Apart from the fact that it's 20 years old (20 years!) what strikes me is how very, very funny it still is.
wd the repulsive luvvie steve coogan.
The chocolate mousse bit.
Have any 20 year old comedy series tickled your fancy recently?
It's absurdly good. And, more remarkably, it bears repeated viewings. It often irritates me how much credit Ricky Gervais gets for The Office, despite the fact that it was in so many ways a substandard rip-off of Partridge.
It's absurdly good. And, more remarkably, it bears repeated viewings. It often irritates me how much credit Ricky Gervais gets for The Office, despite the fact that it was in so many ways a substandard rip-off of Partridge.
I found The Trip most interesting for revealing that Rob Brydon is quite a lot funnier than Steve Coogan.
Err...you realise they were working to a script, right?
No, I've seen both explicitly state that it's improvised, albeit in a 'structured' way. So yes, they do adopt personas but there's enough creative license for both to be as funny as they can muster.
No, I've seen both explicitly state that it's improvised, albeit in a 'structured' way. So yes, they do adopt personas but there's enough creative license for both to be as funny as they can muster.
Of course. Improvisation doesn't mean there isn't a script, though. The characters are delineated to behave in certain ways and be more or less 'funny' than one another.