And he's alive. Well, hi, everyone and welcome to the Nodipnoth Podcast. He's a Nodipnoth Podcast and is hosted by Nodipnoth. I am one of your hosts, Sam.
I'm the other host, Jake, filling in for a pooly poll today. Everyone give him all your sympathy in the chat. And hello to all the chats. So yes, it's just me and Jake, Jakey today along with Grant.
I've forgotten the answer. Lauren, I love my Nodipnoth. I'm so sorry. Lauren and the amazing peaches with us today.
So thank you guys for joining us. And yes, we are minus our leader, which is very sad and very different. But we are going to we are going to soldier on. And he's still here in the background.
He can see and hear everything we're all saying. Always watching. So nobody nobody think you for you to insult them in the chat. Yeah.
Yeah. Because he's listening to us and Joe. Definitely. So today we are going to talk about British comedies.
And we've all picked, hopefully, five. I was running around doing it last minute today. No, no, no, that's it's fine. I know what I like.
I can always fill out the top five. That's the bonus of it all. Yeah. I mean, what do you say?
We just get into it then. Why don't we? I'll do the disclaimer. I'm obviously going to have some opinions today.
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Keep it kind. Keep the toxic behavior. Out of nerdism. Yeah.
Nice one. Thank you. Thank you. I think since I'm a host today, I should get to pick who goes first.
Look at him. He's getting an inch of power and he's going to tear it. It's my only chance. We can take this away from me.
I think Sammy should go first. That's like. Thanks. Oh, I'll go first and I want to get the one out the way with it.
I feel could be on some people's lists. This is a sitcom comedy that was out in 1989. It fits well into our realms of nerdism. It is the marvellous and wonderful spist.
Who's got it? Me. I need a piece of all that I have to do. No, it's a certain age.
This one I thought I'd get out of here because I had a 40 sneaky villain that someone else would have it. We all have a drenched first. Ladies. Who wants to go first?
I can talk up a storm with a vaseous face. Oh, she's about it. Don't repeat this. I mean, this was something that I watched when it first came out and it was instantly addictive to me.
It's kind of like, I would say it was a chauffeur nerd made by nerds. That's the best way I can describe it really. I think it was like all the nerd culture that's actually in the show itself. These years it's almost a given that you get Easter eggs or references here and everywhere.
Back in 1999, it wasn't as popular. It wasn't as a commonplace. It's really deep and straight into that. Every episode has a reference in it.
I didn't fall into this straight away. I didn't fall into it in the late 1999. It wasn't until maybe about ten, maybe eleven years ago. It was my husband who got his interview.
He was like, you are going to lose your mind all of this. I'm all certainly dead. I think my favourite episode, which still to this day gets quoted quite heavily in my house is the re-in-episode. It's the point during my house and the minute I'm just going, only further.
And then the other one will finish it off. I call it UK River. I can't know this quite late as well. It was one of those things you could get for super cheap on DVD, like the box set because it wasn't very long.
Was it the whole run of the show? The two series. The two series. They did it.
If you've got the special, the style wars, the sets are the style wars picture at the front. There was a special bonus of them revisiting the grounds of where they worked in films. It was years and years later. They rounded the whole series up in one very short scene.
So there was always the what if with Daisy and Tim. At the very end. So they're walking down the street where the house is in this egg right. Jessica, he ends at Simon Peig.
They're talking about walking away the camera, kind of like pans out and then back to the house. You see Tim and Daisy coming to the front door. Harry and a baby. Ah, secret.
And Tim says something and then Daisy shows, I'll let you call her Leah, let's just leave it at that. And goes to the door. We kind of like just rounds it all up. We get to know without having a full episode of explanation that these two ended up together.
Like they should have. I think more TV shows should do that. The thing I think I instantly noticed about space was it was probably like the only show that like showed video games on screen and not in a stupid like here's some kids in a background or he's like the dad and it's like, it was like, he actually showed the screen and he was legit. So maybe afterwards playing out a scene in like Resident Evil or Tomb Raider or something.
