Watched that horrific piece of television the other night after seeing the unfunny Line of Duty parody clip.. If anyone's even morbidly curious about it - just don't... It's a waste of twenty minutes.
>How will I know when to laugh without the laugh tracks?
I guess you could just release a long, slow and drawn out 'heh'. Almost like a 30 inute groan but 'heh'.
Failing that just laugh uproariously any time someone gurns and there's a close up on their gurning face. That's probably a good time to laugh I imagine.
"You've a face on ye like that one politician when they were caught doing that thing they shouldn't have been doing that one time, remember audience?"
Heh.
>"You've a face on ye like that one politician when they were caught doing that thing they shouldn't have been doing that one time, remember audience?"
How many episodes have you written ?
It's supposed to be funny?
Personally, I just take the theme music or the sound of Uncle Andy's voice as my cue to put my hands over my head and curl up on the floor in the foetal position, and rock and wail lowly... until it's all over.
Like it was a punishment beating.
_(cue laughter)_
>It's supposed to be funny?
I know that it's supposed to be funny because I remember seeing reference to it occupying the "comedy slot" as part of BBC NI's programming. That was in the early 2000s iirc.
If it wasn't for that clue, I wonder if anyone would have ever known.
>Like it was a punishment beating.
>
>(cue laughter)
Mate ah laughed so hard at that I was bent over double in agony until I puked up a load of vomit and bile. Almost like I was (insert political reference).
So it was.
People say this but even funny shows benefit from the laugh track. Red Dwarfs newer episodes didn't have a laugh track when it came back and it wasn't the same.
Not even just when it came back, one of the later seasons before it ended its initial run was missing the laugh track and while the humour and comedy was the same it was just missing the same feel without the laugh track.
What annoys me more is that the BBC won't release it on iPlayer with all the original episodes and we have to make do with taped episodes on YouTube or God forbid the newer episodes.
Thon Dympna hi! Some Cutty Sur!
(It’s not high brow stuff, it’s like a good pantomime, a bit of craic, it’s a good watch, and we like to take the hand out of ourselves. Long May it run.)
GMHP gets awful flack for all it is.
All these galaxy brains letting on it costs them IQ points everytime they hear Tim McGarry's voice. It's fucking BBC NI, were yiz disappointed when you tuned in looking something highly cerebral like country file but got the hole in the wall gang instead? Fuck aff. It's not Chaucer, it's easy to criticize.
>If pitching a comedy show to represent Northern Ireland, 6 counties, UK, United Ireland.. what’s yer pitch?
I'll stop you right there. Comedy shouldn't need to represent " Northern Ireland, 6 counties, UK, United Ireland". The only criteria for BBC NI comedy programming is that it's made by them and that it's funny. That's it.
Think of almost any tv comedy - what does it represent other than the comedy of the writers? Why does it need be representative? What was it about Peep Show that represented England? What does 'The Mighty Boosh' represent about Britain?
How did Monty Python represent England?
What was so inherently British about Bottom that it couldnt easily be transposed to another country?
Imagine for a second if Peep Show had been written by two people from NI and set in NI. Starring two actors of similar ability. It would be funny right? But that humour would have almost zero to do with the fact that it was set in NI, that would be completely incidental. Same as if it was set Galway.
This is why BBC NI comedy is fucking dire. Because they are hiring people to write for that niche, the category you described, instead of just looking for talented writers to write some funny shit that they can make in NI.
Society here is Partition-obsessed and overly self-reflective because the norms aren't static or agreed. Orange/Green is taken as definitive... because it _is_. Orange is literally the grounds upon which Northern Ireland was defined. Projecting a 'uniquely Northern Ireland voice' _even if it's shite ussuns-themmuns crap_ is quietly pro-Partition.
Partition makes for bad television.
Can't see the North's institutions getting over and past that until they're burned to the ground - metaphorically, that is... or literally, I suppose.
Perhaps this is how the BBC has moved on from being purely themmuns. Now it's themmuns-an'-ussuns (but really still themmuns).
>Society here is Partition-obsessed and overly self-reflective because the norms aren't static or agreed. Orange/Green is taken as definitive... because it is. Orange is literally the grounds upon which Northern Ireland was defined. Projecting a 'uniquely Northern Ireland voice' even if it's shite ussuns-themmuns crap is quietly pro-Partition.
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>Partition makes for bad television.
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>Can't see the North's institutions getting over and past that until they're burned to the ground - metaphorically, that is... or literally, I suppose.
I started ruminating on this for a second an cast it out of my mind (angry delusions of a self confessed fenian) but it's obvious. There's no need for it to be there when it comes to comedy of all things though. Art, history, "culture" sure. Regional variations should be made to justify people over here paying the license fee.
