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Old 21st September 2006, 09:48 AM
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Comedy series, The IT crowd, any good?
Started last night. Missed it. Worth watching at all?
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Old 21st September 2006, 09:56 AM
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Re: Comedy series, The IT crowd, any good?
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Started last night. Missed it. Worth watching at all?
It has its moments but is nowhere near as good as the prospect of a sitcom written by the Father Ted guys and starring Chris Morris was.
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Re: Comedy series, The IT crowd, any good?
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Old 21st September 2006, 10:31 AM
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Re: Comedy series, The IT crowd, any good?
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Re: Comedy series, The IT crowd, any good?
Thought it was going to be an Office-esque unintentionally funny sitcom.

It was a canned laughter, slapstick bag of shite.
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Re: Comedy series, The IT crowd, any good?
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Thought it was going to be an Office-esque unintentionally funny sitcom.

It was a canned laughter, slapstick bag of shite.
Spot on. Very bad geek humour for the masses.

Stick to the office/extras/green wing etc etc.
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Re: Comedy series, The IT crowd, any good?
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It has its moments but is nowhere near as good as the prospect of a sitcom written by the Father Ted guys and starring Chris Morris was.
I've only seen two episodes of it - frankly I couldn't stand to watch any more. Can't believe that it was written by the Father Ted team and as for Morris, don't get me started.

Morris clearly just can't be arsed any more if this was anything to go by. If ever I've seen a man worn down by the weight of expectation, he's it. I just wish he'd go back to the vicious satire that made his name, although in fairness I suppose part of the reason he hasn't is that the present culture of celebrity in this country has made his previous line of attack somewhat redundant. It's got to be difficult trying to highlight the utter wrongness and banality of vacuous public figures when these days those traits are openly celebrated as the reason that half these no-marks are famous in the first place.

The politicians are the same - they've surpassed anything Morris could come up with by hand-wringing their way towards complete moral bancruptcy. Look at The Day Today or Brass Eye and see how prophetic they were. The Ten O'Clock News looks more like The Day Today every time I watch it, I'm sure Newsnight was using the Brass Eye set recently, or one very similar to it (in what I hope was a deliberate parody) and why bother with a satirical show when Fiona Bruce can simultaneously give us a laugh if we've got an IQ in three figures and a sincere, though-provoking programme if it's 99 or below?

Iannucci's Time Trumpet was funny, but hit the same old easy targets, satire by numbers, Langham's probably going to end up in the Pete Townsend home for cultural icons turned kiddy-fiddlers (did he finally push someone too far?), the list goes on. Still, what's intelligent satire compared to two blokes in female rubber fat suits swearing a lot and trading on the gravitas given by Tom Baker's voice-overs? Much more appropriate for the alcopop-swilling pavement-monkeys that TV comedy seems to be aimed at now.
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Re: Comedy series, The IT crowd, any good?
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I've only seen two episodes of it - frankly I couldn't stand to watch any more. Can't believe that it was written by the Father Ted team and as for Morris, don't get me started.

Morris clearly just can't be arsed any more if this was anything to go by. If ever I've seen a man worn down by the weight of expectation, he's it. I just wish he'd go back to the vicious satire that made his name, although in fairness I suppose part of the reason he hasn't is that the present culture of celebrity in this country has made his previous line of attack somewhat redundant. It's got to be difficult trying to highlight the utter wrongness and banality of vacuous public figures when these days those traits are openly celebrated as the reason that half these no-marks are famous in the first place.

The politicians are the same - they've surpassed anything Morris could come up with by hand-wringing their way towards complete moral bancruptcy. Look at The Day Today or Brass Eye and see how prophetic they were. The Ten O'Clock News looks more like The Day Today every time I watch it, I'm sure Newsnight was using the Brass Eye set recently, or one very similar to it (in what I hope was a deliberate parody) and why bother with a satirical show when Fiona Bruce can simultaneously give us a laugh if we've got an IQ in three figures and a sincere, though-provoking programme if it's 99 or below?

Iannucci's Time Trumpet was funny, but hit the same old easy targets, satire by numbers, Langham's probably going to end up in the Pete Townsend home for cultural icons turned kiddy-fiddlers (did he finally push someone too far?), the list goes on. Still, what's intelligent satire compared to two blokes in female rubber fat suits swearing a lot and trading on the gravitas given by Tom Baker's voice-overs? Much more appropriate for the alcopop-swilling pavement-monkeys that TV comedy seems to be aimed at now.
oooh, get you. You are correct, though - apart from the fact that politicians have been morally bankrupt for decades, and this lot are an improvement on the last lot where that's concerned.
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Absolute shite...
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Re: Comedy series, The IT crowd, any good?
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Absolute shite...

Awwwh dont hold back. Tell us what you really think of it.
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Awwwh dont hold back. Tell us what you really think of it.
Sorry - ABSOLUTE FOOKING SHITE
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Sorry - ABSOLUTE FOOKING SHITE

Thats better
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Re: Comedy series, The IT crowd, any good?
Proabably as much of a let down as you can get considering Morris is involved. Compared to your average sit-com output it's not all that terrible but it also isn't that great really.
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Re: Comedy series, The IT crowd, any good?
A lot of people hated Nathan Barley but I thought it was hilarious. Haven't seen this IT crowd thing but maybe it's a slow burner? Canned laughter is fucking evil though, but it must work otherwise they wouldn't do it. Who are these cunts who need to be told when to laugh?
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Re: Comedy series, The IT crowd, any good?
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I've only seen two episodes of it - frankly I couldn't stand to watch any more. Can't believe that it was written by the Father Ted team and as for Morris, don't get me started.

Morris clearly just can't be arsed any more if this was anything to go by. If ever I've seen a man worn down by the weight of expectation, he's it. I just wish he'd go back to the vicious satire that made his name, although in fairness I suppose part of the reason he hasn't is that the present culture of celebrity in this country has made his previous line of attack somewhat redundant. It's got to be difficult trying to highlight the utter wrongness and banality of vacuous public figures when these days those traits are openly celebrated as the reason that half these no-marks are famous in the first place.
Chris Morris lost it?? Fuck off. His show with Charlie Brooker (Nathan Barley) was as close to genius i have seen on British TV.
As for the IT crowd - hugely disappointing. I thought Chris Morris was the funniest thing on it but i'm sure he was just getting some cash to work on another project. He didnt write or direct it, just a supporting character, so how could he lose it??

He hammed it up and pulled it off while the others just hammed it up. The main girl and bloke were utterly irritiating. The episode with Noel Fielding in had its moments but it was a flop.
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Re: Comedy series, The IT crowd, any good?
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It rules, in my humble opinion.
My programmer mate saw it and liked it.