Limmy's Show!

A recent rewatch (*cough* youtube), Limmy's show is a 2009 surreal sketch comedy from Scottish comedian Brian Limond. Created for a quite low budget almost by himself, Limmy's Show has become quite the cult classic in recent years, and he's even used his success from the show to start twitch streaming where he now has >350K followers. Limmy's Show is funny and original, and is so fast paced (and accented) that you'll need to rewatch it a few times anyway just to catch everything. A great laugh, would recommend.

I had no idea what I was getting into and less of one when I was getting out a couples seasons later.

... As long as you're well connected to the powers that be .

With the success of CHEWING THE FAT and STILL GAME BBC Scotland had a couple of well deserved smash hits on their hands and in their haste to follow this up they executed anyone muttering important concepts like " Quality control " and replaced them with pretentious sycophants

BBC Scotland have mirrored the Soviet Union . If CHEWING THE FAT and STILL GAME were the television equivalent of Lenin's New Economic Policy then they've shot all the kulaks and replaced them with LEGIT , GARY'S WAR and LIMMY'S SHOW . I'm finding it difficult to work out what show's worse but this one might be the deserved winner

LIMMY'S SHOW is highly surreal , and highly , highly unfunny . Apparently Brian Limond ( Limmy ) was discovered via his own website and had a highly successful podcast , so apparently he got this gig because someone liked his " Glesga patter " . That someone must be the only person in Scotland taken by Limmy's humour in that case . To give you a clue how bizarrely esoteric the sketches try this one :

Two rockers listen to Mahatten Skyline by Aha . The guitar rift breaks in , the picture freezes and Limmy walks in to the picture : " Right next time you're in a pub toilet , take out a pen and write " Benny Havey RIP " on the door . If you're too young to go to pubs scratch " Benny Harvey RIP " on your school desk . Who's Benny Harvey ? No idea "

And if you're waiting for a resolution or even a punchline to any of the above you'll have a very long wait

BTW if anyone from BBC Scotland is reading this looking for some hot new talent who will appeal to both the proletariat and kulaks alike drop me a line

This show suffers a bit from being Glaswegian. A lot of people can't really understand what's being said and maybe this holds it back.

I'm a southern fairy and i don't have a problem with the accent. In fact, i think Limmy's Show is easily the best comedy sketch show of the last few years.

When you think that shows like Armstrong and Miller, That Mitchel and Webb Look and Smack The Pony have made it into mainstream TV and this hasn't it is a disgrace. Even Little Britain is just men dressing up as women and puking on each other. So much lazy writing.

Limmy has moments of observational genius and several moments of just plain weird, but his characterisation is brilliant. Falconhoof for example should have his own show format, i could watch that sketch all day.

If you enjoy subversive, laugh-out-loud observational comedy with a hint of the surreal this sits right up there with Jam, Chris Morris, Monkey Dust, Reeves and Mortimer, Serafinowitz, and before them The Young Ones. Lets hope a new series is in the pipeline.

It's like a fever dream but enjoyable. Limmy is a genius.