I know this will offend some people - but Malcolm Tucker

[BasiliskStare]

Ds and I watch those programmes and just giggle. For context DS is 20 nowadays.

I reckon that he will be in the future one of the funniest people on those 20 most funny things ( in the way that you have those programmes about funny people over the last decades ) - and to be fair is there never a funnier joke than Bob Monkhouse saying I would like to die like my father , peacefully in his sleep , not shouting
and screaming like his passengers. )

So not current but a Malcolm Tucker thing. I am prepared to believe this will sink without trace

I love The Thick of It. I'm currebtly rewatching it for upteeth time. Malcolm Tucker is mine though.

Oh yes, I have found my people

why would people be offended if you like MT?

I'd be more offended if you liked Mrs Browns Boys

Yep, you are not alone.

The character is hilarious.

"About as much use as a marzipan dildo"

"This is an omnishambles"

I think we should use the ‘carrot and stick’ approach. You take a carrot, you stick it up his fucking arse, followed by the stick, followed by an even bigger, rougher carrot.

He was very sharp and funny - and if you like The Thick Of It you should check out Veep if you haven't already, another Armando Ianucci show but set in the States - but I felt it lost a lot of its humour towards the end and Tucker just became outright nasty.

It could easily come back these days...

When he gatecrashes that meeting "I'm a fucker for lettuce"

He's on twitter.

Brutally funny.

"From bean to cup - you fuck up"
Mrs Brown Boys - totally offensive to like that shit

DH and I love him. Keep meaning to watch Veep - thanks for the reminder Brave.

Or indeed , when Nicola M can't get in the lift - " Not only ........ does your daughter have to be taken to school in a fucking sedan chair.......... "

One for the secondary education boards

I suppose it's a bit non pc and the language - I don't care though - it makes me laugh - when they are in the chapel in In the Loop and MT just says you an F star star Cunt. ( And also - don't you ever call me English ) I read once and can well believe it how hard it was for Peter C to learn all those lines to be able to deliver them like a diatribe

Oh I love Julius Nicholson - Yes well I am now off in search of a maize based snack.

Someone once called me the Malcolm Tucker of my office. I was most proud.

& of course you will all have seen this but

Bear - you have my deepest respect.

& yes yes re Mrs Browns boys - there must be a sternly worded letter to the telegraph to be written about that being billed as a "comedy". I do not get it. But then I never found Lenny Henry remotely funny but obv. plenty of people did.

Basilisk I think I would quite like an adult version of Dr Who.

I also love Malcolm Tucker and need to rewatch the show.