The Thick of It... 9pm, BBC4

[policywonk]

Who's gonna watch and then come back on here after and re-post Jamie's obscenities?

I watched it. But I bleeped all the swearwords. So of course there was no dialogue.

What was the point of that?

At least you'll have got 'tete-a-tiny-tete', which was the best line in it I reckon.

Missed it but dh kindly filled me in on the swearing. Chief defect seems to have been not enough Roger Allam from the sound of it.

I still think come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off will take a lot of beating!

It will be repeated I hope...

No Roger at all in this one. I'm almost hoping that Cameron wins the next election just so that we'll have more of him.

The scene with the Paul Smith suit and the repulsive shirt in the last one had me crying with laughter. "Pimp my bathtub". What a shame

That was a fantastic bit. 'I always tuck my shirt in. It's part of getting dressed.' And them all having a meltdown over his tie at the end.

Apparently they aren't going to make any more series (only specials) until the Chris Langham trial is over, which could be a while, I guess.

"Wouldn't know how to organise an arse-rape in a Barracks"

FNAR!

"maize-based snacks" has become a well-used phrase in our house.
Commendable that they have not just sacked Chris Langham before the trial IMO. Innocent until proven guilty, although the circs don't sound good

Yes, Marina, quite agree. Must take some courage on their part.

Nothing quite as good as the 'take-your-iPod-out-of-its-tiny-nano-sheath-and-push-it-up-your-cock' rant from the last one. That was truly epic. Apparently they have a swearing consultant.

Aargh - my video-programming ineptitude will be the death of me . I only taped half of it - does anyone know when (if?) it's due to be repeated?

We recorded it (sadly on an obscure Mac format, or I'd offer it generally here) and it was so good we had to watch it all over again, immediately.

A swearing consultant - really?? What a f*cking brilliant career. What do you put on your passport?

'Sadly, that's quite a good idea, because I'm very tired and I would have liked to hit someone' I have bet DH a large stake that he can't shoehorn that into his next brainstorming session at work.

have recorded it marina

I "pressed the red button" at the end for the oppostion special.

Roger Allam

Gizmo. Apparently it's some guy who runs a swearing website (men, eh? Tsk.)

My red button WAS NOT WORKING. A thousand curses on Virgin Media. May they be bought out by private equity chisellers and be well and truly asset-stripped.

Well hello there bundle [fluttering eyelash emoticon). Dh re-enacting it didn't really work as he is only a dilettante curser and forgot some of the epithets
Me and Roger Allam go back yonks, he's mine I tell ya, all mine
Have seen him smoking cigars in the bushes in Much Ado and half-dressed in Privates On Parade (if only)

for those who want a second look, or who failed to sort themselves out properly first time [me], it's repeated tonight at 10, this sat, and next sat on bbc2. not like i'm obsessed with malcolm tucker or anything.....

Am I the only person who was a wee bit disappointed. Loved all of it, have seen all of the screenings from the very beginning, but was there too much swearing on it??!! That when Malcolm appeared you knew you were in for tasty put downs and hilarious images, usually anally based. But with two of them at it, and no other character role, apparently, it was getting a bit..well....overdone??..

On BBC4 again tonight at 10pm, pan, so will see for myself. At least one TV review agrees with you totally - without a central, main Ministerial figure, and with another equally sweary and aggressive sidekick, for all Peter Capaldi's magnificence this one was apparently less all-round hilarious.
I knew they should have worked in Roger Allam somehow!

Doh, and I see you have in fact already told us about it being shown again bags!

Right, video prepared with due diligence.Lucky dd is far, far too young to start repeating "shove it up your hairy inbox", so we'll enjoy it together over breakfast .

bags - you can video BBC4?

Hope you enjoy it and don't suffer too much from the Allam deficit