I'm at the in laws. This means a lot of 'light entertainment' tv.
Who the **** watches this tripe?! Heroically unfunny.
Just wondering the exact same thing myself!
My mother in law is watching it. I had to leave the room...
I'm taking a wild guess at...people who find it funny. But yes, it's a lowbrow for stw I'd say.
shhh, they'll hear you....
there is after all some sort of an alien invasion conspiracy thing going on which we are only distracted from by a mass hysteria event called miranda. when the spell is broken and we realise she is not funny, just embarassing, we will see the rulers of the earth for the lizard men they really are!
It's what I call very funny.
I like her.
Such fun! 😉
She is fantastic.
Glad I'm not the only who doesn't like her I just don't find her funny at all
same sort of folk that also find michael mcintyre funny. 😯
Nah, the difference is he isn't sexy.
Not really my thing but I think it's supposed to be family entertainment so pretty undemanding stuff. A previous programme in this category was My Hero which was far more painful. Not sure what programmes in this slot in recent years have been OK but we don't see the likes of Rising Damp, Open All Hours and Only Fools and Horses too often.
She provides a good opportunity for some folk to show how off the wall alternative they are, and tell the rest of us how boringly "normal" we are. 😐
sexy
You watching whilst wearing your Rose Iridiums or something...
How she's managed to drag 30 minutes out of one weak joke is perhaps, genius.
[i]Nah, the difference is he isn't sexy. [/i]
The only reason I watch him is for the sexiness.
A bit old school for my tastes but still mildly amusing if not verging on slapstick.
Ill be the first then, the answer is yes.
Been subjected to a few episodes of this in the past when round friends houses. To say she's not funny is a gross understatement! Painfully unfunny is more like it, I would honestly rather pull my teeth out with pliers than watch her!
Icing on the cake though for me, which sums her up so well, was when they did the Sport Relief JOGLE non stop as a team a couple of years ago. A load of celebs, in a bus, one of them at a time on the bike, took about 5 days. The likes of Paddy Kielty, Fearn Cotton and Davina McCall putting in strong performances and clocking up good average speeds and doing a good number of miles on the bike. Miranda Hart managed 45 minutes on a bike, at about 10mph, before crying her eyes out and collapsing in a heap! 45 minutes she managed, inside 5 whole days... If I was one of the other celebrities, I'd have screamed at her to do her bit!
She did a great documentary on Eric Morecombe, and having seen that you can see the influence - she's funny in a less complicated and anarchic way than a lot of other people, which is nice in this day and age
But I'm a simple soul.....
She provides a good opportunity for some folk to show how off the wall alternative they are, and tell the rest of us how boringly "normal" we are
bless ya DD
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there is after all some sort of an alien invasion conspiracy thing going on which we are only distracted from by a mass hysteria event called miranda. when the spell is broken and we realise she is not funny, just embarassing, we will see the rulers of the earth for the lizard men they really are!
This. The Guardian loves it, which illustrates a lot, I think
Not funny at all.
Where does it figure on your tazzy scale of super zany alternativeness then tazzy?
Try that mrs browns boys shite for proper "not funny, not funny at all" TV...
DrP
Love it.
Not usually my thing but really enjoy the lightness of touch and joyful scripting.
Maybe too many women being funny for some men to allow themselves to enjoy it?
I don't find her funny....but then I don't find unfunny shite very funny at all. I'm funny like that. Funny eh?
The first series was good, with some great characterisation. Sadly it's now just become too repetitive and typical sitcom reliance on the same joke(s).
Although I will say that Patricia Hodge wipes the floor with the rest of the cast.
Where does it figure on your tazzy scale of super zany alternativeness then tazzy?
excuse me?
I have different taste to you, yes, but I hadn't realised that expressing my own personal taste which may differ to the majority was a thing to be denigrated. Oh well I'll leave you "normals" in your safe little world.
A poster girl for the legions of well-connected, mediocre toffs leeching a living out of our state-funded broadcaster. She's as funny as a fire in a paediatric unit and an abhorrently physically repellent stank-monster into the bargain. The BBC's apparent mission to transform her into some kind of National Treasure makes me want to redirect my licence fee to a hitman who specialises in bumping off ungainly comediennes who have somehow got it into their heads that they can "do" slapstick.
Comedy for Colin Hunts. 👿
Oh well I'll leave you "normals" in your safe little world.
😆
How hilarious ! This thread has descended into a personal and stroppy argument over what's funny ! 😀
She's as funny as a fire in a paediatric unit
sorry, but That is funny 😀
only watch it for Sarah Hadland
a personal and stroppy argument
I think DD can do that with anything I type Ernie...the boy he don't like me 😀
Blimey is this still running as a show, her voice alone is like nails down a blackboard to me, that said I do have a soft spot for her.....
