Anyone else watch this?
I usually like Peter Kay and was looking forward to watching this but, I really didn't find it funny.
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Anyone else watch this?
I usually like Peter Kay and was looking forward to watching this but, I really didn't find it funny.
It was pants.
The results show wan't the funniest but i thought it was a good show for the most part.
Found the sob stories very funny, although thats mainly as thats exactly the way X Factor works.
I didn't even consider watching it. It had all the hallmarks of an ITV programme.
There was this blatant assumption that a parody of a hit TV format by featuring Peter Kay would spell instant success. Maybe it did rack up the numbers but, at the end of the day, the joke has been worked over by far more insightful comic talent than someone now known for saying 'Garlic Bread' in a Northern accent and irritating quite a lot of people waiting for The Who.
Whilst I did rather enjoy Phoenix Nights, the man now firmly resides at the level of quality we where subjected to by the Max and Paddy spin-off. I'd almost prefer to watch Two Pints of Lager.
It was dog kack.
Absolutely Fantastic.
The attention to detail was amazing in the sets, the soundtrack, the script, everything.
The scene with Sir Paul McCartney playing and singing the Home & Away theme was genius.
Just found out yesterday about "The Winners Song" - that it's made up of parts of every winning song and single release from Pop Idol, and X Factor.
Each to there own in the end, I have never laughed at an episode of The Royle Family.
Watched the first part, think i taped the 2nd bit but not overlly fussed if I didn't.
Mildy amusing, nothing that newspapers/forums/normal conversation hasn't brought up about the whole genre of TV show so I don't think it was original at all.
Didn't even need Peter Kay in it really, poor show that man!
I find Peter Kay one of the unfunniest things under the sun and I hate reality tv so a double no to watching this from me. :)
I watched Phoenix Nights and loved it which is why I was looking forward to this program. I did think Peter Kay was very funny before I watched Britain's Got the Pop Factor.
On a similar theme, I loved Ricky Gervais (sorry if I have misspelt his name) in The Office and Extras but, whenever I have seen him on chat shows and the like, he has been particularly unfunny. I also saw some clips of his live shows and they were awful. He was also on one of those charity concerts (sorry, forgot which one) and he was embarrassingly awful! Just my opinion of course!
Peter Kay is not funny, his humour is shallow and he's just annoying. And what's worse is he thinks he's the mutts nuts. The majority of his jokes are just a bit tame really, "ooh eck, thooose northernehs eh?", if you're going to take the mickey out of the North at least do it in style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJr9e...eature=related Take that for instance.. it honestly reminds me of the Extras - the studio audience "rolling around" when the show isn't worth the paper the script's been written on.
He's gone downhill but oh I love the biscuit routine!
I've never been a fan of his stand-up, I don't think it's any better than what you can see in any Northern Working Mens Club. But the observational comedy drama he's produced in That Peter Kay Thing, Phoenix Nights, and the Pop Idol send-up from the weekend is very good. It's a lot more subtle than some of the other similar comedies out there, Phoenix Nights had a layer over the top of it that was a bit more obvious and got it a more mainstream appeal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Whiternoise
I didn't include Max & Paddy because although I thought it was OK it was never aimed to be the same type of show, more on a par with if Ricky Gervais had made an actual series of When the Whistle Blows.
Someone I know pointed out the fact that they couldn't quite work out whether it was amusing, ironic or hypocritical that Peter Kay, winner of the 1996 City Life Comedian Of The Year competition, was taking the mickey out of people that enter talent contests...
"Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights" (co-written with Dave Spikey and Neil Fitzmaurice) was good. His standup is mediocre at best... He trod on a lot of toes to get where he is today, but that's a complete other discussion. I don't really see what's funny about a bloke standing on stage and telling me things that I already know.
Also, releasing virtually the same material on DVD three times is an absolutely appalling way to piddle on the fans that have supported you throughout your career. The reviews of the "Stand Up Ukay" DVD on Amazon say it all. There's a llllooootttt of ex-fans on there!!
Another person I know summed up Peter Kay's stand-up comedy material beautifully:
"HEY IDIOTS - HERE'S SOME STUFF YOU'D RECOGNISE!"
*shameless plug alert*
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Never knew this was on i do like him,I might have to watch it
Not many Peter Kay fans here :(
I think he is hilarious. I have just finished reading his autobiography and i found it very interesting, made me geuninely lol in places too :D
I didn\'t watch this show because i\'m not interested in x factor and strictly come dancing etc, and as such a parody of them doesn\'t really appeal to me.
Fair comments on the DVD front however. I was dissapointed to find that \'The Bolton Albert Halls\' was so simmilar to \'Top of the Tower\', but then i should have checked on that beforehand i suppose.
I had to sit through all 2 hours of the final with my gf cause she was ill :/
Im a big peter kay fan, so i was very shocked. It was utterly terrible, the worst tv comedy i have seen for years. The thing is that the actual x factor is quite funny - a parody of something at least has to be funnier then the thing its sending up, but this was tragic. It fell at the first hurdle then needed shooting like a lame horse. That gurgling is the sound of peter kays career going down the toilet.
It could be worse mate, I have to sit through Heartbeat :angst:Quote:
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Maybe she wouldn't have been ill had you watched another channel :PQuote:
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And was Peter Kay ever funny? Even his early stuff I found to be a job of wadding through crap to find the odd golden nugget and haven't been able to bring myself to watch him at all for quite a while.
So many others more deserving of that air time :(
What a train wreck.
The annoying adverts for it looked bad enough, I'm glad I ignored it :)
Yeah, it was rubbish. I watched about 10 minutes of it, then periodically flicked back and forth now and then to see if it had got any better.
I wasn't expecting much right enough, the good material seemed to dry up after he fell out with his co-writers. Funny that :rolleyes: