The Trip -- new Coogan/Brydon vehicle

[Balbi]

Still good, did laugh more this week though

 

[madzone]

I really liked A Cock and Bull Story so I'm liking this as well.

 

[Badgers]

Oooh, part 2 is on iPlayer

 

[krtek a houby]

Exagerrated form, a la Larry David in Curb. very Larry David in fact.

Really? I didn't get that,whereas when I'm watching "Lead Balloon" with Jack Dee, CYE springs to mind. I like all of them, they make me laugh.

 

[Diamond]

This is excellent.

That is all.

 

[bigbry]

Watched it for the first time tonight. The Stephen Hawking bit was very good.

I thought the Stepen Hawking bit was very good too.

 

[London_Calling]

It'll get tired very quickly unless they develop other themes - the content middle-aged blokey vs. discontent middle aged blokey looks promising if they can get under the surface.

Also liked Hawking.

 

[editor]

I wish I could do impressions like this:



Hawking video here: http://gizmodo.com/5685787/stephen-hawking-insults-rob-brydon

 

[pk]

It was bizarre, but I just don't find Brydon funny...

 

[madzone]

It'll get tired very quickly unless they develop other themes - the content middle-aged blokey vs. discontent middle aged blokey looks promising if they can get under the surface.

Also liked Hawking.

I liked the bit where they were discussing Coogan shagging the hotel proprietor and then his wife/partner rang to talk about the kids being bad and Brydon says she's being unreasonable.

 

[killer b]

she's his ex...

 

[madzone]

she's his ex...

Is she? Who was he calling last week?

 

[killer b]

his current/recently split girlfriend. the mother of his kids is someone different altogether.

 

[madzone]

Oh ffs. It's Single Father all over again.

 

[ska invita]

I enjoyed it, but it's another one of those low-key, referential comedies that's a little too popular at the moment.

Not laugh out loud, but it sucked you in. Brydon and Coogan are a bit too uncomfortably similar to their real life personas (and past characters) really - it's one of those programs you find yourself cringing at times at, yet there's a bit of a sympathetic streak there too

I'll be watching the next one mind, but I think classic's overblowing it a bit. It's a bit too knowing and familiar

i laughed out loud throughout both (especially ep 2) - to tears at one point. its like sitting around with your friends. i love the pacing. not sure if it stands up to endless repeated viewing (which classic british comedies all seem to have in common), but i think its great nonetheless. this and the hospital thing with jo brand are by far the best comedies in a fair few years imo. michael winterbottom directing gives it a bit of beyond usual tv fare class as well...

 

[radio_atomica]

I liked it, episode 2 made me laugh out loud...

Yeah, I was lol-ing through episode 2.

 

[Diamond]

It's improv.

I'd like to see the outtakes.

The Al Pacino and Anthony Hopkins stuff is great. Especially the bit about touching your face.

 

[kabbes]

I loved the Richard Gere bit, with them improvising a scene involving Coogan looking away, smiling as if he was remembering something from the past and then responding. It was sheer genius.

 

[Stigmata]

Nothing beats a bit of melancholic comedy in my book

 

[girasol]

It was and is brilliant. I can't believe some of you don't like it. It just goes to prove that there is nothing so good that somebody somewhere won't hate it.

I enjoyed it, but it was very similar to episode 1. The food porn and kitchen scenes were good too...

The Hawking's impressions won the day though.

 

[strung out]

anyone watch tonight? so, so good yet so uncomfortable in places too.

 

[belboid]

they're taking it in turns to see who can be the twat most deserving of a baseball bat to the head then?

(Brydon by a Lake District mile tonight)

 

[BlueSquareThing]

anyone watch tonight? so, so good yet so uncomfortable in places too.

The old girl at Dove cottage recognising Brydon having failed to recognise Coogan was very excellent - as was Coogan's apparent lack of reaction.

Lakes looked lovely - really well shot.

 

[Orang Utan]

it's just twats showing off

 

[discokermit]

shit. improv is shit. write a script, you lazy cunts.

 

[Santino]

I liked it.

 

[strung out]

i thought it was the weakest of the first three personally, but then again i've re-watched the first two four or five times now. maybe the third will improve on more viewings.

 

[kabbes]

It's brilliant. Melancholic and brilliant.

And close to the bone. The bit about Coogan not having done anything worth mentioning since I'm Alan Partridge was uncomfortable and mesmerising.

It's my favourite thing for years.

 

[Motown_ben]

yeah im liking this, episode 3 not quite as good as 2 but still

 

[neonwilderness]

The old girl at Dove cottage recognising Brydon having failed to recognise Coogan was very excellent - as was Coogan's apparent lack of reaction.

Then there was Coogan trying do the small man in a box voice into the mirror at the end

I wasn't too fussed by this the first time I saw it, but the more I watch the more I'm beginning to like it.