Just started watching it on catch-up. I hope they'll have some more recent material; opening with the hoary old Catchphrase "Snake Charmer" clip is a bit of a bad first impression for the programme.
Why they schedule 3 hour programmes until Midnight on a Sunday night I'll never know. I might have watched had it been more condensed and not in such a daft time slot.
Was there any decent insights or just very well known clips mixed in with not very well known comedians shoehorning some of their stand up into their comments.
The Channel 5 shows under the 'When X Goes X' strand typically aren't very good (yes, by clip show standards!), overlong and tend to include suspect clips that are more horrible than amusing to watch.
A bit of a shame that Channel 4 decided to stop doing clip/list shows because they were at least well produced and featured comedians you may have actually heard of.
I disagree they make for great TV and uncover many gems. Cheap telly but it's the best of YouTube TV clips without you having to find them. And you can dip in and out of it or enjoy the whole thing.
The undercover reporter Blind Date clip is fantastic and something most weren't aware of example but course shown on another one of these Channel 5 shows too.
TV companies never learn do they? Three of the shows featured were there because people got injured. Krypton Factor (broken leg on the assault course), Gladiators (Jet and Panther's injuries - both were among the talking heads), and The Jump. The first two had injuries very rarely. But The Jump has them all the time. They listed a lot of them. God only knows how anyone gets insurance when they do that show now!
Naturally, they HAD to include the Family Fortunes Turkey incident. But I hadn't seen the Family Feud clip before. Four answers on the board. Question was another name for a mother. Mom/Mommy, Mama. Two left to get. They kept saying Mommy and Nanna (the first is a duplicate answer, the second means Grandmother and not Mother and thus was wrong). How did nobody think to just say Ma?
They appear to have taken some of the outtakes from the VTs of older clip shows, rather than using original footage. Examples:
On the Blind Date "outed journo" clip, an aston explained that the journo was later found to be engaged to someone else. The aston was fuzzy, 4:3 safe and in a large clunking Gill Sans font - clearly taken from a fairly old clips/outtakes show.
The laughter on the Countdown "WANKERS" clip was certainly not that of the original Countdown audience.
The Catchphrase "Snake Charmer" clip was an edited, presumably "less offensive" version, maybe from an early evening outtake show (ludicrous that it ever needed to be "censored" in the first place!).
The clippage and research in these has been generally good, as I've said before they've not just gone for the obvious incidents we've seen hundreds of times before. It's the talking heads that let them down, they've been ok when it's been a person involved in the clip but some obscure comedian talking in the past tense about a clip he's only just watched is annoying.
They are long but the trick is to record and then skip through the recaps, ads and anything not interesting and you can get it down to 90 mins
The Catchphrase "Snake Charmer" clip was an edited, presumably "less offensive" version, maybe from an early evening outtake show (ludicrous that it ever needed to be "censored" in the first place!).
It was the version seen in the episode itself. They altered the animation before it was broadcast.
