otto wrote:Aren't you working for Hague now, otto? Surely you can see where I'm coming from on making the most of a situation.MightyMouse wrote:When the editor of Private Eye wins brownie points just for accepting that the right wing press are ridiculous then there's something wrong.
Hislop won a lot of brownie points for me when he accepted how ridiculous the right-wing press' attacks on the lib-dems were. He is using them up quite quickly though.
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Registered 5 years agoBring back Deyton and get rid of Merton/Hislop. -
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Registered 10 years agoOh yeah his idiotic surrealist stuff SUCKS. Yet the audience still cackle. (I am sure they do it out of pity!) -
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Registered 10 years agoI think it's been going steadily downhill. When Brucie first did HIGNFY, it was utterly surreal and hilarious - his second time around, however, was definitely more forced and engineered. It feels like, steadily, it's being more and more heavily scripted instead of the spontaneity that it used to have. Not to say it hasn't had good moments recently - the Election Special was really funny - but for the most the presenter is heavily scripted and prompted and Ian and Paul have to bounce off the set material - which is difficult and a little bit silly.
I lament its decline, and I guess the move from prime Friday to Thursdays is a sign it is slowly dropping down the scale in relevance. But I guess I would miss it if the worst were to happen. I'd like to think this is a temporary blip in recent years, as political and topical comedy is being heavily scrutinised by the Beeb in the wake of so much scandal - but by pulling it back, the jokes aren't as funny.
I think it's not so much the show then as the Beeb trying to keep things "safe", but safe isn't always funny - ask Frankie Boyle, who though we know why he left Mock the Week, seemed to in his last series be reigned back in, or his funniest/most controversial stuff limited to the DVDs.
This goes mostly to everything on the Beeb right now though... even QI seems to have been reigned back in somewhat, and that really truly annoys the hell out of me...Master of Tekisuto No Kabe. *bows*
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MightyMouse 998 posts
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Registered 7 years agoAll topical or political programs are having problems right now. Everyone bar the Torygraph wants to give the new government a chance but there's an undercurrent of cyncism that'll come out sooner or later.
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Not offended! Not that any civil servant likes to be spoken of as working for politicians... ;p
Anyway, it's not until September, it's coming soon enough, let me enjoy my distance while I can... ;psay no to Eurogamer sigs
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ecureuil 74,085 posts
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Registered 11 years agoRoss and Brand are tools, but the BBC was going down hill before that. -
ecureuil 74,085 posts
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Registered 8 years agoI saw it on thursday night. What's this EG humour you speak of? -
ecureuil 74,085 posts
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Registered 8 years agoUm..ok. -
woodnotes 4,789 posts
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Registered 10 years agoMerton just isn't funny anymore and Hislop has become an arrogant, smug buffoon.
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Registered 6 years agoI missed the EG joke too.
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ecureuil 74,085 posts
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Registered 8 years agoFHUTA isn't EG's, it came from 4chan like every other internet meme out there. Dammit people, learn ur interwebz. -
ecureuil 74,085 posts
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woodnotes wrote:
The first half of this sentence has some truth, not sure about the second. Watching this 10 years ago, IH was far more arrogant and smug than he is now. He's mellowed if anything. And is funnier than Merton too. 80% of Merton's comedy these days seems to consist of 'talking bollocks', like he thinks he's on Just a Minute all the time..
Merton just isn't funny anymore and Hislop has become an arrogant, smug buffoon.
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ecureuil 74,085 posts
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Registered 8 years agoMerton is ok, but it's just a paycheque to him now.
That said, this new series is better than it has been in recent years. It's better when they concentrate on politics and satire instead of making fun of the presenter all the time.
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Registered 10 years agoThis weeks had William Shatner on it as the host and it wasn't too bad.gif)
Everybody has secrets, life would be boring without secrets, don't you think...?
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I have a copy of every single episode of NIGNFY. It started 28/09/90. Guests were Sandi Tostvig and Kate Saunders. Watching em is almost educational, a journey through modern UK history.
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