2012 Olympics, Frankie Boyle's take.

[Nestor Makhno]

The ace Glaswegian comic, Frankie Boyle had this to say on 'Mock the Week' last week.

"The 2012 Olympics are supposed to improve our national pride and self-worth.

For

 

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There are so many things wrong with a sentence that tries to suggest Mock the Week and laughter are in any way connected...

 

[D3terioNation]

Crap poorly scripted show

 

[Ska Wars]

Good ol Boyle. Bitterness and Scotland, together again and used to great effect

Love Mock the Week, but wish they'd stop getting bloody impressionists on and stick to stand up comedians.

Only downside of when I used to go to Ireland. I'd spent most my free time trying to catch repeats of 'The Panel' lol

 

[Nestor Makhno]

I hope no-one here thinks that that gag was against the Germans - it was a very good p*sstake of the British attitude.

 

[karl stiner]

London in 2012

 

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Oh god no no no Nestor. It's just the show is so laboured. Plus just because they can't pull in the kind of guests that Have I Got News for You can is no reason to have 4 regulars, 4 not particularly funny regulars every week

 

[Ska Wars]

Oh god no no no Nestor. It's just the show is so laboured. Plus just because they can't pull in the kind of guests that Have I Got News for You can is no reason to have 4 regulars, 4 not particularly funny regulars every week

I was the same at first to be honest (poor mans HIGFY), but it kinda growso n you. Dara has been one of my favourite stand up comedians for a few years so I let him off for that

 

[Nestor Makhno]

Yeah - frankly HIGNFY has become a little bit too smug, self-congratulatory and ***-kissy. The whole show seems to be based around boosting sales of Private Lie magazine, in which Ian Hislop slags off people he went to public school with.

MTW is usually bobbins BUT:

it HAS got Dara O'Briain - the man who most successfully dissed Stephen Fry on his own show, and that deserves kudos in anyone's book*.

and it occasionally has some cracking jokes - particularly if they can keep that smug twat Hugh Dennis (I think that's his name) away from the camera.

You also get less of a feeling that all the reponses are scripted and furiously editted on MTW.



* It was an episode of QI where Dara was talking about the people in the village where he grew up and Stephen Fry chipped in with what he probably imagined was an amusing Irish accent and seemed very proud of it.

Dara retorted, "Yes, dat's roit, Stephen, because I actually DID grow up in a 50's fillum."

 

[Bolt]

This topic has showed that I can uderstand American, not English, lol.

 

[Coey]

All comedy shows fail when compared to Whose Line Is It Anyway*.

*When it works that is, sometimes it doesn't come off but when it does it's hilarious.

Plus, Dara is probably the only reason to watch MTW. Jimmy Carr has his moments on 8 out of 10 Cats, but he only really shines at the end of year quiz C4 does.