And another thing
'Member when tv sketch shows used to consist of new sketches each week, instead of a limited number of characters, in a limited number of scenarios, repeated ad nauseum?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 19 Mar 2014, 10:20, 2 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

which was nice

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 19 Mar 2014, 10:21, Reply)

I guess it did start with the Fast Show
But wasn't that also kind of the point of the show?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 19 Mar 2014, 10:22, Reply)

I think the difference between The Fast Show and the likes of Little Britain
is that the former had a wide and very talented cast and even though you knew what the pay-off would be, the set-up was fairly consistently excellent
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 19 Mar 2014, 10:23, Reply)

Indeed, often the 'punchline' wasn't particularly funny, but it was the getting there that could amuse.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 19 Mar 2014, 10:25, Reply)

Much like sex with YM

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 19 Mar 2014, 10:29, Reply)

It could be hit and miss but the dialogue was excellent
All the same I think Whitehouse (and to a lesser extent Enfield) have to carry the can for making young comedians believe that interesting, clever humour is too much effort compared to coining a catchphrase and repeating it forever.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 19 Mar 2014, 10:30, Reply)

When Enfield started doing it (Loadsamoney, etc.) most people missed the point of the characters and just focused on the catchphrases.
But then he actually made loads of money out of it, so I guess he was prepared to go with it.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 19 Mar 2014, 10:33, Reply)

He was meta before meta was meta

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 19 Mar 2014, 10:38, Reply)

Hi. I'm Stunned Winchester.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 19 Mar 2014, 10:23, Reply)

Oh god, don't start
Anything David Walliams is vaguely involved with becomes the worst kind of dross the second his association is announced
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 19 Mar 2014, 10:22, Reply)

Oh God I am sick of that man at the moment
Little tangle has got a load of audio books written by him to listen to in the car and they are incredibly shit and repetitive.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 19 Mar 2014, 10:24, Reply)

With all due respect
you have failed your progeny.

A child is never too young to be shown how much better, in every conceivable aspect including honesty concerning one's sexuality, Stephen Fry is than David Walliams.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 19 Mar 2014, 10:25, Reply)

Now that I think about it
If we were devising a scale to represent the pinnacle and nadir of capability and accomplishment, "The Fry-Walliams Scale" would be a pretty good name for it.

I might get on Kickstarter.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 19 Mar 2014, 10:27, Reply)

Fry is massively overrated and over exposed

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 19 Mar 2014, 10:28, Reply)

He's overexposed because he's comfortably the best thing on TV and has been for years

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 19 Mar 2014, 10:32, Reply)

He is exposed to a wide variety of 'culture', some good, some bad
He is aware of the obvious flaws in Walliams' writing, but being only eight, still likes a stupid shit joke.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 19 Mar 2014, 10:30, Reply)

I can hardly point fingers, I still laugh when I fart

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 19 Mar 2014, 10:33, Reply)

mini ape can fart on demand and find's it hilarious

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 19 Mar 2014, 10:34, Reply)

Baby tangles also has this ability
It must be a girl thing
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 19 Mar 2014, 10:35, Reply)

But I'm a boy....
oh I see what you did there
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 19 Mar 2014, 10:38, Reply)