Strange but true, Doug Stanhope is best mates with Johnny Depp.

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    Fair play to Homegrove, it was him who first got me into Roy ā€˜Chubbyā€™ Brown.

    LT42 Anyone seen Gervaisā€™ new show?

    Half way through, patchy but worth a look.

      LT42 Why strange?

      Because Stanhope isnā€™t anywhere near the level of fame as Depp, and I had the impression he was someone who wasnā€™t so keen on the limelight off of stage.

      But there are clear overlaps in their personalities and interests.

          LT42 Anyone seen Gervaisā€™ new show?

          Just watched it, nothing particularly groundbreaking but quite funny.

            The opening 5-10 minutes of Gervais are pretty good. A lot of the rest of it is meh, but some is quite funny.

              hugopal Because Stanhope isnā€™t anywhere near the level of fame as Depp

              Depp also appeared on the Fast Show and is friends (to a degree) with Paul Whitehouse.

                  bosstrabs Iā€™d forgotten about that.

                  I think at least one of Whitehouseā€™s kids went to my secondary school.

                    Some line up on that Bill Burr presents Friends Who Kill thatā€™s on Netflix today. He closes it, with Dave Attell, Michelle Wolf, Jessica Kirson and Jimmy Carr going before him. And a few others. Just shame that with a running time of 70 minutes they each get about 10 minutes. Burr has already shot a full special, he just is not ready to lose the material yet because heā€™s got a full touring special. Kudos for him not being like Jimmy Carr. Saw him a week after his first Netflix-special. And he did nothing but that. Usually comedians are expected to retire the material once the special is out.

                      Homegrove This was the first ā€œcollectiveā€ special that I really enjoyed. Felt Ronnie Chieng was wasted but otherwise loved all the sets. Steph Tolev was insane and hilarious, and I loved that Michelle Wolf played it like a female version of Burr, going at white women mercilessly. The token black guy was great as well.

                        Homegrove The one time I saw Dave Chappelle in 2002, he did a few original bits about Orange County (where my college was) at the start, but most of it was Killing Them Softly, which released in 2000.

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                          That Bill Burr Netflix is a Joke-special was just bad all around. Burrā€™s disease blankets, and Michelle Wolfā€™s white women twerking were the only things I really laughed at. Even Dave Attel was not funny.