Armando Iannucci c or d (inc. Time Trumpet talk)

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I watched his new show last night on Channel 4 and found myself laughing more than I had in ages. Particularly hilarious was the sketch about talking about football in the pub at the end where all the footy people were linked to pundits in the pub cellar. What did anyone else think? Genius or Morris lite? and did I spell his name right?

― cabbage, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Spelling looks fine to me, and *I* was intending to ask this question, dammit!

Personally I thought it was a triumph - my favourite scene was the dinner party, where I actually found myself cringing with embarassment at Armando's totally inappropriate interventions, locked in a battle of wits with the guy sitting opposite him that he was always destined to lose - until the pie containing pithy one-liners appears! The way the whole tone of that scene turned around was sheer genius.

I was also tickled by the thought that God has no sympathy for ME sufferers.

Definately a classic - I reckon it'll stand the test of time, unlike Morris who is a product of his time who will later be perceived as irrelevant.

― Trevor, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The pie was superb, I am another who cringes at things like that but it was so funny too. Didn't Arnmando write a lot of the day today with Morris?

and some of those insults! Furry tit cake

― cabbage, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

must be a limey show

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Didn't see it last night, but his cringeworthy appearances on the Saturday Night Armistice put me off for life. Also, the trailer (Elvis impersonator goes Britney) was pretty uninspired.

― Nick, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick, that was possibly the worst bit of the whole programme so why they chose it as a trailer was a mystery. To be honest I wasn't expecting it to be funny but I laughed like a drain. I'm sure they'll show it in the week on e4 if you've got that on your cable, it's worth catching.

― cabbage, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought it was a bit disappointing until the big punchline at the end where everyone's being fed lines except him. Maybe he should just buy some glasses and try to be Woody Allen?

― Greg, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This was excellent, the dinner party scene, the scene in the park trying to kick a ball back in and failing, the pathetic trying to be 'one of the boys' in the pub scene. Comedy of embarrasment at it's painful best. Much prefered it to his satire stuff (though I liked that too).
And he's working on another Alan Partridge series - yay!
This cabal of Morris/Iannucci/Patrick Marber/Steve Coogan = seperatley or as a team, far and away the best comedy writers in Britain?

― DavidM, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, tonight's might just have been the best 35 minutes of TV in living memory. I was in tears, dammit.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Michael, I wish I didn't trust your judgement so much. Now I'm going to have to see it.

― Nick, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and I missed it, dammit!

Mike, what was the theme?

― cabbage, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, basically the same as last week - people's fears that their lives are meaningless and pathetic. I may have been slightly overrating it, as, on reflection, it sagged a little between the *fantastic* opening and the magnificent end, but Pam & I were in genuine mirthful physical discomfort by the end. It so nicely underplayed, with the most inappropriate (yet *not*) use of Gorecki and Part imaginable. I wished I'd taped it... do Ch4 repeat in at 3am during the week?

― Michael Jones, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

2004 - the stupid version. tonight BBC2 10:20.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 29 January 2005 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Cor, timely revival. 2004: TSV patchy but frequently glorious. Will set the VCR.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 29 January 2005 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm looking forward to it - someone included it in the best 10 seconds of tv ever thread - i think it was on BBC3 originally.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 29 January 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, it was me! Apologies in advance if it fails to live up to my hype.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 29 January 2005 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm - it's only 40min. I hope they've excised the bits I didn't like and not been forced to edit down due to unwittingly-participating-celeb grumpiness.

The 2001 series which was the reason for this thread should finally be out on DVD this year - minus the Sinatra/Part/Gorecki music, clearance for which was making the whole project uneconomical.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 29 January 2005 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought it was great. pretty trippy, no? the best thing about it was that black guy who was talking about how he couldnt "think of words while looking at [ianucci's'] face. super coincidentally he is also in that Nathan Balrey trailer saying "its good because it looks like it's good because it's rude" and was also the funniest thing in that trailer too i thought!

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 29 January 2005 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Michael Howard "i dont like Tony Blair because he's a.... FUCKING..... TWAT!"

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 29 January 2005 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

2004 The Stupid Version was very very funny esp. Bush and Blair cut-ups and woman being run over

― Stevem On X (blueski), Saturday, 29 January 2005 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Two good things: the celebs going unfilmed, and the Streets parody. The rest was baaaaaaaad. Dad.

― Bumfluff, Saturday, 29 January 2005 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The bloke from Garth Merengi's (sp?) Darkplace giving his comments on the Beckham penalty were good.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Sunday, 30 January 2005 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The 2001 series which was the reason for this thread should finally be out on DVD this year - minus the Sinatra/Part/Gorecki music, clearance for which was making the whole project uneconomical.

Oh, excellent.

I like Richard Ayoade and his silly whiny voice, that shit penalty miss analysis and its subsequent replacement with complaining about divots was well funny, also in GMD when he says 'if Wonton gets wind of this then my arse is grass, y'dig?'

The photoshopped Dalek prison abuse photos are like my favourite thing ever.

