The Thick of it??

[Kid_Eternity]

Watched it again, opinion hasn't changed. One thing I will add is Tuckers new guy is quite literally the worst actor ever to have been in TToI! He's terrible! Bring back the mental Scottish fella!

 

[DeepStoat]

Paxman on The Thick Of It: "tremendously funny"

 

[Kid_Eternity]

true, i suppose there may have been hopes that Abbott would prove a good minister worth promoting later on, whereas she is clearly a desperate last throw of the dice, shit there's no one else candidate (although every MP would have at least a researcher, especially if they were junior ministers, as she probably should have been to go into a cabinet post)

MPs that are Ministers have their MP team and a Ministerial team. Researchers don't always get promoted over...

 

[Fingertips.net]

I thought it was alright ... they should definitely bring back Hugh Abbott though. Forgive and forget and all that.

 

[London_Calling]

Controversial first post shocker

 

[belboid]

MPs that are Ministers have their MP team and a Ministerial team. Researchers don't always get promoted over...

true. But Ollie and Glen still would be very unlikely to remain in post after a ministerial swap.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

can i just point out that this isn't actually real and squabbles over why glenn and ollie remain are about as much use as a marzipan dildo

 

[belboid]

but...i think a marzipan dildo sounds rather yummy....

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

I'd love to stop and chat to you but I'd rather have type 2 diabetes.

 

[danny la rouge]

I'd love to stop and chat to you but I'd rather have type 2 diabetes.

Is that a quote from Scrubs?

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

nope. the recently repeated 2-part special of TTOI

 

[danny la rouge]

I'm sure Perry said it in Scrubs.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

what is this scrubs that you speak of?

 

[danny la rouge]

what is this scrubs that you speak of?

A long running hospital-based sitcom of US origin.

 

[madzone]

can i just point out that this isn't actually real and squabbles over why glenn and ollie remain are about as much use as a marzipan dildo

Don't knock it till you've tried it....

 

[sfumato]

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...

I'm inclined to agree. Was trying to separate the fact that it felt nastier and harder to watch from this ^^ but yeah, definitely hoping for the satire/bite of ep 2 to match series 1 and the specials.

 

[sfumato]

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?

Just read the Campbell article. Surely Iannucci read this and was thus inspired for the focus of Tucker's vitriol in ep 1:

"I was too bored to be offended.

I met Iannucci and Capaldi at last year's Channel 4 political awards, when we were collecting prizes, them for The Thick of It, me for The Blair Years. I seem to remember Capaldi had sound views on state schools, always a nice surprise in London media circles."

 

[andy2002]

Bring back the mental Scottish fella!

Apparently, Jamie (aka the mental Scottish fella) isn't going to be in this series which makes me rather sadder than it probably should.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

no, be very sad. jamie was pure fucking class.

you've gone nutter

 

[andy2002]

no, be very sad. jamie was pure fucking class.

you've gone nutter

There's an interview with the bloke who plays him (Paul Higgins) here.

www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2007/aug/15/edinburghfestival2007.edinburghfestival1

It's worth reading for the brilliant John Hurt anecdote alone...

 

[Maggot]

It's repeated tonight (after my bedtime )

 

[Kid_Eternity]

no, be very sad. jamie was pure fucking class.

you've gone nutter

He was fucking great damn shame he ain't gonna be back...

 

[agricola]

no, be very sad. jamie was pure fucking class.

you've gone nutter

the iPod rant was my favourite

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

you're wanking with the wrong crowd

great quote from this weeks episode

 

[kyser_soze]

'You know what you've done? You've just laid your first big egg of fuck, that's what you've done.'

 

[Balbi]

First mention of 'you're declining into a change of government'.......

'I wouldn't piss on you if you were allergic to piss darling'.....

And the sheer nastyness of 'you still sleeping in the car?' Bahaha.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Anyone see Points of View on Sunday?

There were lots of complaints about the "unecessary" foul language

"It would have been much funnier without so much swearing" they all said!

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

i can't imagine what malcolm tucker would have said about that.....

 

[Stigmata]

Proper jaw-dropping lol at this week's episode

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Better than the first two but still not as classic as it was.