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Saxondale.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:02 pm
by Trumpton
A new series of this Steve Coogan show starts tonight on BBC 2 at 09:30 pm.
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Re: Saxondale.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:19 pm
by Arginald Valleywater
How the fuck did it get past the pilot episode? Not funny. Steve really has lost it from the glory days of Alan Partridge, Paul Calf and Coogan's run. Too much coke and a fat ego.
Re: Saxondale.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:27 pm
by jj
Like a lot of modern 'comedy' characters I find Saxondale by turns
cruel or irritating- but rarely funny.
Re: Saxondale.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:27 pm
by Big Ass Lover
Looking forward to it. Not a lot else on at the moment but with My Name Is Earl and Saxondale looks like a good thursday night.
Re: Saxondale.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:29 pm
by Jonone
Much of Coogan's work could be seen as implicitly self aggrandizing, contrasting his success and achievement with thwarted characters like Partridge and Saxondale. It does seem to lack warmth.
Re: Saxondale.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:20 pm
by colonel
Love the theme tune- by Focus I think; and which spent the 1970s as the theme to Don't Ask Me....I keep expecting David Bellamy to step out into shot.
Re: Saxondale.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:39 pm
by The Last Word
Jonone wrote:
> Much of Coogan's work could be seen as implicitly self
> aggrandizing, contrasting his success and achievement with
> thwarted characters like Partridge and Saxondale. It does seem
> to lack warmth.
That's a thought. And like a lot of comedy personas - David Brent being a prime example - they flatter the viewer. Thank God I'm not like this twerp, you're meant to think. The comedy through which we recognise ourselves seems to have lost out to simply laughing at other people (or laughing at inferiors, perhaps).
Re: Saxondale.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:39 pm
by jj
colonel wrote:
> Love the theme tune- by Focus I think;
Y. House of the King.
> and which spent the 1970s as the theme to Don't Ask Me....I keep
> expecting David Bellamy to step out into shot.
Didn't that have Magnus Pyke in it?
Re: Saxondale.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:52 pm
by jj
The Last Word wrote:
> The comedy
> through which we recognise ourselves seems to have lost out to
> simply laughing at other people (or laughing at inferiors, perhaps).
The entire basis of stuff like Little Britain/Catherine Tate. 'The comedy of
unjustified snobbery' perhaps..... I suppose most comedy relies on cruelty
or schadenfreude [e.g. the banana-skin] but I prefer mine a little less
overt and snobbish.