As an American who loves British comedy, I have to ask, why didn’t I hear about this last year? I was stuck with reruns and Kelsey Grammer’s vanity Frasier reboot.
This is great. It's encouraging to see the US trying out some very British style panel shows. The fact they picked one of the masters was a major coup! Hope you get to do (and post) more of these.
I’m American and never heard of this show. I know most of the comedians featured but the show is new to me. I watch a lot of bbc quiz shows so I wish I knew of this sooner.
This show looks like a British panel show but they forgot to prep any topical news, fun facts, or dastardly lies to talk about, so they just make stuff up for half an hour. Still enjoyed it though, Rhys.
Hi Rhys, great work on the show. The injection of British humour seems a bit challenging over there. I don't like many American comedians, but I think Josh Johnson is the best seppo standup at the moment. Is he as charming IRL as the stage persona?
@@RhysJames i liked whos line so thought this would be good, it was, you where on the ball thanks for getting back, apparently it is on something called wish tv sounds a bit sus though no clicking the link
I've been singing 'Andy Weir doesn't want me here, Andy Weir doesn't want me here' on and off since hearing this on the radio last week. Absolute banger. I was driving into a beautiful sunset and it was hilariously tender and I felt calm for the first time all day. Cheers mate.
I wish it weren't true that the American comics Rhys riffed off of were terrible. I will say that I recognized some of the American comics on there who didn't speak, or who at least weren't as bad as others (low bar, though). Josh Johnson is great, and Matthew Broussard is pretty good, too. As an American living in the US, I am a huge fan of a lot of the British comedy, but I have to find it on RU-vid. Rhys is fantastic, and I wish I were able to see more of his comedy. Mock The Week was available to watch on RU-vid as it was being produced (the old episodes generally still are available). New episodes of QI aren't available anymore, and we can typically see HIGNFY within several hours of it being broadcast in the UK. A number of comedians (which is to say, their production companies) have made some older stand-up specials available to watch in full, as well as some clips of newer ones. Still, Rhys is honestly one of my favorites. He's extraordinarily talented, and I'm always glad to run across new material of his.
For the record I loved all the comics I got to work with on this show, was a big fan of many of them in advance and thought they did brilliant work. This limited montage of my own best moments is very unlikely to highlight how good they all were.
Rhys. As ever always the funniest guy in the room. But that US format is shit. And the other non-UK competitors were useless, a low bar. But hey glad you posted !
This is a phenomenon that makes me sad. The bottom line is that most notable people in entertainment in America are not talented in the same way that people in the UK are-- Alex Jones (the Welsh one, not the American parasite) or Gabby Logan or any of a number of non-comedy/non-performer celebrities in the UK are better on comedic television than most American comedians would be in a setting like this. I have a lot of theories for this, one of which being that the US is six times larger than Britain-- if anybody's going to reach prominence, they can't really weedle and whittle on the fine points of naval-gazing or puns; they want to appeal to the broadest audience. Britain has three countries while the United States has 50+. The US South alone is 150% of the population of the entire UK. That's why a lot of the most famous American comedians are lowest common denominator-- definitely talented people, but not often particularly deep, insightful, or clever. There's actually a lot of people in the US that would be pretty good on a panel show, but they're not popular enough to put on a panel show. That said, there have been a couple of American appearances on UK panel shows that I think worked pretty well-- Chelsea Peretti on Big Fat Quiz, and Jason Biggs on 8 Out of 10 Cats are two that spring to mind.
@@Kauffy901 yeah I can't fault your logic there. I'm in Australia and most people I know prefer UK comedians and UK panel shows for many of the reasons you stated.
@@Kauffy901 there are tonnes of awesome American comedians but their style doesn't suit the quippy back and forth style of the panel show format. The original @midnight series was proof that the US alt comedy scene can function in a panel show format but it was still very set up with a lot more prepared jokes.
What's clever about this, is that he says how someones photos can tell you a whole story backwards, while he literally does his whole bit backwards to make a point.