Nathan Barley Repeats

[akirajoel]

Thank you. But why is the comparison goofy?

It's the use of Radiohead albums to make your point....

 

[Kid_Eternity]

It's a grower. 'Nathan Barley' is, if not the 'Kid A', then at least the 'Amnesiac' to 'The Day Today''s 'The Bends' and 'Brass Eye''s 'OK Computer'.

No it aint, it's sub standard and crap (btw I loved Kid A and Amnesiac straight away were as Ok Computer took a bit of time to get into).

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

It's the use of Radiohead albums to make your point....

Well, alternatively it could be:

'The Day Today' = 'F# A#'
'Brass Eye' = 'Skinny Fists'
'Nathan Barley' = 'Yanqui UXO'

...although I feel this wouldn't detail quite the acquired trajectory...

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I don't think this is true. It's just not as obvious as Brass Eye etc.

I wouldn't call Brass Eye etc obvious, it's just very well observed. NB is lazy and the comedy equivalent of drinking Tesco Cava compared to Dom Perignon.

I think I'd rather watch (shock horror) reruns of the tedium that is Father Ted than this again…

 

[akirajoel]

No it aint, it's sub standard and crap (btw I loved Kid A and Amnesiac straight away were as Ok Computer took a bit of time to get into).

Oooh. Check out the intell-ma-ectual.

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

I wouldn't call Brass Eye etc obvious, it's just very well observed. NB is lazy and the comedy equivalent of drinking Tesco Cava compared to Dom Perignon.

I think I'd rather watch (shock horror) reruns of the tedium that is Father Ted than this again…

I've always said you missed the point AI

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Oooh. Check out the intell-ma-ectual.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I've always said you missed the point AI

Comedy is subjective; does it matter if I don't get what makes you laugh?

 

[Onket]

I wouldn't call Brass Eye etc obvious, it's just very well observed. NB is lazy and the comedy equivalent of drinking Tesco Cava compared to Dom Perignon.

I didn't say it was obvious, I just said it's a more obvious humour. Or thats what I meant anyway.

 

[JoePolitix]

I'm not watching the repeats, but I have been watching the DVD recently. I only managed to catch 3 of them when it was on the first time round. I think it's very good.

The DVD's well Jackson - loads of bum extra features including a Banksy style book - "Fucking With Your Head Yeah?", (the lastest Banksy book "Wall and Piece" contains a caption which reads "Trade Marks Are for Losers (tm)" - theres nothing quite so idiotic in the Barley book).

Also if you select the re-dub and press either right or left when its loading you get a short commentary over the "Polanski" episode from Barley, Ned Smanks and Claire Ashcroft - check out yeah its well brown.

 

[kyser_soze]

Anyone read his columns at the back of the G2 on friday - they are fucking wicked. What if we could have all have a suicide button on our heads. etc.

Does this appear on Unltd? I try not to buy papers, but 2 Brooker fixes a week would be a blessing...

Fucking genius piece of comedy this...I'm minded to have a butchers at the old 'Cunt' compilation webpage too

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

Comedy is subjective; does it matter if I don't get what makes you laugh?

comedy is subjective but you live in funsbury bick and know stokie well ... you know these wankers are out there...

 

[akirajoel]

Does this appear on Unltd? I try not to buy papers, but 2 Brooker fixes a week would be a blessing...

Yeah. There's a whole page here.

The suicide button thing is worth quoting in full:


Supposing... We had instant suicide buttons on our heads

How much does it take to break you? To break you to the point of wishing you were dead?

Quite a lot, for most people - a couple of bitter divorces, plus a total career collapse, followed by bankruptcy and a dash of existential woe. Whereas my threshold's far lower. Simple everyday chores do it for me. During the average washing-up experience I'll wail about not wanting to live any more at least six times. And I genuinely mean it.

That the slightest personal drawback leaves me huffing like a toddler denied sweets is a good indication of just how cosseted my existence has become. It's a life of luxury taken for granted.

Not that I live like a king - the same applies to everyone in the west. We spend our lives flopping on the sofa, moaning about the telly - but the sofa's upholstered with pauper skin and the TV runs on baby blood. Our double-glazed windows block out the sound of lashes and screams from the workhouse next door, while an electrified fence surrounding our garden frazzles any potential intruders to a sizzling carbon turd - which we feed to our dog. Our tiny, pedigree dog. Our dog in a sodding tiara.

To make matters worse, every now and then, we'll come across something in the paper that reminds us just how much injustice it's taken to put us where we are, and we'll get a bit angry and sad, and we'll roll our eyes and turn to our partners and tut and say, "Have you seen this? The world's so unfair," and then we'll get distracted by a car advert on the telly that's got that bloke who was in that thing in it. What was it again? Was it Holby City? Pass us a Malteser.

We're pigs.

Perhaps if we'd all been born with a suicide button on the back of our heads - a "death button" that would kill you instantly and painlessly on a single press - we'd all be a bit more grateful; more aware of our good fortune. Yes, a single press and tee hee hee - it's dead as a cardboard box you be!

