Quote: Oldrocker @ October 5 2013, 1:33 AM BST'Say goodnight to the people Gracie.. '
You could always be tedious and predictable, but you're surpassing yourself now. "Time to take my hand out your arse, Archie!"
Quote: reds @ October 5 2013, 1:39 AM BSTYou can leave if you like. none of us are forced to be here.
Just be glad Aaron hasn't forced you to punctuate your sentences properly.
Quote: T.W. @ October 5 2013, 1:36 AM BSTBut no wonder so many really fun and interesting people have disappeared or hardly ever post here anymore.
I've been posting since the beginning more or less and I don't remember any fun and interesting people.
I've been trying to raise the tone for years as well, but most people aren't f**king up to it.
You used to get on the BCG - forget all the 'General Discussion' stuff and 'Critique' etc - but you used to find some interesting analysis and criticism of new comedy - be it positive or negative. I hold my hands up and say that some of the diatribes I made against shows I didn't like weren't constructive - but most of what I posted was (even if not as funny as the negative shit). Equally so of other members. There used to be a passion and interest for new stuff. Now some, often high-profile shows, are barely mentioned - belatedly someone will add a thread.
There is so little properly funny comedy being made in Britain today that a site like this should be - as it used to - pointing this out. As it is, it feels increasingly Establishment. And I feel there may be some politics/commercialism in the way certain British TV comedy is promoted, whilst other British comedy is almost-ignored. E.g. if it's got Jack Whitehall anywhere near it, it's promoted on the front page... This is just capitalism, of course. And the sooner we see the back of capitalism the better (or worse).
It's definitely gone very commercial.
But probably needed to for it's survival or something
And maybe we've got used to comedy being awful so no one can be bothered to analyse it.
Or maybe Bussell, Griff & Lime5000 were keeping the whole thing afloat but we didn't realise it at the time.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ October 5 2013, 1:58 AM BSTI've been posting since the beginning more or less and I don't remember any fun and interesting people.
I'm a fun and interesting person, you c**t! Have been for years!
Jesus!
I've posted about the Ginge, the Queer and the Freak (or whatever it's called). I've posted twice about the IT Crowd special (and I haven't even seen it) I've posted about Count Arthur Strong and Badaults.
I'm a f**king intellectual - I'm more than pulling my weight.
Quote: T.W. @ October 5 2013, 2:22 AM BSTI'm a fun and interesting person, you c**t! Have been for years!
Jesus!
You ruined it for me by hanging out with that gold-plated tosser Seefacts.
Quote: Steve Sunshine @ October 5 2013, 2:21 AM BSTIt's definitely gone very commercial.
But probably needed to for it's survival or somethingAnd maybe we've got used to comedy being awful so no one can be bothered to analyse it.
Or maybe Bussell, Griff & Lime5000 were keeping the whole thing afloat but we didn't realise it at the time.
Griff did the right thing in deleting as many posts here as he could before he was arrested and shipped-off to Jordan. Aaron/Mark/The NSA/MI6 have closed that f**king loophole. My only hope as a wannabe comedy writer is to hire some IT Jihadists/Israelis to take this whole site off the internet. (I'll ask them to spare Jake How's posts though.)
I've loved the BCG, but I also despise it for enabling me to destroy my yearned-after career. And the irony is that I can actually write original, funny comedy, Who'd have thunk it? (Apologies to zooo. For everything.) Don't judge my comedic ability from this place! That would be the prejudice of a bigot and a racist (if I were a really funny brown/black guy).
Quote: Godot Taxis @ October 5 2013, 2:28 AM BSTYou ruined it for me by hanging out with that gold-plated tosser Seefacts.
In my defence...
a) I'd never met you or Seefacts before 'that' night...
b) I was completely and utterly pissed.
Now, I enjoy holding a grudge as much as the next sociopath but...
Look, last I heard from Seefacts he was trying to re-form The Barron Knights for a mock-doc web series - beyond that, I've not heard from the guy... so gi's a break!