Also the Voices in Alex Ferguson's head bits.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman v1.0 (Ferg), Sunday, 30 January 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Armando Ianucci might be my hero.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman v1.0 (Ferg), Sunday, 30 January 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah who is this Richard Ayoade fellow? he's good!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 30 January 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got his book "Facts And Fancies" which I haven't read in ages but I seem to remember is really good. I can't remember how to put links in but you can see it at http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0718139518/qid=1107109113/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_11_3/202-2445766-6162234. Sorry.

― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 30 January 2005 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, it worked. Right, I'll try and remember that for future reference.

― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 30 January 2005 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

any address beginning http automatically becomes a hyperlink on ILX, Nick.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 30 January 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The Darkplace thing I quoted above was wrong and unfunny, it is 'If Wonton gets wind of this my arse is grass, and he's got a lawnmower, y'dig?'.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman v1.0 (Ferg), Sunday, 30 January 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I like that - "Sorry, I was wrong and unfunny". I must use that more often myself.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Sunday, 30 January 2005 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

I saw the second episode of The Thick Of It the other day and quite enjoyed it though there weren't many LOL moments. But I'm still not tired of the mocku-style presentation and it was very engaging overall.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

that series they were discussing upthread was golden, but i have forgotten it and it has sort of been forgotten generally. i keep missing 'the thick of it'.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I was going to start a thread on The Thick Of It but chickened out. I think it's ace. The only slight weakness is the unrelenting vileness of Capaldi's character.

Langham seems to have become the Bill Murray of Brit TV comedy - if he's in it, you have to see it.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Also like Murray, kind of one-note*. I didn't make much effort to watch the thing he did with Whitehouse. I know he's good but I do find him hard to watch sometimes.

*the only exception I've ever seen to the archetypal Langham character was the drunken bookie he played in one episode of Bottom, in which he seemed hammy and not at all convincing.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd agree with the one-note assessment, but, like Murray, I could listen to that one note all day. Which is probably why I like Ryoji Ikeda.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason, whenever I have read reviews and previews of this, I have read "Peter Capaldi" and thought of Peter Serafinowicz. When I eventually get round to seeing it, I am going to be disappointed that Peter S. isn't in the role.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

i came to 'TTOI' very late but omg is it brilliant. i think having an *even more obnoxious* scottish bastard was a stroke of genius for series 2, but a lot of the scenes had too much going on on first viewing -- all the bollockings in the no. 10 unit.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 24 October 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

I agree; I really wasn't sure about the Capaldi character in series 1, but the decision not to tone him down but rather show an entire staff of snarling "Caledonian" attack-dogs even less reasonable than him is great.

I saw PC in the post office the other day. Nice to know slebs have to deal with the never-less-than-25-people queue at Poland Street PO too.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 24 October 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

'NOMFUP'

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 24 October 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

Funniest thing I've seen on British TV in some time. Although I have been out of the country for two years.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 24 October 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

Michael, did you congratulate him on his role in the excellent Hugh Laurie vehicle, "Fortysomething"?

I have missed this "The Thick Of It" thing.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 24 October 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

it's the best comedy i've seen in aaaages.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 24 October 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

"Notting Hill Gategate"

― Lester gingham, Monday, 24 October 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

it's about bloody time Armando Ianucci's show came out on DVD, don'tcha think?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 24 October 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

SHIT. i knew there was something i wanted to tape. fuck. i need to get into this torrenting lark :(

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 24 October 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

it's about bloody time Armando Ianucci's show came out on DVD, don'tcha think?

He said somewhere that it was his "new year's resolution" to do something about that. Which suggests that the ball is in his court wrt sourcing some rights-free music to replace all that Gorecki and Part on the original broadcast edits. I can see why he's putting it off - quite a lot of work (to make something fantastic slightly less good) for probably not much return.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)

i've just watched these again via bittorrent and they were brilliant. i wish i had a hairdresser who rambled like that.

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1849155,00.html

very 'thick of it'

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Good news for those wanting the DVD. It's due for release around March/April time.

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

Brown was on fine form, joking with Lady Sovereign, a 19-year-old rapper, impressing her by knowing that her single Hoodie is tipped to go straight into the top 10. “Thanks man, cool,” she told the chancellor. Like Brown, she is billed as the next big thing but doesn’t like to brag about it.

As the Kaiser Chiefs headed down the stairs, Brown ran after them to shake the hand of the lead singer, Ricky Wilson, greeting him by his first name.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

her single Hoodie is tipped to go straight into the top 10

http://www.netrite.ca/robodeath/rofl%20waffle2.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

aw fuck, don't read this if u like 'the thick of it' (which is AWESOME and bein REPEATED from tonight).

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 16 December 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

Researching a book, innit?

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 December 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

Either that, or Ricky Gervais is a very sore loser...

― carson dial (carson dial), Friday, 16 December 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

... which he seems to be

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 December 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

How can we trust him with the Muppets ever again now?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 16 December 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

How depressing. Front page of the Mirror this morning, I noticed ("TV FUNNYMAN").

