*Bob*

I don't think we've ever had a shop as atrociously named as 'Quaint & Belle' round our way.. unless there are some contenders I've forgotten about? Bellenden wins!

So you didn't enjoy Bestival then?

Remember, Otta's best years are some way behind him now. (Puts extra bar on heater, spins ashtray)

Don't worry, I'll bring to Vimto.

Of course, Tillie. Meet behind the mixing desk sometime between 12pm and 8pm? Icke - one of those things that sounds good on paper but I can't imagine it translating into anything you'd want to stay at. Unless it just happened that you were incapable of moving when he appeared.

One for the road, Tillie? 'Our group' toyed with Shambala or Boomtown for this year, but quickly concluded that when you've only got one, you need to play it safe - so it'll be Secret Garden again - accompanied the usual feeble talk of 'last one', naturally.

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Not a comedian as such but (leading on from Simon Pegg) someone I find very hard to warm to is Martin Freeman. Boy does that man take himself seriously.. unless it's a weird cover for shyness or nerves or something.

Dom Irrera is still funny (There goes the afternoon)

That's him!

Some acts I remember enjoying a millenia ago (probably on Saturday Live, or was it Saturday Night Live?) Dom Irrera Emo Phillips Steve (someone or other - American, deadpan philosophical mumblings) Wonder if they're still funny now.

I'd be disappointed if you didn't! Totally understand why he's not for everyone, but it's the loathing I find weird. You'd be forgiven for thinking there were hundreds of Stewart Lees up and down the land, adorning every panel show: not one with a very limited and avoidable television presence. I expect it's probably got something to do with people going on and on and on and on and on about him until you just can't stand it any more..

Just assumed (from your post) you hadn't seen the live show. My opinions largely as yours until I did. That's all..

No problem. I can speak more slowly too - if you need me to.

Girl82 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What's it actually like inside? Think fine tapestries, Farrow & Ball and gold-plated taps.

The attempts at a TV format has always been problematic though. They're like bite-sized, watered-down chunks taken from a meticulously crafted two hour show - the parts of which all come together to make something quite unique - and yes very, very funny. But 'the funny' builds as you go. Because if you want to say something clever, interesting, incisive, acerbic - and make it funny - then machine-gunning the audience with hilarious one-liners in the first ten minutes is not going to cut it - and TV is never going to be your friend in that respect. So if you're 'interested' but haven't seen a full show, you should go. It's seriously impressive stuff. (Unless you hate Stewart Lee - in which case you'll only hate him even more).

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You got a website??!!! That's amazing!!!!! You must swing by again in another four years and let us know what else is new!!!!

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can there be any act more pointless then telling > someone bent over double with laughter that the > person they're watching 'isn't funny'? Back to this, I think.

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Stewart Lee - less funny than a dose of the trots >"'Ouse/Ass" ... did make me cry with laughter That's the great thing about comedy, isn't it? There's a level for everybody.

I didn't catch it 'at the time' Mick so couldn't honestly say what I would have thought of it. I would have been 14 or 15. I do remember someone coming into school quoting Andrew Dice Clay material and I definitely remember thinking 'that guy sounds like a horrible cnut' so it's possible I might not have laughed at Eddie. Around 14 or 15, I think I was feeding on repeats and audio cassettes of NTNOCN. Most of that material still works today. Eddie, on the other hand, was embarrassingly out of date within the space of a few years. He's tried to distance himself from it ever since - should it hamper his career providing cuddly comedy voiceovers for family films.

Yeah - Eddie's side-splitting routines about faggots with AIDS on their lips have really aged well.

I'm trying to follow that, Sue - but I'm going for the easy option instead: hitting myself repeatedly in the face with a frying pan.

I blame tv comedy panel shows - for nearly everthing. Doesn't anybody ever tire of seeing the same two dozen faces dole-out their 'edgy' matey comedic backslapping mediocrity-fests week after week after week? Six hours of recorded material edited to within an inch of its life accompanied by an audience of 300 syncophants bathed in pink lighting who shit themselves with unadulterated laughter 0.1s after each and every tired line is delivered? It seems not.

Sure that isn't nitrous oxide you're thinking of there, KK?