not since you rang my lord or that dreadful jasper carrot sitcom has there been such a dreary bunch of lazy dumb pointless comedy
on which channel itv or bbc 1 ........no
bbc 3 and ch 4
yes the people who brought you the mighty boosh, nathan barley, peep show, it crowd, spaced, garth marenghi, look around you, big train and jam bring you
... blunder,
unorigional un funny characters spouting jokes you could write in an afternoon then throw out as you realise they are lazy ,turgid and frankly embarrasing. and it wasn't alone
is it or has the last year flight of new comedy been all turkeys
new comedy has hit a real stock, atken and waterman phase, bland, repetitive and tacky
Never was a show more aptly named than Blunder But Mitchel & Webbs' show earlier this year was good (not great, but still good). And I'm enjoying 'Pulling' on BBC3. With "The worst xmas of my life" and the xmas episode of Green Wing to look forward to its not all bad, though admittidly it could be a lot better.
i agree that this show is a poor excuse for comedy. it has very poor comedic qualities and is simply vile. how can they honestly believe that a man prancing around in a dressing gown and y-fronts, with his giblets dangling from the side, making a poor attemp at what he believes can be portrayed as karate, be funny in any way?
the sketches have no structure ane there is no story behind them. other similar shows like an old favourite of mine, 'harry enfield and friends', had great stories behind them. even little britain has stories behind their skits.
i feel that this show should be removed from our screens and something more worthiwhile put in its place.
Blunder was absolutely awful! i didn't even make it through the first episode!
i think ive complained about it before on here, but ah well!
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I've got to say that a vast majority of comedy in the last 10 years has been boring, unfunny drivel. For eg. sitcoms With the exception of The Office, there has not been ONE comedy show in the last 10-12 years that has been anywhere near as funny as shows like Porridge, Only Fools and Horses, Fawlty Towers, Are You Being Served, Rising Damp, Blackadder etc.
Sketch Shows People rave on about Little Britain as if its the funniest thing ever but to be honest it's not a patch on sketch shows like Not The Nine O'Clock News, Hale and Pace and Monty Python. These sketch shows had far more imagination to them than LB. The trouble with LB is that it uses the same characters over and over and over again. The older sketch shows had different characters in almost every sketch. I know Hale and Pace had 'Billy and Johnny' and the 'Two Ronns' but they didn't use them in every other bloody sketch.
It's too easy to assume that we are in some kind of comedy lull, remember that for every steptoe and son, there were twenty "i'm home darling" sitcoms.
nothing changes. okay i grew tired of the one joke that was the office quite quickly, but there's been black books, the mighty boosh, green wing, league of gentlemen, father ted and probably some more that actually had some life in them for a short while.
as for little britain, sketch shows rarely sustain their keen edge for very long, because they're dependent on the same characters doing the same thing, the "pleasure" to be had is from seeing how far they can stretch those characters.
not the nine o clock news was one of the first to do very topical mixed with self-referential stuff, but they could fall into several camps at will, political, silly and parody. there were sketches that seemed lifted directly from the monty python reject pile. not the nine o clock news also did self-referencing stuff about television. it was of it's time and could not be repeated successfully these days.
Personally i think that Not the nine o'clock news could work today. Obviously i don't mean with the same sketches, i mean they used to take the mick out politicians of the time like Thatcher, Reagan etc. You could quite easily have a sketch show today that takes the mick out of todays MP's. They'd have a field day with John Prescott. Not all of the Not.. sketches were taking the mick out of MP's. Who can forget 'Gerald the gorilla'. That has got to be one of the funniest sketches of all time.
