ยป Nathan Barley
I hung out with a British lawyer this weekend. He was self-described strictly anti-Chav. We got to comparing television shows, as one does, and Nathan Barley came recommended.
(YouTube has all the episodes.)
It’s The Office for new media offices. It’s a parody of the Vice/BB/zine underground media icon type. It’s an extension of a character sketch done in parody “TV Guide” format — episodic descriptions of a documentary about the titular character’s life. And it gets dark.
Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding play recurring characters for my fellow fans of The Mighty Boosh. For old time’s stake, The Charlie Story:
Keep it foolish.
[...] Why doesn’t the CBC produce any good television (cf. The BBC’s output). Why is our national media service instead bent on extending and expanding government power? Why is the CBC stuck in the 70s? Is their intra-office mail run so poorly that they didn’t get the memo, that government monopolies are poorly run? Do they really think more bureaucracy is the way to decrease costs? “Oh, you’d like a tank of regular? Please fill out form C-101-BC in triplicate and drive to the end of the line.” [...]
MentalPolyphonics.com :: The [Canadian|Communist] Broadcasting Corporation
8 May 07 at 9:49 pm