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yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!
Nice one. With those guys on board its less likley to be a second rate TheOffice clone.
At last! It's been too long since we've had Morris or Linehan on the teevee. Rabbit, you've made me a very happy bunny.
That's one great line-up of talent. Nice to see Lineham writing instead of just directing.
Ayoade is comedy gold.
Deean Lerner.
I just bit a bit of wee. I completely missed his name when I skimread it.
QUOTE (Blind I/O @ Nov 4 2005, 05:14 PM)
I just bit a bit of wee. I completely missed his name when I skimread it.
Noel Fielding's in that IT Crowd as well. As a goth.
"Their new show will ‘look and feel a lot different from the sketch shows going out at the moment,'"
Jesus, I hope so. Sketch shows are usually so very lazy.
Jesus, I hope so. Sketch shows are usually so very lazy.
QUOTE (fear_of_pop @ Nov 14 2005, 06:34 PM)
Noel Fielding's in that IT Crowd as well. As a goth.
He's going to be so great in it
QUOTE (rabbit57i @ Dec 8 2005, 05:10 PM)
as ever I approach any non-Partridge Coogan effort with trepidation.
QUOTE (rabbit57i @ Dec 8 2005, 04:10 PM)
Oh, the pressure of living up to Partridge.
QUOTE (whitey @ Dec 8 2005, 06:25 PM)
as ever I approach any non-Partridge Coogan effort with trepidation.
Too right. I still haven't got over the Tony Ferrino debacle.
QUOTE (whitey @ Dec 8 2005, 06:25 PM)
as ever I approach any non-Partridge Coogan effort with trepidation.
yeah, but coogans run stands the test of time.
"a wank, i think..."
everybody dies.
Which of his characters said that all the time? I liked him.
Which of his characters said that all the time? I liked him.
what was i watching the other day where they said he'd thought of turning the security guard from 'the pool' into a proper character? he's still one of my favourites.
in 1975, no one died.
in 1976, no one died.
in 1977, no one died.
in 1978, no one died.
in 1979, no one died.
in 1980....some one died.
in 1981, no one died.
in 1982, no one died.
in 1983, no one died.
in 1984, no one died.
in 1985, no one died.
in 1986...i mean i could go on...
in fact, ferrino is probably the only really bad coogan character i can think of.
edit - don't know, f_o_p, but it rings a bell.
in 1975, no one died.
in 1976, no one died.
in 1977, no one died.
in 1978, no one died.
in 1979, no one died.
in 1980....some one died.
in 1981, no one died.
in 1982, no one died.
in 1983, no one died.
in 1984, no one died.
in 1985, no one died.
in 1986...i mean i could go on...
in fact, ferrino is probably the only really bad coogan character i can think of.
edit - don't know, f_o_p, but it rings a bell.
Tim Fleck, the museum curator.
QUOTE (Blind I/O @ Dec 10 2005, 11:42 PM)
Tim Fleck, the museum curator.
Ohhhh, thanks!
I liked the swimming pool man too. A bit like Mark Gatiss's cavern guide, only not tortured.
I'd forgotten how many brilliant different characters Coogan's done.
I didn't like Coogan's Run. The Cheeseman episode was the only decent one and that was a little broad for me. And had more than a touch of Partridge about it.
Paul Calf doesn't really hold up either.
Paul Calf doesn't really hold up either.
QUOTE (Hughesie @ Dec 10 2005, 07:43 PM)
Too right. I still haven't got over the Tony Ferrino debacle.
Tony Ferrino was indeed a bad move, but from what I recall some of the songs did have some quite good wordplay in the lyrics.
QUOTE (rabbit57i @ Dec 14 2005, 05:38 PM)
That's fucking brilliant. David is one of my heroes. Thanks for the link. Can't wait for the show.
Chris Langham arrested and released on bail for child porn charges.
He hasn't been charged, though, and claims innocence. God, I hope that's true.
He hasn't been charged, though, and claims innocence. God, I hope that's true.
Me too.
I heard that on the radio this morning. I really thought it was just me dreaming until I heard it again on the news.