Quote: T.W. @ October 5 2013, 2:34 AM BSTI've loved the BCG, but I also despise it for enabling me to destroy my yearned-after career.
That's not really true, though is it. No-one influential reads this site. And talent isn't really an asset if you want to succeed at something.
Anyway, I thought you were having your stuff produced.
Quote: T.W. @ October 5 2013, 2:34 AM BSTa) I'd never met you or Seefacts before 'that' night...
b) I was completely and utterly pissed.
Now, I enjoy holding a grudge as much as the next sociopath but...
Look, last I heard from Seefacts he was trying to re-form The Barron Knights for a mock-doc web series - beyond that, I've not heard from the guy... so gi's a break!
Seefacts rolled his eyes at you when I started speaking. He didn't even know what I was going to say. He was a witless- self-important dwarf. The space he earmarked on his bookshelf for his best newcomer bafta is still occupied by Star Wars Action figures and a toilet roll.
However few emoticons I own, GT, I'll always scrimp and save to spare two for you.
I am having stuff 'developed'. But you and I both know that doesn't necessarily mean shit. I do get paid for it though. Sometimes. But I have to do the writing for nothing.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ October 5 2013, 3:05 AM BSTThat's not really true, though is it. No-one influential reads this site.
How dare you! I do! *further inflates already massive ego*
Quote: Godot Taxis @ October 5 2013, 3:05 AM BSTThe space he earmarked on his bookshelf for his best newcomer bafta is still occupied by Star Wars Action figures and a toilet roll.
You may sneer, but that bookshelf arrangement recently won a top prize at the BAFTA Craft Awards.
Quote: T.W. @ October 5 2013, 12:53 AM BSTDiscuss.
It's lost its sheen. The glory days are over. There's no edge to the place any more.
Does someone have to spell out some ridiculous sort of 'new' Doctor Who denouement, explaining that you simply miss the absence of your own posts, which were the creative glue that galvanized these very threads?
It's a bit much to expect clever people to find the time to waste time here. What we lose on the swings we gain on the roundabouts. The race is not always to the swift. James Cotter, Seafacts and David Bussell have departed for the moment. But there is Agnes Guano's record collection.
Quote: T.W. @ October 5 2013, 2:22 AM BSTJesus!
Now he was funny, and really starting to get media attention, although the last I saw of him he was doing a variation on the old 'living statue' routine; mate, no-one's going to remember you for that.
It certainly felt more fun in the old days. It seemed to be around 2010 that the rot started. If you look at the Status Report thread, one day used to span several pages whereas these days it's often only one. I guess some people just tired of the board.
Maybe it was just the movies that got smaller?
Or rather the comedy got duller.
I mean there's good stuff out there, but how much stuff is there to get I dunno excited about?
Also so many talented people left and weren't replaced (Bussell, Griff, Badge sorry not you Tim you're too quixotic for all your talent)
Then the technology changed.
So when it became easier to write a professional looking script, film it or animate it.
Then critique, showcase filled up with second rate by people with first rate egos.
At some stage the mods just seemed to give up on trolls, to the extent I think some of the trolls actually managed to bore themselves into silence. And a weird tendency to support the new, callow and offensive and take on older contributors (so long RCP). The fact that Slagg is still apparently moding critique when we know he's most likely in a shallow grave, is just well silly.
I think Kirrin Island didn't help, with so many contributors giving them selves as producers and not wanting to get involved in the rough and tumble of forum life.
Or maybe we all got old. God knows I don't do much more than juvenile pranking these days and God knows why.
Quote: Ben @ October 5 2013, 8:26 AM BSTIt certainly felt more fun in the old days. It seemed to be around 2010 that the rot started. If you look at the Status Report thread, one day used to span several pages whereas these days it's often only one. I guess some people just tired of the board.
Bored of the board surely?
Badge is still here though. He's never been a heavy poster.
True but he used to be a big and wise voice in critique. I think critique was where BCG used to live sort of.