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Your Worst Five... TV "Comedy" Programmes

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  • CAFCOlly
    CAFCOlly Posts: 523
    StigThundercock said:

    Mortimerwasgod said:

    So far I'm reassured I'm not the only person who thought Friends was rubbish. I spent most of my 20's thinking I was abnormal in some way as ALL my friends obsessed about it and repeated lines/scenes. Every time I watched one (by being in the same house sometimes) I would feel like an outsider!!

    Nope, fella you were right, all those sheep were bleeting up the wrong tree.

    There was no comedy in the whole series's life, unless the prospect of a monumental bore like Ross hanging on to a very pretty but grasping vacuous bimbo like Rachel for more than a 2nd date can be considered humorous. Apart from that it relied totally on pointing, sneering and flashbacks to Courtney Cox in a woefully unconvincing fatsuit.
    There was more creativity and humour in the test card - one for the teenagers there :)
    Put the final nail in Helen Baxendale's career for sure.

    So enjoying a TV programme that so many other people enjoy now means that they're (myself included) 'sheep'?
    I guess because we all like to watch football we're all sheep as well.
    Each to their own.
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,779
    Cannot believe Porridge has got a mention. That's in my top five.

  • Gillis
    Gillis Posts: 998
    Two Pints of Larger and a Packet of Crisps
    Miranda
    Cardinal Burns
    Bo’ Selecta!
    Bad Education
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,973
    Bo Selecta was genius!
  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,299
    Pleased to see Miranda featuring heavily on these lists. She makes my shit itch!!!!
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    paulie8290 said:

    Citizen Khan
    Red Dwarf
    Benidorm
    Blackadder
    Shameless

    Paulie you do realise Shameless wasn't a comedy?

  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,958
    Some excellent shit here. One you all appear to have missed:-

    That's my boy
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    creepyaddick said:

    Mrs Browns Boys
    Mrs Browns Boys
    Mrs Browns Boys
    Mrs Browns Boys
    Mrs Browns Boys

    How can this even be put out on air, total & utter fickin shite

    I don't know how many episodes you've watched. We've caught three or four. Of those, one was very funny and one was just about alright. So I suspect the quality is variable with the gems being the exceptions.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,733
    Pretty much any of the Croft and Lloyd stuff.

    Truly awful.
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,957
    Panorama. I've watched this loads and not laughed once.
    Newsnight, on the other hand - hilarious!
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  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,295
    bolloxbolder said:

    Some excellent shit here. One you all appear to have missed:-

    That's my boy

    Amazingly they managed five series of this rubbish.

    Most ITV comedies of the 70s and 80s would comfortably fit into this list, with a few notable exceptions; I have a soft spot for On The Buses, Man About The House, George And Mildred, Please Sir and the best of the lot Rising Damp.
  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,810
    The "comedy" show with James Corden and his mate from Gavin & Stacey.

    My Family.

    Birds of a Feather.

    Anything with Lee Evans.

    Benidorm.
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    Ormiston Addick said:

    The "comedy" show with James Corden and his mate from Gavin & Stacey.

    My Family.

    Birds of a Feather.

    Anything with Lee Evans.

    Benidorm.

    Just glanced up from the laptop & the wife was watching Benidorm. That bloody Kelly Maloney is in it.
  • ashley
    ashley Posts: 531
    George and Mildred,
    Mrs Brown's Boys,
    Monty Python's Boring Public School Boy Circus,
    Last of the Summer Wine,
    First of the Summer Wine
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,254
    Just seen this

    Miranda - absolute dog shit. Glad it's over. Hopefully you can extradite yourself from mainstream entertainment, get a job in a souvenir shop or something

    The one Jasper Carrott did a few year's back with an Indian family. Think the girl was in a wheelchair or something. It was typical BBC going out their way to be PC. Guff

    In Betweeners - watched an episode, didn't get it all

    Holding the baby with Nick Hancock - you've probably never heard of it, says it all

    Little Britain - more of a sketch show I know but I was brought up on Harry Enfield and chums and The Fast Show. Walliams and Lucas weren't fit to polish their boots. It's a shame because Come Fly with Me is very funny

    Friends - yes I know that's 6 but 10 years of Lisa Kudrow going 'smelly cat', Matt le Blanc going 'how you doing' and Schwimmer going 'huh' doesn't warrant channel 4 to play it day in, day out. Utter drivel

    My Best

    Partridge - a cut above

    Office

    One Foot in the Grave - the episode when the streetlight crashes through the bedroom window is probably one of the best comedy scenes I've watched

