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Little Britian
Extras *hides* ... ok well, not the unfunniest comedy EVER, but a massive disappointment in my opinion.

I have Jimmy Carr's stand up DVD and it's not that bad, though everything I've seen him in on tv recently has been terrible. Does that make me a bad person?

kittensgotclaws | 21 Sep '05, 11:01 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I agree with extras, that was not funny, it was the same I'm-not-racist racism and cringey jokes about disabilites and stuff that they had in the office, except not funny. I liked the office... meh..

homesick_alien | 21 Sep '05, 11:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I think it got by because of all the film stars, the odd funny moment and the fact that it's Ricky Gervais.

kittensgotclaws | 21 Sep '05, 11:11 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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The League of Gentleman?

I watched The Mighty Boosh the other week, and it was damn awful.

james_delve | 21 Sep '05, 11:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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League of gentlemen is awesome...Extras was supremely dissapointing and a show called babes in the wood is the unfunniest comedy ever, i think Samantha Janus was in it cos I remember watching it because Game On was awesome

delve | 21 Sep '05, 11:12 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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The Mighty Boosh is brilliant! Which one was it? Watch another one.

Thom_fa | 21 Sep '05, 11:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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It was the coconut one... i just didn't find it funny.

james_delve | 21 Sep '05, 12:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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The sitcom with Jasper also had Nina Wadia in it - I won't hear of any criticism of Nina.

JDTraynor | 21 Sep '05, 11:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I hate Nina Wadia. I can think of nothing I don't want to criticise her for.

thewarn | 21 Sep '05, 11:10 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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You have no passion

JDTraynor | 21 Sep '05, 11:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I have plenty of french fish! I don't know who Nina Wadia is I'm afraid. Just being contrary.

thewarn | 21 Sep '05, 11:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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she's off 'goodness gracious me', which was terrible.
see also: coupling, will and grace and the one with davina mcall & that irish fella (ed burns i think, but i'm not sure. to be sure)

trident | 21 Sep '05, 11:22 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Hardware - surely the worst?
Coupling
The Jasper Carrott one
The one Denise Van Outen did
Game On - haha I know many of you like it but its just pub culture laddish gash like MBB
The one written by the Rabb C Nesbitt creator about the black family.

Patricide | 21 Sep '05, 11:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Last of the Summer Wine, too.
SHITE.

Mike_Diver | 21 Sep '05, 11:31 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Oh yeah the denise van outen, god she's a witless slag.

I never saw the rabb c nesbitt one, I can only imagine it was a complete car crash.

homesick_alien | 21 Sep '05, 11:34 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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'Coupling' is great. How is it not funny?

Raanraals | 21 Sep '05, 12:11 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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start with the name - coupling - comedies of errors between the sexes - yawn. It's very archaic and outmoded. I can't see anything funny about it at all.

for bad comedy film see There's Something About Mary.

Patricide | 21 Sep '05, 12:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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So OK, it's not the most original premise in the world, but it's very well observed. You can't tell me that it never makes you laugh. At least a handful of times every episode, I'll warrant.

Raanraals | 21 Sep '05, 13:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Seriously Raanraals, it. never. makes . me . laugh. EVER. That's why I find it so so unfunny plus the observations pertain to people with a certain mindset about love and life - the Bridget Jones generation of which I am not. I just think the whole show can be watched as an average programme without the comedy tag. Then again relationship sitcoms/comedies never grab me. I prefer the frustration of not getting any on The Office or Peep Show mmm Peep Show.

Patricide | 21 Sep '05, 13:52 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i always found 'men behaving badly' about as funny as a quartely gas bill

Tuco | 21 Sep '05, 11:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR

Mike_Diver | 21 Sep '05, 11:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Black Books
Arrested Development

JDTraynor | 21 Sep '05, 11:31 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Black books is brilliant, I disagree muchly.

homesick_alien | 21 Sep '05, 11:32 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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They never sell any books.

JDTraynor | 21 Sep '05, 11:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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You're right, that would make it funnier. You should send your suggestion into channel 4.

homesick_alien | 21 Sep '05, 11:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Nothing funnier than selling books. The hours I've spent laughing at the counter in Waterstones.

thewarn | 21 Sep '05, 11:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Heil Honey, I'm Hitler

thewarn | 21 Sep '05, 11:34 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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*Home.

I'm forever getting home and Hitler muddled up. If you see someone trying to insert a back door key into some dusty old dictator bones, that'll be me.

thewarn | 21 Sep '05, 11:35 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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There are loads of duff shitcoms but My Family is the smuggest and most like to make me machine gun my telly. If I had a machine gun. Which I don't.

