Miranda, Derek and Mrs Brown's Boys - TV sitcom thread

[smat]

Feel like Catastrophe's in a bit of a lull now. Nothing really happened in that last episode and I didn't laugh much. Think it'll pick up as she gets more pregnant.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

And My World and Welcome To It

 

[smat]

I watched the first two episodes of Pulling this morning, inspired by Catastrophe. Pretty good. It could easily exist in the same world, just a few years earlier (minus Rob Delaney obv, who would've been shitting his pants in a police cell at the time).

Would quite like to see Delaney do a rehab sitcom. Has there been one? (Bet @HOTSPORTSMEMES knows)

 

[Son of Cod]

Specifically with Rob Delaney? ITV commissioned a rehab sitcom about five or so years ago (?), but canned it. Miranda Hart had been cast though, so probably for the best.

 

[smat]

Morwenna Banks wrote and starred in February's pilot as ex-rock chic Marianne Hope who sets up a rural rehab centre offering new age therapies. Reece Shearsmith, Liz Smith and Miranda Hart also made appearances in the comedy, which was made by Baby Cow.

Shame.

 

[Stagat]

Early Doors. Loved the first series and have never watched it since it was first on. Don't remember watching the second series either.

Should give it a revisit.

 

[SALTIRE]

Aye pity they didn't make more Early Doors, both series were high quality indeed. I'd like to hear old Tommy's take on Man City now!

 

[Pliny Harris]

Early Doors is one of my favourite programmes ever. Hilarious and heartwarming. It can't have cost much to make either. The bumbling Eddy has to be among the best clowns I've seen. Everything from gesticulating and grimacing in perfect sync as his wife Joan reels off her pointless stories, shoehorning "Exactamundo!" slightly too late in every conversation, clinging to everyone around him and boring them to death, but actually being one of the most upstanding men around. An incredibly real character. One of my favourites of his is Duffy repeatedly bemoaning that the man his wife's ran off with earns "Forty grand...", then Eddy chips in with "And that's in a year!"

 

[silkyman]

I think the era which you think was best for comedy, much like music, is probably the era you grew up in because the comedy defines the era as much as its defined by it.

There was some brilliant stuff in the 90s. Father Ted, Black Books, Spaced, Mary Whitehouse Experience, Vic Reeves BNO, Fist of Fun...

 

[RavenBish]

Nah, I was born in 92 and I'm not sure I can remember many decent sitcoms growing up. I liked Spaced but watched that years after it was on.

Royle Family, Extras, The Office, I'm Alan Partridge and Phoenix Nights...I love all 4, especially the latter 3 but I wouldn't try and argue they were better than Blackadder, OFAH and Fawlty Towers in a classic 'what makes a good sitcom' sense.

US sitcoms however have got better I think. Shit like Seinfeld and Frasier can gtfo.

 

[SALTIRE]

Nah, I was born in 92 and I'm not sure I can remember many decent sitcoms growing up. I liked Spaced but watched that years after it was on.

Royle Family, Extras, The Office, I'm Alan Partridge and Phoenix Nights...I love all 4, especially the latter 3 but I wouldn't try and argue they were better than Blackadder, OFAH and Fawlty Towers in a classic 'what makes a good sitcom' sense.

US sitcoms however have got better I think. Shit like Seinfeld and Frasier can gtfo.

Hoy the genius that was Seinfeld and early Frasier will not be disrespected!

I think there has always been great comedy in every decade in the UK from at least the Fifties. You had The Goons and Hancock's Half Hour, then Steptoe And Son and Till Death Us Do Part, then stuff like Fawlty Towers, Open All Hours, Monty Python, Rising Damp, On The Buses (not particularly brilliant but it is worth a chuckle now and again), George And Mildred, Are You Being Served?, Reggie Perrin, Only When I Laugh, Butterflies, Porridge and Some Mothers Do Have 'Em in the Seventies; and onto the other stuff we've already mentioned from the Eighties on.

I don't watch a lot of sitcoms today as a lot of them do seem a bit weaker and try too hard in comparison with their comedy forefathers, but there will always be gems somewhere amongst the drivel.

