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This Friday night on Channel 4 there is the Kevin Bishop Show which features a spoof version of COUNTDOWN as produced by and starring Americans - are you paying attention Jason Larsen? Hopefully it will be on YOUTUBE sometime.

Clip I saw looks fun. Apologies if anyone else has brought this to the forum's attention elsewhere............

Where did you see the clip? On TV or online?

Kirk Bevins wrote:Where did you see the clip? On TV or online?

Channel 4 are trailing it between programmes

Sorry to have recommended it folks. The 10 secs I saw in advance looked promising, the rest of the clip (about another 20secs) was shite. It was on early in the programme, I don't know if it returned later because I abandoned the show after 10 minutes

Chris Corby wrote:Sorry to have recommended it folks. The 10 secs I saw in advance looked promising, the rest of the clip (about another 20secs) was shite. It was on early in the programme, I don't know if it returned later because I abandoned the show after 10 minutes

The clip shown early on was the only clip they used. They kept on going back onto Jonathan Ross for quite a few of the sketches, which got annoying.

As for the clip I found it funny, especially what "Carol" did to the losing contestant at the end.

Chris Corby wrote:Sorry to have recommended it folks. The 10 secs I saw in advance looked promising, the rest of the clip (about another 20secs) was shite. It was on early in the programme, I don't know if it returned later because I abandoned the show after 10 minutes

I've watched the first few shows of this and found it pretty good. Anyone else?

The Jesus sitcom was good. God: "My only son - a twat."

The show's a bit hit and miss really, some of the sketches are brilliant but others aren't so good

The Countdown USA one I did find funny though

I do think that the show is quite original and funny.
The US Countdown sketch did extract the Michael from Americans, but I'm sure they can take a joke.
I shouldn't explain, as I think (am I right?) that some children belong to this forum, but I thought that the Michael Caine sketch in Fri 15th August's episode was hysterical.
I won't be able to consider the quote "You were only supposed to blow The bloody Doors off" in quite the same light again!

Julie T wrote: I shouldn't explain, as I think (am I right?) that some children belong to this forum

I can't think of any. In any case, this is the Internet, it's not censored for children.

I can't remember if it was last Friday, but there was a skit of a children's game, that was based on the events of 9/11, which I honestly thought was crossing a line.

The newspaper DVD offer skits are quite funny.

Joseph Bolas wrote:I can't remember if it was last Friday, but there was a skit of a children's game, that was based on the events of 9/11, which I honestly thought was crossing a line.

I enjoyed that sketch. Sorry.

If I were (was?) a moderator, I would combine this thread, this thread, and this thread.