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 16 December 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

new series "The Time Trumpet" starts soon, kind of The Day Today set in the future.
preview (with annoying subtitles) here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RI2WuTcdxY

― zappi (joni), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Where have you been, there was a 10 minute preview shown on BBC2 last week. Looked funny but what if that was only the best bits? Very Day Today.

― Sploshette Moxy (Dada), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

Possibly not spending all their life glued to the telly? Very Day Today but can be forgiven for that I think, had us both in stitches down here though: 'Come On Tim!"

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 28 July 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

I laughed heartily several times, particularly at the girl with Boris Johnson's voice.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

That was fucking horrid.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

Stewart Lee's increasingly podgy face has done talking head clips shows before, anyway: nice get out clause kiddo.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq2qZunsdAA

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

This looks brilliant, kind of exactly the same as "2004 - the Stupid Version" or whichever year it was when he did the end-of-year show locking "celebrities" in a hut somewhere with tasks to do, and not filming them.

― shoes in hand (disco clone), Saturday, 29 July 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Brilliant, not particularly original, but very funny.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Several years ago I had the pub idea of doing MOJO 2025, complete with Pete Frame family trees of, eg, the So Solid Crew etc. If only I had got round to actually doing it.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 3 August 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

The actors playing the old celebs are brilliantly cast - strangely, the ones that work best are the ones who don't look anything like who they're supposed to be, like Ant & Dec and Jamie Oliver.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

ARGH how did i forget this?!?! FUCK.

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

"Arsehole!"

― Doi Doing! (Dada), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

The old jamie oliver, when he first appeared on screen got one of the biggest guffaws.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.timetrumpet.co.uk/images/124/jamieoliver.jpg

from

http://www.timetrumpet.co.uk/

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

I liked the Tony Blair seeing ghosts thing best ("but there weren't any nibbles").

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:07 (nineteen years ago)

the beginning ("wham, bam, thank you ham") made me think "uh-oh"

a few other things did, too

there were some funny bits, though, like "make me look like david willets" and "gay men spray ken"

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:11 (nineteen years ago)

The children's plastic surgery prog. was funny too, he's good with children Armando (as is Chris Morris)

― My Mind's Not Made of Gravel (Dada), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen the first two. It's good, but i think it could have been a lot better if it was more fauthful to the premise, ie a list show. At the moment, that seems like a rather loose handle around which he's tying various TV/politics related gags. The strength of TDT was that it seemed so real, whereas this doesn't quite fly.

― Pete W (peterw), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

This seems real, like those interminable I love 19** shows that we had before top 100 x

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

Pete W OTM. Half the time it's a future-retrospective and the next it's Rory Bremner. The illusion of it being a TV show from the future isn't really upheld.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

you and pete w are wrong

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

I agree with them!

― My Mind's Not Made of Gravel (Dada), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

then you are wrong as well.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

and my dad's bigger than your dad

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

"Arsehole!"

― My Mind's Not Made of Gravel (Dada), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

It's subtle things, like those bits where Iannucci is prompting the talking heads about Dave Cameron (and there's another example in Ep 2 where he tries to make Stewart Lee laugh) - that's not in keeping with those ILOVELISTSHOWS, which, if nothing else, are very slickly edited and stage-managed. I mean, I like the joke he's making, but it's not in character.

― Pete W (peterw), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

i just caught the end of this bt what i saw was superb. the thing about david cameron aping tony blair was excellent. how he "subtly" moved that england wristband into sight while pretennding to listen to those factory workers. the was AI drew attention to his eye movements in the clip was genius.

Rory Brmener my arse!

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

~~the was~~ the way.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

It's not meant to be a straight [future] list-show parody, and it works better by not being so. That idea, though cute, would wear out after a couple of episodes. Nah, he's got it just right and, more important than all that palaver, it's funny*.

*unlike Bremner.

― David Orton (scarlet), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

My favourite jokes in it were the absurd, day-to-day style vignettes like 'remember when we discovered that computers can run on meat'. I agree that the best actors are the ones who look nothing like the people they're supposed to be, but the Tim Henman one having unfeasibly clear recollections of the TOTP2 opening sequence was inspired.

― Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

the TOTP2 intro thing was v similar to D Quantick's piece on Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe last week.

Blair/Cameron 'Changes' thing v impressive/made you think of 'Bushwhacked' and previous efforts in this vein. and yeh the England wristband thing was fantastic.

on the whole i loved it.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

I missed this so I will download it from the internet

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

i wish i knew how to do that.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

me too :(( [nb, not knowing how to download is also behind my ignorance of music 1998 - ]

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, Konal. If I'm not mistaken, Charlie Brooker actually used a couple of the same gigs on screenwipe immediately after last night's time trumpet. [I wish I could remember exactly what they were]

― Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

A lot of the jokes on Screen Wipe are recycled from Screen Burn. Doesn't make it any less brilliant, though.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone see his Guradian column during the world cup that had details of the changes that UEFA would be making for the next tournament? I liked the bit about the ball being made of solid brass, and that Michael Owen's groin injury meant he'd be out of the game for twenty seven years.