Resident Evil. It's the episode with their vulva in it, which is different volumes. And if you watch, I think the main thing about the Red Dwarf episode, we'll be in Greenwood coordinate. Yeah.
So Lauren, why did this end up on your list as well? I came to it not late late, but I remember watching it around my friend's house when it's in secondary school, like 2000, 2001. I'd go to hers on a Friday after school. And I'd say like most of the weekend, like I'd order it at my mum kind of thing.
Well, my intention in the mornings. But we'd always have to say it really late watching stuff. And it was the kind of thing that I get repeated at like 11, 12 o'clock on channel four. Yeah, it was a channel four.
And it was like that and something else that's on my list. Well, I want to re mention on my list because I couldn't just pick five. So. Against the rules.
Against the rules. As a teenager, it was just who was like, Nordi and stuff. Like, I was like, can I make a shopping? You know, it's just like, it was just relatable.
Like it's just like, oh, maybe I can't have these things on a grow up. It was the kind of thing where like at a young age, you might have thought like, I want to be cool like these guys. So then I'd later on to realise, well, they'll have fun, but they'll be one of the best role of the world. Yeah, but they were dysfunctional of sense that many adults were, but it was not saying like it's a live lesson or anything like that.
But it was like, it's like kind of, well, it's not okay to be completely dysfunctional adult, but it's like, you don't have to think about everything. It's a bit modern. It's a bit modern. It's a bit more modern, like a more modern view of how a kind of generation ended up being a bit like, yeah, I can never relate.
This is really a controversial thing to say, but I never wanted to like friends or anything. Like I can never relate. I can never relate. I was just like, why are they funny?
They're actually horrible people. Yeah, it's just like, it's a bunch of parts. And I'm just like, why is this funny? I could just never get into it, but it's like, it was more of a reflection of, I can see why it was funny.
Yeah, and plenty like British as well, like it's familiar for sure. Yeah. I've always said, you know, considering how old I actually am these days, I've always said I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up. And I think space is kind of like, a lot on that side of things.
It's not a lot if you don't know what you do with your life. It's a very realistic idea of like the main characters struggling to actually be a human adult. Yeah. It's not played.
And it's not played like totally for laughs. Like you're not like, oh, you're not supposed to laugh at them all the time. Sometimes, yeah. But like he has like an arc where he tries, he's not just like, you know, a comedy like, I feel like you're the idiot.
It's, it's, you're not always laughing at them. Sometimes you're laughing with them. Yeah. Yes.
I prefer that kind of thing, if that makes sense. Do you use quartet as much as what we do? It's not just the real bit. As this was like a biscuit or something, I love off.
He's referenced what not funny. It's like all the corner. Well, maybe he's like the two, the two familiar aren't they're like to like British culture like so the courts sticking your head. Seeing them or regardless, already got an all.
Oh, it's Sammy. Okay. What a great pick. Sammy.
Did you actually know? Oh, yeah, you're back. Sorry. I'm sorry.
This was the first time Simon, and Purg and the cross work together. Oh, that's good. This is because before the show Nick Ross was a wager. I said, oh, you seem like a kind of guy and would like to fit this.
I thought that it was like a kind of guy. Sorry. The first time on film that they've worked together. Yeah.
It's all very special. I know and Simon pegs in what's called. It's a does it does not know doesn't it. Is he in that?
Oh, he was in that. He did a set show before he was on space, but I don't want to talk about it. Yeah. I can't think of the name of it.
But the scene with Star Wars is always going to be something that I will hold. Because it's kind of like what you mentioned earlier about not having a certain like it allows you to be whatever age you are to love something and the fact that he's still getting really passionate about the menace. It's like. I've seen you do that in real life.
But that actually does a link back to what Lauren was saying about how in in friends, the Star Wars part is an absolute punch line. It's a laugh at rust. Like derisively for like in Star Wars and stuff like that. Whereas like he was like speaking to the people like us who were like, oh yes, that was cool.
I like that. I like Star Wars too. Oh, such a good place. I've got that out of the game because I had a funny feeling it was going to be a couple.
