"The Fright Honorable." Garth builds himself up to such a huge extent. It reminds me of the worst possible conflations of a few of my friends! Love it! The writing for British comedies of this calibre is unrivalled in the world! A Bit of Fry and Laurie; Red Dwarf; Spaced; Black Books; Darkplace; Snuff Box; Mighty Boosh... in a class all to themselves! "Stop it Garth, you're freaking me out!"
just didnt get this when it was telly. but its the slowest burning joke ever. really subtle, really clever, please release on dvd, please please, and please
Yeah, studio audience or not, it killed it for me. I really enjoyed Dark Place, but the laughter is keeping me from even watching the second part of this.
ShankingArmitage: Although I love The Mighty Boosh, if I miss an episode, I can take it or leave it 'cause it will come on again, later that night, on Adult Swim. However, I CAN'T MISS DARKPLACE. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace owns The Mighty Boosh, but in the end, I love both.
Darkplace was and is the most radical, balls to the wall and daring show chanel 4 ever put out. It made and broke Todd Rivers! It beats the Boosh to death!
I don't see why people are arguing about English vs. American humor. I prefer british humor but you have to understand that they are different types of humor and all mediums of comedy should be respected.
I like laughter tracks, it helps me laugh along and enjoy it, as long as it's good, some are just plain shit and embarrassing. Such as 'Little Miss Joyclen' and 'The Catherine Tate Show'.
Like all traditional chat shows it's filmed before an audience. The video segments are then played to the audience. I remember seeing a web site (must have been channel 4's) with recording dates and ticket application info.
I would kill to see the two of them perform live. Or at least Netherhead, which I only know of because of that one random video of them winning an award for it
it was filmed in front of a studio audience. i know this for a FACT. but that still doesn't mean that they don't use canned laughter. either way, it works.
technically he has been shown in america already loverandfighter because for a few months they showed the whole room of darkplace on adult swim, but as far as a role in something american idk but hopefully he will get something, (on an unrelated note) frankly i'm very surprised that david mitchell hasn't been hasn't been offered anything, the people in charge of things like that need to be doing more to have shows with like brits and americans both to be able to cross over and be hilarious
I find the laugh track to be very distracting! Other than that, I adore Dean Learner!!! (I bought a regionless DVD player just to watch Darkplace- they don't sell it in the US)
is it just me or do you see a connection between the "I eat alot of cheese which gives me these fantastic vivid dreams" and The Mighty Boosh's Cheese Dreams from series 1?
I don't know how you can even compare the boosh with darkplace. They are both great and funny shows but they have completely different humor. The boosh is silly and all out kind of comedy while darkplace is witty sharp kind of humor. Both are great in their own ways.
If a tree falls in a forest and I'm not there to see it, and it makes a sound, but I don't hear it, but someone records it, and plays it to me at a dinner party, does that mean I'm still in the forest ? And if I am, then why can't I just take a piss in the garden rather than queueing for the toilet ? And that's if the toilet even exists, I've been trying to use it all fucking night. I'm starting to doubt the existence of the toilet, quite frankly, at this stage in the preceedings.
That's harsh man. It still has the Darkplace vibe. The audience laughter does my head in but it's still vastly superior to most shit on the telly at the moment. Have you ever tried watching anything on ITV? It's impossible. And BBC THREE "comedies" can piss off as well.
I agree entirely.. his dead pan humor that works well on Dark Place is ruined by people laughing at lines that, "in character" he doesn't think are funny.. it really wrecks it. :(
This is a brilliant suggestion, actually. There was one in the works and they'd cast Gary Dourdan from CSI in the role, but the remaining members of Thin Lizzy won't greenlight the script as is because it focuses too much on Lynott's drug use and not enough on his music (and good on them for it), so it's been shelved. If they ever give it another go, RA would get the accent right, he's got better chops, and he looks a hell of a lot more like him.
For everyone bitching about the laughter, WTF are you talking about!? It's a satirical show just like Darkplace. You need the laughter to convey the sense of realism as another person pointed out below. It would be like trying to watch Darkplace without the introductions and the interview cut-ins, it just wouldn't make any sense.
The British think American comedy sucks because they only watch the shittiest of American shows. There's a big difference between Big Bang Theory and Louie. That being said, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
We only remember the best of comedy shows that float over the water to us. Plus, foreign accents add a certain quaintness that is something of an unfair advantage in comedy comparisons, at times, anyway. It's sort of a pointless debate.
@SpankRamen2 yeah you might be right. I kinda disagree but clearly you've got a sense of humour ramen. unlike the comment writers either side of you. being english helps though, wouldnt have thought they wouldve bothered puttin it out in the US but there must be a market
yea i agree, its really really funny but the laughter track is off putting. cant decide whether it would have been better with none at all or just toned down
@HarleyDalle 2 was good as well. but it's true that they had more budget, fame and substances than they knew what to deal with for the third series and it just didn't have the same feel. was more crude but not as funny
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"Quite frankly, I'm starting to doubt the existence of the toilet."
