#tony roche

[walischwarzi]

Twenty years ago today the cupboard scene (ttoi s1e2) was shot.

(PDF file from series 1 DVD)

[dynamobooks]

Armando Iannucci et al: The Thick of It: The Missing DoSAC Files (2010)

[tv-moments]

Succession

Season 4, “Rehearsal”

Director: Becky Martin

DoP: Katelin Arizmendi

[dynamofilms]

Holy Flying Circus (2011)

6/10

[watchfuldeer]

photo by succession director of photography chris norr | deleted scene from 2x03 hunting

[spilladabalia]

The Roches featuring Robert Fripp ''Hammond Song''

[sgiandubh]

If you have such an occupation, which still not confirmed, it explains much. Most politicos are idiots and in a fantasy world and the reason the world is very fucked up. A fantasy shipper who doesn't know a thing about real marriage and relationships, fits. When has there been video or photos of Sam and Cait not at a promo or OL related event? He is not as private as claimed. Where is the a stitch of anything they have been together since OL wrap? Why would anyone put on a such a sham such as a fake marriage and child to hide a relationship between two B minus list players? Certainly not for nobody Sam who after all this time can't a decent film acting job or decent endorsement deal. There were many actors in demand in many Super Bowl commercials where Sam the great international star? Nowhere. Your claims continue to be illogical as you.

Dear 'If Confirmed' Anon,

Transcript:

'What in the name of The Everloving Fuck do you want me to confirm? That I am in Paris? I am in Paris. Look - I hope you can read.

You know, at this point in time, it's really hopeless. Where is Tony McGill? Where is Tony McGill, on Valentine's Day? Why is he not in Dublin?

Oh. He's babysitting. Okay? Mmhmm. He's babysitting.

Look:

We're set?

I hope so."

To be honest, I was expecting something along the lines of the above ask, but I confess I did find your Anon quite wanting. What the hell else was I supposed to do at that summit, than my real life job? Should I feel sorry and make amends to you, a nobody, for being who I am?

And no, darling, I am not a politico. I am a diplomat and a senior government official. Have been so for the last 22 years of my life, both at desk and overseas levels. These two dimensions of what I am paid to do are complementary, but never quite overlap with politics. I live with, but not within politics, daily. There is a difference between being a spectator and an actor - you might be familiar with it?

There is nothing else for me to add, punk. In the process, thanks for confirming you are a Fascist, too - they usually firmly believe politics (and political parties) are the root of all evil in our world.

There have been many pics of SC at non OL related events. You know that. That you keep lying to others is, of course, laughable. But should it be the case you keep on lying to yourself - now, that's tragic, pumpkin.

PS: I was at the corner of the Rue Saint Roch and the Rue Saint-Honoré, a very short stroll away from my hotel. You can go and fuck right off.

[kwisatzworld]

we all know federer fired tony roche like 2 weeks before the ’07 french open, so like… his secret coach at wimbledon coulda been valentino rossi

[waystarresourceco]

J. Smith Cameron on Gerri’s relationship with her daughters (and a little look into the collaborative process between Jesse and the actors).

“I ventured to Jesse one time and I was like ‘I wonder if maybe she has two grown daughters. Gerri has two daughters. We don’t need to know about them but in her backstory she’s got two daughters. And it’s not like they have an estranged relationship exactly but they’re a little scared of her. Like they’re respectful, they value her opinion, they have her on a pedestal but she’s not a cozy up to mom.’ And Jesse was like ‘Huh, that’s interesting I’ve always – now that you mention it I always imagined her childless. I don’t know, let’s just stick a pin it and let’s not commit to it.’  

Then much later when we were doing the senate hearing, at one point I had to improvise some of my answers. So I did some improvs and at one point the democrat senator asked Gerri, ‘Do you have any children?’ and I said ‘Oh I have two daughters.’ It just came out of my mouth. . . . I remember Jesse coming up after they said ‘Cut’ and laughing and saying ‘Oh you got your daughters in there!’”

Excerpt from Can't Stop Watching - June 4, 2020

Bonus audio under the cut where J. discusses her daughters names as discovered via her prop phone (gotta love the prop department's commitment).

Transcript provided by the source (x):

J. Smith-Cameron: [O]ne time I saw my-- I've said this before in some interviews, but I don't know if you've come across this, Nicole, but the props department in our show was out of this world. One time I was playing with my prop phone, Gerri's prop phone, and it had a completely full contacts. It had something like Catherine Kellman and Petty Kellman. Petty was short for something else.

