Carry On

So I’ve watched the only Skins episode I’ve seen in my life and depending on how profligate I am with free time, possibly my last, because of Peter Capaldi. I have a giant irrational crush on this man, as I am the Queen of Giant Irrational Crushes. After adoring him in The Thick of It, I decided to watch the episode where his character, Sid’s dad, [spoiler] dies (season two, “Sid”). And… what can I say? I have a giant irrational crush on Peter Capaldi, even when his eyes are glazed open in a mask of death.

Worthwhile.

I might be morbid.

ETA: after finishing the episode: yes, that is really morbid. My attitude towards the man, then corpse, significantly changed over the course of 20 minutes. Sid’s intense, agonized shock was subduing; I am grateful for what seems an accurate reaction to death, and will leave the rest be. Please read the above knowing I mostly saw Mark Jenkins as a man coming into his own, rather than… well, pretty much dead.

circlegame:

burntheworld:

lalumena:

Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry back in their Cambridge Footlight days.

Way to be a lech Hugh.

YESSSSSSSSSSS

Did you know that you can find the entire Cambridge Footlights Revue (called The Cellar Tapes) on Youtube? It’s one of the very few (sadly) taped performances of any Footlights performances available. “The Cellar Tapes” stars most of these people (though not Ben Elton, who appears to be in this photograph?) including Tony Slattery. I highly recommend this marvelous sketch called “The Letter” in which Fry apparently reads from a pun-packed take on the Dracula story in high Edgar Allan Poe style. Can you imagine writing and performing your own nationally-broadcast show before you’re even 23? How depressing is that?

Other members of the Footlights: half of Monty Python, Sandi Toksvig (she’s great - I get the News Quiz podcast every week), Mitchell & Webb (incidentally, also Olivia Colman, who is in so many things with those two she’s almost a third person in their double act), Douglas Adams, David Frost (! of Frost/Nixon fame, among other things), John Oliver (exported to the Daily Show), Bill Oddie (!!), Armstrong & Miller (did you know Miller is a physicist? legit), Peter Cook, David Baddiel… the list goes on and on, conveniently compiled by Wikipedia. What kind of amazing tradition is that? Kind of blows the Lampoon out of the water

I loveeeee this shit

ETA: The inclusion of Ben Elton leads me to believe this might be a picture not of the Cambridge Footlights but rather of the cast of Alfresco, a slightly later BBC sketch show.

“This is Paxo. What are you gonna do when he pulls that big rubbery horseface of mock incredulity on you?”

“Ah, Paxo. I’ll miss him when he has that massive coronary.”

— the incomparable Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It

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robyn-sparkles:

circlegame:

ohlivyuhuxtable:

supdogmillionaire:bnues:

My only complaint about their “thing” was that it ended so quickly. Could they not have spread it out over at least one more episode? It’s exactly like you were saying, Ally!- they pretty much tie up all the loose ends on every episode and sometimes we don’t want that.

That is an annoy and shortsighted habit they have.  I was really sad that they didn’t explore this more.  Even if they aren’t “meant to be together” they definitely had chemistry.

This is one of my biggest complaints about Glee. They’ve been using sitcom pacing: several new plotlines are introduced in each episode and are usually resolved by the episode’s end. It’s awkward in an hour-long show and makes the episodes feel overstuffed. And while they might have to sacrifice a few jokes, they could make the emotional moments so much truer and more intense by letting the stories play out over more time. I just find Glee frustrating because whenever I watch all I think about is how it’s a good show, but it could so easily be great and it’s not.

I am in the middle of the last episode right now. Firstly: how embarrassing is Mr. Shue in general, and in particular in the Bust-A-Move song? I think I would face internal organ collapse from holding laughter in if he were my teacher. Winceworthy. Personally I think the character is weak (pussy is a better word for it) but luckily there are enough amazing Sue Sylvester types to balance it out.

Anyway, what I mean to say is this: while the pacing is a little problematic, I think a bigger problem is the shallowness of some of the characters and the occasional winceworthy lines. But again, I tend to think the brilliant moments outshine the forgettable ones… like Quinn’s comparison of unpopularity to toxic assets or Puck’s voiceover or any musical number period or that insane swing dance with Sue and Shue (though I’m also a little creeped out by it too) or any of the “That’s how Sue Cs it” pieces.

Suffice it to say: “Rachel was a hot Jew and the good Lord wanted me to get into her pants”

sircouragewolf:

justinleon

YES.

So I was watching the German version of America’s Got Talent (which is the American version of Britain’s Got Talent, anyway) called Das Supertalent and this poor fellow came on. You know that feeling when you want to both cry and laugh really hard at the same time?

PS The lady is their version of Paula Abdul or whatever the obligatory wishy-washy female judge is on America’s Got Talent.

PPS The mustache is not a Hitler mustache but rather a Charlie Chaplin mustache