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What fucking language are they speaking?

Great show, miss Frankie, BBC are a bunch of cunts that don't understand comedy.

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>> ^Yogi:
Great show, miss Frankie, BBC are a bunch of cunts that don't understand comedy.


BBC understand comedy, let's see there's Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf, to name just several classic comedy shows known and admired around the world. Blackadder, Porridge, Absolutely Fabulous, Only Fools and Horses, Morecambe and Wise, One Foot in the Grave, The Two Ronnies, The Young Ones, Fry and Laurie, My Family, 'Allo 'Allo, Yes Minister, The Vicar of Dibley, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, I could go on and on and on but I think I've established the trend... The BBC also spends a lot of money promoting new and established comedians performing at large venues like the Apollo, and also runs the BBC New Comedy Awards annual ceremony which is considered one of the highlights of the comedy calendar. Frankie is a gem and a fellow Scot so I'm biased in favour of him but let's not forget he left comedy behind of his own accord. Can't blame the BBC for that.

In fact if you're going to slag off the BBC the least you can do is come live over here for a year and pay your TV licence fee so a) you're contributing, and b) you actually have a leg to stand on if you're going to make ludicrous and offensive claims.

>> ^Reefie:

>> ^Yogi:
Great show, miss Frankie, BBC are a bunch of cunts that don't understand comedy.

BBC understand comedy, let's see there's Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf, to name just several classic comedy shows known and admired around the world. Blackadder, Porridge, Absolutely Fabulous, Only Fools and Horses, Morecambe and Wise, One Foot in the Grave, The Two Ronnies, The Young Ones, Fry and Laurie, My Family, 'Allo 'Allo, Yes Minister, The Vicar of Dibley, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, I could go on and on and on but I think I've established the trend... The BBC also spends a lot of money promoting new and established comedians performing at large venues like the Apollo, and also runs the BBC New Comedy Awards annual ceremony which is considered one of the highlights of the comedy calendar. Frankie is a gem and a fellow Scot so I'm biased in favour of him but let's not forget he left comedy behind of his own accord. Can't blame the BBC for that.
In fact if you're going to slag off the BBC the least you can do is come live over here for a year and pay your TV licence fee so a) you're contributing, and b) you actually have a leg to stand on if you're going to make ludicrous and offensive claims.


You're naming classic comedies that shaped the world...and do not apply in this discussion (The good ones, not the shit you listed). Just don't even bother making an argument next time if you're going to produce strawmen like this. Monty Python and Fawlty Towers are amazing...AND OLD! Really fucking old and were made at a time where the BBC wasn't run the way it's run now.

Frankie was constantly harassed and treated like shit on Mock the Week by it's Producers because they kept getting complaints from stupid people who think their opinion matters. Frankie was the funniest part of that fucking show, the BBC took him away, so YES they don't understand that saying offensive things is a comedians job. You don't have the right to not be offended.

I'm glad you're offended because you're fucking wrong. The BBC used to produce seriously funny shit...some of the most cherished shows ever. Now they produce crap, because it's an upside down pyramid of executives noting shows to death and killing the funny parts of others because some mother called in to complain.

You are whats wrong with humanity. You're a lowly wretch who defends morons who ruin things for the rest of us. Why don't you go work for NBC you evil monster.

@Reefie, for what it's worth, I don't think you are an evil monster or a lowly wretch for having a different opinion than Yogi.

I hope this thread doesn't devolve into a pissing match. Just a hope. No way to stop it.

Sigh.

>> ^bareboards2:
@Reefie, for what it's worth, I don't think you are an evil monster or a lowly wretch for having a different opinion than Yogi.
I hope this thread doesn't devolve into a pissing match. Just a hope. No way to stop it.
Sigh.


Wouldn't worry about it, I'm not prone to take such outbursts personally! My humour is rather dry so I'm guessing the tongue-in-cheek undertones didn't come through in my last post, sometimes the written word adds so much - other times it loses something in translation

About the only thing worth saying is that I myself am rarely offended by anyone else expressing their opinion, whereas the hard-working people of the BBC and NHS who provide quality national services to the UK might be somewhat displeased by opinions expressed by those who don't actually reside in the UK and therefore lack the first-hand experience that is so helpful in generating informed and accurate insights into the reality. Like I said to begin with, I don't take Yogi's opinions personally so I'm fine, but maybe a bit of consideration for the thousands of people's feelings for whom such comments can be personal and disheartening isn't too much to ask for.

I'm Alan Partridge, The Mighty Boosh - more recent BBC comedies worth their salt.

I'm actually a bit over Boyle. Shock overtook comedy value some time ago with him. I'm not surprised he's been removed from a show like this - it's not his platform.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

BBC has supplied me with more laughs over the past several years from recent comedies than all other networks combined. I give The Office and Extras as exhibit A.

The Thick of It

Time Trumpet

The Armando Iannucci Shows

...I think it's becoming clear who doesn't understand comedy.

Doesn't BBC produce QI? I find it quite interestingly funny, indeed.

Him & Her and Twenty Twelve are recent examples of excellence.

But there is an issue at the BBC that they seem to have forgotten, probably because so many of the executives have become corporate nothingmen, that the whole point of their funding model is they don't have to spend 90% of their budget and air-time on pandering low-brow shit. For every Attenborough documentary there's a Strictly Come Dancing, and for every QI there's, sorry Frankie Boyle fans, a Mock the Week. I could forgive them everything if the most important thing the BBC produces, their world-beating news coverage, weren't in the same spiralling decline.

Two things about Twenty Twelve:

1. It's a rip off of an Australian comedy set before the Sydney Olympics. The creators pitched it to the BBC, who passed then made one exactly the same.

2. It's not very funny. It's like a who's who of b-grade British comedic actors.

Will have a look at Him & Her if it's any good.

>> ^dag:

BBC has supplied me with more laughs over the past several years from recent comedies than all other networks combined. I give The Office and Extras as exhibit A.


And Mitchell and Webb