― ZOT! (davidcorp), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

omg that Last Of The Summer Wine thing

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

What about it?
Funniest bit was Stewart Lee's theme song for Rape an Ape.

― David Orton (scarlet), Thursday, 17 August 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

i laughed hardest at the sideways tesco, and subsequent war!

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Thursday, 17 August 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

I only saw the second TT, which is apparently the worst episode so far. Is it repeated later on in the week?

― Scourage (Haberdager), Thursday, 17 August 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

i taped this.

but the armando iannucci show (or whatever it was called) is out on dvd in sept! with commentaries!

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:35 (nineteen years ago)

Diana Theme Park sketch was genius - curated by Paul Burrell ("it's what she would have wanted, had she been alive...and consulted on the matter") featuring the "cry for help" bumper cars!!!!!!!!!!!!

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:49 (nineteen years ago)

Stewart Lee is great in this! I like how sometimes he's bald and sometimes he isn't!

― Dadaismus (a rattly old puffin who remembers ILX in the days when...) (Dada), Friday, 18 August 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

so far i've only seen the second one -- i don't get why lee and ayoade haven't aged but the others have?

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Friday, 18 August 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

I thought this episode sucked. It was meant to be the terrorism episode (which is great), but they pulled it at the last minute.

― Pete W (peterw), Friday, 18 August 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

The "pundits" in the studio haven't aged - Adam Thingummy, Matthew Holness, Jo Enright etc - only the celebrities have

― Dadaismus (a rattly old puffin who remembers ILX in the days when...) (Dada), Friday, 18 August 2006 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

Although when they show Iannucci interviewing them, he appears to have turned into Peter Stringfellow.

― Pete W (peterw), Friday, 18 August 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

The "pundits" in the studio haven't aged - Adam Thingummy, Matthew Holness, Jo Enright etc - only the celebrities have
-- Dadaismus (a rattly old puffin who remembers ILX in the days when...) ([email protected]), August 18th, 2006.

that's a bit confusing!

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Friday, 18 August 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

It reflects a wider indiscipline that has undermined the concept as a whole.

― Pete W (peterw), Friday, 18 August 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

Either that or it means Iannucci is a celebrity himself

― Dadaismus (a rattly old puffin who remembers ILX in the days when...) (Dada), Friday, 18 August 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

yeh having the pundits from today be the same as for the future is daft. the use of the pundits is actually the weakest part of the show. if it was just AI's narration and the actual aged celebrities only that would be fine.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 18 August 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose the point about the pundits is that they're just a bunch of obscure nobodies whose agents have got them a gig on TV but who don't really have anything to say - as in the present so in the future, so no need for them to age

― Dadaismus (a rattly old puffin who remembers ILX in the days when...) (Dada), Friday, 18 August 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

for the pundits to age would require makeup = expensive.

whether this would be as expensive as the tescos war sequences or that shot of the queen stuck in traffic is another question. maybe that's where all the money went.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 18 August 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm saying they shouldn't bother with the pundits at all. Except the future ones like that footballer guy maybe.

The LOTSW bits were so great - there's a whole 'nother show in that.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 18 August 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

this show. ugh. chris morris has so much to blame for this tedious edgy shit cf modern toss (which i know has older roots). this is like iannucci spent five minutes on the tv go home website and turned it into television with the provisio that it would be cutting or edgy opr something.

― pscott (elwisty), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

pscotm

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Some of us were moaning about "tedious edgy shit" (hello Nighty Night) here years ago. I like the Drive By Abuser on Modern Toss and the one where the guy's trying to have a peaceful drink in his garden and keeps getting interrupted.

― Dadaismus (a rattly old puffin who remembers ILX in the days when...) (Dada), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

also it's not funny (imho etc). important that. no focus, awful timing. did anyone see the history of light entertainment where stanley baxter layed the smack on little britain; "it's just... infantile". i think he would say the same about this and he'd probably be right.

― pscott (elwisty), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

i think he would say the same about this and he'd probably be right

That's a strange sentence

― Dadaismus (a rattly old puffin who remembers ILX in the days when...) (Dada), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

But IMHO, "Little Britain" is infantile, this isn't; Modern Toss is "edgy, this isn't.

― Dadaismus (a rattly old puffin who remembers ILX in the days when...) (Dada), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

lol ilx morelike ilxandbombd, amirite?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

otm

xpost

also: omg iannucci copying chris morris, *that* shit makes sense.

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

But then, Ianucci has always had this streak of shit try-too-hard surreal comedy in him. Both Smokehammer and all his Observer columns are basically "What if instead of Black Rod opening parliament, parliament was opened by Frank Carson, but a Frank Carson made out of cheese?"

