Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

[Trembling Eagle]

sweet Odins beard this show is awesome.
Damn the English know how to do comedy

[samir]

yes, yes it is.
and yes, yes we do.
stars richard "moss" ayoade!

[Bryan]

I've just watched the first episode of Snuff Box (with some - or maybe just one? - of the same folks as Darkplace) and it seems pretty hilarious. But also toxic. I think I will enjoy it most in small doses, like 1/2 hour per month.

[Spoony]

That guy knows his way around every kind of television show I loved as a kid.

[Jason]

Go watch Porridge and Dad's Army.

[Trembling Eagle]

Go watch Porridge and Dad's Army.

I'm watching the Mighty Boosh now
these guys should sue Flight of the Conchords

[samir]

oh, how i love any excuse to post this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rvOZpO6Glk

[Martin]

The best.

EDIT: I meant Samir's clip, not Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, which I found funny but annoyingly uneven.

[daveB from Oakland]

oh, how i love any excuse to post this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rvOZpO6Glk

Why do british entertainers always have to work in something about "Hoovers" and "Spanners"? Do they take some kind of nationalistic pride in having the wrong names for things? Come on, United Kingdom. It's a vacuum cleaner. It's a wrench. Give it a rest. Learn to speak English, ya fookin' English people.

[ericluxury]

I disagree. I found Darkplace boring and not funny at all. Maybe the final four are where it really shines, but in the first two there was no jokes but the spoof aspect. Would be a great 3-5 minute sketch, but I found it hard to get through even two episodes.

[Trembling Eagle]

I disagree. I found Darkplace boring and not funny at all. Maybe the final four are where it really shines, but in the first two there was no jokes but the spoof aspect. Would be a great 3-5 minute sketch, but I found it hard to get through even two episodes.

Man....there are so many awesome one liners

"I'm a big girl now...in a years time I'll be a woman."

"If that's how you treat your friends imagine how you treat your enemies....worse I expect."

"The lord moves in mysterious ways, sometimes he comes in at an angle. Sometimes be burrows underneath like worm."

the guy that plays Dean Lehner is frigging brilliant: the delivery, the cadence.


It may just be a taste thing, for me it's the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.

[Sarah]

That's the fine Richard Ayoade that Samir mentioned.  I love him.

I liked Dark Place just fine, but I've got to say I vastly prefer Boosh.

(P.S.  T.E., I got hold of a back issue of the mag in which "The First Editions" appears [I bought it online; the Lubec library doesn't extend to such arcana] and will read it soon.)

[yesno]

I usually hate the "so bad it's good" angle, but Darkplace I loved.  It's Boosh that I find annoyingly uneven.

[Sarah]

Oh, I can easily understand someone disliking Boosh.  I just happen to love it, warts and all.

[todd]

Can I confess something here?

I sat down recently to watch the English version of The Office, but it feels like half the jokes are going over my head. I have to rewind a lot to understand what they're talking about. It sucks because I really like the tone and sensibility of the shows.

Does anyone else have trouble watching British comedy?