I find the Fast Show to be a bit hit and miss, unfortunately it a miss more often. Some of the continuous sketches are just crap. Jesse's Diets for example, I know comedy is subjective, but sorry guys, this sketch it just aint funny about 99% of the time
QUOTE=Alrightmate;79464945]Last week I have been mostly watching the Fast Show.
Niiice.
It was brilliant.
Suits me sir.
But I was very drunk at the time.
Yes, when you think about it it gets very tiring and repetitive after a while isn't it?
It's mainly just repeating the same old catchphrases. Then people repeating the catchphrases to each other as though they're in on some private joke and feel quite clever about it.
I'm as guilty as anyone, I fell for this show too in the 90s. But after watching the episodes last week I now realise how uninspired and unoriginal it really was.
It's so limited.
A few episodes are good. But after that it's just a matter of going through the same motions again and again and again.
I loved it at the time, but in hindsight it just feels like money for old rope and very lazy comedy that isn't as great as it seemed at the time.
I think more recently in the series 'Extras' it made a strong argument for how tired catchphrase based comedy really is.[/QUOTE]
"This week, I 'ave mostly bin eatin....Bourbon Biscuits."
This exactly what I was posting about earlier, How is that remotely funny? I consider myself to have a good overall sense of humour, but that is just poor.
maybe if he came out and said something OTT, like,Foie Gras, it may work better.
This exactly what I was posting about earlier, How is that remotely funny? I consider myself to have a good overall sense of humour, but that is just poor.
maybe if he came out and said something OTT, like,Foie Gras, it may work better.
Comedy is very subjective of course
"Bourbon Biscuits" sounds a bit daft in Jesse's voice, which helps. Also he did start to eat more obscure things as time went on, the humour being in the subversion of the character/setting (see also Chanel 9's ever-broadening programming lineup)
I've watched four of the six episodes so far. Some of it has held up well, other segments not so. The Channel 9 skits are still great to me. I was never that keen on "Jesse's Diets" myself. Arabella Weir's "Does my bum look big in this?" remains as painfully unfunny as it was on debut.
This exactly what I was posting about earlier, How is that remotely funny? I consider myself to have a good overall sense of humour, but that is just poor.
maybe if he came out and said something OTT, like,Foie Gras, it may work better.
Comedy is very subjective of course
I have a silly sense of humour, so to me it's funny. Like you said, comedy is very subjective.
I do like most of Simon Day's work on this show. Billy Bleach, Dave Angel, Monkfish and Carl Hooper, but most of all Gideon, the architectural historian. The surreal details cracked up.
"Tragically today, we have just learned, that house may well have fallen into the hands, of Jimmy Nail"
This exactly what I was posting about earlier, How is that remotely funny? I consider myself to have a good overall sense of humour, but that is just poor.
maybe if he came out and said something OTT, like,Foie Gras, it may work better.
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http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/shortcuts/2015/jul/27/enduring-social-shorthand-harry-enfield-characters
'Time Nice but Dim', 'Loadsamoney', Wayne and Waynetta have featured in newspaper headlines in the past few years.
And I'm fond of saying 'like Yul Brynner and Telly Savalas fighting in a sack'.
That was the point of writing it that way. People say it wrong, like "play it again Sam"
QUOTE=Alrightmate;79464945]Last week I have been mostly watching the Fast Show.
Niiice.
It was brilliant.
Suits me sir.
But I was very drunk at the time.
Yes, when you think about it it gets very tiring and repetitive after a while isn't it?
It's mainly just repeating the same old catchphrases. Then people repeating the catchphrases to each other as though they're in on some private joke and feel quite clever about it.
I'm as guilty as anyone, I fell for this show too in the 90s. But after watching the episodes last week I now realise how uninspired and unoriginal it really was.
It's so limited.
A few episodes are good. But after that it's just a matter of going through the same motions again and again and again.
I loved it at the time, but in hindsight it just feels like money for old rope and very lazy comedy that isn't as great as it seemed at the time.
I think more recently in the series 'Extras' it made a strong argument for how tired catchphrase based comedy really is.[/QUOTE]
* "The Fast Show", not "Casablanca". Or do I mean "The Maltese Falcon"?
Ah, well that's where you're wrong. If you listen in public, most people actually say "Suits you Sir" when the correct quote is "Suit you, Sir"
Needless to say, I laughed last.
"This week, I 'ave mostly bin eatin....Bourbon Biscuits."
This exactly what I was posting about earlier, How is that remotely funny? I consider myself to have a good overall sense of humour, but that is just poor.
maybe if he came out and said something OTT, like,Foie Gras, it may work better.
Comedy is very subjective of course
"Bourbon Biscuits" sounds a bit daft in Jesse's voice, which helps. Also he did start to eat more obscure things as time went on, the humour being in the subversion of the character/setting (see also Chanel 9's ever-broadening programming lineup)
HOLD THE BELLS!!!
I have a silly sense of humour, so to me it's funny. Like you said, comedy is very subjective.
"Tragically today, we have just learned, that house may well have fallen into the hands, of Jimmy Nail"
This week, I have been mostly bulimic.
The mundanity of bourbons was the point. That in his shed-living world, such a thing was the highlight of his week.
I found it amusing, but then I live in the countryside where we've lots of Jesses.
Dr Monkfish to you, wurzel!