Tracey Ullman's Show

[s3fella]

Some of it was fairly clever as a one off, and the impressions were good, but it wasn't "that" funny.

Female comediennes tend to get a bad rap, but there are some very funny ones and some very subtle ones.
Lucy Porter, Vicky Corren, at the slightly subtler end, not gut wrenching, but clever comedy.

And back in the day as, I had a guilty pleasure of being a Smack the Pony fan!! IMHO the best female sketch show in the UK ever.

I'd watch the next Ullman show if it is on, but wont perhaps go looking for it.

[Hamish Finn]

stephen300o said:

Roo said:

I've never been a fan of either comediennes or impressionists so didn't see it, but it sounds like I didn't miss much.

I was surprised to see that she's worth nearly £80million though.

Sound very much like a male chauvinist.

Hey, great comment! Really! And, like, so totally 1970s!

[Evangelion]

Thought the second episode was as good as the first. Her Camilla had me in stitches.

And yes, I too was a fan of Smack The Pony, but the luscious Sarah Alexander was responsible for that.

[The Don of Croy]

It keeps missing the spot - there's some great impressions, good scenes, sound cast etc etc but just no killer blow (although I did laugh at the Camilla question 'Do you want to put a horses' uterus back in?').

However, seeing Derek Griffiths again was a surprise - he was A BIG THING on children's telly when I was young, now here he is wanting to send images of his big thing to young ladies on the interweb. How times change...

[marcosgt]

Evangelion said:

Thought the second episode was as good as the first. Her Camilla had me in stitches.

I watched the second TU show and I must admit it was much funnier than her appearance on Graham Norton.

Not hilarious, but her impressions were good, some of the ideas were better than their resolution, but Camilla was very good!

If I remember I'll give it another go.

The Don of Croy said:

now here he is wanting to send images of his big thing to young ladies on the interweb

I liked the line about "...now stamps are quite expensive, is there anyway the internet can help?"

M

Edited by marcosgt on Friday 22 January 17:06

[TheGuru]

Well I thought it was very good, maybe I'm just getting old.

[SpudLink]

The Don of Croy said:

However, seeing Derek Griffiths again was a surprise - he was A BIG THING on children's telly when I was young, now here he is wanting to send images of his big thing to young ladies on the interweb. How times change...

Like you, I remember him as part of my childhood. Now his playing a dirty old man.
I wonder if that's deliberate casting?

[Smiler.]

Watched this tonight. I wasn't impressed with the first episode of the first series so didn't bother after that but I found this one really funny.

Except the disturbing bits of the Murdoch Hall sketch.

[Evangelion]

Bit disappointing, I thought this was just more of the same.

But I caught a couple of glimpses of Lucy Montgomery so who cares.

[sparkythecat]

I really enjoyed last night's offering. Some better material than the first series.
My missus has got a Fitbit which causes her to behave just like the woman in the office sketch. PMSL at that bit.

[rallycross]

Last night was a lot funnier that I was expecting the sketch with the poison dwarf mk2 was brilliant !

[marcosgt]

Some of her impressions are spot on and it was amusing enough.

Better than NGO last night, I thought.

M

[Escort3500]

Johnnytheboy said:

She was interviewed on Radio 4 (woman's hour, don't laugh) the other day, and was awkwardly unfunny.

I think she must in some way be related to the equally dreadful Miranda

[Evangelion]

marcosgt said:

Some of her impressions are spot on and it was amusing enough.

Better than NGO last night, I thought.

M

I've always thought NGO was fantastic but all 3 episodes of the new series so far have consisted of just non-stop argument and it's beginning to grate now.

[sparkythecat]

Tracey is back with a new series tonight.
Hopefully she'll have some decent new matejrial

[abzmike]

To my viewing I'm afraid not. Clearly expensively made, and the impressions are decent, but the scripts are just not funny.

[Yipper]

It's a disaster. Completely unfunny. Switched off.

[Mischa33]

I've also turned off, not even slightly funny.

[darker grapefruit]

Dire.

[Evangelion]

Was OK, but not a patch on the previous ones.