#809

His stand up shows were so inventive and amazing and it’s a bit sad that the Taskmaster success (and Horne Section as well) mean he doesn’t do them any more.

He once shot an arrow off my head through a toilet seat suspended above the stage.

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#810

What! That sounds fun.

I love him so much. Seems like a top fella too. His books are pretty entertaining and all.

#811
  1. dril
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#812

The show was the construction of a giant Rube Goldberg machine on-stage with stand-up going on around it. So fucking great.

He did another one where he took those “the average person spends 15 years of their life in the bath!” or whatever and then did all those things to an equivalent percentage of an hour. Brilliant.

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#813

Genuinely thought he’d be higher

#814
  1. Vic Reeves
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#815

ffs

#816

‘fantastic, fabulous stuff’?

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#817

fairly fucking shit

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#818
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#819

I don’t believe I have heard of veep. :neutral_face:

#820

Woah!

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#821

this is very surprising, neil young. (you should watch it, it’s great, julia louis dreyfus is in it)

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#822

So is Sally Phillips!

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#823

She is Finnish in it

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#824

Oh yes, on HBO right? I have heard of it, but I have never watched. I’ll add it to the list!

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#825

She’s no finish, she’s only 50!

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#826

It’s Armando Iannucci (and Chris Addison, I think Simon Blackwell’s involved – a lot of the same team), and very similar to The Thick Of It.

The Thick Of It, whilst one of my absolutely favourite programmes of all time, probably doesn’t translate to an American audience as well as I’d like. VEEP manages to ‘American’ it up, but not in a shit way. Very funny.

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#827

Saw him do stand up last month. Was a “for kids” show, which meant it was exactly the same - totally great of course.

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#828
  1. The Mighty Boosh
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