Is This Man Bothering You? - The Trip, Episode 3 Preview - BBC Two

[somegreens]

omg. Ive BEEN THERE

[theotendleeey]

i appreciate american and british comedy in different ways and i believe both can be of extreme comic value

[ThomasFerrugia]

Some old people seek out aggravation . . . absolutely 100% true!

[MsIsabelleKF]

American humor lacks subtlety and intelligence.

[blizardp]

american and british humour are both funny, why do dicks always have to belittle other peoples opinions all the time?

[MsIsabelleKF]

@blizardp Because there opinions are stupid! Mine is the only you people will ever need!

[Raveityourway]

America is hilarious. Britain is hilarious. they're just different kinds of comedy. France is painfully dull. Can we all just agree on that?

[westben2000]

'old people seek out aggravation'

i fukin lol'd

[michiel2047]

fight fight fight!!!

[kezzalange97]

So funny when He says ' I'm sorry is this guy troubling you ' Ahaha :L!!

[zionravescene]

Dove Cottage, by the way, is very dark inside.

[zionravescene]

I was in that very gift shop yesterday!

[silvercivik]

It's not my fault her husband's dead. LOL.

[meb1982]

Oh, Poor Coogan

[latethirties]

Plato86. Here here!!



[nikshack1]

A tremendous series from BBC 2, Coogan and Brydon=genius!

[KangoTV]

"That woman in all fairness is probably bereaved." Remember that next time you're giving a mental old bat who's well advanced in years a hard time.

[Songremixer123]

I love when rob turns up and she loves him

[SmashTactics]

Haha - you can just barely hear Coogan say "oh, Jesus Christ" at the 1:00 mark.

[RowrTiger]

LOVE the small man trapped in a box!

[rossdigitalfire]

I think some people on here are missing some excellent American comedy, which is a shame. HBO shows are almost all excellent. One of those shows, Curb Your Enthusiasm, is the show that started the "sim com" subgenre, and inspired shows like The Trip. There are also a number of excellent comedies currently on FX, like The League, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, and Louie. There are also all the Adult Swim shows, The Daily Show, and even good network shows like 30 Rock. Check them out.

[arielgirl]

@rossdigitalfire I agree, except for a couple of those, but the problem is they are few and far between. The thing is, American is not known for subtle humor. Everything we do has to be over the top and obvious and dumbed down for the masses. Just like our version of The Office. The first few seasons are pretty good, but then it just fell into the same old ridiculous unrealistic nonsense. The Brits are definitely on top when it comes to subtle humor, that's why they have awesome shit like this.

[samsung54369]

@rossdigitalfire 30 rock is overated

[lukevella97]

look can we just agree both nationalities have amazing series?

British series:

The office

Only fools and Horses

Little britian

American series:

Scrubs

Friends

Big Bang Theory

[samsung54369]

@lukevella97 big bang theory and scrubs suck

[lukevella97]

@samsung54369 well that's your opinion. >.<

[samsung54369]

@lukevella97 my opinions fact

[lukevella97]

@samsung54369 i see your hard headed so im just gonna stop the conversation here.

[samsung54369]

@lukevella97 im hard somewhere else too :L

[Nrmusicman101]

and that women in all fairness is probably bereaved

[matthickford]

The lady is an actress. Her name is Rita Davies. Proof, she's in the opening scene of Mongrels (a great comedy). Watch 'Mongrels - Episode 1 - Part 1' from MongrelsBBC.

[carsanookdotcom]

look = kool

[ambershiftvideo]

pure brilliance

[brainiacgames]

This really is a pretty dud show. They seem to think if they just turn the camera on and improv it will automatically be funny, but if that always worked there wouldn't be any writers.

[HoneyIEducatedTheWeb]

@brainiacgames

This lady is obviously acting...

[conformerwithnocause]

@HoneyIEducatedTheWeb

She is acting. I used to work in that shop!

[Plato86]

Wow British comedy is really lame.

[samsung54369]

@Plato86 As apposed to american comedy which relies on completely unrealistic and canned laughter to 'entertain' the masses that dont know about amazing comedy like the office and the intebtweeners that both exist in realistic settings and are 100 hundred times funnier than anything a team of ridicuously overpaid writers with a huge budget will, or could ever even attempt

[WardyProductions]

@samsung54369

Yes. Nicely said my friend.

[LMW87MMA]

@samsung54369 Both Britain AND America have great comedies. Don't make sweeping statements. I'm Canadian and half English so I believe I'm unbiased, and I like both British and American comedy equally. I'm sure that you prefer British comedy but that's probably at least in part because you're British, which makes you biased and less likely to like American comedy. Be more openminded.

