It's amazing how Richard Ayoade looks 20 years older as Dean Learner just because of the mustache. Over a decade later, the real guy still looks younger than the character.
I was just introduced to Garth Marenghi this year. This line made me laugh for a solid 30sec and I missed every joke and gag that occurred during my giggle fit. I know your comment is 13y old at this stage, but I had to chime in! Dean Learner is my absolute favourite character in this show :D
"I think Garth, in terms of caliber of artist will be remembered up with the very best, he'll be remembered in the same breath as Rick Astley" THEY KNEW MAN. THEY KNEW.
You have to listen to the commentary track to get the full Dean Learner experience. He's so dodgy it's hilarious. He constantly refers to Madeline Wool as "dead Maddy" and insists that her body will never, ever be found lmao.
lol, I never noticed that before. This show is so layered. All these years later I'm only now appreciating the intentionally bad sound design. Ironically it's more difficult to have sound this bad, with obvious jump cuts and different room acoustics between shots, than it is to just record it normally.
I forgot all about darkplace! adult swim had it years ago then it seems all the bbc content just disappeared, including mighty boosh. This show is criminally underrated
I remember watching that one night I was really high and thinking it was one of the best things I'd ever seen and I couldn't believe it was on the telly. Highly under-rated show.
I will generally put in punctuation, I see that as my job. Garth does one draft, he doesn't want to dull it by constantly revising; he'll do one draft. And he'll often elect to omit punctuation. That's his call. I will put in commas, I won't put in semi-colons; this isn't Joyce. I will omit dashes, again this isn't French writing. I will make sure sentences start with capital letters - that's what they're called. I will make sure the book is long enough, or should I say thick enough? And that could be a question of adding more words, it could be a question of making the paper thicker; depends what we've got time for. I, in consultation with Garth, will view the cover. Are there too many skeletons on this cover? Is this skull big enough? Could we fit more maggots on? Should bits of this book be pop-up? Questions like that, so it is creative.
You should watch Garth’s interview with IGN where he goes out of his way to say a sentence while using the wrong punctuation. He says every punctuation out loud
I'm watching "The Day the Earth Caught Fire" right now. Arthur Christiansen has a role in this movie and his acting is so terrible, I had to pause and come here. His intonation reminds me so much of Dean Learner in Darkplace.
Is the book long enough, or rather is the book thick enough? Sometimes it's a question of adding more words... Sometimes it's a question of making the paper thicker
As an all-round actor, Matt Berry is so damned underrated. Especially by the yanks and the French... But no surprise there. No offence to you ignorant yanks or you filthy, stinking frogs... I knew you'd understand 😅
Dean Learner is an awesome, shady character. Aoade brings out his shadiness every chance he gets. And he gets a lot... If chances, I mean. He gets them. Chances. Many. "DEAN!"
The only good thing I can say about Darkplace only lasting 6 episodes is that it is literally the perfect show There's no bad episodes, pure gold start to finish
Somehow I'm always surprised and cracked up by the Quantum Leap reference on a British TV show. I know our pop culture goes back and forth but it just wasn't a show I ever thought about having been aired there.
Why didn't this last longer in the UK? Didn't they think it was funny? Maybe it's because of my different sense of humour as a Canadian, but I thought this was hilarious.
@spgllif, ha yes. "I think it's sad that we had to censor the erection. We've all got one. Let's get on with it. I could have one now and you wouldn't know. I don't though."
I love it when my little caramelized brain cell gets origami'd into a paper dart and sticks up inside the funny part of my cranium...and then this comes along and makes it wiggle around and gives me the weirdest case of the giggles.....hmmmmmmmm could it be Ayoade Syndrome?
Daen Learner is the best B-grade character ever. I agree with Dean's philosophy about driving drunk. I am great at driving, despite what the police or the local council have to say about the stoby pole erected in my honour. I am in fact better at driving drunk than I am sober... And I'm a bloody good driver sober... So just imagine how well imagine myself driving when I'm of my tits!
@westben2000 Are you implying that the acting in this is anything short of superb? To portray something so satirically and make it this funny is genius. The fact that they're being ironic makes it GOOD acting, surely? If they were acting poorly, it wouldn't be funny.
