That's a shame cos I liked that sketch-it made me laugh! I know it's a sensitive subject, what happened, but it was in another Country and I doubt anyone would find offence in the sketch, apart from those who found it painfully unfunny!
Horne & Corden Page 19
I can't remember a gun sketch!
*reads link*
Oh that....
The sketch that didn't even have a gun in it? Right.
Quote: Ian Wolf @ March 13 2009, 4:25 PM GMTNews - the gun sketch has been pulled from the repeats and the iPlayer edition of the show because of the shootings in Germany.
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/2009/03/bbc_pulls_horne__corden_gun_sketch.html
Well that explains why it disappeared from the iPlayer site. But FFS. Was the song not about stopping gun crime? Stupid f**king wimps finding offence and complaining about its timing, no doubt.
I think its was a DISGRACE. They should pull the WHOLE episode. And the series....
I really liked that sketch, it was one of the few good ones.
I've finally got round to seeing Horne & Corden - piss poor. I'm struggling to recall a sketch show as bad as that in the last ten years.
I don't think it even warrants the term 'hit and miss' because with the exception of a couple of sketches, the rest really was agonisingly bad.
In conclusion, Danny Cohen is a c**t.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ March 12 2009, 8:48 PM GMTWell, no one is 'right', it's all down to your own personal point of view. If you thought it was Ok, then it was.
Yep.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ March 12 2009, 10:05 AM GMTThat's fair enough, I'm not pretending it was great, just hoping for a bit more of a reasoned critique, so people can actually discuss the merits or lack of, as opposed to 'this is the shittest thing ever', when it clearly isn't and leaves no room for valuable discussion.
Oops. So it can be "okay" if it's your opinion, but it can't be "the shittest thing ever", even if that's your opinion.
I haven't watched it by the way. I know I wouldn't like it, so what's the point? The thing I don't understand is leaping to defend things so much. Relax, Matthew, and let people slag it all they want. As you say, they aren't wrong.
I must admit I didn't hold out much hope for this after seeing the trailer. It did not bode well that a feeble skit based on the almost 2 decades old film Ghost was being used to promote this.
Even so.
This was bad.
Very dated and juvenile. 30 mins of schoolboy innuendo was too much for me. The teaching of knob drawing at least had some potential if it had been written better. But alas! The comedy revolved mainly around the word 'cock'.
And that was the highlight!
Elsewhere, the comedy was not only painful (with barely a titter from the audience) but also old fashioned. They seemed to be mocking things such as adverts from the 1980s and earlier. Only with a lot more crudity naturally. This seems to be a trend on BBC Four, that I suspect they may be being commissioned by the Robin Askwith Appreciation Society. Or perhaps they think today's media savvy teens want to watch a pair of desperate nobodies using tired knob gags.
I was unfamiliar with these two 'messrs' before this programme, having never watched Gavin & Stacey, so I hope I came to this unprejudiced, but this was awful.
Quote: Badge @ March 14 2009, 12:23 AM GMTThe thing I don't understand is leaping to defend things so much. Relax, Matthew, and let people slag it all they want. As you say, they aren't wrong.
Yeah, cheers for the advice.
Well after watching Comic Relief last night- Ricky Gervais parodies and mocks 'Ricky Gervais/David Brent' FAR better than Corne & Boredom could ever do. The whole "Reading area/Reading accent... vis-a-vis, that is to say.." Brentisms was very funny, as was the parody of RG as the uber-cool movie hotshot rolling around on a Segway.
If that Karate Kid skit was supposed to be a recurring one, then this quite effectively blunted it.
Long live King Ricky! 
Really must disagree with you there. Gervais's own take on 'himself' in Comic Relief last night was entirely different in tone, style, and IMO purpose, than Horne & Corden's was. Theirs, an emulation of the absurdities, and his, a light-hearted extension of them. It's akin to saying that 'Allo 'Allo! did the war better than Goodnight Sweetheart: both were in fact on entirely different playing fields.
Quote: Aaron @ March 14 2009, 11:17 AM GMTboth were in fact on entirely different playing fields.
Both were metaphorically on entirely different playing fields.
Surely Corne & Boredom were basically saying "Everthing he does- TV/film/stand up is just Brent again"? i.e. the one-trick pony argument.
Whereas last night he basically sat there and acknowledged all that and then some? Basically saying to all the critics "Yes- and?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJgBt4uoNUE
I think the only criticism that could stick would be if it wasn't funny.
I loved the way he was scoffing a chicken carcass when they walk in.
That so isn't what he was saying. So much so that it pains me that some people could not get that.
Oh well.
The chicken bit was funny, I agree.
Quote: Marc P @ March 14 2009, 3:17 PM GMTBoth were metaphorically on entirely different playing fields.
Each?