Nicole: Catherine and who?

J. Smith-Cameron: Petty like Petulia or something.

Alison Stewart: Oh, okay.

J. Smith-Cameron: Yes, like Petty Fors, like that Petty, and I don't know what that was short for. I assume those were the daughters, but that, I think that was Tony Roche, one of our writers, but my god, the detail. I had them cast in my mind. I thought it should be Halley Feiffer and Tavi Gevinson playing the two daughters[.]

[petercapaldi-press]

INTERVIEW

Sat 17 Oct 2009 01.30 CEST

Peter Capaldi: Malcolm Tucker is Alastair Campbell. But Mandelson is in there, too

Johnny Dee

TV's most creative pottymouth is back in The Thick Of It. But how will Malcolm Tucker cope with a female minister?

There are those who believe that the movements and decisions of our current government are as pointless as the rearrangement of deckchairs on the Titanic as it sank into the icy depths below. But there's a line in the new series of The Thick Of It – BBC2's scabrously brilliant portrayal of ministerial machinations – which describes the stagnating position Gordon Brown's party finds itself in far more accurately: New Labour is just like The Big Breakfast. Typically this metaphor comes during a characteristically venomous assault from spin doctor-in-chief and the fictional PM's all-seeing, all-swearing, all-Scottish eye, Malcolm Tucker, as he pinpoints the reality of the impending dark clouds of general election failure.

"Remember how Chris Evans started that, remember how it was a big success," scowls the magnificently foul-mouthed Tucker, jabbing his finger demonically. "And then they had that guy Johnny Vaughan, remember him? Everybody loved him, fuck knows why, but they loved him. You see this here? This is fucking series 10 of The Big Breakfast."

For those who missed it – and many did, thanks to its debut in the outer territories of Freeview, irregular scheduling and unfortunate events (actor Chris Langham left the show after being convicted of child porn offences; in the two hour-long specials his character's absence was attributed to a holiday) – The Thick Of It is usually described as a cross between Yes Minister and something good like The West Wing or The Office. It's actually far better than that. Smart, mean and remorselessly funny, thanks to its deliberately obtuse hand-held camera angles and sharp, partly improvised script, it feels too real to be classed as a satire or a regular sitcom. There are subtle digs at real-life political events like the expenses scandal, but The Thick Of It occurs in a parallel universe, albeit one also populated by feckless, spineless, self-serving idiots, AKA MPs.

For its return, The Thick Of It is being given a proper run of eight consecutive episodes and a primetime slot on BBC2. This is due in part to the success of the spin-off movie In The Loop but mainly because alongside Peep Show, The IT Crowd and Outnumbered it's one of the greatest British comedy shows of this decade.

Director Armando Iannucci (the man also responsible for I'm Alan Partridge and The Day Today) has been lauded for his creation, as have the team of writers who include Tony Roche (World Of Pub), Jesse Armstrong (Peep Show) and its very own swearing consultant, Ian Martin. But the undoubted star of the series is Peter Capaldi's Malcolm Tucker, a man certain to join the ranks of Basil Fawlty, Rigsby and Edmund Blackadder in TV's arrogant bastard hall of fame. It's not just the brilliance of these creations that links these comedy giants, the pathos of all four men comes from their resigned certainty that they alone know what they are doing amid a sea of fools.

'He is clever and does suss things out quickly … He's sort of an evil clown' – Peter Capaldi

"Yes, but I think he's a clown," says Capaldi. "The thing that amuses me about him is he thinks he's incredibly powerful and clever – and he is very clever and he does suss things out quickly – but he's sort of an evil clown."

Chatting to the 51-year-old Scot within the hallowed and maze-like compartments of BBC Television Centre – a beige wonderland of open-plan desks not dissimilar to the bland officescapes of The Thick Of It's Department of Social Affairs And Citizenship (DoSAC) is a little disconcerting. Despite the fact that he's a much calmer, more charming person than his character ("I've only lost my temper three times in my whole life"), you still expect him to snap into a Tucker rant at any second. "Well, he does look a bit like me," jokes Capaldi. People stop him in the street now, and instead of requesting autographs demand a bollocking or ask him to tell them to fuck off ("… and sometimes I mean it"). Playing the PM's enforcer has changed his life. Now, instead of accepting run-of-the-mill TV drama parts as doctors, priests and psychiatrists – "Someone dull and reliable who would turn up and be pleasant," he claims modestly – he gets offered lunatics, psychos and people with venom, like Sid's dad in Skins and King Charles in The Devil's Whore. "Nobody would have cast me as a King before."

