IT Crowd - Who's excited?

[MHR]

Ok, I watched both of these clips.

Are there jokes in them?

I just never got this show. It has good actors and great writers, and I'm into computers. I just can't find the humour.

Listen. The second clip in the church has a fair bit of context to go with it.

During the episode they visit one of those stupid gimmick quiz websites that tells the person when and what time they're going to die. Coincidentally, Roy and Moss had earlier in the day worked on overclocking the cellphone's vibrate setting up to 11. Roy was looking at the clock just realizing his deadline had passed when suddenly the phone goes off and startles him into thinking he's really dying.

That is comedy gold and if you don't think so then you are a sorry person and I have no desire to speak to you further.

And the whole show has got to be the consistently funniest I've ever seen. Nothing else I can think of off the top of my head beats it.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Oh, thank you god, for giving us one more dose of one of the best shows of all time.

I hope its Douglas Reynholm heavy.

The future wants it, and Reyholm Industries wants to give it to the future!

 

[Reaper195]

About time. I'm almost not excited for it since it's taken three years to make one longer than usual episode.

On the other hand, I've yet to see anything IT Crowd related that isn;t funny as balls.

 

[locoartero]

How were this not the first clips posted?

 

[Alfador_VII]

Ok, I watched both of these clips.

Are there jokes in them?

I just never got this show. It has good actors and great writers, and I'm into computers. I just can't find the humour.

Listen. The second clip in the church has a fair bit of context to go with it.

During the episode they visit one of those stupid gimmick quiz websites that tells the person when and what time they're going to die. Coincidentally, Roy and Moss had earlier in the day worked on overclocking the cellphone's vibrate setting up to 11. Roy was looking at the clock just realizing his deadline had passed when suddenly the phone goes off and startles him into thinking he's really dying.

That is comedy gold and if you don't think so then you are a sorry person and I have no desire to speak to you further.

And the whole show has got to be the consistently funniest I've ever seen. Nothing else I can think of off the top of my head beats it.

Hey as as been said by others, comedy is subjective. I love Father Ted, all of it, and there are people who don't. Same with Monty Python, or indeed any show.

Also there's Garth Marenghi's Darkplace from several of the people in the IT Crowd which is one of the funniest things ever made. I'd be surprised if many people here have ever heard of it, it just didn't get viewers.

IT Crowd is far from the worst comedy I've seen, it seems to be well enough acted, and made, it just doesn't click for me. I don't know why.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Ok, I watched both of these clips.

Are there jokes in them?

I just never got this show. It has good actors and great writers, and I'm into computers. I just can't find the humour.

There is none. I don't think I've seen a worse attempt at comedy than this show. It's not only not funny, it's annoying. The worst thing is the canned laughter after every line.

I'm not gonna argue humour, subjective and all that jazz, but there's no canned laughter. IT Crowd is filmed live.

That's a worry then. Who laughs that much at this stuff? What the hell are the live audience smoking? I want some.

Humour might be subjective, but objectively, cramming as many jokes and one-liners into the shortest time possible is bad and monotonous for the viewer. That's all the new comedies seem to be able to do. Is it too much to ask for a few minutes of plot development between the hilarity? Or does the audience suddenly fall asleep without laughing every 5 seconds?

I think the real issue here is context, most of the IT Crowd humour is brought on from running gags throughout the episode that you really have to see the build up to enjoy (Like when Jen Moss and Roy go to the Theatre to see a film, and Jen walks into the bar after the show to find Roy in a wheelchair getting fawned over, turns to the barman to order some alcohol and discovers Moss serving drinks - As an individual scene not that funny, but in the context of the run up to it, I found it absolutely hilarious)

 

[bak00777]

my favorite is the bomb defusing robot scene, from when Moss and Roy play hookie

http://youtu.be/Uh64nPT7JWk

 

[DefunctTheory]

my favorite is the bomb defusing robot scene, from when Moss and Roy play hookie
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Its [.youtube=Jumbled mess at the end of the url, after the = sign]

Remove the period from in front of youtube as well.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

I just don't find it funny. I've seen a few episodes of it, and while it wasn't shockingly bad like The Big Bang Theory or 2 Broke Girls, it just didn't entertain me. It was inoffensively mediocre.

 

[Splitzi]

Man, that bomb disposal unit...
"I'm having some problems with it."
"What system does it use?"
"Vista"
"We are all going to die!"

 

[DefunctTheory]

In fairness thats been due to the actors having other commitments. Ayoade doing (crap) movies and directing. O'Dowd doing movies and I believe is in a series on Sky 1 and Kathrine Parkinson is/was on Doc Martin and filming maltersers adverts.

...so varying levels of busy I suppose.

Kathrine Parkinson got pregnant and quit to go take care of that. They offered to delay filming and she turned it down. Everyone else went to do their own things, and by the time Kathrine Parkinson was up for it again, everyone else was knee deep in their own stuff.

