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offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2004-02-12 17:55 [#01070668]
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?


 

offline rudster from the glasgow on 2004-02-12 17:56 [#01070671]
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A one off man mental!

Absolute comedy genius behind Brass Eye, Jam, Day Today


 

offline AlbertoBalsalm from Reykjavík (Iceland) on 2004-02-12 17:57 [#01070672]
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where is the baron


 

offline horsefactory from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2004-02-12 17:57 [#01070673]
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I am.


 

offline AlbertoBalsalm from Reykjavík (Iceland) on 2004-02-12 17:58 [#01070674]
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you can't be. you're a horse


 

offline rudster from the glasgow on 2004-02-12 17:59 [#01070677]
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Armando Ianucci was executive producer for Day Today,alan
partdridge.

He had a show called the Armando Ianucci shows which was on
a while back on channel 4, this was absolute class


 

offline horsefactory from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2004-02-12 18:00 [#01070679]
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It was. It's a shame that G.A.S.H really was absolute gash.


 

offline rudster from the glasgow on 2004-02-12 18:02 [#01070682]
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Yeah i know, i had high hopes for that.

But it was terrible


 

offline DJ Xammax from not America on 2004-02-12 18:02 [#01070683]
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Chris Morris, to some people a comedy genius, to others an
unfunny twat. I just think he's funny.


 

offline acrid milk hall from United Kingdom on 2004-02-12 18:05 [#01070685]
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http://chilled.cream.org/forums/portal.php


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2004-02-12 18:22 [#01070697]
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I find him mildly amusing


 

offline leonid_olusegun from outside your window on 2004-02-13 07:22 [#01071287]
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on the hour was damn funny.im a big fan of radio4, the other
morning the today programme had these comedians debating the
news i think. really confused me cos they were spouting shit
and john humphreys was just laughing - v surreal at 7am. was
i just dreamin this???


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-02-13 07:24 [#01071294]
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on the hour was great. announcing the death of michael
heseltine then getting jerry hayes to comment on it. haha.


 

offline grinningcat from london (United Kingdom) on 2004-02-13 07:27 [#01071298]
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armando ianucci is a genius


 

offline leonid_olusegun from outside your window on 2004-02-13 07:28 [#01071302]
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the pizza delivery man being arrested for impersonating a
chelsea pensioner is hilarious. he seems confused how they
found evidence to convict him including his blood all over
policemens boots and fists, and his fingerprints were found
all over his hands



 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-02-13 07:30 [#01071305]
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ill give you 30 quid for 1 clarkeycap


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2004-02-13 07:34 [#01071309]
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You only find him mildly amusing? That's because you swallow
all the tabloid guff that Morris lampoons. The joke's not
funny when its on you is it?


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2004-02-13 07:38 [#01071314]
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Apparently he's a comedian but I thought the whole point of
comedy was to make you laugh


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-02-13 07:38 [#01071316]
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meow!


 

offline leonid_olusegun from outside your window on 2004-02-13 07:40 [#01071320]
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hehe


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2004-02-13 07:45 [#01071326]
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The term 'comedian' is too narrow to encapsulate what he
does. Jim Davidson he ain't.


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2004-02-13 07:48 [#01071330]
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How about "entertainer"? When all's said and done, I'd
rather watch Freddie Starr on permanent repeat.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-02-13 07:51 [#01071335]
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i'd rather be keith chegwins sexual slave than watchie
freddie starr on repeat


 

offline cirrius logic on 2004-02-13 07:54 [#01071338]
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g.a.s.h?


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2004-02-13 07:57 [#01071340]
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Nah, try satire. What have you watched?


 

offline leonid_olusegun from outside your window on 2004-02-13 08:01 [#01071342]
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g.a.s.h was political satire around time of regional
elections last year??


 

offline acrid milk hall from United Kingdom on 2004-02-13 08:10 [#01071349]
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freddie starr?
that pretty much says it all doesnt it..?

some of morris' material makes me laugh so much i cry.


 

offline Chri5py from my Solarbear (United Kingdom) on 2004-02-13 08:13 [#01071350]
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"...and the killed the horses with hammers."


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2004-02-13 08:24 [#01071357]
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...all the water out of your body?


 

offline DJ Xammax from not America on 2004-02-13 08:24 [#01071358]
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You're wrong and you're a grotesquely ugly freak.

:)


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2004-02-13 09:01 [#01071375]
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What jokes on me?...I don't see you anywhere near me never
mind on me.

I find a lot of Chris Morris' stuff short on inspiration.
It's nothing your average university circuit comedian
doesn't come out with, he just happened to get his break in
the media.

A lot of the humour is derived from shock tactics rather
than geniune irony or wit. If you are not easily shocked
then it's not going to be as funny.

Personally I think Paul Merton is a lot more funny than
Chris Morris in terms of political satire.


 

offline Komakino from Tan-giers USSR (Russia) on 2004-02-13 09:46 [#01071420]
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cat, clarkeycat


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-02-13 09:53 [#01071437]
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whats a clarkeycat, man? you're not makin any sense


 

offline Komakino from Tan-giers USSR (Russia) on 2004-02-13 09:59 [#01071460]
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"I find a lot of Chris Morris' stuff short on
inspiration.
It's nothing your average university circuit comedian
doesn't come out with, he just happened to get his break in

the media.
"

stop talking bollocks. He got his "break" in the media by
working hard at it, and taking the piss out of it for so
long (about 10 years) - that they fucking had to take
notice..

