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"Comedies" you don't find funny

secretsamsecretsam Posts: 4,985
edited February 2021 in The cake stop
Gavin and Stacey.
Just...why? There's nothing funny there.
Your turn...
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  • surrey_commutersurrey_commuter Posts: 18,032
    Gary and Stacey
  • secretsamsecretsam Posts: 4,985
    Balls. Autocorrect.
    :D
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  • joe_totale-2joe_totale-2 Posts: 1,333
    secretsam said:

    Gavin and Tracey.
    Just...why? There's nothing funny there.
    Your turn...

    Agreed. Apparently making unfunny observations in a welsh accent someone counts as humour in the eyes of a lot of people.

    I'll add Mrs Brown's Boys.
  • secretsamsecretsam Posts: 4,985
    joe_totale-2 said:



    I'll add Mrs Brown's Boys.

    Obvious but justified. By not being funny.

    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • secretsamsecretsam Posts: 4,985
    Controversially, I will also add much of Monty Python. Some gems, lots of...not gems...
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  • kingstongrahamkingstongraham Posts: 23,898
    My Family.

    There's very few that I'd class as actively unfunny, but this fits the bill.

    Fwiw, as someone from the SE who has in-laws in South Wales, I think Gavin and Stacey is genius.
  • DeVlaeminckDeVlaeminck Posts: 8,443
    Detectorists - is it even a comedy ? I may be being unfair calling it unfunny if it's not supposed to be but it's listed as a comedy on Wikipedia. I enjoy watching it but it doesn't make me laugh.

    This Country - similar to Detectorists it has all he elements you'd expect from a comedy but it's not actually funny.
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  • surrey_commutersurrey_commuter Posts: 18,032
    kingstongraham said:

    My Family.

    There's very few that I'd class as actively unfunny, but this fits the bill.

    Fwiw, as someone from the SE who has in-laws in South Wales, I think Gavin and Stacey is genius.

    Somebody at work tried to insult me by saying “you are the sort of person who would find my family funny”

    I had never even heard of the show so he was taken aback by the sincerity of my reply “I have never met them but yes I probably would”
  • johngtijohngti Posts: 2,481
    secretsam said:

    Controversially, I will also add much of Monty Python. Some gems, lots of...not gems...

    I tend to agree with you. My kids have started watching it and the vast majority is...dated.

    Still like the films though
  • MattFalleMattFalle Posts: 11,644
    edited February 2021
    secretsam said:

    Gavin and Stacey.
    Just...why? There's nothing funny there.
    Your turn...

    this, entirely. utterly totally shytt
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • MattFalleMattFalle Posts: 11,644
    Sarah Pascoe " Out of her mind"

    utter shytt.
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • kingstongrahamkingstongraham Posts: 23,898
    surrey_commuter said:

    kingstongraham said:

    My Family.

    There's very few that I'd class as actively unfunny, but this fits the bill.

    Fwiw, as someone from the SE who has in-laws in South Wales, I think Gavin and Stacey is genius.

    Somebody at work tried to insult me by saying “you are the sort of person who would find my family funny”

    I had never even heard of the show so he was taken aback by the sincerity of my reply “I have never met them but yes I probably would”
    Amazingly, there is 118 episodes of it. If I see 10 seconds by mistake when I turn the TV on, I feel worse about humanity.
  • morstarmorstar Posts: 6,052
    Already mentioned frequently all over the forum but mrs browns boys is just not comprehensible to me as being funny on any level.

    It is not a funny idea done badly, it’s just not funny.
  • morstarmorstar Posts: 6,052
    The mrs like Gavin & Stacey so I have seen the Christmas episode last year but that is all.

    I just found it unfunny but not something I couldn’t watch. Some tripe the mrs watches I can’t stand to listen to. Gogglebox being one. Just people trying to get noticed.
  • First.AspectFirst.Aspect Posts: 12,104
    Anything with Miranda Hart in it.
  • briantrumpetbriantrumpet Posts: 14,579
    morstar said:

    Already mentioned frequently all over the forum but mrs browns boys is just not comprehensible to me as being funny on any level.

    It is not a funny idea done badly, it’s just not funny.


    It's the sort of programme that really makes me question what 'comedy' is... I just can't work out what part of it is supposed to be funny.
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  • morstarmorstar Posts: 6,052
    First.Aspect said:

    Anything with Miranda Hart in it.

    I quite enjoyed them first time round but mrs has been rewatching. Doesn’t stand the test of time. The OTT nature is grating when the novelty has gone.

    Maybe it’s an age thing.
  • briantrumpetbriantrumpet Posts: 14,579
    morstar said:

    First.Aspect said:

    Anything with Miranda Hart in it.

