Ask Rhod Gilbert

Basq

2 episodes into this new series, and it's shaping out to be very entertaining!

Greg Davies (Mr Gilbert from 'The Inbetweeners') and Rhod's flatmate Lloyd Langford are the two team regulars and they 2 guest comedians / celebs, and an adjudicator.

it's sorta like a dumbed-down sillier 'QI' but Rhod, Greg and Lloyd are all very funny (particularly Lloyd who's very sharp) and it's definitely worth a look!

AlmightyCushion

Rhod Gilbert is very funny. I think I'll give this a watch.

Basq

The odd thing thing about Rhod Gilbert is I think he's absolutely fantastic on sketch shows (e.g 'Never Mind The Buzzcocks', '8 Out Of 10 Cats' and this), but I saw his live show (the "mince pie" one.. forget it's name, but you know the one I'm on about) and I didn't think it was particularly funny.

He is very funny though.. there's no doubt!

AlmightyCushion

basquille wrote: »

The odd thing thing about Rhod Gilbert is I think he's absolutely fantastic on sketch shows (e.g 'Never Mind The Buzzcocks', '8 Out Of 10 Cats' and this), but I saw his live show (the "mince pie" one.. forget it's name, but you know the one I'm on about) and I didn't think it was particularly funny.

He is very funny though.. there's no doubt!

I haven't seen him do a full live show just bits like the one where his luggage got lost by the airport or the bit with the torch with the power of a million candles. Great stuff I thought.

pickarooney

The first post had me horribly confused with all the Gilberts! I might give this a look; it's been ages since I watched a good new UK comedy. Any other recommendations, BTW?

Basq

pickarooney wrote: »

Any other recommendations, BTW?

Good UK comedy is slim on the ground these days.. although 'Genius' is also back for a second series on Monday evenings. That's good fun.

Roar

The first time I saw The Award Winning Mince Pie I thought it was genius. Second time I thought it was horribly contrived and not as funny as I initially thought. Must check this show out thought.

DOC09UNAM

What channel is it on?

Skid

basquille wrote: »

it's sorta like a dumbed-down sillier 'QI' but Rhod, Greg and Lloyd are all very funny (particularly Lloyd who's very sharp) and it's definitely worth a look!

I reckon it's like QI meets Shooting Stars. I've never seen Lloyd before but he is very funny.

First two episodes were great, especially the bit at the end where Greg does his 'makeover' on Lloyd!

Basq

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

What channel is it on?

BBC1 on Monday nights about 11pm.

Skid

I knew 'Ask Rhod Gilbert' looked familiar. 'Great unanswered questions' with Colin Murphy anybody?



http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2010/10/06/11879/does_this_seem_familiar%3F_ask_rhod_gilbert...?rss

When BBC One launched Ask Rhod Gilbert last week, it seemed to offer a new take on the panel-show format. But viewers have been quick to point out that the show bears a remarkable similarity to another programme… BBC Northern Ireland’s Great Unanswered Questions.


Both shows are hosted by a comedian, and feature a panel discussing questions raised by members of the public while a sidekick investigates the subject on the internet, contributing relevant facts and entertaining clips to the discussion.


The first episode of Ask Rhod Gilbert, which debuted to 2.2 million viewers on BBC One last Monday, even included a question that had previously been asked on Great Unanswered Questions, which is hosted by Belfast comic Colin Murphy: ‘In a cinema, which armrest is mine.’


To add to the coincidences, Ask Rhod Gilbert is also produced in Northern Ireland, while the original radio version of Great Unanswered Questions is currently being broadcast on Radio 4… in the same Monday-night timeslot as Ask Rhod Gilbert.


The comparison did not go unnoticed. On the BBC’s website. Moya Leonard wrote: ‘I think that it is good… but its a complete rip[-off] of Colin Murphy's Great Unanswered Questions.
While another user, ‘powwowell’, wrote: ‘This is such a blatant steal from BBC Northern Ireland TV show Great Unanswered Questions. The radio version is going out on BBC Radio 4 on Monday nights at the same time as Ask Rhod Gilbert is on the telly!’


And another viewer has already compiled a YouTube video pointing out the perceived similarities between the two shows:

But what the viewers didn’t realise is that although Gilbert’s show made it to screens only after Murphy’s, it had been in development for much longer.


Independent production company Green Inc, which makes Ask Gilbert from its base just outside Belfast, said: ‘Ask Rhod Gilbert is based on an original format piloted and recorded by Green Inc in 2006. It was discussed and submitted to BBC Northern Ireland in 2006 and again in 2007 but was rejected both times.’



But it was finally commissioned by London-based executives in August 2009 for a network transmission, after Gilbert came on board.
Even Rhod himself wasn’t aware of Great Unanswered Questions at the time. He said: ‘ Green Inc approached me to host Ask Rhod Gilbert in August 2009. I accepted, we recorded a pilot episode, and pre-production of the series was already well under way when in August 2010, I learned of the BBC NI show Great Unanswered Questions.
‘I sought reassurance from the BBC and Green Inc and was fully satisfied that our show pre-existed the BBC NI format and had in fact been pitched to BBC NI in 2006 and 2007.’


Great Unanswered Questions began as a Radio 4 and Radio Ulster programme last year, and then transferred to TV in Northern Ireland in January, with guests including Adam Hills, Neil Delamere, Dara O Briain, Dominic Holland, Jo Caulfield and Alun Cochrane. A second series will be recorded later this month.


According to publicity blurb, the show came about ‘during a random conversation over a few pints between funnyman Colin Murphy and the BBC Northern Ireland’s Executive Producer of comedy, Jackie Hamilton’.
A BBC spokesman said: ‘Ask Rhod Gilbert was commissioned following a long development history. It features questions and answers, as indeed have many shows in the past, but is a distinctive, unique, high quality programme which does not bear direct comparison to any other.
‘BBC NI do make a show called Great Unanswered Questions. This show was pitched to network in the past and rejected. Our focus is on bringing the very best shows to our audience. We have no doubt that in Ask Rhod Gilbert we have the very best show.’


Read more: http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2010/10/06/11879/does_this_seem_familiar%3F_ask_rhod_gilbert...?rss#ixzz11aRd7mBa

Basq

Bump for this..

.. the third episode is starting on BBC1 now in 10 minutes for anyone who wants to give it a shot.

DOC09UNAM

Cheers basq forgot about It.

Few good jokes so far, not bad.

Basq

Thought it was the weakest of the first three by far!

But it definitely improved in it's second half.. and them torturing Lloyd in the closing moments is always fun.