Quote: Godot Taxis @ December 13 2010, 1:06 PM GMTThere's even a clue in title of this show, which is an allusion to J.G. Ballard's Cocaine Nights that most people seem to have missed.
Maybe a lot of people haven't read that book? Or barely heard of it even. I can't help being stupid, I'm from Cumbria.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ December 13 2010, 1:06 PM GMTA writer who can't get his point across is like a whore with no fanny.
That's a contender for the funniest thing I've ever read on BCG.
I really laughed out loud when I read it.
Fabulous.
Cocaine Nights is a very enjoyable novel. Although it is essentially just a quote from The Third Man spun out to 300 pages.
Quote: zooo @ December 13 2010, 1:16 PM GMTAhhh, I thought a title like that must be a pun/reference to something. Didn't have the slightest clue what though.
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Surprised you didn't know that . .
He doesn't try hard at all. It's clear he has an ear for a rich phrase and doesn't struggle in any way to put together jokes in his chosen style of comedy.
What's somewhat pathetic is people pretending he isn't a very accomplished comedian. No-one says you have to like him, but you can't knock either his talent or his insouciance.
Just look at his 'haunted pussy' joke or his 'queer eye' one on Mock the Week. Other pro comics on the show were collapsing at these. Some of his material about the RC Church and the Pope on Tramadol Nights effortlessly blends humour, satire and shock.
He is an angry comedian with a well developed agenda which you would be well aware of if you had followed his material or read his book. There's even a clue in title of this show, which is an allusion to J.G. Ballard's Cocaine Nights that most people seem to have missed.
Godot at times you do confound me. Frankie is a great standup and fearless, he is masterful panelist. But this show is subpar, dated mean and desperate to offend.
The sketches on mental illness that are scattered through out are just hateful.
Yes it is a clever clever title cribbed from a better writer.
But for flip's sake he's mocking Knight Rider being about schizophrenia. As nasty as it's dated crude and overlong.
And as for Harvey. A comedian of any talent would have been able to extract the misery porn and Heat magazine angle. But no just a hopeless joke to be repeated by office bores with lunch time whiskey breath and piss stained trousers.
The only really funny thing was Iranian Loose Women and the Wee Hing (a mnuch older Viz style gag but ace).
Even the blank faced sitcom was killed by being overlong, over explained and over smug.
Frankie may be a hugely talented comedian and quite fearless. But this show is yet another f**k awful sketch format forced on and over produced.
Sooty is 100% right. For once.
Quote: sootyj @ December 13 2010, 4:44 PM GMTBut for flip's sake he's mocking Knight Rider being about schizophrenia. As nasty as it's dated crude and overlong.
Overlong, certainly. But otherwise, no.
Caught this for the first time the other day, and to be honest I couldn't watch it. Just a bit too sick for me. Good luck to him though, just not my thing.
Quote: EllieJP @ December 14 2010, 4:20 PM GMTGood luck to him though, just not my thing.
That's an admirable attitude. Nice one Ell.
Quote: EllieJP @ December 14 2010, 4:20 PM GMTCaught this for the first time the other day, and to be honest I couldn't watch it. Just a bit too sick for me. Good luck to him though, just not my thing.
A most reasonable attitude.
I wish people wouldn't say 'I don't like it therefore it's not funny (full stop)'.
But then I wish a lot of things that are never going to come true.
The sketches were poor this week, but the standup was once again top drawer, with the exception of the bank telephones bit which didn't really work. You've got to be a brave soul to sit in the front row of a FB gig.
I really enjoyed it tonight. Didn't think there were too many sketches, and although a couple were slightly long, most were alright. Funniest episode of the three for me. Quite a lot of good laughs in it.
I liked the porn sketch but it seemed to just end without going anywhere.
Quote: chipolata @ December 14 2010, 10:44 PM GMTI liked the porn sketch but it seemed to just end without going anywhere.
I haven't seen the sketch!
