The Inbetweeners – Ch4

In 2006 Armando Iannucci was invited to give a series of lectures for Oxford University, starting with a lecture under the title 'British TV Comedy: Dead or Alive?' To cut to the chase, the Italian jockstrap thinks that... 'No, it's not dead, and that us asking this question must mean that there's hope, and that therefore hope will drive further great comedy' … a very Oxford answer to a very (pointless) Oxford question; no doubt Oxford were hoping for a rather different answer; namely...''Yes, nothing decent has come out of the Cambridge footlights for 40 years”.

Iannucci would have done better to simply look at some of the comedy going on around him. Maybe something that he was not involved with! Green Wing & The Boosh, to name just two, were enjoying rave reviews, and rightly so! He could of course told the Oxford fellows to be just a bit more bloody patient and see what happens. Two years on and there's still plenty of fresh-faced british nonsense pouring out of our TV's (or Laptops as we now call them), causing us to spill our tea and break Grandmama's best china.

Whilst the Inbetweeners isn't groundbreaking, it's lovely stuff nonetheless, and certainly more interesting than an Oxford lecture (I still can't understand why he didn't just turn the toffs down!), apart from the fact that he studied there; so it's all a bit of mutual masturbation if you ask me, with Iannucci's cock right up Oxford Uni's bum hole, with Oxford Uni's knob shoved firmly up Ianniccui's hand in a weird comedy writer/University reach-around sesh. Next it will be Iannucci receiving an honorary degree in Comedy from Oxford bummerboy Uni (as a sideline, I was once in an honorary degree ceremony for the BeeGees. Only I thought it was Barry who had died, so you can imagine my surprise when I turned round to see what I thought was a zombie BeeGee!).

Back on track, the Inbetweeners follows the lives of 4 mates in the lower 6th, and I really can't get enough of the toilet humour. Will they ever grow out of speaking like they do? I doubt it, most men never do (when around their mates). The sexual frustration issue is accurately portrayed as is the complexities of inter-student relationships (god they're such twats 17 yr old girls aren't they!. I'd forgotten until I started watching this just how snobbishly and unjustifiably up their own arses they really can be!). My fundamental gripe with the show is the acting. The main character has watched far too many episodes of Peep Show and seems to have stolen David Mitchell's character and transported him back 10 years to his youth, and the lanky stupid character seems to be some sort of nod to Trigger from Only Fools and Horses, except the guy really really can't act! The other two are simply OK at best. You can get series one on DVD, series 2 is up now on 4oD, and here's a clip from the wonderful Youtube, so shuv it right up your stinkin dusty snatches!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ1wzQo-kMs

(won't let me embed... unlike your mum, who let me em-bed her last night!)