That was a high score in one as well. I mean, not three off in one go. It's really random. But the way that Tim and Daisy meet as well kind of reminds me of one of me beating one of Michael's friends.
It's not like an exact or just randomly sitting at the same table in the castle. We went to a gig by ourselves. And this was like 23 years ago, ladies. We went to a gig by ourselves.
I'm starting to talk and, you know, a gig in the bag of Harry Potter. We were planning to go out on the weekend and we still go out like all the time. Nice. Nice.
That's how many of those started. We all just wanted to get into a chat room. I get there. I get there.
What about 2000 followers of those Harry Potter at the start? Who is it? Awesome. That was an awesome pick.
I'm going to go rant now. I'm just going to go top to like left to right. So I'm the top today. Yes.
You are. Prelex, mate, grand. You're not the top, son. Definitely.
I'm unsure as to what the pitch first off my list. So I think I might chop one out there that's what other people have as well. There's a few of mine that are seeped in nostalgia. And this one definitely represents my humor in the early 90s.
One of them was about 12, 13, 14 from what I regard as the best British comedy double act has ever been. What? Oh, yes. It's not a list.
It's not a list. It was one of me on an ask. I mean, what can we say about British comedy without uttering the name of Rick male? Yeah.
You know, you've hit them eyes and absolutely everything that had happened for the last 10 to 15 years before that, regardless of whether it had been stand up. I don't know if anybody else like is aware of this, but the student Rick character from the young ones used to be his stand up routine. And a lot of material out there, I downloaded it from less than reputable sources. Once upon a time, I got all of his appearances on Wogan and we had little chat shows and all that kind of stuff.
But I don't know that my introduction to British comedy is probably through bottom as an adult or a fledgling adult as well. And to see violence and sexual humor and all of it thrown out in such an aggressive and almost border and nihilistic way of doing it is just. It encapsulates what it's like to be British and a bit shit. It's grimy, grimy, grimy.
It's all I can think of when I think about it is. I remember watching it when it came out because obviously I'm in an age where I was like, Oh, I'm a little bit tired of me. It's so charming. But I didn't stick around.
I don't think I ever have stuck around. I'm not a hardcore watcher. I think the Christmas special is hilarious. And guess how proud he saw?
Had me in stitches. That's a movie first. That's a movie first situation. I'd never expected this to be a belly laugh at it.
That's one of the grossest films I've ever seen. I love this. I have the video tape as well. The BHS.
You know when you're sitting, you didn't really keep up one at a time. It's another one where there's not that many episodes, but because I think they're quite long. I think they're on the 45 minute side usually sometimes. Maybe that might be wrong, but it feels like it was always there for like yours and yours and yours.
But I don't know if that just shows how buried the comedy was. There's episodes with loads of different acts even where you're like, Oh, it's something completely different now. The Christmas one starts up with all the cooking jokes, doesn't it? And then suddenly you're on to the birth of Jesus.
Go frunkin' find one. It's something I never really watched. I don't think I was quite the right age to appreciate it. But my dad loved it and I'd still watch it when it's repeated and stuff.
I was down and watching with them sometimes. I've got like a vivid memory. I've got a vivid memory of being like a child and watching the one where they're stuck on the Ferris wheel. I was just about to see the Ferris wheel.
I think I saw it more than any of them. I remember that one. Seeing that one on Telly when I was a kid and stuff. But during the episode, the picture on the TV was going off, so I was keeping having to smack the top of the TV.
And it came back just as the hand of God shows up to save them. Oh yeah, that's the one I remember the most is that episode. Oh, and the cam on one as well. That's probably like, it's probably like perfect television.
And it's the kind of thing where like, I'm sure you were doing it while you were on your Hadrian's wall trip. Go and be like, I've got a pack of chocolate hobnubs. Like look at some one. I actually didn't think to get any of the references in there.
The episode that always sticks with me is the Gasmon. It's a little bit of Brian Blobber and there were a little titan of British fucking cinema. And the former professional wrestler as well. You always played the British tough guy so well.