...it is at the bottom of my garden under six foot of earth
...it is at the bottom of my garden under six foot of earth
you want to have sex with her in an air raid shelter?
I think you're being a bit over-sensitive tazzy.
Why do women in comedy evoke such hatred in men?
Seems like too many are still stuck with the mindset that "women just aren't (meant to be) funny!"
Why do women in comedy evoke such hatred in men?
Women in comedy don't..just miranda because she's rubbish
Sarah silverman, Shappi Khorsandi,lucy porter are really rather spiffing
If she was funny then I'd find it easier to find her funny. As it is the spat between DD and the nichewhore is waaay funnier 🙂
My GF has a hissy fit every time MH's on TV because she play's the fool to gain cheep laughs instead of using her brains. Doing women an injustice and all. (What do you know I do Listen to the GF, that's got to be worth some currency)
Is tazzy feeling sensitive, do you want a hug...
you want to have sex with her in an air raid shelter?
touché good sir, you know me too well
Mmm Sarah Silverman and Lucy Porter, now we are talking...
Room for three in the air raid shelter
Is tazzy feeling sensitive, do you want a hug...
nah....nothing that a long drop and short rope can't fix mate.
How about a large drop?
Currently enjoying an Asbach at present, rather pleasant it is to
Why do women in comedy evoke such hatred in men?Seems like too many are still stuck with the mindset that "women just aren't (meant to be) funny!"
[i]People[/i] in comedy are meant to be funny. Miranda Hart isn't.
People in comedy are meant to be funny. Miranda Hart isn't.
She is funny.
That's not opinion, that's fact.
At the end of the day, like most art or come to think of it most anything it is all subjective, and what one person likes another may not, doesn't actually mean that anyone is right or wrong just that we all have a different view of things
That said it is a shame that my licence fee is wasted on this bilge
Dunno, I think you can recalibrate your sense of humour sometimes, there's quite a few things mrs watches that I started off ignoring but now watch with her, for eg.
Miranda, didnt like, now do
Mrs browns boys, didnt like can just about sit through now
Inbetweeners cringe worthy at first now like - mostly.
Other stuff im just incompatible with, the office (and most Gervais stuff TBH) will never be able to watch. Different strokes and all that, would be a crap world if we all liked the same stuff.
Spot on, Ron and Donk.
Tastes change as we get older. We also allow ourselves to enjoy the uncool.
I can clearly see how my young self would cringe at me enjoying something as mainstream as Miranda.
I quite like Miranda Hart, or what I have seen on QI and the like, being a right intellectual snob eh darcy ?
But that Miranda show is godawfully unfunny, contrived, not clever, not witty, not original etc. I cringe. Almost as bad as Mrs Brown's Boys.
being a right intellectual snob eh darcy ?
Quite the opposite hels. Try re-reading.
She isn't funny
She isn't entertaining
Her voice goes right through me
She is a gonk
FACT!
Different strokes and all that,
What you talking about?
I think she's brilliant.
A genuinely funny indiviual.
The show is very well written, she's a great natural clown and a bit of feelgood comedy never goes amiss.
Said it before but the episode with her, Patricia Hodge & the psychiatrist is excellent.
No doubt someone will be along shortly to tell us that they don't like her because they're taste is much more sophisticated.
God, I nearly prolapsed when someone came out with that one a few weeks ago. 😀
Like all art forms, there is no intrinsically good or bad comedy, just the stuff you like and the stuff you don't.
Attempting to define yourself by your dismissive attitude toward what others find funny makes you look like just as much of a prick as those who do the same regarding others tastes in music or choices of bike.
Personally, I'm really don't like Jummy Carr, Frankie Boyle, My Family, Harry Hill, Jason Manford or Michael McIntyre.
Doesn't mean I'm any better or worse than anyone who does.
The sneery, snobbish cabal of rampant ****tery on here is really beginning to get right on my wick.
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No offence.
Load of toss.
But them the Gas Man episode of Bottom is the pinnacle of comedy for me.
Rusty,
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the Gas Man episode of Bottom.....
Brilliant.
And the Milkman episode of Filthy Rich and Catflap.
I'm not sophisticated at all 🙂
She is funny.
That's not opinion, that's fact.
Yeah, as in "this milk tastes funny"
And for those assuming misogyny amongst the more discerning comedy lovers on here, I refer you to Exhibit A: Miranda is utter utter pish, woman or not; and Exhibit B: Smack The Pony. *THAT* is good comedy, and appears to be written and acted by women.
🙄But yes, it's a lowbrow for stw I'd say.
Comedy, like many things is subjective, personally I love Miranda & Mrs Brown's boys, can't stand the Inbetweeners or the Office, there you go s*** happens, get over it.
Oh & Rusty +1 😆
But yes, it's a lowbrow for stw I'd say.