There's two schools of modern bad comedy: Boosh and Davis. This is shares a lot more with the former than the latter.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

I've never seen Boosh, but Davis stinks

― Dadaismus (a rattly old puffin who remembers ILX in the days when...) (Dada), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

x post
what i mean is the headway that brass eye made (which yes i know iannucci was involved in), jus seems to amount to clearing the ground for "rape an ape". come on, that was trying to be shocking and in a quite infantile way. was it satire? i dunno

― pscott (elwisty), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

my record on depreciating davis et al cannot be questioned.

while 'time trumpet' is, obviously, not 'the day today', the ep i saw was still > most-post-'tdt'-comedy-by-people-who-weren't-involved-in-'tdt'.

i never thought much of 'the fri/saturday night armistice'.

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

jus seems to amount to clearing the ground for "rape an ape". come on, that was trying to be shocking and in a quite infantile way. was it satire? i dunno

That's Stewart Lee's entire schtick these days though, he's the new "Here is a naughty word to stun your middle class sensibilities" comedian of the day. He's basically the new Pam Ayres.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

He's put on a bit of weight too, Dom - don't forget that.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

'Rape An Ape' was quite poor agreed, but I love Time Trumpet for it's use of effects to visualise surreal humour in the most stylish and advanced way so far seen on British TV (or perhaps TV anywhere in the world). Even if the ideas aren't always new, the execution of them is the best yet.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

tbh iannucci would be immortal simply for 'the thick of it'. fingers crossed for langham's court case, right?

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Damn right.

― Pete W (peterw), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

Chris Langham- Trapped In The Closet.

Book it.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

Fingers crossed because you think he's funny?

― Dadaismus (a rattly old puffin who remembers ILX in the days when...) (Dada), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

yes.

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

"most stylish and advanced way so far seen on British TV"...did you not see Jam?

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

yeh. this is better.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

(from technical effects point of view - tho laugh count for me watching Jam was actually quite low, lower than the radio version certainly)

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm having a BJ love-in on a different thread ATM; no doubting that it's far superior to the TV series, but from what I saw of Time Trumpet, although the graphics were snazzy and state-of-the-art, they didn't feel at all real or tangible, just seemed like so much glitter. I'll give you that the 'three teams on the same football pitch' snippet was so well-done that it had me in hysterics, but nothing else leapt out at me particularly strongly. I suppose I'll have to watch a bit more.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oh look at the funny pervert, mummy (xxxxxxxxxxxpost)

Blue Jam >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jam

― Dadaismus (a rattly old puffin who remembers ILX in the days when...) (Dada), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

otm

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

that polish soap thing was poo too, but i'd like my own tesco tripod thing

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno was laffs the point of Jam? i enjoyed it as an atmospheric thing, you could get really engrossed without really worrying about whether it was funny.tt doesn't have that going for it. the special effects are just kind of there, like the car chase in Bad Boys II it looks kinda cool but not much else. i enjoyed the it crowd thou.

― pscott (elwisty), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

xxxpost: Yes, maybe even THAT superior.

The best bit in Jam was a bit that wasn't in Blue Jam (ie fresh material): the introduction to Episode 2 with the 'twunted by a Honda' bit. It borrowed from the Suicide Journalist climax, but didn't simply mimic the radio version, removing the possibility for imaginative license (which was one of the reasons BJ was so great) as most of the sketches did.

I also kinda liked the 'fucking a coffee machine' bit.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Iannucci tonight! He walked past me in one of the corridors of the Royal Albert Hall (we were both at a prom).

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 18 August 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

Ianucci's finest work, anyway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqmjWCk36C8

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 20 August 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Hehe, that was a very very funny variant on C***s M****s and Peter Cook's brilliant 'Why Bother', not of quite the same quality but excellent nonetheless. The bit about the silver sixpence with a picture of Queen Victoria on one side and Jabba The Hut on the other was probably the funniest.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 20 August 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

The Hugh segments from his C4 show came from "Men: An Oral History of Men" in his Facts and Fancies book (and therefore possibly from his mid-'90s Guardian columns), I think.

My favourite was Billy Bobson who had to forge newspaper headlines to get himself a job in the shipyards cos "they was only taking on good fighters, Bantamweight Champion of the World, something like that". He had to fight the ships. "They was good natured fights but some of them could be really fatal."

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 20 August 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

(When I say "came from", I don't mean lifted or reworked, just an extension of).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 20 August 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

"He had to fight the ships"

I don't need to see it now, I've had my laugh already!

― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 20 August 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

I was quoting from the book, Scourage, it's not a Hugh TV sketch, I don't think.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 20 August 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

My favourite Iannucc-thing is probably the Fake Iraqi Prisoner Abuse Photos with the Dalek in them. The amiable Eastern European sniper skit was good too though ("I try to shoot you in the head, but you move and I hit your arm...next time I will kill you"). What's happening with the music on the DVD?

Stewart Lee's last tour was the best thing I saw last year by some distance, I think painting him as a one-note shock-jock is a bit unfair. "So then I vomited into the gaping anus of Christ" was part of a nuanced wider argument, y'know?

