Be Excellent To Each Other

i only see it in pieces, and i never got to see how its called but its very funny. It's about 3 girls (one blond that looks like maddie, one black and one brunnete) and two guys, one with shaved head. They all are a bit chav and stupid and spend most of the time at the pub. This afternoon i almost got to see 15 min of it and it was incredibly funny. Dunno if i just got lucky or if it's usually this good.

Oh fucking hell!

Er, it's called "The BBC Three Line-Up". Not really. Er,someone else can answer this, I'm giggling too much.

2 pints of lager and a packet of crisps?

isclaimer: I've seen one episode several years ago, I mainly liked it because it seems to be set in Runcorn, and I'm currently slightly drunk.
Is it that then?

It's definitely not three pints of lager, then.

Are these the people in the show, Ruysan?

You must have seen a miracle episode if it is, because it's usually cringingly bad (in my own opinion).

Fact: Lousie is a cutie. Fact 2: I worked with someone who had the EXACT same voice as Donna.


ps: Face it, you all know which ones are named which. No denying it now!

there's about 10 episodes backed up on iplayer, I'm tempted to download them now.

I.... I.... ah... ahh.... *gives up, falls back into helpless giggling once more*

Not laughing at you RuySan, I promise you. It's just... hee! HEE!!!

If RuySan is an American teenager then he may be excused. Anything else, and this must lead to a firm banning.

Oh poor RuySan,

Poor, poor RuySan.

Wait, it could be some kind of crazy Internet joke.

We must give him the right of reply.

Oh.

My.

Lord.

They get Eurotrash in Europe right?

Or someone could have found his pc left on and logged into the forum - and so made this thread.

Which would be brilliant sabatage.

Though also if you are international, especially american, then that amount of swearing, chaviness and corse language would be so unheard of then the 'false sense of the exotic' would make you drawn to it enough to make a thread.

Whatch a few episodes RuySan and you'll learn to hate it.

Yes i found it funny. But maybe i just got lucky. The other day i also see the last 5 min of it and i liked it. Or maybe it was because afterwards they aired Son of the Beach, and it made that british show looked like seinfeld.

Hugh: i don't think an american would "get it". That show would be very british even if they had only sign language on it.

Or maybe its just that i chuckle every time i hear the word "robbish"

not that bad issit?

"Chavs are silly. Laugh at the silly chavs".

No.

Compared to sticking pins in your eyes.

Actually, yes. Yes it is.

That's those "Benidorm" shows, isn't it?

Maybe you're right and this show was made for foreigners laugh at your people.

By some freak of good fortune you may have tuned in for the 15 minutes of the series that contained all the decent jokes.

The day is not yet done - there is still time to place bets.

Hugh RuySan - was it in English, or dubbed into Portugish? I'm wondering if maybe the translated version contains all new jokes.

I mean, 'contains jokes'.

I think you may have misunderstood the thrust of my post.

Oh-er, missus.

Whoops! I mean to address that to RuySan.

I got to quite warm to 2 pints, after a bit.

Yes. But, looks like maddie?

I think its ok...but then again, I am quite simple.

Nope, I am happy to say I have no idea.

Which one of them is supposed to be cute?

Ooh, can I roll out my story of the time the BBC launched the Northern Comedy Unit and the writer of Two Pints was there?

Yes. Did you punch him?

Her,I think.

I refuse to wikipedia TPOLAAPOC.

It is a her.

Basically, the BBC launched a Northern Comedy Unit and invited lots of Manchester standups to network and find out how to submit stuff - this is where things like "Ideal" came from. On the panel were Graham Linehan (Father Ted), John Lloyd (producer of loads of stuff), Fred Barron (creator of My Family, producer for Seinfeld and Larry Sanders Show) and Susan Nickson, writer/creator of Two Pints.

Anyway, there is a big talk about comedy, Barron and Linehan chatting about sitcom writing and stuff. Nickson is largely quiet but tends to chip in and try to be funny and fails. They show a clip from Father Ted - Dougal in a crypt, I think - and the audience is laughing along. Linehan explains his motivations for writing the scene wanting to mix both comedy and sympathy in a dark place.

Barron has a clip from My Family - now I know it isn't everyones cup of tea but he explains that the writing process is deliberatly very American, the scene in question is similar to many US sitcoms and so on. Lots of applause.

Nicksons clip has Will Mellor in his pants. "I wrote that scene because I had done three series and wanted to see Will Mellor in his pants!"

The room is quiet for a moment. A voice from the audience - "Thats all well and good, we just don't get the BBC to fund it, that's all."

That voice from the audience guy is brilliant, isn't he?

There was probably a deep existential meaning to it as well though.

I like Two Pints, as I've said before.

I even liked Grown Ups.

Two Pints is very occasionally hilarious. I'll stick with an episode if Sheridan Smith is looking good, which she occasionally does very well indeed.

FTFY.

AAIIIEEEEEEE! Run, children!

She was brilliant in Gavin And Stacey.

I saw that new Nicholas Lyndhurst one on Saturday. It was, predictably, dreadful but like Two pints had the odd isolated piece of brilliance, in this case almost all involving the son trying to redraw the family tree now his mother's mother was dating his dad's new girlfriend's dad and coming to the conclusion he was his own brother and a slightly obscure line when his sister needed help involving hideously long fake nails, "Only if you go outside and clip the hedge into animal shapes".

Otherwise, it's just.... why would Celia Imrie agree to this?

Plastic surgery isn't cheap, Dudley.

Maybe Grim... should charge us all 2 quid so Dudley can go out without getting fined for 'visually polluting the environment'?

For just 2p a day, I can better that:

She's actually just a head clipped onto a false body.

Also proving that you can't polish a turd. Take note that woman who used to be on Eastenders and went on a huge diet.

Anita Dobson? That one who lost her septum to coke? Patsy Palmer? That one off Bionic Woman?

I heard that nobody could cancel TPOLAAPOC for the longest while because the creator of it is/was very high up at the BBC, and anyone who said the show was shit would never be comissioned again. I've no idea if that's true, but from what I've read about the way the place works it probably is.

Natalie Cassidy, I'd imagine.