That's slightly disingenuous; he did, after all, play a transvestite in Prime Suspect and has been in numerous brilliant films including Local Hero and Dangerous Liaisons, and he has an entirely separate CV as a director (he won a best short film Oscar in 1995 as writer and director, and recently directed NHS satire Getting On). But four years ago he'd just come from a soul-destroying screen test for one of those dull, reliable parts when he first met Armando Iannucci to audition for The Thick Of It.

"I remember thinking I can't be bothered to see Armando," he says. "I was so fed up with acting. The morning audition had been with a group of people I'd already worked with and it was for one scene. I thought, 'Why at my age am I having to jump through all these hoops?' So by the time I got to Armando, I couldn't care what he wanted to do. I was pissed off. But what that did was equip me to be more powerful.

'Alistair Campbell was mentioned, but if you look at the first few episodes there's more of a Mandelson quality to him' - Peter Capaldi

Malcolm, of course, doesn't care what you think of him because he is more powerful than anybody in the room."

Tony Blair's director of communications-cum-Darth Vader of Whitehall, Alastair Campbell, is often mentioned as the inspiration for Tucker but Capaldi claims that's not totally the case.

"He was mentioned initially," he says, "but there was no ream of research or anything. I just tried to play a character who was antagonistic and powerful. It evolved; if you look at the first couple of episodes there's more of a Mandelson quality to him."

Does he think Tucker would consider staying on in government if the Tories won the election?

"No. Malcolm's got a higher purpose to pursue."

And what's that?

"To maintain a Labour government in power and if that's in danger he'll fight to the end. He'd do everything in his power to destroy them, to eliminate them."

Unsurprisingly, Capaldi doesn't see his creation as a bully but as an efficient hard worker.

"I think he's very good at what he does. There are some people he really hates, but most people he just hates. That's quite democratic. I've come to really like him; he's a force of nature and you just unleash him."

How much of the swearing is in the script and how much is improvised?

"It's mostly all in the script. I tend to follow it quite closely because there's a rhythm and a sense of baroque asceticism to it and I don't want to walk all over their work. I have discovered that I do put in a few extra fucks, but it's a little aide mémoire. If I can't remember the next line I say 'fuck' and in that split second the next line comes."

Fans of high-level profanity will be delighted to learn that the first episode is rammed with plenty of put-downs and insults to rank alongside Tucker's finest moments (has there ever been a finer invitation to enter a room than "come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off"?). There is also the return of keen Al Jolson fan Jamie to look forward to, a calamitous trip to The Guardian's offices, another dip into the world of their Conservative counterparts, and much fantastic bickering between departmental gimps Ollie (Chris Addison) and Glenn (James Smith), two gents Malcolm Tucker refers to as Hinge & Bracket in episode one and by way of telling them to get lost invites to "hang up your lady cocks".

The series begins with a cabinet reshuffle by the new prime minister and a desperate attempt to find "a mammal with a head" willing to fill what Tucker calls "the DoSAC hole". The unlucky MP to get the job is backbencher Nicola Murray, because Tucker complains "the only other candidate is my left bollock with a smiley face drawn on it".

Blithely ignoring her lowly status, Murray (brilliantly played by Nighty Night's Rebecca Front) is squirmingly embarrassing, but also ambitiously determined to forward her meaningless agenda of "social mobility" and provides the Thick Of It with a fresh dimension and a new challenge for Tucker.

"It's great because Nicola is a woman," says Capaldi. "It might not seem obvious but Malcolm is a people person – he actually figures out how to deal with people – so he realises after a while that battering her over the head with his swearing hammer doesn't always work. He has to find other ways to get her to do what he wants."

Like blackmail? "Essentially. The thing is, Malcolm doesn't think MPs are idiots, he just thinks they're twats."

[simena]

TONY ROCHE

[dynamobooks]

Jesse Armstrong et al: Succession: Season 3: The Complete Scripts (2021/2023)

[marvelsfavoriteuncle]

Things I have said over the years 💫

( Marvel Incorrect Quotes)

Peggy: Maybe it wasn’t the best idea…

Jason: MAYBE?!

————

Tony: I think I blew up the workshop again!

Jason: The fire extinguisher is on the left near the entrance.

———

Jason: At least it’s not like what happened with Mr. Fluky.

Tony: You said Mr. Fluky ran away!