 

[silkyman]

Nah, I was born in 92 and I'm not sure I can remember many decent sitcoms growing up. I liked Spaced but watched that years after it was on.

Royle Family, Extras, The Office, I'm Alan Partridge and Phoenix Nights...I love all 4, especially the latter 3 but I wouldn't try and argue they were better than Blackadder, OFAH and Fawlty Towers in a classic 'what makes a good sitcom' sense.

US sitcoms however have got better I think. Shit like Seinfeld and Frasier can gtfo.

Not many adult sitcoms have seven year olds as their key demographic, tbh.

 

[Richard Cranium]

For me Only Fools and Horses will always be my favourite but I grew up watching Friends so that is also very close.

Love Blackadder, The Vicar of Dibley, Royle Family, Fawlty Towers, The Thin Blue Line, Open All Hours and Keeping up Appearances to name a few, I actually liked Two and a Half men, I'd not bothered with it after Charlie Sheen left though until recently and it's not bad now, they've gave Alan a sense of humour!

I used to really enjoy Men Behaving Badly too!

 

[Richard Cranium]

My wife and kids.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

Quite enjoyed Thin Blue Line but it's not as good as Days of Heaven.

 

[Murphy]

House of Fools back last night which was great...and totally mad as always.

 

[BigDaveCUFC]

I have to agree with some above saying there has always been odd gems every so often.

the channels trying though have changed, it used to be BBC in the 70's and 80's, then BBC2 in the 90's, now I think its Channel 4 have produced them of late.

I like the old sitcoms, I don't know why as I find the comedy is dated and I think a lot would not really like them thesedays, but I just enjoy the character building during them all, but there are loads from most decades.

as a 90's kid/teen I felt that was also a strong decade....Bottom, Blackadder, Only Fools, Keeping up appearances, Father Ted, Red Dwarf, Royal Family, one foot in the grave, New Statesman, Spitting Image, Mr Bean and Brittas Empire..........all of these were running in the 90's and they are just ones I can remember off top of head.

that was one hell of a strong era, but is good ones all about in 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's and even currently.

 

[smat]

Still enjoying Catastrophe but it's barely funny anymore. The dramatic elements have pretty much taken over. A damn shame.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

Who watches On Cinema at the Cinema with Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington?

 

[Jockney]

is it anti-comedy like the rest of heidecker's stuff? cos i can jive with that.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

Yep.

 

[mowgli]

Havn't noticed anyone mention Not Going Out with Lee Mack which was class until the last series which got too silly even for this show.

 

[SALTIRE]

Havn't noticed anyone mention Not Going Out with Lee Mack which was class until the last series which got too silly even for this show.

I just finished binging on that in the last month till season 6, not seen the latest one though. Some of it was brilliant, others less so. The burd he's trying to pull is a bit too straight and sharp for me. Daisy is great though

 

[JoeJoeJoeJoe]

Watched the first season and caught up with the second season of Brooklyn nine-nine. Really good.

 

[silkyman]

I just finished binging on that in the last month till season 6, not seen the latest one though. Some of it was brilliant, others less so. The burd he's trying to pull is a bit too straight and sharp for me. Daisy is great though

Went downhill after Tim Vine left.

 

[SALTIRE]

Went downhill after Tim Vine left.

Yeah it didn't have that sharpness when he left. Lee is likeable though, I just wish the whole will they/wont they shit that they always do in sitcoms didn't apply here though.

 

[smat]

Up The Women. Love their posh voices.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

Watching the back catalogue of the Richard Herring Leicester Square Theatre podcasts, and in the Sue Perkins one he discusses THIS, mocking the unlikely selections on the favourite sports bit in particular. I feel like the curtain has been pulled back and predestination is real.

 

[.V.]

House of Fools back last night which was great...and totally mad as always.

I'm sure I'll get slated for this, but I've never got Reaves and Mortimer. They're just too surreal for me.

 

[Glasshalffullpools]

If Miranda was on cbeebies I could understand it, but how an intelligent adult can find that remotely funny is beyond me, every joke is a re hash and is delivered so as Stevie Wonder can see it coming, I thought it was the worst show on tv but then I caught an episode of Citizen Khan ! I was so annoyed I threw my shoe at the telly, the bloke in Currys went mad!