Never Mind The Buzzcocks is the Best

BroBeans353

Anybody else on here share the view that Never Mind The Buzzcocks is the best Panel show on Irish & British TV? I find it consistently hilarious regardless of who is hosting or who the guests are, I also feel it is the least scripted panel show unlike Mock the Week where they all write their jokes in advance.

What are other peoples favourite Comedy Panel Shows?

Simon Amstel? :pac:

Sometimes it does depend on who hosts it though. There have been some really awkward episodes, but I agree that it's up there with the best - alongside QI, for me.

mloc123

BroBeans353 wrote: »

Anybody else on here share the view that Never Mind The Buzzcocks is the best Panel show on Irish & British TV? I find it consistently hilarious regardless of who is hosting or who the guests are, I also feel it is the least scripted panel show unlike Mock the Week where they all write their jokes in advance.

What are other peoples favourite Comedy Panel Shows?

Is Phil Jupitus still on it? I find him a bit drawn out at this stage.

I quite liked when Simon Amstel hosted it, is it back to rolling hosts again?

efb

Amstel was a star that shone brightly for but a short time. Then his did Grandma's House or some other boring drivel

colinod0806

When Simon Amstel was hosting it was unmissable. I tuned out soon after he left and haven't ever gone back so couldn't comment on it's current quality.

efb

QI by a million light years btw

Probably my two most favourite moments from NMTB have to be -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHJgFJTEHLI

The epic moment when Preston walks out -- and then years later --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEwqfxSLc7I

mitosis

In fairness it's been fairly **** since Mark Lamarr and Bailey left it

XxMCRxBabyxX

mitosis wrote: »

In fairness it's been fairly **** since Mark Lamarr and Bailey left it

I actually thought that Amstell was much better than Lamarr

efb

Lamarr was a ponse

BroBeans353

Simon Amstell was defiantly the best

Some of the Guest hosts have been very unexpectedly funny and not just from reading the autocue, Anybody see the episode with Josh Groban I thought he was Hilarious.

Sulla Felix

It's the only one I watch with any regularity. I liked Amstell but some of the guest presenters have been awesome. I know some people love to hate him but the two presented by Frankie Boyle were quite good.

Skerries

Deleted User wrote: »

Probably my two most favourite moments from NMTB have to be -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHJgFJTEHLI

The epic moment when Preston walks out -- and then years later --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEwqfxSLc7I

and continuing the Preston theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNrwJWCJXxk

mitosis

efb wrote: »

Lamarr was a ponse

Probably still is, but that was part of the experience.

donglen

So what actually happened to Lamarr? Haven't seen him on TV since.

Sulla Felix

He had a pretty good bbc2 radio show, but quit in... Xmas 2010 google is telling me. Funny, I thought it was more recently than that.
Haven't seen sight nor sound of him since then. Nothing on his wiki page either.

Da Shins Kelly

I think Lamar was the best host, but Amstell was great too. Amstell was great for taking the p*ss, but you really got the feeling from Lamar that he had nothing but contempt for the majority of the people that appeared on the show, which just made it so much funnier.

groovie

Sorry for the grave dig, but did anyone else see Huey Morgan storm off last night?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p70kdlOCEk0

bumper234

groovie wrote: »

Sorry for the grave dig, but did anyone else see Huey Morgan storm off last night?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p70kdlOCEk0

Hardly storming off but what an idiotic thing to do, the cup smashes and bits fly in the face of Jupitus, i think Morgan knew he had been a dick.

Skid X

Huey Morgan was an idiot. I liked how Rizzle Kicks dealt with it.

NMTB should be put out of its misery. It stopped being entertaining a long time ago.

Been making my way through the new series and.. it's absolutely terrible. The second episode, with that fella from Mock the Week.. Russel Howard? - it was sooo awkward at the beginning. You could really feel it!

Anyone else think the Huey Morgan thing was staged?

