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RChappo
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| Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:03 am Thank God You're Here...now fuck off! |
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Ugh,
New "comedy" show that started tonight over here. Apparantely it's the US version of an Australian improvised comedy show.
The premise is you get various comedy actors and they get put into a costume and shoved through a door onto an unseen set and have to improvise a scene with a few other actors ...the opening line of each scene is "Thank God you're here".
Sort of like "Who's Line Is It Anyway" but with bells and whistles.
Well it's crap! They have what should be good people on there - people from Seinfeld and people from the Chistopher Guest films and other top sitcoms (the lovely Fran Drescher will be on later I think)
But it's a mess. There is not one of them that can improvise to save their lives. And not one funny line at all was muttered. But the studio audience were in stitches..like they had never heard a joke or seen anything resembling comedy in their lives.
Sample joke from the advert that has been running
(A Star Trek type scene on the USS Enterprise..)
Female Actor in Trek costume : "what are those blue flashing balls?"
Jason Alexander in trek costume : "I didn't know they were flashing"
Ho ho fucking ho!!!!! And this is the stuff they are advertising it with!
Fuck me.....awful awful stuff. The whole thing is kind of presided upon by some smug git that is supposed to be some big shot comedy writer who tells all of them how wonderful they are. Wanker!
Bring back "Who's line...." even the American version of that was 100 times better than this shite.
2 hours of this we had tonight...good job I had a bottle of wine to go with it.
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BILLY V2.0
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| Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:27 am |
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Haha, I've seen the Aussie version and it is quite awful. The audience lap it up though. I'm not surprised that even with people you'd expect to be funny, it isn't. Jason Alexander is really boring on the Seinfeld audio commentaries as are Michael Richards and Julia Louis Dreyfus.
Improvising is a rare skill. Even stuff like Thick of It and Curb Your Enthusiasm are tightly scripted despite looking as if they're mostly improvised. I didn't realise this until I saw a South Bank Show special on Paul Merton but even on panel shows they see the questions in advance and are given a chance to think up witty replies. I always assumed Paul Merton was just naturally very sharp! |
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Dananiel
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| Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:58 am |
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Paul Merton is, or at least he can be sharp. But yeah they get told stuff in advance, the worst programme ever for that is 8 Out Of 10 Cats, I don't think Dave Spikey has improvised a line in his life.
As for audiences, studio audiences will laugh at fucking anything. Especially American ones.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch!v=ZdHpYMR4ljY
(To be fair that is one of the greatest things I have ever seen) |
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RChappo
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| Tue Apr 10, 2007 1:00 pm |
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Daaaaaaan wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch!v=ZdHpYMR4ljY
(To be fair that is one of the greatest things I have ever seen)
That is quite remarkable. I just have the urge to run around the corridors at work now pointing and shouting "You get Vaseline" to everyone!
The funniest thing on that is that while the majority of the quite obviously insane female audience are going proper mental when they open their vaseline there is a fairly heavy set Latino looking lady there who is not quite sure what to do..she's just kind of looking around and only going "slightly" mental in the middle of it all...LOL |
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Dananiel
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| Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:45 pm |
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| Apparently it's a parody of something Oprah did once, but it's still funny. I love how her voice goes a bit demonic when she says vasseeeleeeeeennee |
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RChappo
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| Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:45 pm |
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Daaaaaaan wrote: Apparently it's a parody of something Oprah did once, but it's still funny. I love how her voice goes a bit demonic when she says vasseeeleeeeeennee
:D
Yeah that is pretty funny. Must admit I thought it was real....it isn't all that exaggerated really. I'm so glad I have a job and don't have to watch the daytime TV anymore.
I do miss The People's Court though...especially now that it's got Judge Marilyn Milian on it:
She could send me down any day.....!!!!! :shock: |
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Dananiel
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| Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:21 pm |
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| There's a programme on E4 I'm yet to see called Sex Court or something and in the advert the judge says 'How do you plead to charges of cunnilingus?' i can only assume the advert cut short the rest of the sentence '....with a stoat' |
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RChappo
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| Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:58 pm |
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Had a quick look on Wikipedia:
Sex Court is a US TV show was made under the 'Playboy' brand. It starred Julie Strain, Alexandra Silk, an unknown man who played the Sex Court 'Bodyguard', Henry, and of course the people who wanted cases 'tried'. Usually, people would submit complaints like 'My wife's had an affair'. The cases would be 'tried' in front of 'Judge' Julie Strain, and sentences ranged from a man pouring hot, melted candlewax on his unfaithful voluptuous wife's breasts, a sexually-repressed woman having sex with a male audience member and another female 'defendant' being 'ravaged' by the Sex Court 'bodyguard' Henry.
So set your Sky + for that then....
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Elliott
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| Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:28 am |
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was chappo right or wrong...
http://www.youtube.com/watch!v=MIucjQLuGOk
(that star trek improv show thing)
I'm posting this before I watch it. Sounds like this is the new Drew Carrey Green Screen show*
*The Drew Carrey Green Screen show was like Whose Line, but different enough to not pay royalties or whatever. Anyway, same as Whose Line, but done in front of a green screen, meaning loads of animated 'comedy' background and cg effects could be added later, with the audience reacting just like they'd been watching whose line.
just rubbish. that. |
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Elliott
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| Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:33 am |
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argh arghj argh
antidote antidote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch!v=fJpqsI6iLlE&mode=related&search=
(ha, my mate shouts gun holster in that one. we were young) |
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The Nadine Experience
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| Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:50 am |
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| what the |
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Pah.
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| Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:08 pm |
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| what is vaseline for anyway? it makes your lips dry out and your skin burn in the sun.. and noone say as a sexual aid because apparently it's not very well designed for that either. |
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Dananiel
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| Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:18 pm |
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*flexes typing fingers*
Yeah, it's my primary sexual aid. I've got a tub of it which appears to be at least 12 years old in my drawer and I use it sometimes if I want to have a "big wank". It may be old, but it still works and hasn't caused me any harm in the two years I've been using it (I stole it from the back of our cupboard). I will admit that it's got quite a gloopy texture, and it is highly flammable, and it's not intended for internal usage...but it lasts much longer than KY or spit and KY or just spit. It really is the Duracel of the lubrication kingdom, and if you mix spit with Vaseline, you're faced with an incredibly slippy time that doesn't let up for ages.
I'm Dr Talbolizer, I'm here all week. |
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Elliott
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| Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:34 am |
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Daaaaaaan wrote: *flexes typing fingers*
Yeah, it's my primary sexual aid. I've got a tub of it which appears to be at least 12 years old in my drawer and I use it sometimes if I want to have a "big wank". It may be old, but it still works and hasn't caused me any harm in the two years I've been using it (I stole it from the back of our cupboard). I will admit that it's got quite a gloopy texture, and it is highly flammable, and it's not intended for internal usage...but it lasts much longer than KY or spit and KY or just spit. It really is the Duracel of the lubrication kingdom, and if you mix spit with Vaseline, you're faced with an incredibly slippy time that doesn't let up for ages.
I'm Dr Talbolizer, I'm here all week.
You know, just before he comes back here in the morning and edits his post. |
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Dananiel
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| Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:12 am |
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| I have no shame. |
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