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Post by bicesteryellow on Oct 27, 2014 20:54:25 GMT
Citizen Khan is better but your point is absolutely correct. I think Mrs Brown appeals to people who just like to hear swearing on TV. Disagree- Citizen Khan is the worst thing I have ever seen. Mrs Browns boys is a teeny bit less shit. Ooh it's a tough call. I'd rather watch Citizen Kahn based on the fact that taking a chainsaw to my hand is less painful than taking a chainsaw to my bollocks.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2014 21:19:31 GMT
taking a chainsaw to my hand is less painful than taking a chainsaw to my bollocks. How do you know? I'm amazed that either Mrs Brown's Boys or Citizen Khan are classed as comedies, alongside The Office, 2012, The Thick of It and so many others. They demean the genre.
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Post by bicesteryellow on Oct 27, 2014 21:21:32 GMT
taking a chainsaw to my hand is less painful than taking a chainsaw to my bollocks. How do you know? I'm amazed that either Mrs Brown's Boys or Citizen Khan are classed as comedies, alongside The Office, 2012, The Thick of It and so many others. They demean the genre. I would agree with you there. The main problem here lies with the English language. Do we have a word for these sorts of things (keep it clean, we're a family forum)?
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Post by Gary Baldi on Oct 28, 2014 13:36:21 GMT
Citizen Khan is awful. Embarrassingly so. It's the sort of comedy that should be condemned to the 1970s. Rickey Gervais can be funny, but he needs someone to round off some of his edges to keep it focussed. The stuff he did with Pilkington and Merchant is very funny. I did enjoy The Thick Of It. Very cleverly written but I would think it goes over some people's heads.
Frank Skinner is still very quick and funny. Don't get Mickey Flanagan at all. Get behind the cockney geezer stuff and it's just meh. Lee Hurst is still funny but tours little. Dave Gorman is very clever but I can see why people wouldn't find it funny.
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Post by bicesteryellow on Oct 28, 2014 13:37:50 GMT
Citizen Khan is awful. Embarrassingly so. It's the sort of comedy that should be condemned to the 1970s. Rickey Gervais can be funny, but he needs someone to round off some of his edges to keep it focussed. The stuff he did with Pilkington and Merchant is very funny. I did enjoy The Thick Of It. Very cleverly written but I would think it goes over some people's heads. Frank Skinner is still very quick and funny. Don't get Mickey Flanagan at all. Get behind the cockney geezer stuff and it's just meh. Lee Hurst is still funny but tours little. Dave Gorman is very clever but I can see why people wouldn't find it funny. Dave Gorman has no punch lines. He just explains things. It can be funny, but on his show it does get a bit repetitive.
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Post by Gary Baldi on Oct 28, 2014 13:48:02 GMT
It's very clever stuff but stuff like Found Poems aren't funny anymore. But to be fair comedy nowadays is going away from punchlines.
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Post by bicesteryellow on Oct 30, 2014 8:33:35 GMT
I watched Dara Ó Briain last night and it was one of the funniest things I've watched
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Post by Boogaloo on Oct 30, 2014 10:18:12 GMT
I quite like watching The Last Leg with Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker. Other comedians which make me laugh are Kevin Bridges, Jason Manfold, Sean Lock and Rhod Gilbert.
Johhny Vegas, Joe Wilkinson, Rich Hall and Reginald D Hunter are the least funny comedians on TV.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 10:23:59 GMT
Sarah Millican. Eurgh.
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Post by SteMerritt on Oct 30, 2014 11:05:57 GMT
Is that your climax shout?
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Post by bicesteryellow on Oct 30, 2014 11:09:07 GMT
I quite like watching The Last Leg with Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker. Other comedians which make me laugh are Kevin Bridges, Jason Manfold, Sean Lock and Rhod Gilbert. Johhny Vegas, Joe Wilkinson, Rich Hall and Reginald D Hunter are the least funny comedians on TV. Who's the annoying UKIP one that called Mock the Week "liberal backslapping"?
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Post by bicesteryellow on Oct 30, 2014 11:09:32 GMT
Is that your climax shout? Ste! Family forum!
