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I love Armstrong & Miller. Their series about the chav WW2 pilots is hilarious 
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And so I return to my original premise. Britain is lousy with double acts. America is bereft.
Of those you name, I know only David Mitchell, and that only owing to my obsessive love of QI.
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Zarban wrote:
And so I return to my original premise. Britain is lousy with double acts. America is bereft.
Absolutely, but that wasn't the point I was 'arguing' against (I wasn't really aruing, just couldn't think of another word).
Of those you name, I know only David Mitchell, and that only owing to my obsessive love of QI.
Mitchell is in a couple of panel shows here as well as radio work. His partnership with Robert Webb has spawned a radio then TV sketch show and Peep Show which is apparently popular but I've never watched. QI is a great show to know him from, though. I like David Mitchell. You'll know Ben Miller from Armstrong and Miller as Bough in the first Johnny English film 
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I'm curious, how big was Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry?
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In the UK? They were/are huge. They had their own TV show ( A Bit of Fry and Laurie) on the BBC for 4 series and round about the same same the pair were on rival channel ITV playing Jeeves and Wooster based on the books by PG Wodehouse which also ran for 4 series. Before all this, they were known for their appearances on Blackadder.
Stephen Fry is now a 'national treasure' and still hugely popular in QI and many documentaries he has made. They are both what you would call 'household names' in the UK.
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That's pretty much what I figured, based upon the documentary I watched about Blackadder. I haven't watched A Bit of Fry and Laurie yet, as there aren't any legal means for me to do so (that I know of.)
I don't know of a prominent Canadian double act (Terrence and Philip don't count.)
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I haven't watched A Bit of Fry and Laurie yet, as there aren't any legal means for me to do so (that I know of.)
Youtube is your friend (there are full episodes on there)
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Penn and Teller are pretty well known. And funny. And very American.
Paul and Storm are also an American comedy duo. They sing with Jonathan Coulton and run W00tstock.
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All of A Bit of Fry and Laurie is available on Amazon Instant, free with Prime. 
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003ZHOY66
QI is available on YouTube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwdcGhPTkhA
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Phi wrote:
Penn and Teller are pretty well known. And funny. And very American.
Except their first TV series was made by Channel 4 in the UK
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Jimmy B wrote:
Mitchell is in a couple of panel shows here as well as radio work. His partnership with Robert Webb has spawned a radio then TV sketch show and Peep Show which is apparently popular but I've never watched.
Chiming in to say that Peep Show is hysterical, and available for viewing on Netflix Instant. So is That Mitchell and Webb Look, for that matter...
Peep Show has the added point of interest for filmy-type people of being shot entirely through POV shots. Just throwing that out there.
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I don't know of a prominent Canadian double act (Terrence and Philip don't count.)
Wayne and Shuster. They did a series of CBC specials for decades, watched by those of us in the border states. It was always fun because the first half hour would be sketches, with the second half hour one long parody of some genre.
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Ahh, Wayne and Shuster were well before my time. I don't think they even have reruns/specials on anymore.
I've started watching A Bit of Fry and Laurie, kicking myself for just starting it now.
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It's going to be interesting. If he doesn't deal with Lincoln's evil, or at least "controversial" side, it will be a chance wasted. I always liked Sondheim's take from the musical ASSASSINS:
How could you do it, Johnny,
Calling it a cause?
You left a legacy
Of butchery
And treason we
Took eagerly,
And thought you'd get applause.
But traitors just get jeers and boos,
Not visits to their graves,
While Lincoln, who got mixed reviews,
Because of you, John, now gets only raves.
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Yes! Assassins makes a great point about Lincoln's legacy in that song. It bugs me that Mary Todd Lincoln says "No one's ever been loved so much by the people," in the trailer. Lincoln was HATED in his time. I hope the movie doesn't gloss over that.
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I don't really know much about it, but you guys talking about Lincoln reminded me of this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2032276/
I'm mainly trying to figure out how you connect the dots of Stephen Lang to Abe Lincoln.
