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PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:57 pm    Post subject: The IT Crowd Reply with quote


IT Crowd fans are mostly drunk
By TOMMY HOLGATE
August 13, 2007


THE IT Crowd’s Chris O'Dowd says his fans all have one thing in common - they're drunk. The star of the Channel 4 sitcom said: "My fan base is mostly drunk. I was in some shop recently and a guy was circling. He came over and said, 'You're that fella from TV. You're on that comedy programme?' I said yes, and he replied, 'You're the little one from Little Britain!'" The lanky actor continued: "I'm not on the radio! How could I be the little fat guy from Little Britain? I mean, you’re looking at me. It was extraordinary."

As a seasoned dramatic actor in serious shows like Ireland’s The Clinic and The Year London Blew Up: 1974, Chris was hoping that his IT Crowd character Roy would have a little more depth this year. "I wanted him to have some kind of heart condition," he explained. "And to have a very sick Granny. I feel like I didn’t shed enough tears last year."

Unfortunately, show creator Graham Linehan didn’t listen to the actor’s pleas. Chris joked: "I wanted to give (Roy) Aids. I wanted to shave my head and go to Philadelphia, but again my ideas were not considered - there hasn’t been a good Aids comedy."

Later this year Chris will star in the movie Hippie Hippie Shake, alongside Sienna Miller. He said: "I had to go for a wig fitting about three weeks ago and it was going to be the first time I met her. I obviously wanted to make a good impression. When they’re fitting you for a wig, they cover your head in cling film and she walked in when they had just done it. So my first line to her was: 'I don’t generally look like a condom.' I hope she can see past that."

The new series of IT Crowd starts on Friday 24 August on Channel 4.

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I wasn't a huge fan of the first series, though there were some really good bits in it, but I'll be watching this for sure...

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Isn't The IT Crowd just a side project collaboration by Chris Morris and The Mighty Boosh? And a pretty bad one, at that?
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

no, this is written by one of the guys who wrote Father Ted. I think you're thinking of Nathan Barley.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Feck!
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Arse!



Girls!
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I didn't mind the IT Crowd. It had its moments.

Face, those girls just get hotter and hotter the further right you go. I think there's a "subliminable" (to borrow Dubya's word) message to this...
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Screw blondes!
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Would that I could, Kate.

Laughing

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I saw some of it. I like one episode from memory, but that was only because Noel Fielding was in it Razz

I'll have to check the new series out deffo though...
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yae for a new series, it's a great silly little show Smile
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i couldn't get into the it crowd

who are those two blonds?! Smile the guy is someone running for president isn't it?
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mitt Romney, I think.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
If you type Google into Google, the internet will break.


What a cracking one-liner...
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