retired_monica90

So hot and cold this for me. Can sit through an entire episode stone-faced, and then they pull out a belter like Milky Joe out the bag.
Much as I try I can't hate fielding for his role as Jones in Nathan Barley.

retired_margie

oh woop dee doo.

worst show ever.

retired_Fit

not just me then

retired_margie

it just isn't funny at all. wow a moon, lets laugh at this.

retired_Fit

That was my feeling last year when i watched it but my brother was adamant it was good i thought i must be missing something.

They did that whole concept at the Edinburgh Fesitval or something didnt they and then it got turned into TV ?

retired_dreamwolf

wooooooohooooooo! the moon isnt funny and bits of it are **** but its still ****ing great. I went to see the live show in bristol.

retired_calhoun_s

became radio show first. Originally was going to be made for channel four but they chabged their mind and Steve Coogan championed it to the bbc.

retired_adrenalinejunki

they've been doing it for YEARS at Edinburgh and on the radio - you have to wonder why all the people loving it now couldn't give a flying one before, despite it being the same material in many cases. iirc it was Stewart Lee who gave them their break with one of his late 90s Edinburgh standup shows, playing, appropriately, a whale and a giant prosthetic penis. Guess nobody's perfect


series one of the tv show got record low ratings when it was shown on BBC2 (prime-time, right after the simpsons) yet it got chance after chance after chance and is now FINALLY a success off the back of DVD sales - many far better programs are shoved out once at midnight on digital and never get any internal promotion, let alone repeats and DVD releases. tremendously disappointing that the people running BBCs comedy output are more concerned with having successes attached to their name for future promotions rather than giving a wide variety of comedy a fighting chance, as in the past.

retired_Fit

Does it transfer well compared to radio show ? Never heard it, obviously. I remember the old Mary Whitehouse Experience being ace on radio and well, not as ace on TV

retired_calhoun_s

i prefer radio show tbh.