Incidentally, it's a button with its own fingerprint detection system, so only the owner can use it - it's not like some prankster can hide behind a hedge and prod it with a long stick as you walk by, then laugh as your corpse lands face-first in doggy-doo. It's yours and yours alone.

Of course, few would make it past adolescence. What? I've got to go to school with this huge spot on my chin? Click. And that's only the first of a long line of push-button temptations. There's exam pressures - click - your first heartbreak - click - your mid-20s breakdown - click - your shitty job - click - turning 30 - click - your first grey hair - click. And so on. But it's all for the best. It thins out the populace and spreads the comfort around for everyone.

Besides, anyone voluntarily pressing their button is a fool, and the world's got too many of them. Stroke it, by all means. Flirt with danger. Run your finger round the rim and contemplate choice. But don't press it. Who cares how big that pile of dishes gets? You're alive, stupid. And you're lucky to be here. Now get on with it.

Charlie Brooker Friday November 11, 2005 The Guardian

 

[kyser_soze]

Cheers AJ

 

[Firky]

It's just as shite this time round. Chris Morris has really lost it with this one; bring back Brass Eye/The Day Today!

Nah, not at all. I've actually worked with people and met people like the ones who feature in NB. These people DO exist.

 

[JoePolitix]

...During the average washing-up experience I'll wail about not wanting to live any more at least six times. And I genuinely mean it.

...We're pigs.

etc

Chalie Brooker = Dan Ashcroft

Terrorists are gay.

It's obvious

 

[innit]

Sorry guys, screen burn is fairly funny but the G2 column is cock, and the suicide button was the worst so far. If only it wasn't next to the quick crossword it blights my day.

 

[akirajoel]

Chalie Brooker = Dan Ashcroft

Harsh.

 

[Orang Utan]

Harsh.

Why is that harsh? It's quite clear.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

comedy is subjective but you live in funsbury bick and know stokie well ... you know these wankers are out there...

Eh? Where the hell is Funsbury Bick? I live in Kentish Town and yeah there are many wankers out there...

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Nah, not at all. I've actually worked with people and met people like the ones who feature in NB. These people DO exist.

I've known people like that too but that don't make the show any better!

 

[siarc]

i thought it was ashcroft/morris & nathan/brooker?

 

[Orang Utan]

i thought it was ashcroft/morris & nathan/brooker?

They're both Ashcrofts if one insists on seeing it in this way - Ashcroft's article Rise Of The Idiots is clearly inspired by Brooker's Screen Burn columns.
But see the post I C&Ped earlier - it doesn't matter who's who - WE/THEY'RE ALL CUNTS!

 

[pianistenvy]

"It's bad to have a bad uncle", you can't beat that bit!

 

[akirajoel]

Forgive me if this seems a bit too obvious to people but Dan Ashcroft is a big (if not bigger) idiot than Nathan, he just doesn't realise it, or maybe doesn't want to realise it. Plus: everything about his life is really shit.

So - if you say that Charlie Brooker is Dan Ashcroft then what you're saying (in effect) is that he's a total fucking deluded idiot.

Which i think is harsh.

Yeah?
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Fucking genius piece of comedy this...I'm minded to have a butchers at the old 'Cunt' compilation webpage too

Went through them all on Monday... The small text "Call Kilroy" plays havoc on the eyes thou...

 

[kyser_soze]

i thought it was ashcroft/morris & nathan/brooker?

Have you read TV Go Home?!?!

http://thegestalt.org/simon/cunt/

Just a pity there's no TVGH anymore...used to CRACK me up on weekly basis...

 

[Orang Utan]

Forgive me if this seems a bit too obvious to people but Dan Ashcroft is a big (if not bigger) idiot than Nathan, he just doesn't realise it, or maybe doesn't want to realise it. Plus: everything about his life is really shit.

So - if you say that Charlie Brooker is Dan Ashcroft then what you're saying (in effect) is that he's a total fucking deluded idiot.

Which i think is harsh.

Yeah?

But true - you seem to missing the point - that we're all self-deluded arrogant cunts.

 

[Orang Utan]

Forgive me if this seems a bit too obvious to people but Dan Ashcroft is a big (if not bigger) idiot than Nathan, he just doesn't realise it, or maybe doesn't want to realise it. Plus: everything about his life is really shit.

Did you read not read post 13? You're saying this as if it hasn't occurred to anyone else. Which makes you as cuntish as Ashcroft and Barley. And Brooker and Morris. And me for pointing this out.

 

[akirajoel]

But true - you seem to missing the point - that we're all self-deluded arrogant cunts.

Whatever. Maybe you are...

Seriously - I'm starting to remember of the bollocks that was spouted on the last Nathan Barley thread. <shudder>

It's a funny show that makes me snigger and cringe with painful recognition.

I really don't see how it says that everyone who watches is a cunt.

Idiot. Maybe.

 

[Phenol]

I've been watching it for the first time this week. Took me 3 minutes to think "what a cunt"! Very cleverly written, very ironic and massively quotable.
How many episodes are there?