I only recently discovered Peep Show. I have watched series 1 & 2 and am watching series 1 again. I f**ken love it; love Mitchell & Webb as a team; love Super Hands for the gnarly, slimy creep that he is...
I watched last night's That Mitchell & Webb Look...There were some mildly funny moments...Was there a laugh track?!?...Overall it was a disappointment in comparison to Peep Show...The guys prove they can act outside of the box of their Peep Show characters but I don't care. As with Coogan's Partridge, I just want to see them at their best and their best will always be their Peep Show characters.
And just a quick kick in the groins of some of you twigs:
F**k you and your adherence to the passing fashion of dissing repeatable characters and episodic sketches. Your slavish praise of shows that only feature one-off sketches but belies your inability to write anything but one-off sketches. You couldn't write three episodes featuring the same characters if you tried for the rest of your life.
You can't even develop one single unique character to write three episodes for. Punchliners, that's what you are. Bottom of the barrel.
For the record: I thought Little Britain was often hilarious. Lucas & Walliams were brilliant comic actors. I loved seeing their repeatable characters---especially the Puking Lady. Yea, I know what's coming, she's gonna act pleased and then act disgusted and then puke an ungodly amount of sick---and I'm gonna laugh!
I like familiarity---and you can't get that with one-offs. With one-offs you inevitably reach the actor's limitations so that the actor may be dressed as a character never seen before and is playing someone named Mr Jones but looks and sounds like a previous one-off character named Mr Smith...
I'm gonna lean back and stretch now and cut a seriously stinky fart...and think of you.