― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link
And Screen Wipe rocks.
― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link
it was good, but not 300 times better than 'nathan barley'.
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost
steve otm
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link
this happened in the show except he thought she turned out not be under-age (at which point NB thinking it now okay to pretend she WAS under-age was actually quite a clever little point about...something or other).
i did hate NB but yes no less than anyone else around him.
― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Actually, scratch that, that's not the idea at all. It's funny caricatures falling into situations and scrambling to return to the status quo whilst simultaneously being trapped; a very old-fashioned sitcom thread. I certainly didn't feel that is was trying to make a big insightful statement about something, at least, nothing larger than "it's better to like something than to dislike something."
― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link
'THIR-FUCKING-TEEN'.
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link
In fairness, I guess originally Barley wasn't really a character, just a cipher, and in making him human Morriss and Brooker made him more, er, human. I just don't think that made for great comedy. It wasn't sharp enough to be genuine satire and it wasn't silly enough to be knockabout comedy. It was just 'dark'.
― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
I doubt whether Channel 4 enforced any 'nicening'. You know, maybe Barley always looked like that in Brooker's head, and if you boil the actions in any of the episodes down to the kind of 3-sentence description that you would find in TV Go Home, it wouldn't be that different. But TVGH gave the impression that Barley was a cartoonishly horrible amoral grotesque, and that's not what we got in the TV show. We got 'idiots'. I hoped it would be either venemous or ridiculous and it was neither.
― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
pt. I
pt. II
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 09:51 (seventeen years ago) link
i lolled?
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 09:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 09:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh okay, I didn't read the website so I didn't know what was supposed to happen, I only saw (and liked) what did.
― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 10:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 10:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 10:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 10:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:14 (seventeen years ago) link
'TDT' radio show was 1992. he was doing big things on london radio about then too.
'blue jam' dropped at the arse-end of '97 and was hot into the double-nine.
for me it went bad with 'jam' but then i was a student contrarian at the time, maybe i missed out.
it's just that there was a looong hiatus between the underwhelming 'brass eye '01' and 'nathan barley'.
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link
ie 'on the hour' (in b4 sotcaa smackdown).
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link
ATTENTION, PUNKS:
lady parts actually good. and quite a scoop with the cameo.
was distracted by work through the taskmaster final and the announcement of next series contestants. andy, babatundi, emma, jack, rosy. couple of names i can't quite place.
― koogs, Saturday, 1 June 2024 12:06 (three days ago) link
Emma plays Rose Matafeo's flatmate in Starstruck. Babatunde seems mostly stand-up though he did do I'm a Celebrity recently and thus does things like Celebrity Gogglebox etc now as well. I assume you're familiar with the other three.
― ailsa, Saturday, 1 June 2024 16:10 (three days ago) link
banatunde's name is familiar certainly. QI? Hignfy? but i tend to avoid things with Celebrity in the title which don't involve them making things.
i have watched all 3 series of Starstruck but still can't visualise a flatmate. i hope she's even half as good as RM, one of my favourite taskers.
speaking of which, what happened to junior TM she was going to present?
― koogs, Saturday, 1 June 2024 16:25 (three days ago) link
According to this official-looking page, the tasks were filmed in late 2023, but the page hasn't been updated in months. Does seem a bit odd.
― trishyb, Saturday, 1 June 2024 16:29 (three days ago) link
(I didn't mean official-looking, but believable-looking, really.)
House of Games? xxpost to koogs
― ailsa, Saturday, 1 June 2024 19:52 (three days ago) link
i checked imdb and there's a bunch of things under 'self' like Last Leg and 8/10 cats and as yet untitled
― koogs, Saturday, 1 June 2024 20:49 (three days ago) link
We went to a filming of Junior Taskmaster late last year (it was fun) - the one we saw was a round/ heat, and the winners of each of those were going on to film more tasks and then there would be more studio business. Haven’t noticed the next round of studio sessions yet.
― Tim, Saturday, 1 June 2024 21:10 (three days ago) link