"Comedy" shows that are praised all the time, which you just don't find funny

FinsburyParkCarrots
FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
edited January 2013 in All Encompassing Trip
Here's my contenders:

1) Only Fools and Horses: Saccharin, patronising tosh sentimentalising the lives, aspirations and relationships of your cor-blimey-loveable-rogues. It stole many elements from televisual masterpieces such as Steptoe and Son, Budgie, and Minder and offered nothing remotely as provocative or impressive. Lubbly Jubberrrrrly? Give me a fucking break.

2) Anything with Dawn French and/or Jennifer Saunders in it. Shouting unfunny lines while gesticulating very quickly does not make them any more funny.

3) Last of The Summer Wine. Oh, look. Compo's stuck on top of a hill in a bathtub with wheels attached, and it's started rolling down very fast towards a field. Again.
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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Curb Your Enthusiasm.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    Friends
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • QuarterToTen
    QuarterToTen Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 3,651
    South Park
    King of Queens
    Everybody Loves Raymond

    i really don't watch TV.
    Nice shirt.
  • mookie9999
    mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    Simpsons
    "The leads are weak!"

    "The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"

    "What's your name?"

    "FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Last of the Summer Wine for me also...

    i dislike Frank Spencer, Fawlty Towers and Dad's Army... anything like that.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    everyone loves raymond.

    hate it hate it hate it
  • Indian Summer
    Indian Summer Posts: 2,296
    The Office
    &
    The Family Guy
    "It's all happening"
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    dunkman wrote:
    Last of the Summer Wine for me also...

    i dislike Frank Spencer, Fawlty Towers and Dad's Army... anything like that.

    I think the BBC killed Fawlty Towers by rerunning it so much. As for the other two, they were always dreadful.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    i cant think of the genre at the minute Fins... Joe Orton genre :(

    whats the frickin word!!! Fawlty Towers is 'this word' and i've never liked that genre... i find it uncomfortable and i actually shout at the TV... stuff like "marzipan is made from almonds?... fucking hell, who came up with that"
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    dunkman wrote:
    i cant think of the genre at the minute Fins... Joe Orton genre :(

    whats the frickin word!!! Fawlty Towers is 'this word' and i've never liked that genre... i find it uncomfortable and i actually shout at the TV... stuff like "marzipan is made from almonds?... fucking hell, who came up with that"

    I remember when I was younger and I couldn't bare to watch Keenan and Kel cus it was so embarrassing, the scraps they'd get into.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    dunkman wrote:
    i cant think of the genre at the minute Fins... Joe Orton genre :(

    whats the frickin word!!! Fawlty Towers is 'this word' and i've never liked that genre... i find it uncomfortable and i actually shout at the TV... stuff like "marzipan is made from almonds?... fucking hell, who came up with that"

    Farce?
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I nearly said something very politically incorrect for "Joe Orton genre." :D
  • lalalalaaaaaaaa
    lalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    South Park

    In 10 years people will be watching re-runs of that thinking "I remember this being a LOT funnier..."
  • DaytimeDilemma
    DaytimeDilemma Posts: 2,008
    Scrubs
    Friends
    My name is earl
    30 Rock
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    Monte Python Flying Circus I do not laugh at, I can not.
    I can not bear such ridiculous madness to be tossed upon me
    like that program.

    I'd rather some medieval axe-man take my manhood
    and place it in a glowing red hot iron vice for a few years or something,
    while he pours molten steel into my eyes and ears. ;)
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • Indian Summer
    Indian Summer Posts: 2,296
    Saturnal wrote:
    South Park

    In 10 years people will be watching re-runs of that thinking "I remember this being a LOT funnier..."


    South Park is funny when they are new because it pokes fun at current events. Watching reruns now aren't even as funny.
    "It's all happening"
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Farce?


    thats the one. :o

    movies like 'Clockwise' and all this racing against time and the vicar is coming round andi've got my trousers down trying to pump up a bike tyre but all the vicar sees is my silhouette etc etc etc

    i just cant watch it.

    i watched Curb Your Enthusiasm the other night and thought it was good.. slightly cringey in places but it was interesting to watch cos they seemed to ad-lib quite a bit.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • genie
    genie Posts: 2,222
    Fraiser it's a torture to watch that show. though i don't know if it's praised all the time or not.
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    I don't even watch comedies on TV. They don't interest me enough to even know the names!
    &&&&&&&&&&&&&&
  • brainofPJ
    brainofPJ Posts: 2,361
    Lizard wrote:
    Friends


    that show is garbage.

    Reno 911


    Esther's here and she's sick?

    hi Esther, now we are all going to be sick, thanks

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