Never Mind The Buzzcocks is the Best

BroBeans353 · 20-10-2012 11:19PM #1

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?

20-10-2012 11:21PM

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 · 20-10-2012 11:23PM

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 · 20-10-2012 11:23PM

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

colinod0806 · 20-10-2012 11:24PM

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 · 20-10-2012 11:24PM

QI by a million light years btw

20-10-2012 11:26PM

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 · 20-10-2012 11:29PM

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

XxMCRxBabyxX · 20-10-2012 11:30PM

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 · 20-10-2012 11:35PM

Lamarr was a ponse

BroBeans353 · 20-10-2012 11:40PM

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 · 20-10-2012 11:44PM

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 · 21-10-2012 04:13PM

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 · 21-10-2012 04:26PM

efb wrote: »

Lamarr was a ponse

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

donglen · 21-10-2012 04:50PM

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

Sulla Felix · 21-10-2012 05:54PM

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 · 21-10-2012 07:02PM

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 · 05-11-2013 02:27PM

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

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

bumper234 · 05-11-2013 02:30PM

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 · 05-11-2013 03:10PM

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.

05-11-2013 03:22PM

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 · 05-11-2013 04:47PM

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 · 05-11-2013 04:52PM

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 · 05-11-2013 05:44PM

There are suspicions that mug broke before it hit the table

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

05-11-2013 07:16PM

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

Klim · 05-11-2013 08:13PM

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.

05-11-2013 08:29PM

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 · 05-11-2013 08:42PM

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 · 05-11-2013 08:44PM

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!

05-11-2013 09:45PM

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 · 05-11-2013 09:59PM

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

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