I don't know what I wouldn't do for 6 new episodes of Darkplace.
Thanks very much for this. I missed Episodes 2 and 3 so if they were ever uploaded I'd be forever grateful
"The Fright Honorable."
Garth builds himself up to such a huge extent. It reminds me of the worst possible conflations of a few of my friends! Love it! The writing for British comedies of this calibre is unrivalled in the world! A Bit of Fry and Laurie; Red Dwarf; Spaced; Black Books; Darkplace; Snuff Box; Mighty Boosh... in a class all to themselves!
"Stop it Garth, you're freaking me out!"
just didnt get this when it was telly. but its the slowest burning joke ever. really subtle, really clever, please release on dvd, please please, and please
ramblescruff:
I'm American & I've been saying that since I was in grade school watching Red Dwarf! The Brits continue to get better & better.
Nah, we've got a back catalogue of brilliance in almost everything. We just enjoy keeping it ourselves.
Yeah, studio audience or not, it killed it for me. I really enjoyed Dark Place, but the laughter is keeping me from even watching the second part of this.
Ayoade makes such subtle and smart formulated jokes, I love his style!
ShankingArmitage:
Although I love The Mighty Boosh, if I miss an episode, I can take it or leave it 'cause it will come on again, later that night, on Adult Swim. However, I CAN'T MISS DARKPLACE. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace owns The Mighty Boosh, but in the end, I love both.
High-class gentlemans magazines, CRAZY! hahaha
Thanks for putting this up. We'll never see this in the States.
glad i wasn't the only one who loved that stoic line from Marenghi
Interestingly enough, it's actually a live studio audience
...Plus he's Richard Ayoade. That right there makes him spectacular.
This is the most intelligent Chat Show I have ever seen ;)
That said I remained convinced of the existence of Loos
I bet Bram Stoker would have loved "Horrotica"
:D
biggest televisual event since quantum leap.
Richard's little nasally Dean laugh...
Dead.
Darkplace was and is the most radical, balls to the wall and daring show chanel 4 ever put out. It made and broke Todd Rivers! It beats the Boosh to death!
I agree, it kills the mood.
really funny stuff.
I don't see why people are arguing about English vs. American humor. I prefer british humor but you have to understand that they are different types of humor and all mediums of comedy should be respected.
@5:22. That is the best laugh ever
I like laughter tracks, it helps me laugh along and enjoy it, as long as it's good, some are just plain shit and embarrassing. Such as 'Little Miss Joyclen' and 'The Catherine Tate Show'.
Like all traditional chat shows it's filmed before an audience.
The video segments are then played to the audience.
I remember seeing a web site (must have been channel 4's) with recording dates and ticket application info.
Oh man this is great.
And yet, I miss Darkplace.
it was way the hell out there
Too funny!
to be fair, their are rare moments of beauty. But agreed, nothing compared to darkplace.
I have to agree with Garth on the power of cheese.
I'm american and I agree with you my dear.
I would kill to see the two of them perform live. Or at least Netherhead, which I only know of because of that one random video of them winning an award for it
As an American I have this to say;
Lower your standards and everything is funny! Weed helps
The problem is that Darkplace was supposed to be a single series and then it was stopped so there can never be more..or at least no more from the 80's
Dark Place must've been a hoot to write.
lol and we fell in like,
agreed, wish I could switch it off.
Wish someone could get copies of Fernwood 2Nite on RUclips...or even on DVD. They did this as good if not better.
"perhap, perhap..."
The American laugh track.
@I3lindGuardian Exactly!
According to Wikipedia, it really was a live audience.
Dean's laugh at 5:23 is fucking priceless
Dark Place is the best for sure.
@ShankingArmitage Oh no, you're absolutely right about that
i think the laughtrack is slightly tongue in cheek
it was filmed in front of a studio audience. i know this for a FACT. but that still doesn't mean that they don't use canned laughter. either way, it works.
I liked him better in darkplace! but he's still awesome
@ramblescruff As an Australian I concur
@Hozzas I don't know why but I still prefer Matthew Hollness (Plays Garth Marenghi and others...), although Ayoade gives an awesome performance!
@MetallicARbest1 I concur, I concur an in concurable amount.
Annnd the questioning at the end. Yes but do we really dream?
The canned laughter is a comic device...it's intentional.
technically he has been shown in america already loverandfighter because for a few months they showed the whole room of darkplace on adult swim, but as far as a role in something american idk but hopefully he will get something, (on an unrelated note) frankly i'm very surprised that david mitchell hasn't been hasn't been offered anything, the people in charge of things like that need to be doing more to have shows with like brits and americans both to be able to cross over and be hilarious
Knowing Me Dean Learner Knowing You Garth Marenghi Aha.
British comedy seems to be superior as far as I can see... we don't have Richard Ayoade...
damn laugh tracks
I find the laugh track to be very distracting!
