New companion speculation! (Lily Allen?!?!!?)
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Well seeing as you just called my place a shitheap, I hope a future episode grants your desire of levelling Fife Montrose... along with the rest of your stupid country
Hey, I was born and half-raised in Swansea. Which means I'm entitled to call Swansea a shitheap and contractually obliged to slag off Cardiff. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
If Frankie Boyle was in the TARDIS, you sure as hell wouldn't be seeing Doctor Who at 7 on a Saturday night anymore.
Almost like a Dalek. Though if they ever start using the words "Now, apparantly..." in every other sentence he'd be indistinguishable from them
.Wamdue, I'm fairly sure it was Al Murray (the Pub Landlord) who did the 'voice of the silent majority'.
My MTW-fu is strong.
you could be right about that, its just hard to believe anyone with a ITV show could say anything that funny.
You're absolutely right. Although they are both bald. And male. So I guess it's an easy mistake to make.
I stood behind Al Murray in a Burger King in Chiswick once. True fact. I've never stood behind Andy Parsons though, so that's how I tell them apart.
Al Murray is definitely the exception that proves the rule on the ITV front.
that could be where I got them confused. Hang on so everytime Andy has come up with the mic, and I was hoping he would do the "voice of the silent majority" thing again, I was hoping that he was actually Al Murray?
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Yes.
I've seen Andy Parsons at the Edinburgh festival twice. He's brilliant, the only thing going through my head when he steps up is "good golly gosh, more Parsons? How wonderful!".
I was quite fucked off actually that he seems to the the only Mock the Week regular without a live DVD out. I can take or leave Frankie Boyle (seen Mock the Week? no need to see his stand up), but Andy Parsons not having a DVD out in 15 years is a crime.
Yes.
I've seen Andy Parsons at the Edinburgh festival twice. He's brilliant, the only thing going through my head when he steps up is "good golly gosh, more Parsons? How wonderful!".
I was quite fucked off actually that he seems to the the only Mock the Week regular without a live DVD out. I can take or leave Frankie Boyle (seen Mock the Week? no need to see his stand up), but Andy Parsons not having a DVD out in 15 years is a crime.
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Yes.
I've seen Andy Parsons at the Edinburgh festival twice. He's brilliant, the only thing going through my head when he steps up is "good golly gosh, more Parsons? How wonderful!".
I was quite fucked off actually that he seems to the the only Mock the Week regular without a live DVD out. I can take or leave Frankie Boyle (seen Mock the Week? no need to see his stand up), but Andy Parsons not having a DVD out in 15 years is a crime.
I got Dara O'Briain Talks Funny, and Russell Howard Live for Christmas, and I still haven't watched them, because I'm scared they might be really funny, and I'm not sure my abdominal wound is up for that much laughing still... is it safe?
the lack of DVD does seem odd, dont tell me Russell Hawood has a DVD out? and people pay good money for it?
you have to wonder sometimes why they even have guests, having the 4 regulars & Dara, it must be hard for the guest to get a word in, I figure they have developed a rhythm working together as much as they do.
you have to wonder sometimes why they even have guests, having the 4 regulars & Dara, it must be hard for the guest to get a word in, I figure they have developed a rhythm working together as much as they do.
Yup, Russell Howard has a DVD out. There's evidently a copy in Bob's house.
well if its anything like "will that giant man pick me up like im a baby" then I dont want to see it.
His best joke maybe the one about why we dont teach young kids about gay sex, and even that was full of the things that annoy me about him, he seems to think that having a mental age of 4 is funny, when its not.
Did you know Hull has a comedy festival? Because apparently it does, and he did a couple of show for it, and they sold out... I wonder when the Hull comedy festival will be as renowned as Edinburgh...
Edit: to whatsawamdue To each their own. Personally I find his brand of observational juvenility rather endearing.
Are you sure? I could swear it is, in the right circumstances, of course.
To me it's the kind randomness, and naive innocence to some of his humour that I find funny. But I'm not sure that's work for a full stand up routine.
I didn't know, but more and more of them seem to be gaining notice these days. Even Bath and Leicester both have one.
The Edinburgh one has got so big that the film festival and the book festival no longer occur in the same month, it seems to be regarded by many in the city as having gotten "too much focus". Humourless pricks.
When it has Jerry Sadowitz in a giant purple cow
Sort of like every other successful comedian then?
We seem to get the bigger names when the festival's not on though. Jimmy Carr, Rob Brydon, and Al Murray are all here in the next few months, and the festival was last autumn... (ha Chubby Brown is too, how is he still working?)
Edinburgh is known for it's festivals, complaining that one is getting ubiquitous is stupid, since they're all (or at least seem to me as an outsider) hugely popular.
So, likely never?When it has Jerry Sadowitz in a giant purple cow
How can you say anything against "comedians doing a routine" and like Al Murray?
Ah, that's the opposite to Edinburgh and I think the only major disadvantage to having such a huge comedy festival. We get almost every working comedian in the UK for one month of the year and then next to nothing for remaining 11. They just don't do Edinburgh on their "normal" tours.
Still, 4 solid weeks of great shows is nothing to sniff at.
Totally. There's always articles in the paper around festival time from local officials etc complaining that their events don't get as much attention as the comedy side.
Call me a philistine, but I'd sooner plop £30 down for Jimmy Carr than go to a book reading. Should Stewart Lee apologise for having a popular craft?
I've just remembered we both went to the Serenity premiere a few film festivals ago! Did you catch anything else while you were up? There's always shitloads on.
I can't stand that Huw Edwards. All he does is read the news like he's supposed to.
Didn't seem that long ago we didn't get any big names, so I'm pleased to see we're getting them at all.
Should be catching both Jimmy Carr and Rob Brydon in March.
No, wish I'd had a chance, but I couldn't get accommodation so I managed to talk my dad in to driving us up there for the film, then he drove us back home that night. Wouldn't have none of trying to find a motel or B&B in a near-ish town and doing a bit more checking out what was going on.
I agree with ya really, I mean shouldn't local officials just be glad of all the tourist spending it'll be bringing in.