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Post by saddletramp on Oct 30, 2014 19:40:53 GMT
Idiot abroad is absolutely hilarious, best thing on TV in years in my opinion Do really think anyone is that thick ? its made up. Even if it isn't,series 1,we send an idiot abroad and let people take the p*ss out of him, series 2 ditto, series 3 ditto, im sure they are filming series 4 as we speak. It was like the royal family, "my arse" the audience falls about laughing, series 2 "my arse" audience falls about, series 3, 4, 5, Talk about flogging a dead horse. Give me Porridge anyday,30 years old,i know all the punchlines,yet I still crease up,puts all this modern crap to shame.
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Post by Gary Baldi on Oct 30, 2014 21:53:54 GMT
Listen to the XFM program and the podcasts. Karl Pilkington cannot be scripted and at times is that "thick" or naïve. You can prod him in directions and script scenarios for him to face as they did on an Idiot Abroad, but that bloke is so wooden with a script, it stood out a mile on Derek.
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Post by Common Villager on Oct 30, 2014 23:08:55 GMT
The animated Ricky Gervais Show was very funny too. I saw Michael McIntyre in Didcot recently and he was funnier than I expected. It was one of those warm up gigs and I actually found his off the cuff stuff funnier than his jokes. I like Sean Lock, Lee Mack and Kevin Bridges. I also like most of Gervais' stuff other than his stand up. The Office, Extras, the XFM podcasts, The Ricky Gervais show and An Idiot Abroad are all great pieces of work. Life's too short is not so good, and I'm undecided on Derek (on both whether or not I like it and what its really supposed to be). Is it sexist to say that a rarely find female comedians funny? I won't go as far as Christopher Hitchens in saying that women are not funny, but I honestly can't say that I've ever really laughed that much at any comediennes. (To level it up there are a lot of comedians that I don't find funny either!!) If someone on here knows of any particularly funny comediennes please let me know because I don't like admitting that I don't know any! BTW, what is it that people don't like about The Office? I agree with Unification that its one of the best sit-coms of all time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAW8Tzt28Ts
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Post by bacon on Oct 31, 2014 0:47:16 GMT
Idiot abroad is absolutely hilarious, best thing on TV in years in my opinion Do really think anyone is that thick ? its made up. Even if it isn't,series 1,we send an idiot abroad and let people take the p*ss out of him, series 2 ditto, series 3 ditto, im sure they are filming series 4 as we speak. It was like the royal family, "my arse" the audience falls about laughing, series 2 "my arse" audience falls about, series 3, 4, 5, Talk about flogging a dead horse. Give me Porridge anyday,30 years old,i know all the punchlines,yet I still crease up,puts all this modern crap to shame. Nah, sorry, you're wrong
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Post by sazzle on Oct 31, 2014 9:07:35 GMT
I watched Dara Ó Briain last night and it was one of the funniest things I've watched We saw him once and I cried with laughter. It is not often I laugh out loud at jokes.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 31, 2014 9:30:57 GMT
BTW, what is it that people don't like about The Office? Personally, it's Ricky Gervais. He's a smug pillock who pretends that being a smug pillock is an act, when it patently isn't! He thinks he is hilarious, I think he is hugely over-rated. I know I'm in a minority. For me, The Office is just the comedy of embarrassment (which I find toe-curling) and as for that 'Derek' thing - what on earth is that all about? As well as being appallingly badly acted by Gervais, it's tasteless and unfunny in the extreme. I once went to a radio recording of the 30 minute Lee Mack Radio Show. It took about three hours, with him continually reducing the other members of the cast (as well as the audience) to hysterical laughter by going off-piste, improvising off-the-cuff and interacting with the audience. For me, that was comedy. But then (as this thread shows) comedy is extremely subjective. We don't all enjoy the same music, food etc - why should comedy be any different? And that's not even necessarily just the person, it can be the situation. Graham Norton in Father Ted as an extremely annoying priest - funny. Graham Norton as an extremely annoying chat show host - awful.
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Post by amarillo on Oct 31, 2014 9:42:50 GMT
Mackenzie Crooks new series the Detectorists is very good
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Post by Paul Cannell on Oct 31, 2014 10:02:08 GMT
Give me Porridge anyday,30 years old,i know all the punchlines,yet I still crease up,puts all this modern crap to shame. Thank god. I've been reading this thread off & on and wondering who all these people are, with no desire to find out; the few I do know make me cringe. Apart from Porridge, the comedy programmes I've really liked are: Dad's Army, re-runs of Harold Lloyd, about 5 minutes out of the combined works of WC Fields and Mae West (same person) and Chris Morris' news vehicle, the name of which escapes me. The only contemporary comic who I predict will stand head and shoulders above today's pygmies is the acting Prime Minister, Comedy Dave. I'm really looking forward to the 2016 series in which he plays a public school headmaster, slightly louche, ineffectual and red-faced - bewildered that nobody loves him.