Whoever said "Black Books" is wronger than dog poo on toast.
Also whoever said "Last of the Summer Wine" shame on you sir. Shaammmme on youuuuuuuuuuu. (okay it's not technically funny and I don't watch it but I find it comforting to know it's there.)

zxcvbnm | 21 Sep '05, 11:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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My family is offensively smug. It's the dad bloke, and the mum one...

oh the wit, what a disfunctional yet hilarious family! I really wish my family was as funny as them!

homesick_alien | 21 Sep '05, 11:52 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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but the son is brilliant, he has a crazy face.

Trumpet | 25 Sep '05, 15:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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JDTraynor, outside NOW!

Arrested Development is brilliant!

And the unfunniest comedy EVER is an American sitcom called The Pitts. Anyone who's been up past 2 on a weekday (insomniacs and students basically) and flicked onto ITV may have caught it.

You know in Family guy or any other American comedy series where they have a fantasy sequence in which the characters imagine they're in a really bad American comedy series and everything is exaggerated and the laughtrack is clearly a tape recording, and it's just embarrassingly awful? Well, this is like that, but all the time, just jaw-droppingly bad. It goes off the scale of bad, past so bad it's good, and reaches the level of "how did anyone ever think this was a good idea" bad. Hardware was brilliant in comparison. Seriously.

Barry_Scott | 21 Sep '05, 11:55 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I've said that about the Pitts on here before - its so bad its good. I've actually thought quite deeply about this before, and I think its deliberate.

Thom_fa | 21 Sep '05, 12:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I've considered that actually, I mean, really, it's shocking. Surely someone involved in the making of it must have stood up and said, wait, this is the worst thing ever? Maybe it is deliberate, but it was still painful to watch. I had to watch 2 or 3 episodes just to make sure I wasn't kidding myself.

I felt so bad for Dylan Baker as the dad, because he's a very talented actor, he deserves better.

Barry_Scott | 21 Sep '05, 12:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I really, really, really, REALLY wish I could find some episodes of this. It's a real car crash, "what WERE they thinking?" sitcom..

guntrip | 24 Sep '05, 11:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Baddiel's Syndrome. It existed.

joe_totale | 21 Sep '05, 11:58 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Definatelty the one with Jasper Carrot, an Indian Family and a spastic.

hollywood_freak | 21 Sep '05, 12:03 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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This thread is "unfunniest comedy" not "unfunniest sitcom" so I'd like to give a mention to "meet the fockers" - Schindlers List had more laughs.

zxcvbnm | 21 Sep '05, 12:12 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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For most over rated bigness whilst being completely shit I nominate Friends. I hate it hate it hate it.

I am fond of Barbara and Keeping Up Appearances on a sunday afternoon though, kind of hungover soft mash for your head.

Slicky | 21 Sep '05, 12:12 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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SPACED
SEINFELD
CATHERINE TATE
NIGHTY NIGHT
MY FAMILY
LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE (32 years and STILL not been axed)
THE OFFICE

prole-art-threat | 21 Sep '05, 12:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Seinfeld????

Prole, get out.

thewarn | 21 Sep '05, 12:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Seinfeld???????????????????? Idiot.

HADDOCK | 21 Sep '05, 12:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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yeah. spaced. that wasn't funny at all.

....!?

carrotrope | 22 Sep '05, 19:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Repossessed is truly terrible.

I have to say that Futurama is pretty poor, certainly Series 3.

A lot of the stuff listed here isn't really that bad.

Pretty much anything the ITV ever tried to foist onto us is infinitely worse.

I always thought Big Train was basically gash, though.

iShotTheDeputy | 21 Sep '05, 12:16 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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The bass solo at the beginning makes me laugh though...

I dont enjoy many american comedies as they are either 'goofy' or like, you know 'clever' and there are 432 writers per episode - I mean would somebody die laughing watching Will & Grace? (obscure ref. to a man who died laughing at the Goodies)

Futurama is very good - and has pathos and bathos in bucketloads - the one with Fry's dog in always makes me sad

prole-art-threat | 21 Sep '05, 12:23 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Seinfeld was absolute genius. At it's funniest it was untouchable by anything on either side of the Atlantic (including The Simpsons, Family Guy, Father Ted, The Office etc). 'Clever'? Only because you have to concentrate for 30 minutes as seemingly minor detail develops into comedy farce/tragicomedy in the same way you had to with Fawlty Towers. I think you mean it never underestimated it's audience, which very few sitcoms can be accused of these days

thewarn | 21 Sep '05, 12:27 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Ever watched Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps? Apparently you can scrape through the bottom of the barrel and keep going on the other side.
I would also like to nominate Family Guy. It's fucking hilarious, but does anybody else think it's incredibly chauvinist?

