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I never found Dad's Army funny, in fact I considered it as unfunny and dreadful as that eternally tedious Last of the Summer Wine. Oh and Only Fools & Horses, that just got worse and worse. God Awful the lot of it.
There. I said it.
Well done you.
Of course you're wrong, but well done anyway.
Which TV series do/did you find funny?
And how old are you, just out of interest?
I agree wholeheartedly. Only fools and horses is appalling. As is porridge.
Other than monty python and fawlty towers, the young ones is where things started getting funny for me.
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loddrik - MemberI agree wholeheartedly. Only fools and horses is appalling. As is porridge.
Same questions to you - wondering if it's an age thing.
Stupid boy...............
Eh, even when they came out they were excellent, now they've matured, and so have we,,they're even better.
Do you like Friends?
Thought so. 🙁
Don't tell them Mr Nutt!
Don't tell them Mr Nutt!
Heh.
Only Fools/Porridge - poor rather than appalling. You need some anti-superlatives left in stock to take care of My Family, Terry and June, Hi de Hi, Allo Allo, Are You Being Served? etc etc etc etc///
But Dad's Army was well ahead of that bunch.
I'm 39. Not a fan of that type of comedy. Utterly tedious. Other than fawlty towers and monty python, nothing before the young ones is remotely funny to me.
Porridge is one of the finest comedy series of all time - and you all know it. 🙂
Saying you dislike it is like saying you dislike the Beatles - you don't really mean it and no one thinks you're clever.
Other than fawlty towers and monty python, nothing before the young ones is remotely funny to me.
The Goons, Stan & Ollie, Lenny Bruce, ITMA, Richard Pryor, Round the Horne?
Not even a titter?
That Stewart lee clip makes me howl, best stand up out there.
No I don't like Friends either, I'm 39 so I was young/old enough to "appreciate" them.
Jamie, loddrik and Stewart Lee are very much correct.
That's the thing about comedy, its a subjective thing.
Derek and Clive are also brilliant. Anything by Peter cook really.
Saying you dislike it is like saying you dislike the Beatles - you don't really mean it and no one thinks you're clever.
...but The Beatles are shit, though 8)
Chris Morris & Peter Cook are classics (to be found on youtube nowadays)
I don't particularly like The Beatles either. Odd tracks are ok. I have The White Album. Half of it is utter pish. most of it is average. a couple of tracks are ok
Nor the Stones for that matter. Like Bob Dylan, some of their songs are better done by others.
Maybe you'd like the Beatles more if they had some canned laughter and more tepid 'comedy'
I thought they were canned laughter & tepid comedy. I mean, Obladi Oblada?
or old men, in bath tubs, going down hills and through washing lines. Hilarious.
Stewart Lee is excellent but on that scene he got it wrong. He just approached the funniness of it from the wrong angle.
Brass Eye on paedophiles was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Before 'alternative' comedy came along most comedians and comedy shows were pretty poor.
The Comic Strip, brilliant!! C4 was putting this stuff out around the same time ITV had Cool It....
Not my comedic cuppa but each to their own. Now I'm gonna spend the next few hours watching Stewart Lee videos. Thanks Jamie.
I like it ... 😆
or old men, in bath tubs, going down hills and through washing lines. Hilarious.
My nan loves it though, and I feel she, rather than a young man about town like yourself, is the target audience.
Stewart Lee is excellent but on that scene he got it wrong. He just approached the funniness of it from the wrong angle.
Whooosh.
loddrik - MemberBrass Eye on paedophiles was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Before 'alternative' comedy came along most comedians and comedy shows were pretty poor.
So you've never heard any Lester Bruce then?
Or Julian & Sandy, Dave Allen, etc, etc....
The Comic Strip, brilliant!! C4 was putting this stuff out around the same time ITV had Cool It....
Is this your Sanderling?
Saying you dislike it is like saying you dislike the Beatles -
I hate the beatles, not a single song that makes me want to do anything other than fall asleep with the sheer bland tedium.
