Quote: Godot Taxis @ September 27 2009, 4:00 PM GMTThe IT Crowd is my favourite sitcom really. That and the Boosh, which will probably never really be great again. (It was a launch vehicle really - like the Space Shuttle, and now that Noel's in orbit it's not needed).
The problem with Linehan is he can't do it all by himself. The first series was sublime (apart from ep 6) and he'd obviously been cooking it up a long time. The second series had it's moments, but crucially, left behind a lot of the IT-based humour, which clearly doesn't come naturally to him. The third series was... well, some of it was embarrassing.
I have lots of man love for Matt Berry as well, but much of this belongs in the bar, not on screen. The calandar geeks episode just dribbled away. It was clearly finished in the editing suite, rather than on the computer screen. Linehan didn't have enough material for a series to start with, he leaned too much on his actors for funny performances to make up for the lack of funny lines and he didn't have enough IT jokes.
Getting a couple of writers in to help him will make it work. If Linehan writes the whole 4th series himself as quickly as he wrote the last one it will be a disaster.
oh my God I HATE boosh. I feel badly too because I should like it -- it has all the right ingredients, but would rather poke my eyes out watching Richard Mylan's show (was it called Grownups?).
also, I just wanted to share here that I saw Richard Ayode perform as a goofy Christmas elf in the Cambridge Footlights at Edinburgh Fringe in like 2001 or 2. All he did was dance across the stage in oversized turned up shoes, but it was hilarious and he KEPT doing it!!
that is all. again, my apologies for trashing on boosh.
