The sad state of UK *comedy* TV, nowadays.
Mandy Lifeboats
"repeat-channels" such as UK Gold, UK Gold 2, Paramount & (not forgetting)
New-Labour's very own BBC1 & 2 , to find any decent comedy.
Classics like Monty Python, Reginald Perrin, Absolutely, One Foot in The
Grave, Vic Reeve's Big Night Out & The Goodies are ,sadly, long gone ...
though still funny, today.
Admittedly, we do still have a few REALLY good comedy shows, but they are
far out-numbered by the crass, unfunny, dumbed-down & politically-correct
pap that is paraded as *comedy*.
The League of Gentlemen, Monkey Dust ( grossly UNDERrated & hilariously
funny), Early Doors, Phoenix Nights, The Office, Time Gentlemen Please,
Shameless & Two Pints of Lager ..... have been our few saving-graces, of
late. There was also a program called "Honky Sausages" (VERY, very funny)
shown ONCE, a couple of years ago ... on BBC2 I think, which I managed to
record a couple of episodes of. When I contacted the BBC's merchandise
web-pages, they told me that the show had not been *comissioned* (???!!) &
that it was not available on CD or video. Some looney-leftie, P-C, BBC,
Bliarite crony obviously having a hand in that particular prog's demise.
So .... what are we left with, today ......
Little Britain.
This has probably got to be the WORST offender of all. Little more than a
pseudo-funny attempt at celebrating sodomites. Watched once, it maight raise
a smile. However, watching the same two UNfunny *men* portraying the same
half-a-dozen or so UNfunny characters, with little or ZERO variation of
sketch theme .... it's nauseatingly awful. The short, fat slaphead was NOT
funny , when ruining a decent show like Shooting Stars ... & his fellow
UNfunny (closet ... soon to be *outed*) sausage-jockey is about as funny as
a wet weekend in Grimsby. Axe the show & hand the pair of these pathetic
saveloy-slurpers over for a *private-audience* with Robert Mugabe (&
henchmen), please.
The Fast Show
Total & utter toss. Some half-decent comics completely wasted on VERY
poorly written drivel. The show is second only to Little Britain in it's
complete naffness. Given the choice of watching an entire series of this
dross & spending a fortnight trapped in a lift with Abu Hamza, I'd take the
latter. Threw a party after it was announced that this crap had aired it's
last episode ... shame it's being repeated.
Keeping Up Appearances
Just AWFUL. To see the UNfunny *Bucket* woman strapped to a jumbo-sized
pack of charcoal & parachuted onto an island inhabited solely by starving
cannibals would make great "reality-TV" & would be worth paying the licence
fee for, alone.
Dinnerladies.
Feeble, bland at best, attempt at comedy ... using third-rate has-beens on
a low-budget, never-changing *stage*. Very, very weak.
The Thin Blue Line
The Bill in drag. This has got to represent the lowest point of Mr. Bean's
career. Watered-down, age-old Benny Hill type gags & character who's only
role is mincing around, playing understudy to Atkinson. Surely, just being
a faggot is NOT a comedy "attribute" ? This awful *actor* then went on to
make an equally forgetable excuse of a comedy series, with Kathy Burke. So
bad, that I cannot include it, here, as I've forgotten it's title already.
Vicar of Dibley.
See also Father Ted .... a total waste of time & effort. Bland, UNfunny
pap. The show could have been truthfully called a comedy, had they used a
TALENTED comedienne .... instead of Dawn French.
Drop the Dead Donkey
I cannot understand, for the life of me, how this program can have any
regular viewers. It's supposedly *comedy*, but I've watched it a few times
.... & it is NOT in the slightest bit funny. It's repeated again & again ,
but it is, in itself, a *Dead Donkey* ... that should have been dropped a
long time ago.
The Kumars at 42.
One genuinely funny sketch, years ago (*going for an English*) ...... apart
from that, the show is an unfunny, P-C, British-Empire-Apologist's attempt
at humour. The only reason that it's FORCED upon our screens ... is the same
reason, in reverse, that we are NOT allowed to see repeats of the
classicly-funny Love Thy Neighbour. Bliar's nanny-state in control of the
BBC & national media.
The Royle family.
This has had it's funny moments, but very few. Launching pad for the funny
Ralf Little .... but, an entire series based around half-a-dozen couch
potatoes watching television & discussing what they're going to have *for
tea* (interspersed with fart / arse gags) doesn't, in my book, make for
compelling viewing.
