New Grant/Marshall series - The Quanderhorn Xperimentations

[Phil_A]

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2018/03/28/39515/new_book_from_red_dwarf_and_2point4children_writers

This sounds potentially promising, although isn't it exactly the same premise as Graham Duff's Professor Nebulous?

[Ignatius_S]

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2018/03/28/39515/new_book_from_red_dwarf_and_2point4children_writers

This sounds potentially promising, although isn't it exactly the same premise as Graham Duff's Professor Nebulous?

This one sounds like it could be funny - so could be taking a very different approach.

[Malcy]

This one sounds like it could be funny - so could be taking a very different approach.

Tried a few times to get in to Nebulous but kept losing interest. This sounds good. Will listen to it when it's out.

[Malcy]

Starts Monday 25th at 11.30 on R4. Trailer and details here - https://www.absolutely.biz/portfolio/the-quanderhorn-xperimentations?type=shows-recent

[olliebean]

Any more entrants for the "Not As Good As Douglas Adams" award, before nominations close?

[gloria]

I put on the first one to listen to on iPlayer and only lasted about 5 minutes.* It may seem an odd thing to say about a comedy show, but it lacks seriousness. Pure whimsy isn't enough to sustain one's interest in anything longer than a sketch. As I say in the Hitchhiker thread, Adams's stuff had clever satire and a truly dark Kafkaesque tone to prevent it collapsing into sodden souffle of funny names. This didn't. Or maybe it did? Did it improve dramatically (in both senses) as it went on?





*in a non-sexual sense

[notjosh]

I haven't listened to this, but Nebulous is brilliant - one my favourite radio comedies ever. Much better than this crap, probably.

[olliebean]

I put on the first one to listen to on iPlayer and only lasted about 5 minutes.* It may seem an odd thing to say about a comedy show, but it lacks seriousness. Pure whimsy isn't enough to sustain one's interest in anything longer than a sketch. As I say in the Hitchhiker thread, Adams's stuff had clever satire and a truly dark Kafkaesque tone to prevent it collapsing into sodden souffle of funny names. This didn't. Or maybe it did? Did it improve dramatically (in both senses) as it went on?

No.

It definitely felt like it was trying hard to be Adamsesque, though, whilst not really getting him. Some of the lines felt like they'd just pinched something from Hitchhiker's and changed a couple of words.

[StuglePStugleton]

Still though, marginally funnier than The Strangerers.