Parsefone | 21 Sep '05, 12:32 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Hear hear on 'Two Pints...' Utter. Fucking. Pump.

Raanraals | 21 Sep '05, 12:48 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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emm, watch the family guy episode where the main guy is sent to a womens retreat. i think the main joke is how chauvinist he is.

Jordan_229_2 | 21 Sep '05, 20:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I'm not saying that comedy has to be like Friends or no-one will watch it -I also don't think Im ignorant/thick/serial killer if I choose not to like it - that is the wonder of the Will to Power surely? I just took a dislike to Seinfeld when I was at college and it hasn't abated - please dont think I only watch Metal Mickey and My Two Dads whilst wondering why i just don't 'get' So Haunt Me

prole-art-threat | 21 Sep '05, 12:34 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Two and a half men or whatever it's called, the one with Charlie Sheen.

That's crap, that!

sadpunk | 21 Sep '05, 12:41 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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The unfunniest comedy film I've ever seen is 2001: a space travesty. It's a Leslie Nielsen film, before any Kubrick fans start frothing at the mouth. It's like a bad live action loony tunes cartoon, the jokes (and slapstick, the guy's in his late 70s, he really shouldn't be doing slapstick any more!) are relentless and come one after the other for a whole 90 minutes, and pretty much every one falls flat. It's quite a trying experience, you want to laugh once in a while, it's just not possible.

Barry_Scott | 21 Sep '05, 12:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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The Chris Isaak Show

tre_cools_sticks | 21 Sep '05, 12:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I used to hate Seinfeld, then a friend insisted we watch it all the time on Paramount Comedy and the genius of it dawned on me. I really want to get it on a DVD box-set.

Anyway, worst. Did anyone ever see that Mad About Alice with Jamie Theakston and Les Dennis' ex? It was awfull.

I think the americans generally take the biscuit when it comes to crappy sit-coms though. We are after all, talking about the country where the guy from Everybody Loves Raymond is the highest payed actor on television.

monpot | 21 Sep '05, 12:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Didn't Denise Van Outen AND Davina McCall have their own comedy 'vehicles' - just proves how much cocaine gets in the way of reason sometimes

Paul Merton is a genius panellist but as a sitcom writer my mum is better at tilting windmills than he is at writing a 'classic'

prole-art-threat | 21 Sep '05, 12:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I think Little Britain was ok, but the only ever made one episode.

Sorry, they made more but I lost the will to understand the differences.

I guess it'll be the same with Tittybangbang. I didn't watch it as the Times' review said it was awful and it's description of scenes made them sound atrocious.

Let's be honest, it's all about fucking catchphrases now. Either the comedians are too lazy to create new characters and actual new scenarios, or we are too stupid to realise we are being ripped off.

Bo Selecta can go on the shit list too. If i'd ever found it funny it would have been ruined by being woken up at 6am on a saturday by a goon at the mill behind me shouting "tee-hee" and "cha-mone" again. and again. and again.

Whilst we're on the subject of goons. Wasn't the goon show great!?!?!?!

keiths_tele | 21 Sep '05, 13:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Oh Christ yes I caught a bit of that Tittybangbang (I was hopeing it was porn, or a documentary about porn), it was gouge-your-eyes-out and stick a drill in your ear awfull.

monpot | 21 Sep '05, 13:03 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Maybe women aren't funny.

Can we name some funny women?

The best I can come up with is Victoria Wood and that women on the news quiz simon hoggart does on radio 4.

keiths_tele | 21 Sep '05, 13:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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French and Saunders are sometimes funny. Murder Most Horrid used to make me laugh.

Also these* comedy shows are full of (well usually about half full of) women. You can be a comedic actor without being directly behind the creative process.

*Hmm maybe not such a good idea to use these shows as an example, bu you know what I mean, like?

silence-r | 21 Sep '05, 13:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Green Wing is great, as was the show they did before. I wish I could remember it's name...
Kathy Burke is funny.

Slicky | 21 Sep '05, 13:28 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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and Linda Green who's always on Have I Got News For You (well that's how I know of her anyway)

But the point is a fair one; it's more difficult to list a string of women than men. You could say that about many things, though. The reason for this probably goes a little deeper than men simply being funnier than women in general.

silence-r | 21 Sep '05, 13:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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