Absolutely Fabulous
Very watchable. Two rarities .... GOOD comediennes. ...... & Joanna Lumley
just seems to get MORE gorgeous, as she gets older. Jennifer Saunders has
proved to be a great entertainer, since ditching her porker of a partner.
Julia Sawalha plays a good part, also .... but her character is nowhere near
as good as the one she played in Time Gentlemen Please.
Red Dwarf
Couldn't get my head around what went wrong with this series. The first
3 - 4 series were brilliant. Bought the vids as soon as they were available
& used to watch them over & over. But, ironically ... after the first few
series ( starting with "The End") it seemed to go down. After series 5, I
just didn't find it as funny anymore. Maybe the writers changed ?
A Bit of Fry & Laurie.
This WAS good. Nice to see it being repeated again. Shame that they had
to waste their talents, though, on the UNfunny tripe that was "Jeeves &
Wooster". Absolute toss. How these two have differed, following a Bit of
...... eh ?! Laurie now enjoying huge success over the pond .... whereas
the self-important "please-love-me" pseudo-intellectual, nancy-boy , well
... nuff said.
jon_ke...@yahoo.co.uk
Mandy Lifeboats wrote:
> It's a pity that, nowadays, one has to keep flicking through the
> "repeat-channels" such as UK Gold, UK Gold 2, Paramount & (not forgetting)
> New-Labour's very own BBC1 & 2 , to find any decent comedy.
>
>
> Little Britain.
> Keeping Up Appearances
> The Thin Blue Line
> Vicar of Dibley.
> The Kumars at 42.
> The Royle family.
> Absolutely Fabulous
All these were/are pretty good at the very least IMO. Absolutely
Fabulous and Little Britain are two of my all-time favourite shows, and
The Fast Show definitely had it's moments.
It's true there is little on offer, comedy-wise, these days. Given that
all of the above shows are on the BBC must say something - you decide
what! But the better comedy-based shows on terrestrial TV seem to come
from Channel 4 - they have given us Teachers, Peep Show and, more
recently, Green Wing, (three of) the best shows of the last five years
with comedy elements. With the returns of Green Wing and Peep Show not
too far off, there is still some decent comedy in the pipeline.
CJ
<peg.d...@washingline.net> wrote:
>It's a pity that, nowadays, one has to keep flicking through the
>"repeat-channels" such as UK Gold, UK Gold 2, Paramount & (not forgetting)
>New-Labour's very own BBC1 & 2 , to find any decent comedy.
>
>Classics like Monty Python, Reginald Perrin, Absolutely, One Foot in The
>Grave, Vic Reeve's Big Night Out & The Goodies are ,sadly, long gone ...
>though still funny, today.
>
I think you're looking at things through rose tinted specs. Great
comedy has always been sparse over the last 35 years (the period I can
remember). There has never been a time when the schedules are
choc-a-bloc with marvelous shows. Every year you still get something
fantastic - this year it was "The Thick of it" for me.
I'm sick of people whinging that things aren't as good as the old days
which is effectively your point. You list shows over a 25 year period
forgetting all the crap that was on between them.
Don't tell me - things were better when Thatch was running things.
Still, you've got the classic comedy DVDs that come with your copy of
the Daily Mail.
Mandy Lifeboats
"CJ" <c...@cjs.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 14:20:02 GMT, "Mandy Lifeboats"
> <peg.d...@washingline.net> wrote:
> something
> fantastic - this year it was "The Thick of it" for me.
>
Never even heard of it .... SO, it must be good, eh ?!!
Bet you aren't even intelligent enough to understand the genuis that
is "Monkey Dust", anyway. ..... or Early Doors / Shameless, 4 that matter ?
> I'm sick of people whinging that things aren't as good as the old days
> which is effectively your point.>
Truth hurts ?
> Don't tell me - things were better when Thatch was running things.
>
Of course they were. The tories now need somebody with ethics & morals,
like
good old Norman Tebbit, steering them back into power. Phoney Bliar is
obsessed
with importing crime & poverty ... as if we didn't have enough already. And
now the
moron wants to throw BILLIONS of our taxes at unevolved savages, in Africa.
> Still, you've got the classic comedy DVDs that come with your copy of
> the Daily Mail.>
Daily Mail ?? .... U R joking. I never buy that left-wing rag. The
BNP's
literature is MUCH more enlightening & truthful, than ANY of the govt. run
tabloid rags in the newsagent's, nowadays.