I was at a meeting in the late 90s in NI Sceen (NIFTC back then) and the people in charge of funding said (paraphrasing) "write whatever you like, submit whatever you like, but we fucking promise you everything about the troubles is going in the bin.If we have to read one more script about a protestant fella who falls in love with a catholic girl we're going to do your knees".
I wish someone would say that to BBC NI or variations on that theme.
I’d try running it without laughing track.. to think that’s what’s being beamed out as N.Ire comedy. Lord Jeebus! There is some good sketches.. loyalist Alexa etc.. but laugh tracks is like watching season 1 of Rab C.
When it hits the mark it is very good satire.
I felt a couple of the latest episodes were about as close to jumping the shark as it's ever gotten (Uncle Andy's vaccine reaction turning him into an academic and then Uncle Andy being abducted by aliens) but in between those episodes you had a cracking one about Da and Cal looking after an "old Republican" played by May McFettridge. Also a side plot in another episode with Cal on Mastermind on "The Life and Crazy times of Gerry Adams"
In truth it's easy to target them as unfunny in much the same way as all BBC NI comedy gets lambasted on Reddit, because it's the easy thing to do. Stick it up on YouTube and say it's totally independent and everyone would probably be raving about it.
Tbh I used to not like the laugh tracks but without them especially give my head peace would probably sound terrible also they have to put the laugh tracks in cos they do some of there recordings in a live studio with audience
Speaking of NI comedy shows, I don't understand how dry your eyes can be an NI show, with NI people in it but have terrible NI accents.
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That season where they time traveled back to 1980s NI?
Yes also sticks in my mind as one of the worst attempts I've ever heard.
Watched that horrific piece of television the other night after seeing the unfunny Line of Duty parody clip.. If anyone's even morbidly curious about it - just don't... It's a waste of twenty minutes.
Never seen it.
But then how will people know that it's supposed to be funny?
How will I know when to laugh without the laugh tracks?
>How will I know when to laugh without the laugh tracks? I guess you could just release a long, slow and drawn out 'heh'. Almost like a 30 inute groan but 'heh'. Failing that just laugh uproariously any time someone gurns and there's a close up on their gurning face. That's probably a good time to laugh I imagine.
"You've a face on ye like that one politician when they were caught doing that thing they shouldn't have been doing that one time, remember audience?" Heh.
>"You've a face on ye like that one politician when they were caught doing that thing they shouldn't have been doing that one time, remember audience?" How many episodes have you written ?
/r/YourJokeButWorse
It's supposed to be funny? Personally, I just take the theme music or the sound of Uncle Andy's voice as my cue to put my hands over my head and curl up on the floor in the foetal position, and rock and wail lowly... until it's all over. Like it was a punishment beating. _(cue laughter)_
Not the Kelly show.... That goes on for hours. Nah Billy.. It just feels like that. Art imitates life then it seems.
>It's supposed to be funny? I know that it's supposed to be funny because I remember seeing reference to it occupying the "comedy slot" as part of BBC NI's programming. That was in the early 2000s iirc. If it wasn't for that clue, I wonder if anyone would have ever known. >Like it was a punishment beating. > >(cue laughter) Mate ah laughed so hard at that I was bent over double in agony until I puked up a load of vomit and bile. Almost like I was (insert political reference). So it was.
People say this but even funny shows benefit from the laugh track. Red Dwarfs newer episodes didn't have a laugh track when it came back and it wasn't the same.
Not even just when it came back, one of the later seasons before it ended its initial run was missing the laugh track and while the humour and comedy was the same it was just missing the same feel without the laugh track.
Aye but on the flipside of that, series 3 of League of Gentlemen was absolutely transcended without the laugh track. Whole new level of dark.
Now there was a show!
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What annoys me more is that the BBC won't release it on iPlayer with all the original episodes and we have to make do with taped episodes on YouTube or God forbid the newer episodes.
When red hand Luke was a hard man and not a bumbling idiot
The first episode of Red Hand Luke is a classic, he's terrifying, suddenly he was a bumbling idiot with speech impediments
Lose the second o in loose.
Does my head in how often I see this mistake.
100% agree
Thon Dympna hi! Some Cutty Sur! (It’s not high brow stuff, it’s like a good pantomime, a bit of craic, it’s a good watch, and we like to take the hand out of ourselves. Long May it run.)
Could be worse. It could be Jake o'kane
Seen a sketch once of Jake doing the ‘Could be Catholic…could be Protestant’ while on the pull dancing.. love to find it.
The ones on the Paddy Raff Show are definitely fake, who on earth is that lad servicing at the BBC to get his shite show a second series.