[LGD3]

@LMW87MMA I'm not British. But the British do have a sense of humour that resonates better with a lot of people around the world. That's not to say Americans are incapable of it - Rich Hall is a very funny American - but the American public don't prefer it for whatever reason. Rubbish like Two and A Half Men is generally what's preferred even though good American comedies are occasionally made.

[LGD3]

@LMW87MMA I think the British have a talent for incorporating referential, slapstick, satire, profanity, visual gags, puns and wordplay.. everything from silly to cerebral within the same piece of mono/dialogue. This is uncommon in American comedy. The 'downside' to British comedy is that it's comparatively very dialogue driven-- So you have to pay attention, and not have trouble with the various British accents.

[dsbnh]

@samsung54369 @samsung54369 Plenty of English comedy has canned laughter and the ratio of decent English comedies to bad ones is about the same as the ratio of decent American comedies to bad ones. Let's stop with the anglophile bullshit.

[toyboy2397]

@samsung54369 How can you compare the office and the inbetweeners.. Philistine.

[samsung54369]

@toyboy2397 just cous the inbetweeners is crude doesnt mean its not awesome

[tr4d3m4rk44]

@samsung54369 Curb Your Enthusiasm.

[samsung54369]

@tr4d3m4rk44 i stand corrected

[tr4d3m4rk44]

@samsung54369 Haha, yeah. However, you do have a point. Most North American comedies don't really rise to the challenge.

[wungabunga]

@tr4d3m4rk44 This is the only part of The Trip that rips of Larry David.

[toronaldo16]

@samsung54369 I think your overgeneralizing. I agree that there are great British comedies, but the American one's that I watch, (specifically "community") are hilarious and while they do rely on completely unrealistic themes and actions they are doing what TV and films have been doing for years, expanding one's imagination and creating an escape from the banality of daily life.

[SteezeWizard99]

@samsung54369 There is an American version of the Office as well....

[ULfan808]

@samsung54369 Opposed* And obviously, you don't watch much American television. There are a lot of comedy shows with realistic scenarios. Not saying that this isn't brilliant though

[tedwilli9]

@samsung54369 I disagree. I'm privy to most British shows, including the Inbetweeners, The Office, Misfits, Alan Partridge, Extras, etc...The biggest difference is that, in Europe, you're allowed to swear, show titties and dicks, and be much racier. You could argue that America has to spend more time being creative, in order to work around that. And sorry, but I've seen plenty of British shows with canned laughter (including Alan Partridge, Absolutely Fabulous, Keeping up Appearances, etc)

[CRTtoVIP]

@samsung54369 As sad as it is to admit (coming from an American) British comedy has become far better than American comedy. I saw Horrible Bosses about a week before I saw this movie, The Trip, and it wasn't even a contest. The comedy was sooooo terribly forced in Horrible Bosses with tons of nudity and slapstick and racism jokes, while The Trip just had some seemingly natural scenes of comedy. Also, The Trip turned out to have a sad commentary on the life of a mid-level actor (Steven Coogan).

[bordarboy]

@samsung54369 Massive generalisation.

[samsung54369]

@bordarboy that comment i made half a goddamn year ago isnt the only thing thats massive (my penis) and yeah curb your enthusiasm, us office, and arrested development are good but i stick by the fact they dont have the realism of the good english stuff like the uk office, 15 storeys high, extras, peep show etc. youve just been schooled

[samsung54369]

@bordarboy my dicks a massive generalistion

[bordarboy]

@samsung54369 It took you a week to think of that?

[samsung54369]

@bordarboy took me a week to finish with your mother, paper mache dolls sure are an arduous task, oh and then i had sex with her

[bordarboy]

@samsung54369 Wow, that was laboured.

[samsung54369]

@bordarboy laboured as your mother after i finished with her, or in her if were talking specifics, and since you asked on her two, at her etc. well keep up the lazy ass humor you obv blow yourself so much over

[hippotoast]

@samsung54369 You're making a crude oversimplification of American comedy. Yes the majority of their sitcoms are crude, broad trash, so what? Ours aren't? For every Office and Peep show there is a dozen My Familys and Mirandas. Both countries suffer the same ailment, a financially motivated media desperately seeking to capitalize on the truly dim witted and uncouth general population. We haven't got shit on American comedy, our stand up being especially embarrassing by comparison.

[samsung54369]

@hippotoast wut english stands ups waaaaay better

[charlieflint]

@hippotoast

Hmmm, I'd have to disagree, so we have Michael McIntyre, Bill Bailey, Ross Noble, Billy Connolly, Eddie Izzard, Lee Evans, Stewart Lee, Sean Lock, Dylan Moran and Peter Kay to name bust just a very small few, and I'd rate them all over a fairly broad majority of US stand up comedians.

