Have you heard of Dick Turpin?
March 28, 2024 9:50 PM Subscribe
I don't know if you've seen The Completely Made Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin, but you've maybe seen Noel Fielding on Bake-Off. Here is a conversation with Fielding, show producer Kenton Allen, and Vulture's Jesse David Fox: Apple TV+’s The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin: Noel Fielding and Kenton Allen [51m].
I think that it's completely hilarious to build a whole show based on this Adam Ant video.
The show is good and I'll watch the one in the post too :)
posted by Jeff_Larson at 10:44 PM on March 28 [5 favorites]
The show is good and I'll watch the one in the post too :)
posted by Jeff_Larson at 10:44 PM on March 28 [5 favorites]
I've been enjoying watching this show. ^_^
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 11:10 PM on March 28
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 11:10 PM on March 28
For people of a certain age, they may remember the BBC drama from the late 70's with Richard O'Sullivan Richard Carpenter's DICK TURPIN - Episode 01 - Swiftnick.
posted by phigmov at 12:21 AM on March 29 [4 favorites]
posted by phigmov at 12:21 AM on March 29 [4 favorites]
This was one of the few jokes in Good Omens that remained opaque to me. Until today!
posted by sixswitch at 2:09 AM on March 29 [6 favorites]
posted by sixswitch at 2:09 AM on March 29 [6 favorites]
I've been a fan of Noel since I saw him doing stand-up in the 90s, however, Luxury Comedy was unwatchable for me, and Bake-Off isn't really my thing.
I've just watched the first episode of the Dick Turpin show. Sorry to say I didn't find it that funny. Sometimes I watch comedy programmes and it seems the people who make them think simply a bit of very mild levity, some minor silliness and some perfunctory tomfoolery is enough. I miss comedies that had clever or observant concepts behind their gags or a bit of a satirical edge, like Blackadder or early Simpsons, or where the silliness was a bit more inspired and surprising.
Perhaps it's a bit telling that Noel lists Men in Tights as one of his inspirations. I remember thinking that was pretty awful at the time. But maybe to some people this comedy of extreme obviousness is good?
I admit that the cupboard bit at the end was funny, even though you could see it coming.
posted by mokey at 2:16 AM on March 29 [1 favorite]
I've just watched the first episode of the Dick Turpin show. Sorry to say I didn't find it that funny. Sometimes I watch comedy programmes and it seems the people who make them think simply a bit of very mild levity, some minor silliness and some perfunctory tomfoolery is enough. I miss comedies that had clever or observant concepts behind their gags or a bit of a satirical edge, like Blackadder or early Simpsons, or where the silliness was a bit more inspired and surprising.
Perhaps it's a bit telling that Noel lists Men in Tights as one of his inspirations. I remember thinking that was pretty awful at the time. But maybe to some people this comedy of extreme obviousness is good?
I admit that the cupboard bit at the end was funny, even though you could see it coming.
posted by mokey at 2:16 AM on March 29 [1 favorite]
One other Dick Turpin reference: Raymond Brigg's "Gentleman Jim" tells the story of a lavatory attendant with highway robbing dreams and but only a toy gun and a hapless donkey as a stead.
posted by rongorongo at 3:05 AM on March 29 [1 favorite]
posted by rongorongo at 3:05 AM on March 29 [1 favorite]
I love Noel Fielding and am very excited to see him run around dressed like Adam Ant.
posted by The Manwich Horror at 3:21 AM on March 29 [1 favorite]
posted by The Manwich Horror at 3:21 AM on March 29 [1 favorite]
I've never hears of him, but I wish he'd quit brushing his hair out of his eyes...
posted by Czjewel at 3:24 AM on March 29
posted by Czjewel at 3:24 AM on March 29
It's an undemanding show for sure and we like it but we've been fans of Noel since his Boosh days. Nice also to see the great Mark Heap (a favourite since his days on Spaced) as his dad and Noel's actual brother as his cousin. There's lots of other familiar faces in there. Weirdly I have a fondness for the late 70s Dick Turpin show (which aired on our public television station here in Canada when I was a kid) so that likely helps as well. Set your expectations accordingly and I think it mostly works (there's dick jokes).
posted by Ashwagandha at 6:25 AM on March 29 [1 favorite]
posted by Ashwagandha at 6:25 AM on March 29 [1 favorite]
Years ago, probably like 2005, my boss found the Old Gregg clip on YouTube and we would watch it together as a group. It was just a clip with no context, and none of us knew where it came from, nor have ever heard of Boosh. It blew our minds... the weirdness. I still sometimes say "MAKE AN ASSESSMENT" in the Old Gregg voice (yes I realize there's problems with the bit, but that's how I discovered Boosh and Fielding).