Then the 🙄
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I was pre-empting all the stuff which Rusty so eloquently put into words. Just in case anyone else is in a hurry to misunderstand.
I got ya first time, DD.
And Rusty:
Perfectly put.
Love it.
Not usually my thing but really enjoy the lightness of touch and joyful scripting.Maybe too many women being funny for some men to allow themselves to enjoy it?
Bollocks
FeeFoo - Member
Why do women in comedy evoke such hatred in men?Seems like too many are still stuck with the mindset that "women just aren't (meant to be) funny!"
[quote[i]]People[/i] in comedy are meant to be funny. Miranda Hart isn't.
This ^^
She is funny.[s]That's not[/s]This is my opinion, [s]that's[/s]not a fact.
FeeFoo, get over yourself, you are just some bloke on a forum, not an arbiter of taste or fashion. 🙄
Now [i]this[/i] lady is funny:
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Now [i]that's[/i] an indisputable fact, not my opinion.
Bollocks
Inspired.
This ^^
Interesting.
That's notThis is my opinion, that'snot a fact.
Whoosh!
Thanks for all the effort, Count.
Now this lady is funny:
Bollocks (with added iron)
Miranda, funny simple slapstick comedy.
Big fans of it in our house.
The one I never liked as a comedy was "The Thick of It".
Always struck me as low brow humour with a high brow wrapping.
On the flipside, absolutely love the old Yes Minister.
However Victoria Coren... Now there is a funny woman.
Doesn't mean I'm any better or worse than anyone who does.The sneery, snobbish cabal of rampant ****tery on here is really beginning to get right on my wick.
Well said. There's some right stuck up people on this thread.
Victoria Coren is very good. Proof that you needn't resort to ****ting about the place shrieking in order to get a laugh. That said, Bottom is great 🙂
Alway felt that the Thick of It was brilliant for its script alone. Abusive and sweary but very creatively done and unlike anything which has been done before. Which is where Miranda falls down IMHO. utterly predictable.
The sneery, snobbish cabal of rampant ****tery on here is really beginning to get right on my wick.
+1 it seems to be getting worse lately.
as Ernie said, arguing over a comedy show is quite ironic.. 😀
Never got Miranda, just seems too much like an updated version of Some Mother's Do 'ave 'em.
Strange, I think the Miranda sit-com is quite average, brings a smile occasionally. Why she should divide opinions so much is baffling. Maybe it is actually great.
Generally if you are the sort of good natured person who enjoys a laugh you'll find most comedies funny.
I like Miranda, its not the greatest comedy ever made but its still pretty funny. Ditto Mrs Browns Boys and Michael Mcintyre. I know they aren't as good as say The IT Crowd, The Thick of It or Stewart Lee.
As I'm not a boring middle aged curmudgeon I can find all of these things funny without sneering at them through some misplaced intellectual superiority.
fizzicist - MemberVictoria Coren is very good. Proof that you needn't resort to ****ting about the place shrieking in order to get a laugh. That said, Bottom is great
Err............... 😀
Alway felt that the Thick of It was brilliant for its script alone. Abusive and sweary but very creatively done and unlike anything which has been done before. Which is where Miranda falls down IMHO. utterly predictable.
I love The Thick Of It, but it cannot, in any way, shape, or form be described as original. It's Yes Minister meets Derek & Clive.
🙂
As with music, I'd argue that in comedy it's the genre that is unimportant - it's the quality that matters.
Those who define themself by genre are both missing out and missing the point.
Bit sad really.
Generally if you are the sort of good natured person who enjoys a laugh you'll find most comedies funny.
This is how insipid sitcoms get made.
It made me laugh a lot.
Have not really considered the implications for my perceived character.
Never seen her show before last night. Must admit I found it rather funny.
Attempting to define yourself by your dismissive attitude toward what others find funny makes you look like just as much of a prick
have a read back of the thread and see if anyone actually does this. I can't see it anywhere really.
The first series of Miranda was funny, the rest are just the same old joke repeated, then a bit more extreme. But that seems to be the formula of TV these days, and not just comedy. Flog a horse til it's ready for the knackers yard, then flog it some more.
I really enjoyed the first two series of Miranda. Old fashioned studio audience sitcom, but very well written and performed in my opinion. Particularly the psychiatrist episode, which I think will be regarded as an absolute classic at some point. The latest series has had some lame episodes where they seem to have filled out a lack of plot with running joke re-hashes.
Comedy, like beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess.
Generally if you are the sort of good natured person who enjoys a laugh you'll find most comedies funny.
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Did somebody say there is no such thing as bad art ?
Reminds me of a Yoko Ono exhibition I attended (that means "went to" darcy).
She had set up a Wishing Tree, where you could write wishes on pieces of paper and hang them on the tree. Somebody wrote "I wish you were a better artist". Now that's funny.