Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire

[dylans]

It's fucking terrible. really unfunny and disappointing.

 

[Balbi]

lol, bewbs.

 

[Balbi]

that said, horse draper just made me laugh.

 

[quimcunx]

Oh, is this something on the tellybox just now?

 

[Awesome Wells]

Is this show American with loads of ex pat actors? It smells like it.

 

[May Kasahara]

There must be some kind of conspiracy at the Beeb, as there was also recently a completely shit unfunny radio series on this very same subject.

 

[Awesome Wells]

I thought the Mithcell and Webb sketch about the post apocalyptic quiz show was better, and the funniest thing i've ever watched on tv.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Oh god, i'm the only one finding this funny aren't i?

No!

 

[Sadken]

This will never be on telly ever again. Why is Sean Maguire American? Anyone remember him being mockney and doing that song "today's the day?"

Him and his family are from Ilford and there used to be mad amounts of abusive graff all over town about them.

 

[Awesome Wells]

crap gossip is crap.

 

[Sadken]

Let's have your gossip then.

 

[May Kasahara]

I thought the Mithcell and Webb sketch about the post apocalyptic quiz show was better, and the funniest thing i've ever watched on tv.

Yes, that was quite brilliant (and brilliantly disturbing too).

 

[Awesome Wells]

I think the most important thing to remember about that is to please remain indoors.

 

[zenie]

Shite!!!

I started watching it cos BF said 'this is meant to be good' and it was fuckin terrible, how did it ever get on telly ey?

 

[Cloo]

It reminded a bit of that 'Whitey Action' thing - it just didn't really know what to do with itself or how to pace itself.

 

[Brainaddict]

Everyone involved in it, from the conception through the commissioning to the acting, should feel embarassed, and should fear the sight of their face in the mirror, lest their subconscious make them stab themselves in the mouth as an act of mercy. It is truly a turd.

Amazing that people in a country where Terry Pratchett and Robert Rankin sell by the bucketload would think they could get away with this kind of tenth-rate abortion of an attempt at humour.

Incidentally has anyone tried to televise Robert Rankin? The Brentford Trilogy would be pretty entertaining if done well.

 

[T & P]

I for one thought it was okay within the context of a sitcom. Certainly no worse than the immense majority of spoof comedies and/or sitcoms, whether American or British, that find their way to our screens.

 

[G. Fieendish]

Is this show American with loads of ex pat actors? It smells like it.

It's a "Co-Production" with the U.S Version of the Comedy Channel, which stumped up the majority of the production budget, & probably explains the high ex-pat factor, & U.S scripting...

 

[ViolentPanda]

Everyone involved in it, from the conception through the commissioning to the acting, should feel embarassed, and should fear the sight of their face in the mirror, lest their subconscious make them stab themselves in the mouth as an act of mercy. It is truly a turd.

Amazing that people in a country where Terry Pratchett and Robert Rankin sell by the bucketload would think they could get away with this kind of tenth-rate abortion of an attempt at humour.

Incidentally has anyone tried to televise Robert Rankin? The Brentford Trilogy would be pretty entertaining if done well.

Ah, but who would you cast as Neville?

 

[agricola]

Oh god, i'm the only one finding this funny aren't i?

It is about a million times better than that shite Robin Hood, and an billion times better than the Tudors. Also, terrible sexist pig that I am, any show that has:

in it is worth watching.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Ah, but who would you cast as Neville?

Neville is the most intricately drawn character in Rankin's oeuvre IMO. There's a passage in one of the Brentford novels, I think it's the Brentford Triangle, about how Neville got his job at the Swan that is one of the most moving things I've ever read. My choice to play the now legendary full-time part-time barman would be Rhys Ifans.

What's this thread about again? Oh yeah, Krod Mandoon. It's shit, not remotely funny.

 

[Psychonaut]

i caught the first one just surfing iplayer as an excuse not to go to bed, and found it really lulzy too. Then i read this thread as an afterthought (and stay up even later) & i thought maybe you need to be in the right mood or it works on a very narrow wavelength of humour, which doesnt tickle a lot of people.

I didnt like the new episode as much though.