Discussion » Double Take

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Posted by Grim..., 08:30, 18th March 2003:
 
Did anyone see it on BBC2 last night?

It was brilliant!
Posted by Foghorn Leghorn, 08:59, 18th March 2003:
 
I managed to see it..was funny, but also dreadful.
Posted by arsepuppy, 08:59, 18th March 2003:
 
Yeah, it was very cool.
Posted by cal, 09:01, 18th March 2003:
 
what was it?
Posted by chandler, 09:07, 18th March 2003:
 
It was a thing with celebrity lookalikes (though unfortuantely they didnt sound very much like the people) and blurry camera angles to make it look like it is celebrities doing amusing things. Some of it was OK. It wasn't as good as the pilot they did for it that was on a few months ago. It's just more of the same. And the camerawork made me feel slightly ill.

The tony blair guy didnt look like tony and the bush guy didnt look like george, even with the blurrey camera work it was obvious so I dont think it really worked. Plus the voice of the Jeffrey Archer one was bad, I thought it was Michael Palin until they actually called him by name.

The only really good one was the Sven one, but thats probably cos I don't know his face well enough to notice the things wrong with the lookalike.
Posted by Victor Menendez, 09:16, 18th March 2003:
 
I saw it, some of it was lazy comedy (Blair and Bush sketches been done to death) but the sven ones were great. And i nearly hurt myself during the Ferguson/Beckham scene.
Posted by chandler, 09:19, 18th March 2003:
 
yes, despite hating football even I liked the sven ferguson beckham and seaman sketches. The others were a bit dull, although the queen teaching william to wave royally was quite sweet. and Camilla crashing her car was funny.
Posted by Redmaiden, 18:22, 18th March 2003:
 
I watched it and some of it slightly amused me though I didn't laugh out loud. I found the one with Bush tickling his dog and telling it to roll over like Tony amusing :-D
Posted by angel_mouse, 21:51, 18th March 2003:
 
i did like the royal ones, particularly the one with camilla crashing her car.
saying that, the skewiff angles some of them were shot at became irritating, as did the slightly un-focussed effect on the majority of them.
still, entertaining, ill watch it next week.