And his name's Mr. Rott Weiler or something. The same like that. The side characters always had great names that just showed up for like one episode.
You're going to sneak into his room while having sex and everything. It's all just so fucking disgusting. And again, that one has like, like, acts like, because obviously the first part is then like, it's so tape on the guy at the ceiling. And all that stuff.
I forgot about that. Yeah, so yeah, Grand Are You, would you also be interested in a small photograph of Super Carpenter? You mean? 100%?
Give me that magnifying back. I will one myself. Is it in 10 minutes? We say it from the next minute.
I don't have a cigarette in between them in that time. But like, you're right about the violence as well. And I don't know, like, I'm guessing you must have had some of the live show tips as well. Because those were pretty legendary.
Actually, no. I've never watched any of the live show stuff. I've been listening to the TV series. I had a best of and like, it's so good because it's an impressive thing for them to do live.
Like an entire live part of it. So the sound effects and set changes and everything. But then they always have like the sections where the mess of the lines and they're almost better than like the actual. The blue.
Yeah. When the coffee beating track. But then it's like the normal, they're doing exactly what they're doing. They're so good.
Yeah. Like the one, it's like, I don't want to say they don't need a script. No. I mean, a lot of that kind of thing is naturally improv based anyway.
It's just like, if you trust who you're working with, you can just bounce off them. And if you know their character and then your character, you can just like go at each other. I'm sure they go. It didn't have any boundaries.
I think I think the best word ever is chemistry. Yeah. Magic together. Absolutely.
It's so sad. He's no longer here for us to have any more of what he could bring because I imagine there's a lot more we had to offer. Yeah. That was generally one of the hard-rooted ones made out when they were cast.
It was, you kind of just, you missed like the time where you probably would have had more of a voice like if you'd been around still, you know, like on like, you know, social media and stuff. We might have got like a lot more insight into like comedy and stuff. Like, but he always seemed like super nice whenever you saw like back, like behind the scenes footage. But by all accounts, like absolute like fourth of nature, like you could never tell what he was going to do.
Yeah. Chaos. Yeah. Adrian Edmondson always played quite a straight laced and stiff character and you always had Rick go in a hundred miles an hour around him.
Yeah. I don't want to, again, they might be other picks, but the other things that they did together, it was always a case that Adrian Edmondson was the pole in the middle of the room. And Rick Mill was almost dancing around him. Yeah.
You know, it's, it's poetry. It really, really is. It's such a good way to describe their relationship because it really is. Yeah.
Hold on. Yeah. It ends in just like Paul Denson. Yeah.
I'm sure they would know it like the analysis though, but they would absolutely be more with it. It's such a good pick. And one that I generally thought would have more, like I thought there would be more in the room who would have picked it. But no, but I'm guessing that a lot of our stuff is going to have like a lot of cross over actors.
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, it's just not going to help that. Well, I think like the, it seems like the UK can't really see when you think about it.
It's been quite small and a lot of them show up in like even movie cast together, even like not comedy related, but awesome. Yeah. Yes, I absolutely love that. I'm probably shouldn't have been watching it as a kid, but I just made it even better.
Absolutely. Right. I'm going to go now. I'm going to pick.
I'm going to pick another comedy duo, but a little bit more modern, but no less widespread influential. I'm going to take us to the world of the night. I'm not funny. I'm not funny.
I'm not funny. I'm not funny. I'm not a lady. Maybe for me.
Yeah. It's not one of mine. But you like it. You're a fan.
I'm a little bit ugly. Good day. Sorry about that. Right.
Just crashed off my head, watching Bish. Yeah. This was like, this was one of the shows where I remember the being like word of mouth from like my parents' friends. He was like, like I was watching BBC3.
He was like, oh, you've got to watch this show. You've got to watch this new show because like we all would have like, you know, bottom and they're involving everything. And then yeah, like I remember sitting down and just being like, okay, it's going to be like another comedy duo show, one's the silly one, one's the straight one. But like, I was not prepared for it to be like, just like an awesomely low budget, but high quality, like psychedelic musical trip that it is.