Patty O Furniture

Damn i missed that part, i'll see it again next Sun, yeah he was just pissed off from the start & maybe because the ratings arent what theyre used to be, Eamonn Holmes wasnt that great last week,

I dont know yer man Paul Foot with the strange fringe, but him trying to explain how the big bang theory came about in CERN was two lesbians coming in the same direction was funny:P

Simon Amstell was sarcastically funny in the show including the one where he kept reading parts of the book out on Chantelle's fella, i cant think of his name.

kitnan

I don't think Buzzcocks was itself after Mark Lemarr left. For the most part I thought Simon Amstel was just trying to hard, where Lemarr might make a quip and it be dry, incredibly sarcastic and funny, Amstel might make the same quip and sound like some kid trying to sound edgy and cool. But I guess that was just down to the different technique of the two. As Patty O Furniture has mentioned, the part where he reads from Chantelle's book is funny. Probably one of the few moments I genuinely enjoyed him being presenter.

Bill Bailey leaving too was a big blow, atleast to my own enjoyment of the show as I am a huge Bill Bailey fan and thought that him and Phil Jupitus did have a good tag team banter going on.

I_smell_fear

There are suspicions that mug broke before it hit the table

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m35/blackdice23/rattled_zps8ccedd30.gif

Yup. After watching it a few times, it really did break in his hand before it even left it.

Klim

That gif is nothing like the clip from above though. Put the definition up full on the youtube video and pause it at the right time (around 1:53). The cup deffo doesn't break until impact.

That's not to say it isn't staged though.

I'm watching it on a good quality download and if you watch it carefully, the cup breaks in his hand before it reaches the table.

Klim

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm watching it on a good quality download and if you watch it carefully, the cup breaks in his hand before it reaches the table.

If I could take a still from that youtube I would, it deffo doesn't break until impact. On that clip anyway.

The gif posted is a bit of a giveaway with the poor quality. Plus, if it was broke before it hit the table, the shards wouldn't have bounced on impact the way they did.

Still, that's not to say it wasn't a fake mug or something.

Duckworth_Luas

The mug broke in his hand before impact. After it cracked parts flew above his shoulder. It wasn't staged though, not by Jupitus' facial expressions anyway!

Just because I've far too much time on my hands -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9OU7IcJsT0

This is the clip, but slowed down as well. At about 19 seconds in, when it is in slow motion, you can see that the cup has broken before he threw it, as parts are falling on the way down. I reckon the cup was weakened somehow, but he threw it down wrong.

I_smell_fear

Maybe he was just unimpressed with the mug's shoddy, shoddy workmanship.

Patty O Furniture

Preston was his name, here's the clip below:

He's also in this best of moments including this guy who tries to take the mic out of Bill Bailey, bad move:

briany

If Huey's outburst was staged, what was the point? Were they trying to generate controversy? Humour? It didn't really seem to do either of those and just made the man come off like a petulant dick. The end of that show had the feel of a dysfunctional family gathering at Christmas where the drunk uncle throws the Pictionary set across the room.

briany

briany wrote: »

If Huey's outburst was staged, what was the point? Were they trying to generate controversy? Humour? It didn't really seem to do either of those and just made the man come off like a petulant dick. The end of that show had the feel of a dysfunctional family gathering at Christmas where the drunk uncle throws the Pictionary set across the room.

As I said in the after hours thread, The whole thing stinks of a set up and is exactly the kind of thing that would have a producer rubbing his hands in glee at the prospect of all the free advertising.how many people were aware that the show was currently back on? I didn't but I'm now aware that it is and I imagine that many more people were in a similar situation. You can bet you last dollar that viewing figure for upcoming episodes will be higher than the last number of episodes.

jack presley

briany wrote: »

If Huey's outburst was staged, what was the point?

I used to be a fan of the show years ago but haven't watched in years. To be honest I didn't realise it was still going. Now I do. I'm not saying I'm going to start watching again but they have me aware of it now which is a start.

Edit - as post above mine already says

It's really sad watching those old clips - you have people like Lilly Allen, David Cross, Jermaine Jackson - people who are actually famous - as guests. And now you have someone in the line-up (Haddaway) that is far more famous than any of the guests.

Vinz Mesrine

Is that not just the liquid in the mug flying out before he throws it?

Nope, there's no liquid at all. If there was, you'd surely would have seen some splashing in the slowmotion.

sbsquarepants

efb wrote: »

Lamarr was a ponse

True, but a funny ponce!
Amstel was very good too and I still like the show. But 8 out of 10 cats wins for me, then QI, then buzzcoks.