I'm sure it's not true, and I hope it blows over as soon as possible.
I can't believe the police are allowed to make the name public when there hasn't even been a charge.
I can't believe the police are allowed to make the name public when there hasn't even been a charge.
I honestly don't think it's true, I refuse to believe it unless he's charged and there's strong evidence against him. And even then I won't want to believe it.
I didn't know until I read this!!!
How horrible....eewwwww please let it not be true
How horrible....eewwwww please let it not be true
That really shocked me when I first heard it, but I'm glad to see that he wasn't charged with anything. I really hope that it's not true.
The newspaper says he was 'released on bail until February'.
So what happens in February?
I hope it's untrue as well. I hate to see people being unjustly framed for this sort of shit.
People like Pete Townsend use their credit cards directly to access this shit and get away with it, but people like Michael Jackson and Chris Langham are arrested and their names are dirtied, even though there is no evidence to suggest their involvement in such activities other than 'implications' which generally means somebody is trying to fit them up.
So what happens in February?
I hope it's untrue as well. I hate to see people being unjustly framed for this sort of shit.
People like Pete Townsend use their credit cards directly to access this shit and get away with it, but people like Michael Jackson and Chris Langham are arrested and their names are dirtied, even though there is no evidence to suggest their involvement in such activities other than 'implications' which generally means somebody is trying to fit them up.
Nothing to do really with the case in question but - it's unfortunate that 'child porn' can apply to both looking at a picture of a fully developed 15 year old, and a picture of a three year old kid. Both wrong, but hardly the same stratosphere.
Wise words from The Independent.
QUOTE
Chris Langham's 56-year-old life has been an eventful one, but the past few days of it have been more memorable than most. At the British Comedy Awards on Wednesday evening he was named best actor both for his exquisite turn as a psychotherapist in the brilliant BBC2 comedy Help, which he devised and co-wrote with Paul Whitehouse, and for his rather disconcertingly convincing performance in Armando Iannucci's coruscating and partly improvised political satire for BBC4, The Thick of It, as New Labour's self-pitying, hapless, easily bullied Minister for Social Affairs, the Rt Hon Hugh Abbot. The Thick of It was also crowned Best New Comedy of 2005.
But Langham did not get long to celebrate. Lugubrious even at the best of times, he was promptly plunged into the worst of times, as yesterday's Daily Mirror splashed with the story that he had been arrested 17 days earlier for alleged internet-related child pornography offences, and released on bail until February. Rarely has the British "tall poppy syndrome" of building people up only to chop them down been quite so rapidly deployed.
Whatever, Langham has not been charged with an offence and on the presumption of innocence until guilt is proven - a cornerstone of our judicial system which takes on the consistency of a rubber brick when "celebrities" are involved - it seems safer and fairer to concentrate on Thursday's headlines, rather than yesterday's.
But Langham did not get long to celebrate. Lugubrious even at the best of times, he was promptly plunged into the worst of times, as yesterday's Daily Mirror splashed with the story that he had been arrested 17 days earlier for alleged internet-related child pornography offences, and released on bail until February. Rarely has the British "tall poppy syndrome" of building people up only to chop them down been quite so rapidly deployed.
Whatever, Langham has not been charged with an offence and on the presumption of innocence until guilt is proven - a cornerstone of our judicial system which takes on the consistency of a rubber brick when "celebrities" are involved - it seems safer and fairer to concentrate on Thursday's headlines, rather than yesterday's.
QUOTE (rabbit57i @ Dec 19 2005, 06:05 PM)
20th of May, woo! If only I could age fast enough in that time...
QUOTE (rabbit57i @ Dec 19 2005, 06:05 PM)
Woooo, hopefully off to the Hull show. Any information on prices, age ratings etc?
Not really sure where to put this so I thought here would be as good as any.
Shaun Of The Dead was voted the third best comedy film of all time on channel fpurs top fifty countdown on new years day. It lost out to Airplane and The Life Of Brian.
Shaun Of The Dead was voted the third best comedy film of all time on channel fpurs top fifty countdown on new years day. It lost out to Airplane and The Life Of Brian.
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