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The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle: FAB!

Started by Neil, October 05, 2007, 07:16:58 PM

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Neil

Wotcha, just a quick one to catch up on the sparse Morris news, and more importantly, to extoll the virtues of a new and actually funny British comedy show!  Thursdays, BBC2, yes that's right, just before "The YouTube Mike Yarwood Show", and his perfectly passable new comedy is the new Jennifer Saunders sitcom.  And it's bloody great.  Course, I've only seen the first episode so far, and maybe it will go careering wildly off the rails from here on in, but I just HAD to prostelytize, as a) I haven't been as excited by a new British comedy for beards, and b) it's that damn Serafinowossname who's unfairly commandeering all the attention in Comedy Chat.

Saunders (aided by creator and co-writer Tanya Byron, yeah her off that) does a spectacularly well-performed talk show host pastiche, while Byron lays out exactly how irresponsible and ill-qualified Kyle and his ilk are.  After accidentally watching a bunch of Jeremy Kyle shows yesterday, I was virtually punching the air at seeing the parasitic cretin being taken apart so comprehensively.  No, he ISN'Tbeyond parody, and how come noone was chanting that when Jerry Springer: The Opera was all over the place? 

Vivienne Vyle is driven by a ferocious anger that is almost entirely absent from British comedy these days (which is probably why it's largely directionless, time-wasting CRAP.)  So check it out.  Actually, I haven't got round to checking out the 'Morris at Bournemouth University' file yet, but wasn't it reported that he laid into Kyle and his ilk in there too?  Must catch up on that - remembering that has made me wonder what the end result of a Morris/Saunders collaboration could have been, given just how excellent early Absolutely Fabulous was.  Morris' latest collaborators, though, are actually going to be Peep Show creators/writers Jesse Bain and Sam Armstrong!  Phwoar, bodes well, given their undoubted gift for narrative and strong, character-led comedy.

Shame that Morris seems to mostly just cast around for the Hot New Things these days, though, instead of finding established talent that could punch him in the ribs and tell him he's talking cack, or just keep up with him and force him to up his game again.  I wonder why that is...my pet theory:  He's an absolutely intolerable control freak, and has got his own way for too long.  Certainly people are seriously worried about giving details about his forthcoming stuff these days (and I understand why, having had unpleasant dealings with one of his hangers-on over Barley).  But you can email me and remain anonymous if you like: waynecarr@gmail.com  thanks.  Kisses.

That's about it, expect to make brief reference to how utterly, bizarrely precious Graham Linehan was on his blog during the second series of The IT Crowd.  Damn shame, that... you'd have thought the co-writer of Father Ted - and a man who was involved with a LOT of the 90's best comedy - could have taken a few negative comments on the chin, without flipping out and deleting all the ones that weren't just shallow, sycophantic dross about 'laughing until knickers become endampened' and 'shooting fluids out of ones nose/ears/eyes.'   "Scan > Negative > Delete!"  Urgh.  As one poster wisely said on here, the difference should be between good and bad criticism, NOT negative and positive.  Oh, and as for meanly casting anyone who didn't like the show as a Morris fan-boy, or (worse) a Comic Book Guy...well, I guess it's nice to see him laying off the Seinfeld cribs with the latter accusation long enough to pinch from The Simpsons, but come on, it just looks ridiculous given the nerdy heart of The IT Crowd (not to mention the updates he writes extolling the virtues of, erm, comic books on his blog, guy.)  Anyway, truly fantastic opener to series 2, shit rest of second series.  Low hopes for the third, given that it will apparently be concentrating a lot more on Matt fucking Berry.  Ho hum.

[youtube=425,350]http://youtube.com/watch?v=ySoboBh5Ilg[/youtube]

inuyasha

My god that was as bad as i thought it would be.

Jemble Fred

Well your enthusiasm has certainly made me determined to watch it more closely next week, Neil, as the first episode did next to nothing for me. But I was three-quarters watching at best, thinking 'she's just doing Edina again'. Maybe I was wrong.

TC Raymond

One star out of five in the Mail on Sunday. Dear oh dear.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Don't let it get you down.

Did they review Vivienne Vyle?

Neil

I think I finally figured out how to enable guest posting on this new software, hooray!  Welcome back, Site Update guests.

Testing

Test.

Ooh, it asks you for an email address, I'll get rid of that.

AC

In fairness it's does seem like almost no-one closely watched it. I certainly comprise part of that no-one.  Will try harder!

Neil

Yeah you've really got to keep your eye on it.  Was talking to ApexJazz last night, and he found the exact same thing as me; second time round, we spotted a whole load of new details in there, and enjoyed it just as much.

Personally, I think it's hilarious so far, but even if you don't enjoy it as a comedy, then DO continue to watch it for it's satirical impact, and general all-round excellent cast and such.


Marginal & Troublesome

I remembered to record and watch the second episode last night, an immense commitment to a telly programme for me these days.  [I'm getting older and, in general, washing the dishes with the radio on is far more rewarding than watching the telly.] 

VV is very funny, very angry.  I like the psychiatrist character, who's a kind of figure of reasonableness in the messiness of it all - he's just undermined and overwhelmed by the plight and treatment of the subjects of the shows.  "We're only making telly" indeed, a Nuremburg defence du jour? 

And when it finished and I turned off the tape (Super VHS still in our house), I was dropped into the horror of Graham Norton and Courtney Love and...

Still, it's only telly. 

M&T

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It seemed to be down for me all day but looking at posts I can see people were posting all day?


Oh, looking at posts maybe it didn't go down until between 10 and 11pm, I could've sworn I tried to get on the site earlier in the day.

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