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(Rhysickle Proudly going without a signature until... now, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 13:49, archived)

\o/
YES
( Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 13:51, archived)

Harsh. She's occasionally funny.
It should be a wiggly, rather than flat baseline.

Massive TJ:

If anyone remembers Barbarossa's tale of a mandelbrot rug from the Nerd QOTW, it's been updated with a picture and is most woosome.
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( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE(TM), Thu 13 Mar 2008, 13:58, archived)

I think you must be ocassionally mistaking catherine tate for someone else

( drbroon a poor wee monkey stole his face, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:00, archived)

It may be that I'm occasionally drinking heavily.
Most of her characters seem to be funny the first time you see them, but they don't develop and get repeatedly recycled to death. It's a problem that seems to afflict numerous sketch shows IMO.

In good news, first Futurama film is out on region 2 on the 7th of April I think.

See me drool like a dalmation regarding a ham.
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE(TM), Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:02, archived)

I've had it on region '0'
AVI format for 5-6 weeks. You'd have been welcome to a copy, you may as well wait now for a nice boxed version.
( Pasanonic so I compo anything with words, right?, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:05, archived)

yes, I am in agreement with you.
I didn't even know there was going to be a film. Excellent.
( drbroon a poor wee monkey stole his face, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:06, archived)

there are going to be 4
they are being seriallised in the US (not sure how well that'll work).

Also I'm unsure of my spelling of "seriallised"
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE(TM), Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:08, archived)

It should be Seasonized for the yankfolk.

( Kamikaze Stoat balanced for lean, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:10, archived)

aha! so it really IS you brits that are trying to dumb things down for americans!
so that you can come back later and say "see, that's why you're stupid"

i'm still only 50% in agreement over all the homeless Us, though.
( Agent Muu b3ta.com/board/9745928 <- b3taday festivities!, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:15, archived)

most of the "americanised" spellings annoy me mildly
but to fair they are just as effective as communicating their meaning as the originals are.

"Lazer", however, can fuck right off.
It's an acronym, yanktards.
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE(TM), Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:17, archived)

oh god
"lazer" will get you just as much of a spanging here. i promise you that much.
( Agent Muu b3ta.com/board/9745928 <- b3taday festivities!, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:19, archived)

Fingers crossed, eh.
Woo
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 13:51, archived)

Woah!!!
That looks a bit too accurate...
(Darkpie 3.243F6A8885A308D31319, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 13:51, archived)

by next week
if all goes according to plan it'll be 100% accurate
(Rhysickle Proudly going without a signature until... now, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 13:52, archived)

Am I the only person on here..
Who doesn't despise her?

She's making a living by taking the piss out of the very idiots who watch her...
(Darkpie 3.243F6A8885A308D31319, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 13:57, archived)

We have politicians for that.
Besides - she's only where she is because her boyfriend's the DG of the BBC or summat.
( A Vagabond , proving all the poets wrong, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 13:58, archived)

also she has really cracking tits

( Agent Muu b3ta.com/board/9745928 <- b3taday festivities!, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:24, archived)

DOCTOR. FUCKING. WHO.
NNNGNGNGNGNG *stabs RTD stabby stabby stab stab*
( Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 13:59, archived)

^ this

( Mushroom, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:01, archived)

a whole lot of this

( Wasp Box is your next PM, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:03, archived)

^ thisity
^ thisity
^ this
(Ysol, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:39, archived)

One series of 'Am I bovvered'
was mildly amusing. Three series is taking the piss. She has done some alright stuff, and I'm interested to see what she's like on Dr Who, but frankly, if she ever does 'Gran' again I'll start cutting myself.
( Smallbrainfield, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 13:59, archived)

If she does gran?
You're going to turn emo?