Yeah. It's just absolutely my thing. I'm always gonna be a sucker for the Liam guy and the famous funny popular guy, combinations of characters together. I think so.
They're absolutely love Howard Moon. Just I adore him. I have such a special place in my heart for Howard Moon. He is so lovely.
They're the only ones who ever referenced Yorkshire and stuff in the spirit of jazz thing where he's like, Yorkshire's not a place to stay in mind. And half Yorkshire's left spoke to me. It's the, the, the crimpon, the fact that the rocker, it is crimpon, into the fold. That was, I think everyone's got the spicy soup thing stuck in the head.
Oh yeah. The crimp off the wack-off was great. Oh okay. So you're actually a fan of like the season three stuff.
Cause I can't really. I love season three. I like the season three. The crack-offs.
I did it's one of my favorite. I was more of a season one. Like season one is just perfection. But season one is just moments.
Oh yeah. I think that's the crack-offs. Oh my God. I'm gonna be a dress.
I was scared of the crack-offs. It's horrible. It's like, it's gross. It's all soft.
I think one thing is, I think season three got the weight a bit more gross out for some reason. I mean, it was always had its gross moments, but I think that was what put me up. I was like, all right, there's been a change in the production here a little bit. I think they peaked so soon.
It's just like, come off to know where to go then. Yeah. The first live show was some of the best bit of comedy I ever witnessed. How many of us were there in Newcastle?
And it was the Jean-Paul Coachete. You know, the, the, the, the, Grimm said that too was a nerfessie with these jacket on with these jacket off. It started to a charm of the jacket. But then the second one was, I was like, I had so like high expectations because I have a maze and the first one was, and the second one was so bad.
Is this the second live show? Oh, the second season, sorry, not the second live show. Oh God, man. The second one, no, not the show was, but the actual live show, the second one was terrible.
It was more of the music side and less of the funny. Okay. Well, like, you know, when Grant was talking about old Rick Mill standoff, Howard Moon used to be his stand up character as well, Julian Barrett, is it? And he lived the clip, so it was probably from like the behind the scenes on like the Bruce D.
or whatever, but he was absolutely bombing on stage. So like, nobody got it. It was obviously like a little bit too early to be like bringing out to the people already needed the double act sort of dimension to go with it. But it's interesting that people have like trialled characters and stand up.
And sometimes you'd think they would have gave it up after getting like such a match reaction, but we're happy they didn't. He has a big, he has a big, he has a big, he has a big, he has a big, he has a half one. And I was like, I was going to say something about Howard Moon. We're going to talk about old Greg.
How about old Rick? How about old Rick? How about old Rick? How about old Rick?
How about old Rick? How about old Rick? That's it, Eels, Eels, yes. And the Milky Jordan.
Wow. That's fantastic. That's one of the best episodes. I quite like the dad do.
Because I'm listening to him. I'm just going to go to the gym. Tony Harrison. Oh my God.
Tony is one of my girls quartered characters. Honestly, that is so funny that he's got like, is it Richard Ayewade? He's like, oh, he's like, oh. He's like, oh, I have to assemble this kinder egg wherever we go.
He's like, I have a little skid rod. But yeah, honestly, who would think like, the amount of times they've gotten a maze and jokes out of, let's just put their head in somewhere silly. Or just put whipped cream all over them. And now it's the moon that talks every episode for no reason.
It's just so brilliant and so psychedelic. And it is just an absolute trip of the watch. And I guess it is very much aimed at how it is true. Because my dad is such a massive fan of British comedy.
And he just does not get this. This is just not his thing. That's definitely like something about comedy, where you're like, I shouldn't be watching this, but it's made for me. I think it was the same time.
I really felt like this was my show. And again, it was me, it was probably around the same time as the best one I've ever had. Yeah, that was another good box set, because you had like six episodes each, or something. Yeah, absolutely.
