10 O'Clock show rant

[EDLT]

CivicMan said:

David Mitchell....

I used to think he was fairly sensible, but he's fallen into the old "I'm on TV and therefore a voice of the people" trap.

[Conian]

EDLT said:

CivicMan said:

David Mitchell....

I used to think he was fairly sensible, but he's fallen into the old "I'm on TV and therefore a voice of the people" trap.

But he is so awesome on Peep Show that excuses many of his negative points

[tali1]

Lauren Laverne is painfully unfunny
But i would many many times -gets my motor going

[Halb]

tali1 said:

Lauren Laverne is painfully unfunny
But i would many many times -gets my motor going

Are many women funny? The woman is usually the weak link in these type of shows.
Loved last weeks show

[g3org3y]

Conian said:

EDLT said:

CivicMan said:

David Mitchell....

I used to think he was fairly sensible, but he's fallen into the old "I'm on TV and therefore a voice of the people" trap.

But he is so awesome on Peep Show that excuses many of his negative points

Tbh, I think the only reason why he is so awesome in Peep Show is that he doesn't write it.

The sketch show 'That Mitchell and Webb Look' is crap by comparison.

[Life Saab Itch]

g3org3y said:

Conian said:

EDLT said:

CivicMan said:

David Mitchell....

I used to think he was fairly sensible, but he's fallen into the old "I'm on TV and therefore a voice of the people" trap.

But he is so awesome on Peep Show that excuses many of his negative points

Tbh, I think the only reason why he is so awesome in Peep Show is that he doesn't write it.

The sketch show 'That Mitchell and Webb Look' is crap by comparison.

Nail. Head.

[m444ttb]

I wanted to like this. But half way through the first episode I felt the kind if suffering the last series if Heroes inflicted returning.

The above is spot on RE the cast of Peep show too. Their own material is like a poor episode watered down!

[hidetheelephants]

So very disappointing. The potential for this to be so good was there, but instead it's lazy, pedestrian, predictable, MOR Grauniad leftist bks. Worse than that is most of it's not funny. Jimmy Carr recycling unfunny jokes that the 2 Ronnies did 40 years ago is not what I expect from C4 satire at 10pm. By all means they should be ripping the government a new ahole weekly(I thought DM let Grant Shapps the housing minister have a really easy ride for no discernable reason), but the opposition should be equally put to the sword for being utterly ste.

Must try (a lot) harder.

[Halb]

hidetheelephants said:

.. but the opposition should be equally put to the sword for being utterly ste.

Must try (a lot) harder.

In the ones I have seen they have. Milliband has been ripped to bits on previous eps.
Not seen last nights ep, will have to watch tonight

[Jasandjules]

I still watch it now and again (well, for a bit of time at least) and saw a glimpse last week that had me laughing, with some leftie woman explaining how people don't know if they eat a McDonalds they will get fat - then the other bloke on the panel just said "only if they are stupid".....

[Mr. Potato Head]

g3org3y said:

The sketch show 'That Mitchell and Webb Look' is crap by comparison.

David Mitchell is probably the only writer around that can get the line "If there's one thing a thousand miles of retreat has taught us, it's that Russian agriculture is in desperate need of mechanisation" into a sketch and get a laugh from it.
10 o'clock show does blow though.

[hidetheelephants]

More painfully unfunny and tediously leftwing bks, leavened by Charlie Brooker shoehorning a truly golden phrase into a piece about the 'no more cuts' protests.

- epitomised by Ms Laverne delivering a dreary monologue which ended with the biting satire, '..., sink the Belgrano, and close all the coalmines'. I can't even begin to comment without wanting to inflict pain on the scriptmonkey. Even the lobotomised audience barely tittered.

- Charlie commenting about the gross sensationalisation of the yobs making a mess at Fortnum and Mason, 'With their need for drama, the Media lapped it all up like a thirsty dog at a Bukakke party.'

[Halb]

hidetheelephants said:

- Charlie commenting about the gross sensationalisation of the yobs making a mess at Fortnum and Mason, 'With their need for drama, the Media lapped it all up like a thirsty dog at a Bukakke party.'

I think he is spot on aboot the media, it seems to be his main bugbear, the fact they just go for the violence and hype it up (in Haiti, in Japan-that bit where Sky made it like a film was weird). I thoight the sex version was very funny
I don't listen to the girl I just ff her bits because I find them boring

[Jasandjules]

I keep trying to watch this show, but it's such a leftie bias I just can't be bothered.

[Lost soul]

I quite like it , sure it is left leaning but they bash Millepeed and seem to be equal opportunity abusers

and also give the PC Nannyista brigade a beating

This weeks show was weak

[adycav]

With the folk that it has in it, it should be much, much better.

I love Brooker's other stuff, Carr is a great stand up, Mitchell is an intelligent, perceptive wit and laverne has her moments, most of them aesthetic.

The end result manages to be a disappointment however. Much less than the sum of its parts.

[hidetheelephants]

adycav said:

With the folk that it has in it, it should be much, much better.

I love Brooker's other stuff, Carr is a great stand up, Mitchell is an intelligent, perceptive wit and laverne has her moments, most of them aesthetic.

The end result manages to be a disappointment however. Much less than the sum of its parts.

Succinctly put; the scriptmonkeys need shooting. The writing is where a show like this succeeds or sucks like a black hole; this sucks, too much of it is lazy, derivative and simply not funny.

[davepoth]

hidetheelephants said:

Succinctly put; the scriptmonkeys need shooting. The writing is where a show like this succeeds or sucks like a black hole; this sucks, too much of it is lazy, derivative and simply not funny.

Writing not so bad, concept was terrible. Having an audience was an awful idea. Everybody was playing to them, which really doesn't help to get points across.

[jake15919]

Brooker, Carr and Mitchell (best comic talent around in my book) are all really funny guys but laverne is so wooden and just slows the show down. The worst mistake though is the audience. Shouldn't be there in the first place and certainly shouldn't be made up of dimwit students. The performers are all 30 something adults, so why not aim the show at adults.