― Fraggle O Rly (Ferg), Sunday, 20 August 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Also he talks about the terrists now which he wasn't doing ten years ago cos they didn't exist then (or they did but it was different terrists so it's OK).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Sunday, 20 August 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

The funniest thing Iannuci, Morris, Coogan and their crew have ever had any involvement with is still "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... someone died. In 1981, no one died. In 1982 there was the incident with the pigeon. In 1983, no one died. In 1984, no one died. In 1985, no one died. In 1986... I mean, I could go on."

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 20 August 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

"No".

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Sunday, 20 August 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Dom, that's become the "Delboy falling through the bar" of the On The Hour clan. The Dalek pic in 2004: The Stupid Version caused me actual physical pain, so violent was my, er, mirth. Several moments in the C4 series too. I love The Day Today but I don't remember needing medical attention at any point in its run. I was a bit more limber in those days though.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 20 August 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

That might be the 'Delboy falling through the bar', but Alan Partridge's guide to the World Cup of '94 is the 'Cleese thrashing his car with a stray branch' equivalent. :-)

Or maybe the legendary German exchange between Morris and Peter O'Hanraha-Hanrahan. Ichten Nichten Lichten, anyone?

― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 20 August 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Delboy falling through the bar in terms over being over-referenced, but chandalier falling from the roof in terms of lolz.

(xp)

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 20 August 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Worst Day Today bit is the "pretend the chair is your mother" American work counsellor bit.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 20 August 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

"and even managed to avoid an old woman up a stick in the next field"

Is that bit the one where the counsellor gets all the employees to loathe each other, with the result that one of them becomes a butcher? If so then that's one of my favourites.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 20 August 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

saw ep3. yeah 'rape an ape' was disastrous. the polish soap almost killed me though, but then the missus is somethingth polish and we used to work in publishing.

also, though basic, the lottery format gag was very funny.

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Monday, 21 August 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

Delboy falling through the bar in terms over being over-referenced, but chandalier falling from the roof in terms of lolz.

Mebbe. On clip shows, they never include the scene-making line from Grandad from that OFAH sequence. "Did you drop it?" We can expect clip shows in the future to only include the first couple of "In xxxx, no one died" and so miss the point too.

Just saying, like, greater Iannucci lolz (for me) exist outside the benighted TDT, as great (and important, if you like) as it was.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 21 August 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

chandeliers/ del/ grand-dad etc:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcW-IrZe6aI

came from a genuine incident in the life of john sullivan's father. he started the writing of the epsiode with the chandelier bit then worked back from it - why would they be cleaning a chandelier, how did they meet 'his lordship' etc etc.

looking back i think 'leaning on the bar' was an attempt to *top* this.

"is it worth much del?"
"nah, not really...it was bleedin *priceless* when it was 'angin up there though!"

― pisces (piscesx), Monday, 21 August 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

not so fun last night. esp. the Cilla Black thing. pointless. is gore funny in it's own right? not for me.

weirdly the 'next week' bit at the end featured all stuff from last week's episode. shirley some mistake?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

the bbc has no balls

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

huh?

at the top of the show the announcer said it was 'the terrorism ep'? was it not (i was taping).

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

with the made up footage of jumbo jet slicing thru Big Ben and the Iraq bombing footage with Clair Balding commentary dubbed on top i was torn between thinking this was all 'too close to the bone' and 'oh stop trying so hard to SHOCK us'. either way it wasn't THAT funny. still more 'daring' than anything else on BBC tho i suppose.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

This series has proven to be yet another disappointment (see also "Jam", "Nathan Barley", last series of "Peep Show" etc etc). Am I getting too old to laugh now? Is that possible? Does that happen to people?

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

the others are debatable but 'PS3' was unimpeachable.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

weirdly the 'next week' bit at the end featured all stuff from last week's episode. shirley some mistake?

They switched transmission order cos of the terror plot stuff in the news. Not that it's no longer in the news.

I dunno, it's ok...2004: The Stupid Version was basically a pilot for this and it was quite a bit better.

Having just watched the whole of Gr33n Gr33n Gra55 at work, by our nation's number #1 sitcom writer, I know what genuine piss-weak dross looks like so I'm much more accommodating if Iannucci et al are only in third gear.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

the dvd of the Armando Iannucci Show (which is much better than Time Trumpet) is out today:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Armando-Iannucci-Shows/dp/B000GUK3NI/sr=8-1/qid=1157377112

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

(oh, charlie has said this already. pity he used the wrong thread 8)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

i taped this.
but the armando iannucci show (or whatever it was called) is out on dvd in sept! with commentaries!

-- Bashment Jakes (miltonpinsk...), August 18th, 2006.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

revived to ask why the heck is this guy's stuff not on TV in the states? i'm totally sick of watching it in youtube spurts, ack.

― Mike McGooney-gal, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

'The Thick of It' at any rate gets zero audience in the UK and I can't imagine it's all that comprehensible in the states! Things like 'Newsbot 3.0' sitting in for Jeremy Paxman...

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

that sounds like a Futuramary joke

― blueski, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

it's part of a rant from tucker in 'TTOI': poxbridge kid's guy has an interview on newsnight but tucker and the other scottish guy are like, paxman's off fly-fishing with stephen fry and kirsty's drying out in kilmarnock... it'll be newsbot 3.0 -- you've gotta be britishes to know what the fuck's he on about, i would have thunk.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

popular US shows make refs to people we don't know all the time tho.

