Thngs that are vastly over rated

[mockney piers]

Withnail & I, Pixies, next you'll be saying Su Ingle!!!! .....pistols at dawn for you and me Keef!!

[Keef]

Pixies had some good tunes, but I hate the way people talk about them like they were something amazing... They're also one of those bands that a lot of people (and I don't mean you MP) like because they're the band to like, same as Stoned Roses, and that makes me like them less!

[atila the gooner]

i-Pods i-Phones, and blackberries they seem to be everywhere. Every morning I commute into work and a scary number of passengers seem to depend on these things as if without them thier lives wouldn't be worth living or the world would end!!!

[wee quinnie]

Overseas travel - I am not saying it's rubbish, but it's definitely usually a bit of a letdown.

[citizenED]

Catherine Tate.

[Brendan]

wee quinnie Wrote:

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> Overseas travel - I am not saying it's rubbish,

> but it's definitely usually a bit of a letdown.

You must be going to the wrong places.

[Cassius]

wee quinnie Wrote:

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> Overseas travel - I am not saying it's rubbish,

> but it's definitely usually a bit of a letdown.

Agree with Brendan - I always find coming back to England the letdown!

[LizzygotDizzy]

Well I'm off to Canada in a few weeks, will let you know! yay! Can't wait. Was meant to go in April but work commitments etc. meant had to leave it until May. :'(

[Keef]

I do think it can depend, sometimes overseas travel is a bit naff, but I would love nothing more than to be going back to Australia, or Africa, or India, or many many other places right now!

Citizen, I agree RE Catherine Tate. I do think she's very clever, and has made some good characters, but they are all far too reliant on their catchphrases. Whereas the Fast Show used to have characters with catchphrases that would be used to support an otherwise still funny sketch, CT's sketches will more often than not be totally reliant on the delivery of the big catchphrase.

"What a f**king liberty"

"How very dare you"

"Am I bovvered"

And so on.

[citizenED]

And also the characters are so downright nasty. Call me a softy but in my comedy, as in my drama, literature and cinema, I like to have some empathy with the characters.

[Keef]

Agreed, think my fave ever was Ted & Ralph from the Fast Show.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I have never found Harry Hill funny. Am I missing something or just showing my age?

[Izodia]

I don't find his comedy stuff at all funny, but his TV Burp gives a giggle.

[Keef]

I have never !got" Harry Hill. He's actually doing some gigs at The Hob in Forest Hill on the 1st of May, and another date or 2 I think...

[Jah Lush]

Oh I don't know Harry Hill's alright, just a bit too surreal at times, see also Eddie Izzard. TV Burp by the way, isn't written by him and perhaps is all the more funnier for it. But his delivery and performance on the show is very good.

[david_carnell]

The Mighty Boosh....

eh?

[mockney piers]

Totally agree with Harry Hill, seems a nice enough chap though.

Actually rather like the Mighty Boosh, though got there very late.

[Jah Lush]

Agreed. Not exactly laugh out loud is it.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Agree with the Harry Hill - several comedy nights have been ruined by the announcement "and now a special surprise guest...."

Mighty Boosh - I would have once agree but now I LOVE them.

[Ant]

*crimps*

[Brendan]

I?ve always loved the mighty boosh but then I do have a taste for the absurd.

Not particularly fond of Harry Hill though.

[louisiana]

Keef Wrote:

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> Pixies had some good tunes, but I hate the way

> people talk about them like they were something

> amazing... They're also one of those bands that a

> lot of people (and I don't mean you MP) like

> because they're the band to like, same as Stoned

> Roses, and that makes me like them less!

The Breeders are/were much better. Check out their old and new albums.

[Cassius]

The Pixies were never very good live but I do think Doolittle is an amazing album.

[citizenED]

But is the Mighty Boosh over-rated in the first place? Don't know of many people who rate it - well Sean and Brendan claim to, but then....exactly. Harry Hill has been lauded all over and I've never found him very funny. Nevetheless I find him likable. Unlike Catherine Tate.

[Brendan]

Re. The Pixies. As a teenager I got my hands on Trompe le Monde just after it was released. I had never heard anything like it. Within a week I had their entire back catalogue and became a bit obsessed with the band. So much so that I had to ration myself to only listen to 1 Pixies album a day.

In my opinion they were the most innovative of the underground American ?alternative? bands of the late 80s early 90s before the whole thing exploded into the monster that was Grunge.

You probably experienced it differently here as the whole thing was kinda overshadowed by Brit-pop. Or at least that is the impression I get.

Funnily I never liked the Stone Roses. I always thought they were overrated and I couldn?t see the point of 5 minute long intros. Over the last few months though there has been a ?best of? album on my ipod and I have actually started to get into them.