posted by SoberHighland at 6:30 AM on March 29 [1 favorite]
posted by SoberHighland at 6:30 AM on March 29 [1 favorite]
Agree about Luxury Comedy being unwatchable. Fielding is a massive talent, but I think he occasionally falls down a rabbithole of his own ideas and can't work his way out again. I'm loving Dick Turpin - it looks to me like the producers have surrounded him with other comedic talent in order to tone down his impulses slightly and give him an ensemble with some foils to play off of. In addition to Heap and Michael Fielding, you have Tamsin Greig, Simon Farnaby, Jessica Hynes, Geoffrey McGivern, and about a trillion of the others from the pantheon of UK comedy. Also, Richard Naylor, one of the producers, was one of the producers of Red Dwarf.
posted by scolbath at 7:23 AM on March 29
posted by scolbath at 7:23 AM on March 29
This is filling the “Our Flag Means Death” hole in my heart.
posted by MrGuilt at 7:46 AM on March 29 [6 favorites]
posted by MrGuilt at 7:46 AM on March 29 [6 favorites]
Metafilter: very mild levity, some minor silliness and some perfunctory tomfoolery
posted by MrBadExample at 8:42 AM on March 29 [4 favorites]
posted by MrBadExample at 8:42 AM on March 29 [4 favorites]
I was a Boosh fan and so far this show hits a lot of the same notes for me without the problematic bits. I wonder if Julian Barrett will make an appearance at some point, so far everyone from the early Boosh has appeared but him and Richard Ayoade.
posted by aspersioncast at 10:15 AM on March 29
posted by aspersioncast at 10:15 AM on March 29
I think Luxury Comedy is great. It is probably my favorite sketch comedy show of all time.
posted by The Manwich Horror at 12:12 PM on March 29
posted by The Manwich Horror at 12:12 PM on March 29
Ol' Gregg was pretty bad by today's standards.
The Boosh hasn't really aged well, sadly. I was a big fan when it was first airing and went to see them live, even joined the fanclub (Modwolves represent!) but now I can hardly stand to watch some of it. The literal blackface in the Rudi and Spirit of Jazz bits is pretty terrible.
Put that together with Noel's friendship with Russell Brand and the long-running rumours that he had a brief thing with Pixie Geldof when she was only 16 (and he was in his 30's), he's not a draw for me anymore.
posted by fight or flight at 3:27 PM on March 29 [3 favorites]
The Boosh hasn't really aged well, sadly. I was a big fan when it was first airing and went to see them live, even joined the fanclub (Modwolves represent!) but now I can hardly stand to watch some of it. The literal blackface in the Rudi and Spirit of Jazz bits is pretty terrible.
Put that together with Noel's friendship with Russell Brand and the long-running rumours that he had a brief thing with Pixie Geldof when she was only 16 (and he was in his 30's), he's not a draw for me anymore.
posted by fight or flight at 3:27 PM on March 29 [3 favorites]
I do not know the backstories of anyone involved in the show, but I've enjoyed it as some lighthearted fluff. I had no idea that Dick Turpin was a thing before this show until this post, so thank you!
posted by rednikki at 3:38 PM on March 29 [1 favorite]
posted by rednikki at 3:38 PM on March 29 [1 favorite]
If you enjoyed Boosh I can strongly recommend Flowers, which has some of the weirdness, and Barrett, as well as Will Sharpe, Olivia Colman and Sophia Di Martino. If marvel has any sense at all they’ll give Will Sharpe a big budget show/film. Not sure if he’d take it, but we’ll see.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 4:37 PM on March 29
posted by Jon Mitchell at 4:37 PM on March 29
Dick Turpin's ghost (and often the ghost of his horse) haunts an astonishing number of pubs
posted by BinaryApe at 2:42 AM on March 30
posted by BinaryApe at 2:42 AM on March 30
Ugh, this ins one of of those Naomi Klein/Wolf things for me.
In my head, I was thinking of Nathan Fielder, which wasn't making a lot of sense to me given the British context, but then again I've never been a fan of Fielder's--his drippy shtick just rubs me the wrong way. I had to look up who Noel Fielding is, and as soon as I saw his picture, of course I knew exactly who he is, I mean I do watch Bake Off. That said, I can't say I'm a fan of Noel's either. I mean he's better than the bald guy (yes, I just looked up his name, Matt Lucas), but that's a very, very low bar to clear. I guess of the two, I'd watch something with Noel over Nathan, but talk about a scarcity of choice.
posted by sardonyx at 9:12 PM on March 30
In my head, I was thinking of Nathan Fielder, which wasn't making a lot of sense to me given the British context, but then again I've never been a fan of Fielder's--his drippy shtick just rubs me the wrong way. I had to look up who Noel Fielding is, and as soon as I saw his picture, of course I knew exactly who he is, I mean I do watch Bake Off. That said, I can't say I'm a fan of Noel's either. I mean he's better than the bald guy (yes, I just looked up his name, Matt Lucas), but that's a very, very low bar to clear. I guess of the two, I'd watch something with Noel over Nathan, but talk about a scarcity of choice.
posted by sardonyx at 9:12 PM on March 30
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But, Ol' Gregg was pretty bad by today's standards.
Miss Mel and Sue, and Mary, and Sandi. But glad Noel is still there
posted by Windopaene at 10:08 PM on March 28 [1 favorite]