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Am I right in thinking that the new series starts next week?

Aceness  :D

Yep, 18th.

better stock up on Tena lady - I feel excitment wee may escape!

Can't wait, peep show is the best sitcom of all time.

YES!!!!

I didn't know it was so soon.

Why haven't there been adverts all over channel 4?

I bought the boxed set of this a while ago. I wanted to like it, but I just didn't. David Mitchell is funny, Robert Webb is funny, and yet I just wasn't laughing that much. I think the only time I laughed in about the first three series was "You don't need romance when you're doing it in the bum Mark."

Tell me I'm wrong?

You are very wrong.

This.


Very wrong. Now go and roast the shit out of some meat.

I'm a fan of Peep Show but best of all time is probably pushing it.

whenever I have toast now I always have a piece of white and a piece of Brown - Brown is the main course white is the pudding!

That is my fav bit of peep show!  :nod:

I've never really got into Peep Show, but what I have seen of it is funny. Thankfully, it is ALL on 40d, so I can spend the next couple of weeks watching every episode :)

I find it's a bit of a grower and you need to stick through a couple of episodes to get in the swing of things.

Top comedy of late for me.

It's always something I found funny when I remembered it was on, but never got into a habit of watching it regularly.
So, i've just ordered the box set (series 1-5) from Play for £15.99 :D

Bah! I was informed it was this week. Not happy.

I like it, I own 1-5 but I don't think it's the greatest sitcom ever though by a long, long way. It's a good, steady television show and I think that's why I like it.

I love it,but like most Telly comedy it doesnt actually make me laugh.

Do people really sit watching things killing themselves laughing?

Id be suprised if anyone said yes..

True. Even the best programmes only have one or two "laugh out loud" moments per episode for me. Doesn't mean the rest isn't funny though!

Well I think it is brilliant.

Looking forward to seeing the new series, can anyone remind me what happened in Series 5?

Comedy is no longer about instant laughs, what makes a show great now is when you can steal a line from it and repeat it down the pub at the right time for hilarious effect.

That might sound like a dig at modern comedy, it's not. It's brilliant. You could put out any old shit on nowadays and somebody somewhere will do enough internal giggling to tune in next week, but if you manage to write stuff which will give some boring cunt the opportunity to amuse his mates down the pub by repeating it - either through a shared experience laugh or by claiming it for himself, then you've achieved much more.

This is where the "ahead of their time" comedies like Fawlty Towers and Blackadder get their popularity from. Who hasn't had a laugh running through the coffee joke (or something similar) from Blackeadder4 with some mates?

I don't get the bumming peep show gets. Its funny, but not that great. It mainly consists of david mitchell saying 'actually' all the time

I laugh ALOT at Mock the week actually

The best comedy since The Office.

Personally I probably prefer Peep Show.

Yeah ditto, if ever incontinence pads wre needed for a telly programme Mock the week would be it.
Frankie Boyle = comedy god ;D

His stand-up dvd is shiiite.

Russell Howard is often funny.

I dont really like Mock the Week,I'll watch it but dont make any effort to.Frankie Boyle is over rated and Andy Parsons is just the most annoying twat on TV.

I laughed at an Andy Parsons gag a week or two ago. It was a surreal experience.

Michael Mcintyre is starting to make me chuckle lately, hated him to begin with.

Is that the bald man??? If so for some reason I talk like him when I take circuit training!

Lots of "isn't it" and "yeahh?" then?

Mcintyre is my other Comedy hate!

I saw Frankie Boyle live and he was a mega disappointment. Michael McIntyre is annoying and that Parsons isn't really a comedian, is he?

I thought Frankie Boyle live was good, well more than good because I was literally laughing out loud for a lot of it. I certainly didn't think he was that funny before.

I find McIntyre overexcitable and shouty, almost as annoying as that bloke on the T Mobile advert.

I say Frankie Boyle a few years back and thought he was very good - but he does need an audience to kick against otherwise he is just a fat bloke telling jokes. (As opposed to telling stories or working an hour of brilliant material out of a 70s comedy record like Stewart Lee).

Fat?

Are you talking about the same guy?

For me, there were too many jokes in Boyle's set (when I saw him) that were done on Mock the Week or elsewhere. This took the edge off for me, hense my disappointment.

I've seen plenty of comedians live who do the tv circuit who have used plenty of material I hadn't heard them do before. Boyle's content stood out as repeats.

Frankie Boyle is undoubtfully amusing though.

Yes. He usually wears suits on TV. In a T-shirt he's got quite a gut on him.

I think alot of that is due to him having the bollocks to tell some of his jokes that many others wont due to worrying about the shows producers etc.

He does shy away from political correctness and I find the jokes funny because they are original and Im a racist

Back on topic.  Peep Show is truly brilliant.

Indeed it is Doore.

I'm also hoping for a big Suze fest. Mmmmm Big Suze.

I like Big Suze too Batch, but Nancy is surely a superior morsel for us red blooded men to feast upon.

But she's a yank. I'm sticking with Big Suze.

Another oneMichael, Lost: Juliet or Kate?

Good question.

A year ago it would have been Freckles, no question, but towards the end of Season 5 Juliet became a real contender.

SPOILER:





Shame that she's dead now really.

Not sure she is...

Anyhow, she is in the new 'V' remake that is coming soonish.

Keep it to your lost thread. some of us who gave up a while ago are still thinking they might catch up at some point.

