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From the producer of The Office comes this witty and irreverent sketch show featuring some of the UK’s hottest talent, including Nick Frost (Spaced,Hot Fuzz), Meredith MacNeill (Festival) and Daisy Haggard (Green Wing).
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Format:DVD
There's a very noticeable lack of traditional comedy characteristics in this sketch show. There are very few silly accents or costumes (most of the time, anyway). There's no studio audience. It all seems a bit muted and vague, rather more like a naturalistic, Book Group/Smoking Room style sitcom than a typical sketch show. Some instances feel like they're coming straight out of real life. That's my life and your life, right up there on the telly. With good jokes.
It's all a good little package, though. The sketches range from slightly odd character sketches, to the always-funny running joke (which is, in my opinion, what they do best) and even to rare moments of full-blown surrealism, and the standard is generally very high. The cast are all very funny for different reasons, and they compliment each others' performances surprisingly well. I'm particularly fond of Meredith MacNeill, who somehow manages to invest something uniquely funny into every character she plays.
Series highlights include: a trip to the lama sanctuary to pick up girls; a break-up attempt which falls on very deaf ears; a guy trying to bluff his way out of using a condom ("my balls are connected to a satellite, if I put rubber on 'em, it'll muffle the signal); the rather unproffesional make-up girls; experimental emergency surgery on a dying woman; and of course, what happened to little baby Josh when daddy took him to feed the ducks. It's worth watching just for that last one.
It's all a good little package, though. The sketches range from slightly odd character sketches, to the always-funny running joke (which is, in my opinion, what they do best) and even to rare moments of full-blown surrealism, and the standard is generally very high. The cast are all very funny for different reasons, and they compliment each others' performances surprisingly well. I'm particularly fond of Meredith MacNeill, who somehow manages to invest something uniquely funny into every character she plays.
Series highlights include: a trip to the lama sanctuary to pick up girls; a break-up attempt which falls on very deaf ears; a guy trying to bluff his way out of using a condom ("my balls are connected to a satellite, if I put rubber on 'em, it'll muffle the signal); the rather unproffesional make-up girls; experimental emergency surgery on a dying woman; and of course, what happened to little baby Josh when daddy took him to feed the ducks. It's worth watching just for that last one.
Format:DVD
Its a great cast and there are is some brilliant humour throughout I just feel that some of the sketches which are repeated throughout stop being funny quite early on and become rather repetitive. This is obviously much more noticable when you watch several episodes in a row.
There is an enjoyable chemistry about this group of comedians and it is very interesting if you look at the overall map of what they did next and where they are now.
It's not comic genius but its damn funny.
There is an enjoyable chemistry about this group of comedians and it is very interesting if you look at the overall map of what they did next and where they are now.
It's not comic genius but its damn funny.
Format:DVD
Bought this in addition to series 2, both are just very, very funny
Great Amazon service also
Great Amazon service also
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