― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Amstell: "why don't you work with someone nice like Katie Melua"Winehouse: "I'd rather have cat AIDS"
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 17 November 2006 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link
the thread should have been "Is Lily Allen this generation's Amy Winehouse?"
― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 17 November 2006 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 17 November 2006 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link
-- benrique (miltonpinsk...) (webmail), Today 12:51 PM. (later) (link)
They both seem to get on quite well...
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 November 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link
I also watched The Sharon Tate Show beforehand, and found it very funny in parts.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Preston does the "strop"
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 11 January 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
The Amy Winehouse one was the best thing I've seen on TV in ages.
― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
In the offending passage from Chantelle's book, Living the Dream, the reality star described a photo shoot where she wore clothes from Marks and Spencer.
"I've always loved M&S but it has always been too expensive for me," she wrote, adding that the session made her feel "very posh and upmarket".
― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
But you don't really go on unless you're sure you have some kind of comeback ability do you :P
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― reverto levidensis (blueski), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link
fru the magic of youtube i've been able to see some of this, mostly the recent ones but some of the older ones as well. all i knew about the show was mark s calling it self-regarding somewhere (Noise Piece maybe?).
i know this is less of a big thing in the uk, but it was refreshing to see a game show/reality thing where the "contest" is obviously irrelevant and treated as such. i don't think a show like this would work here, for that, and also cos you couldn't get US c-listers to show up and have some dick make fun of them, while doing a bs quiz about music. so, tired as the show may be, i liked it!
on the evidence, amstell is funnier than lamarr.
amy winehouse was funnier than anyone on the show, ever. better comic timing, more charismatic. and she was tanked.
british indie is truly dire.
dale winton was pretty funny, too.
― gff, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
fair points all
― blueski, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link
When are the new episodes starting again? Any official word? Last few years they've started end of October or so.
The best recent episode of the show, and the episode I direct people to when I want to get them to start watching, is the ep with Donny Tourette and Noel Fielding.
I think Amstell > Lamarr too.
― musically, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link
"i DICK on them" still makes me laugh
― blueski, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link
ha yes "donny tourette"! couldn't believe he existed.
the other big uk/us difference: the cruelty that they visit on the extras in those lineups is pretty breathtaking. it'd never work here. a picture is fair game, but someone standing in your presence?!
― gff, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link
lamarr was never good and by the end (ie 1998-2006) unwatchable.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm old enough to remember MLamarr *was* good and occasionally good in later episodes (the one with Sparks on was brilliant)...
Amstell gets as good as he gives, and so is better.
Series being repeated at the mo (was on last night)
― Mark G, Thursday, 20 September 2007 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link
My brother worked on post-production of this and said there was tons of Winehouse that was unshowable.
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 20 September 2007 08:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh wait he sez it up there ^^^^^^
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 20 September 2007 08:36 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm intrigued enough by Simon Amstell to have booked to see his stand up show in London in October. It got very mixed reviews at the Edinburgh Festival.
He is a consummate artist at needling people, but can he carry a full show by himself?
― Bob Six, Thursday, 20 September 2007 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link
gf saw Amstell at charity gig and apparently he was appalling.
― blueski, Thursday, 20 September 2007 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link
no-one uses their "good" material at charity gigs!
― Mark G, Thursday, 20 September 2007 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link
not very charitable of them
― blueski, Thursday, 20 September 2007 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Not difficult if you don't have any good material tho
― Tom D., Thursday, 20 September 2007 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link
new buzzcocks season is pretty disappointing.
― danzig, Thursday, 6 December 2007 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
katy brand seemed nice (but only 90s dawn french funny)
― blueski, Thursday, 6 December 2007 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I think it's OK so far. Noel is a good choice as stand in for Bill. Last weeks episode with Cheggers was funny, particularly Amstell's line about "at first glance Keith might sound like a poor booking, but he's the most famous person here!". One thing I don't like though is that "Parkinson" style extreme close up on people's faces.
― snoball, Thursday, 6 December 2007 18:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Jupitus is quite subdued. I think he might be sad about something.
― PJ Miller, Thursday, 6 December 2007 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
anstell taken down a peg on gamesmaster in 1993, lol
― pc user, Friday, 14 December 2007 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
The one with Miquita Oliver was quite funny. Rubbish "hall of" tho.
― Mark G, Friday, 14 December 2007 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
omg xpost
gamesmaster was kind of ravey.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 14 December 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
reckon he got ripped at school for that for years.
― pc user, Friday, 14 December 2007 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
wow clip. Gamesmaster with Dexter Fletcher really sucked.
― blueski, Friday, 14 December 2007 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
dominic diamond is a bit of a knob, but yeah, i preferred him on that.
― pc user, Friday, 14 December 2007 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
not just that but had better vibe going with the cathedral environs. take that playing bomberman was the best.
― blueski, Friday, 14 December 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link