"A lot of the humour is derived from shock tactics rather

than geniune irony or wit. If you are not easily shocked
then it's not going to be as funny.
"

More bollocks. Not only is Morris' comedy soaked with
irony, theres always more than one level of it...he has
always stated that his jokes have to be funny on there own
aswell if the irony dosen't work..something which Paul
Merton can't do. Merton also can't assemble a jumbled up
weather report with Burroughs-esque cut-up lyricism with
complete babble and make it funny - not intentionally
either..it just is. To say Morris isn't witty, is like
saying Thatcher was a saint.

"Personally I think Paul Merton is a lot more funny than

Chris Morris in terms of political satire.
"

The problem with today's 'satire' is that it sets up an 'us
against them' opposition, in which we snicker with the
satirist at a host of immovable, indifferent caricatures.
Most of our most prominent satirists are of the same
generation, background and ideology of the ruling classes,
and their humour has the flavour of locker-room ribbing
rather than devastating anger. Most satire consists of an
audience talking to itself, reassuring itself of its own
worth, its own values against targets so clearly ridiculous
they don't really exist. It is satire as easy listening, as
reassuring as old socks.

The reason many people don't like Chris Morris is not
because of the 'taboo' subject matter he tackles, but
because he doesn't play fair, he doesn't play cricket. He
never allows the audience the comfort of complacent
complicity. if we sneer at another hapless cele


 

offline Komakino from Tan-giers USSR (Russia) on 2004-02-13 10:01 [#01071469]
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if we sneer at another hapless celebrity duped into piously
anguishing over some preposterous non-issue in an obscene
public gesture of their own ethical value and depth, we are
stating that we are truly 'authentic', that we would never
be caught out, that our values are sound. And then Morris
will insert a crass joke that strips away the warm cloak of
lazy irony - an imitation of the author of 'A Brief History
of Time', for instance - that repels us, shakes us out of a
cosy 'us vs them' mentality, forcing us to face up to the
complexity of what we're watching, or - shock, horror! -
think for ourselves.

so fuck up about Paul Merton - Chris Morris is a genius.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2004-02-13 10:02 [#01071471]
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You didn't happen to study art or philosophy at university
did you?


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2004-02-13 10:02 [#01071472]
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Bollocks.



 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-02-13 10:05 [#01071480]
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we win


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2004-02-13 10:06 [#01071484]
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It took him 14 minutes to write all that so I won't read a
word of it


 

offline Komakino from Tan-giers USSR (Russia) on 2004-02-13 10:06 [#01071485]
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my sentiments exactly...

:)


 

offline Komakino from Tan-giers USSR (Russia) on 2004-02-13 10:07 [#01071488]
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oh yeah, and Fredie Starr's a cunt

:D


 

offline Komakino from Tan-giers USSR (Russia) on 2004-02-13 10:13 [#01071493]
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i want some boz-boz...are you a boz-boz?

i don't wanna end up like a quack-handle..

lol


 

offline Tropa from Helsinki (Finland) on 2004-02-13 10:29 [#01071538]
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Urgent News. Carla has started to ingest her own head. Her
dunkbump mechanism has blown. There’s bloody vegetable
gas everywhere.


 

offline Komakino from Tan-giers USSR (Russia) on 2004-02-13 10:35 [#01071566]
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come on now, help us get that trunk out

(oh, and i don't go to university)


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-02-13 10:39 [#01071577]
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i'm talking nonse sense


 

offline mc_303_beatz from Glasgow, Scotland on 2004-02-13 10:41 [#01071586]
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well it is incumbent that todays diatribe is circulated by
the reasoning of which things are pre-determined, but only
in detail. Ego, the situation becomes erradicated vis a vis
insipid after-taste.

One must concur thus forth that pretentios twatius is
apparent, won't one not?

Well resultantly, the crisps are crispy.


 

offline Key from Bbbbarrow-in-f (United Kingdom) on 2004-02-13 10:41 [#01071587]
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anyone want any Yellow Bentines?


 

offline leonid_olusegun from outside your window on 2004-02-13 10:43 [#01071593]
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spunky backpacks?


 

offline Komakino from Tan-giers USSR (Russia) on 2004-02-13 11:04 [#01071642]
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don't you mean "ergo"?

:)


 

offline acrid milk hall from United Kingdom on 2004-02-13 11:07 [#01071648]
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took the time to read your post + agree with you by +
large.

and ecnadniarb, im not easily shocked at all.. thats not
where the humour lies in morris' work.
and when you ask komakino what he studied at university, you
ask as though it was some kind of slur on his character.
if academic study or areas of interest enrich someone's
personal experience of comedy then so what? complicity +
understanding of subject matter is the root of most comedy.
people brought up in or around the jewish faith appreciate
jewish jokes better. same with the asian community. to
underdstand the class-based jokes that peter cook did both
with + without beyond the fringe you have to have at least a
vague grasp of the british class system.
its not about snobbery or intellectualism. comedy (like
music or film) doesnt just have to appeal to the lowest
common denominator.
if all comedy is universal, you lose the beauty of detail.


 


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