Dad's army, and other such comedies of that ilk were just arse cringingly bad with canned laughter. Makes me want to kill someone by rubbing their face with a cheese grater until I get to the other side, it's that bad. Aint half hot mum, some mother do ave em, on the buses etc..all in the same category.
Late 30's
brass eye was funny, monkey dust was brilliant and I love mongrels, so basically brutal, but honest and bleak observational humour that would offend about 90% of the STW population. I find nasty funny, sorry
Whooosh.
Oh, I didn't hit play on the YouTube clip. I assumed it's the scene where he bemoans it being voted the funniest sit-com scene. Is it?
brass eye was funny, monkey dust was brilliant and I love mongrels, so basically brutal, but honest and bleak observational humour that would offend about 90% of the STW population. I find nasty funny, sorry
Err, liking 'Brass Eye' doesn't make you a rebel you know. 😀
You can like older stuff and the newer stuff too.
Why do you think Monkey Dust would offend 90% of the STW population?
And The Young Ones had canned laughter too.
'E doesn't like it up 'im!
I hate the beatles, not a single song that makes me want to do anything other than fall asleep with the sheer bland tedium.
Never heard [i]Tomorrow Never Knows[/i], then?
Why do you think Monkey Dust would offend 90% of the STW population?
due to the fact that most of them seem to fall into the pretentious w**ker category as ably shown by this.
Never heard Tomorrow Never Knows, then?
yep does nothing for me I'm afraid
I ferl I should also point out that the early Steptoe & sons were the stuff of legend, shame they kept on making them really.
where have you been for the last seven years..? we thought you were dead..! what were you doing all that time...?errr... trying to fill a bath tub full of cum
priceless..
I'll laugh at anything if it's funny though.. but that's probably because I don't have to try too hard to be cool..
I'm cool naturally 8)
The good ones are the ones of which they only made one or two series. They knew to quit whilst they were ahead. OFAH was pretty funny at first, but it turned all soapy and rubbish quite quickly.
Porridge was good, didn't they only make two series of that?
And The Young Ones had canned laughter too.
Yeah but it was funny so the canned laughter wasn't intrusive, you laughed because it was funny, not because the canned laughter reminded you that this was where you were supposed to laugh.
Got to say for young folk, not having lived through the Beatles,I can understand them not liking them. They were a bit of a girlie group boy band style anyway, well the forunner of that genre. But they did have a big influence on lots of later acts, the Revolver and Sgt Pepper albums were seminal works at the time and the last album, Abbey Road had its moments for me.
Most blokes were into the Stones or The Who then the Kinks and there was so much else going on in the sixties, so much choice then after the Sgt Pepper Album came the next wonder of the age, Stereo...
Which kind of puts it in context, why there is a lot of nostalgia for the Beatles. I can remember exactly where I was and who with when the news came through of their break up, what's worse the girl i was with is dead now as are two of them.
Beatles...they're no JLS.
I thought the young ones was boring TBH but most sitcoms are. Porridge was genius though.
loddrik - MemberAnd The Young Ones had canned laughter too.
Yeah but it was funny so the canned laughter wasn't intrusive, you laughed because it was funny, not because the canned laughter reminded you that this was where you were supposed to laugh.
Ah, so canned laughter is only rubbish on shows you don't like?
Ta for clearing that up.
Personally, I think it's awful whatever show it's pasted over.
Porridge was good, didn't they only make two series of that?
Three series and a couple of Christmas specials - every episode a classic. 🙂
The film was awful mind, but that's always the case with British sitcoms, isn't it?
I quite liked OFAH for the first couple of series too - you're right, it went off after that.
Never a fan of Steptoe and Son - I found them too painful to be funny.
Hancock can be a bit the same, depending circumstances.
Ha, I had to google JLS, no, the Beatles are no JLS, but then I doubt JLS have a fraction of the song catalogue of the Beatles. I made the mistake of downloading a Torrent, it's over a gig.