Perfect night of binge watching. We watched a photo of each of them on a bulky old laptop, spacking uni, just in polls, drag it. This is like the proper Wi-Fi. We'd have our lab cables and just drag them out into the hall and watch on our mattresses and everything.
Yeah, I did find that. I know the show, but I think it was nice. I would be so careful with this one, don't we? I did find that it had like a second life in sort of like that.
Like in my uni time, I don't know if it was just because you met like a new group of friends, and then somebody goes like super, super spicy, super, never once like, yes. But yeah, it's definitely one of those ones. It's, I mean, we haven't like hit the topic yet, but it's one of those ones that's got a lot of stuff that wouldn't fly these days, like a lot of blackface, a lot of like, kind of, as well as that, really, but they've done that a lot of times. And they've never really addressed it, which is the never, they've never sort of said sorry, which is like a whole big debate comedy, like, is anything outside of the realms of a joke.
And it's like, well, I think you just got to read the room sometimes on that one. Yeah. I mean, it's a huge game. I would even took the connotation as being offensive.
You know what I mean? It wasn't, I'm assuming we're going with the story at John's here. And really, yeah. Yeah, it wasn't, it wasn't even known as a parody.
You know what I mean? None of that is necessarily called to the humor other than the fact that a character needed to be played. Yeah. Don't get me started.
I'm fucking right because ethics month. No, no, it's just, you're right. You absolutely right, Grant. Like at the time nobody better than I, but it's just one of those things where when you watch it back, and it's odd to see it happening in our lifetime, like you watch it back and you're like, okay, totally forgot about this angle.
So there's loads of stuff like that. Because obviously there was just loads of phobic comedy back in like the 2000s that by today, it's that need to be like, I don't think I would write that now. And to be honest, not even just the 2000s. And also with the stuff that I've chosen does have things like that in your sport.
So it was, it was off the time. It's a sign. Yeah, exactly. It's always a shock.
Like I was watching Big Bang the other day and then make like transphobic jokes constantly. And I'm like, oh, this was the really one to like, you know, beat this dead horse apparently. Yeah. The friends, the amount of hobo bhobo jokes that they made, it's, it is, but it was, it was a comedy at the time.
Unfortunately, that's how things were. And you can't rewrite them. No, no. You've just got to learn from them.
It's history, it's learn. It's history and you learn from it. Exactly. It happened.
It's not okay now, but it's important to acknowledge like the journey. Yeah. Kind of like keeping a track of how far we're coming through that though, isn't it? Definitely.
And you don't have to attach your identity to it. You didn't write the jokes. You just laugh at it once. Yeah.
One, two. Yeah. But awesome. I'll continue moving across my screen.
So Lauren, you're up next. Going on to slightly inappropriate age. So I'm going to go with the League of Gentlemen. Oh, nice.
What do you do? Sorry, how are you? I haven't done authority, but that was on Paul's list as well. I've got to see.
I wasn't the fan of League of Gentlemen. I loved it. I loved it. Me and my big sister.
One of the few things that me and my big sister kind of both liked, she introduced it to me. I messed up being like, in your age. She started showing this to me and far too young for it. But I don't know.
I quite enjoyed that insanity. I enjoyed the crazy. I grew up quite performative, the big city, small place. Oh, no.
It's very relatable. It's relatable, like the local shop, the local people. I don't know. There's certain things that are not OK now.
So laugh at it. Well, I'll laugh. Yeah. Papa Lazaro.
He's terrifying. Absolutely. Yeah. He's the one with the pig north, wasn't it?
No, no, that's Tubbs and Edward. Yeah. But I'm just starting. I just think I should think I should think out.
I do have memories of being at school with Kelly. We used to be in the opera group together. Hi, Kelly. I've got a picture of her doing this.
In the show. But when you look back, I think we're like writing it. I think we're trying to be modern because the way the writers matter of fact, like we're just talking about the transition process, but it is played for jokes because obviously it's talking in graphic detail about the operation. When you think about it.
It's just it's being real about it. And like, when we're saying with the papalazzar thing, like, we're just talking about the transition process. But it is played for jokes because obviously it's talking in graphic detail about the operation. When you think about it.