― blueski, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

trudat, but we tend to get pretty successful shows and the buzz travels from afar. 'TTOI' gets about 200,000 viewers, and i doubt the armando shows got many more. even the more 'obscure' US imports like larry sanders had big guest stars and so on.

mind you, 'the office' wasn't a big hit at first and that has lots of arcane UK stuff.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

Might "TTOI" not suffer as a result of the (alleged) kiddy fiddling factor?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

i can't see the american media getting too steamed up about a performer's private life.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, never did Pee Wee Herman's career any harm, errrrrrrrr

― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

Don't they still play "Rock and Roll Part One" at American sports event?

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

iannucci's observer column = really really really unfunny

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

i think the observer generally became a parody of "the observer, a sunday newspaper read by liberals" some time in the early 00s -- srsly, the absolute worst paper ever, except for the times and all those other awful newspapers.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

I feel your frustration. The Times' article the other day that emphasised how the recently-outed police-beating video had been spread by a 'violent black activist with a criminal record' actually made me feel sick.

― unfished business, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

i only get the observer because on sundays i need gentle familiarity, and i always end up thinking, why do i get the observer? the iannucci column may as well just be a picture of tumbleweeds. i never know where the funny bits are meant to be.

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

even the telegraph (which i read) wouldn't pull that shit; the times is truly scarific coz people who consider themselves apolitical seem to read it, like it isn't actually as bad as the mail.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

my last was an xpost.

i gave up sunday newspapers -- and never looked back. all that time saved.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

ditto but remove the 'sunday'

― blueski, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

I can't remember the last time I even looked at a newspaper. Oh yes, housemate's parents bought the Mail the other day, the headline was something about Eurocrats banning good old fashioned British lightbulbs to be replaced by new expensive fanny-dangle low-energy lightbulbs OH NO HITLER'S WON.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

"i didn't think of radio but it's a training school for the people who end up on tv so i guess it can't be great"

reminds me that this has just restarted:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/armandoiannuccischarmoffensive.shtml

― koogs, Monday, 3 September 2007 08:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://stage6.divx.com/The-Armando-Iannucci-Shows/video/1260944/Armando-Iannucci-Shows---S01E01---Episode-1

Stream The Armando Ianucci Shows online. "I sniper, I snipe. If I hide, I no sniper"

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 7 September 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

"one day I will kill...all of you"

― That mong guy that's shit, Friday, 7 September 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

"Hopefully, Hale and Pace will come to realise that life is mostly miserable"

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 7 September 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

That was really them, wasn't it?

― That mong guy that's shit, Friday, 7 September 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

"...i'm over here"

― pisces, Friday, 7 September 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

Also the racist wedding.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 7 September 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

The only thing wrong with Time Trumpet is that Peter Baynham isn't the narrator.

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 19 October 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

i just saw his thing about paradise lost and it's pretty fuckin dope.

― history mayne, Thursday, 3 September 2009 23:11 (sixteen years ago)

after realizing how many of my favorite things he was involved with, I dled his interview with Mark Lawson and I think I have a new obsession. You lucky lucky Brits.

― picked up the sneer-slack (sciolism), Friday, 4 September 2009 06:53 (sixteen years ago)

In THE AUDACITY OF HYPE, Armando Iannucci cuts straight to the heart of the insanity and sherbet-headed nonsense of modern life. THE AUDACITY OF HYPE brings together his views on diverse subjects, ranging from wickedly funny pen portraits of the sometimes loveable, usually despicable chumps who like to think of themselves as our political elite, and their bonkers schemes to save the world that are in fact likely to do us more harm than a pile of witches, to WMD, disaster movies, the pitfalls of 'I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here' and the high and mighty rhetoric of Obama, this is an absurdly entertaining and utterly indispensable collection from one of Britain's most brilliant satirists.

I didn't know about this, but it might be good? It is a book.

― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Monday, 7 September 2009 15:19 (sixteen years ago)

i think IA generally works best as an enabler of other folks' good work. never very taken with his newspaper columns.

― history mayne, Monday, 7 September 2009 15:21 (sixteen years ago)

Thought the Facts and Fancies one was good, especially when read by IA himself, but according to the one Amazon review of this it's a bit more of an erratic "brain dump" and he doesn't expand very much on some ideas.

― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Monday, 7 September 2009 15:27 (sixteen years ago)

they have not covered themselves in glory with the cover art.

― history mayne, Monday, 7 September 2009 15:30 (sixteen years ago)

Hehe yeah, also pretty sure he was looking a bit more spherical than that during his recent interviews.

The Armando Iannucci Shows DVD is £4.18 on Amazon UK at the moment.

― Eugene Sander-Rygar (MPx4A), Monday, 7 September 2009 15:35 (sixteen years ago)

eight months pass...

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=27908

― long time listener, first time balla (history mayne), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 14:46 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

Is it true Comedy Central is filming an American pilot of Time Trumpet?

