| Author | Message | ||
     David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 92.22.4.197 |
This is from a sketch show called Burnistoun, I don't think it's ever been shown outside of Scotland. It turns out the two guys who do it are massive Lovecraft fans, leading to this brilliant sketch where a man tries to get his Housing Association to deal with the eldritch horror in his basement. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1F7N1waNWM | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.19.39 |
Superb! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Hahahaha! That's excellent! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.124.77 |
For Lovecraft fans, priceless. For another else, WTF? | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
Hah - very good! | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.129.56.43 |
Why did that happen to his head at the end? Very very funny though | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.124.77 |
There's a great 'lost' Lovecraft tale in which people are made out of geometric figures. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.158.58.16 |
It was a cone zero. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.166.73 |
Brilliant. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.18.174.156 |
Very funny!!  I wouldn't mind seeing more of this show. Is it like a Scottish version of 'The League Of Gentlemen'? | ||
| David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 92.22.4.197 |
Although it is all themed around one town and is occasionally a bit dark and sinister, it's not really an accurate comparison. That sketch is the only real horror related material they've done, mostly it's a pretty traditional sketch show with a Scottish sense of humour. | ||
| David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 92.22.4.197 |
Velvet Soup was the closest thing I've seen to a Scottish LoG, unfortunately it's never had a DVD release and seems pretty much forgotten about, apart from a handful of sketches on YouTube. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Never heard of 'Velvet Soup'. I have to say homegrown Scottish comedy shows tend to be a lot funnier than their equivalent over here in Northern Ireland. Laudable as its intentions are, I find 'Give My Head Peace' to be painfully unfunny. Remember 'Naked Video'! | ||
| David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 92.22.4.197 |
Velvet Soup came out in 2001, I think. It had two series but the second one was messed around in the schedules and lost viewers as a result. As far as I know it's never even been repeated since. This is about the best quality sketch available on YouTube, a disturbed policeman giving a lecture on safety to a bunch of schoolkids: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1CoQgX3b3U&feature=related There's also Limmy's Show, which is a real "love it or hate it" kind of bizarre, experimental sketch show. The star, Brian Limmond, has said he's more influenced by stuff like The Twilight Zone than other comedy. | ||
| David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 92.22.61.240 |
Speaking of Limmy's Show (as I was, er, four months ago) here're some sketches that veer somewhat into horror: Raymond Day, the medium who gives...less than reassuring messages from the afterlife. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDdopOhx5Aw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYIc_URgELA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIxk2TMR7zs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C63wVZJDquo | ||
| David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 92.22.61.240 |
Series three of Burnistoun started just the other week and it should be available on iPlayer, for those of you cursed with not living in Scotland. There's been nothing horror-related in it so far though. |