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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Anyone else finding this brilliant viewing? I love it haha. You can tell Peter and Sian Gibson are good friends...am sure some of it is improvised. It is just such a good, well written laid back comedy.Watch out for some of the signs..very subtle |
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"Anyone else finding this brilliant viewing? I love it haha. You can tell Peter and Sian Gibson are good friends...am sure some of it is improvised. It is just such a good, well written laid back comedy.Watch out for some of the signs..very subtle"
It's beautifully observed and acted; what PK does best, rather than a) his stand-up these days, which is frequently just old material, rehashed or b) dressing up as a girl and trying to sing.
One of the few comedies we've genuinely laughed out loud to in a long time.
I just hope they don't cop out and end it on a romance, which is how it appears to be heading. |
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I don't think it will. I am hoping due to its success they might commission a Christmas special. Seeing as John is in charge of the christmas team..and we would get all the 80's and 90's xmas music lol |
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"Anyone else finding this brilliant viewing? I love it haha. You can tell Peter and Sian Gibson are good friends...am sure some of it is improvised. It is just such a good, well written laid back comedy.Watch out for some of the signs..very subtle
It's beautifully observed and acted; what PK does best, rather than a) his stand-up these days, which is frequently just old material, rehashed or b) dressing up as a girl and trying to sing.
One of the few comedies we've genuinely laughed out loud to in a long time.
I just hope they don't cop out and end it on a romance, which is how it appears to be heading."
 The only thing I'm not keen on is the weird little fantasy/daydream sequences. |
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"Anyone else finding this brilliant viewing? I love it haha. You can tell Peter and Sian Gibson are good friends...am sure some of it is improvised. It is just such a good, well written laid back comedy.Watch out for some of the signs..very subtle
It's beautifully observed and acted; what PK does best, rather than a) his stand-up these days, which is frequently just old material, rehashed or b) dressing up as a girl and trying to sing.
One of the few comedies we've genuinely laughed out loud to in a long time.
I just hope they don't cop out and end it on a romance, which is how it appears to be heading.
The only thing I'm not keen on is the weird little fantasy/daydream sequences. "
You're right, those bits are shite, which surprised me when they didn't have one in one of the episodes when they were going on about Carol Decker! |
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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago
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"He peaked with Phoenix Nights I think and nothing since has been as good, that he has done."
Phoenix Nights was brilliant. This is reasonable, but I do feel if it didn't have his name plastered over it, this would be a BBC3 comedy. As it stands it is amiable enough.  |
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"He peaked with Phoenix Nights I think and nothing since has been as good, that he has done.
Phoenix Nights was brilliant. This is reasonable, but I do feel if it didn't have his name plastered over it, this would be a BBC3 comedy. As it stands it is amiable enough. "
Agree with this, I enjoy it and have laughed quite a bit but it is more BBC3 than prime time BBC1... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"We think his previous material is brilliant and so funny, but unfortunately we are not impressed with this series.
It just does nothing for us."
We were the same,sat there like a cpl off Googlebox for half an hour.Not a patch on his other stuff,it may have something to do with the fallout with Dave Spikey and the other fella who shared the writing on his programmes. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I don't get Peter Kay at all. He's the most unfunny person I've seen.
You're southern"
I did think this was the reason , I feel the same about that Scouse comedian and Johnny Vegas. |
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"I don't get Peter Kay at all. He's the most unfunny person I've seen.
You're southern
No you northerners are weird.  
Grow up! "
Who , the northerner or southerner ? |
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"I don't get Peter Kay at all. He's the most unfunny person I've seen.
You're southern
I did think this was the reason , I feel the same about that Scouse comedian and Johnny Vegas. "
I love Johnny Vegas and can't stand John Bishop, who I think you're probably referring to...he's only one step up from Michael McIntyre on the Twatolutionary Scale! |
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"I don't get Peter Kay at all. He's the most unfunny person I've seen.
You're southern
I did think this was the reason , I feel the same about that Scouse comedian and Johnny Vegas. "
Not sure how local difference affects humour to that extent, in a country less than 1000miles long, that has had one main language for 1000 years and a homogenous culture for 500 years.
Local prejudice might though.
Yeah something's are only relate to a region, but if this is the only reason you can't enjoy somebody's humor, then there are 7B other people you could never enjoy.
Ok that went way beyond PK, but I hate the North/South thing, it makes us weak against our international competitors.
Having one stupidly big and powerful city is no longer helping us....
Think there is a phrase about eggs and baskets....
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"I don't get Peter Kay at all. He's the most unfunny person I've seen.
You're southern
I did think this was the reason , I feel the same about that Scouse comedian and Johnny Vegas.
Not sure how local difference affects humour to that extent, in a country less than 1000miles long, that has had one main language for 1000 years and a homogenous culture for 500 years.
