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Post by echnaton on Aug 20, 2011 9:11:33 GMT -4
Pretty good. I've never heard of theme before but the sketch reminded me on the old Fry and Laurie shows. Are the shows similar?
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Post by lukepemberton on Aug 20, 2011 12:06:15 GMT -4
Pretty good. I've never heard of theme before but the sketch reminded me on the old Fry and Laurie shows. Are the shows similar? Fry and Laurie were Cambridge Footlights. Mitchell and Webb were also Footlights. The latter were probably influenced by the former. The Footlights, while performing serious plays, are also known for skittish material.
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Post by echnaton on Aug 20, 2011 15:47:01 GMT -4
I watched the first episode. The show is quite a bit like Fry and Laurie. A few really clever skits and some good running gags with a lot of silliness in between. I'll have to watch some more of it.
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Post by lukepemberton on Aug 21, 2011 7:25:11 GMT -4
I watched the first episode. The show is quite a bit like Fry and Laurie. A few really clever skits and some good running gags with a lot of silliness in between. I'll have to watch some more of it. You might enjoy the little Britain sketches that deal with Bing Gordon, the 8th man on the moon. Here Bing deals with the difficulty of being known as the 8th man. Here Bing deals with a conspiracy theorist, which I think is a pardoy of Sibrel's work.
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Post by rob260259 on Aug 21, 2011 10:23:55 GMT -4
" You might enjoy the little Britain sketches "
I did! Thanks!
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Post by Glom on Aug 25, 2011 15:53:04 GMT -4
rob, your librating is hypnotising me.
What makes the Mitchell and Webb sketch good is not just that it's quite funny (and I not normally a fan of theirs), it's that it is a thorn in the side of the smug a-hole variety of HB. They're the kind who get into the hoax because they think they're being smart through simply being counter cultural. To have Mitchell and Webb drawing attention to their mind numbing stupidity will is a stake in the heart of what they thought they were doing.
I know of such an HB. He was the creature Peterchu. Many, many years ago, he got into the hoax theory and I know him well enough to know it was entirely because of a need to be counter cultural. That video would have really gotten under his skin. Fortunately, he has long since disavowed the hoax theory. He claimed he was only doing it to wind me up. While not entirely incredible, I think he was just trying to save face once it became apparent to him how stupid he was being.
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