Limmy's Show

Aidric

I realise I am probably a late convert to the show but I took in all 3 series over the weekend. In my opinion it stands up there with the very best British sketch shows ever produced.

Dark, intelligent and hilarious. The development of his observations are clearly the work of a talented comic mind. There are too many brilliantly realised sketches to list but this one broke me up.

Any other fans of his work on this board?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e01J3Hz9yoo

Mycroft H

Yes! Dark humor at it's best.

QikBax

Yeah it's incredible. The boy is a genius.

"Wrong way down a 1 way streeeet"

pappyodaniel

jamc wrote: »

Yeah it's incredible. The boy is a genius.

"Wrong way down a 1 way streeeet"

Ya that's my favourite sketch, I've tried this on a couple of occasions with a friend who hasn't seen the show. I'm still not a popstar though.

paulgeog

Dee Dee's bus trip to Yoker is brillliant. Also the Tina Turner dance -off to Nutbish City Limits

Professional Griefer

I'm still trppin'

Yamanoto

Adventure Call makes me chuckle, wish I could have instructed Flathan to self-harm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3J8FYKZ52w

Diabhal Beag

Marti Pellow

SirLemonhead

BUUIILDING BRICKS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJUAYzc9JOA

Thargor

That one where a father brings his son to the estate where the kids favourite Lazytown-style show was filmed is one of the funniest sketches Ive ever seen, "It tore the heart out of this community...".

Strange how he can be so hit and miss though, some scenes literally the best dark humour sketches ever made as the OP says that will have tears coming down your face and others just completely fail to the point where they make you actually cringe.

Aidric

Thargor wrote: »

lStrange how he can be so hit and miss though, some scenes literally the best dark humour sketches ever made as the OP says that will have tears coming down your face and others just completely fail to the point where they make you actually cringe.

I think that that is the very essence of sketch show comedy, however. It is very much trial and error, subjective for the viewer.
I was interested to read recently that Limond is on medication for depression, yet also unsurprised. There is a genuine feeling to his comedy, clearly borne out of a man at odds with the world he occupies. Im just glad he has committed his ideas to script because they are brilliantly realised.

Thargor

Yeah you can see the depression coming through in a few of the sketches and in the locations he chooses, that Dee Dee character for instance.

pappyodaniel

Just came across this, quite similar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGJ7teTgIf8

QikBax

Not a day goes by without me singing this or quoting it.

Skid X

The BBC are finally giving this an outing outside of BBC Scotland ... a one off 30 minute long 'Best of Limmy's Show' on BBC3 tonight at 12.30 am. :rolleyes:

New BBC network comedy boss Shane Allen is a fan of Limond’s work, and could give all three series of the show a run-out if tonight’s pilot proves popular.

The show’s creator Brian Limond, currently working on scripts for a new project, said: “Even though this is quite a late slot, hopefully there will be more people seeing some of the show, whoever those people are watching the telly at 12.30am on a Monday night.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/tv-radio/surreal-comedy-limmys-show-make-1958759

Madness not to give a programme they already have, which was been so well received, a better push.

briany

Limmy's Show - as another poster said, it's hit and miss, but when it hits, it hits hard. All the Dee Dee sketches are brilliant. They are a perfect mix of pathos and humour. The spooky ambient soundtrack he uses for some of them almost gives a psychological horror edge, too.

All in all, his observational humour is the best stuff. When he picks on things that annoy him or just weird minutiae; that really cracks me up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DsyPFHIrvk

Skid X

The last Limmy's Show ...

BBC Scotland has reportedly commissioned a final episode of Limmy's Show!, the sketch comedy series created by and starring Brian Limond.

The Daily Record reports that BBC Scotland has commissioned a new one-off episode for Christmas. The special is expected to act as a conclusion to the show, which has had a home on the regional network since 2009.

http://www.comedy.co.uk/news/story/000001250/limmys_show_final_christmas_special_2013/

Aidric

For the night that's in it :pac:

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

Rjd2

If you like Miss Brown Boys, fair enough, but the fact that it breaks records and this languishes away on BBC 2 Scotland is one of the great pities of British TV.:(

ShetlandViking

Aidric wrote: »

I realise I am probably a late convert to the show but I took in all 3 series over the weekend. In my opinion it stands up there with the very best British sketch shows ever produced.

Dark, intelligent and hilarious. The development of his observations are clearly the work of a talented comic mind. There are too many brilliantly realised sketches to list but this one broke me up.

Any other fans of his work on this board?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e01J3Hz9yoo

Very similar if not the same character in the final episode of Series 3. F**kin terrifying!

Aidric

Just when I thought I couldn't love Limmy any more.

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

fatknacker

This show makes me so happy. Haven't seen comedy I really like in quite a while.

Lights On

His webcam stuff is almost better than the show itself, tons of it out there so a lot to sift through, but these two are absolute gems!

Goolay

Lights On wrote: »

His webcam stuff is almost better than the show itself, tons of it out there so a lot to sift through, but these two are absolute gems!

That kettle/iron bit is one of my favourite things ever.

I'm off to see him live in Glasgow at the end of the month, can't wait.

RayM

I never noticed this before, but he gets an ex-Dublin Bus to Yoker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YfRbNipdOg

Thargor

Didi is my favourite, also that childrens tv show where the cast ended up on drugs and doing hardcore Euro-porn