Random musings and general banter.

[Jazzydrury]

The Climbing Cars are back

A lot of Alex Knowles lately

 

[Muttley]

Somebody missed a comedy gold opportunity trick with this channel. The funniest unintentional thing on television by far. It would actually make a great comedy series. Trouble is, you would say the scripts were distorting the truth from reality far too much. Something the real thing does on a regular basis.

Victoria Wood would have done a great job. She had sketches featuring daytime television with her and Julie Walters discussing rubbish topics. Julie Walters' character was quite rude to her colleague which was funny. But maybe even she didn't have the talent to parody this lot. She would struggle to invent characters more ludicrous than them

 

[Jazzydrury]

French and Saunders done that sketch didnt they. When they had Fake Diamonique Jewellery.

Her ear went green

Maybe it wasnt French and Saunders but have come across this

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Victoria Wood would have done a great job. She had sketches featuring daytime television with her and Julie Walters discussing rubbish topics. Julie Walters' character was quite rude to her colleague which was funny. But maybe even she didn't have the talent to parody this lot. She would struggle to invent characters more ludicrous than them

Two soups?? My second favourite sketch of all time. Four Candles being Nunber One. Although The Two Ronnies Opticians sketch is up there with those two also..

 

[Jazzydrury]

Sally said she’s covering for mikeofthemasons rather than saying Mike Mason

 

[Herring]

The point about selling small electric type heaters on a shopping channel by generally misinforming about the ‘benefits’ of doing so is a pretty disreputable tactic. In Ideal World’s case it goes back a long way before the latest incarnation. Key points about the negative side of heating just the room you are in to your detriment and to the rest of the property are completely ignored. The fact you can control your existing central heating system to run it in selected rooms only is also never referred to. The negative emotional and physical consequences of being huddled up by one heater in just one area of a home, with the rest of it freezing, portrayed as somehow a positive. Above all…you have presenters singing the praises of adopting a ‘save money’ but in truth a completely ludicrous and dangerous (or lack of it) heating strategy to the gullible. One they would never employ in their own lives. Why? Because they want be warm in their own homes in the most economical way.

Spot on (as always) Duke.

The same tactics they'd use when selling air conditioning during the summer on IW2.

Same focus on the upsides "it's amazing, instant coolness, better than a fan blowing hot air around - peter's up next with a fan, so stick around - put the air con in any room you like, maybe the bedroom for those hot sticky nights under mulberry silk duvets…" and little of the pretty major "caveat" - air con units need a giant thick hose trailing out of a window or vent, making it a bit inelegant/trip hazard if you want it in a room where the window is on the other side, there is no window, and so on.

 

[Herring]

French and Saunders done that sketch didnt they. When they had Fake Diamonique Jewellery.

Her ear went green

Maybe it wasnt French and Saunders but have come across this

Oh I remember watching the QVC French and Saunders one as a kid (and taped it - I had a crush on Dawn French as a wee lad) and it used to crease me up. I was too young to have watched QVC properly before I saw that, but I was aware of enough to get most of the jokes - although learning that Diamonique was the real name of the fake diamonds later blew my mind.

They dropped the 'necklace' (which was so thin it could only be seen through a microscope) and had to lick their palms to find it… "got it - oh no, that's a hair".

Shopping TV is ripe for parody though because it is largely absurd. There was a BBC Radio comedy series set at a fictional shopping TV channel but it's no longer available to listen back to online, which is annoying - apparently quite funny!

Recently, there was a US sketch taking the piddle out of QVC USA that I did find funny (I think someone posted it on here at the time, which is how I caught it) - fittingly for this time of year, selling chocolate Santas!

It's a bit fruity, so anyone of a nervous disposition maybe shouldn't click play

 

[Jazzydrury]

Oh I remember watching the QVC French and Saunders one as a kid (and taped it - I had a crush on Dawn French as a wee lad) and it used to crease me up. I was too young to have watched QVC properly before I saw that, but I was aware of enough to get most of the jokes - although learning that Diamonique was the real name of the fake diamonds later blew my mind.

They dropped the 'necklace' (which was so thin it could only be seen through a microscope) and had to lick their palms to find it… "got it - oh no, that's a hair".

Shopping TV is ripe for parody though because it is largely absurd. There was a BBC Radio comedy series set at a fictional shopping TV channel but it's no longer available to listen back to online, which is annoying - apparently quite funny!

Recently, there was a US sketch taking the piddle out of QVC USA that I did find funny (I think someone posted it on here at the time, which is how I caught it) - fittingly for this time of year, selling chocolate Santas!

It's a bit fruity, so anyone of a nervous disposition maybe shouldn't click play

I don’t want a Chocolate Santa this year.