The Thick of it

[stavros]

Get this on terrestrial ASAP. Fuck me this is ace. Iannucci is so fecking brilliant; Day Today, Partridge, the Armistice and now this. Respect.

 

[Maggot]

The piss woman was great:

'Do you think this is funny?
Do you think my mother's piss is funny?
She not laughing.
She's pissing herself.'

 

[Sunspots]

I think Chris Langham is hilarious in this, and has also been great in Help and People Like Us. He does 'inept' brilliantly.

I knew he was once one of the writers for The Muppet Show, but until recently I was completely unaware that he was also part of the original team for Not The Nine O'Clock News.

 

[siarc]

still psychotically wonderful

each episode is like a faberge egg laid by a rabid pigeon writhing in its own shit

 

[Stigmata]

Chris Langham used to teach at my old 6th form College.

 

[spartacus mills]

Last night's was the best ever!
Langham chairs tonight's 'Have I got News For You'.

 

[oisleep]

neil's on wheels!

 

[stavros]

(knock at door)
"Come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off."


Malcolm is the lynchpin of the show for me.

 

[shandy]

Malcolm is the lynchpin of the show for me.

Capaldi's great.

"That door's staying as open as a fat whore's bone-hole"

 

[sparkling]

I think Chris Langham is hilarious in this, and has also been great in Help and People Like Us. He does 'inept' brilliantly.

I knew he was once one of the writers for The Muppet Show, but until recently I was completely unaware that he was also part of the original team for Not The Nine O'Clock News.

Did you listen to that Reunion prog? It sounded like he was going through a dark time then.

Anyway back to thread...brilliant, brilliant. Poor Terrie

Quite scary as well with the Nicholson character being shown just who was in charge....'lets put our remits on the table and see whose is the biggest' Willy waving to an art.

 

[Sunspots]

Did you listen to that Reunion prog? It sounded like he was going through a dark time then.

No, I didn't see it, but according to Wikipedia he had some kind of drug problem, made worse by getting dropped from the Not The Nine O'Clock News team in favour of Griff Rhys Jones.

Still, that was 25 years ago, and he's been increasingly successful ever since.

Lovin' this show.

 

[sparkling]

No, I didn't see it, but according to Wikipedia he had some kind of drug problem, made worse by getting dropped from the Not The Nine O'Clock News team in favour of Griff Rhys Jones.

Still, that was 25 years ago, and he's been increasingly successful ever since.

Lovin' this show.

He joined the others for a Reunion about Not the Nine O'clock and said that with hindsight he could understand being dropped as he was all over the place with drugs and stuff...however it sounded incredibly painful for him and he said that this was the first time he had been able to talk about it...I think he used The Reunion as a sort of cathartic experience really.

 

[Maggot]

The last episode was class.

Did anyone notice the similarity between Terri's appearance on the news apologising for the email, and the real life apology by the civil servant who said September 11th was a good day to bury bad news. They were almost identical.

 

[sparkling]

Excellent last episode, left me cringing and laughing at the same time. Its all so believable.

 

[spartacus mills]

"I'm installing a swearbox in here...............I'm fucking joking you twat!".

 

[Orangesanlemons]

All three episodes are up on the BBC4 website (which is where I saw them). Absolutely awesome stuff.

Random policy wonk: "Excuse me, can you stop swearing please?"
Malcolm: "I'm sorry, you won't hear any more swearing from us. You MASSIVE. GAY. SHITE. Now FUCK OFF!"

 

[Belushi]

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.

My only complaint is that they've only made three bloody episodes again

 

[Belushi]

"I'm installing a swearbox in here...............I'm fucking joking you twat!".

Malcolm is my hero, in fact I've started swearing all the fucking time

 

[siarc]

wikipedia says 'A second series of three episodes was transmitted on BBC Four from October 20 until November 3, 2005. The first six episodes will be repeated on BBC Two in 2006, when ten new episodes will be produced' though i can't find anything to corroborate that

 

[nogoodboyo]

Christ alive! What a cunt!

Superb stuff.

 

[stavros]

Are they going to be able to say "cunt" on BBC2? I'm not sure I've ever heard it on terrestrial Beeb. The Sopranos used it I think and Curb Your Enthusiasm had the genius "Beloved Aunt" episode but other than that they tend to steer clear of its use.

 

[siarc]

just found bbc2's editorial policy on swearing

i think cunt was used for the first time on bbc2 a year or two ago

 

[Dask]

This program is the dogs bollocks! Have just watched all 6 episodes back to back off UKNova.

Fantastic stuff.

 

[Maggot]

Why has no-one bumped this now it's being shown on BBC2?

Tonight's one is a classic, Hugh Abbott accidentally sends a sweary email to a small child.

(10pm BBC2)

 

[Matt S]

"The only way that my day could get worse is if the Intelligent Climate System set fire to my office and then tried to put it out by spraying camel shit over my head."



Matt

 

[JoePolitix]

Why has no-one bumped this now it's being shown on BBC2?

Tonight's one is a classic, Hugh Abbott accidentally sends a sweary email to a small child.

(10pm BBC2)

That was the best episode I've seen yet. I loved the whole "super schools" thing. Supurb.

 

[Crispy]

That was the best episode I've seen yet. I loved the whole "super schools" thing. Supurb.

Fantastic isn't it. Glenn's face in the hearing as Hugh starts roping his son in. Priceless and so overtheline-ly awful.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

"Can you believe it? A man in his 50s hiding"

 

[Griff]

One of the very few really funny things on telly at the moment.

 

[perplexis]

This is genuinely dark and hilarious, it cracks me up. Iannucci's really got it spot on- I love the way he's presented a view of backstage Westminster that is absolutely plausible (at least to me!)