"Topical" Comedy on Radio 4
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The News Quiz has taken a turn for the worse; I've not listened for a while but it was pretty dire this week, Hardy was particularly awful, delivering a wretched 'woe is me' about how the media are nasty to Mr Corbyn while tumbleweed blew through the studio. Jupp needs to get better at being in charge and stop him mithering on like that.
k festhidetheelephants said:
The News Quiz has taken a turn for the worse; I've not listened for a while but it was pretty dire this week, Hardy was particularly awful, delivering a wretched 'woe is me' about how the media are nasty to Mr Corbyn while tumbleweed blew through the studio. Jupp needs to get better at being in charge and stop him mithering on like that.
Jump is quite good, but I agree about Jeremy Hardy News Quiz is miles better now it has Miles Jupp in place. The Now Show should have been put out of its misery a long time ago and that awful Mitch Benn is a liability.
However nothing compares to the new "comedy" by Frank Skinner. Wow that is as bad as the afternoon play.
We need better comedy and more of it on Radio 4. When you consider what it has produced in the past it just seems very safe and boring - like a Michael Macintyre gig.
However nothing compares to the new "comedy" by Frank Skinner. Wow that is as bad as the afternoon play.
We need better comedy and more of it on Radio 4. When you consider what it has produced in the past it just seems very safe and boring - like a Michael Macintyre gig.
MC Bodge said:
hidetheelephants said:
The News Quiz has taken a turn for the worse; I've not listened for a while but it was pretty dire this week, Hardy was particularly awful, delivering a wretched 'woe is me' about how the media are nasty to Mr Corbyn while tumbleweed blew through the studio. Jupp needs to get better at being in charge and stop him mithering on like that.
Jump is quite good, but I agree about Jeremy Hardy One nearly wet oneself when one heard that Jemmery Hardly had been banned from the Labour leadership election. Would love to have seen his face when he opened that envelope...
mybrainhurts said:
I concur but, in an inexplicable way, I find him very funny.
One nearly wet oneself when one heard that Jemmery Hardly had been banned from the Labour leadership election. Would love to have seen his face when he opened that envelope...
I used to love the News Quiz, but now I often don't listen if Jeremy Hardy is one of the panellists - there is a grim predictability to the left wing diatribe he will embark on.One nearly wet oneself when one heard that Jemmery Hardly had been banned from the Labour leadership election. Would love to have seen his face when he opened that envelope...
Europa1 said:
mybrainhurts said:
I concur but, in an inexplicable way, I find him very funny.
One nearly wet oneself when one heard that Jemmery Hardly had been banned from the Labour leadership election. Would love to have seen his face when he opened that envelope...
I used to love the News Quiz, but now I often don't listen if Jeremy Hardy is one of the panellists - there is a grim predictability to the left wing diatribe he will embark on.One nearly wet oneself when one heard that Jemmery Hardly had been banned from the Labour leadership election. Would love to have seen his face when he opened that envelope...
He's very much a one-trick pony and it should have been shipped off to the glue factory decades ago...
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If it's funny - it's funny, whether the politics coincide with one's own or not. Does anybody prefer right wing crap to left wing crap ? Odd thing is that for some reason few comedians with a right wing bent are any good; the arts just tend to attract more on the left than right .Me? Left of Cameron and a very long way right of silly Corbyn FWIW - and I find Jeremy Hardy heroically unfunny at the moment. When he was good he was very good but recently ...spare me
hidetheelephants said:
The News Quiz has taken a turn for the worse; I've not listened for a while but it was pretty dire this week, Hardy was particularly awful, delivering a wretched 'woe is me' about how the media are nasty to Mr Corbyn while tumbleweed blew through the studio. Jupp needs to get better at being in charge and stop him mithering on like that.
I thought the first series with Jupp was a bit stilted but the new series has been a big improvement.
Jeremy Hardy News Quiz Bingo.
Play along at home. Cross one off each time he manages to crowbar these into every show.
Thatcher.
Miners Strike.
Poll Tax.
Hillsborough.
The Falkands War
The riots in the 80s
Cameron and Osborne being Eton toffs.
The un-founded allegation about Cameron & the pigs head.
Attempting to get the words UKIP and Nazi in the same sentence.
The Tory MPs duck house.
The greedy bankers.
The crisis in the NHS/Junior Doctors.
Funny how most of those references are from the 80s, stop some time around 1997 and then re-start around 2010.
Play along at home. Cross one off each time he manages to crowbar these into every show.
Thatcher.
Miners Strike.
Poll Tax.
Hillsborough.
The Falkands War
The riots in the 80s
Cameron and Osborne being Eton toffs.
The un-founded allegation about Cameron & the pigs head.
Attempting to get the words UKIP and Nazi in the same sentence.
The Tory MPs duck house.
The greedy bankers.
The crisis in the NHS/Junior Doctors.
Funny how most of those references are from the 80s, stop some time around 1997 and then re-start around 2010.
The Hypno-Toad said:
Jeremy Hardy News Quiz Bingo.
Play along at home. Cross one off each time he manages to crowbar these into every show.
Thatcher.
Miners Strike.
Poll Tax.
Hillsborough.
The Falkands War
The riots in the 80s
Cameron and Osborne being Eton toffs.
The un-founded allegation about Cameron & the pigs head.
Attempting to get the words UKIP and Nazi in the same sentence.
The Tory MPs duck house.
The greedy bankers.
The crisis in the NHS/Junior Doctors.
Funny how most of those references are from the 80s, stop some time around 1997 and then re-start around 2010.
Well spotted, that man....Play along at home. Cross one off each time he manages to crowbar these into every show.
Thatcher.
Miners Strike.
Poll Tax.
Hillsborough.
The Falkands War
The riots in the 80s
Cameron and Osborne being Eton toffs.
The un-founded allegation about Cameron & the pigs head.
Attempting to get the words UKIP and Nazi in the same sentence.
The Tory MPs duck house.
The greedy bankers.
The crisis in the NHS/Junior Doctors.
Funny how most of those references are from the 80s, stop some time around 1997 and then re-start around 2010.
Smiler. said:
For those seeking a little light relief from from the media offensive at the mo, Dead Ringers has made a welcome return.
Catch it while you can folks, I'm sure the dreary Jeremy Hardly will be back in control soon.
Thanks for the head's up! Love Dead Ringers. Catch it while you can folks, I'm sure the dreary Jeremy Hardly will be back in control soon.
Their Nigel Farage is fantastic ("now let me speak!"), as was their Colin Baker from a few years back.
The recent stuff from the Edinburgh fringe has been woeful.
Apparently (according to Fred McCrawly last night & some chinless gimp tonight), we in the UK are all racists because Brexit.
Honestly, it's worse than Ben Elton before he got money.
Ironically, the funniest performer in the BBC new comic comp a few weeks ago was a middle-aged Indian lady (well IMO, obviously). The BBC hilarity department are offering no guidance on this so I'm lost.
Apparently (according to Fred McCrawly last night & some chinless gimp tonight), we in the UK are all racists because Brexit.
Honestly, it's worse than Ben Elton before he got money.
Ironically, the funniest performer in the BBC new comic comp a few weeks ago was a middle-aged Indian lady (well IMO, obviously). The BBC hilarity department are offering no guidance on this so I'm lost.
Don't know if it's been mentioned in this thread but one of the best comedies of the last decade either TV or Radio(IMO) was on Radio 4, it's not on anymore I think due to the death of Felix Dexter but Down the Line was utterly glorious - Paul Whitehouse and some other from the Fast Show at their best - not particularly topical comedy but it was sublime.
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