlessly pleased that the greatest comic mind of our generation is all about synths and gay club dance music and not lumpen indie
― NI, Friday, 16 November 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
that one was absolutely superb from start to finish
― Number None, Monday, 19 November 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
fucking brilliant, right enough.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 11:05 (eleven years ago) link
the 'seamus' pay off had me in tears but they nailed p much everything in that, right down to the face on the guy he sees everywhere.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 11:17 (eleven years ago) link
what's your "hing"
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
You do realise, like 'hing', a lot of this stuff is just Glaswegian?
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 13:21 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it wasn't really that that made it funny
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
Ah, 'hing' for 'thing' is funny peculiar though
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
great ep
― conrad, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
it is quite funny how you're often not sure when a sketch begins whether it is a new one or a continuation of an earlier one because it's usually the same people usually looking pretty much the same
it is quite funny I realised watching this ep but in eps back to the first series that he often uses liminal spaces for the outdoor sketches or maybe that isn't quite funny
― conrad, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
The magic door on the waste ground was perfect.
― calumerio, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
superb episode that, way beyond last weeks
― NI, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
PARTYCHAT
Almost too close for comfort that one.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
Great episode. My wife pretty much hates it and was on laptop throughout, so I remarked that watching Limmy's Show might have to become my 'hing'; her considered response "Good, at least you'll do it when I'm not around then". Played right into her hands, etc.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Tuesday, 20 November 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
got a pavlovian retch from the party chat stuff
― NI, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
ha, my gf hates limmy too. showed her a couple of my favourite limmy clips the other day while sat there stony-faced and disgusted. "i don't get it, i honestly don't see what's funny about it all"
― NI, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link