Lily Allen & Friends Fails To Entertain
When we snoozed through a clip of the premiere of lovely Lily's BBC Three show, we offered up four points of advice to make her next installment less painful. And she listened to us! About not booking Cuba Gooding, Jr. As for the having the audience standing, the booking of "internet sensations," and the playing of animal sex videos ... well we'll give her credit for sticking to her guns. Actually, no we won't those are all just really terrible ideas. The Daily Swarm rounds up Episode 2 in its entirety so you can see what you're not missing. This ep features The Office (the first)'s Martin Freeman (Tim Canterbury, Jim Halpert's predecessor in secretarial seduction/marriage-wrecking charm), the Gay Barbie Boys, comic Lee Mack, and Adele. The show intro music is new Hot Chip, but then things go downhill pretty quickly.
Actually Martin and his rants on Lily's audience of "Friends" are pretty great ("I'm a bit older than you, "Friends" used to mean you actually knew people ... in another age this would have been called delusional psychosis" -- he's sorta Gervais-y, isn't he). It's just too bad he's not the one hosting. For the brave at heart: take the jump for the rest of the show.
Posted at 10:29 AM in Video
Tags: Adele | Lily Allen
what kind of person is this show aimed at? I don't get it at all...
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Nice spelling of 'delusional' Stereogum.
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What I've learned: blow jobs fix cars.
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Come on. It wasn't that bad. There's potential. The guests were great. Lily's not too bad. It's just the freakin' internet shit that needs to go.
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It is funny that Stereogum says they hate the show, but have so far featured clips from the first two episodes.
Also, Martin Freeman is brilliant.
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I AGREE WITH THE LAST TWO COMMENTS. THE SHOW ISNT ALL THAT BAD, IN FACT ITS DAMN ENTERTAINING, EXCEPT FOR THE WEB VIDS. GOOD SHOW I REPEAT..
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god,i love that woman.i agree with above posters and will say it was pretty watchable.of course,i'm pretty biased toward ms.allen.
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Not so sure which one is worse: this, Mind of Mencia, or Fixed News' 1/2 Hour News Hour?
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sweet! Stereogum used my vids.
But I'd have to disagree. I enjoyed this show. This week was pretty funny.
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You don't need to watch shows like this on YouTube...the BBC puts most of it's shows online for 7 days with their iPlayer, you can see it at www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer - it's better quality than YouTube anyway.
I'm not saying you should watch Lily Allen, but it's worth checking out for other stuff...
Max.
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