Nathan Barley

[purves grundy]

Peep Show writers sign up for Chris Morris project
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/comedy/story/0,,2157255,00.html

well plastic

 

[Dillinger4]

The TV series bombed because you had to live in London and see these kindssof prats in real life to get the joke.

I got it and I have never lived in London.

You sometimes see proto-NathanBarleys in Manchester. They end up moving to London in the end.

 

[skyscraper101]

Super Super is quite unbelieveable!

Isn't it! Apparently their parties in Shoreditch (where else?) are just like that scene in the club with Dan the Preacher Man

 

[Crispy]

God, I used to know one. Ridiculous amounts of parent's money, overpowered computer he could barely use, plummy voice, zero chin. Incredible bullshitter. Got a first. Has since worked for 'design agencies' in copenhagen, amsterdam, london and edinburgh. Has been flown around all sorts of places on expenses, drinks poncy lagers and has had a string of pretty but vacuous girlfriends. A twat.

 

[Dillinger4]

I used to go out with one.

She is a girl Nathan Barley.

I bet she is reading supersuper right now.

 

[stdPikachu]

I got it and I have never lived in London.

You sometimes see proto-NathanBarleys in Manchester. They end up moving to London in the end.

Aye, there were similar minorities back oop norf in Wales - all nu-meeja types that swaggered about in trendily alternative clothes. They too all moved to London, and I guess critical mass was achieved to the extent that, somehow, scooters became an acceptable mode of transport for the over-5's.

Me and Kameron used to work in Brick Lane (close enough) and drank coffee at a trendy but nice coffee shop - and some of the people in there were so close to the guffawing stereotypes in TVGH/Barley I had serious doubts as to whether "Cunt" was a work of fiction or not.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

Isn't it! Apparently their parties in Shoreditch (where else?) are just like that scene in the club with Dan the Preacher Man

I lived/worked there between 2002 and 2004 and had a quasi mullet, it was fun poncing around there. it was certainly barleyesque but I can only imagine what its like now after viewing Super Super. i have since had a haircut btw. Although I went to a party in Hackney a few months ago and was gobsmacked at the get up of some people!

 

[editor]

Nathan Barley - totally fucking mexico.

What I love is how all these nu rave, shoreditch mediaboy, I was BORN in the EIGHTIES t-shirt wearing people have somehow come to epitomise everything about that show like 3 years later than portrayed by Morris.

I also love how Super Super Magazine is basically like a real life Sugar Ape

Well weapon.

Some of the crap on that page could have come straight for the mouth of Nathan Barley:

TRASH FASHION RAVE DOG
It's the "RAVE DOG" video of a day in the life of Trash Fashion, as seen through the eyes of Sniff the Dog (RIP). With Peaches Geldof n SUPER SUPER....

cunts.

 

[editor]

collected nathan barley TV Go Home entries here

the TV series is great but the listings were just pure vitriol

Brilliant.

 

[Balbi]

I have to restrict myself from reading that page to a couple of times a year, due to the hysterics it puts me in

 

[Dillinger4]

I am quite oblivious to most things but this really really winds me up.

 

[Cloo]

I do believe it was for Nathan Barley that TVGoHome coined the marvellous phrase 'Fuckhaired', which I use whenever possible.

 

[bluestreak]

i just can't decide which of those is my favourite...

 

[bluestreak]

this one. i think this one is almost unmatchable for grimness.

 

[stdPikachu]

I have to restrict myself from reading that page to a couple of times a year, due to the hysterics it puts me in

Likewise Every time I read the one about the enthusiastic fingering of someone from Hollyoaks followed by the baseball bat'n'mash fantasy I start giggling like Herbert Lom. Truly fucking inspired

Edit: bwahahaha!

 

[Crispy]

Brilliant.

*treads close to the line*

sounds like the albert

 

[bluestreak]

hey.

there are some trut.. uh... things that just shouldn't be said!

 

[Spion]

This guy creases me

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zKkXMesclz8

 

[Strawman]

Have you noticed how ITV News is now presented in almost exactly the same way as The Day Today?

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Day_Today

I often think the same of Brass Eye. I remember when that was first shown the computer graphics seemed mental and so over the top - when you watch it these days it seems normal

 

[stdPikachu]

I remember when that was first shown the computer graphics seemed mental and so over the top - when you watch it these days it seems normal

I think they have an International Finance Arse on Working Lunch now, don't they? Obviously the Bunderswessel went out with the Euro

 

[agricola]

Always worth another look, eh?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=o4mpJumHU-w&mode=related&search=

it was superb. i did however find the whole series nearly unwatchable, so utterly annoying, and readily identifiable with people you see walking down the road / in bars, was it.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

extra large '5'!

Hoot your trap off on a Wasp T12 Speechtool

 

[corporate whore]

The TV series never got close to the vitriol Brooker used to cram into a single paragraph.

 

[Cloud]

One of my favourite series

I don't live in London thou.



"It's bad to have a bad uncle" lol, hilarious that one

 

[JoePolitix]

Vice Magazine also strikes me as very sugaRape like too:

http://www.viceland.de/index_int.php?country=uk

 

[Brainaddict]

I've always suspected sugerape was mostly based on Vice magazine, though I'm sure there were other targets too.

 

[Blagsta]

It was just a one-paragraph description in a fake TV listing, not an actual TV show.
I think this is the first one and then he's in every issue onwards.
http://www.tvgohome.com/1905-2000.html

Fuck me they were funny weren't they

I'd forgotten how funny they were! Cheers!

 

[JoePolitix]

I've always suspected sugerape was mostly based on Vice magazine, though I'm sure there were other targets too.

There was even one edition of sugaRape called "The Vice Issue" - coincidence?

 

[Cloud]

There was even one edition of sugaRape called "The Vice Issue" - coincidence?

Is that the one where he had to wank off a working class married guy in the bogs of a pub up north?

 

[stdPikachu]

Ah yes, the infamous "stray" scene - straight-on-straight gay action!