The Peter Serafinowicz Show.

[JamesC]

Did anyone catch this last Thursday? What did you think?
I really enjoyed it. It was pretty odd because I'm sure some of the sketches shouldn't have been funny yet they were.
 The Kitchen Gun sketch had me pissing myself despite the fact that I thought the Barry Scott thing had been milked to death about 2 years ago.
 The Michael Caine masterclass stuff was pure genius but it was an odd thing to parody beacuse I think the real thing was on about fifteen years ago!
 Oh, yeah and you've gotta love Pirate Chat!

[Dark Jimbo]

Loved it, but like you said, some of the stuff parodied was oddly long ago, as if he'd had a lot of these ideas stewing in his head for a while.

I nearly died laughing at the rip-take of those old insurance adverts with the walrus-type guy, but only because I remember enthsuing about their comedy value to my friends in college (about six years ago!) and finding that no-one had a clue what I was on about - so it was nice to know I wasn't the only human being to a)see them and b) find them funny.

[Adrian Bamforth]

They made the same mistake as Mitchell & Webb and put the best sketch at the start.

The Big Brother parody was way out of date and extremely unfunny, and infuriating when kept coming back to it. There's a plethora a sketch shows recently though I think some of them should take a leaf out of Monty Python's book: Surreal comedy tends to work better done on the cheap and theatrically rather than lavishly shot and edited (see also Big Night Out). But then having funny sketches helps a lot too.

[Adrian Bamforth]

...oh yeah, he was in a fantastic Comic Relief sketch a few years back as Wogan presenting Blankery Blank and some unlikely guests such as Johnny Rotten, though sadly long removed from Youtube.

[opaque]

It was good but yes seemed dated in places but fun.
Probably better mixed in with other peoples sketches rather than all just him but good supporting comedians.

It's a pity he didn't get the chance to do this a few years ago really.

[Keef Monkey]

At the time I thought it was pretty good, the Michael Caine stuff in particular. I've laughed away to myself on a few occasions since whenever I remember the legal ads. The look on the guys face when the phone goes is fried gold, and the "that was a bit harsh" line had me howling. The Sherlock Holmes skits were the only things that left me cold to be honest, looking forward to episode 2. Hopefully it won't go the Little Britain route of funny ideas-packed first episode and then raping the hell out of those jokes for the rest of forever.