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Post some of your favourite British panel shows, favourite guests on there, favourite moments etc. Share your thoughts on popular panel games or share some hidden gems that deserve more attention, or talk about older panel shows that are sadly not with us anymore and deserve to be recommissioned.
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Are radio shows allowed?
I fucking loath Stephen Fry.
fun fact: he's going to die before 2020
He doesn't even host QI anymore its Sadny "did I mention I'm a woman and a lesbian this second" Tovsig
Alan Davies wanted to quit
You forgot 'and Danish'
Fuck panel shows. Bunch of socialist twats and their PC humour.
I bet you're not even British OP?
Fuck the superwholockian tumblrites shitting up this board
British humor is, for the most part, awful
and went to boarding school
Yeah. It's such garbage compared to the class that is american humor. Remember when Larry the Cable guy said "GITURRDUNNNNNN" and then the puppet muslim guy said "SILNCE KILL YU"? That was great. Anyway, make america great again.
Stephen Fry is a paedophile.
Pretty much. Mainstream British humour is dictated by public schoolboys who went through the Footlights so find the most inane shit funny and tell the rest of us to laugh along with it
She's somewhat witty sometimes but she really is an insufferable cunt.
Stewart Lee is british no?
Yeah exactly.
Mock The Week - On tonights show we're going to take the piss out of Theresa May, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin! And of course we're going to be sucking the cock of Jeremy Bourbon.
GOAT
>obligatory blacks/women on panel shows now
>quality of comedy takes dramatic nose-dive
What a surprise. Also there's a guy with fucked up hands, that I see all the time now. He isn't even remotely funny.
Panel shows are shit
Obsessed with Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
Loved Simon Amstell as host. Really like the seasons with him and everything after.
Two favorite guests I can think of are Paul Foot and Stacey Solomon.
That show just cheers me the fuck up.
Is New QI worth watching?
Fry was so perfect. The QI YouTube channel doesn't even upload the new host's clips...
he can't have long left. big fat bastard. his limited obituary showreel will be a couple of fry and laurie sketches, a bit of melchett from 30 years ago and a couple of scripted QI clips where he calls someone my dear.
can't stand him.
The Sex Pistols. You dick on them.
Dara O'Brien was a mistake
nice reading
But they're always making fun of Jeremy's cock-ups and general oldfaggyness and weird hobbies, replaying his failed high five's etc.
If anything he gets more jokes about him than he should, since he's not the one running a country like the other ones.
>boohoo he mocked mummy may for being a retard who commit political suicide :(((
Mark Lamaar was much better
I'm a centrist and I find the last leg to be painfully liberal nonsence. The Aussie is the worst, so unfunny.
>hey I'm smart
>hey I'm dumb lol
>hey I'm a Welsh manlet
I love it.
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Americans would get utterly shredded by the banter on panel shows Tbh.
Shit thread
Whenever he's on a show they have to have a talk before the shooting starts to tell everyone how to greet him, right? Like, do you shake his little lobster claw? Hug? Just nod your head to be safe? It's something I could definitely find myself not thinking of before the moment comes, at which point I'd panic.
I always feel really sorry for Lee Mack when I see this.
Holy shit when that squeaky voiced deli slut opened her mouth I wanted to fucking die. Is this what Americans consider "comedy"
It used to be so fucking good, now it just feels like the lies get more and more ridiculous each episode, and not in a good way. Most of the guests are utter cunts, I'd just watch it if it was David and Lee on their own.
Tfw rob made an excellent satire on panel shows then made a shit panel show. What did he mean by this?
What is wrong with her?
What the fuck was that? It's embarrassing.
If it's a panel show, sure.
I really like The Unbelievable Truth hosted by David Mitchell. If you haven't heard it yet, try it out.
4 panelists read a pre-pared short lecture about a subject that has to be completely factually false but they also have to sneak in 5 very improbable truths as well. It sounds boring on paper but the format works and it's been going on for a while so they know which guests are good on it so they book them more.
What an annoying cunt, and whats with american comedians having to mention Trump all the time its fucking boring now.
>plays a dumbass
>routinely shows himself to have the quickest wit on the entire panel
Dude's always quick at making a joke out of some phrase someone else said, rather than doing a scripted monologue.
exactly he's an unfunny cunt
t. britfag
Bad opinion much?
He's not dumb, just northern and less middle class
which episode/segment has Bob Mortimer saying "Sniper's Dream we call him"?
I need to watch it again.
Carr is the only good host.
jimmy must be quivering in his boots holy shit
Eh. Each to his own I guess.
mornington crescent
Sandi mentions her lesbianism just as much as Stephen did. It doesn't bother me much. I think she did a good job taking over from Fry and I enjoyed her first series as the host.
She's basically a female version of Stephen Fry. Both revel in their sexuality and can be witty when they need to, but both have a tendency to over-indulge in the fact that they're quite smart and well-read.
I could suffer it from Stephen as host and I can suffer it from Sandi as host. QI is still entertaining to me. The real humour comes from the guests and Alan is still on top form and they usually get one or two decent comedians on who can all carry the show while token minority makes silly jokes in the background.
show me his funniest clip on youtube, it's all bollocks
he appeals to the middle class simpleton who thinks lee is a bit more down in the dirt but still classy and funny but he just isn't it all falls flat desu
>at least I got it all out!
