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A Spin-Off of Garth Marenghis Darkplace, Man to Man with Dean Learner is a spoof Talk Show that aired in 2006, starring Darkplace's 'producer', and "club owner, celebrity manager, restaurateur, entrepreneur and publisher of high-class gentlemen's magazines", Dean Learner (Richard Ayoade) as the host, interviewing various celebrity friends (all played by Matthew Holness).Similar to Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge but played more like a late-night 'culture' show than a prime-time showbiz extravaganza. |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Most of the guests. The psychic is a "fork-bender" (Uri Geller), Glynn Nimron is Elvis Presley meets Leonard Nimoy, and "Formula Five" racing driver Steve Pising is Nigel Mansell, with a bit of old-school Jeremy Clarkson thrown in. |
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Black Comedy |
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Black Comedy: Much of the humour arises from the pathetic careers of the celebrities and how their association with Dean Learner has ruined their lives. |
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Spiritual Successor |
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Spiritual Successor: Effectively a spin-off of Darkplace, and Garth Marenghi is the first guest. |
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Small Name, Big Ego |
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Small Name, Big Ego: Dean Learner, Garth Marenghi, Amir Chanan and Glynn Nimron are all a lot less famous and successful then they think they are. |
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Beauty Equals Goodness |
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Beauty Equals Goodness: Randolph Caer is typecast as psychopaths because he's ugly. |
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Cluster F-Bomb |
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Cluster F-Bomb: Or at least Cluster A-hole Bomb, courtesy of Amir Chanan at the end of his episode. |
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Stylistic Suck |
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Stylistic Suck: The show is a vanity project by Learner, a wanna-be playboy who's really just a sleazy businessman and pornographer. All of the guests are C-grade celebrities with rather depressing careers. |
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Metaphorgotten: |
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Doorstopper |
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Doorstopper: Garth Marenghi's collected works in one volume. It's a regular format hardback book in every way, except that it's about twenty feet thick. |
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Better than Sex |
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Better than Sex: In Dean's interview with Steve Pising, former Formula Five motor racer, Steve refers to the speed of a Formula Five car as being better than sex... or, at least, better than any sex that he's ever had. |
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Mock Millionaire |
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Mock Millionaire: Learner is implied to be trying very hard to look more wealthy than he really is. The announcer crows about his luxury apartment in London's "glittering East End." |
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Informed Deformity |
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Informed Deformity: We're repeatedly told that Randolph Caer is quite ugly. |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Dean Learner. Even if you didn't get the hints in Darkplace, it becomes increasingly apparent that Learner is a thoroughly crooked businessman, misogynist and sleaze merchant. His guests are all gullible C-grade celebrities that he bullies and exploits. It's implied that he tried to murder Steve Pising and drove Randolph Caer to commit suicide. |
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Stealth Parody |
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Stealth Parody: Broadcast in a late night slot, it looked much like a real chatshow. Especially if people hadn't seem Darkplace. |
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Universal-Adaptor Cast |
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Universal-Adaptor Cast: Three of the male protagonists from Garth Marenghi's upcoming film, The War Of The Wasps, are Rick Dagless, Lucien Sanchez, and Thornton Reed transplanted as Ace Pilots instead of doctors. Marenghi's acting style is slightly different, however, as he's downplayed the Serious Business approach to channel what appears to be a bit of Ace Rimmer. |
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Unfortunate Names |
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Unfortunate Names: Steve Pising, which he is very clear is pronounced the same as "pissing," seemingly oblivious to why this might be an issue. His documentary "Pising In The Driver's Seat" doesn't help. |
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The Bore |
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The Bore: Despite having been a racing driver Steve Pising is an amazingly boring man, describing even tense moments in a race like he's reading a shopping list. |
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Brainless Beauty |
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Brainless Beauty: Satu Suominen |
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