The Comic Strip Presents

[the science eel]

Sex Actually is bad Sheridan looks great in it though.

oh GOD yes

[jobotic]

Mr Jolly is probably the thing I quote most (in my head, I'm not an arsehole).

Got a train through Elephant & Castle on Sunday. No one knew I was there.


Rik Mayall lighting a fag, taking one puff and then stamping it out has always stayed with me.

[DrGreggles]

Elephant & Castle

Stick it up your arsehole!

I'm not sure I was aware of Nicholas 'BLOODY' Parsons before I saw MJLND.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

I remember in the Yob the transformed character gets an overdose of his potion and turns not into a football yob but a rent boy!

[kalowski]

"Barmy fluid? Right, I'll have some of that!"
Best are Mr Jolly, Fistful of Travellers' Cheques and the utterly perfect Strike!

[jobotic]

"What could be better than living above an off-licence?

Living in one?"


I promised I wouldn't do this.

I also have to bite my tongue whenever I hear tonic water mentioned.

[markburgle]

Demonella is a load of wank. I remember one with Peter Capaldi in the lead and the only laugh was he got a ride home after a late night in the bucket of a digger, which plonks him down in an amusingly slapstick way.

I like the serial killer one, movie psycho juxtaposed with humdrum "real life" psycho

[Pink Gregory]

Toe-nic wa'ar?

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Wasn't there a Comic Strip where a woman tugs the front of a man's jockstrap, stretching it, then lets it snap back into place and hit his genitals to put him in his place?  It might have been at a poolside/beachside setting.  Was that a Comic Strip episode or am I mixing it up with something else?

[Flouncer]

I just rewatched Slags and I still think it's great! I love the schlocky dystopian atmosphere and the soundtrack is wonderful! Lots of lovely analog synths and it's really effective. Several moments that made me laugh out loud - some that fell flat as well but on the whole I found it really enjoyable. Definitely one of my favourites.

Aside from crowdpleasers like Bad News and Five Go Mad In Dorset, a lot of them seem very specifically pitched, so it becomes very personal as to whether they're on your comic wavelength or not.

This is a good assessment, I think.

I loved Didn't You Kill My Brother and Mr Jolly but didn't get on with Fistful of Travellers Checks at all.

Personally Fistful is probably my second favourite, after Mr. Jolly - it just goes to show how much it's down to your personal taste as to whether an episode clicks with you or not.

[neveragain]

I really enjoy Demonella, a good old-fashioned Gothic comic short story. The more surreal ones like Les Dog and War are also firm favourites of mine. As mentioned, Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase is great satire of violent movies and the issues surrounding them.

[McChesney Duntz]

I will contribute only my usual comment when the subject of this show comes up: "Private Enterprise" is severely underrated.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

I will contribute only my usual comment when the subject of this show comes up: "Private Enterprise" is severely underrated.

That one written by Adrian Edmonson , featuring Rik Mayall as a band member, sporting a very 1986 hairstyle? Naw, It's crap.

[McChesney Duntz]

That one written by Adrian Edmonson , featuring Rik Mayall as a band member, sporting a very 1986 hairstyle? Naw, It's crap.

Guess you showed me.

[DrGreggles]

I will contribute only my usual comment when the subject of this show comes up: "Private Enterprise" is severely underrated.

Yes, I like that one.

Contains the world's shittest extra too.
https://youtu.be/RarEupWeyLQ?t=1837

[Mister Six]

The bloke who says "Watch it"? Isn't he directed to act like that? I figured it was a gag, like the guard who belatedly says "Hey..." after one of the Knights charges up, stabs his mate and rushes past them into the castle in Monty Python's Holy Grail.

[DrGreggles]

I think he might just be terrible.

It gets a laugh from me though, which cant be said for a lot of Comic Strips.

[Echo Valley 2-6809]

I think it's meant to be funny that the cigarette drops out of his mouth, but that probably wasn't enough so the deliberately lame "Watch it!" was dubbed on later.
I agree with Mister Six about the possible Python inspiration for that bit.

[Leej88]

Private Hire is not funny though not once did I laugh.

[DrGreggles]

I think it's meant to be funny that the cigarette drops out of his mouth, but that probably wasn't enough so the deliberately lame "Watch it!" was dubbed on later.
I agree with Mister Six about the possible Python inspiration for that bit.

I think you're both giving them FAR too much credit!

[kidsick5000]

The Strike is ok I guess obvs a parody of America and the film industry making films for general audiences and all the historical inaccuracies not bad just not really funny.

Without knowing how old you are, I think how you view Strike comes down to when you watched it. The jokes it makes have been imitated a lot, so if you only saw it more recently, it might suffer from familiarity