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Did anyone see this the other night? Occasionally patchy in the way that pilots for comedy sketch shows, especially satires, almost inevitably are - but when it works the best stuff, whilst relying on a pretty damn narrow frame of reference, was spot-on and painfully funny. I think my favourite was probably 'Club Escorts' - just the right mix of unsettling, surreal and all-too familiar.
"How much for... er, for full sex?"
"Fischerspooner box set, half a gram of charlie and then back to your loft in Clerkenwell."
"I... I don't have a loft... I share a flat in Archway..."
Other highlights: the evil corporate town planners pushing little coloured cubes representing Starbucks, Gap etc round maps - one of them says "What about a nice family butcher's instead?", there's a really, really long silence until he grins and confesses "Ahhh, gotcha!". The 'Shirtlifter Chic' sketch, which turned what I thought was a slightly juvenile, throwaway and possibly homophobic gag in an earlier scene into a neat parody of the way the straight male contingent artsy London scene still falls back on the whole "Two girls. Kissing." schtick and how that crops up in music, fashion etc. Oh, and the trendy London girl getting back in touch with and coming to terms with her middle class roots - 100% accurate... |
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