HTH.
Covenant
"Mandy Lifeboats" <peg.d...@washingline.net> wrote in message
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>There was also a program called "Honky Sausages" (VERY, very funny)
> shown ONCE,
Was this the thing that had *Old Mo* from Eastenders in it?
Slightly younger looking and with a kinda punky-dyke haircut??
I taped that by mistake, and I think I just taped over it as I'm
transferring all my old vids to DVD!
--
Covenant
A Man With Far Too Much Time On His Hands
Covenant
> Don't tell me - things were better when Thatch was running things.
Things were Funnier under Thatcher because we had that whole regime to rebel
against.
Mandy Lifeboats
"Covenant" <covenantWIT...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > Was this the thing that had *Old Mo* from Eastenders in it?
> Slightly younger looking and with a kinda punky-dyke haircut??
>
Yes, that's right. It was a funny series, but a *one-off*. Doubt we'll
ever get to see it again.
Mandy Lifeboats
> > Things were Funnier under Thatcher because we had that whole regime to
rebel
> against.
>
I thought we were MUCH better off under Maggie.
Scrap the council-tax & replace it with the poll-tax, anyday !
:-)
The Doctor
Absolutely pathetic!!
It makes American Comedy look like Class.
>The Fast Show
>
> Total & utter toss. Some half-decent comics completely wasted on VERY
>poorly written drivel. The show is second only to Little Britain in it's
>complete naffness. Given the choice of watching an entire series of this
>dross & spending a fortnight trapped in a lift with Abu Hamza, I'd take the
>latter. Threw a party after it was announced that this crap had aired it's
>last episode ... shame it's being repeated.
>
Buggered up!
> Keeping Up Appearances
>
> Just AWFUL. To see the UNfunny *Bucket* woman strapped to a jumbo-sized
>pack of charcoal & parachuted onto an island inhabited solely by starving
>cannibals would make great "reality-TV" & would be worth paying the licence
>fee for, alone.
>
This is not that bad.
>Dinnerladies.
>
> Feeble, bland at best, attempt at comedy ... using third-rate has-beens on
>a low-budget, never-changing *stage*. Very, very weak.
>
Oh dear!
>The Thin Blue Line
>
> The Bill in drag. This has got to represent the lowest point of Mr. Bean's
>career. Watered-down, age-old Benny Hill type gags & character who's only
>role is mincing around, playing understudy to Atkinson. Surely, just being
>a faggot is NOT a comedy "attribute" ? This awful *actor* then went on to
>make an equally forgetable excuse of a comedy series, with Kathy Burke. So
>bad, that I cannot include it, here, as I've forgotten it's title already.
>
Atkinson is talent!!
>Vicar of Dibley.
>
> See also Father Ted .... a total waste of time & effort. Bland, UNfunny
>pap. The show could have been truthfully called a comedy, had they used a
>TALENTED comedienne .... instead of Dawn French.
>
She is just fat.
> Drop the Dead Donkey
>
> I cannot understand, for the life of me, how this program can have any
>regular viewers. It's supposedly *comedy*, but I've watched it a few times
>.... & it is NOT in the slightest bit funny. It's repeated again & again ,
>but it is, in itself, a *Dead Donkey* ... that should have been dropped a
>long time ago.
Media getting mocked!
Liverpool a la sci-fi.
>
>A Bit of Fry & Laurie.
>
> This WAS good. Nice to see it being repeated again. Shame that they had
>to waste their talents, though, on the UNfunny tripe that was "Jeeves &
>Wooster". Absolute toss. How these two have differed, following a Bit of
>...... eh ?! Laurie now enjoying huge success over the pond .... whereas
>the self-important "please-love-me" pseudo-intellectual, nancy-boy , well
>... nuff said.
>
>
What about Ant & Dec?
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CJ
<peg.d...@washingline.net> wrote:
>Never even heard of it .... SO, it must be good, eh ?!!
This sort of proves my point. Great comedy still comes around, but in
these days of deregulated TV you have to seach a bit harder. I would
have thought you would love it, being both subtle and concerning the
battle between a good man and the politcal system within a (New
Labour) government. You should check it out.
>
>Bet you aren't even intelligent enough to understand the genuis that
>is "Monkey Dust", anyway. ..... or Early Doors / Shameless, 4 that matter ?
>
So there is great comedy around now.
> Daily Mail ?? .... U R joking. I never buy that left-wing rag. The
>BNP's
>literature is MUCH more enlightening & truthful, than ANY of the govt. run
>tabloid rags in the newsagent's, nowadays.
