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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/at-last-del-boy-opens-a-us-subsidiary-6296345.html

Cue Del-Boy tags.

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I've had a mixed relationship with 30 Rock over the years, I've always enjoyed it but felt it's not quite as good as it should be. They've been capable of producing an episode that could match The Office & Parks and Recreation at their best, but these were too few and far between. The "Too much Kenneth" years were in hindsight particularly painful as well, but I thought season five was it's best yet, and season six is looking like the show could finally turn in to something special.

The first episode wasn't spectacular in any way but it was well written and very likeable, but the recent two parter which guest starred Will Arnett, Denise Richards and Kelsey Grammar was an enormous amount of fun. There were plenty of daft gags thrown in, Alec Baldwin seems to be finally enjoying it again, it moved along at a brisk pace and the joke rate in general was pretty impressive. Plus Grammar chewed the scenery like never before, and was a fantastic addition (the Bond-theme at the end of the first episode made his appearance worth while alone).

I've yet to see the fourth episode, and am still wary, but hey, let's be optimistic and hope that this year sees it finally become the show I always hoped it would be.

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Haven't seen any mention of this on here so far. According to Chortle, Vic and Bob are planning a new live show, with a tour in mind if the first dates go well enough.

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2012/01/25/14726/vic_%26_bob_to_tour_again

Given recent form on Shooting Stars, and at least a good chunk of Afternoon Delights, this is very welcome news if true.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ15z8YqB8Q

try to follow this recipe

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This looks exciting. A series in which David Steinberg sits and chats with comedians about their careers. In the first episode, it's Don Rickles, then Jerry Seinfeld.

Although, as the review states, 'We live in an era overflowing with venues for the dissection of comedy, including blogs, podcasts (there’s little chance Inside Comedy is ever going to offer up the sort of in-depth analysis and confrontational psychodrama found on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast)', I can't get enough of shows like this. Plus, with Steinberg's comedic connections, there's a lot of potential to get some great insight here. I'm not familiar with his interview approach, but it looks like it could be the closest to a televisual equivalent of something such as WTF that we've had in a good while.

I think I'll have to track down its predecessor too - Sit Down Comedy With David Steinberg - which featured interviews with the likes of Robin Williams, Larry David, and Garry Shandling.

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http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2012/01/26/14732/sky_orders_a_new_julia_davis_comedy

Shades of Nighty Night - 'Davis will play the scheming housekeeper Dorothy, who believes the newcomer cannot compare to the pastor’s dead first wife, Arabelle.'

I thoroughly enjoyed Lizzie and Sarah, and Human Remains, but found Nighty Night a tad jarring by series 2. Still, could be promising.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16744299

Terry Jones is directing the science fiction film, Absolutely Anything - 'Jones revealed John Cleese, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin were on board and he still hoped to sign Eric Idle.' Robin Williams is on board too.

Also looking forward to the animated film about Chapman too - who still made the effort to be involved despite being dead since 1989, as opposed to Idle, who's probably too busy writing The Meaning Of Life in the style of a Shakespearean play, or some such lucrative bollocks.[1]

1.	Spamalot has finally arrived in my general area. Starring Marcus Brigstocke, Bonnie Langford and Todd Carty.

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There’s an intrinsic conflict with the alternative being a success, with the anti-telly comedian being on television, with the outsider being, to some degree, part of the mainstream. And it’s something he’s well aware of. It leads him to believe that many of his fellow comedians “increasingly dislike” him. He’s not exactly kind to them either.

“For a long time, I was a sort of totemic figure for them. Popular and successful comedians like to be able to appear magnanimous, and so it was very nice for them to be able to go ‘but of course, my favourite comedian is. . .’ and then they would say me. But I was not in their orbit, so it’s a patrician pat on the head.”

But his increasing success changes that. “When I used to do stand-up making fun of how comedy works or complaining about commissioning procedures, or whatever, I did that from a position of being in an 80-seater attic in the Fringe, or in an arts centre somewhere. If the perception of you is a success, things that seem heroic when you’re perceived as an outsider very quickly look arrogant.”

Then there’s the question of being ripped off. “As soon as that happens, people will be irritated with me by association because it [Lee’s stand up] will start to feel not an alternative thing, but actually a trope.”

While being influential might be flattering for some, Lee has instead dumped some of his trademarks for Carpet Remnant World . “I think it’s pretty obvious why I haven’t done them – because there are 19-year-olds doing them. Things like long silences, lots of repetition that slightly changes over a 20-minute bit, stating very cruel things, very bluntly as if they were facts, getting off the stage and performing from unlit, unamplified areas of darkness, all those things I’ve done a lot of – I haven’t gone near them in this show because I’ve seen little kids doing them in open-spot nights.”

Seeing younger comics perform like him doesn’t exactly give Lee a warm fuzzy feeling. “It’s kind of like a Lego version of you. Reduced. Oh dear. It’s a bit annoying. I sort of think, that’s what I do, and I’ve got two kids and I’m 43 years old and I’d quite like to be able to eek this out until I die, and yet you’re making what I do a cliche and you haven’t even got any dependants, you horrible, selfish child.” He pauses post-rant. “But, on the other hand, it forces you on.”

From http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2012/0125/1224310701798.html

While there is a degree of sarcasm in what he's saying, I do think this is a bit of a ridiculous stance to take. In the past I've seen Lee admit that when he started stand up that he was a 'poor man's Ted Chippington' or words to that effect. Obviously every artist is going to have  formative influences.