Jason: I lied. You were allergic to him.

Tony: Says who?!

——

Jason: *snaps awake* I’m up! Who’s dead? Who broke a bone?!

——-

Liane: How many candles do we put on your birthday cake? 1000?

Jason: I- *pinches the bridge of his nose*

———

Jason: *hands on his lips and sucks in a breath* Who’s mess is this?

Luna: *pauses playing with her plushies on the ground*

Roch: *takes off her headphones and puts her stack of papers down*

Both girls: *both look at each other and point at Rick* He did it!

Rick: Mother—!

———

Elizabeth: If you eat one more donut, you’re gonna have to see a doctor, stupid!

Jason: Says who? I’m perfectly healthy!

———

Bruce: I’m too old for this.

Jason: Dude, I’m too old for this shit.

————

Rei: Yo pops where’s your cane?

Jason: Who are gonna beat the crap out of with?

Rei: *grins*

———

Liz: You thought I was dead? Didn’t think of looking at the bottom of the damn ocean?!

Jason: I was depressed!

————

Liane: Hey, JJ? Can I get some dating advice?

Jason: Just because I’m with Lizzie doesn’t mean I know how I did it.

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Rick, holding a python: Guys I impulsively bought a snake, what do I name him

Jason: You did WHAT–

Luna: William Snakepeare!

———

Liz: JJ and I are having a baby.

Tony: That's gre-

Liz, slamming adoption papers on the table: It's you, sign here.

Jason: We’re much better parents than Howard.

————

Nat: How many kids do you have?

Jason: Biologically, emotionally, or legally?

———

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And we’re done ☑️

Let me know what you think! Keep the chain going if you like

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[askstevella]

Things my wife said over the years 📸

Steve: Why is the coffee maker broken?

Stella: Uhhh…Liane and Ethan had a fight..?

———

Stella: Maybe I went a little overboard…

Steve: MAYBE?!

———

Stella at 3 am: What if we had a daughter named Jasmine? Like the Disney Princess.

Steve, grumbled under his pillow: Go to sleep…

————

Steve: Hey did you see my—

Stella: In the bedroom

Steve: Okay, and my—

Stella: In the living room

Steve: Um, and my—

Stella: Right over there in that chair

Steve: THE HELL?!

——

Steve: Estella, wanna something from the store?

Stella: Am i in trouble?

Steve: What do you mean?

Stella: You never called me ‘Estella’ unless I screwed up BAD!

Steve: I-! I called you Estella a bunch of times.

Stella: Yeah when i screw up!

——

Stella, sitting in the passenger seat: Who the hell did you have in this car?

Steve, chuckling and driving: What you mean?

Stella: Babe who did you have in this car?

Steve: What do you mean?

Stella: Damnnnnn! That mothertrucker smell better than me, shit!

Steve: *burst out laughing*

——

Steve: *sitting on the couch playing on his ipad and looks at her* What’s up with you?

Stella: *huffs laying on the couch* You’ve been home for an half hour and NOT ONCE did you try and cuddle me? Do I smell like shit to you?!

———

[Stella speaking Spanish]

Steve: Ugh I know.

Tony: You know Spanish?

Steve: Not much. I just know the phrase, "This is all your fault.”

Tony: Oh damn-

———

Luna: I um, I made this friendship bracelet for you..

Stella: I’m not the biggest jewelry collector as I used to be.

Luna: You don’t have to wear, it’s fine..

Stella: Bullshit! No, I’m gonna wear it forever now. Back off.

——

Stella: Is this your plan B?

Ethan: No, technically this is plan P.

Stella: Plan P? Is there a Plan M that I don’t know about?

Ethan: Yes, and Plan M is that I marry Liane.

Liane: *gasps* I LOVE PLAN M!

Stella: OF COURSE YOU DO!

———

Luna & Roch: CAN WE GET A DOG?!

Stella: *sipping her afternoon soda and pauses* No.

Luna: Why not?

Stella: Because we have Rick.

Roch: Uhm but Rick isn’t a doggie..?

Rick, spinning in circles trying to lick his elbow: I ALMOST GOT IT!

Roch: I see your point.

Luna: *giggles*

——

Stella: *cleaning the floor*

Rick, Liane and Luna: *runs in excited and all chatting, dirtying up the floor*

Stella: Why do I even try?!

———

Petra: *sitting on her couch and opens the door when she hears a knock* Oh hi!

