Exactly.
If no one thought it was funny, the joke wouldn't go in the show.
Even if it's only the writer!
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Nah, funny can definitely be quantified. I've got a half litre bottle of it somewhere.
Quote: James Harris @ July 12 2008, 11:51 PM BSTNah, funny can definitely be quantified. I've got a half litre bottle of it somewhere.
Just make you water it down though.
Hehe, always. I had half a litre of funny in 1998, I have half a litre of funny today. I think that says a lot.
Quote: James Harris @ July 13 2008, 12:21 AM BSTHehe, always. I had half a litre of funny in 1998, I have half a litre of funny today. I think that says a lot.
I've gone without funny for 324 days now. I've watched the 'Gimme Gimme Gimme' box-set on constant repeat.
I watched this on transmission night and thought it was utterly dire. Then I watched it again tonight to see if it was as dire as I thought and strangely it wasn't. Which proves that you should always give stuff a second chance, right?
You can't judge everything by the first episode but it looks as if some of the performances are a bit off, which is lending the show a strained atmosphere. I'm sure that'll probably improve though. One thing I was impressed with was the joke count. So refreshing to have nice, rapid-fire gags coming at you thick and fast. It means that if one's shit, it doesn't matter because here comes another one straight after. I like that style of writing.
So not my favourite thing I've seen this year but certainly not the worst - although the giant snail ending made me cringe - that belonged on CBBC. I'll definitely be tuning in for the rest of the series though, to see how it develops.
Let's give it a chance!
The clever marketing technique of making sure every newspaper and magazine preview gave this a shocking write-up meant that, on the night, I was so prepared for a car crash that I ended up enjoying it.
It was sophomoric, like the worst of the gag-and-surrealism heavy scripts we used to get in The Sitcom Trials, with the sort of nonsense tangents you can indulge in in improv or stand-up but which just look risible in sitcom (Professor Billy Ray Cyrus? That chair with restraining clamps? The snail?). But then, having just watched and enjoyed an episode of The Goodies on cable the previous night - and it was an ITV episode even - I was ready to lower my standards.
It shows that being a great stand up does not make you a great sitcom writer. Hands up who remembers Eddie Izzard's Cows?
8.45pm at the Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh 30 July - 24 August
Quote: Kev F @ July 13 2008, 4:18 PM BSTHands up who remembers Eddie Izzard's Cows?
How dare you remind me of that!!! 
Quote: Kev F @ July 13 2008, 4:18 PM BSTIt shows that being a great stand up does not make you a great sitcom writer. Hands up who remembers Eddie Izzard's Cows?
RETURN OF THE SCOTTISH FALSETTO SOCK PUPPET THEATRE
8.45pm at the Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh 30 July - 24 August
I have heard tell of this monstrous creation but never seen it. What was it about?
I thought this was Ok; there were a lot of ropey jokes, and some of the performances/characters were poor, but I still quite liked it.It seems to me that it could be the sort of show that needs a couple of episodes to bed in, then it might improve. The bloke with the beard was rubbish though; and the one obsessed with chocolate too. I'll be watching again next week.
Quote: Perry Nium @ July 13 2008, 6:16 PM BSTI have heard tell of this monstrous creation but never seen it. What was it about?
Cows? PM me your address. It put Two Pints on par with Fawlty Towers.
No, seriously. It really did.
The Dutch woman was the only one I'd recognised as being an actor.
The lead bloke wasn't bad but the others must have been the writers mates.
Hadn't you seen the main bloke before?
Quote: David Chapman @ July 13 2008, 7:01 PM BSTThe Dutch woman was the only one I'd recognised as being an actor.
She was the 'alien' marriage therapist in My Hero. 
I recognised the older scientist from a few things. Dunno what though *shrugs*