[TV] UK Comedy Cup - Nominations Thread

[Colonel Mustard]

Early odds;

Spaced 40/1
Peep Show 12/1
The League of Gentlemen 16/1
Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights 20/1
The Royle Family 10/1
Early Doors 100/1
The Office 7/1
Fawlty Towers 3/1
Father Ted 5/1
The Young Ones 20/1
Drop The Dead Donkey 16/1
The Detectorists 25/1
This Country 40/1
The Fast Show 12/1
Breeders 25/1
Inside Number 9 33/1
Psychoville 66/1
The Inbetweeners 25/1
The Day Today 100/1
Nathan Barley 100/1
The IT Crowd 16/1
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle 25/1
Not The 9 O'Clock News 14/1
Fleabag 33/1
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em 40/1
Only Fools & Horses 5/1
Blackadder 8/1
I'm Alan Partridge 20/1
The Mighty Boosh 33/1
The Thick Of It 33/1
Red Dwarf 25/1
Porridge 10/1

Never even heard of Spaced, Breeders, Nathan Barley… No After Life? I saw it mentioned a few times early on, I thought.

 

[Mellotron]

The shortlisting and nomination process was flawed. Imagine for the football World Cup, FIFA just announced one morning, "Right, the first 32 nominations get in". Nothing to do with quality, just need two random enthusiasts for qualification. First come, first served. You should have had a long list to start with, then invited people to vote for their top 10, then taken the top 32 from the results. If I sound bitter, I am a bit. It’s all totally subjective of course. I always found Inside No. 9 to be quite unpleasantly dark, and a long way from being a comedy. OTOH, no Monty Python, probably the most groundbreaking, influential comedy of the last 50 years.

Like qualifying for major tournaments, it’s never going to be perfectly fair.

Even with your idea, I would be hounded for missing out certain people’s favourites from the long list.

Also, I don’t want too much voting to happen at this point, as this will give too clearly a final intention as to likely winners/top sides.

An element of unpredictability is always good for a tournament, IMO.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

An element of unpredictability is always good for a tournament, IMO.

All the more reason to randomly change which programmes are competing without telling or consulting anybody.

 

[JOLovegrove]

No Gavin and Stacey is a joke....

 

[peterward]

Some mothers do 'ave em.
One Foot in the Grave
Only Fools
Blackadder
To the Manor Born
Fawlty Towers

Second only fools, blackadder and fawlty towers

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Like qualifying for major tournaments, it’s never going to be perfectly fair.

Even with your idea, I would be hounded for missing out certain people’s favourites from the long list.

Also, I don’t want too much voting to happen at this point, as this will give too clearly a final intention as to likely winners/top sides.

An element of unpredictability is always good for a tournament, IMO.

Having done the WHC I can confirm there is NOTHING you can do that won't cause controversy. NSC World cups are passionate sports played by passionate people and that leads to a lot of arguing, moaning and in the case of honey badger fans crying like little girls when they lose to a shrimp.

The shortlisting and nomination process was flawed. Imagine for the football World Cup, FIFA just announced one morning, "Right, the first 32 nominations get in". Nothing to do with quality, just need two random enthusiasts for qualification. First come, first served. You should have had a long list to start with, then invited people to vote for their top 10, then taken the top 32 from the results. If I sound bitter, I am a bit. It’s all totally subjective of course. I always found Inside No. 9 to be quite unpleasantly dark, and a long way from being a comedy. OTOH, no Monty Python, probably the most groundbreaking, influential comedy of the last 50 years.

New to NSC? Nominating and seconding are the time honoured way of sorting out competitors in these kind of tournaments.

 

[dazzer6666]

The shortlisting and nomination process was flawed. Imagine for the football World Cup, FIFA just announced one morning, "Right, the first 32 nominations get in". Nothing to do with quality, just need two random enthusiasts for qualification. First come, first served. You should have had a long list to start with, then invited people to vote for their top 10, then taken the top 32 from the results. If I sound bitter, I am a bit. It’s all totally subjective of course. I always found Inside No. 9 to be quite unpleasantly dark, and a long way from being a comedy. OTOH, no Monty Python, probably the most groundbreaking, influential comedy of the last 50 years.

Every nomination should also have been supported by a full explanation of the reasons for the nomination

 

[MJsGhost]

Every nomination should also have been supported by a full explanation of the reasons for the nomination

"Because I think it's funny" x5

 

[Greg Bobkin]

No Friday Night Dinner?

SHIT ON IT!

 

[The Mole]

trying to have a spread of comedies across the generations

Dad’s Army
Fawlty Towers
Black Adder
Royle Family
Gavin and Stacy

 

[Questions]

Python
Phoenix Nights
Father Ted
Count Arthur Strong
Steptoe and son

Hard to leave out Milligan and Porridge.

 

[happypig]

Python
Phoenix Nights
Father Ted
Count Arthur Strong
Steptoe and son

Hard to leave out Milligan and Porridge.

Second Python, Phoenix nights, Father Ted and Steptoe

 

[Mellotron]

All the more reason to randomly change which programmes are competing without telling or consulting anybody.

? Nothing random about it.

Shows that were nominated and seconded qualified, and I did this in the order of people posting.

 

[Mellotron]

No Gavin and Stacey is a joke....

Ironically a funnier joke than anything James Corden has ever said.

 

[Stato]

No Gavin and Stacey is a joke....

The Royle Family is in there. Why would you want it's tribute act as well?

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Apologies if these have been picked:

Extras
Look Around You
Shooting Stars (does this count?)
Harry Hills TV Burp (Does this count?)
That Mitchell and Webb Look
Peep Show
The Trip

 

[medwayseagull reborn]

Sit coms v sketch based shows v quiz shows v anything else not covered in those categories is a chalk and cheese problem. Might have been better to split into categories.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

? Nothing random about it.

Shows that were nominated and seconded qualified, and I did this in the order of people posting.

That was a suggestion, not an accusation.

I was joking.

Startling though it may be to regular readers of my contributions to this board, I am capable of reading other people's posts.

 

[Mellotron]

That was a suggestion, not an accusation.

I was joking.

Startling though it may be to regular readers of my contributions to this board, I am capable of reading other people's posts.

Apologies.

As @Garry Nelson's Left Foot suggested, running anything like this always leads to some unique moans.

Also, given that nominations are STILL occurring it seems plenty aren't as capable as you at reading.

 

[Mellotron]

Sit coms v sketch based shows v quiz shows v anything else not covered in those categories is a chalk and cheese problem. Might have been better to split into categories.

Had considered that. The danger there is that there are plenty of shows that aren't 100% one thing or another - it would lead to more arguments.

Sitcoms tend to be the bread and butter of these tournaments.