Just change the channel... it's much simpler
(Darkpie 3.243F6A8885A308D31319, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:04, archived)

No way man
I turned nu-metal when they cancelled Birds of a Feather and prior to that I was Goth circa 'Duty Free'. I was mostly rockabilly during One Foot in the Grave.
( Smallbrainfield, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:12, archived)

'Gran'
Is uncannily... no exactly... like my great aunt and is the only thing she does that has my family in stitches. :)
( Hamster Trippin', Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:09, archived)

But that bovvered thing - I mean ...
It's so original, and funny, and well worth doing over, and over, and over, and over again.
( A Vagabond , proving all the poets wrong, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 13:52, archived)

I saw her tv show for the first time last week
If it wasn't for the canned laughter I would have had no idea it was supposed to be funny. Therefore I agree with this graph.
( pobblepop, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 13:57, archived)

I just hope she doesn't get hooked on smack
and ends up being universally adored like those other talentless junkie no hopers the country worships with sickening passion.
( Prof UnderCover belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 13:57, archived)

^

( Agent Muu b3ta.com/board/9745928 <- b3taday festivities!, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:27, archived)

I'm not too bothered about
Tate and her comedy. I just don't watch it. Like any of these sketch type shows ( her, boosh, Little Britain, 3 non-blondes and the spin-off, Bo Selecta et al ) When they are new they are fresh and quite often hilarious and well deserving of a 6-8 episode run on BBC3 or Ch4 but then some mental case has the idea that they deserve another run and another and another until you end up hating it with a passion because there is only so many times you can hear the same tired joke before you want to kill people.
Very few sketch shows can pull off a long run. Bring back the fast show is all I am saying.
( Pasanonic so I compo anything with words, right?, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 13:58, archived)

Reeves & Mortimer
that flippin' bingo advert Vic's doing the now is funnier than a lot of the stuff you mentioned above.
( Prof UnderCover belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 13:59, archived)

What's on the end of your stick Vic?
I loved those two. I do however think I might be disappointed if they came back in a similar format. I think that level of insane mentality was just right for the 90's.

I think I might do a Lloyd Grossman picture now.
( Pasanonic so I compo anything with words, right?, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:03, archived)

I found her pretty annoying and unfunny the first time I saw her.
But yes, I just avoid her.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:00, archived)

Hale & Pace and The Russ Abbott show
were far better than things like Little Britain and Catherine Tate in my opinion. But perhaps the new sketch shows can see the weaknesses of variety.

Edit: ... and although the Fast Show was good, it kind of gave birth to catchphrase comedy.
( drbroon a poor wee monkey stole his face, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:02, archived)

Really?
Hale and Pace?

Even as a child I knew they were shit.
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE(TM), Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:03, archived)

haha
they were shit, but there was at least more variety... *props up flimsy argument*
( drbroon a poor wee monkey stole his face, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:08, archived)

*borrows prop*
*disappears into broom closet with Marjorie*
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE(TM), Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:10, archived)

Variety?
bum tit willy willy repeat ad nauseam?
( barryheadwound Mul - ti - pass? Multipass!, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:29, archived)

The last series of Mighty Boosh struggled
At least the League of Gentlemen knew when to quit. Same goes for the Fast Show. Have a listen to "Down the Line" or whatever it's called on Radio 4 for Whitehouse and Higson comedy gold.
( Smallbrainfield, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:03, archived)

That's entirely it.
All the best ones knew when it had run it's course and knew not to alienate the fans by milking them ( although LoG Apocalypse was near the taking the piss line )
( Pasanonic so I compo anything with words, right?, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:08, archived)

I'm quite a large mighty boosh fan
but I finally got round to watching the first two of the third series and I'm not interested anymore.
( drbroon a poor wee monkey stole his face, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:13, archived)

I downloaded some early Boosh stuff off audible
excellent and worth revisiting

esp as there is bugger all else on at the moment
( The Tig and me, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:22, archived)

oooh The Fast Show
Inspector Monkfish

They all start great on radio, one good tv series and then crap
( The Tig and me, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 14:05, archived)

hahaahahaha
great one!
( thiswasmyclone, Sun 16 Mar 2008, 10:54, archived)