And then the January comes along. Yeah. And like, when we're saying with the papalazzar thing, like, like, I mean, yes, it was definitely like appropriate in a couple of cultures. But they weren't doing like outwardly racist jokes.
No, no, no. It's yeah, it's weird. And like, you know, that became Halloween cosplay years and years after, which is even we either think about it. Did you just have your hand up?
Yes, I just want to try minimum what you're saying because I think it's very, very important in the way that legal gentlemen portrays the human method. This was on my list. And I think I was lucky in the fact that I encountered that season three of legal legal gentlemen first and they were way back I don't know if anybody was honest this or Lauren's noticed it. But the reason why that's important is because the first two seasons of legal gentlemen have a laugh track on them.
Yes, they do. Three of the three of the legal gentlemen doesn't. You've just got it in this brutal, visceral kind of going back almost to the way bottom is everything's dirty. Everything's a little bit grimy.
It changed the format as well. Yeah, it can get away with addressing elements in a grimy way. If you know what I mean, because they drop the human down to a dark level, they have to drop the human for everything down to a darker level. And to me, it helped me get legal gentlemen a little bit more.
I don't think I would have liked it if I watched it from season one and had that fucking candlestar thing going on in my year the entire thing, but I almost learned that shorted out working backwards. And so just how kind of to the bone it wanted to be it never pulled its punches with anything that addressed it always went incomplete. Sorry, I'm rambling. No, it's fine.
Interesting factoid. Somebody who taught me at university taught the guys at a previous university like he moved like when he was teaching moved teaching around university. He actually taught them at the uni. So they always had that.
They always had that. Really slow. I always had that. And it always went away.
The subject was turned up. It's like walking about this. Like all three of them have such different styles. They market this is very much horror centric.
And Stephen, once he's faced is like comedy chuckles. Yeah, and Reese is just fucked up. Yeah. He's scary in a different way.
Terrifying about Reese. And I really like it from like a, because I was like bias having like a dream there. So I like I find fascinating from the technical point of you. No.
Process. They go through to work on it and combine all three. It's too. Yeah.
Lauren, I'm guessing you must have checked out some inside number nine as well. Yes. Sorry if I'm sniping anyone's pick. No.
But they do in a amazing episode. I think it was maybe a season or two back where they play to an old comedy duo who kind of gets back together. And Sammy, as you were saying, Steve Pemmolden, play as like the I've got me props and everything. And like, oh, yeah.
And like, when Reese is like, you know, I'm a business man, I work in accounts. We can't be doing this stupid thing. But they do like a part where they do like a perfect sketch, like the argue throughout the whole episode. And then there's like one moment where they like just drop back into the role characters and the play out this like sketch, it's as if the practice in for a comeback show or a charity thing.
But it's an awesome episode. And it's really them diving into like the wrong possible future or stuff that may be already experienced or learn from other comedy duos. Like I really like when you can tell people have like thought a lot when they're like actually writing a comedy. But you're right though, it's like the gentlemen's like equal parts horror.
Oh, absolutely. The Christmas special is like, you almost do kind of believe like they bring this in actual elements then, but you completely can't believe it because it is like this. That's like, you know, these are grandpa's. It's like a course.
You don't know. Like that's the kind of thing they always played it like it might. This stuff isn't real or other characters just messing with everybody, including the actors and us. Like that was it was always that like uncanny like you don't know how serious the horrible people are.
But what they have to do when they did they did like the newer episodes recently where they were kind of revisited kind of like characters and Jeff and Brian Brian Brian. Oh my God, I get the correct stuff. But the married couple, the married couple were arguing and they've broken up, but they're still arguing. Oh, Reese is so good in that role.
You can see how upset they are in a new like partnerships because obviously what's his face? He came out in the third in the 30s and he's the one who was giving the hand jobs in the salon. Yeah. It's just like you fell in love with Tony.
I mean, what the wig and everything but Tony. Never in a million years ago. I think Laura was your hand job on the phone. I know.