Local prejudice might though.
Yeah something's are only relate to a region, but if this is the only reason you can't enjoy somebody's humor, then there are 7B other people you could never enjoy.
Ok that went way beyond PK, but I hate the North/South thing, it makes us weak against our international competitors.
Having one stupidly big and powerful city is no longer helping us....
Think there is a phrase about eggs and baskets....
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IIt doesn't have to be a North/south competitive tthing. Most countries with more balanced economies than ours have strong regional identities. I think it would strengthen us to make more of regional identity against the London takeover. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Garlic Bread  Garlic Bread
Comic Genius  "
And yingtong yingtong yiddle-eye-po is? Basil Fawlty hitting a car with a branch? Bad magic tricks "Just like that"?
He speaks to people, not everyone, certainly not you. Why do his standup tours sell out, why do his audiences cry with laughter? I think he knows what he's doing. Its one of the reasons a lot of the other comedians bitch about him. (I'm talking to you Rufus Hound. Get back to celeb juice). |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Don't know what happened to my spelling there....but local culture and humour DOES exist, it's not prejudice, and it enhances Britain not diminishes it. |
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"I don't get Peter Kay at all. He's the most unfunny person I've seen.
You're southern
I did think this was the reason , I feel the same about that Scouse comedian and Johnny Vegas.
I love Johnny Vegas and can't stand John Bishop, who I think you're probably referring to...he's only one step up from Michael McIntyre on the Twatolutionary Scale!"
That's him Bishop.
I think Vegas is just a male Jo Brand but even less funny. (If that's possible). |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I don't get Peter Kay at all. He's the most unfunny person I've seen.
You're southern
No you northerners are weird.
Grow up! "
Fucking hell it was a joke.  |
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"Don't know what happened to my spelling there....but local culture and humour DOES exist, it's not prejudice, and it enhances Britain not diminishes it. "
I think there is regional humour, but it can be appreciated outside of its area, otherwise there would be no internationalisation of comedy. |
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"I don't get Peter Kay at all. He's the most unfunny person I've seen.
You're southern
I did think this was the reason , I feel the same about that Scouse comedian and Johnny Vegas.
Not sure how local difference affects humour to that extent, in a country less than 1000miles long, that has had one main language for 1000 years and a homogenous culture for 500 years.
Local prejudice might though.
Yeah something's are only relate to a region, but if this is the only reason you can't enjoy somebody's humor, then there are 7B other people you could never enjoy.
Ok that went way beyond PK, but I hate the North/South thing, it makes us weak against our international competitors.
Having one stupidly big and powerful city is no longer helping us....
Think there is a phrase about eggs and baskets....
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You're possibly over-analysing a glib comment.
I moved from the West Midlands to the East Midlands for God'd sake, that makes me a race traitor. The West Midlands IS the Midlands, mind, the East Midlands is just West Lincolnshire! |
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"I don't get Peter Kay at all. He's the most unfunny person I've seen.
You're southern
I did think this was the reason , I feel the same about that Scouse comedian and Johnny Vegas.
Not sure how local difference affects humour to that extent, in a country less than 1000miles long, that has had one main language for 1000 years and a homogenous culture for 500 years.
Local prejudice might though.
Yeah something's are only relate to a region, but if this is the only reason you can't enjoy somebody's humor, then there are 7B other people you could never enjoy.
Ok that went way beyond PK, but I hate the North/South thing, it makes us weak against our international competitors.
Having one stupidly big and powerful city is no longer helping us....
Think there is a phrase about eggs and baskets....
You're possibly over-analysing a glib comment.
I moved from the West Midlands to the East Midlands for God'd sake, that makes me a race traitor. The West Midlands IS the Midlands, mind, the East Midlands is just West Lincolnshire!"
I don't think a local group of people, with the same genes as their neighbours constitutes a race. |
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"I don't get Peter Kay at all. He's the most unfunny person I've seen.
You're southern
I did think this was the reason , I feel the same about that Scouse comedian and Johnny Vegas.
Not sure how local difference affects humour to that extent, in a country less than 1000miles long, that has had one main language for 1000 years and a homogenous culture for 500 years.
Local prejudice might though.
Yeah something's are only relate to a region, but if this is the only reason you can't enjoy somebody's humor, then there are 7B other people you could never enjoy.
Ok that went way beyond PK, but I hate the North/South thing, it makes us weak against our international competitors.
Having one stupidly big and powerful city is no longer helping us....
Think there is a phrase about eggs and baskets....
You're possibly over-analysing a glib comment.
I moved from the West Midlands to the East Midlands for God'd sake, that makes me a race traitor. The West Midlands IS the Midlands, mind, the East Midlands is just West Lincolnshire!
I don't think a local group of people, with the same genes as their neighbours constitutes a race."