Ive been very kind and leant out my peep show box set to people I feel need to catch up with this Amazin show!

To get you all in the mood!

http://www.heatworld.com/Article/12183/Are+you+excited+about+the+return+of+Peep+Show%3f

OOH if that clip is anything to go by, it's good stuff

men with ven. genius.

Nancy is Canadian. I do think peep show is the best sitcom of all time, if you look at the top 100 sitcoms list none of them are as good as peep show. Stuff like only fools and horses and fawlty towers is good but just isn't as funny as peep show and if you never laugh at peep show there's something wrong with your sense of humour. I just wish the series were longer and more frequent.

That is why British sitcoms remain so brilliantly true to their creators' original vision - a pair of writers (Bain and Armstrong) writing every single word plus some input from an experienced script editors. You don't get any of the sprawl of the US series where random, magical events happen every week to maintain the churn of 22 episodes.

No pool of writers and network chiefs ever create anything as dark as Black Books, Steptoe or Peep Show. Larry Sanders or Seinfield were the closest and both of those were kept under pretty tight reigns by their original writers.

Less us more with something as good as Peep Show and it is amazing that we've had so many series with no signs of any sharks being jumped.

Exactly. Too many episodes and you end up with the written by committee feeling you get with stuff like friends.

Peep Show always surprises me (touch wood) that it's kept up a really good standard through five series. Every year I've been expecting to get a bit stale. If they'd squeezed 100+ episodes in the same five years, would I feel the same? Probably not, it's not only the episode count, it's the rate at which they'd have to chuck them out. You'd end up with Peep Show by numbers.

Yeah you're probably right but it's a shame that Bain and Amstrong can't be cloned so I don't have to wait so long between each series. I thought the first episode was superb. Easily the best comedy I've seen on tv in 2009.

On the other hand you could argue that over here you end up with short run, shallow, over artistic comedy that never reaches prime time and only appeals to small groups rather than the entire population.

Some might say Friends was shit, but if it was why did over 50 million people watch the last episode? TV is brutal in the USA and if it isn't popular it gets dropped quickly.

The biggest problem I have with our comedy though is that the runs are so short they never get a chance to really develop the characters and long running story lines (and gags), which results in not much depth.

That is a point and I think one that Stewart Lee always used to make but really a sitcom isn't about character development. If your characters learn anything you are writing a comedy drama or a dramedy  - like Cold Feet. Sitcom characters never develop because that ruins the central premise of so many shows. What if Mark worked out how to relate to women? If Jez developed a brain? If Fletch went straight (before someone says I know), Manny got some self-respect, Baldrick's scheme worked out?

Remember what happened when Niles and Daphne got together? Fraiser had to end as the dynamic collapsed. British sitcoms of the type being discussed need the characters to be trapped, to never learn, to never change.

But when it does work - ie Spaced - it works brilliantly but they have a life span, otherwise you get a long-running popular sitcom like My Family.

But yes, Peep Show was great tonight, as always.

I thought it was a very weak start to season 6.

I am however looking forward to seeing the "how's it hangling?" bit, hopefully in S6E2.

I'm sure it will be just as funny in the context of the episode as it is in the trailer.

Me too! but Im pretty confident it will get better

It'll be interesting to see where they go from here, what with the firm shutting down. It has the potential to provide plenty of comedy conflicts between the pair of them.

and who the dad of the baby is!!

Another good one tonight, if you've got any of them on Twitter they update throughtout the show

I wasn't that bothered about the first one, but tonight's was brilliant. "Like my subscription to White Dwarf" (or close to that) had me in stitches. And Jeremy's boiler logic, I do that stuff all the time. The whole thing was ace.

I was a bit worried that they'd chicken out of the kid thing when geoff was mentioned. I'm glad they've gone for it with Mark. Wouldn't surprise me if it turns out it's not Mark's at all and Sophie just lied because he seemed like the best provider or something. Maybe it will turn out to be Johnson's somehow.

Now I'm just writing my own future episodes in my head, It's just that I'm glad it was on form again.

S6E2 is a very good episode, perhaps one of the best ever for my money.

I was proper laughing at several points during it.

Excellent.

That would be excellent if Mark got all ready for it and then a little black Johnson baby popped out!

Thought that one last night was brilliant, after an average first episode.  Though I guess the problem is that the Peep Show bar is set so high!

Just watched the second episode on 4OD. One of the best of all time, funniest bit for me was when you hear Mark in the background shouting just shouting FUCK! when Jeremy's making the omelette. I had to pause it because I was laughing too much. Surprised so many people didn't like the first episode too, how can you not love lines like "you can't fuck a sofa Mark, take it from me.".

The first episode always sets the scene for the rest of the series and are consequently slower episodes compared to the others.

Really enjoyed episode two, Jeremy's antics usually make me laugh the most.

I thought it started very strongly with the boiler talk and lazer quest but faded slightly. I enjoyed the ending, but more from a 'this is painful to watch point of view' than a laugh out loud type thing. I think I just prefer the subtle nonsense that Mark and Jeremy spout "Maybe this will be what it's like after the apocalypse, wandering around depressed shooting children for fun". Although having said that, I don't think they'll ever beat the 'dog' episode.

Should never have left Forest...

Goddamn it. Didn't know it was back last Friday. Have C4 even advertised it?

Oh well, 4OD it is.