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Post by bigfella72 on Oct 31, 2014 10:08:36 GMT
Chuckle Brothers all day long!! To me, to you!
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Post by unification on Oct 31, 2014 10:09:16 GMT
The animated Ricky Gervais Show was very funny too. I saw Michael McIntyre in Didcot recently and he was funnier than I expected. It was one of those warm up gigs and I actually found his off the cuff stuff funnier than his jokes. I like Sean Lock, Lee Mack and Kevin Bridges. I also like most of Gervais' stuff other than his stand up. The Office, Extras, the XFM podcasts, The Ricky Gervais show and An Idiot Abroad are all great pieces of work. Life's too short is not so good, and I'm undecided on Derek (on both whether or not I like it and what its really supposed to be). Is it sexist to say that a rarely find female comedians funny? I won't go as far as Christopher Hitchens in saying that women are not funny, but I honestly can't say that I've ever really laughed that much at any comediennes. (To level it up there are a lot of comedians that I don't find funny either!!) If someone on here knows of any particularly funny comediennes please let me know because I don't like admitting that I don't know any! BTW, what is it that people don't like about The Office? I agree with Unification that its one of the best sit-coms of all time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAW8Tzt28TsKarl Pilkington definitely isn’t an act. He’s got a sense of comic timing and maybe isn’t as ‘thick’ as made out, but he’s not scripted. Nearly 100 live XFM shows will tell you that. As with Gervais, he needs a counterweight to reel him in or else he does get overly egotistical and above his station which is why I’ve always rated Stephen Merchant as the funnier of the two. His stand up is funnier, he’s quick and witty on the XFM shows and podcasts and his sitcom ‘Hello Ladies’ was not without its flaws but miles better than the sugar-coated, laugh-free ‘Derek’ from Gervais. I’m inclined to believe that their one miss when writing together with ‘Life’s Too Short’ (an idea that just didn’t have enough material to motor anywhere – a lot of the scenarios felt like stuff that was written for ‘Extras’ and then discarded for not being funny enough) was more of a Gervais run project since Merchant did little in the way of press on it. Here’s hoping they can write something worthy together at some point. The best comedies in my view are the ones that stop at the right time. Three series of Porridge, two of The Office and Extras, two of Fawlty Towers. The American idea of success for a sitcom is how many seasons you can run it for, the UK mark of success is quality, longevity and classic moments. I’ll always praise a great comedy that gives us a load of great moments and then knows when to stop.
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Post by unification on Oct 31, 2014 10:11:04 GMT
Chuckle Brothers all day long!! To me, to you! Sad as it is to admit, they’ve always made me laugh! Chris Wilder even gets a mention in one episode (the one where Paul and Barry get a chance to play for Rotherham)!
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Post by bigfella72 on Nov 2, 2014 19:30:53 GMT
Best comedian ever has to be baldy!
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Post by stevegilbert on Nov 2, 2014 20:48:21 GMT
It is great looking back and remembering how great porridge, Dad's Army and Blackadder were. Unfortunately I don't think there will be anything done as good as them since.
I also enjoyed shows like Last of the Summer Wine and One Foot in a Grave.
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Post by unification on Nov 2, 2014 21:03:04 GMT
Give me Porridge anyday,30 years old,i know all the punchlines,yet I still crease up,puts all this modern crap to shame. Chris Morris' news vehicle, the name of which escapes me. The Day Today and/or Brass Eye? Still genius today. The latest Question Time had Owen Paterson making the point that the middle classes know how to take drugs in a more civilised and orderly way than the less economically advantaged. Chris Morris wrote that - as a gag - almost 20 years ago! Anyways, I'm off to find myself some yellow bentines. I just don't want my arms to feel like a couple of fortnights in a bad balloon ...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2014 22:10:42 GMT
There's a terrific sitcom about six chums who hang out together in the New York City
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