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Humph Warden Bennett

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Worst TV Comedy Series of all time
« on: October 20, 2018, 12:24:06 PM »
I have never quite decided as to Bottle Boys (crude, stereotypical, and outdated even for it's time) is actually worse than Thompson (pretentious luvvies trying to show how clever and versatile they all are). I am not making a poll since doubtless many others will be suggested :D
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Re: Worst TV Comedy Series of all time
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2018, 12:49:21 PM »
Love thy Neighbour and Curry and Chips.
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Re: Worst TV Comedy Series of all time
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2018, 01:01:38 PM »
Quote from: Humph Warden Bennett on October 20, 2018, 12:24:06 PM
I have never quite decided as to Bottle Boys (crude, stereotypical, and outdated even for it's time) is actually worse than Thompson (pretentious luvvies trying to show how clever and versatile they all are).
Thompson. Yes I suppose there is a case for mentioning the horror that was televised showing off from 'Peter's friends'...that film could have been called Thompson-the movie.
Your description absolutely nails the nadir of BBC comedy.
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Re: Worst TV Comedy Series of all time
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2018, 01:07:40 PM »
Quote from: Sebastian Toe on October 20, 2018, 12:49:21 PM
Love thy Neighbour and Curry and Chips.

From a 2018 perspective, it could be argued that Love Thy Neighbour is sexist, since it is only the male characters who are depicted as the unpleasant bigots!

I remember Spike being interviewed on tv, he said that he had mixed feelings about Curry and Chips, since he had liked most of the Pakistani people whom he had met in real life.

Nowadays I am sure that some would object to Spike's daft "Pakistani Daleks" sketch, although part of the joke is that the sketch has nothing to do with Pakistanis.

https://youtu.be/C0n88tZQc4Q?t=46s
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Re: Worst TV Comedy Series of all time
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2018, 01:47:18 PM »
I have just remembered Hello Cheeky, that was rather bad as well, although perhaps corny rather than painful (see what I did there?(!)
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Re: Worst TV Comedy Series of all time
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2018, 02:49:04 PM »
It must be a very personal thing because I can't, for the life of me, understand why they kept recommissioning Mrs Brown's Boys. Also Two Pints of Lager is about as funny as removing your own appendix with a hacksaw blade.

Also, any comedy set in Liverpool except The Liver Birds.
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« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2018, 03:27:40 PM »
Prince Among Men. And there was something with a woman who just said 'Phenomenal' over and over like it was some kind of highly amusing catchphrase. Watched about three minutes of both.
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« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2018, 04:11:13 PM »
Quote from: jeremyp on October 20, 2018, 02:49:04 PM
It must be a very personal thing because I can't, for the life of me, understand why they kept recommissioning Mrs Brown's Boys. Also Two Pints of Lager is about as funny as removing your own appendix with a hacksaw blade.

Also, any comedy set in Liverpool except The Liver Birds.

I have never understood the appeal of Mrs Browns Boys An ugly man in drag somehow gets away with making fun out of Irish women.

FTR I did meet Splodgenessabounds,  in 1980. They are from the posh semi rural village of Keston, rather than the hard sarf larndon that they claim to be from.

I do not care for Liverpool. And YES I have been there.
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Re: Worst TV Comedy Series of all time
« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2018, 04:30:26 PM »
Quote from: Rhiannon on October 20, 2018, 03:27:40 PM
Prince Among Men. And there was something with a woman who just said 'Phenomenal' over and over like it was some kind of highly amusing catchphrase. Watched about three minutes of both.

It was a good premise, but a bad script. With better writers it could have been amusing.

I recall the real life situation which involved cheap porn baron David Sullivan teaming up with his sidekick Karren Brady and taking over Birmingham FC. Brum City played  Fifth Division Macclesfield Town.. and lost.

Sullivan & his rather nasty chums had organised champers for the board, expecting a victory over National League opponents. Karren tried her best, asking Mr Sullivan "Any other surprise results?".....Sullivan, obviously embarrassed, replied "Er......No...."
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Re: Worst TV Comedy Series of all time
« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2018, 04:44:47 PM »
There was a spectacularly dire series starring the lovely Mollie Sugden set aboard a spaceship. You read that right. However I cant remember its name. Even the redoubtable Mollie couldn't save it.
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Re: Worst TV Comedy Series of all time
« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2018, 06:25:21 PM »
'Come back Mrs Noah' is the one with Mollie Sugden in a spaceship.

I don't know most of the above mentioned comedies, never saw Bottle Boys or Thompson but think I might have liked 'Thompson', or tried to, as I liked Emma Thompson at that time.

Mrs Browns Boys, on the few occasions I've seen it, has had me splitting my sides with laughter.
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Re: Worst TV Comedy Series of all time
« Reply #11 on: October 20, 2018, 06:29:45 PM »
Quote from: Robbie on October 20, 2018, 06:25:21 PM

Mrs Browns Boys, on the few occasions I've seen it, has had me splitting my sides with laughter.
It has me splitting my sides with an angle grinder.
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« Reply #12 on: October 20, 2018, 06:53:59 PM »
All in the best possible taste.
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« Reply #13 on: October 20, 2018, 08:05:05 PM »
I'd completely forgotten Thompson. I dimly remember her doing dance routines. Or am I imagining that? Big gig, a self-titled show on the Beeb, considering that her acting career hadn't really taken off then.

I like Em.

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Re: Worst TV Comedy Series of all time
« Reply #14 on: October 20, 2018, 08:55:42 PM »
Last of the Summer Wine and The Cosby Show - both humour-free zones.
Septic Toe mentioned 'Curry and Chips': I quite liked that.
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Re: Worst TV Comedy Series of all time
« Reply #15 on: October 21, 2018, 06:11:08 AM »
Nothing wrong with Last Of The Summer Wine, though it shouldn't have gone on for as long as it did.
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« Reply #16 on: October 21, 2018, 09:30:49 AM »
Seems so often to be the way with comedy, they outstay their welcome. Even My Family ended up pants, but it was ok when it first started.
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« Reply #17 on: October 21, 2018, 09:36:45 AM »
True, very true.
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Re: Worst TV Comedy Series of all time
« Reply #18 on: October 21, 2018, 09:58:33 AM »
There was a series called Brighton Belles in the early 1990's: a UK version of the US 'Golden Girls' which was spectacularly awful apart from one element - this was having Jean Boht (best known for 'Bread') giving us the worst attempt at a Scottish accent I've ever heard.

It was the only thing about it that was funny, albeit excruciatingly so.
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Re: Worst TV Comedy Series of all time
« Reply #19 on: October 21, 2018, 12:36:06 PM »
Quote from: ad_orientem on October 21, 2018, 06:11:08 AM
Nothing wrong with Last Of The Summer Wine, though it shouldn't have gone on for as long as it did.
Apparently it continues as "The Grand Tour".
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Re: Worst TV Comedy Series of all time
« Reply #20 on: October 21, 2018, 12:38:43 PM »
Quote from: ad_orientem on October 21, 2018, 06:11:08 AM
Nothing wrong with Last Of The Summer Wine, though it shouldn't have gone on for as long as it did.


It was quite amusing when it first started, but you are correct about it going on for too long.
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Re: Worst TV Comedy Series of all time
« Reply #21 on: October 21, 2018, 12:56:49 PM »
Quote from: Rhiannon on October 21, 2018, 09:30:49 AM
Seems so often to be the way with comedy, they outstay their welcome. Even My Family ended up pants, but it was ok when it first started.
Yes, no. Everybody in my family has always found that totally unfunny. One time at a family gathering, it was announced as coming up o the telly and my Mum said "that's really good". Everybody else looked at her in surprised. She noticed the deathly silence and then tried to fill it by saying "yes, the children are really funny, especially the little girl.... oh, wait, I'm thinking of Outnumbered.."

For the record, I have never understood the acclaim that was heaped on The Royle Family. Comedy is quite personal.
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Re: Worst TV Comedy Series of all time
« Reply #22 on: October 21, 2018, 01:03:01 PM »
Quote from: Littleroses on October 21, 2018, 12:38:43 PM

It was quite amusing when it first started, but you are correct about it going on for too long.

I have a memory of quite liking it when I was a child. But I couldn't watch an episode of it now, probably even some of the early episodes with the originalish cast, sadly all dead now.
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Re: Worst TV Comedy Series of all time
« Reply #23 on: October 21, 2018, 02:41:25 PM »
We enjoyed the original Dad's Army series, but thought the remake was absolutely hopeless, they should have left well alone.
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« Reply #24 on: October 21, 2018, 04:44:12 PM »
Quote from: Littleroses on October 21, 2018, 02:41:25 PM
We enjoyed the original Dad's Army series, but thought the remake was absolutely hopeless, they should have left well alone.
I take it you mean the recent film. I agree. Sumptuous sets and costumes, and a real feel of the period, but laughs were a bit thin on the ground.
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