Stella: *her eyes red from crying and feeling all achy* I think I need therapy…

Petra: FUCKInG FINALLY SOMEONE ADDRESSES THIS! I mean…come on in, sweetie.

~~

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I would’ve added more but I can’t think of any! Keep the chain going with other ships hehe 😉

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[marvelforged]

Logan’s  Verses  List  (to  be  expanded/updated)

A  New  Krakoa  (Modern  616  Verse):  Taking  place  once  Krakoa  has  been  recognized  as  a  sovereign  nation  of  Mutantkind.  This  verse  generally  takes  place  after  ORCHIS  attempts  to  release  the  Master  Mold  and  Logan  dies  in  the  process  of  stopping  them,  only  to  be  resurrected  by  The  Five.  

Mutatis  Mutandis  (Headmaster  Verse):  A  timestamp  verse  that  spans  the  series  of  Wolverine  and  the  X-Men,  where  Logan  is  the  headmaster  of  the  Jean  Grey  Institute  for  Higher  Learning.  In  this  time  period,  he  is  exclusively  dating  Ororo  Munroe. 

On  a  Pale  Horse  (Horseman  of  Death  AU):  A  Timestamp/Alternate  verse  for  the  time  period  where  Logan  was  brainwashed  into  being  one  of  Apocalypse’s  Four  Horsemen,  Death. 

Age  of  Apocalypse  Verse:  What  it  says  on  the  tin.  Logan  in  the  Age  of  Apocalypse  universe.  He’s  missing  one  hand  from  a  fight  (with  Cyclops)  to  free  Jean  Grey  from  Apocalypse’s  citadel.  He  and  Jean  are  in  a  committed  relationship,  both  while  operating  separately  from  the  X-Men  and  later,  once  they  are  reunited  after  Sinister’s  death

Blood  and  Bone  (Fatal  Attractions  Verse):  Timestamp  Verse  that  takes  place  after  the  X-Men  confront  Magneto  on  Asteroid  M  (X-Men  Vol  2,  #25)  and  Magneto  forcibly  rips  the  Adamantium  from  Wolverine’s  bones.  After  Logan  nearly  dies  and  they  return  to  earth,  he  discovers  that  his  claws  are  in  fact  Bone.  Stories  in  this  verse  will  follow  his  difficult  journey  to  manage  his  advancing  mutation  and  the  new  vulnerabilities  of  his  body  without  the  unbreakable  metal.

An  Avenger  Now  (New  Avengers  Verse):  Timestamp  following  when  Logan  joins  the  New  Avengers  at  the  Behest  of  Tony  Stark.  This  verse  serves  as  a  catchall  for  his  interactions  with  other  Avengers  (both  616  and  MCU).

Madripoor  Lowtown  Lights:  Timestamp  Verse  for  the  period  in  which  Logan  spent  undercover  in  Madripoor  as  Patch,  co-owner  of  the  Princess  Bar  and  spy  infiltrating  the  underground  crime  network  run  by  Roche.

Days  of  Future  Past  Verse:  The  Alternate  Future  Verse  for  Wolverine  in  the  Days  of  Future  Past  comics.  North  America  has  been  taken  over  by  Sentinels,  which  keep  mutants  as  prisoners  in  concentration  camps.  Logan  has  evaded  capture  and serves  as  a  colonel  in  the  Canadian  Resistance  Army.  He  aids  a  time  traveling  Kitty  Pryde  in  liberating  his  fellow  X-Men  and  attempting  to  stop  the  reign  of  the  Sentinels.  May  combine  elements  from  the  DOFP  film. 

Old  Man  Logan:  Alternate  Verse  specific  to  Old  Man  Logan,  both  in  his  own  world  and  when  he  crosses  over  into  616  universe

More  than  a  Weapon  (Weapon  X  Verse):  Timestamp  verse  for  the  Early  Days  of  Logan’s  memories,  back  when  he  still  was  known  only  as  Weapon  X  and  struggled  to  grasp  his  humanity.

It's  Adamantium  Tasting  Time;  Boys!  (X-Men  TAS  Verse):  A  verse  specific  to  the  events  of  X-Men:  The  Animated  Series,  as  well  as  X-Men  '92

What’s  a  Magneto?  (Fox/MCU  X-Films  Verse):  A  universe  for  the  blending  of  MCU  and  the  Fox  made  X-Men  Films.  This  verse  is  generally  for  RP  partners  who  are  solely  MCU  or  Fox  Franchise  based.

[micahdotgov]

what is it with tony roche and the price of milk