Trigger Happy TV on Comedy Central

[bostonj]

Today is the American premiere of Trigger Happy TV. When I was living there, this was the biggest comedy show on the BBC.
It's sort of Tom Green-like in that there's a central real-life comedy commando (Dom Jolie) who plays certain characters and sort of gets laughs off unsuspecting bystanders. Unlike Tom Green, Jolie goes for a surreal kind of humor that is more planned out. The jokes sometime come from slight permutations of a common theme. For instance, Jolie in a fat suit carrying around a 3 foot cell phone and answering it loudly in museums, fashionable restaurants, boat tours, etc. Or there's Jolie making up stories to get change from passers by with a 10 foot billboard behind him that says "Don't Trust This Man" with his face on it.
The only drawback is the music which is constantly blaring and is really irritating.

Anyways, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
it's on at 10:30 PM tonight, check it out

[bostonj]

Wow, they changed a lot about this show. First off, the theme song is "Connection" by Elastica, but on the Comedy Central version it's a close approximation of it did by studio musicians. Actually, all the music on the american version is like that. A New Order song is slightly changed, a Blur song, etc etc. I guess Comedy Central can't be bothered to pay royalties on music.

Q: Is it a bad thing that TV shows won't use popular songs (note:not ads)?

[berzerker]

Probably can't afford it. Didja watch "Ed" the first year? They used a Foo Fighters song. Don't know what they use now.

What's with the animal people?

Very funny overall..

[bostonj]

the costumes are really funny. my personal favorite is the "posh tigergram"

[Mona]

its like a british Jackass..but with old people.

i love it. :D

[MissKitty]

My favorite is a toss-up with the animal people, and the spy.

The three squirrels that kick the shit outta a guy reading the newspaper in the park cracks me up, and the one where the same three squirrels go into a convenience store and rob it for the nuts ("We get the nuts and no one gets hurt") slays me. The guy dressed as a snail going across a crosswalk is pretty good too.

Dunno if they have shown it yet on American TV or not, but there is a sketch where the spy leans up against a post and opens a newspaper with two holes cut in it, and procedes to stare at some elderly man. The look on the mans face when he realizes the spy is watching him is priceless.

I love this show.

[Huxley]

This show is the best thing to happen to insomnia ever! Other then the internet. Anywho, I love this show. Its so pathetic yet so brilliant all at the same time.

[berzerker]

I love the one where there's 4 guys smoking outside a building, and Death walks up, stares at them, then checks his watch. Funny, I guess because I used to smoke.

Also, the thief walking down the street past the cops, holding a huge sign that says theif. He's wearing an old-school Lone Ranger mask, and has a sack over his shoulder. One time, there's even an appropriately marked "getaway car." The cops never give him a second glance...

[c-lando]

Originally posted by berzerker
Probably can't afford it. Didja watch "Ed" the first year? They used a Foo Fighters song. Don't know what they use now.I know that they have used "Moment in the Sun" by Clem Snide. But, not sure if they still use it. I've only seen 1 episode.

[Huxley]

The song next year by the foos was the only reason i started watching ED, then I realized it was about a dork like me who sucks when it comes to talking to women.

[Nemetona]

I have a love/hate relationshiop with this show. I love the humor, I've howled. I love the setup of 'one millionth customer' outside porn shops and stuff. And the furries attacking each other is outrageous.
But.
I hate seeing the apathy of the people who just stare at things that happen but don't do anything. How do you just stand around watching ostensibly real, violent acts, but say nothing? I don't want to be all dark here since we're talking about a comedy, and I know this is harsh, but with that kind of uninvolved mentality, I can begin to see how Auschwitz & Birkenau happened. Don't get your panties in a bunch. Let me splain. No, it's too much, let me sum up:
My bro has lived around eastern Europe for the past 5 years or so, and from his experiences has made the assessment that most countries share this mentality. He visited Birkenau, and--I didn't realize this--there were fences, but no cells, no restraints and lots of opportunities to gather as a group. Yet they predominantly went along at the tip of the gun, perhaps because they just couldn't believe what was happening. The prisoners far outnumbered the guards, they could have stormed them to escape, sacrificing only a few dozen of the half million. But they didn't. Why?

From watching Trigger Happy, and from what my bro has told me, I really get the sense that this apathy is epidemic, but I don't know how it happens. In the case of Britain, is it perhaps because there are cameras everywhere and they figure if they don't do anything, no big deal, someone else will handle it?

Makes you wonder...how many serial killers do you suspect are currently operating in Britain, because it just seems like it would be a Disneyland there, the way no one takes notice or gets involved.
MK, CR, Bostonj, what do you sometime Britons think?

[Smoker29]

I caught this show on comedy central the other night and I think it's the best show I've seen since Kid's In The Hall.

I happen to love the music in the background and think that it adds to the show. It makes it stand out a bit more than silly slide whistle noises would. I don't know, this show just has something unique about it.

I too love this show.