>
Ah..... now I understand.
>HTH.
>
Aaron
Mandy Lifeboats wrote:
> It's a pity that, nowadays, one has to keep flicking through the
> "repeat-channels" such as UK Gold, UK Gold 2, Paramount & (not forgetting)
> New-Labour's very own BBC1 & 2 , to find any decent comedy.
>
> Classics like Monty Python, Reginald Perrin, Absolutely, One Foot in The
> Grave, Vic Reeve's Big Night Out & The Goodies are ,sadly, long gone ...
> though still funny, today.
>
> Admittedly, we do still have a few REALLY good comedy shows, but they are
> far out-numbered by the crass, unfunny, dumbed-down & politically-correct
> pap that is paraded as *comedy*.
>
> The League of Gentlemen, Monkey Dust ( grossly UNDERrated & hilariously
> funny), Early Doors, Phoenix Nights, The Office, Time Gentlemen Please,
> Shameless & Two Pints of Lager .....
*switches off*
Mandy Lifeboats
"The Doctor" <doc...@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote in message
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> > What about Ant & Dec?
>
Yer mean the pair o' talentless half-wits, PJ & Duncan ?
WTF did they EVER do to warrant being famous ?
Ian F.
> WTF did they EVER do to warrant being famous ?
They're extremely competent presenters, as well as being likeable,
personable and appealing to all ages.
Ian
Lou Scannon (Sgt. Major, retired)
"Ian F." <cisd...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> They're extremely competent presenters, as well as being likeable,
> personable and appealing to all ages.
>
>
PJ & Duncan. Pair of over-paid nancy boys. What they need is a proper job
& a damned good haircut.
Wouldn't have put up with the likes of these two, in my day.
Bring back national service, I say. Didn't do me any bally well harm ....
Willie Eckerslyke
>
>
PJ & Duncan ?
Well, my niece, Rebecca, is 4 & a half yrs old & I'm 102 tomorrow.
I think that PJ & Duncan should both be flogged, in public, to within an
inch of their lives & then MADE to watch continuous episodes of *Friends*
.... then , just as they begin vomiting & screaming for mercy, they should
be shot.
My niece, Rebecca, says that "they are a pair of w*nkers".
So that's just blown your *appealing to all ages* claptrap out of the water,
eh ?
Ian F.
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> PJ & Duncan ?
Go on then, I'll take your troll-bait! ;-) PJ and Duncan were fictional
characters. It's Ant and Dec we're talking about here.
> Well, my niece, Rebecca, is 4 & a half yrs old & I'm 102 tomorrow.
Yeah, right.
> My niece, Rebecca, says that "they are a pair of w*nkers".
Then it's her that needs some discipline - at 4 and-a-half, I never knew
such language.
> So that's just blown your *appealing to all ages* claptrap out of the
> water,
> eh ?
Not at all. It's just the two of you - and you're entitled to your opinion,
strangely disturbing though it may be.
Ian
Willie Eckerslyke
>> > My niece, Rebecca, says that "they are a pair of w*nkers".
>
> Then it's her that needs some discipline - at 4 and-a-half, I never knew
> such language.
>
Then, sir, I digress ... thou art NOT living in the REAL world.
... & it's a bally good show that you haven't conversed with Beatrice, her
younger sister.
Standards certainly must be lowering here, in Kensington, if what you claim
is true.
> > So that's just blown your *appealing to all ages* claptrap out of the
> > water,
> > eh ?
>
> Not at all. It's just the two of you - and you're entitled to your
opinion,
> strangely disturbing though it may be.
>
> Ian
>
"Just the two of you" ?
I can assure you sir, our 562 house-servants, currently manacled (off-duty)
in our cellars, would agree with OUR opinion.
mrsmillersvoicecoach
Mandy Lifeboats wrote:
Some looney-leftie, P-C, BBC,
> Bliarite crony obviously having a hand in that particular prog's demise.
think you'll find old tony hates the bbc and blair left wing?? ho ho
ho.
>
> So .... what are we left with, today ......
>
> Little Britain.
>
> This has probably got to be the WORST offender of all. Little more than a
> pseudo-funny attempt at celebrating sodomites.
i think you protest too much here?
>
> Keeping Up Appearances
not that bad.
> Dinnerladies.
>
> Feeble, bland at best, attempt at comedy ... using third-rate has-beens on
> a low-budget, never-changing *stage*. Very, very weak.
rubbish. great show.
