Britain's Got The Pop Factor And Possibly A New..

Quote: Matthew Stott @ October 6 2008, 10:03 PM BST

I kind of think it's going to be a bit rubbish; but he has done good work on TV; so there's always a possibility. Of course I'm ignoring Paddy And Max there; but Nights and That Peter Kay Thing, were both very good. It's going to be crap though, isn't it. I can sort of feel it.

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Yeah, same here.

Top Of The Tower is a brilliant stand up DVD - not just nostalgia but proper jokes and everything. Then his second DVD was just dull.

The Services, Thing and Nights were all good (though Nights 2 was going off the boil) and everything after that gets ignored.
 

Quote: Seefacts @ October 6 2008, 10:07 PM BST

Yeah, same here.

Top Of The Tower is a brilliant stand up DVD - not just nostalgia but proper jokes and everything. Then his second DVD was just dull.

The Services, Thing and Nights were all good (though Nights 2 was going off the boil) and everything after that gets ignored.

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The Services was brilliant. I remember catching that when it was first shown, and tuning in the next week because I thought it was a whole series, only to be dissapointed! Bought That P.K.Thing on Amazon for a pound yesterday, so I'm looking forward to re-watching that; and the Services is included as an extra!
 

Yeah I'm a massive fan of Phoenix Nights and That Peter Kay Thing. I'm also one of the few people who enjoyed Max and Paddy. I'm very intrigued to see how this new show goes. The unfunny title isn't promising, but the TV trailer of Peter Kay looking so very wrong in that ginger wig could mean it's good.
 

Quote: Griff @ October 6 2008, 11:32 PM BST

Yeah I'm a massive fan of Phoenix Nights and That Peter Kay Thing. I'm also one of the few people who enjoyed Max and Paddy.

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Me too. However, he's flogged the stuff to death over the past few years
so I'm hoping that this might lead him in a different direction.
 

Quote: Griff @ October 6 2008, 11:32 PM BST

Yeah I'm a massive fan of Phoenix Nights and That Peter Kay Thing. I'm also one of the few people who enjoyed Max and Paddy. I'm very intrigued to see how this new show goes. The unfunny title isn't promising, but the TV trailer of Peter Kay looking so very wrong in that ginger wig could mean it's good.

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I'm a fan of Peter Kay and most of his work, I Think Phoenix Nights Is his best of the sitcoms and I can't quite decide over his stand ups. As for Max And Paddy.. Well what a shambles! The first two episodes where up with the rest and made me laugh throughout. After that rapidly downhill!

Agree that the first couple of episodes of Max and Paddy were stronger than the later ones. I remember the opening one where they dress up as sailors in the disco and pick up those two horrible women as being pretty funny.
 

Love Peter Kay's work, hate reality TV, so not sure what to expect.

I also like Max and Paddy, more so than that Peter Kay thing. Now I'm going to go into hiding!!
 

Peter Kay isn't funny anymore. Hasn't been for five years. Some people think he still is because they're seeing Bolton Albert Halls for the first time, but if you see his apprearences on Paul O'Grady, were he needs to keep on dressing up in costumes to raise a laugh, then you'll know he's lost it.
 

Personally I think it will probably be a mixture of a weakish idea but with some good gags and funny bits in with the lazy gags.
 

Is this a sitcom? Shouldn't it be in the Other Comedy bit? Also, hasn't Kay largely covered this area, rather brilliantly, in That Peter Kay Thing and the episode lonely At The Top, about the giant-nosed cabaret singer.

Peter Kay is completely brilliant and his live shows are second to none. Pheonix Nights was wonderful too. But I must say I've been a bit perplexed by Peter Kay's recent tv appearances. For instance I couldn't watch this performance on Parky, it was just too embarrassing, in a Freddie Starr kind of way. The guests and Parkie look like they're thinking "Oh f**k off, give it a rest will you?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkrIz-HAQdA

Quote: Perry Nium @ October 8 2008, 3:54 PM BST

Peter Kay is completely brilliant and his live shows are second to none. Pheonix Nights was wonderful too. But I must say I've been a bit perplexed by Peter Kay's recent tv appearances. For instance I couldn't watch this performance on Parky, it was just too embarrassing, in a Freddie Starr kind of way. The guests and Parkie look like they're thinking "Oh f**k off, give it a rest will you?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkrIz-HAQdA

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Kay is always guilty of trying to create a 'moment'.
 

I loved his appearance on Jonathan Ross a while back, when JR was trying to be really chummy, and PK was having none of it. "Alright let's pretend we're fake showbiz pals if you insist" and then lots of fake smiles etc. Love it! I mean that might have been faked too and maybe they are pals, but JR seemed a bit uncomfortable with it.
 

I shouldn't think they're pals.


He said something that really got my back up on that show. Wish I could remember the specifics.
 

Don't remember that..? Obviously missed it! Shame!