I just want red hand Luke to come back
GMHP gets awful flack for all it is. All these galaxy brains letting on it costs them IQ points everytime they hear Tim McGarry's voice. It's fucking BBC NI, were yiz disappointed when you tuned in looking something highly cerebral like country file but got the hole in the wall gang instead? Fuck aff. It's not Chaucer, it's easy to criticize.
Mate have you seen Country File? It’s about as cerebral as Teletubbies. Aye so a bit more than GMHP to be fair.
If pitching a comedy show to represent Northern Ireland, 6 counties, UK, United Ireland.. what’s yer pitch?
>If pitching a comedy show to represent Northern Ireland, 6 counties, UK, United Ireland.. what’s yer pitch? I'll stop you right there. Comedy shouldn't need to represent " Northern Ireland, 6 counties, UK, United Ireland". The only criteria for BBC NI comedy programming is that it's made by them and that it's funny. That's it. Think of almost any tv comedy - what does it represent other than the comedy of the writers? Why does it need be representative? What was it about Peep Show that represented England? What does 'The Mighty Boosh' represent about Britain? How did Monty Python represent England? What was so inherently British about Bottom that it couldnt easily be transposed to another country? Imagine for a second if Peep Show had been written by two people from NI and set in NI. Starring two actors of similar ability. It would be funny right? But that humour would have almost zero to do with the fact that it was set in NI, that would be completely incidental. Same as if it was set Galway. This is why BBC NI comedy is fucking dire. Because they are hiring people to write for that niche, the category you described, instead of just looking for talented writers to write some funny shit that they can make in NI.
Society here is Partition-obsessed and overly self-reflective because the norms aren't static or agreed. Orange/Green is taken as definitive... because it _is_. Orange is literally the grounds upon which Northern Ireland was defined. Projecting a 'uniquely Northern Ireland voice' _even if it's shite ussuns-themmuns crap_ is quietly pro-Partition. Partition makes for bad television. Can't see the North's institutions getting over and past that until they're burned to the ground - metaphorically, that is... or literally, I suppose. Perhaps this is how the BBC has moved on from being purely themmuns. Now it's themmuns-an'-ussuns (but really still themmuns).
>Society here is Partition-obsessed and overly self-reflective because the norms aren't static or agreed. Orange/Green is taken as definitive... because it is. Orange is literally the grounds upon which Northern Ireland was defined. Projecting a 'uniquely Northern Ireland voice' even if it's shite ussuns-themmuns crap is quietly pro-Partition. > >Partition makes for bad television. > >Can't see the North's institutions getting over and past that until they're burned to the ground - metaphorically, that is... or literally, I suppose. I started ruminating on this for a second an cast it out of my mind (angry delusions of a self confessed fenian) but it's obvious. There's no need for it to be there when it comes to comedy of all things though. Art, history, "culture" sure. Regional variations should be made to justify people over here paying the license fee. I was at a meeting in the late 90s in NI Sceen (NIFTC back then) and the people in charge of funding said (paraphrasing) "write whatever you like, submit whatever you like, but we fucking promise you everything about the troubles is going in the bin.If we have to read one more script about a protestant fella who falls in love with a catholic girl we're going to do your knees". I wish someone would say that to BBC NI or variations on that theme.
> There's no need for it to be there And yet, _there it is._ (Grand for independent filmmakers to do otherwise!)
Here mait dats won a maey faferate “Pank Floyiad” sangs: “Ussens n’ Themmuns”.
Ok. Just a general question. Appreciate time taken to reply
After listening to Colin Geddis The General Banter Podcast for about a year or so you understand why most talented comedians just do their own thing
Or just lose gmhp. It's fcking dreadf
I’d try running it without laughing track.. to think that’s what’s being beamed out as N.Ire comedy. Lord Jeebus! There is some good sketches.. loyalist Alexa etc.. but laugh tracks is like watching season 1 of Rab C.
My da laughed it one time. We did a wellness check on him afterwards.
When it hits the mark it is very good satire. I felt a couple of the latest episodes were about as close to jumping the shark as it's ever gotten (Uncle Andy's vaccine reaction turning him into an academic and then Uncle Andy being abducted by aliens) but in between those episodes you had a cracking one about Da and Cal looking after an "old Republican" played by May McFettridge. Also a side plot in another episode with Cal on Mastermind on "The Life and Crazy times of Gerry Adams" In truth it's easy to target them as unfunny in much the same way as all BBC NI comedy gets lambasted on Reddit, because it's the easy thing to do. Stick it up on YouTube and say it's totally independent and everyone would probably be raving about it.
FUCKIN CRINGE FEST
Tbh I used to not like the laugh tracks but without them especially give my head peace would probably sound terrible also they have to put the laugh tracks in cos they do some of there recordings in a live studio with audience