>
> Vicar of Dibley.
>
> See also Father Ted .... a total waste of time & effort. Bland, UNfunny
> pap. The show could have been truthfully called a comedy, had they used a
> TALENTED comedienne .... instead of Dawn French.
disagree and dawn french is great at times.
>
>
> The Kumars at 42.
>
> One genuinely funny sketch, years ago (*going for an English*) ...... apart
> from that, the show is an unfunny, P-C, British-Empire-Apologist's attempt
> at humour. The only reason that it's FORCED upon our screens ... is the same
> reason, in reverse, that we are NOT allowed to see repeats of the
> classicly-funny Love Thy Neighbour. Bliar's nanny-state in control of the
> BBC & national media.
wrong show for the going for an english sketch.
kumars aren't that good but goodness gracious me was.
>
> The Royle family.
>
> This has had it's funny moments, but very few. Launching pad for the funny
> Ralf Little .... but, an entire series based around half-a-dozen couch
> potatoes watching television & discussing what they're going to have *for
> tea* (interspersed with fart / arse gags) doesn't, in my book, make for
> compelling viewing.
brilliant reminded me of my posh relatives.
>
> A Bit of Fry & Laurie.
>
> This WAS good. Nice to see it being repeated again. Shame that they had
> to waste their talents, though, on the UNfunny tripe that was "Jeeves &
> Wooster". Absolute toss. How these two have differed, following a Bit of
> ...... eh ?! Laurie now enjoying huge success over the pond .... whereas
> the self-important "please-love-me" pseudo-intellectual, nancy-boy , well
> ... nuff said.
abof&l was good.
you're a little bit too worked up about these gay guys/characters.
you remind me of my uncle who's still living with his wife but is now
called auntie thelma.
howard
> It's a pity that, nowadays, one has to keep flicking through the
> "repeat-channels" such as UK Gold, UK Gold 2, Paramount & (not forgetting)
> New-Labour's very own BBC1 & 2 , to find any decent comedy.
>
> Classics like Monty Python, Reginald Perrin, Absolutely, One Foot in The
> Grave, Vic Reeve's Big Night Out & The Goodies are ,sadly, long gone ...
> though still funny, today.
Join a new cult.
"The Crust" - 4.30pm BBC1 Mondays-Thursday
Brilliant and funny.
H.
Meeeee
>>New-Labour's very own BBC1 & 2 , to find any decent comedy.
Hmm, that whole Hutton thing passed you by completely didn't it?
Moi
:
: The Bill in drag. This has got to represent the lowest point of Mr.
Bean's
:career. Watered-down, age-old Benny Hill type gags & character who's only
:role is mincing around, playing understudy to Atkinson. Surely, just being
:a faggot is NOT a comedy "attribute" ? This awful *actor* then went on to
:make an equally forgetable excuse of a comedy series, with Kathy Burke. So
:bad, that I cannot include it, here, as I've forgotten it's title already.
Gimme Gimme Gimme and it was very funny. You missed the last show, it
turned out Linda and Tom were brother and sister. :)
Ian F.
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> Gimme Gimme Gimme and it was very funny.
That's a matter of opinion. I thought it was vulgar, puerile shite!
Ian
Covenant
mrsmillersvoicecoach
think that's what they'd hoped for.
few of my friends say that about little britain,league of
gentlemen,monkey dust....
gimme gimme had some great comic moments.
kathy burke walking past the builders site in front of the dolly bird
thinking they were all whistling at her.
if it had happened to miss jones in rising damp or olive in on the
buses folk would have rated it as a comic moment classic.
jon_ke...@yahoo.co.uk
mrsmillersvoicecoach wrote:
> think that's what they'd hoped for.
> few of my friends say that about little britain,league of
> gentlemen,monkey dust....
All good shows, different in their own ways and nothing like Gimme
Gimme Gimme, which I also liked - variety is the spice of life.
> gimme gimme had some great comic moments.
True - it wasn't given the credit it was due, people just wrote it off
because of the nature of the programme. Apparently a new series of
Gimme Gimme Gimme has/had been on the cards - anyone know about this?
Jon
Moi
camp........not so sure about the pearly shite though :)
Moll
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<1129469516....@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>.... Apparently a new
:
Jim Hawkins
political interviews*
by John Bird and John Fortune. Hilarious satire - and with a message!
Jim Hawkins
* In Rory Bremner's show