>wooo
Literal participation trophy
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Literally just googled the phrase.
Didn't he take a ferry to Calais and drink and smoke in a cafe on one of his depressive escapade moments?
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Bill Bailey
Sean Lock
David Mitchell
>Would I Lie To You?
Bob Mortimer
Greg Davies
Richard Osman
Rhod Gilbert
>She's basically a female version of Stephen Fry.
She's a child rapist?
People like things you dont. Wow.
a bit of fry and laurie was genuinely great.
my favourite thing he ever did was rapping on whose line is it anyway. with based peter cook dancing beside him.
>and Alan is still on top form
If anything I felt like he was better in the Sandi-season than the previous ones. Felt like the new paradigm of the show had rejuvenated him.
am fat and muh husband
I hate them. I hate their smug London bullshit. I hate their constant, unwavering criticism of anyone who doesn't get on board with their mental politics. I hate the fact they all show up on each other's shows, which are all identical. I can imagine them sat at a dinner party working out who gets to go on which show next.
Every single one is fucking pump. QI, HIGNFY, the lot. Inane rubbish cobbled together by people who have a pathological hatred of anyone that disagrees with their world view.
Bob is the GOAT Would I Lie To You guest. He's fucking amazing.
WILTY is great, one of my favourites.
The whole smart/dumb thing is a huge charade/stage persona thing they developed early on when Deaton still presented, but it works so they built on it.
Mitchell is working/middle class but they make him out to be extreme upper class which he just isn't. Mack may be working class and Northern but he really plays it up for the show and like some other user said he's actually the one with the quickest wit and can turn any sentence someone said into a joke.
As for Rob Brydon? Who can hate that little Welsh guy? I actually feel bad for him now that his top two impersonations are dead. No more Ronnie Corbett or Terry Wogan impressions I'm afraid Rob.
>Inane rubbish cobbled together by people who have a pathological hatred of anyone that disagrees with their world view.
Then why don't they do better in America
There were people who actually wanted her to take over after Fry instead of not Sandi. Just imagine the kind of lives those people must lead.
HIGNFY has declined particularly steeply in the past 5 years
Used to be kino
Paul Merton and especially Ian Hislop are painfully unfunny.
Paul started to voice his pleb-tier political opinions instead of just being a comic figure, Hislop just became more pretentious as he got older.
Private Eye is still good though
>they didn't laugh, better pull a zany face and walk away funnily!
rofl
>IS IT....
is there a bigger try-hard in the universe?
It's dire. A very left wing guy I know went to a screening and even he said it got a bit tiresome. Hislop just ranted on about Trump to the audience. Merton, apparently, was still quite funny but shilled hard for a show he was doing the next month.
Hislop is going through life in reverse. He started out as a switched on, principled and shrewd man and turned into a 20 year old student union candidate.
THE DAILY MAIL
Soon Michale Caine will be gone too, leaving him with no impressions left.
Russell Howard? More like Russell Howmadareyou?
>Chlamydia!
Jack Dee is a subtle master of comedy. Most of the time he's on panel shows he's just being his miserable stage persona, not really contributing much but then BAM, he comes up with these:
WILTY, quick as a flash:
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QI, on the subject of why there aren't many female comedians. Que two female comedians jabbering some nonsense and then:
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Look at the state of his fucking head
used to love this guy until I started browsing Sup Forums
protip: don't browse pol it sucks the fun out of everything[/spoiler
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After all the WILTY I've watched this was the best episode.
UKIP?!?!?!?!?!
wow this is probably the slimmest david has ever looked, I can almost make out his chin from his neck for once
Seems like Sup Forums matured you seeing as Russell Howard is the biggest pleb filter I'm aware of
>contributes maybe two lines the whole show
>yes that is deemed acceptable comedy
now this is a pleb filter
>If anything I felt like he was better in the Sandi-season than the previous ones.
I felt the same way. He also wins a lot more often and guests joke on how he's finally free now that Stephen's gone.
The real reason is that the last couple series of QI were littered with scheduling problems. Davies did an interview where he said it came to feel like a slog. Sometimes he had to film three episodes a day (and that's like 2-3 hours of filming which they cut down to 30 mins, then 45 mins for QI XL) for scheduling reasons like availability of guests, studio time etc. Hard to be on your comedy A game when you've been filming for 8 hours straight. I heard they stopped doing that now and they film one episode a day and an entire series over the span of two months or so.
i'm gay and i want to suck cock haha not really though i'm just zany and millennial
that background looks super masonic
>this guy actually achieved success but only within the BBC
Is he jewish?
This guy tells a joke so goddamn slow that by the time he gets to the punchline you've seen it coming for five minutes. It's infuriating to sit there waiting for him to catch up to you with every joke.
Still, marginally better than this waste of semen.
Yeah Jack Dee is still great, even though he's been going a long time. Hasn't been over exposed too.
Comedians you have literally never even cracked a smile at?
Hard mode - No women
>tfw he got visibly depressed when Amy Winehouse got wasted during the show
Phil Jupitus