    I quite enjoyed them first time round but mrs has been rewatching. Doesn’t stand the test of time. The OTT nature is grating when the novelty has gone.

    Maybe it’s an age thing.

    I think there is an element of that. And with older comedies where you realise you/people were laughing at things where thankfully attitudes have changed massively (e.g. blatant sexual assault in M*A*S*H).
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  • morstarmorstar Posts: 6,052
    briantrumpet said:

    morstar said:

    First.Aspect said:

    Anything with Miranda Hart in it.

    I quite enjoyed them first time round but mrs has been rewatching. Doesn’t stand the test of time. The OTT nature is grating when the novelty has gone.

    Maybe it’s an age thing.

    I think there is an element of that. And with older comedies where you realise you/people were laughing at things where thankfully attitudes have changed massively (e.g. blatant sexual assault in M*A*S*H).
    There should probably be a things that don’t stand the test of time thread.

    I have many things I have loved that simply don’t stand up in later years.
  • pangolinpangolin Posts: 5,495
    morstar said:

    briantrumpet said:

    morstar said:

    First.Aspect said:

    Anything with Miranda Hart in it.

    I quite enjoyed them first time round but mrs has been rewatching. Doesn’t stand the test of time. The OTT nature is grating when the novelty has gone.

    Maybe it’s an age thing.

    I think there is an element of that. And with older comedies where you realise you/people were laughing at things where thankfully attitudes have changed massively (e.g. blatant sexual assault in M*A*S*H).
    There should probably be a things that don’t stand the test of time thread.

    I have many things I have loved that simply don’t stand up in later years.
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  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 67,500 Lives Here
    It's more fun if you list the things you enjoy - as most people don't like most comedies.

    Anyway, a highlight last year was King Gary.
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  • pblakeneypblakeney Posts: 22,878
    Pretty much any comedy in recent years. Observational comedy translates as unfunny. The only TV that made me laugh out loud recently was Cobra Kai and it's not a comedy.
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  • elbowlohelbowloh Posts: 7,078
    Funniest things i've seen lately is pretty much anytime Bob Mortimer is on Would I Lie to You.
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  • ddraverddraver Posts: 25,573
    Proud to say that I never found David Walliams funny.

    Now he's been revealed to be...problematic
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  • focuszing723focuszing723 Posts: 6,005
    The tired comic game show format created because it's cheap to make and fills a time slot.
  • DeVlaeminckDeVlaeminck Posts: 8,443
    ddraver said:

    Proud to say that I never found David Walliams funny.

    Now he's been revealed to be...problematic

    Has he? I don't follow celebrity gossip what's he done?
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  • rafletcherrafletcher Posts: 1,235
    edited February 2021
    The right-on Jack Monroe doesn't like his books.

    https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/david-walliams-childrens-books-branded-18562259

    But, yeah, Little Britain, not funny.
  • ballysmateballysmate Posts: 15,903
    rafletcher said:

    The right-on Jack Monroe doesn't like his books.

    https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/david-walliams-childrens-books-branded-18562259

    But, yeah, Little Britain, not funny.

    Beginning the attack, Monroe revealed: "Small Boy completed his D*vid Walli*ms book collection today, so I finally decided to take a read of the latest. (It's important to note here I've not bought a single one.) It's like Little Britain for kids. 37m copies sold? Of this sneering classist fatshaming grim nonsense?."

    So mum of the year doesn't take any notice of what her child is reading, let alone not bothering reading with or to them. Does she let people just give stuff to her kids without checking or even looking? But it's ok because she gets her virtue signalling in by making it clear that she didn't buy any.

    She may or not have a point about the books, I can't comment as I haven't read any of them. Perhaps others on here have.

  • womackwomack Posts: 566
    Most of the current lot, the world is crying out for a new incarnation of Bob Newhart.
  • ProssPross Posts: 36,355
    First.Aspect said:

    Anything with Miranda Hart in it.

    Definitely. She's actually far better as a straight actor albeit most of the things she has been in aren't to my taste. She seems to think she is Morecambe and Wise reincarnated and, I believe, says her sitcom is inspired by them which is insulting to Morecambe and Wise. This is pretty bad as unlike most (old) people I don't think Morecambe and Wise were funny either. Hopefully this is a sign that I'm just about young enough to not appreciate them.

    I'm really struggling to think of any comedy that has aged well. Only Fools and Horses and Blackadder still work for me but I know the gags too well. Other stuff I found hilarious at the time just isn't amusing anymore including The Young Ones. Very few modern sitcoms are amusing to me, although it is mainly obvious and cliched Not Going Out is about the only thing that raises a chuckle, I do quite like Lee Mack.

    I've only seen a few episdoes of Gavin and Stacey mainly as I just cannot stand Corden.
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