Chris Morris vs Armando Iannucci

Morris is a bit lazy, isn't he?

Both peaked with The Day Today, both had a 95-98 run with great stuff interspersed by stuff that was really overrated/doesn't stand up to repeat viewing (Jam, Friday Night Armistice) but Armando came back hard at the turn of the decade with The Armando Ianucci Shows and The Thick of It, while CM hasn't done anything of worth for nearly 14 years now.

I think Morris as Cook and Iannucci as Moore may be a better comparison as Iannucci looks like he might 'break' America if his piece on his movie in todays Guardian is accurate.

Still, if Morris's movie 'Carry on Suicide Bombers' comes off...

basically agree w/dom

however, "charm offensive" comes close to erasing all previous gains

I think Morris as Cook and Iannucci as Moore may be a better comparison as Iannucci looks like he might 'break' America if his piece on his movie in todays Guardian is accurate.

Can't see him ever become an "unlikely sex symbol" however, I think he'd make an unlikely unlikely sex symbol

Time Trumpet was fucking dreadful as well. Also the worst thing Stewart Lee's ever done.

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Time Trumpet was fucking dreadful as well. Also the worst thing Stewart Lee's ever done.

this is what thompson meant, i guess. iannucci started out on 6:30 r4 landfill satire, and he still keeps a hand in it.*

got to pay the bills, you know. morris somehow does without.

*even so, time trumpet and charm offensive are still better than the fucking now show.

if his piece on his movie in todays Guardian is accurate

link?

Not even Time Trumpet can cover up TTOI's brilliance, true say. lol xposts

However, much as it saddens me to have missed that "what are you a stan of" thread, and much as I entirely agree that The Day Today is Chris Morris' televisual highlight, and that Jam is overrated, the equivalent radio series Blue Jam is pretty much my favourite programme ever in any medium. Would hold out for In The Loop before voting but there's no option of that, sadly.

And as for Nathan Barley, I say treat it as a big dumb stupid laff-out-loud slapstick comedy that dares you to consider it as some kind of cutting social satire, knowing that you'll utterly reject it on those terms (unless you're an idiot). It's a very clever bit of very silly self-clowning fun. By no means "great" but certainly entertaining IMO, especially in the context of what we've seen this decade.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jan/29/sundance-armando-iannucci-in-the-loop

^^ the film is immense.

this is what thompson meant, i guess. iannucci started out on 6:30 r4 landfill satire, and he still keeps a hand in it.*

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Yeah, but Morris started off on BBC local radio:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/Juror8/radio-cam1.jpg

That film is probably the film I am second-most-stoked-for in all time, just behind the forthcoming Gaspar Noe.

^ There will no doubt be some contrarians/revisionists saying that is the best thing he ever did (xpost)

That film is probably the film I am second-most-stoked-for in all time, just behind the forthcoming Gaspar Noe.

Yikes

don't get louis started on gaspar noe!

I'm seeing In the Loop three days after this poll closes. so disregarding that, I would say Iannucci.

Morris. Although I've not really seen enough of the thick of it and I've seen all of the Armando Ianucci shows but that was mainly while "going beta" after a heavy night out round a pal's flat so my recollection of them is blurry.

I did enjoy Nathan Barley, but Morris merely directed that, and there's nothing particularly interesting about the direction, and in fact I think with a better director it might have been a bit more coherent and less all over the place.

Also, although the day today is clearly better than Brass Eye, I still enjoy the latter, including the paedophile special which I must have watched in excess of five times and have laughed each time.

and I don't know why I capitalised Brass Eye but not The Thick of It or The Day Today.

Morris co-wrote Nathan Barley

Brass Eye generally makes me laugh as well, especially episodes Crime, Drugs, Decline and Special (in that order). The others aren't so much kop.

xpost. lol, fail.

Still funny after all these years:

Armando is more consistent

The "Armando Ianucci Show" was brilliant.

also Baynham++ mega money from Borat movie.

I wonder if he ever calls up Richard Herring for a chat

nrq, have you seen in the loop?

braggin 09: yes.

I wonder if he ever calls up Richard Herring for a chat

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Herring must have made cake off of Little Britain, surely? Even if he was only third wheel on the writing staff.

Made cake morelike ate cake he's fat

lol at that saturday night armistice clip. i've basically forgotten that show entirely but it can't have been all bad. ben thompson is right that the iannucci-schneider-baynham line-up is possibly one of the most untelegenic of our times.

the porkzing zeal of the dieter xp

question for nrq 09: your thoughts?

There were a lot of funny bits in Armistice

But there was also Al Murray and Mel Giedroyc as a roving reporter double act.

I've erased that from my brain with mind rubbers

best Armistice bit is OJ's autograph/confession.

question for nrq 09: your thoughts?

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best Armistice bit is OJ's autograph/confession

The classroom sketch, with the formation of the single superheavy child

superdense

Yep, that's the one

I liked Chris Morris as the completely demented boss in 'The IT Crowd'

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