bouncer_the_dog
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I found it quite depressing.
The Thick of it??
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Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
I'm getting fed up with the Thick of It.
As the programme has gone on the Malcolm Tucker character has become more and more nasty and I don't think I can stand spending half hour in his company any more
As the programme has gone on the Malcolm Tucker character has become more and more nasty and I don't think I can stand spending half hour in his company any more
happie chappie
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Tucker's brilliant and makes the show what it is.
A lot of credit must go to Iannuci and the writing team - they seem to have invented a whole new genre of comedy based on foul-mouthed, but incredibly creative, insults.
Has anyone else done this?
happie chappie
Ich bin ein Mod
does his make up in his room
Omnishambles 
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
just watched the new episode/ very good. not AS good, but bery good.
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
agreed, and there's some interesting chemistry between him and the new minister. The people who prefer 'Yes Minister' are living in the old politics, this is as savage & ridiculous as the media circus really is.
This was my favourite line too. Malcolm seemed relatively calm last night, I'm sure resting in order to release a full blitzkreig in the coming weeks.
Gingerman
Is a great bunch of lads.....
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
I remember an interview Kirsty Wade did with Alistair Campbell around the time In The Loop came out and she tried like hell to get him to acknowledge Tucker was based on him - Campbell just would not have it. She was incredulous.
It's just so totally Campbell. The man's a screaming dead fuck.
It's just so totally Campbell. The man's a screaming dead fuck.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
"He's so fucking dense light bends around him"
Omnishambles
Definitely the two best insults to come out of that ep.
Funny, but not as funny as previously...but I have no doubt that will improve...seemed to be a nastier edge to it tho, which is all to the good
fogbat
The Talibum
He wrote a whiny article in the Guardian on the same subject.
"Of the many criticisms I have faced down the years, lacking a sense of humour has not been among them." Really, Alastair? Really?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
and he is very good in his brief role in Dangeous Liaisons.
Took me a good while to work out who he was after reading her was in it...
All in all, a good solid start. Wotserface appears to have some room for being able to stick up for herself a bit better than Langhams character, and to give it Malcolm back a bit.
purves grundy
ambient clown remix
I haven't seen it so my opinion counts for naught but I can't imagine it without Langham. I thought the two-part special was relatively weak without him. Non-stop swearathon with no soft underbelly, world-weariness or ineptitude doesn't really work for me. Malcolm's best in small doses.
Anyway. I haven't seen it.
Anyway. I haven't seen it.
Definitely. Harder to watch, but better because of it. The S1 episodes were best when it looked like Tucker was losing his grip on power a bit.seemed to be a nastier edge to it tho, which is all to the good
There were signposts for his impending fall all through this first S2 episode. It's gonna get shakespearean... Tucker as Lear and Macbeth rolled into one.
he has a new foil. it's different, and will take some getting used to. but it's still brilliant...
I watched it and liked it but I wonder if the whole thing is getting just a tad formulatic ?
Actually I dont wonder because it is.
Still amusing to watch and I have always found swearing to be both big and clever when it comes to making me laughing but I do wonder if the BBC could be investing in something a little more risk taking.
Actually I dont wonder because it is.
Still amusing to watch and I have always found swearing to be both big and clever when it comes to making me laughing but I do wonder if the BBC could be investing in something a little more risk taking.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
It confirms what an appalling cunt he is. Just leaves you in despair really . . . absolutely no deomcratic accountability and no personal accountability either.
The bloke doesn't have issues, he has entire rotating planetary systems of them.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Seen the first series and specials, madz?
madzone
Physically unfavourable
Yeah
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I wasn't that impressed by it, hope it gets better because the first episode smacked of complaceny in the writing. It wasn't as funny and lacked real drive, and more importantly (when it comes to the satire of politics) bite. This was Thick Of It Lite...
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