I'm tempted to say something derogatory about the female gender, but that would be rude and not fair.

 

[Battenberg]

Ok, I watched both of these clips.

Are there jokes in them?

I just never got this show. It has good actors and great writers, and I'm into computers. I just can't find the humour.

There is none. I don't think I've seen a worse attempt at comedy than this show. It's not only not funny, it's annoying. The worst thing is the canned laughter after every line.

Well there's a huge number of fans who would disagree with you on that. Truthfully I can see how you'd need the right kind of sense of humour to fully enjoy the show as with anything by Graham Linehan but the long and short of it is that a lot more people found it funny than didn't. No one's forcing you to watch it and you're only asking for trouble coming on a thread clearly aimed at fans just to complain about the show.

On topic I can't wait for the new episode, I've watched this show so much now I could basically read every episode line for line but I do think it could do with a more solid ending. As for a favourite scene really anything with Moss was just brilliant but the whole "walk away" thing is probably one of my favourite comedy moments ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G7vL-k7DaI

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

I don't think I've seen a worse attempt at comedy than this show.

You must've never seen Two and a Half Men, then. Or The Big Bang Theory. Or, actually, anything by Chuck Lorre, or any American remake of a British comedy (the Office, the Inbetweeners).

Must've never seen anything by Aaron Seltzer & Jason Friedberg... or a good number of Will Ferrell movies that came on the coat-tails of Anchorman, such as Step Brothers.

You're either very inexperienced with comedy, or you've managed to only see stuff of great quality!

I haven't seen any of that stuff so probably the latter. I heard a lot of people talking about IT Crowd saying it was the best thing ever so I decided to watch it. Even accounting for taste, "best comedy show ever" suggested to me it was up there with Fawlty Towers, South Park, Monty Python, Seinfeld.

 

[bluepotatosack]

I know I'm excited. Favorite scene? So many...

"Four! I mean five! I mean, fire!"

But eh, I'll actually go with this one at 1:28.


Anybody a fan of Snuff Box? It's got Rich Fulcher and Matt Berry! The show is generally pretty soul crushing, but it's got some great music.

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[piinyouri]

Yeah I really should have filled in the context for the church scene. My bad. (though I could find the scene hilarious on it's own since I enjoy slapstick sometimes)

Actually as other people said, the show in general has a lot of running gags that would require context to really get.
But then that's one of the draws for me about the show. Continuity. Most things actually develop throughout, instead of resetting every episode.

The writing in the show is exceptional, at least as far as what I'm use to seeing here in America. Everything leads into something. Hardly anything is just done or introduced for it's own sake.

Canned laughter? Is it? I never honestly could tell. It doesn't bother me though regardless. I'd be laughing every other line regardless of whether the audience was or not.

The show kind of turns into a lighter, geekier version of Always Sunny In Philidelphia as it progresses though. They aren't quite the level of despisable human beings as Dee, Dennis, Frank and Charlie are, but they sure seem to try as the series goes on.

But anywho, yeah subjectivity and all that. Someone mentioned Darkplace, which I want to like since it has Matt Barry in it, but I can't. Just doesn't click with me.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Canned laughter? Is it? I never honestly could tell. It doesn't bother me though regardless. I'd be laughing every other line regardless of whether the audience was or not.

The laughter is live. The blooper reels for the show actually have several instances where they have to redo a scene because someone in the audience accidentally blurts something out in the middle of there laughter, which makes the cast start busting out laughing.

The show kind of turns into a lighter, geekier version of Always Sunny In Philidelphia as it progresses though. They aren't quite the level of despisable human beings as Dee, Dennis, Frank and Charlie are, but they sure seem to try as the series goes on.

I only got that for the female cast member, but to be fair she's shown as being a pretty rotten person from the beginning. Roy can be pretty bad with the leching, but he never reaches anyone is Sunny's crew.

I'm actually surprised you could compare the two. The people in Sunny are beyond terrible - They're the worst people ever to live that haven't murdered someone (Yet).

 

[TheEmoGhost]

I'm incredibly excited. I love the IT Crowd so damn much. My favourite scene would have to be the bomb defusal scene in series four.

 

[piinyouri]

I only got that for the female cast member, but to be fair she's shown as being a pretty rotten person from the beginning. Roy can be pretty bad with the leching, but he never reaches anyone is Sunny's crew.

I'm actually surprised you could compare the two. The people in Sunny are beyond terrible - They're the worst people ever to live that haven't murdered someone (Yet).

True, true, it's mostly Jen who get's really petty and insecure, but Roy seems to quite enjoy making her uncomfortable later on and even Moss get's a bit weird.

Yeah maybe the Sunny In Philadelphia comparison was a bit much. Ha ha.