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04 Feb 09 - 10:58 PM (#2557613) Subject: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: olddude I have a dish and we get this British comedy called the IT Crowd maybe because I have worked with folks like that forever but it is the funniest show on TV. I can't stop laughing anyone else seen this it is great |
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04 Feb 09 - 11:20 PM (#2557627) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: Stilly River Sage Do you have a URL? |
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04 Feb 09 - 11:49 PM (#2557642) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: olddude IT Crowd here is the episode I just watched on TV bullies on the bench |
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05 Feb 09 - 12:22 AM (#2557660) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: katlaughing Thanks for the links. I enjoyed the youtube, clicked on the other to catch up and watch a full episode only to be told i have to live cross the pond to do so.:-< |
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05 Feb 09 - 12:29 AM (#2557666) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: olddude Dang Kat I will tape some episodes for you and send them out to ya absolutely bust a gut funny ... |
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05 Feb 09 - 01:14 AM (#2557674) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: Rowan And it gets better, too. It's been on Oz telly for a couple of series. Cheers, Rowan |
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05 Feb 09 - 05:21 AM (#2557762) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: VirginiaTam I watched the first series. Forgot to keep watching after that. It was rife boy humour, but still very funny. |
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05 Feb 09 - 06:29 AM (#2557798) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: wyrdolafr The IT Crowd has an actor in it called Chris Morris who plays Denholm Reynholm. It's possibly the worst thing he's done as a performer - I wasn't keen on Nathan Barley either - but I'd seriously recommend his earlier work to anyone interested in satire and social commentary who isn't already familiar with it. The Day Today and Brass Eye series are still, in my mind, amongst the funniest things ever shown on television. I've a feeling they're not that well-known abroad but I think it's they are fantastic alternative to what is usually thought of as 'British comedy'. Even though they're almost 15 years old now, I think they stand-up really well. Clever, funny and 'near the knuckle'. Chris Morris at Wiki Brass Eye The Day Today |
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05 Feb 09 - 06:40 AM (#2557803) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: Sleepy Rosie Mighty Boosh, Peep Show, and The Office for me. And whatever happened to Adam and Joe ? |
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05 Feb 09 - 07:04 AM (#2557824) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: wyrdolafr Well, Adam Buxton from 'Adam and Joe' is in the IT Crowd as a supporting character, which takes the thread back to the original topic! He also did quite a bit a bit in 'Time Trumpet' a few years ago - pretty good often surreal satire - along with Richard Ayoade (amongst others), who incidentally plays Maurice Moss in the IT Crowd! |
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05 Feb 09 - 07:31 AM (#2557842) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: Jack Blandiver Quite a few Boosh links in The IT Crowd, not least Richard Ayoade, who originally played Dixon Bainbridge and later plays the shaman Saboo, and Noel Fielding of course, who seems to have vanished by series 3. Matt Berry's Dixon Bainbridge is revisited to quite grotesque effect in Douglas Reynholm. Berry did the sublime (but ignored) Snuff Box a few years back in tandem with Boosh stalwart Rich Fulcher - the funniest thing on TV since Reeves & Mortimer's Bang Bang. |
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05 Feb 09 - 07:54 AM (#2557853) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: Jack Blandiver Matt Berry also kicks it musically: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipoVdL2g6PY Genius! |
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05 Feb 09 - 08:11 AM (#2557871) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: Rapparee Heck, I've been laughing at IT people for years -- and I'm not talking about television. |
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05 Feb 09 - 08:11 AM (#2557872) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: wyrdolafr I really enjoyed Snuffbox myself - although my appraisal isn't quite as high as yours, Insane Beard. I think Berry seems to get passed over far too often compared to a lot of his contemporaries, and I don't understand why, as you point out yourself, Snuffbox got ignored. At least some people watched it though, I don't know many people at all that saw the God-rock spoof AD/BC (again, has a lot of the Boosh-related people in it &c). I've often wondered whether Boosh would have been as popular if Fielding didn't have a 'Jackie star pin-up' appeal to a lot of the female fans (maybe some male ones too). I like comedians that do music but I think Berry's a bit of a one-trick pony in that a lot of what he does is pretty similar when broken down to chords and melodies. When it comes to comedy-music one trick ponies, I much prefer Matt Holness. Merriman Weir was amazing. |