Fuck me, you're either very droll or you need the broomstick removing from your arse. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Don't know what happened to my spelling there....but local culture and humour DOES exist, it's not prejudice, and it enhances Britain not diminishes it.
I think there is regional humour, but it can be appreciated outside of its area, otherwise there would be no internationalisation of comedy. "
Of course it can be appreciated outside its area, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist though |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I don't get Peter Kay at all. He's the most unfunny person I've seen.
You're southern
No you northerners are weird.
Grow up!
Fucking hell it was a joke. "
It's that Southern humour |
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"I don't get Peter Kay at all. He's the most unfunny person I've seen.
You're southern
I did think this was the reason , I feel the same about that Scouse comedian and Johnny Vegas.
Not sure how local difference affects humour to that extent, in a country less than 1000miles long, that has had one main language for 1000 years and a homogenous culture for 500 years.
Local prejudice might though.
Yeah something's are only relate to a region, but if this is the only reason you can't enjoy somebody's humor, then there are 7B other people you could never enjoy.
Ok that went way beyond PK, but I hate the North/South thing, it makes us weak against our international competitors.
Having one stupidly big and powerful city is no longer helping us....
Think there is a phrase about eggs and baskets....
You're possibly over-analysing a glib comment.
I moved from the West Midlands to the East Midlands for God'd sake, that makes me a race traitor. The West Midlands IS the Midlands, mind, the East Midlands is just West Lincolnshire!
I don't think a local group of people, with the same genes as their neighbours constitutes a race.
Fuck me, you're either very droll or you need the broomstick removing from your arse."
Is that an attempt at Midlands humour? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I don't get Peter Kay at all. He's the most unfunny person I've seen.
You're southern
I did think this was the reason , I feel the same about that Scouse comedian and Johnny Vegas.
Not sure how local difference affects humour to that extent, in a country less than 1000miles long, that has had one main language for 1000 years and a homogenous culture for 500 years.
Local prejudice might though.
Yeah something's are only relate to a region, but if this is the only reason you can't enjoy somebody's humor, then there are 7B other people you could never enjoy.
Ok that went way beyond PK, but I hate the North/South thing, it makes us weak against our international competitors.
Having one stupidly big and powerful city is no longer helping us....
Think there is a phrase about eggs and baskets....
You're possibly over-analysing a glib comment.
I moved from the West Midlands to the East Midlands for God'd sake, that makes me a race traitor. The West Midlands IS the Midlands, mind, the East Midlands is just West Lincolnshire!
I don't think a local group of people, with the same genes as their neighbours constitutes a race.
Fuck me, you're either very droll or you need the broomstick removing from your arse.
Is that an attempt at Midlands humour?"
Well I'm from up north and I got it. I don't think you get it very often do you? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I am from Portsmouth (could not get any more southern than me...well isle of wight and channel isles i suppose) and i got it 100% and loved it. Mind you...i am a big peter kay fan.
I loved the whole idea around the show |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Back on track.
I think the show is fabulous, considering they are in the confines of a car and no other props, the banter and use of facial expressions are spot on.
Right from the start with the bottle of piss, through to the dogging scene each show brings laughter to all.
I see a little bit of romance coming, but it will end in tears at the Xmas do. |
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Sooooo boring! Where are the jokes? As ever US comedies like Bad Teacher; Two BrokeGirls; Goldburgs; Marry Me are packed with jokes and sentiment too. Why do Kay, Ricky Gervis and the people behind No 9 make such sentimental, dark, slow & humourless soft dramas? More bellylaughs please |
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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago
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"I don't get Peter Kay at all. He's the most unfunny person I've seen.
You're southern
I did think this was the reason , I feel the same about that Scouse comedian and Johnny Vegas.
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Johnny Vegas is pretty good live. He's a bad compere, but a good closer as long as you can get him off the stage.
There are regional differences in humour, but also in a town, one chap (Joe Lycett) can storm it in one pub, but not do so well in another. |
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"I don't get Peter Kay at all. He's the most unfunny person I've seen.
You're southern
I did think this was the reason , I feel the same about that Scouse comedian and Johnny Vegas.
Not sure how local difference affects humour to that extent, in a country less than 1000miles long, that has had one main language for 1000 years and a homogenous culture for 500 years.
Local prejudice might though.
Yeah something's are only relate to a region, but if this is the only reason you can't enjoy somebody's humor, then there are 7B other people you could never enjoy.
Ok that went way beyond PK, but I hate the North/South thing, it makes us weak against our international competitors.
Having one stupidly big and powerful city is no longer helping us....
Think there is a phrase about eggs and baskets....
You're possibly over-analysing a glib comment.
I moved from the West Midlands to the East Midlands for God'd sake, that makes me a race traitor. The West Midlands IS the Midlands, mind, the East Midlands is just West Lincolnshire!