I got that folks. I'm sure you love the Creme Bruele. I'm sure you've met a few Creme Bruele guys that work on the phone and everything. I know that those and dozens of Creme Bruele guys made it difficult to make the choose a favourite character when it comes to a big gentleman because it's all I don't think it's obviously with the exception of local shop, local people because British comedy is seeped in its taglines.
It's always that one that comes out. But I think every character has that moment that is truly diabolical. Actually, I'll tell you what my favourite bit was. My favourite bit of a big gentleman is a bit with them.
Pauline. You can fire it and it's just you get that quick snip to Ross banging their own soul. It's just fucking like that. It's just so it punches you in the face.
That whole Pauline's pen thing is just legendary. That's it. Every once in a while they just go boom and show you something diabolical. It's like they've got the mix of horror in there.
It's like they've been truly horrifying and comedy needs that. I think that's why I like it as a kid because I was a morbid little shit. So even though obviously I do agree that season three kind of in-cap it's evolved into a better kind of darkness, a better kind of comedy darkness, whereas season one and two. I can't believe me.
But being a little kid watching that. It just takes the edge off a bit. Give you a little bit of a breather that you've got that latter in the background because it kind of has to be very dark. I'm really shocked that this isn't in my league for the fact that I love dark elements of comedy.
I love dark elements of life basically. I can't believe that I just never got it. I never got it myself. I mean obviously I knew the famous lines and stuff like that.
Yeah, I was like I'd see you at the show. It's to be like a whole fan of no. Like what's saying it's horrifying to look at. If you get in the right mood.
I just think it might be a joke. Yeah, I probably wouldn't watch it if I did live in a small country town. Maybe that would be too real. Like a little village that literally has local traffic written in a big massive bit.
The butcher, yeah. I think I forget from the butcher shop. Yeah. What do you think this is better stuff is?
What is better stuff? I did. I know. Honestly, you know what I probably would as well.
You have to have it. You know what I mean? You don't know if you eat or not because you know I got infected into the first supply. Everybody was ended up with it.
I'm glad they never revealed it because that's like a thing that like. Oh yeah. It's funny and not knowing. Yeah.
I'm just curious. I just want to clean something up before we go any further. I missed a goal, Paul, because I picked the make your boot as well. He was like it's back to me.
I'm like no, it's not. We're playing fast and loose with the number picking here. But I'm featured as I believe that takes us to you. I've got three on my list that I think have high, like, you know, to be not on the people's list.
So I'm excited. The one that I can talk the most about. No, I know my pick isn't for everybody because I've heard people in the podcast before saying that they didn't like it as much as I would. I'm not going to watch it as I forget that.
And mine was first broadcast in 1969. And 1969. And I believe is one of the biggest influences on British comedy. I'm probably going to give it away.
It's a group. They did movies, TV's, TV's, and I caught it sore, sore much. And even influenced one of my ear levels. I mean, the good way to me now is if you haven't got it, I took philosophy for my ear level and I had a copy of a certain song on the front of my philosophy for all day.
The Bruce's philosophy song. It is not a python flying circus. Yeah, I knew it was. I'm terrible.
I haven't seen much of it at all. Not from what I've absorbed from like, yeah, I've seen like a film or two, but I don't know why this has to be by. Yeah, I get it from you at the time. I'm a bit older.
Yeah, like, Peaches, when did you watch it? Like, as a child, like, or was it sort of something? It's probably about teenager. That's what I'm thinking for.
I mean, I watch it for you. More to them. More to them. I would say there's probably a lot more that I understood when I was like, furthering in my twenties on one of my re-watchers.
But I mean, at the time, it's, I mean, one of my favorite books is Grand Chapman's autobiography. Grand Chapman's autobiography. I will sit and I will read this book when I want a break from reading. Grand Chapman again is the one to read.
He's the one who knew. He passed away, but Terri Jones is also passed away since. Grand Chapman was with the game member and he passed away in, I think it was, it was 1989 possibly. I watched his memorial service.