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This movie man... it just frustrates the hell out of me. I should nerdgasming all over this thing, all of the concepts in here are shit I LOVE (The epic fantasy landscapes, and magic, and reinterpreting the story from a different viewpoint etc etc), but instead I just feel empty. I just don't care. It feels like a bad rip-off of Alice In Wonderland someone kinda draped around the general idea of some far distant memory of this story The Wizard of Oz that someone told them about as a kid.
I mean I love James Franco, I love Mila Kunis, I love Rachel Weisz, but going from this trailer it feels like everyone involved with this movie from the writer through the the VFX artists didn't bother taking the idea seriously. And so it just ends up feeling like a particularly bad fever dream
....ugh, it''s just stupid alright. Everything about this movie looks patently fucking retarded. There we go, that's an easier way to put it.
The problem is, I keep picturing the movie we could of had, the dramatic telling of this ordinary man thrust into a world so entirely beyond him, and yet he has to step up, and become a revolutionary leader, leading the forces against the Wicked Witch. And then there are all sorts of cool ideas inside that that could be explored as far as dictatorial governments, and maybe the Wicked Witch isn't really all that evil, she's just been vilified by the common people of Oz because they don't like some of her policies when it comes to ruling Oz. Or something. I don't know, it just feels like there's so much more that could be mined out of this idea than another overly cg'd romp through wonderland.
...maybe I'm still just pining for a movie based on the novel of Wicked.
That's probably it.
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I just watched Moonrise Kingdom and I loved it. The kids playing the leads do a phenomenal job with tough characters. I wasn't sure about them at first, but once we learn more about who they are and how their relationship developed, I fell in love with both of them, and I was totally sold on the movie.
Actually, I could say that about pretty much every actor in the movie. For the first half-hour, everyone seems a little bit off, but once you acclimate to the style of the film, everything falls into place. Moonrise Kingdom is a surprisingly intricate little film, given how simple the story seems. It might take me a little while to riddle out all the thematic points it's hitting.
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Xtroid....once again condensing 3 paragraphs of my random babbling into one gif.
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I liked the image of the Wicked Witch of the West in the fire at the end of the trailer. That's about it.
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Anyone heard of this new syfy show?
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April? Awww, I want to be disappointed now!
(and no, I had never heard of it until now )
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Speaking of Elizabeth Olsen, I finally saw Martha Marcy May Marlene, and god DAMN, that's a hell of a film. Talk about a breakout performance.
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I just watched the first five episodes of the original Twilight Zone. Pretty cool. I've seen a few other episodes fairly recently also.
Rod Serling wrote 92 of the 156 episodes himself. He had an interesting imagination and seemed able to see things from a perspective I'm not sure I could access. Many episodes had a twist ending that revealed the "actual" reality the characters inhabited: they are dolls, dead, robots, fictional characters, subjects in a sensory deprivation tank, and so on.
Serling saw very heavy fighting in WW2 and was wounded several times but remained a private after three years because he was kind of a screwup (he would wander off and get lost, for example). The madness of war and arbitrariness of death (he once saw a comedian decapitated on stage by a falling crate) clearly informed his writing.
Many of the episodes don't have much of a point. They seem unable to answer the question "Why did you just tell me that story?" They often seem to be just fucking with the main character, leaving him in a hopeless situation or, strangely, given new hope for a fuller life.
I always sort of assumed that the first couple of episodes would explain the concept of the "twilight zone", but they don't. Apparently the universe just goes a little crazy now and then, and you'd better just hang on and hope you get back to normal reality intact, assuming you even ever existed in normal reality.
On the other hand, the characters are often rather two-dimensional. They often have a lot of trouble realizing or believing what is happening to them. Sometimes this adds to the dreamlike or nightmarish quality of the story, and sometimes it just doesn't ring true.
While One Step Beyond explored ostensibly true paranormal stories and The Outer Limits explored stories about alien invasion, The Twilight Zone focused mostly on regular people trapped in nightmarish circumstances. That—along with better writing overall—is what I think makes it more personal and memorable.
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