Quote: Martin Holmes @ October 26, 2007, 10:21 PM

Well that was shit I thought. What was it's point? If an old double act is going to get back together you'd think they'd have some really good plans but it just lacked direction and wasn't funny...apart from the 'Easter Party' sketch and the West Wing style one, the rest was just really bad.

Talk about Serafinowicz using repetition at least he expands on the joke! Three times they did the "Kill Them" gag and twice the two generals talking in 'chav' speak, oh how original.

I like Armstrong & Miller but this was just bad.

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I'm coming to the conclusion that Martin IS Peter Serafinowicz!


For what its worth, I thought A & M were pretty good, although some of the sketches were overlong. The bondage skit was very funny and liked the "where are you?" bits too. Will be interesting to see how it fares in the coming weeks.

As for PS, I still think the jury is out. Mixture of brilliant and bad for me. Still, both are a million miles ahead of that Harry Enfield shit last year (but that's another story....)

 

I liked this, I thought it was a good sketch show. I did not see their original shows, so this was the first time seeing the duo, and I liked what I saw. The Gordon Ramsey sketch was brilliant. There was a lot I liked about it, but I just wish every sketch wasn't swear filled to the max (then again, I don't think there's a single comedy now that does not have at least 100 swear words in each episode).

But anyway, I enjoyed it, and am looking forward to Episode 2 on Friday.
 

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I liked most of it. Will be watching it again. Some original and strong sketches.
 

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Quote: Aaron @ October 26, 2007, 11:10 PM

The real question of course, is what does Zooo think?

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I've only just flipping seen them!
I love it.
So much better than all the other recent sketch shows. Almost every one of the sketches funny.
Not, as I had come to expect as acceptable, a 50:50 hit rate.
 

Good show again. Seems to be a bit more consistent than PS who tends to veer between the brilliant and the bad.

The How Many Hats sketch was very funny and liked the Channel 4 announcer. A couple of the punchlines you could see coming (The Polish workers and the Doll sketch - the latter was very weird). Not bad though.
 

I saw it for the first time last night, there was some good stuff. I particularly liked the Black and White war film stars who talked like teenagers and the 'If you're not going to buy that, please feck off' skits.
 

Quote: Jay72 @ November 3, 2007, 9:45 AM

The How Many Hats sketch was very funny and liked the Channel 4 announcer. A couple of the punchlines you could see coming (The Polish workers and the Doll sketch - the latter was very weird). Not bad though.

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Yes, I loved the Channel 4 announcer. Very funny. Not so hot on the hats though, and can honestly say that I couldn't "see" the punchline to the Polish workers.

Overall, I really enjoyed it again. Great writing, and generally a very refreshing return to good-quality sketch shows.
 

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The pilots were great again.

"You know I had like two legs?"
"Yeah."
"Well, i've only got 1 now."
"Oh my god, random."

LOL. I really enjoyed it but i'm not a big fan of the Football Manager sketch or the "Fuck off," sketch.
 

I liked the last line in that sketch. 'Off you fuck'. I used it on my mother later. Who luckily, had also seen it.

Quote: hotzappa11 @ November 3, 2007, 11:33 AM

The pilots were great again.

"You know I had like two legs?"
"Yeah."
"Well, i've only got 1 now."
"Oh my god, random."

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I love the pilots!

 

I missed Armstrong and Miller last week, but caught it last night and loved it! I used to watch the C4 version in my teenage years and I'm ashamed to say that I never really 'got it' at the time, but now in my mid twenties and after hearing their Radio 4 show repeats on BBC7, I felt they were so good that I went to the trouble of recording them all. Oddly enough, despite not getting it originally, my own writing fashion style was in similar territories to the ones in their radio show.

As for The Peter Serafinowicz Show, I keep on forgetting that it's on so I've only seen the first one (and last nights) but the Butterworth sketches have me choking with laughter - just his general incompetence
 

I thought the standard dropped alarmingly. Probably because it was so similar to the first.

The Abramovich thing doesn't work at all and the doll one was unfunny and way too long. The young lad with his father does his open-mouthed expression for far too long. Dentist doesn't really work, MP followed down hall doesn't work.

Channel 4 thing was a surprise, the Polish workers was pretty good, pilots is well written but now the surprise has gone is just too similar to others. The man going in the shop was pretty good first time round but why do you have to go back to it
 

Quote: zooo @ November 3, 2007, 11:58 AM

I liked the last line in that sketch. 'Off you fuck'. I used it on my mother later. Who luckily, had also seen it.

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Quote: zooo @ November 3, 2007, 11:58 AM

I love the pilots!

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Those two pilot sketches were the first two to be recorded, and I enjoyed muchly then, and continue to now. Brilliant.

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First half of last nights show was absolutely awful, most of the sketches were repeated from last week, with the exact same pay-offs and not only was they repeated from last week but they were then repeated again throughout the episode. Really really bad.

But that doll sketch was funny, although you could see the ending coming a mile off, but it was still good. But then it soon went back to it's repetition...I mean that "if you're not going to buy anything fuck off"..was used THREE times with no expansion on the joke whatsoever. Ugh!
 

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I thought that was fantastic, I enjoyed it even more than last weeks. Great writing and Armstrong and Miller themselves are just so good. Loved the pooing on a train song, the pilots, the dentist; just really liked it. I think its looking like turning into my favourite sketch show of the last couple of years, though its still early days yet. Its not reinventing the wheel, but its just so well done,and funny; Ive also enjoyed the Peter Serafinowicz one, but for sheer enjoyment and number of actual out loud laughs, this ones got the edge.
 

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Quote: Martin Holmes @ November 3, 2007, 12:43 PM

First half of last nights show was absolutely awful, most of the sketches were repeated from last week, with the exact same pay-offs and not only was they repeated from last week but they were then repeated again throughout the episode. Really really bad.

But that doll sketch was funny, although you could see the ending coming a mile off, but it was still good. But then it soon went back to it's repetition...I mean that "if you're not going to buy anything fuck off"..was used THREE times with no expansion on the joke whatsoever. Ugh!

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Are you really judging this show on its merits Martin? It seems that because you like the PS show, you feel the need to criticise this one as you see it as some sort of competition.

Your comments about repetition don't really add up as well. The PS show also uses a lot of repetition both from week to week and during each episode so to single out A&M for that doesn't make too much sense.