The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

[Guest]

Anyone who has seen this show will know what I mean. Things like:

"Stop blinking, or I'll rip out your optic nerve and strangle you with it!"

or my favourite:

"How come I have to find out from a member of the fucking press that every morning at 8.30 I'm being fisted up to the gall-bladder by a bald man?!?!"

[Guest]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

Malcolm wording the Express night editor :
"'Course, if you change your mind and print that, I'll be round to personally eviscerate you. Now, I didn't go to college so I don't really know what that means, but I'll start by tearing your balls off and busk it from there. Okay ?"

[matt j]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

McNulty: "Fuck."
Bunk: "Fuck."
McNulty: "Fuck."
Bunk: "Fuck."
McNulty: "Fuck."
Bunk: "Fuck."
McNulty: "Fuck."
Bunk: "Fuck."
McNulty: "Fuck."
Bunk: "Fuck."
McNulty: "Fuck."
Bunk: "Fuck."
McNulty: "Fuck."
Bunk: "Fuck."

[Incandenza]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

"Stop blinking, or I'll rip out your optic nerve and strangle you with it!"

"How come I have to find out from a member of the fucking press that every morning at 8.30 I'm being fisted up to the gall-bladder by a bald man?!?!"

"'Course, if you change your mind and print that, I'll be round to personally eviscerate you. Now, I didn't go to college so I don't really know what that means, but I'll start by tearing your balls off and busk it from there. Okay ?"

All these lines sound really horrible to me.

[WOM]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

Yes, they do sort of lack that British understatement that makes their comedy so popular over here.

[Incandenza]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

Such hits like "Do Shut Up" and "Shut Your Gob."

[WOM]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

I was thinking of more classic fare, like Last of the Summer Wine and Are You Being Served?

[Incandenza]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

I was quoting The Simpsons.

[WOM]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

I'm aware of their work.

[Mumpo]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

Hah! We've gone from quoting a very good comedy series to quoting a very bad one.

[rick derris]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

McNulty: "Fuck."
Bunk: "Fuck."
McNulty: "Fuck."
Bunk: "Fuck."
McNulty: "Fuck."
Bunk: "Fuck."
McNulty: "Fuck."
Bunk: "Fuck."
McNulty: "Fuck."
Bunk: "Fuck."
McNulty: "Fuck."
Bunk: "Fuck."
McNulty: "Fuck."
Bunk: "Fuck."

that was muthfucka wasnt it?

[matt j]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

I paraphrased:

[NHH]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

Malcolm Tucker: [preparing Ben for going on TV again] Get him properly fucking screen-tested! I'm sorry, mate, but you need a lot of powder. I've never seen anyone looking so fucking ugly with just one head!

Ben Swain: No, I've lost my... erm... safety...

Malcolm Tucker: Who was it to teach you media training? Myra Hindley? It's terrible! All these hands all over the place! You were like a sweaty octopus trying to unhook a bra! It was like watching John Leslie at work!

Ben Swain: Yes, I know all that. It just, kinda, fell away. It's like one of those dreams when you're wandering around Covent Garden with just a vest and everyone's staring at you.

Jamie: It was much worse than that. I mean, how many people see you at Covent Garden? A few thousands? Your meltdown was witnessed by 1.2 million people! That's more people than saw Al Jolson in his fucking career! And that's Al fucking Jolson!

Malcolm Tucker: He loves Al Jolson.

Jamie: The Guvnor!

Oliver Reeder: Maaameee!

Jamie: You take the piss out of Al Jolson again and I will remove your iPod from its tiny nano-sheath and push it up your cock! Then I'll put some speakers up your arse and put it on shuffle with my fucking fist. And every time I hear something that I don't like, which will be every time that something comes on, I will skip to the next track by crushing your balls!

[N est à?]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

he's a fat guy with a dick the size of a bookie's biro

[Guest]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

I started watching this last night, having never seen a second of it before.

I really enjoyed it, though I found myself smirking at most of it rather than full-out laughing. Best bit: the Chris Langham character and his two assistants are sitting in the back of a car on the way to meet a load of journalists to announce a policy which has just been overruled by Malcolm Tucker. So they're trying to think of something new to give to the hacks instead, and Langham says: "What about zoos? I took my kids to the zoo the other day, it was fucking disgusting. What about something about that? . . . No, that's shit, isn't it."

[Guest]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

The Thick Of It employs a special swearing consultant. Armando Iannucci sends the scripts, such as they are, to this guy, who sends them back with extra profanity.

[Ginger Yellow]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

That's got to be the best job in the world, surely. And he's not just a swearing consultant - he's a swearing consultant for Armando Iannucci.

[Guest]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

He was probably responsible for:

"You don't seem to realise that I'm going to have to mop up a fucking hurricane of piss here because of these neurotics!"

He does his job very well- is "Swearing Consultant" on his CV?

Malcolm Tucker is, hands down, the GREATEST comedy character ever created.

[Purves Grundy]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

Not having ever seen the series this stuff just reads as being every bit as laboured and dull as Ben Elton's "as as a on a very day. IN TOWN!"

You know, why bother writing good jokes when you can make people snigger with rude words?

[Guest]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

Purves Grundy wrote:

Not having ever seen the series

[TMA]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

You definitely have to watch the series Purves - it's one of the best things that's been on TV in the last few years.

[Purves Grundy]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

Yes, the horse, not having seen it. If you're going to call something a great line then it has to stand by itself. Best delivery is another matter entirely.

[Guest]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

I watched another couple of episodes of this last night.

Christ, Peter Capaldi looks really unhealthy in it. I hope it's make-up.

I find myself laughing more at Chris Langham's dialogue than the Malcolm Tucker swearathons.

[Guest]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

Purves Grundy wrote:

Yes, the horse, not having seen it. If you're going to call something a great line then it has to stand by itself. Best delivery is another matter entirely.

Well of course it's more than just a script: it's the way certain words are emphasised, interaction between actors, facial expressions and all the other tiny nuances which make it what it is. I can't tell you why Chris Langham just sitting eating a plate of biscuits is funny; it just is. All I would say go and watch an episode. More than once.

[TMA]

The Thick Of It: favourite swearing / best lines

What's this all about, then?

A film from the production team behind The Thick Of It, featuring a few of the actors (seemingly playing the same characters as in the show) along with Steve Coogan and James Gandolfini.

Someone tell me why I shouldn't be very excited about this...