I don't think a local group of people, with the same genes as their neighbours constitutes a race.
Fuck me, you're either very droll or you need the broomstick removing from your arse.
Is that an attempt at Midlands humour?"
No, it was an observation. |
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I saw the bottle of piss thing coming a mile off, and thats when I turn off comedy.
The last 3/4 series of Benidorm have gone that way.
I would love more Phoenix Nights but Gavin and Stacey was superb and was pulled at the right time (leaving us wanting more) where as Benidorm has gone on for too long and a lot of us fans now hate it. |
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"Sooooo boring! Where are the jokes? As ever US comedies like Bad Teacher; Two BrokeGirls; Goldburgs; Marry Me are packed with jokes and sentiment too. Why do Kay, Ricky Gervis and the people behind No 9 make such sentimental, dark, slow & humourless soft dramas? More bellylaughs please "
A lot of the best humour needs a dark or morose edge. Did you see the Doyle Family episode where Nanna died? I cried at that, but there were laughs in there too. A lot of American stuff us just one wisecrack after another. Funny, but ultimately formulaic. They tend to written by a large team of scriptwriters and it shows. No depth of character. And we don't use canned laughter to prompt us when to laugh. |
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"I saw the bottle of piss thing coming a mile off, and thats when I turn off comedy.
The last 3/4 series of Benidorm have gone that way.
I would love more Phoenix Nights but Gavin and Stacey was superb and was pulled at the right time (leaving us wanting more) where as Benidorm has gone on for too long and a lot of us fans now hate it."
Best thing Kay did was That Peter Kay Thing. He should do more of those. Single shows, with really odd characters and a good cast. |
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I wasn't a big Peter Kay fan, but this is pretty good, given that it's pretty much just the two of them in a car.
It's fairly inoffensive, doesn't use too many set pieces and has scope for a bit od ad-libbing between the two, and overall is not too bad at all.  |
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Watch it back, he actually interacts with the audience. You can't fake that. Its just genuinely funny. A canned laughter track is obvious. It always sounds canned. |
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I like the series but I wasn't so keen on last night's episode. I also don't like the fantasy bits, especially last night's which was embarrassingly cringy |
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"Watch it back, he actually interacts with the audience. You can't fake that. Its just genuinely funny. A canned laughter track is obvious. It always sounds canned. "
I know what you mean but even 'House of fools' I think is canned. I think they both are along with other things, I dont have a problem with that. I dont watch Mrs Brown as again I see the punchlines coming, while it is Irish, it gets nominated in UK Comedy/Tv awards so I class it as ours.
I think PK is a genius, not in everything he does, I read his autobiogrpahy and even that had me laughing out loud I'd give 'car share' 7.5/10 |
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You might be right about adding a bit of canned. My mate and his Mrs went to watch house of fools being recorded. It was funny but it was five hours recording. They had to do a lot of retakes as its a lot more technical than people think. Matt Berry kept everyone amused though, as he did his lines completely different elwith every retake. |
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"Sooooo boring! Where are the jokes? As ever US comedies like Bad Teacher; Two BrokeGirls; Goldburgs; Marry Me are packed with jokes and sentiment too. Why do Kay, Ricky Gervis and the people behind No 9 make such sentimental, dark, slow & humourless soft dramas? More bellylaughs please "
Inside No 9 to me is genius, but then I'm a huge fan of Reece Shearsmith who was also good in last week's Car share. I like a bit of a dark tale behind some laughs |
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"Sooooo boring! Where are the jokes? As ever US comedies like Bad Teacher; Two BrokeGirls; Goldburgs; Marry Me are packed with jokes and sentiment too. Why do Kay, Ricky Gervis and the people behind No 9 make such sentimental, dark, slow & humourless soft dramas? More bellylaughs please
Inside No 9 to me is genius, but then I'm a huge fan of Reece Shearsmith who was also good in last week's Car share. I like a bit of a dark tale behind some laughs "
I love Inside No 9! The League of Gentlen is the best |
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"Sooooo boring! Where are the jokes? As ever US comedies like Bad Teacher; Two BrokeGirls; Goldburgs; Marry Me are packed with jokes and sentiment too. Why do Kay, Ricky Gervis and the people behind No 9 make such sentimental, dark, slow & humourless soft dramas? More bellylaughs please "
Sorry but I find American comedy basically unfunny tried watching 2 broke girls, modern family. scrubs and others and they struggle too raise even a smile?! The only good one is Everyone Loves Raymond and that's not new stuff!!
This new Peter Kay is not his best work but at least you get a laugh and there's always something in his shows you can relate to in real life!! Which man (and maybe woman) hasn't inched forward in a traffic queue to sneak a look at the pretty woman / man in the hope of getting their attention!! |
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