An hour of comedy. Stephen Fry on QI & the return of Russell Howard on BBC3. Good-oh
QI was good. Also caught up with the Mark Ronson-hosted Buzzcocks, also pretty good. I liike Russell Howard on MTW, but his standalone stuff leaves me a bit bored. Watched Rashomon on BRD instead - fantastic converstion to the format, and of course still a magnificent film.
check - I went off Buzzcocks in Amstell's 2nd series. Never really liked the format even in its heyday with Lamarr. Last night was mildly amusing, especially where the comic I had never heard of, went walkabout. Noel Fielding was the "headline" act on the MM Live at Apollo thing last week, He was shit. a couple of funny one liners, but mostly boring
mostly, I'd agree, though his "gay-off" thing with John Barrowman was pretty funny. I liked the mid-period Lamarr series best. well, yes. Though if you need a pin to prick his balloon with, he is related to Leon Brittan.
I caught most of them. I wasn't too sure at the beginning, but it developed. I was particularly amused by the thread about his obsession with the actor.
Have you watched Him and Her? I find it quite amusing in a 'reminds me of my slobbed out early twenties' kind of way.
I watched the first two and then never went back. As much as I like Russell Tovey, I got bored. It was probably all that heterosexual, slobbery that I could not relate to.
His assault on Winehouse; Reading bits of Chantelle Houghton's autobiography... there's a compilation show fronted by Alan Botney that has some of the great bits... &index=0&playnext=1 I went to a couple of recordings during the Lamarr period. I think the big problem there wasn't so much that Lamarr got shit, more that the good stuff was simply too offensive for tv. From a live audience perspective it was two and a half hours of greatness which produced thirty minutes of turgid shit.
I just watched the whole series back-to-back. It owes a lot to the Royle Family, but while I never found that the slightest bit amusing H&H had me chuckling out loud on the tube a few times.
thanks for that. genuinely for a change. I never had the pleasure, though I imagine you're correct that it was far better live.
rewatching that compilation reminded why I went off Buzzcocks: it was the loss of Bill Bailey that changed the dynamic. Most of the time he managed to get something going with Amstel or PJ and was very good at lampooning uppity "stars", usually without them twigging.
Simon Amstell is very easy on the eye though. Russell Howard is very easy on the eye though. Oh, did I do that already?