Other than that, I adore Dean Learner!!!
(I bought a regionless DVD player just to watch Darkplace- they don't sell it in the US)
The laughter removes the dead-pan element...actually I'm not going to bother trying to explain. If you don't get it you don't get it.
is it just me or do you see a connection between the "I eat alot of cheese which gives me these fantastic vivid dreams" and The Mighty Boosh's Cheese Dreams from series 1?
I don't know how you can even compare the boosh with darkplace. They are both great and funny shows but they have completely different humor. The boosh is silly and all out kind of comedy while darkplace is witty sharp kind of humor. Both are great in their own ways.
The audience ruins this. All the genius of darkplace is there but the audience ruins it by laughing.
If a tree falls in a forest and I'm not there to see it, and it makes a sound, but I don't hear it, but someone records it, and plays it to me at a dinner party, does that mean I'm still in the forest ?
And if I am, then why can't I just take a piss in the garden rather than queueing for the toilet ?
And that's if the toilet even exists, I've been trying to use it all fucking night. I'm starting to doubt the existence of the toilet, quite frankly, at this stage in the preceedings.
Two and a Half Men.
That's harsh man. It still has the Darkplace vibe. The audience laughter does my head in but it's still vastly superior to most shit on the telly at the moment. Have you ever tried watching anything on ITV? It's impossible. And BBC THREE "comedies" can piss off as well.
This was a pretty good series but Darkplace is miles better, I would have liked it if they did a second series instead of this.
Laugh tracks are the devil
I agree entirely.. his dead pan humor that works well on Dark Place is ruined by people laughing at lines that, "in character" he doesn't think are funny.. it really wrecks it. :(
its a sad day for dean when i have to say... listen love get in the cab coz its not happening.
@norterrible See it as a part of the satire, because it is.
This is a brilliant suggestion, actually. There was one in the works and they'd cast Gary Dourdan from CSI in the role, but the remaining members of Thin Lizzy won't greenlight the script as is because it focuses too much on Lynott's drug use and not enough on his music (and good on them for it), so it's been shelved. If they ever give it another go, RA would get the accent right, he's got better chops, and he looks a hell of a lot more like him.
its not a laugh
track its called an audience!!
For everyone bitching about the laughter, WTF are you talking about!? It's a satirical show just like Darkplace. You need the laughter to convey the sense of realism as another person pointed out below. It would be like trying to watch Darkplace without the introductions and the interview cut-ins, it just wouldn't make any sense.
The toilet is a lie.
where's the Steve Pising one? th@'s wiz majik
The British think American comedy sucks because they only watch the shittiest of American shows. There's a big difference between Big Bang Theory and Louie.
That being said, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Big Bang Theory =/= American Comedy. That's a god damn run of the mill sitcom. Even some of your good shows still use laugh tracks, for fuck's sake.
am i the only one who thinks darkplace was just that bit smarter and funnier than even the boosh?
and i dont say that lightly
Where do these "soft rock" bell-ends get off??
do you say it in a deep voice ?
We only remember the best of comedy shows that float over the water to us. Plus, foreign accents add a certain quaintness that is something of an unfair advantage in comedy comparisons, at times, anyway. It's sort of a pointless debate.
can i have this prop??
i really want garth marenghis The Ouevre!
the laugh track or studio audience complements Dean's 'awful' jokes.
richard ayoade i meant
@SpankRamen2
yeah you might be right. I kinda disagree but clearly you've got a sense of humour ramen. unlike the comment writers either side of you.
being english helps though, wouldnt have thought they wouldve bothered puttin it out in the US but there must be a market
almost as good as darkplace
What was it like 14 years in the past?
yea i agree, its really really funny but the laughter track is off putting.
cant decide whether it would have been better with none at all or just toned down
@HarleyDalle
2 was good as well. but it's true that they had more budget, fame and substances than they knew what to deal with for the third series and it just didn't have the same feel. was more crude but not as funny
it's meant to be silly
@mentelle48 It's supposed to be a piss take...
im sure he's sorry for being funny and will try to fit your needs next time!
its satire on chat shows...
@ShankingArmitage boosh is a kids show with mild swearing, like the simpsons, it isnt funny, just enjoyable
Yeah, nobody should ever branch out to different forms of humour. Just keep reusing safe stuff which has worked before.
how i met your mother?
doesnt need canned laughter... garth merengi never did
xx
@ShankingArmitage No you are not the only one! Though the 13 year old Boosh fans would probably throw pennies at you.
laugh track? you mean studio audience right? they supposed to sit there not laughing the whole time?...
easy comedy, they tell you when you laugh, I think it's great! LAUGH WITH THE 'CROWD'! you know when it's supposed to be funny
Is anything worse than the british laugh track?
But a lot of the laughing is laughing at them, not with them; so it doesn't work on a realism angle or the talkshow.
Only this episode and the Steve Pising one were good from this series though. The rest were disappointing.