    Only Fools - the benchmark

    Harry Enfield & Chums/Fast Show

  • ads
    ads Posts: 3,224
    Good post, add to that anything Victoria Wood has done, along with Jack Whitehall's shit sitcom
  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,255
    I loved Monty Python in it's day, and it lasted well into the eigties, but it is hugely dated to the point of being simply unfunny and painfull now (I feel like a heretic for writing that). I caught last summer's live show on TV here at christmas, and did'nt manage the thinnest of smiles.
    I have a Golden memory of a few from the late seventies, of which Rising Damp would probably be the King, but life moves on. So I'll stick down.
    Mrs Brown's boys
    Miranda
    Birds of a feather
    last of the summer wine (why do we British insist on comedy without laughter?)
  • masicat
    masicat Posts: 5,008
    The Young Ones
    Celebrity Juice
    Mrs Browns Boys
    My Family
    Miranda
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,973
    @cabbles‌ I beg you to give inbetweeners another go. The TV episodes are brilliant mate.
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,767
    edited January 2015
    If only talking sitcoms:

    Worst:
    Keeping Up Appearances (One poor joke repeated ad nauseam)
    Birds of a Feather (Grim. Badly acted. Boring)
    How I Met Your Mother (Lame as fuck. Cheesy)
    Green Green Grass (What the fuck)
    That Jack Whitehall one about a teacher (Embarrassing. Pitiful)

    There are possibly worse, but this was all I could think of off the top of my head. There are, no doubt, some sitcoms that I've subconsciously wiped from my memory, possibly in the name of sanity.
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  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,254
    ValleyGary said:

    @cabbles‌ I beg you to give inbetweeners another go. The TV episodes are brilliant mate.

    I'll try mate. It then also becomes a question of hype. Other people must get it when they don't like something, and everybody else is on the bandwagon.....
  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    I stumbled on something called Count Arthur Strong. WTF? Had to watch it all the way through to see if it was actually meant to be comedy. Apparently it is.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,217
    That's why you should always look at the TV listings they tell you whether it's a drama or comedy, it's hard to tell nowadays.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Bryan_Kynsie said:

    I stumbled on something called Count Arthur Strong. WTF? Had to watch it all the way through to see if it was actually meant to be comedy. Apparently it is.

    That's an odd one because the tv series was appalling, but the original radio ones were brilliant. It just didn't translate.
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,234

    I'll try mate. It then also becomes a question of hype. Other people must get it when they don't like something, and everybody else is on the bandwagon.....

    Exactly. I feel like this in reverse with Mrs Browns Boys. I think its terrific. Everybody else hates it.
  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,620
    Horne & Corden

    Miranda

    The Catherine Tate Show

    Little Britain

    Never the Twain


  • Braziliance
    Braziliance Posts: 8,352
    Not sure if people genuinely think of friends when they think of a comedy they don't like or they are just saying it cause most people are..never seen such dislike for friends.

    The only thing I can think of that has me cringing lately is on 8 out of 10 cats countdown, when that guy just starts singing. He can say the odd funny thing but I find it so hard to watch when he goes off on one.
  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    Most BBC 1 sitcoms are pure shite, they have always been top of the league when it comes to churning out middle of the road and safe gag merchants.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Braziliance said:

    Not sure if people genuinely think of friends when they think of a comedy they don't like or they are just saying it cause most people are..never seen such dislike for friends.

    The only thing I can think of that has me cringing lately is on 8 out of 10 cats countdown, when that guy just starts singing. He can say the odd funny thing but I find it so hard to watch when he goes off on one.

    I'm genuinely saying it, not only because it's one of the least funny programmes on tv, but because it is seemingly always being repeated. The trouble with friends as a sitcom is that it's all situation and no comedy. I understand why it appeals to people who have been in that situation or who think it would be fun to be in that situation, but I watch comedies to have a laugh and that's the one thing that Friends consistently fails to deliver.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,254
    Stig said:

    Braziliance said:

    Not sure if people genuinely think of friends when they think of a comedy they don't like or they are just saying it cause most people are..never seen such dislike for friends.

    The only thing I can think of that has me cringing lately is on 8 out of 10 cats countdown, when that guy just starts singing. He can say the odd funny thing but I find it so hard to watch when he goes off on one.

    I'm genuinely saying it, not only because it's one of the least funny programmes on tv, but because it is seemingly always being repeated. The trouble with friends as a sitcom is that it's all situation and no comedy. I understand why it appeals to people who have been in that situation or who think it would be fun to be in that situation, but I watch comedies to have a laugh and that's the one thing that Friends consistently fails to deliver.
    Excellent post

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