Man Down, anyone else watching this?

[The Don of Croy]

I'm abivalent on the comedy of it, but love seeing him driving the Acclaim from almost the rear seats, with added nonchalence.

[jeevescat]

Fridays episode 4 had me in tears, brilliant.

[Steamer]

The recent birthday cake episode was brilliant. The whole second half was just a manic flow of comedy capers

Slowly getting more and more bonkers.

[ajprice]

Yep, really liking this, and it's got a second series

[c123]

I'm not a fan. Thought it was alright but turned it off last night right after the running club trainer guy (Ferdy from This Life?) did the Ashley Schaeffer from East Bound & Down dick slap and brought this to mind: http://youtu.be/D_nKi4aeWjc?t=7s

No way back after that for me.

Can't understand why this is on at prime time on Friday nights and already has a second series and Toast of London seems to be tucked away on Sundays.

[Tuna]

Don't 'get' Toast, but last night had us both laughing. Very odd, but once you get used to it, funny. He was good on Graham Norton later as well.

[marshall100]

ajprice said:

Yep, really liking this, and it's got a second series

Great news. Even the wife finds it funny and that's a true yardstick for any tv based comedy. I'm not sure I got the IT crowd when it started but look where that ended up, this has slowly been building in a similar vein. It's very good.

Toast is funny, but it can be too much like hard work tbh. Especially on a sunday night.

[toppstuff]

I am loving this.

It is very funny and very tragic.

[marshall100]

The bit last week about the old woman pushing a trolley of soil around shouting 'coco dust' had me in tears.

Our resident nutter where I grew up was a bloke that used to spend much of his day sitting in the town centre in his pants. He always had a really good tan, even in the depths of winter.

[Bullett]

I saw the first one of these. Does it get better because I thought that was awful.

[ajprice]

Oh. Oh my. Shagging the cleaner. Cannot be unseen

[marshall100]

Wow.

That was dark.

[VinceFox]

Rik mayall wont turn up for just any old st, you know.

[DuncanM]

Just caught up with this, Rik Mayall's first love story was genius

I'm starting to love Brian's character too

[Steamer]

DuncanM said:

Just caught up with this, Rik Mayall's first love story was genius

I'm starting to love Brian's character too

I remember Gregg telling a very similar story in his standup about his own dad... was even better seeing Rik doing the actions (Love the line about ginger birds too!)

[0000]

I was made to watch some of this as the wife knows someone in it.

I like Greg, but it was bloody awful, awful.

[Steamer]

0000 said:

I was made to watch some of this as the wife knows someone in it.

I like Greg, but it was bloody awful, awful.

Please tell me it's the crazy Irish girl and you can set me up on a date!?!

[0000]

No, sorry, you'll have to find another route.

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

I've lurched between 'this is awful and wierd' to 'this is genius and Python-esque' over the last few episodes. And I always like to give a new comedy series a decent bit of time / innings to have a chance to 'grab' me.

After four episodes though - I have now landed in the 'this is genius and Python-esque' camp.

Yep - it's a little strange and I guess might come across to a first-time observer as strange and not at all funny...

But after a bit of time, I see the genius and hidden comedy in it. I get it for what it's supposed to be, and I like very much.


'Egg Circus'.....a plate of eggs chucked down with an accompaniment of 'did-did-diddle-lid-did-did-did-dee-duh...'

Genius

[VinceFox]

"My daddy was a hero"

I think i actually popped something laughing at that bit.