Unfunny 'comedy'

I preferred series 3 of Blackadder. Goes to show we all like different stuff.

There seem to be a few things absolutely no one has a good word to say about (Rosie Jones, Nish Kumar, Mrs Browns Boys already featured in this thread) and I'd venture those are "unfunny" as opposed to "not to everyone's tastes" which is the category Blackadder appears to belong in.
 
my current most unfunny group are the over exposed comedians who are on TV all the time and no longer do comedy.

Romesh and Rob Beckett are the obvious pair, and even have their own show on Sky, and Kathrine Ryan is another.

Is there any game show she hasn't appeared in/on?

When they now try and 'do' comedy they can't help mentioning how rich they now are e.g. Kids in private schools, expensive holidays etc.

Also have to include Danny Dyer - can't so comedy, so why try.
 
mooro said:
My Mrs loves Saturday Night Live.
Personally I've never watched anything so unfunny labelled as comedy.
To me it's a tired format belonging back in the late 80s early 90s..........
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Not watched it, but every time I see a news article hyping up that SNL are going to lampoon somebody famous I think "yeah?"
 
Head wobbling, detritus warbling irritant Michael McIntyre polluted my living room via the television this past weekend. The definition of unfunny. Made even less funny by comedic activist "special guest" Joe Lycett.
 
Jimmy Carr, was he ever funny ?

Just a philosopher/raconteur, with no specific aims on comedy. You'd be better off getting pished with your mates down the pub.
 
There was one over here called Give my head peace.
It's just been taken off by the dreadful BBC due to cost but from where I sit It's because its absolute shite of the highest order.
 
My daughter loves friends and watches it over and over again, now although it has its moments and me and the Mrs watched it back in the day when it was first on( mainly for me because of Jennifer Aniston) it’s typical American rubbish where they think every line has to be funny and you lose any sort of realism, life’s not like that and the best comedy is when it feels real and you can relate to it
 
BromleyMonkey said:
My daughter loves friends and watches it over and over again, now although it has its moments and me and the Mrs watched it back in the day when it was first on( mainly for me because of Jennifer Aniston) it’s typical American rubbish where they think every line has to be funny and you lose any sort of realism, life’s not like that and the best comedy is when it feels real and you can relate to it
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I never hated Friends. I stepped away from thinking of it as comedy and just tolerated it as background noise. However, in typical American fashion every "joke" had to be explained as a joke. They could have said "the following is about to be a joke".

I think America has gotten a bit better at that now and started trusting the audience to figure out why something was funny, or accept that not every joke will be understood by everyone. I can't think of examples to back that up but... probably.
 
BromleyMonkey said:
My daughter loves friends and watches it over and over again, now although it has its moments and me and the Mrs watched it back in the day when it was first on( mainly for me because of Jennifer Aniston) it’s typical American rubbish where they think every line has to be funny and you lose any sort of realism, life’s not like that and the best comedy is when it feels real and you can relate to it
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I believe Friends came about from watching British Comedy.
 
Part Time James said:
I never hated Friends. I stepped away from thinking of it as comedy and just tolerated it as background noise. However, in typical American fashion every "joke" had to be explained as a joke. They could have said "the following is about to be a joke".

I think America has gotten a bit better at that now and started trusting the audience to figure out why something was funny, or accept that not every joke will be understood by everyone. I can't think of examples to back that up but... probably.
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Frazier and Seinfeld!! How many seasons of that unfunny rubbish is there?? I suppose Americans obviously find them funny
 
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