XxMCRxBabyxX

[Deleted User] wrote: »

As I said in the after hours thread, The whole thing stinks of a set up and is exactly the kind of thing that would have a producer rubbing his hands in glee at the prospect of all the free advertising.how many people were aware that the show was currently back on? I didn't but I'm now aware that it is and I imagine that many more people were in a similar situation. You can bet you last dollar that viewing figure for upcoming episodes will be higher than the last number of episodes.

Aren't the episodes filmed six weeks in advance though? Didn't that come up in a moment with Amstell and Bailey before?

kitnan

Hmm, having watched that best bits video. I seemed to have forgotten that Amstel wasn't as bad a presenter as I had remembered.

Lingua Franca

It didn't look that staged to me. After the event Phil Jupitus sat there with a face like thunder and Huey was touching his arm and smiling, trying to attract his attention and defuse the situation and Jupitus wouldn't even acknowledge him.

It's possible the mug broke in Hueys hand from pressure before he smashed it off the table. I'm a weakling and even I managed to have a mug shatter in my hand from pressure not too long ago.

Lingua Franca

kitnan wrote: »

Hmm, having watched that best bits video. I seemed to have forgotten that Amstel wasn't as bad a presenter as I had remembered.

Lamarr was great, so that gave Amstell some great big boots to fill. He really wasn't bad at all.

The show is really suffering from not having a regular host. Some of the idiots they're wheeling in haven't a clue what they're doing.

Most of the people involved in the show have a very low opinion of it. Both Lamarr and Amstell have ripped it to pieces after leaving it. It reminds me of when Ralf Little was on Buzzcocks and got really annoyed at people mentioning Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps to him, because he's ashamed of having been in that show.

wandatowell

The Courtney Love joke was hilarious.

Patty O Furniture

wandatowell wrote: »

The Courtney Love joke was hilarious.

Yeah it was funny, Amstell always went too far with his guests, as Jermaine wanted to throttle him & eventually pretended to do it after that joke.

Lingua Franca wrote: »

It didn't look that staged to me. After the event Phil Jupitus sat there with a face like thunder and Huey was touching his arm and smiling, trying to attract his attention and defuse the situation and Jupitus wouldn't even acknowledge him.

It's possible the mug broke in Hueys hand from pressure before he smashed it off the table. I'm a weakling and even I managed to have a mug shatter in my hand from pressure not too long ago.

Yeah i saw that, as Jupitus had both of his fists up to his eyes to prevent any shards of glass flying up & Laura Whitmore was mouthing WTF!

I wonder after that, who will they bring on next week, Frankie Boyle?

expectationlost

Lingua Franca wrote: »

It reminds me of when Ralf Little was on Buzzcocks and got really annoyed at people mentioning Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps to him, because he's ashamed of having been in that show.

but isn't that what the shows about, inviting people on and then deflating them, they only do it to people who need some deflation, they didn't attack the blonde american girl did they, i think the lastest series has been very funny, i like the little gags they make for the guest hosts

Lingua Franca

I wasn't saying that they shouldn't have teased Ralf Little, just comparing him voicing his shame at having done Two Pints with Lamarr and Amstell's shame at having done Buzzcocks. Amstell ripped into it in his Grandma's House sitcom.

And Ralf Little didn't need deflating. He was pretty cool. In fact, I think this was my favourite episode ever, it's the only one I've ever watched repeatedly.

It's the first episode they did after Bill Bailey quit. Adele, Tim Minchin (making a magnificent Kylie joke), Mark Ronson, Ralf Little and a Klaxon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEqknb_4ZFA

Well, that was the best episode in a long time. Jack Whitehall really made it. So far the best guest host, I think - that whole Razorlight and his sister thing was so funny.

Mr.Prodston

Not sure where all the criticism is coming from, I'm really enjoying the last few episodes. Was it better before? sure. But I still find it very entertaining. Some episodes are more laboured than others but Jupitus and Fielding do a great job of keeping everything afloat when the guests don't perform.

The Michael Bolton one was just utterly tedious. He just lacked the comedic timing!