Slightly back on topic though, put it this way, if we 'haven't got shit on American comedy', it seems a little odd to me then that so many UK show ideas get poached for the American market.

[hippotoast]

@charlieflint I'll have to disagree as well. The problem with British stand up is that for the most part its treated as just entertainment, when if handled correctly it can be a true art form. Case in point, British stand up seems to be preoccupied with abstract, formulaic jokes for the sake of jokes. This can be funny but compared with American comedy which is more about honest, personal outpourings it just pales in comparison. There simply aren't British equivalents of Carlin, Pyror or Oneal.

[hippotoast]

@charlieflint Regarding sitcoms I couldn't argue that the best American sitcoms are better than the best British sitcoms (for me UK office is the greatest thing ever broadcast) it's just that there are more AAA American sitcoms than British ones. Think about it, what do we truly have to offer that is comparable to say Arrested Development, Curb or Larry Sanders and countless others apart from The Office or Peep Show? It's a question of quantity of quality rather than just quality.

[penguinworm]

@samsung54369 We've moved away from canned laughter in the last decade. (most of those "canned laughter" shows were/are actually filmed in front of an audience)

[samsung54369]

@penguinworm no one would laugh at two and a half men unless they were insane or dangerously retarded

[iamoogabooga]

@samsung54369 it's because USA is actually a movie - if you take away the background music they all die.

[carlo88moe]

@samsung54369ur emphasis on realism is misplaced, i dont get why "realism" is such a requirement for comedy for you, some of the best comedies, brit of american aren't....some brit shows are really awesome, undoubtedly, but some a pretty shit, as are the american shows....what people like you do is use anecdotal evidence lieke this great show to prove u point about why american shows suck in comparison....its dishonest, trite, and just fucking inane....

[samsung54369]

@carlo88moe reading your comment was inane, even though curb your enthusiasm is really good, usa sucks and realism rules

[carlo88moe]

@samsung54369 yes shows like ukoffice revolutionized wat is comedy&they influenced a generation worth of ace docu-cmedies,ala our office and modern family.But saying realism is theONLYformat of a good comedy just shows ure daft,it implies any show that dsnt do that is automatically flawed.Wld u consider flight o t condors or the mty boosh inane?not to mention great laugh track shows like Friends.sure realism shows are more intelligent,but u exaggerate just how intelligent by contrast2diff styles

[carlo88moe]

plus it takes a bizarre credulity and a force inanity to consider any show very realistic, if you think shows like the office are immensely realistic your brains fucked, every show suspends it a little and takes a lot of latitude of ur "precious realism", they take realistic reactions and set them to unrealistic plot lines, but thats what makes them entertaining...curb, inbtwnrs, office all manipulate realism....oh, and youre a cunt, so there's that too to discredit ur crazy adulation

[samsung54369]

@carlo88moe resortjng to petty insults doesnt prove your point bitch, and maybe my brain is fucked from weed but yet im still way more down to earth and right then you, and where did i put immensely realistic? no where.

[carlo88moe]

@samsung54369 petty insults useless?says the guy who retaliates w "bitch,"ace point! didnt mean for it to prove my point u mongoloid,i addressed the substance,or lack thereof,of ur bullshit, then added some icing bc u deserve to b called what u come off as, namely a cunt.And no,i probably smoke more than you and yet i still grasp tv and pop media better than you.ur just lame,lambasting US television bc all u do is generalize like a mad bitch, i think ur just resentful of theUS' cultural hegemony

[EGRJ]

@samsung54369 Both the American and British versions of the office don't have a studio audience.

[bobdy9988]

@samsung54369 Hey, I agree with what your saying, but to completely dismiss American comedy would be foolish - Family Guy is genius!

[timmy47]

@bobdy9988 are you kidding? thre is nothing "genius" about that show. there isnt anything they do that simpsons didn't do first, and did better and with more class. first few seasons of family guy were good though. (after like season 9 or 10 of simpsons though it gets kinda lame. the new ones are terrible).

[sfox85]

"depends what it is..."

[backinburntcity]

@sfox85 I love Coogan's face in the background at that.

[AliceAndW]

0:20 That was a wonderful smile :D

[caturn88]

is that character in a box real, i dont follow this comedians work

[BooJoMan]

@caturn88 yes! it actually sounds exactly like that too! heard in person once.

[falcoboat]

@caturn88 It's one of Rob Brydon's go-to moves for hilarity on panel shows (which are his main-stay these days) - an American man trapped in a box. If you search youtube you'll find good examples of it :)

[zombiepeek]

hahahahaha

[MrSyrett]

@wasssuppp08 - Yeah. I guess it gives you much more time and money for you to persue your hobbies now

[Starturtle311090]

It's not my fault her husbands dead!