― James Mitchell, Thursday, 30 June 2011 08:51 (fourteen years ago)

armando iannucci show is probably my favourite comedy series of all time, peaks with this haunting sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVab6bz1dQw

― NI, Sunday, 10 July 2011 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

when he kisses the gran, actually screaming at that point. like every clumsy kiss ever - the observational skills of this sketch are just next level

― NI, Sunday, 10 July 2011 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

v clear parallels with this and limmy's show. limmy as armando's rum nephew hyped-up on e-numbers and cans of spesh

― NI, Sunday, 10 July 2011 20:59 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, loved The Armando Iannucci Shows.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Sunday, 10 July 2011 21:04 (fourteen years ago)

nine months pass...

Matt Seitz not crazy about Veep:

http://nymag.com/arts/tv/reviews/veep-2012-4/

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 April 2012 17:36 (fourteen years ago)

he wants it to Mean Something but iannuci shows only mean something by accident or as a cumulative consequence; i'd go so far as to say the whole point of iannucci's shows is to peel back the gravity of meaningfulness from venues that assume it as a given

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 20 April 2012 17:44 (fourteen years ago)

I've only seen In the Loop, but I can see where he might not quite get it right by doing a full-time D.C. show. (even w/ Frank Rich aboard)

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 April 2012 19:10 (fourteen years ago)

especially w frank rich aboard...

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 20 April 2012 20:10 (fourteen years ago)

http://afistfulofculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Veep.jpg

― Acute puppy syndrome (admrl), Saturday, 21 April 2012 00:48 (fourteen years ago)

trailer makes it look very 'traditional sitcom'ish IMO.

― piscesx, Saturday, 21 April 2012 01:16 (fourteen years ago)

Could be. This thread makes me miss Time Trumpet. He should have done something like that instead!

― Acute puppy syndrome (admrl), Saturday, 21 April 2012 02:01 (fourteen years ago)

Should've done more Thick of It instead, TBH.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 21 April 2012 03:11 (fourteen years ago)

new Thick of It seaon in some stage of development atm, I believe.

― Simon H., Saturday, 21 April 2012 03:55 (fourteen years ago)

btw A thread for Armando Iannucci's VEEP

― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Saturday, 21 April 2012 04:59 (fourteen years ago)

i'd gladly have watched a Jamie show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzszTRCoj44

― piscesx, Saturday, 21 April 2012 10:00 (fourteen years ago)

Should've done more Thick of It instead, TBH.

He's said he's really glad doing Veep delayed the next Thick Of It series, as it gave them a coalition goverment to play with.

― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Saturday, 21 April 2012 11:56 (fourteen years ago)

That fucking Jamie video is fucking gold.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 21 April 2012 13:18 (fourteen years ago)

"Monkey tennis"- for that alone.

― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Saturday, 21 April 2012 13:39 (fourteen years ago)

Want me to hole punch your face?

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 21 April 2012 14:04 (fourteen years ago)

four months pass...

The recent Leveson inquiry has thrown up many things, including the testimony of the late Jeremy Hunt. It's interesting to notice that although people criticise the fact that we now have a transport secretary who's scared of flying and an equalities minister who's against gays, nobody has picked up on the fact that a man a lot of people want to see dead is now health secretary.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/sep/11/armando-iannucci-bafta-lecture-transcript?CMP=twt_gu

― very sexual album (schlump), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 16:05 (thirteen years ago)

three years pass...

In Conversation with Armando Iannucci About ‘The Armando Iannucci Shows’ and Nothing Else

Zooh-za-zaa!

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-armando-iannucci-shows

― piscesx, Monday, 8 August 2016 14:57 (nine years ago)

two years pass...

https://duaw26jehqd4r.cloudfront.net/items/2q2G3h1A3o0e0s2H3r1W/Screen%20Shot%202019-01-03%20at%2012.13.49.png

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 January 2019 12:15 (seven years ago)

eight months pass...

i'm not surprised Whishaw is a good Uriah Heep

https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review-armando-iannucci-the-personal-history-of-david-copperfield/

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 September 2019 01:32 (six years ago)

three years pass...

Reminder: MARVEL AGE #1000, an anthology issue coming August 30, will feature a Daredevil story by Armando Iannucci (yes, THE Armando Iannucci) and Adam Kubert (yes, THE Adam Kubert)! pic.twitter.com/PqJ5EcZuUk
— Daredevil ManWithoutFear.com (@manwithoutfear) August 17, 2023

― koogs, Saturday, 19 August 2023 20:23 (two years ago)

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/armando-iannucci-new-covid-play-matt-hancock-ken-barbie-b1099077.html

― conrad, Saturday, 19 August 2023 20:51 (two years ago)

(yes, THE Adam Kubert)

no doubt personally selected by Ianucci as the best and most thoughtful potential interpreter of his script

― vashti funyuns (sic), Saturday, 19 August 2023 22:05 (two years ago)

oh no

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 19 August 2023 22:08 (two years ago)

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