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05 Feb 09 - 08:17 AM (#2557875) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: wyrdolafr As there is thread drift already, I'd like to proffer 'Down The Line' as the funniest British comedy I've heard in a very long time. Again, something that seemed to pass most people by, even though there's a lot of big-ish comedy names attached. It's a spoof of the likes of Talk Sport/Talk Radio (I think it's very specific to Ian Collins and Piers Hearnu, personally) with a lot of 'Fast Show' type names but a lot funnier than things like the Fast Show in my opinion. |
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05 Feb 09 - 10:43 AM (#2557996) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: olddude If you worked for 35 years with people like Roy and Moss you would be breaking a gut laughing ... trust me they do exist!! |
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05 Feb 09 - 11:13 AM (#2558028) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: robomatic I was introduced to the first year of it about a year ago. One of the main characters, probably Denholm, had a very unique voice which sounded quite familiar, almost "Rambling Syd Rumpo" although I know he wasn't. Could he have been in some BBC radio series in years past? |
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05 Feb 09 - 12:13 PM (#2558086) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: wyrdolafr If you do mean Denholm Reynholm, the actor who plays him (Chris Morris) has done a fair amount of radio over the years. I mentioned The Day Today in an earlier post in the thread which kind of developed from a radio version of the same kind of thing. The Steve Coogan character, Alan Partridge, more-or-less developed from that and The Day Today where Chris Morris' anchorman character would bully and demean Partridge on a regular basis. |
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05 Feb 09 - 12:35 PM (#2558108) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: Les from Hull The radio version was 'On the Hour' currently being repeated on Radio 7 details here. |
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05 Feb 09 - 12:39 PM (#2558112) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: Les from Hull We have Graham Linehan to thank for 'The IT Crowd'. He was also responsible for 'Father Ted' and 'Black Books', which makes him the best TV comedy writer in the world, ever. |
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21 Nov 09 - 05:45 AM (#2770341) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: Amergin The IT Crowd may be found on Netflix online....been laughing my arse off....have worked with people like Moss and Roy.....and know plenty of people as clueless as Jen... |
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21 Nov 09 - 07:16 AM (#2770364) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: Edthefolkie I worked for about 30 yrs in IT support & I'm here to tell you it's all true! We use to "borrow" a very large and heavy TV from the training dept. to watch stuff on night shift. Naturally somebody dropped it down the stairs. A poor guy (without cash) rang up in extremis just before Christmas to report his ATM card eaten. I tried to calm him down while the rest of the shift fell about laughing, the bastards. Somebody thought there was an intruder and rang the police. They released a dog which charged down the corridor, unfortunately only finding one of the shift leaving the toilet - bit his bum. And you really do tell folks to turn their equipment off then on again! |
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21 Nov 09 - 11:23 AM (#2770496) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: robomatic I liked the IT Crowd and would recommend it but its humor is pitched at a narrower level than "The Office" (either side of the pond) so don't expect too much and you will enjoy. |
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21 Nov 09 - 11:30 AM (#2770502) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: Alice The show I can't stop laughing at is GLEE. |
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21 Nov 09 - 01:17 PM (#2770593) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: VirginiaTam I am more into the family comedy with dark leanings Out Numbered Wish I could remember to watch it when it is on. there should be a BS thread dedicated to favourite comedies from all over with relevant youtube selections. |
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21 Nov 09 - 05:06 PM (#2770732) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: McGrath of Harlow There's a Christmas Special of Outnumbered promised, and a third series coming up in the New Year. I suspect Virginia's difficulty in getting to catch the episodes was pretty common - I suspect there was someone in the BBC who didn't like it, because the bizarre timetabling of the shows was surely designed to put people off. It's a brilliant show - and so in its different way was The IT Crowd (and I believe another series of that is on the way). And that got tucked away in hard to find spots, while crap like Little Britain was hyped away like mad and given the best time slots. Any one in the UK can watch all the IT Crowd episodes from all three series on Channel 4 on demand. Unfortunately there is no equivalent where you can get Outnumbered at present, so far as I know. |
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22 Nov 09 - 07:51 AM (#2771038) Subject: RE: BS: can't stop laughing the IT Crowd From: VirginiaTam Little Britain was ok (for shock factor) the first series. Then it was same old same old. Same reason I lost interest in Catherine Tate show. Too formulaic. Why does the BBC do that? Hide the intelligent comedies and put the unsellable stuff at eye level. Oh! Just answered my own question. Outnumbered - Airport Hell I really liked Jam and Jerusalem 1st series, but didn't see all of it. Maybe because I couldn't predict when it would air. Wait through the first few minutes for wonderful scene young village doctor and patient former primary school teacher. Jam and Jerusalem |